This live event features the salmon defender in conversation with coastal Indigenous leaders about our wild fish.
“Before that, in the winter, we were plunged into darkness for most of the day and we were forced to entertain ourselves in non-visual ways,” says Danica Boyce, a spiritual coach, paganism educator and producer of Fair Folk, a podcast about European folklore.
“Someone would tell stories. Your grandfather would be the television, or your grandmother, and they would entertain you, as long as you were awake.”
Over the past century, flickering televisions have replaced the flickering hearth. Social media replaced storytellers as a source of news and information. Our hands have become occupied by cellphones instead of clicking knitting needles or the knotting of fishnets or just sitting, quietly, in the dark.