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Building Decolonial Futures at the Confluence of Mae-Nam Khong and Salish Waters (PART 2)

"Stewarding Mae-Nam Khong: Celebrations for Life and Liberation"
This Mekong community-based art exhibition honours the perseverance of life amid ecological destruction and cultural erasure. In Lao and Thai languages, the river is mae [mother] nam [water]. Traditional lifeways and direct oppositions to large-scale development have always been entwined with the care and protection of our Mothers—the sources of life. In this reciprocity, biological and cultural diversity becomes possible. Understanding that living in tradition and living in resistance are different expressions of the same mode of living is vital.

Our existence is political.
Our existence is resistance.
And our resistance arises from love
—for life, for community, for freedom.
May the seeds of decolonial futures grow.

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Exhibits and Artists:

"Om Gaud Mae" [Mother's Embrace] and "Kwam-Fun Kong Pla Sua-Tor" [Dreams of the Siamese Tigerfish] by Fhakleum Surilub (artist/painter)

"Hugged and Held" scarves by Sa-Ard Hansupoh (weaver)

"Siang Ta Mui" [the Sound of Ta Mui]: Mae-Too Kayungan (singer); Sa-Lay-Tay band and Poh-Sung (music); Jamnong Jitniran and former Village Head Laokome Kayungan (co-writers); Napon Phatam (composer); and Kumpin Aksorn (music video editor/photo/videographer)
-- Link to Siang Ta Mui [the Sound of Ta Mui] music video:    • เพลงเสียงตามุย  
-- Link to lyrics and translation: https://shorturl.at/2rXr4

"Naga and the Great Migration" by Chaiyapong Intasom (artist/painter)

"The Art of Living Fiercely" by Roengrit Khongmuang (photographer); Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban (photographer/curator)

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Opening words by Debra Sparrow, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Knowledge Keeper and Weaver

Panelists:
Kwitsel Tatel, Stó:lō Matriarch and Water Protector (   / @kwitseltatel1502  )
Kwiis Hamilton, Hupač̓asatḥ/Stó:lō Artist, Storyteller, and Water Protector
Zoe Todd, Red River Métis practice-led artist-researcher-philosopher / Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies, SFU

Discussion facilitation support by Terre Satterfield, Professor of Culture, Risk, and the Environment, IRES, UBC
Emcee support by Pablo Gonzalez Moctezuma, PhD Candidate in Forestry, UBC / IBioS Student Fellow
Artwork presented by Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban, PhD Candidate, IRES, UBC / IBioS Student Fellow

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Deep gratitude to Ta Mui village and the Hug Nam Khong Community Network, Ubon Ratchathani, for being the sources of hope and healing.

Thank you to the sponsors: Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS), Centre for Southeast Asian Research (CSEAR), Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

Special thanks to the organizers of the North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB 2024) and Art-in-Conservation activities.

Thank you to everyone who supported this work.

All mistakes are my own.

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