Events
- Love, Rage, and Solidarity: 13th March and Vigil for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People
Date: Thursday, October 4
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Cabot Square (Atwater Metro)
In solidarity with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit People, the Indigenous Directions Leadership Group encourages you to attend Love, Rage, and Solidarity: 13th March and Vigil for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit. For more information, please visit the Facebook event page here.
- Webinar: The Winnipeg Boldness Project: Community Wisdom & Systems Change
Date: October 11, 2018
Time: 1-2pm Eastern
Speaker: Diane Roussin, Winnipeg Boldness Project
Host: Galen MacLusky, Tamarack Learning Centre
This webinar will focus on the experience of The Winnipeg Boldness Project, a research and development project working alongside the North End community to create improved outcomes for children in the Point Douglas neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg Boldness project director, Diane Roussin, will discuss the Child-Centred Model—a theory of change informed by community wisdom—and how the project is employing multi-sectoral collaborative efforts to contribute to systems change and reconciliation. Read more about this webinar and register here.
- Oral History in Our Challenging Times Conference
Dates: October 10-14
Location: Sir George Williams Campus, Concordia University
The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) is hosting the annual conference of the Oral History Association. The conference theme is Oral History in Our Challenging Times, featuring immersive, art-infused storytelling projects exploring subjects like the Syrian refugee crisis, racism and Islamophobia, the opioid epidemic, and more. Check out panels and presentations as well as guided tours (including a tour of Cedar Eve Peters' murals), sound installations, and more at no cost. Read more about conference highlights here, or visit COHDS’s website for full conference details.
- Readings for Treaty People: The Indian Act
Dates: Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 15, 22
Time: 6:30pm-8pm, Thursday evenings
Location: Atwater Library
Cost: $25-$50 (sliding scale)
The language of reconciliation is in many instances nothing more than a new phase of colonialism. Indigenous scholars like Leanne Simpson, Glen Coulthard, Chelsea Vowel, and David Garneau argue, rightly, that it remains presumptuous to talk about reconciliation so long as the truths about settler relationships with Indigenous peoples continue to be so easily ignored, misunderstood, and flatly denied. Indeed, non-indigenous populations in Canada have much work and learning still to do.
Join us for the second session of “Readings for Treaty People,” a public education project designed for settlers but open always to anyone. This session will focus on the several iterations of the Indian Act. This is a series of events co-facilitated by Jocelyn Parr and Richard Cassidy. For more information and to register for this reading series, please visit: https://readingsfortreatypeople.wordpress.com/the-indian-act-fall-2018/.