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Bethany Luhong Balan
Graphic Designer, Visual Artist & Poet
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This thematic address reflects on the power of cultural inheritance and the radical potential of youth imagination. Drawing from lived experience as an Indigenous creative, it explores what it means to live, learn, and lead within living landscapes—ecosystems that are alive, dynamic, and deeply intertwined with culture, identity, and community. It speaks to how today’s generation is both carrying forward ancestral knowledge and reimagining new systems rooted in justice, care, and sustainability. This session is a call to hold space for both memory and vision—to honour where we come from, and to act with intention in shaping what comes next.