At the first national workshop, we went into a large room and
imagined that the floor had a map of Canada on it. Then we began to arrange
ourselves as if we were standing where we would find our home community. The
two women from Arviat, NWT, stood directly in the centre of the room. At first,
we tried to convince them that they should stand at the top of the room. They
would be the furthest north and the rest of us would have more room. They
refused, insisting that most southerners have a very skewed sense of our
country's geography, that Arviat is at the geographic centre of Canada. At the
second workshop, women talked about using circle images for the poster to
recognize the non-linear nature of our work. For this reason, we have arranged
the program descriptions beginning with Arctic College and moving in a circle
around to the east and then to the west. |