Hybrid event at University of Alberta
Hosted by the Just Movements CreateSpace

February 10, 2023    10:00 am to 12pm. 

This event will to bring together the culture-crafting sub committee and any interested members of KSR's II & EDI committee, to wonder about the culture crafting agreements we have been developing over the past few months. We are wanting to wonder about the content of the document itself in this session, with plans to hold future sessions on supporting its implementation in different contexts. Please see the email from the II & EDI committee for a link to the document we will be wondering about. 

To attend through Zoom:

https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/97859647055?pwd=eTJpZGRXWmZtaHk2UEZXakFSZVRWZz09
Meeting ID: 978 5964 7055
Passcode: JMCS

To attend in person: This hybrid event will be held in the Just Movements CreateSpace Hall 2-131 University of Alberta
As this is a space committed to disability justice approaches that love and protect disabled lives, To attend in person, you must:

1.  not have any respiratory illness symptoms, AND
2.  must wear a well-fitted mask and/or have a negative rapid covid test taken that day.

For details on the space, including wayfinding  and accessibility see http://www.just-movements.com/
If there are additional measures we can take to make this event more accessible to you, please contact leales (at) ualberta (dot) ca ASAP.

January 5th, 10 am to 1pm.  (Open by invite only)

Description: The idea is for it to be a tested gathering that centres the creative being and doing of each of us, and our kiddos, collectively. Like our first WeBecomeGardens gathering, this will be more of an “open house,”, encouraging folx to come and go as they like. Kiddos are enthusiastically welcome.

We are hoping this co-creative time will help us continue to craft how we want to be in the space together, going forward. If you have a creative practice that is accessible to others, and can bring it along for yourself and others to take part in, if they choose, please do so. We have some drawing/colouring and paper, we have a dance floor, we have some embroidery thread, I will bring a puzzle. You can also feel free to bring reading/work or other activity you would just like to do in or with company. 

Attend in person at: UHall 2-131 (Just Movements CreateSpace)
OR online at: https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/2064358229  (noting, there is not much to "watch" online, but you can be around to visit.)


To attend in person, you must 
1) Have a negative Covid Test OR be wearing a surgical or N95 well-fit mask*. AND
2) Not have any significant illness symptoms or have had a recent known contact with someone who was likely infectious with a respiratory illness.

You can also feel free to bring snacks that do not have any nuts (if there are other allergies, please let us know ASAP)

​*noting that for kiddos too young to mask or test, we will count parental negative tests as a proxy.

When: December 16, 9:30 to 11:00 am
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Description: ​Christine Ha and Lindsay Eales show and share some of their previous artistic works. With attendees, they hope to collaboratively work through what they wish to pull forward, leave behind, begin/become anew in their artistic practice, and what this means for emerging research-creative practice.

Content FYI: There may be artistic imagery related to dissected animal specimen from the zoology lab, fetal imagery, themes of death, dying and loss. Discussions of systemic oppression, exile, and suicide may be discussed

Attend in person at: UHall 2-131 (Just Movements CreateSpace)
OR online at: https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/2064358229

Given the host of viruses in circulation, To attend in person, you must 
1) Be wearing a surgical or N95 well-fit mask. AND
2) Not have any significant illness symptoms or have had a positive COVID contact.
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**To support online comprehension, presenters will be COVID-tested, but may not wear a mask if not symptomatic. If you would like presenters to mask for your safety, please contact Danielle Peers.

For information about the space, accessibility, etc. see ​Accessibility

When: August 24, 12:30 to 3:00pm
Where: Just Movements CreateSpace (Uhall 2-131)
Who: By invite. Contact Danielle if you want to join.
COVID: Everyone attending must have a negative test from no more than 2 hours before the event. (Unless you have a surgical-grade see through mask, for access purposes)
Interpreters: LSQ-ASL, LSQ-English, ASL-English provided. contact Danielle for all other access needs.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

We're waving hands! Cultural citizenship of Deaf people
Véro Leduc, Florence Lacombe, Isaac Leal and Jennifer Manning
The Canada Research Chair on Cultural Citizenship of Deaf People and Cultural Equity Practices aims to promote the full social and cultural participation of Deaf people. Valuing principles of equity, diversity and inclusion, this research chair is based on an approach by, for and with Deaf people. The team is composed of researchers, students and community members who are Deaf, Disabled, Mad or experiencing mental issues, neuroatypical or allies.
During this workshop, two projects will be presented and discussed. The first one is We're waving hands! Cultural citizenship of Deaf people and cultural accessibility practices. This research aims to question: In our society where privileges are conferred on those who hear and where sign languages are less valued, how do Deaf people consider their citizenship and cultural belonging? In 2021, the Chair's team conducted 21 interviews with Deaf artists and Deaf and hearing cultural workers from Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and Ottawa who have developed exemplary practices in cultural accessibility. Due to the pandemic, interviews were held on Zoom. Feeling of belonging is the first video capsule to have been produced from excerpts from these interviews, and it presents the reflections of 12 deaf artists on audism, feeling of belonging, cultural citizenship and their wishes for greater cultural equity. 
The second one is Music at the fingertips : Exploration of intersections between music and ageing in Deaf communities in Montréal. Since 2018, Véro Leduc has been conducting research on Deaf music, in collaboration with Line Grenier (U of Montreal), and a team of assistants, Deaf and hearing: Charline Savard, Clément Decault, Hodan Youssouf, Jennifer Manning and Mélina Bernier. This research aims to question like How ageing Deaf people have accessed and experienced music as a cultural practice in the past and how are they doing it now? What media and technologies shape their “musicking” (Small, 1998) and inform their attachments (Hennion, 2014) to music? To which music cultures do they feel a sense of belonging? The project holds five components: 1) a mediagraphy listing a diversity of Deaf music, ranging from original signed music to the translation of hearing songs in sign languages; 2) 11 video interviews with Deaf people who sign in LSQ and ASL about their musical trajectories throughout their life; 3) A group interview with 8 Deaf adults on their musical heritage; 4) thematic video capsules produced from excerpts from interviews and 5) reflection workshops based on those video capsules. 
Three videos links will be send beforehand for the participants to watch them in advance, so the workshop can give more space for discussion. Feeling of belonging (13 min) is available in LSQ-ASL, with English of French subtitles, and English or French audiodescription. Music to me (7 min) and Musicking : our experiences in music (10 min) are available in LSQ-ASL, with English of French subtitles. There is no audiodescription for the moment, but it could be produced upon request. 

This event is sponsored through three Canada Research Chairs (SSHRC): Véro Leduc, Joanne Weber, and Danielle Peers.

Date: TBD
Location: U Hall 2-131

Invitation: if you'd like, read the article below, and then come in for some collective dreaming while we plant some wee plants for you to take with you (or leave in the space).
Commitment to crip communal care: please ensure you have a negative covid rapid antigen test as close to attending as possible (within a couple hours). We will have extra tests available if you forget. Feel free to mask as well if you like. 


Please let me know if you will be attending so we can ensure we have all the supplies we need :) Also, let me know if there is anything that would make this gathering more available or meaningful for you. For covid safety, we are working to keep this gathering relatively small, but if there is someone else you believe would find meaning in this gathering, please reach out.

Invite to reading, if you like (follow link to access): 
Peers, D., Joseph, J., McGuire-Adams, T., Eales, L., Fawaz, N., Chen, C., Hamdon, E., Kingsley, B., (Accepted, July 2022). We become gardens: Intersectional methodologies for mutual flourishing. Leisure/Loisir (30 pages).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M0OgjAFo9D5AlyTmqAwCm4DxgS7M8xEe/view?usp=sharing