Featured Events
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up with Tasha Hubbard
Wednesday October 2 | 7:00-9:15 p.m. | Garneau Theatre
Presenters: Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson, Tasha Hubbard, and Jade Tootoosis
Please join us for a free, public film screening of Tasha Hubbard’s nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up (2019, 98 mins) on October 2nd, 2019 7 p.m. at Metro Cinema. The film and Director will be introduced by Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson (Penebscot), and we are fortunate to have a post-screening discussion with Tasha Hubbard and Jade Tootoosis. This screening is the opening event of the University of Alberta’s conference on Working at the Intersections of Gender (Oct 2nd- 4th).
nîpawistamâsowin (Cree) NEE-pa-wista-MAA-sowin – we (small group) will stand up for others (large group)
On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention, raising questions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family to national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands.
(Plenary) Schoolwork: the Intersectional (Post-Secondary) Classroom
Thursday October 3 | 10:00-11:15 a.m. | Dinwoodie Lounge, Students' Union Building
Please join us for the first plenary of the conference immediately following opening remarks.
- Learning to be invisible: Gendered talk and performance in higher education (Dr. Arlene Oak)
- Teaching Intersectionality: Three Texts (Dr. Michelle Meagher)
- Caring in the midst: Gendered experiences of care and leadership in higher education (Christie Schultz)
- Existential Threat and Teaching Intersectionality (Dr. Cathryn van Kessel)
See individual Session 1 entries in the digital program for details.
(Keynote): 'If you were a white man they would have negotiated with you the minute you were approached’: Bodies of value in academic life
Thursday October 3 | 12:30-13:50 | Dinwoodie Lounge, Students' Union Building
For Black women, working at the intersections of gender entails working with and through the (in)visibility of racism which touches - but at the same time moves away from - Black feminist (decolonial) theory and Black women’s bodies. These words, meant to salve the wounds of being made institutionally valueless as subject and producer of knowledge because of race and gender, demonstrate the continuing hatred/ contempt/ disgust within the white spaces in which Black women work at the intersections of race and gender.
Please join us for this important keynote conversation.
Performance and Social Event Night
Thursday October 3 | 18:00-20:00 | Dinwoodie Lounge, Students' Union Building
Please join us for two brilliant and poignant sets of performances by local artists! The performances will be preceded and followed by refreshments.
Set 1 -
Noise Cancellation -Created and Performed by Lindsay Eales
Noise cancellation uses music, performance and projected quotes to move through the implications of sanist language in pop music (and beyond) and the deep mutually constitutive connections this widespread sanism has with misogyny and gender-based violence.
Content warning: music and projections deal explicitly with sanism, sexual violence, and gender-based violence more broadly.
Inclinations - Produced and directed by Danielle Peers and Alice Sheppard - a 6-minute dance on film.
Choreographed, directed and shot from disability perspectives, INCLINATIONS is a dance-on-film short contrasting the playful connections when disability aesthetics, disability community and a gorgeous ramp meet the institutional histories and discordant inclinations that can lurk just below the surface.
Intimacies - Choreographed and performed by Lindsay Eales and Danielle Peers.
A genderqueer sick-crip chair user and a fat Mad queer femme move together--in a short dance duet—through the early butterflies, care-kinship, and intimacies (access and otherwise) of a bourgeoning Mad-crip relationship.
Set 2 -
The Representation of Blackness in Edmonton's Arts In this performance, titled ‘The Representation of Blackness in Edmonton’s Arts’, five Black, Edmonton-based artists will present a multi-disciplinary work of theatre that explores how Blackness is represented within Edmonton's art communities. The show, in combining dance, poetry, monologue, visual art and fashion, is an extension of a research project that analyzes the history, structures, and culture that frames the context of Black Edmontonian artists’ experiences.
The show will feature performances by Merlin Uwalaka, Lebogang Disele, Raneece Buddan, Brandon Wint and Mpoe Mogale, and will be a catalyst for a broad, community question-and-answer session. We hope to raise and explore the difficult, poignant questions that animate and shape the lives of Black artists and communities in Edmonton.
