CLAW (Collaborative Learning in Art n’ Wildness) is a youth-centred offshoot of Tooth n’ Fang situated on the Pearson College UWC campus; the traditional territory of the Sc’ianew (Beecher Bay) First Nation.
This program is designed to connect youth with their local environment in experimental + exploratory ways in order to further deepen and develop our relationship with the non-human world and seek REVERENCE for native species as stimulus for exciting new projects to arise.
Each week students engage in experimental workshops and activities designed to educate and investigate local ecologies and transform inquiries into new immersive, cinematic, and performative works.
One of these pieces includes A chorus of immortal toxins — a site-specific mask ritual that takes a critical look at the impact of pollutants in our world. This project will have its world premiere at the prague quadrennial festival in czechia in june 2023.
