2017 Youth Sexual Health Research Symposium: Fight Forward, Fight Back

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

We Are The Land – Opening Gathering

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

We Are The Land – Film Screening: Lisa Jackson’s Highway of Tears (CBC), Suckerfish, Snare, Parkdale, The Visit, Pow. Wow. Wow, and Savage + Q&A with filmmaker

University College, Room UC 179 Media Room 15 King's College Circle, Toronto

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 […]

We Are The Land – “Mohawk Girls” Episode Screening + Q & A with Maika Harper

WGSI Lounge, Wilson Hall University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

We Are The Land – Artist Talk: Jaime Black on The REDress Project & Conversations with the Land

University College, Room 140 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

We Are The Land – Panel Discussion: Indigenous Futurities – Land, Territories, and Belonging

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

Teach-in & Migrant Dreams Screening @ OISE

OISE, Nexus Lounge, 12th Floor 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada

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.

We Are The Land – Guided Walking Tour

  Where: Meeting in front of Wilson Hall, New College, 40 Willcocks Street What: Guided walking tour of Jaime’s various activation site concluding at First Nations House, to experience Conversations with the Land.

We Are The Land – Workshop: Glyphing Decolonial Love in Tkaronto

Wilson Hall Lounge 40 Willcocks Street, New College, Wilson Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This workshop invites community members, activists, organizers, and those interested in the potentials of mapping- to turn our intentions towards the land and be generative about how we are in love with our futures. What does it mean, perhaps to map kinstillatory futures? Special  Guests: Karyn Recollet, Jaime Black, Maika Harper, Nazbah Tom, and Jenny […]

We Are The Land – Public Workshop/Activation

Philosopher's Walk, University of Toronto

Jaime Black and the graduate students in Indigenous Decolonial Aesthetics WGSI 1025 will be showcasing a new piece of performance art. More details to come! (This performance is located outdoors) This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table. ASL services will be provided.