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.



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