Event Details Date: January 18, 2024Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pmLocation: Michael Smith Laboratories (Room 102) *moved online* Speakers:Cicely Belle Blain (Founder of Black LIves Matter Vancouver and Bakau Consulting)Angela Marie MacDougall (Executive Director at Battered Women’s Support Services) ℹ️…
Transformative Local Change
Event Details Date: November 6, 2024Time: 4:00 pm – 5:15 pmLocation: The Gateway Space, Irving K. Barber Library (Room 380) Speakers:Sean Miles (Founder of the Binners’ Project)Zaida Schneider (Educator, Director at Friends of False Creek) ℹ️ Our November Community Talks…
Transformative Advocacy
Event Details Date: March 5, 2025Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pmLocation: The Gateway Space, Irving K. Barber Library (Room 380) Speakers:Adrienne Smith (Human rights activist and social justice lawyer)Norma Lize (Communications Manager at Rainbow Refugee Society) ℹ️ This event featured…
Mobilizing Media for Local Change
Event Details Date: October 3, 2023Time: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pmLocation: Michael Smith Laboratories (Room 102) Speaker:Barbara Lee (Founder of Vancouver Asian Film Festival)Kabir Qurban (Educator, Executive Director of Free Uyghur Now) ℹ️ This Community Talk, “Mobilizing Media for Local…
Organizing for Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Lives
Event Details Date: February 29, 2024Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pmLocation: Michael Smith Laboratories (Room 102) Speakers:Qanianglis (Young Indigenous trans women, a working professional and consultant) Norma Lize (Communications Manager at Rainbow Refugee Society) ℹ️ This Community Talks Event, “Organizing…
Organizing Solidarity for Climate Justice
Event Details Date: November 7, 2023Time: 2:00 pm – 2:50 pmLocation: Online Speakers:Pauahi De Souza (GRSJ PhD Candidate, Kanaka Maoli Activist)Janelle Lapointe (Afro-Indigenous Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Activist) ℹ️ This Community Engaged Talk, “Organizing Solidarity for Climate Justice,” featured…
City Transformations: Heritage and Culture in Vancouver
Event Details Date: January 22, 2024Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pmLocation: The Gateway Space, Irving K. Barber Library (Room 380) Speakers:Bill Yuen (Executive Director, Heritage Vancouver Society)Terry Hunter (Co-founder, Heart of the City Festival) ℹ️ For this event, we welcomed…
Exploring Refugee Support
Event Details Date: February 7, 2023Time: 2:00 pm – 2:50 pmLocation: The Great Hall, AMS Student Nest (Room 2404) Speakers:Wilfred Thariki (Former UN, African Union Commision)Loren Balisky (Kinbrace Society)Nathalie Lozano-Neira (LEVEL) ℹ️ This talk brought speakers together to share stories…
Black Cultures in Vancouver
Event Details Date: January 17, 2023Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pmLocation: Online Speakers:Maya Preshyon (Vancouver Black Library)Krystal Paraboo (Manager/Curator of the Black Strathcona Resurgence Project) ℹ️ This Community Talks event featured Krystal Paraboo (manager/curator of the Black Strathcona Resurgence Project)…
Water, Identity, and the City
Event Details Date: November 15, 2022Time: 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm Location: Leonard S. Klinck Building (Room 200) SpeakerAudrey Siegl (Musqueam Water-Keeper and activist) ℹ️ For this Community Talks event, we hosted Audrey Siegl, Musqueam Water-Keeper and community activist. Audrey…