Tag: Ethan Iverson
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Tracks of the Week 29.01.22

Tracks of the Week
Between 1894 and 1947 in Canada, the residential school system made attendance at Christian-administered boarding schools mandatory for all Indigenous children. Separated from their families and culture and subject to widespread physical and sexual abuse, around 150,000 children were placed in the system over a hundred-year period until the last residential school closed in 1997. In 2015 a national...

Tracks of the Week 15.01.22

Tracks of the Week
'Lush with a gentle, brackish breeze' is how Jeremiah Chiu recalls the Åland Islands, an archipelago of around 6,500 skerries and islands which lie between Sweden and Finland at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. After visiting the islands to help set up the Hotel Svala, which would host workshop programmes and artistic retreats,...