The View From Where

The View from Where is an exhibit at the UofA FAB Gallery Second floor, running until November 5.

Artist alissa rossi uses her experience of the boreal forest of British Columbia and western Alberta to explore how global extractive capitalism and the ongoing climate crisis manifest on a local level.

rossi grew up in the Fraser Valley in BC with a family whose income was directly connected to the forestry industry. She spent her childhood summers in the Chilcotin-Caribou where mountain pine beetle adapted their behaviour leading to the destruction of much of BC’s pine forest.

Her work counters the human- and western-centric ideas of the Anthropocene—a name for the current geological era marked by human activity—where she explores how the human, the technological, and the ecological are not separate from but deeply enmeshed with each other.

She proposes a view of ecology that sees humans and our technologies not as separate from and superior to the ecological world, but as one of several forces that shape it, a view from which we might more successfully negotiate the ongoing and cataclysmic shifts in climate.

Climate change and the environmental degradation that follows in its wake are complex issues that are explored in the visual art and print making exhibition called Transitional Impressions: Visualizing Environmental Change.

The exhibition runs until November 5, at the University of Alberta FAB Gallery on the main floor and features the work of artists Sean Caulfield, Sue Colberg, Jill Ho-You, Heather Leier, Kiona Ligtvoet, Tara Manyfingers, and Jewel Shaw.

Many of the complex questions raised in current environmental discourse can be difficult to capture in scientific data or everyday language. The artists tried to articulate the sense of anxiety, loss and uncertainty we might be feeling as well as feelings of hope for positive change. They hope their art can help create a fuller picture of what environmental change means to Canadians.

New On-demand service app for St. Albert Transit “book a bus”

There’s a new on-demand service app for St. Albert Transit and it’s effective September 18, 2022.

It will replace the current On-Demand Transit: Rider App. The On-demand service hours will remain the same for weekday evenings, Saturday evenings, Sundays and statutory holidays.

It’s available on both Android and iPhone platforms. You’ll be able to book trips in advance through the new app, online at ridestat.ca, or over the phone at 780-418-6060.

Current users of the On-Demand Transit: Rider App will need to download the new Book-A-Bus app and create a new account to take advantage of on-demand buses, push notifications and text messages, personal search results, and favourite locations

You can visit ridestat.ca for more information