November 19-21, 2019  at the Nottawasaga Inn Resort & Convention Centre, Alliston, ON

Tuesday:

Forest Therapy - Take a Walk in the Woods (T2F/T3F)

Endangered Species Site Walk (T2G/T3G)

Wednesday:

Forest Therapy - Take a Walk in the Woods: Indigenous Focus (W3F/W4F)

Aggregate Resource Planning and Rehabilitation Workshop and Tour (W1G/W4G)

See the Latornell website to learn more on each tour.

If you are interested in attending one or more of the tours, email Karen Anderson ( karen@allsetinc.com) and you will be added to the participants’ list. If the tour is filled to capacity, you will be notified that you were added to the waiting list. You can also stop by the Registration Desk during the Symposium to sign up.

Please come to the conference prepared with proper outdoor wear if you're participating in a tour.

Make sure to check out the Indigenous Artisan Marketplace in Exhibitor Gallery B during the Symposium.

In case you missed it in our newsletter earlier this month, we are excited to promote our Indigenous Artisan Marketplace. Each newsletter leading up to the Symposium will feature one of our attending artists.  So please stop by our Marketplace in Gallery B and meet our artisans, strike up a conversation, and start your Christmas shopping.

Our featured artists have been influenced by different places, cultures, and backgrounds. Understanding the cultural context their art was produced within will provide you with a deeper insight and appreciation of the artists and their work. Their art is in many different forms including paintings, drawings, jewellery, handbags, clothing, baskets, and so much more available for purchase.

Artist Spotlight

Indigenous Jewellery Designer and Photographer Barbra Nahwegahbow

Barb is Ojibway, born and raised in a family of 11 children on the Whitefish River First Nation near Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario. Her father supported the family by trapping, working as a fishing guide and doing pretty well any other kind of work that was available.

Barb began designing jewellery several years ago and is largely self-taught. Having lived and worked in Toronto for many years, her designs are influenced by the urban environment and the more natural environment in which she grew up. Barb loves to both design and wear bold and unique pieces that combine unexpected components. Barb uses quality, distinctive and often fun materials in her designs. “My favourite stone when I started designing was turquoise,” she says. “Turquoise is a stone that’s been highly prized by Native people because it represents strength and power and symbolizes the blue of the sky. Since I’ve been designing, I have grown to love all gemstones – aquamarine, tourmaline, garnet in all its wonderful shades, sapphire, moonstone, lapis and the list goes on.” Barb often combines these stones with hand-made porcelain pieces, hand-felted beads, or sterling silver beads and chain. She will also use semi-precious and precious gemstones and combines them with wood, nuts, seeds and seeds, or porcelain, resin, hand-felted or metal accent pieces. Vintage finds from antique markets also make their way into her designs. You can see some of Barb’s designs on Instagram ( @bluedawnjewellery) and on her website www.bluedawnjewellery.com.

Barb is also a photographer specializing in photographing nature in the city where she creates beautiful photo art cards. Check out Barb’s Instagram ( @barbnahwegahbow).

For more details on Barb and the Marketplace, please visit the Latornell Indigenous Artisan Marketplace page on our website.

Don't forget to 'Walk the Talk' and bring your own bag to Latornell.

Not only will this cut down on the energy it would have taken to produce the bags, it's a great way to re-use a bag that may be riding round in your trunk, stuffed under the seat of your car, or tucked into your knapsack.

Even if it's not a 'Latornell' bag, any re-usable bag will fit the bill!

Do You Know What Else We Do to Keep Things Green?

How You Can Help

Forest Therapy Walk

Katrina Furlanetto, General Manager, Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority

The practice of Forest Therapy was founded through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides, based in California. The founders of this mindful, healing and connective practice were inspired by the Japanese practice of “Shinrin-yoku” which translates as “forest bathing”.

Cataraqui Conservation was the first Conservation Authority to offer a Forest Therapy Program and have an accredited Forest Therapy guide on staff who was trained through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides in 2016. The program has been acclaimed by participants across a wide demographic spectrum, and all Forest Therapy walks fill up fast.  READ MORE

Each year, the Steering Committee is contacted by delegates who are interested in carpooling to the Symposium. Like previous years, we have created a special carpooling page to help delegates connect with one another and arrange transportation to and from the Symposium. You can add your name to our page as an indication that you are (A) looking for a ride, or (B) willing to offer a ride.

To learn more about carpooling to the Symposium, and to sign up, visit our Carpooling webpage.

Karen Anderson and Mario Maillet, Symposium Coordinators

Latornell Conservation Symposium

1-888-274-1364 ext. 4

www.latornell.ca

c/o Conservation Ontario

120 Bayview Parkway

Newmarket, Ontario

L3Y 3W3

905-895-0716