The Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) is pleased to announce the launch of Where Art and Boxing Create Community, a new student-led workshop series grounded in the belief that art and sport are not only practices, but spaces we build—spaces that can hold, shape, and connect us. Register now.
Bringing together Maggie Hébert (PhD student at UQAM) and Taw’ama El Kaddouri (MA student at Université Laval and CSLP affiliate), the series explores boxing, photography, and linoprinting as languages of resilience, care, and belonging. Across three sessions combining dialogue, visual storytelling, documentary screening, and hands-on creation, participants are invited to reflect on how bodies, images, and collective effort can become ways of witnessing, empowering, and existing together. No prior experience is required.
The first session, Witnessing and Naming, will take place on March 6, 2026, from 5:00–7:00 p.m. at the CSLP (1211 Saint-Mathieu St., room GA 2.221).
Come listen. Come reflect. Come begin.
Through conversation, photography, and a short documentary on the Women’s Boxing Club in Gaza, participants will explore how sport and art speak to life itself: discipline, vulnerability, resistance, tenderness, and survival. The session offers a space to witness, to name, and to think together—no expertise required, only presence.
The series is organized in collaboration with Gaza Boxing for Women Club, Resisting Colonizations, and the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV). It is also supported by the SSHRC-funded Voix de la colère et de l’espoir project led by Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada (Université Laval) in partnership with the CSLP.
By centering art and sport as shared practices of care and resistance, Where Art and Sport Create Community opens a collective space for reflection, dialogue, and creation—one grounded in presence, solidarity, and the possibility of building community together.