January 19th, 2023
6 - 7:30 PM
@ Skeena Diversity Society
FREE / open to all
film screening • community event • discussion • identity • outdoor recreation • snowboarding • environment
January 19th, 2023
6 - 7:30 PM
@ Skeena Diversity Society
FREE / open to all
film screening • community event • discussion • identity • outdoor recreation • snowboarding • environment
About this activity
How does playing in the outdoors shape who we are?
How can a relationship built in love and play affect our will and motivation to protect our mountains, our snow, our environment?
Join us for this movie screening of professional snowboarder and noted environmentalist Tamo Campos' short documentary Ru-Tsu, where he enters in discussion with his world-renown grandfather David Suzuki.
The screening will be followed by an open community discussion with local panelists Kari Morgan, Clancy Sindlinger, Hans Mundhenk, Kayleen Tomas and Brad Zeerip, mediated by adventure photographer Alexandre Choquette, exploring their life journey into the outdoors, how it shaped them as well as their sense of legacy and responsibility.
About Ru-Tsu
Ru-Tsu follows snowboarder Tamo Campos on an educational journey to learn about his Japanese ancestry and his activist roots. Through reflections with his grandfather, award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, David Suzuki, this personal film dives into themes of intergenerational trauma, passionate activism, and a family’s deep love of nature. This film is a rare look inside the family of one of Canada’s most recognizable environmentalists, and the stories unravel the history that shapes their past, present, and future
/ Clancy Sindlinger
As a kid in Calgary, Alberta, Clancy discovered a world of wonder along the banks of the Bow River, chasing bugs and frogs, fishing and sending her carcass down grassy knolls in the family toboggan. She later relocated to BC’s coast, where she got her first job in outdoor education at 17 and fell in love with the feeling of introducing people to the incredible coastal temperate rainforest ecosystems of her home province.
While intermittently chipping away at a Bachelor of Music in Opera with an Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Ottawa, her fear
of desks drove her to try a variety of jobs including sea kayak guiding, silviculture technician work, and instructing for Outward Bound Canada. She rediscovered her love of chucking herself down snow-covered slopes when she moved to Northern BC, and over the last three seasons she has worked as a CSIA ski instructor and professional ski patroller.
This season she will start work as a tailguide and snowcat driver at a remote cat skiing lodge, and is excited to continue working toward her ski guiding accreditations. Clancy is also the producer and host of Different Aspects Podcast, a show she began with the hope of elevating access to the
stories of women and gender diverse folks who work in various corners of the outdoor industry.
/ about Hans Mundhenk
Hans has been working in the avalanche industry since 2010. His work experience spans avalanche forecasting and control for Northwest Avalanche Solutions Limited, avalanche education and guiding. Most recently, Hans has become accredited as an ACMG Ski Guide. A passionate mountain-enthusiast, he can be found out in the mountains skiing or sledding whenever he isn't hanging out with family and friends or working.
/ Brad Zeerip
60 years skiing
30 years as a fishing guide
Now a bum.
/ about Kari Morgan
Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia; her background is Nisga’a from the house of Kw’isk'ayn, European, and Métis. Morgan is a Sculptor, Painter, and Designer, whose clear passion for art and mixed media emerged in her early childhood. While studying under master carvers, Dempsey Bob, Stan Bevan, and Ken McNeil, Morgan received The Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art Advanced Diploma.
Her artwork is known for being both sharp and fluid, and at times beautifully minimalist. Morgan weaves through the delineation of what is known as traditional First Nations art and contemporary, while exploring what these very same labels, imposed by other cultures, mean to society and to herself.
Morgan believes traditional art is more than just the visual language for the people of the Northwest, she also believes it is medicine for the soul. She is honored to be practicing her traditional art and has so much gratitude for all the people who have kept these practices alive, even through all the attempts to remove this knowledge from history. Morgan enjoys learning and challenging herself, and while discovering more about her traditions she is also discovering what it means to be a Native woman practicing art in the modern world. Morgan aims to display the strengths of her culture and people through her art and entice positive narrative change.
Morgan has displayed artwork in various shows at The Museum of Northern British Columbia, Lester Center of the Arts, Terrace Art Gallery, Smithers Art Gallery, The Kitimat Museum, The Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver, and the Stonington Gallery in Seattle where she has also held a Solo Exhibition “Post-Apocalyptic” in April 2022. Morgan has instructed multiple artist talks and art practice workshops throughout the Northwest in various schools and locations.
/ Kayleen Tomas
Born and raised in Terrace, there was no better feeling heading up to Shames when I first started snowboarding. This passion quickly turned to a healthy obsession, and now into a career and lifestyle.
/ about Alexandre Choquette, panel chair
Alexandre is an adventure photographer and quantum physicist from Quebec. He has always been captivated by how natural phenomena occur. When adventuring in the outdoors, he would focus on details and textures he found along his way and wonder what could possibly have brought them into existence and what will happen to them. Through photography, he found a way to share this fascination of his and make the observer stare at what he captured for as long as he did. Alexandre now shares his time between Northwestern British-Columbia and Montreal.
/ about Tamo Campos
Tamo Campos is a filmmaker, impact practitioner, community organizer and extreme sports athlete. His films include The Klabona Keepers (2022), Ru-Tsu (2020), The Radicals (2018), A Last Stand For Lelu (2016), Northern Grease (2013) & over fifty shorts. Tamo embeds himself in the community wherever he goes and is dedicated to combining social impact with his adventures in sport, activism, and filmmaking. His previous projects have had a strong outreach focus that collaborated deeply with participants within his films. His work has focused on Indigenous land defense, Indigenous health models, climate justice and anti-racism. He is also the co-founder of the nonprofit collective Beyond Boarding, a board member of Rediscovery International, and recently finished his Masters Degree with York University with a focus on Canadian Impact Producing. Campos is also currently an Impact Fellow for StoryMoneyImpact, a Canadian organization growing the field of Impact Producing.