[Advisors] Fwd: Communities conversation - Bering to Tierra del Fuego - looking for contacts

[Marita Moll]

Colleagues: Here is an unusual note from Sam Coghlan, a well-known 
librarian/community networking activist in southwestern Ontario. Some of 
you might have contacts you are willing to share.

Marita


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Subject: 	Communities conversation - Bering to Tierra del Fuego - 
looking for contacts
Date: 	Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:20:56 -0400
From: 	Sam Coghlan <sam at oxford.net>
To: 	



Hi folks!

In case you don’t remember, I am a librarian (now retired) living 
rurally in southwestern Ontario, Canada approximately half way between 
Toronto and Detroit. I am a fervent believer that the job of pubic 
libraries is to help communities improve themselves.

I am sending this email to colleagues and friends who may be able to 
assist my colleague/friend, Brendan Howley, in an initiative in which he 
and his son will travel down the west coast (roughly) from the Bering 
Strait to Tierra del Fuego. He would like to meet people in communities, 
especially indigenous communities, along his journey to learn their 
stories/myths of the natural world, to record their music about such 
things, and to track dying languages for posterity.

If this interest you, I am hoping that you will contact Brendan directly 
(brendan.howley at gmail.com) and/or that you will share this email with 
others whom you know who may be interested.

I won’t talk about Brendan because he will do better himself in the 
attached description of his project.

Brendan states that the core process is one already proven by BC poet 
Wendy Morton in her groundbreaking 
http://www.theelderproject.com/home.html—to share literary skills with 
indigenous children to induce them to create poetry about their elders: 
/to bubble up the lost voices of the indigenous past, especially 
regarding the natural world so damaged by global climate disruption./

Brendan and his son Nikolai, a gifted 
musician/coder-technologist/videographer, are going to travel along the 
west coast of the Americas from the Bering Strait to Tierra del 
Fuego—from Alaska to Antarctica, meeting through local libraries subject 
matter experts, local elders and especially young students.

While the trek focuses on the Pacific Coast indigenous storytelling, the 
six month itinerary includes stints eastward to the Four Corners of 
Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and across the Mississippi, 
along the Seminole/Choctaw ‘trail of tears.’

Nikolai and Brendan, a former CBC investigative journalist-turned social 
media strategist, will be involved in at least six simultaneous projects 
during their journey, almost all of which will use local libraries and 
telecentres as hubs for interviews/recordings/filmings of local subject 
matter experts and indigenous elders, storytellers and musicians.

That’s where YOU come in.

If you are in their path and/or if you know somebody in a community that 
is on their path—maybe you can help.

Brendan is looking for librarians for sure, but also other community 
activists who play roles similar to libraries. The project has already 
won sponsorship from Mercedes-Benz, with CIBC, ThomsonReuters and 
Canadian Tire in queue.

If you might be willing to help, please contact Brendan directly at 
+1.226.880.1449 or brendan.howley at gmail.com 
<mailto:brendan.howley at gmail.com> or @brendanhowley.

Thanks for reading this,

Sam I am

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