New Landscape Artist added to BFG

Check out Marek Mikrut on our Images page. He plays a mean Jew’s Harp and his soft, joyful landscapes seem to conjur up childhood memories of the forests he visits. Here’s a beauty.  More images by Marek Mikrut are at: BFG Images page

New Artists and Curators Joining the Group

More momentum for the Broken Forests Project. We’ve added several artists to the project, two organic painters from Poland, an installation poet from Hamilton and a site/spirit artist born in Switzerland who now lives on the edges of the boreal forest of Ontario. Check them out here: https://www.brokenforests.com/images/ AND We’re all SO EXCITED to be…

Broken Forests Studio Tours

Okay, so we just set up a Broken Forests Group Channel on YouTube. This is where we will be collecting videos about participating artists and curators for the project. Right now we have some artists studio tours from artists in Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. Here is the channel link. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDaCDzsN7u5E4MOHBDtQAwQ/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE and check back…

Jane Goodall calls for an End to Global Greed

A call to a suffering civilization. I think we must achieve a new balance between the health of the human community and the health of the biosphere that supports us. Link to Independent video here

Antidote by Tom Red

Have I ever returned from a walk in the wild feeling less healthy than when I left my sordid, civilized society? How do the rustling leaves, fetid earth, clarifying air and occasional smears of dew alter my functioning flesh and body? The relationship between our selves and our surroundings  must be integral to achieving a…

Facebook Group page launched!

And we’ve posted the itinerary for the Endangered Boreal Tour and Symposium Series on this page as well. So far, we’ve had great support for this project from Nipissing University, many businesses in northeastern Ontario and the North Bay Chamber of Commerce. For information on our local forests, the dangers that threaten them, corporate plans…