Fragments from the Frontlines: Voices and Portraits of Survival
Open Gallery
April 5 to May 31, 2025
Climate change is causing untold damage to lives and livelihoods in Kamloops and beyond. Too often, there has been a failure to tell the many human stories about climate disaster: from heat waves and floods to wildfires and droughts. As a result, we can feel as if we are fragments on the frontlines of climate change, disconnected from one another’s experiences and sometimes even our own. This exhibition features the stories of nearly two dozen people across British Columbia who have lived through climate change and offer lessons of what’s to come. Their testimonies are based on reporting conducted by students from Thompson Rivers University participating in the Climate Disaster Project, an award-winning international teaching newsroom that works with disaster-impacted people to share their stories. Under the instruction of Jennifer Chrumka, these environmental journalism students co-created stories of survival, community and hope.
For more information, please visit www.climatedisasterproject.com
Instructor and exhibition lead // Jennifer Chrumka
Photographer // Jess Beaudin
Editors // Jennifer Chrumka, Aldyn Chwelos, Sean Holman
Interviewer/writers and narrators:
Aibiike Alymova
Eagle Anderson
Eilish Bobicki
Liam Bobicki
Jim Cooperman
Harshika Gupta
Anel Jazbayeva
Diego Machado
Remy Machado
Hamida Marufu
Pedro Mori
Shekainah Mendis
Sylvia Ndirangu
Santiago Rojas
Lara Romero
Beltran Santos
Jenna Spencer
Melanie Stutt
Cheyanne Watkinson
Reagan Wilkinson
Sponsored by Thompson Rivers University, Climate Disaster Project, University of Victoria, The Wren
Photo: Teresa Donck-Matlock
