Intercultural Working Group
June 27th 2013, Resource Room
Present: Jarrad, Shaya, Hanae, Audrey, Mali
Regrets: Joseph, Judy, kele, Luisa, Zack
1. Email signature
– we have a tagline and will wait for approval from kele
2. Updates on TRC planning
Timeline group (Hanae & Mali; also on the team Sarah)
– making an interactive timeline in the lobby area
– have a band of the Legacy of Loss timeline (residential school history), a horizontal band of UBC history, and a horizontal band of an interactive timeline.
– working with Sarah Dupont.
Next steps: finding cardboard signs; getting timeline printed double-size; confirming budget; choosing UBC timeline dates
Student/Arts Based Engagement (Shaya; also on the team Roselynn)
– haven’t had a chance to meet yet but will be meeting next week
– wanting to get involved visually in creating something with a group of people
Communications team (Jarrad; also on the team, Sukhi, Audrey, Linda)
– Jarrad working on doing something TRC-related at the staff BBQ, Sept 19th. Invite for that event going out soon. Need resources for that.
– suggestion to connect with the organisers and involve them in brainstorming?
– Jarrad working on engaging & involving CTLT staff – working with Michelle, now will start working with Amy and Simon, to have staff time set aside in September for TRC connections.
– Sukhi’s team is working with FNHL to figure out Twitter account for the event
– important to have tweets for September but also before and after then…
– Audrey can create digital signage for screens all over campus
– Audrey can design poster
– Maybe Audrey could design the outdoor posters/pop-ups which can be placed at different events…
Content for TRC posters etc
– what’s the goal of the education?
– dialogue
– better understanding of Indian Residential School histories,
– the policies that guided the operations of the schools
– their effects upon individuals and communities,
– what’s the call to action?
Whose name is on this poster? irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca
CTLT is making the poster;
– message: you find your own method or way of reconciliation… stop and think. Think about your own role.
– “create your own path to reconciliation”
– “negotiate/envision/visualise/enact your own path to reconciliation”
– “what is your path to reconciliation?”
– suggest a few paths, ways to see your relationship?
– make it a whiteboard or sticky-wall for people to respond?
– useful to have a few ideas to get people started
– have a few examples created, what different people did – as examples.
“whose territory did you grow up?”
“on whose territory did you go to school?”
“who has been living here for 10,000 years?”
Audience: UBC students, staff, faculty.
In order to make materials, Audrey needs:
– official title of event
– colour theme – indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca
– image(s) – look to artwork – ask Sarah Ling for Musqueam connections?
– logos of any orgs associated
– website link(s)
– twitter hashtags – #TRC_UBC?
3. Role of this committee in relation to TRC?
– TRC working group overlaps considerably with the Intercultural Working Group. Do we want to keep the Intercultural group meeting over the summer, or work separately over the summer on our team projects?
– this team can be about the TRC as a current initiative, as long as it’s clear that the group can take on other initiatives with time. Collaboration between teams is important.
– the priority right now is our small team meetings and we want to avoid duplicating efforts.
– aim to have one meeting in early August, to reconnect and envision the upcoming year, review what we’ve been doing for TRC and talk about how we’re going to integrate that throughout the coming year
4. Next meeting
– August 1st 2pm – 3:30 pm Intercultural Working Group.
– Audrey will book a room, Shaya will send out meeting invite
– intention to send invite/meeting time to all CTLT staff