Aneesh Goel (St #: 39637146) Austen Kenney (St #: 51448158) Kabir Hothi (St #: 45728169) Nazanin Sahebnassagh (St #: 85132165) Keynote #2: Jeanette Armstrong / Richard Armstrong / Shawn Wilson The indigenous song, Okanagan song, that Jeanette Armstrong performed with few others as a welcome was very interesting. If it…

Lily Li I wanted to pick out Jeannette Armstrong’s keynote to respond to individually because the song that she sang with a group of people at the beginning of her speech is very inspiring to me. Her speech talked about the beauty of languages and the shared understanding between people…

Lily Li, Cristalle Smith & Melissa Weiss Matt Rader, MFA CRWR 382 Keynote Response 2 July 21, 2017   This keynote response is formulated with an effort to explore the words of Dr. Jeannette Armstrong, Richard Armstrong and Shawn Wilson.  There are many different ways to listen:  listen to speakers,…

2nd Keynote Response Richard Armstrong, Jeannette Armstrong, Shawn Wilson     Although originally billed as keynote presentations by Jeannette Armstrong and Shawn Wilson, we were told by the afternoon’s emcee Stephen Foster that Richard Armstrong would be opening for Jeanette, followed by Shawn, and that pleased me some because Richard’s…

Keynote address: 1:30 pm, Wednesday, July 12, University Theatre (ADM026) Land : Landed VIDEO link Chris Creighton-Kelly and France Trépanier will enact a performative presentation, Land : Landed, concerned with two grand, historical narratives that impact contemporary, Canadian art discourses. One is the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing, specifically…

Keynote Address: 12 noon, Wednesday July 12, University Theatre (ADM026) Rethinking Expo 67 VIDEO link On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Expo 67, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting À la recherché d’Expo 67 / In Search of Expo 67, an exhibition of major new works…

Week 5 is gearing up to be full of events, meetings (scheduled and informal) and spaces for connection, conversation, and community. We have provided just a brief list of events here, but stay tuned as new spaces open up. We welcome Elisabeth LaPensee, Jackson Two Bears, Evan Lee and Camille Turner, and Srimoyee Mitra, who…

Coming Up This Week The residency continues as many of us reflect over the past weekend and look forward to the coming week. Salmon Canning took place over the weekend and will be distributed towards the final weeks of the residency. This week we welcomed new arrivals, Amish Morrel, Leah…

What is this project? The Summer Indigenous Intensive has been operating at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, since 2014, growing out of the previous Summer Graduate Indigenous Institute which started in 2005. The SII has various components, but the main ones are the offering of a suite of…

From original introduction: “Art+Reconciliation,” is a MOOC that addresses how artistic practices can engage in questions of reconciliation, most particularly in the Canadian context of residential schools and the associated and ongoing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As part of our process we explored the history of the residential school system…

Registration is now open for several new courses running in July and August at UBC Okanagan. These courses are open to UBC students as well as undergraduate and graduate students from other institutions and the general public. For information on how to register, go to the registration page.

Course outline for Indigenous Activist Art, July 23 Aug 1, 2014, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. Indigenous Activist Art course outline July15-14 version

Following, a draft of the program for this event in Saskatoon. Cultures of Reconciliation: Academic, Artistic, Activist A Humanities Research Unit Event FREE ADMISSION; OPEN TO EVERYONE Location: Graduate Student Centre, University of Saskatchewan, and Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon Time: September 26-27, 2013 Participants include: Roy Miki, Jennifer Henderson, Pauline Wakeham,…

Published on Jul 9, 2013 Organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canadian Sociological Association, and the Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes at the 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences June 3, 2013 Responding to the lack of diversity in the 2010…

a poem to help release fearby Joy Harjo

Mimi Gellman talks about her time making art, creating, in the horticultural gardens at TRU. The paintings she produces are a direct result of her experience with the land and territory here.