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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS: A COMMUNITY DIALOGUE SERIESMeeting The End Of The World As We Know It:
Composting certainty, courting the otherwise
Date: Wed, April 16, 2025
Location: MacBride Museum, 1124 Front StreetWhitehorse, Yukon
Time:6:30pm: Doors open with beverages and light fare provided
7-9:00pm: Round table discussion follow by community inquiry
Tickets: Sliding scale, $5-20/person --> https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/illuminating-worldviews-series-meeting-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-tickets-1309453944999?aff=oddtdtcreator
Event contact: [email protected]
Event Description:
We are living through a time of profound unraveling—ecological, social, psychological. The institutions, systems, and inherited coordinates of modernity are not just failing; they are dissolving. As the scaffolds collapse, the very ground of shared meaning is splintering. We are left not only with broken systems, but with broken sensemaking: no common story to hold us, no clear horizon to walk toward.
In this talk, Vanessa Andreotti invites us to pause inside this disorientation—not to fix or transcend it, but to become intimate with its textures. Rather than resist the collapse or rush to premature solutions, what happens if we slow down, stay with the trouble, and learn to compost what is no longer life-giving?
This is not a call to despair, nor a naive gesture of hope. It is a deeper invitation: to meet these endings with humility, with grief, with the maturity to face our complicities, and with a willingness to be reconfigured by what we cannot control or fully understand.
What if we treated this time not as a problem to solve, but as a portal—a threshold where different intelligences (including those entangled in technologies) are stirring, where endings might become openings, and where relational attunement—not certainty—is our most vital compass?
This talk offers no easy answers. Instead, it opens a space to feel, to question, to decompose the familiar, and perhaps—to begin again differently.
Speakers:
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, where she leads transformative conversations about education in complex times. A former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education, Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism, one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and one of the designers of the course Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, available at UVic through Continuing Studies. Her latest work, Burnout From Humans: A Little Book About AI That is Not Really About AI, co-authored with Aiden Cinnamon Tea (an emergent intelligence), explores AI as a mirror and metaphor for human systems and invites readers to rethink relationality amidst planetary crises.
Ayana Young
Ayana Young and her daughter Penelope Mae Walker spend most days strategizing how to stop large scale industrial projects in wild salmon habitat; and exploring the wilderness of Coastal Alaska. Ayana is the Co-Founder and Host of For The Wild, an independent slow media organization and podcast dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling that dreams towards a world of grounded justice and reciprocity. Learning deeply from the critical dialogue shared with over 100 guests, Ayana approaches For The Wild’s mission with critical thinking, deep reverence, and artistry. She is also a Co-Founder of the The Chilkat Watershed Fund at Alaska Venture Fund as well as the Co-Founder of The Asher Foundation.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MacBride Museum of Yukon History, 1124 1st Ave, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1A4, Canada,Whitehorse, Yukon
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