Recent, current and ongoing activities, initiatives and projects exploring the relationships between creative expression, the arts, health and healing in the north. Through our works, HARC, our partners and collaborators strive to create and sustain a dynamic, inclusive, strengths-based forum for innovative inquiry and practice around renewing and expanding health, wellness and well-being in northern communities.
H.E.A.L. Healthcare officially hit 750 podcast downloads! We are so excited to have so many folks tuning in, engaging with the curriculum, and showing up for meaningful conversations about healthcare. …
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Earlier this spring, HARC Research Director Dr Sarah de Leeuw published a new paper in the Journal of Feminist Geography. PINE: A Geopoetic Work About Menopause and Wildfires, is based on …
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HARC is delighted to share this magnificent performance, “In the Meantime”, composed by Brooklyn Wood for Orchestra and Choir. Watch it Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXEoj9_gRo In the Meantime explores the idea of …
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HARC Research Director, Dr Sarah de Leeuw recently contributed to a fantastic collection, Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe. Now more than ever, we need these types of love-forward ways …
Read MorePhD candidate Monika Krzywania has been busy this summer presenting at 2 conferences: Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Victoria, BC (June 1-4) Paper Presentation: “We just want to …
Read MoreMore Poetic Forecasts Workshops forecasted for this fall~ Dr. Samantha Jones, Banting Post-Doctoral fellow at HARC offers appreciation for successful Poetic Forecasts community writing workshops in Calgary, AB, and her northern BC …
Read MoreOn March 8, the Good Neighbours Committe in Vanderhoof hosted a recorded screening of the original 2011 play, Saik’uz & Settlers: A Weave of Local History, written by HARC Research …
Read MoreThis year, Evan received a highly competitive SSHRC Doctoral Award in support of his PhD research at UNBC. He was one of only a very small number of UNBC students …
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In April, Evan participated in the Canadian Association for Health Humanities Creating Space 16 conference, hosted by the University of Ottawa, where he delivered a well‑attended …
At the recent Annual Spring Meeting of the BC Surgical Society in Whistler, BC, HARC Research Director Dr. Sarah de Leeuw was both Guest Speaker and Workshop Facilitator for nearly …
Read MoreVanessa Mitchell was honoured to present Indigenous Women in Leadership: Rooted in the Traditional Kinship of Auntie as part of the “Carrying Our Ancestors with Us: Knowledge, Responsibility, and …
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Congratulations to HARC Research Director Sarah de Leeuw for her latest publication in cultural geographies: Fully left justified? Poetry’s potential for relineating cultural geography and beyond. ABSTRACT: Geography is fundamentally a …
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Podcasts in H.E.A.L. Healthcare curricula officially hit 500 downloads! We are so excited to have so many folks tuning in, engaging with the curriculum, and showing up for more meaningful …
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Last month, members of the HARC team presented a webinar on H.E.A.L. Healthcare: Hearts-based Education and Anticolonial Learning in Healthcare, hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH). …
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HARC is delighted to share the publication of a new paper by Research Director Dr. Sarah de Leeuw and former HARC post-doctoral fellow Dr. Darian Goldin Stahl: Charting Change in …
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Marion Erickson, Research Manager with the Health Arts Research Centre (HARC), has published her chapter, “A Revolutionary Step Forward: Blessing Babies,” in the winter issue (233) of The Malahat Review …
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Congrats to HARC PhD student Evan J on two recent publications. 📘 Evan’s short story, “Camouflage and fame,” was recently published in the Read More
On Friday, November 14th, 2025, HARC Research Director, Dr Sarah de Leeuw gave the 5th annual JP Jones lecture in social and spatial theory at the University of Arizona. Her lecture, …
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In October, HARC team member and PhD candidate Vanessa Mitchell presented at two community events in the Okanagan oriented around health, cultural safety, and youth leadership. On Read More
On October 22-23, 2025, the annual Northern BC Research & Quality Conference brought together researchers, healthcare professionals, and community partners to celebrate and share innovative work in research, …
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