Here’s our latest story in our efforts to lighten our carbon footprint—and a great way to start the week! On Monday mornng March 27th, 2023 we took possession of “Evie,” our all-electric midnight black Mini Cooper at Mini Halifax on Kempt Road, and said goodbye after fourteen years to our trusty Ford Fusion hybrid. Here’s […]
HARP The People’s Press is delighted to announce its latest title Hope Unleashed by Sara avMaat Hope Unleashed is a comic book about moving from climate anxiety to climate action, and about people in Nova Scotia working to make a difference. Maude (the dog) and Feebee (the cat) come to the rescue of Patrick (the […]
By Dorothy Lander “All my relations” is at first a reminder of who we are and of our relationship with both our family and our relatives. It also reminds us of the extended relationship we share with all human beings. But the relationships that Native people see go further, the web of kinship to animals, […]
The StFX Extension Department and Coady International Institute presented Dorothy and John with a beautiful fresh flower bouquet. Four HARP publications are among their donation of climate action/climate justice books, including Hope Unleashed by Sara avMaat (forthcoming), ReReading Catharine Parr Traill (https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/rereadingcpt/), Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne (https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/mikmaw-fiddler-joe-marble-plays-to-st-anne/) and Illness and the […]
We have begun this year—in Chinese culture The Year of the Rabbit, symbolic of longevity, peace and prosperity—by naming HARP a movement. Because HARP The People’s Press is far more than an multi-media publishing press dedicated to the healing arts and health equity. HARP is a social enterprise, reaching out to every one of us, […]
Band Councillor Jeremy Paul and Elder John R. Prosper at the Feast of St. Anne, Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation, July 26, 2022, where Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne was first released. Our healing arts publishing house—HARP Publishing the People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca)—has just hit the four-year mark. As we reflect on what we’ve learned […]
We went on a plant-based diet eight years ago. Reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and learning of the cruelty factory farming inflicts on animals was the decision point. It gave us a hearty health kick—a direct one to our aging bodies and an indirect one, we fervently hoped, to our planet. We ingested […]
Poking out of the top of my 2022 Christmas stocking was the book Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada by change-maker/author Jon Tattrie. Also two dark chocolate bars—70% cocoa—from the Hadhad’s newly opened store on Main Street, Antigonish. Shortly after midnight on the first day of 2023, having blurted […]
Posted by Dorothy Lander https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29700/22074 Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary JournalVolume 7 Issue 2, 2022 A REVIEW OF “THE MARROW OF LONGING” BY CELESTE NAZELI SNOWBER Kathy Mantas Nipissing University kathym@nipissingu.ca Kathy Mantas’ review of Celeste Snowber’s The Marrow of Longing is like no review that I have ever experienced – and it truly is an […]
Click on the link for the podcast of the Truth and Reconciliation pilgrimage to the St. George’s Anglican Chapel in Gore’s Landing on the Rice Lake Plains on Sept. 30, 2022, building on the decolonizing memoir by Dorothy Lander, ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar. Edited by the good folks at Northumberland community […]
