Shimshon Obadia
UBC’s Okanagan campus found a perfect subject for its recently launched Our Stories campaign: FCCS student Shimshon Obadia.
A video featurette and long-form feature story about Obadia can be seen at ourstories.ok.ubc.ca/shimshono.
Obadia, a third-year Interdisciplinary Performance major has been working with Grade 7 and 8 classes at École KLO Middle School in Kelowna, B.C., to restore a damaged wetland and lost habitat of the Western Painted turtle.
In 2013, Obadia was recruited to engage the habitat re-naturalization project through creative solutions, using eco art to help raise awareness and funds, which culminated with the public gallery exhibit “Concrete in the Creek.” The aim of this project was to get a natural learning environment conducive to embodied, practice-based learning through building enough support for this project in the community.
Obadia was hired as a research assistant with the Eco Art Incubator, an initiative directed by FCCS professors Nancy Holmes and Denise Kenney. The Incubator supported Obadia’s project work with the school and enabled him to pursue more extensive research in the area of integrating art, nature, and science into interdisciplinary school projects.
Find out more about Our Stories at ourstories.ubc.ca.