Want to talk about feminism? “Talking Back” (a title borrowed from the one-and-only bell hooks) is an intersectional feminist discussion group that will incorporate current events, pop culture, and whatever is on the mind of whoever turns up that day. It is a casual, non-academic space to ask questions, make connections and be heard. We […]

Professor Phanuel Antwi, Department of English, University of British Columbia "On Labour, Embodiment, and Debt in the Academy" The point of this talk is to essay – in the old-fashioned sense of "try" – out an argument that grapples with the deteriorating effects that the neoliberal university, in its current state of extreme precarity, has on […]

The goal of the symposium is to bring together community youth (ages 16-30 who are part of a youth group/organization, not attending University, or would like to get connected with people of similar passions) and university students to share their research and artistic pieces on youth sexual health. In the current political climate, this year's […]

Opening Gathering/Reception for Jaime Black's Artist Residency: We Are The Land. Featuring: Welcoming remarks, Artist Talk with Jamie Black, performance by Tahnee Bennet, Silent Auction, Indigenous artisans/vendors, food from Tea & Bannock, and more This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table at each event. ASL […]

Highway of Tears" is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases since the 1960's had been solved, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack Fowler with the 1974 murder […]

In the TV series "Mohawk Girls," four twenty-something Mohawk women are trying to find their place in the world. And, of course, trying to find love. But in a small world where you or your friends have dated everyone on the rez, or the hot new guy turns out to be your cousin, it ain’t […]

Jaime Black is a Métis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through the mediums of photography, sculpture, print, and installation she addresses the complexities of history, gender, place, identity, and resistance under settler colonialism. In this artist talk she will be discussing the installations The REDress Project and Conversations with the Land. Followed by Q […]

This panel offers a discussion of cultural productions meaningful to the exercise of decolonial futures. We explore forms of ‘urban glyphing’ as ways to speak about kinstilatory relations of Indigenous cultural producers and expressions of decolonial love. Invited artists and activists will share their rematriative processes of mapping decolonial love in our cities through their […]

Join us for a film screening of Migrant Dreams, a locally produced documentary that tells the untold story of migrant agricultural workers who are struggling under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program.  Screening will be followed with a panel discussion to discuss the relationship between migration, labour, and Indigenous land.