{"id":157170,"date":"2023-05-31T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=157170"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:09:51","slug":"were-writing-a-new-future-sackville-artist-to-launch-community-art-project-on-anti-fracking-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/were-writing-a-new-future-sackville-artist-to-launch-community-art-project-on-anti-fracking-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re writing a new future\u2019: Sackville artist to launch community art project on anti-fracking movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sackville-based artist wants to help people reimagine collective possibilities in the age climate crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe won't build a new future with the same tools that got us to this crisis point,\u201d says <\/span>Shoshanna Wingate, Sackville\u2019s former poet laureate.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cSo we're writing a new future, a new story for our future.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wingate is among three artists taking part in <\/span>From Harm to Harmony<\/span><\/a>, an artist-in-residency and mentorship program organized by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTheir time with the Conservation Council will culminate with a community-engaged art event that will encourage New Brunswickers to take action to protect our planet and provide them with an avenue to do so,\u201d the non-profit group announced last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wingate\u2019s project will focus on the movement in New Brunswick against shale gas exploration and hydraulic fracturing or \u201cfracking,\u201d a controversial technique to obtain fossil fuels from shale rock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Indigenous-led <\/a><\/span>movement<\/span> against shale gas in New Brunswick came to a head in 2013, when the RCMP cleared an anti-fracking encampment that blocked a facility belonging to SWN Resources Canada. <\/span>In 2014, the provincial government under Liberal premier Brian Gallant introduced a <\/a><\/span>moratorium<\/span> against fracking.\u00a0 <\/span>The Progressive Conservative government under Premier Blaine Higgs \"quietly carved out a small exemption\" to the moratorium in 2019 for an operation near Sussex, according to the CBC<\/a>. Recently he has pushed for new shale gas development in New Brunswick.\u00a0 <\/span>Higgs <\/span>contends<\/span> shale gas development will result in a financial <\/span>windfall <\/span>and provide \u201cvery clean natural gas\u201d to Europe amid the energy crisis prompted by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wingate hopes to challenge what she describes as a narrative of scarcity that results in ongoing dependence on the burning of fossil fuels. <\/span>\u201cWe're told climate change and its solutions are complicated, difficult to enact, that the boat we're on is too big and too unwieldy to turn in time. Our society depends upon the very things we must do without, namely, fossil fuels, and no one has a good answer. Or so the story goes,\u201d she said in an interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnother story tells us that we have all the energy solutions we need right now. Everything. We are abundant. We know what changes we need to make, and the solutions exist. What we don't have is political will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her project, a partnership with the <\/span>Sackville Commons Co-op<\/span><\/a>, will involve a series of workshops where participants will write \u201ccollage poems of resistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s her first foray into community-engaged art and involves a mentorship with artist Laura Barron, who helped her understand how to \u201cbring people to a place of action\u201d through art.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIt's opening a whole new line of dreaming and reimagining for me, an opportunity to create a sensory experience where we can engage with each other on energy abundance, the future, our collective stories, and how we can shape the future we want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Other artists taking part in the residency include hip hop artist Stephen Hero of Saint John and painter Mario Doiron of Saint Paul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Danielle Smith, who runs the program for the Conservation Council, said art provides a way for people to engage with environmental issues that otherwise seem daunting and overwhelming.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cInstead of bombarding people with negative messages and scary stats \u2014 we all know those exist, and we all know those are real \u2014 we provide them with an avenue to see the silver lining.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This story was updated on June 1, 2023 at approximately 3 p.m. Atlantic to note that an exemption to the moratorium was introduced in 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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A Sackville-based artist wants to help people reimagine collective possibilities in the age climate crisis.\u00a0 \u201cWe won’t build a new future with the same tools that got us to this crisis point,\u201d says Shoshanna Wingate, Sackville\u2019s former poet laureate.\u00a0\u201cSo we’re writing a new future, a new story for our future.\u201d\u00a0 Wingate is among three artists…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":157256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,222],"tags":[2774,26640,26641,1825,26604,980,26603],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157635,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157170\/revisions\/157635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157170"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=157170"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=157170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}