Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 6 – 7:30 pm
Point of View Talk with Ecologist Dawn Bazely and
Screening of Brakfesten / La Grande Bouffe
Square gallery and Pavilion
We invite you to join us for a special screening and point-of-view talk with York Biology Professor Dawn Bazely as she responds to our current exhibition Anne Duk Hee Jordan: Worlds Away, through her knowledge of biology and ecological systems. Bazely has been a field biologist for forty years and her research specializes in plant/animal interactions. She has also developed expertise in science policy and communications as well as citizen science.
As part of the program, participants will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition and view the special presentation of the short film Brakfesten / La Grande Bouffe, 2022–23, a film by Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Pauline Doutreluingne. Brakfesten / La Grande Bouffe zooms into a symbiotic ecosystem, centering on a public sculpture created in Södra Hällarna, a Swedish forest that is threatened with extinction due to Elm disease. The film centres on the mutual interdependence of the trees, insects, birds, and other organisms that live there and explores the possibility to support future regeneration. Brakfesten / La Grande Bouffe was commissioned and produced by Public Art Agency Sweden in collaboration with Baltic Art Center.
Dawn Bazely joined York University’s Faculty of Science as a biology professor in 1990. She directed York’s Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability for seven years, receiving the university’s Sustainability Leadership Award and the title of University Professor in 2017. Dawn’s many awards include the 2021 Royal Canadian Institute for Science’s Fleming Medal for excellence in science communication. She advocates for public science, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity in STEM. In 2024–25, Dawn held the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Professorship at Yale University, carrying out research on ecotourism and teaching the undergraduate course Canada’s Approach to Global Environmental Wicked Problems.
