Recovery Through Art: Art & Healing After Violence & Trauma
Monday, November 21st
9:30am-4:30pm
MBC 2290 at SFU Burnaby
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
Register here: https://sfpirg.wufoo.com/forms/q12pa05a14dkzhd/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/182809578825732/
ASL interpretation is being booked for this event! Please register by November 14th to confirm attendance. Interpreter names will be posted to the Facebook event page when they have been booked.
Survivors of violence and trauma are left with wounds, hurt, trauma, and pain. We carry the scars with us wherever we go.
How can we work toward healing and caring for our selves?
Open to all survivors of trauma and violence, this workshop will explore art-based approaches to healing after experiences of violence and trauma. Healing work will be done within an intersectional, anti-oppressive framework, acknowledging that violence in its many forms most often affects those most targeted by intersections of systemic oppression.
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About the facilitators:
Pragya (MSW, RSW) is a fat, brown, queer, femme with a South Asian body and Prairie heart. She is experienced in working alongside survivors of trauma and those struggling with mental health via public education, crisis intervention, and counselling. Her work is informed by feminist, anti-oppressive principles which guide her narrative and somatic-based approach. Above all, she offers warmth, compassion, witnessing, and gentle invitations to peace and self-love.
lee (uses they/them/theirs pronouns) is a mixed race, queer, trans, interdisciplinary artist and facilitator. they have been grappling with, healing from, making art about, and organizing around sexualized violence and trauma since their teens. they are currently building love projects like ShapeShift Arts (www.shapeshiftarts.com), Kalik (www.kalik.org), and faciliting arts-based workshops towards social/political/healing change.
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Accessibility Info:
ASL interpretation is being booked for this event. Please register by November 14th to confirm your attendance. If no confirmations are received by the deadlines, ASL interpretation will be cancelled.
The event space is wheelchair/scooter accessible with access to accessible washrooms nearby.
Gender-neutral washrooms are available just outside of the event space.
In order to enable people to attend without experiencing hardship, bus tickets and money for dependent care (this can include childcare, eldercare, etc.) are available upon request. Please email admin@sfpirg.ca with inquiries.
While we cannot ensure a fully scent-free event in this setting, we’re aiming to create a scent-reduced environment by not bringing additional scents into the space. Exposure to laundry products, colognes, hairspray, and many other scented products can trigger serious health reactions in individuals with asthma, allergies, migraines, and/or chemical sensitivities. We ask that you not wear/ apply/ or bring any scented products into this space. If you do so, we may need to ask you to leave so others can safely stay in the space. If you find yourself being impacted by someone’s use of scented products during the conference, speak with any one of the organizers. We know that this can be a big step for many people. As Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha says in Fragrance Free Femme of Colour Realness, “Cutting out scents may seem like a pain in the ass, but it means that awesome, ass-kicking community members you love can attend events you’re at and make out with you without having seizures, throwing up or otherwise getting really sick.” Please, bring your amazing self, and keep the scents at home!
(More info here: http://thinkbeforeyoustink.com/howtogofragrancefree.html,http://www.brownstargirl.org/blog/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15, http://eastbaymeditation.org/accessibility/scentfree.html)
The event is nut-free and peanut-free. Absolutely no nuts or peanuts will be permitted within the event space in order to create an allergen-free environment for all participants. This includes (but is not limited to) products like hazelnuts, cashews, almonds, coconuts, walnuts, coconut oil, coconut milk, and peanut butter.
If you have any other allergies or sensitivities that we need to know about so that you can participate fully and safely, please let us know at info@sfpirg.ca.
Some folks are sensitive and/or get sick from electromagnetic frequency radiation (EMF). This can include radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi, fluorescent lights, and more. SFU Burnaby has Wi-Fi set up throughout its campus, including in the event space. In order to reduce EMF exposure, we will strive to minimize fluorescent light usage and utilize natural lighting whenever possible.
If there is any other way we can make this event more accessible for you, please let us know at info@sfpirg.ca!
UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Project EveryBODY is hosting PEBcelebrates, the annual celebration to recognize the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It’s being hosted at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre here in Vancouver from 11:00am to 4:00pm,. PEBcelebrates will feature the very best in live performances, music, and entertainment, an art show and sale, distinguished guests, films, interactive activities and workshops, and the return of PEBtalks (an engaging speaker series focused on ideas, inspiration and information), and much, much more. Join over 300 people as we wrap up Project EveryBODY and celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities. More programming details will be released on Facebook at Project EveryBODY and on our website www.Projecteverybody.ca. Admission is free, but we are asking people to register online at www.projecteverybody.ca.
BCSD Fundraiser
Get ready to unleash your creativity with this original Paint Nite painting. Designed to inspire your inner artist and unlock your talent with easy techniques, this piece blends beautiful colors with a unique subject you’ll only see at Paint Nite. Pick out the perfect place on your living room wall because this baby deserves the spotlight.
