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it has reverberations for the areas around it as well.” As organizing efforts to protect the Sandy Lake-Sackville River area intensify, the integration of art and environmental activism is emerging as a powerful method to raise awareness and galvanize “In my art, I'm trying to get really, really close to the things that support for the campaign. [...] The areas around Halifax into the city in paintings and in art, it’s a Sandy Lake Artists’ Collective has ventured twice to the lake for window for people to appreciate a place.” From Affect open-air painting sessions to capture the area’s beauty. [...] “I started loss of biodiversity and wild places as we would a dear, dear family to think and feel that water was a living entity and that it was such member, we would be well served.” ACTIVISM AT SANDY LAKE a wonderful thing to connect with and an amazing resource to have areas like Sandy Lake, and the lakes that I love to swim in, so close Vaughan says the collective raised around $5,000 at the “. [...] Since 2015 the organization has raised over $80,000 to bring world becomes stranger and more horrific due to the climate “Elegantly Departed” represents the strength, the program to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. [...] She understood how to AND THE POETRY look outside yourself at the endless cycling of dead and living things and the wonder and pain of loving something ephemeral.