Last week, a rush of sockeye salmon smolts began their big trip from Babine Lake to the Prince Rupert Estuary where they will prepare to venture out into the great big blue pacific for their trip of a lifetime.
As part of this annual Invisible Migration, there was a virtual celebration hosted by the Lake Babine Nation, which saw the premiere of a brand-new community-based animation project from the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, featuring the art of Leah Pipe, and animation of Facundo Gastiazoro.
It’s called “An Epic Journey: A Story of the Salmon life-cycle in times of climate change, as told by the children and youth of the Skeena.
It’s narrated by 50 kids from the watershed, and highlights the external factors making the salmon spawning Journey even harder than it ever was before. In this first part of our interview, artist Leah Pipe will tell us about the original inception of this project, and what she hopes we all take away from its important message.
In the second half, Facundo Gastiazoro discusses working on the more practical, animation side of things.
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