 My name is Shelby Maunder and I'm the Executive Director of Bite Empowering Youth Society. The program we're going to talk about today is called This Is Our Arctic. It's a program that we ran for a couple of years with youth from Old Crow and in New Vic, so youth aged 12 to 18, from two Arctic communities. In This Is Our Arctic, we did sort of like three days workshop on climate change and photography and the objective of the program was for youth to like talk about climate change through their eyes. So they did this workshop about climate change and then they did some workshops about photo composition and then they were asked to just like go into their community and take pictures of like changes that they've seen as a result of climate change. The program was developed for ages 12 to 18. I mentioned this in an interview before but we're we're not an indigenous organization but we work with many indigenous communities so for us it's important to put the perspective of the community at the forefront and the youth obviously. So in This Is Our Arctic for example it's important for us to help like youth to connect with elders to share their thoughts on climate change and for elders to have a chance to share their knowledge and memories with youth in the community but we just act as kind of like a conduit. So we're not experts in indigenous education but we want to be a part of it in whatever way the community tells us we should be. Probably similar to what I just said so just like taking cues from the indigenous youth and the indigenous communities that we work with and being a part of that vision in whatever way they see fit. Yeah we don't feel that it's our place necessarily. The way we do our workshops and our programs is by like working really closely with someone in the community so it's just a matter of like if you're interested in contacting us for programming we want to develop sort of like that long-term relationship with you so that we're not sort of like one off in the community so that we can really like learn yeah to be a part of that community. The result of This Is Our Arctic was 30 photos and a short video with elders from Old Crow and the photos in the video can be found on our website but it was what was really cool is that we were able to tour the exhibit across the country so the exhibit the 30 photos went to Art Starts in Vancouver, it went to the Youth Center's Conference in Ottawa, it had a stint at the Museum of Inuit Art in Toronto and then and then it was returned back here but it was like especially awesome in this program to not only have youth think about like their vision for climate change but have youth to share that vision with southern partners so that was really cool.