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Title: Museum of Vancouver 1
Keyword: Museums, Language, Musqueam Knowledge, Relationality
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a white wall with a welcoming message in the Musqueam language as well as in English and French.

Title: False Creek 65
Keyword: Advertising, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the side of a building advertising "avenue one" with imagery of the Habitat Island area.

Title: False Creek 63
Keyword: Advertising, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the side of a building with imagery proclaiming Concord Pacific as "CANADA'S LARGEST COMMUNITY BUILDER."

Title: Portside Park 2
Keyword: Shipping Industry, Ecology, Transportation
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of shipping cranes and containers with trees on either side of the shot.

Title: Stanley Park Video 6
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of rocks in the water along Stanley Park, near Vancouver Seawall. A bit of shore can be seen at the top of the shot. Duration: 0:38

Title: Canada Place 4
Keyword: City, Public Space, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of Canada Place with city skyline in the background.

Title: Stanley Park 93
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees with people walking and cycling on the paths.

Title: TELUS World of Science 10
Keyword: Earth, Waste, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: Tower Beach 19
Keyword: Rocks, Shore, Relationality, Ecology
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image of rocks of various sizes, some of which have seaweed on them.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 7
Keyword: Mapping, City, Scale, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a model of Vancouver viewed from the side.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 10
Keyword: Mapping, City, Industry, Imperialism, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a map of Vancouver dated 1898.

Title: Burrard Street
Keyword: City, Roads, Movement
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of tall buildings and people along Burrard Street and at the intersection of Burrard Street and Canada Place.

Title: Downtown Vancouver 2: Behind Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Construction, Development
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of construction being done on the side of a high-rise building surrounded by other tall buildings.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 4: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the view behind the Residence Inn hotel in Downtown Vancouver showing tall buildings and trees.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.

Title: Downtown Eastside Vancouver 4: Gore Avenue
Keyword: Shipping Industry, Transportation, Trees
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of shipping cranes and containers with trees and cars in the foreground.

Title: W Waterfront Road
Keyword: Transportation, City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a train and city skyline.

Title: Guadalupe Martinez Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Mixed Media Art, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Guadalupe Martinez talks about how both found objects and poetics function in her performance art. She explains that the title of her performances are integral components to the performance. She also emphasises that the found objects she uses have inherent meanings that bring a depth and clarity to her work and serve to create emotion connections.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 9
Keyword: Mapping, Resources, Imperialism, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a map of Western British Columbia naming the province "GOLD COUNTRY" and "THE NEW EL DORADO."

Title: Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
Keyword: Ecology, Natural World, Poetry, Mobility, Culture, Settler, Language, Economy, Identity, Space, Diasporic, History
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: In this second clip of the interview, Nicholson touches on topics such as space, colonial history, poetry, and settler language. The discussion then shifts to comment on language use—in particular thinking of the language used in regards to the non-human elements of space.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 5: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the view behind the Residence Inn Hotel in Downtown Vancouver showing multiple tall buildings.

Title: Wayde Compton Clip 1
Keyword: Space, Instability, Maps, Surtsey
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: This clip starts with a discussion of Compton's book The Outer Harbour. More specifically, the idea of imagining Canadian spaces being in flux and how Compton’s imagining of spaces is connected to his personal history.

Title: Tower Beach 13
Keyword: Rocks, Shore, Relationality, Ecology
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image centered on a rock with seaweed on it, surrounded by other rocks of various sizes.

Title: Portside Park 29
Keyword: Birds, Trees, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of birds sitting in bare trees.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this conclusion of Jordan Abel's interview, he restates the complexity of places like Vancouver, and acknowledges that a place can be simultaneously beautiful and devastating.

Title: Portside Park 38
Keyword: City, Skyline, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of an empty parking lot with city skyline in the background.

Title: TELUS World of Science 9
Keyword: Earth, Waste
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 34
Keyword: Shore, Coast, Ecology, City
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of sand beach and rock seawall with city skyline in the background.

Title: Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Keyword: History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: In this audio clip, Phinder Dulai discusses his work Dreams/Arteries. He comments on his use of archives, the form of poetry, refugees, and the polyphony of voices in his work.

Title: TELUS World of Science 17
Keyword: Earth, Waste, Geology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of an exhibit of layers of earth with garbage embedded in the top layer and with a sign describing each different layer.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 3: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the view behind the Residence Inn hotel in Vancouver showing multiple tall buildings.

Title: Tower Beach 12
Keyword: Rocks, Shore, Relationality, Ecology
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image of rocks of various sizes, one of which is covered by seaweed.

Title: Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.

Title: Waterfront Station 1
Keyword: Movement, Transportation, City
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of trains and train tracks with city skyline along the right side.

Title: Stanley Park 113
Keyword: Trees, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of tall trees.

Title: Stanley Park 20
Keyword: Shore, Rocks
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of small rocks on a muddy shore.

Title: Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Keyword: Identity, Language, Poetry, History, Settler, Culture
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: In this final clip, Nicholson concludes her discussion on settler-colonialism and language use.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 9: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of the city skyline behind the Residence Inn Hotel in the early morning.

Title: Portside Park 36
Keyword: Shore, Rocks, Trees, City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of rock shore and trees with city skyline and Canada Place in the background.

Title: Portside Park 30
Keyword: Sand, Rocks, Trees, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a large log lying on sand and small rocks.

Title: False Creek 61
Keyword: Shore, Ecology, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of a long log lying across the rocky shore of False Creek with the TELUS World of Science building in the background.

Title: Canada Place Video 10
Keyword: Sky, Clouds
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video looking up at the clouds. Duration: 0:06

Title: TELUS World of Science 8
Keyword: Earth, Waste
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: Portside Park 1
Keyword: Transportation, Shipping Industry, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of parked semi-trucks and cars with shipping cranes and containers in the background and with a tree on the left side of the shot.

Title: TELUS World of Science 2
Keyword: Earth, Waste, Geology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of an exhibit of layers of earth with garbage embedded in the top layer and with a sign describing each different layer.

Title: Portside Park 31
Keyword: Birds, Shore, Trees, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of trees and the shore of Portside Park with birds flying in the sky above.

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