From Affect to Effect: - ART, ECOLOGY AND ACTIVISM AT SANDY LAKE

A patchwork of Karen McKendry, an ecologist and member of the Sandy Lack- municipally-, provincially-, and privately-owned land, the Sandy Sackville River Regional Park Coalition, has been working with the Lake-Sackville River area boasts ecologically intact ecosystems Sandy Lake Coalition and the Ecology Action Centre for five years. [...] We need to keep it intact for wildlife movement through the city, and for all of the ecosystem services that that Write your elected officials and take wildlife provides: pollinating our plants, and cleaning our waters, action to Save Sandy Lake by visiting and capturing carbon. [...] 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.” 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.” 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 “Sanctuary to the city.”.