{"id":57022,"date":"2025-04-18T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=57022"},"modified":"2025-04-17T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:43:17","slug":"voices-from-scorched-earth-blends-the-boundaries-between-sackville-and-mining-town-el-estor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/voices-from-scorched-earth-blends-the-boundaries-between-sackville-and-mining-town-el-estor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from Scorched Earth \u2018blends the boundaries\u2019 between Sackville and mining town El Estor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Romi Fischer-Schmidt (l) and Styvens Barrios Loch (r) outside Struts Gallery on Lorne Street in Sackville. Photo: Erica Butler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two artists-in-residence at Struts Gallery are promising to \u201cblend the boundaries\u201d between Sackville and the Guatamalan mining town of El Estor in their upcoming presentation, Voices from Scorched Earth<\/a>, happening on April 22 at 7pm at Struts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Styvens Barrios Loch and Romi Fischer-Schmidt are in Sackville as part of a larger project looking at the connections between resource extraction, wealth, and art. Josh Schwebel\u2019s One Hand Washes the Other<\/a> <\/em>addresses the complicity of the mining investor and philanthropist whose name graces Mount Allison\u2019s new Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fischer-Schmidt says Voices of Scorched Earth aims to immerse a Sackville audience \u201cin the sounds that are being silenced in order for people to be able to create and learn to be artists here in Sackville.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHMA stopped by Struts to hear more about what\u2019s behind Voices from Scorched Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n