BCSD fundraiser event to support students and residents’ Italy trip in 2017? For more information, please contact Sarah Taylor atSarah.Taylor@gov.bc.ca
Marionette Making Classes
https://www.facebook.com/events/336728263344690/
October Workshops in Nanaimo – Oct 29th
Well Being Program is pleased to partner with Council of Seniors Citizens Organizations to bring you 3 mini workshops and provide lunch on Saturday, October 29 in Nanaimo!
Venue:
IDHHC – Nanaimo
205 – 75 Front Street
Nanaimo, BC V6R 5H9
Details:
COSCO Presentations with interpreters – COSCO Speaker: Edwin Pearson
· Falls Prevention – 11:00 am
~ Lunch ~ Will be Provided
· Life Planning – 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm
~ break ~
· WBP Presentation with Patti Dobie
Things to Think about on Aging – 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
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COSCO Workshops DESCRIPTIONS:
Preventing Falls
We review the alarming impact falls have on the well-being of seniors and identify hazards that contribute to the likelihood of falls. We recommend safeguards and demonstrate exercises to improve balance and strength.
Life Planning
The wisdom of having a life plan is emphasized:
Representation Agreements, Powers of Attorney, and Advance Directives are needed to express your wishes regarding personal care, certain financial matters and end of life care if you are no longer able to speak for yourself.
Get more information here: http://deafwellbeing.vch.ca/event/cosconanaimo2016/
Social-Emotional Attachment Group for Deaf Parents and babies ages 0-2
VCH Well-Being Program is pleased to partner with Lila & Pip to provide a bi-weekly group for deaf parents and their babies ages 0-2 from Oct 21, 2016 to Feb 17, 2017
Learn About
· Connecting with baby
· Making eye contact with baby
· Strategies to use at home
· ASL stories
· ASL songs
· and more!
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Register with Alison Nutt at alison.nutt@vch.ca – information will be given about the location and group at that time.
Group will meet on the following dates:
· Oct 21, 2016
· Nov 4, 2016
· Nov 18, 2016
· Dec 2, 2016
· Dec 16, 2016
· Jan 6, 2017
· Jan 20, 2017
· Feb 3, 2017
· Feb 17, 2017
Direct link to the flyer and website of this group – http://deafwellbeing.vch.ca/events/ – click on Oct 21 event
Gallaudet Summer Youth Camps
Our Summer Youth Camps are designed for middle and high school students up to the age of 19. Our programs provide stimulating summer learning and experiential opportunities that blend excitement, education, and enjoyment in a bilingual environment rich in cultural diversity and located just minutes away from the U.S. Capitol.
Discover Your Future: Designed for deaf and hard of hearing students entering Grades 10-12 who want to learn more about themselves, their skills, and potential careers. Students will also explore what vibrant Washington, D.C. has to offer.
Immerse Into ASL!: A great opportunity for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students entering Grades 10-12 to expand their American Sign Language (ASL) skills and learn more about Deaf culture and history. Three different course levels are offered.
Exploring the Sciences: Designed for deaf and hard of hearing students entering Grades 9-12 who want to explore chemistry, biology, and neuroscience during the camp.
Blackbox Theatre Camp: Designed for deaf and hard of hearing thespians entering Grades 9-12 who want to learn about the various parts of a theater production and get an opportunity to create their own production.
Got Skills? (Middle School Leadership and Sports camp): A design-your-own camp for deaf and hard of hearing students entering Grades 6-8 who want to enhance their leadership and sports skills.
Gallaudet’s Youth Programs announces Summer 2017 Youth Camps.
Queewritica: October edition
This event has been cancelled
Queewritica: October edition
https://www.facebook.com/events/239063303162147/
Queewritica: Erotic writing on libido’s continuum. No matter the genre, no matter your level of experience on or off the page, if you’re writing about sex, we want you to come. Be your boner micro or macro or no bone at all, Queewritica can take it. From dried up to dripping wet, all levels of moistness are wanted.
Write libido’s continuum with us at the Roundhouse Board Room on the first Tuesday of every month.
This event is ASL interpreted and free of charge.
queerartsfestival.com
Queewritica provides creative writing space for adults of all genders, orientations and relationship paradigms found under the queer umbrella. As such, members will be expected to interact respectfully and constructively to writings about sexuality and relationship types that may differ from their own experiences and preferences.
Queewritica puts on readings quarterly, with all proceeds being donated to Pride in Art Society. Participation is optional.
Queewritica meets at the Roundhouse on the first Tuesday evening of every month at 7:30pm. Check the chalkboard at the front desk when you arrive for the room.
ASL Interpretation is provided by volunteers from the Douglas College program of sign language interpretation. The venue fully wheelchair accessible. Please help us keep QAF events scent-reduced and refrain from wearing scented products while attending Queewritica.
For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Radical Access Mapping Project https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QHUwp36z-6krVXM5P8vB81RRCibNF81QUpbwnRMqpOg/edit?usp=sharing
About the Facilitator:
Monica Meneghetti is a multilingual language professional and writer with a penchant for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Monica’s poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and musical scores, as well on stage and online. She has also taught and mentored both youth and adults, offering custom-designed workshops. As an editor, she has a special interest in enabling marginalised voices to be heard. She holds a BA in French & Linguistics, and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia.
