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Lori MacDonald is a white settler on the traditional, stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations where she aims for a future surrounded by justice, dignity and reciprocal relationship-building.She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Contemporary Dance and a Masters in Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University. During her thesis research: Mapping Daily Mobility in Metro Vancouver: An Ethnography of Regional Transportation for Newcomers Studying within the Service Industry, she was witness to the emergence of mobility as settlement and belonging in the region. In her professional role as the Executive Director of the Emily Carr Students' Union, she has spent over a decade, advocating, lobbying and when necessary – protesting – for the development of Metro Vancouver's deeply affordable post-secondary transit program, U-Pass BC. She has spent time during the pandemic questioning everything she has ever accepted as normal.Sadia Tabassum currently lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she grew up. It's supposed to be one of the most "unlivable" cities in the world, but Sadia finds that livability is about as simple as the bus routes and schedules in Dhaka.Sadia studied Architecture as an undergraduate student in upstate New York in the US and later worked as a cost estimator for a rebar supplier company near Syracuse, NY. When she returned to Dhaka, Sadia worked as an architect for a few years before eventually working on the first light rail project in Dhaka, the new MRT line, drafting electrical and mechanical system drawings for its stations. She left that role to join the Urban Studies graduate program at SFU, during which time Sadia worked briefly as a designer/researcher for a non-profit organization in Vancouver where she helped create toolkits for social procurement among developers and suppliers in ongoing development projects.Sadia's current projects in Dhaka continue to be inspired by her love for architecture, sustainable design and innovative transit-oriented city planning that help create more accessible, equitable, sustainable and livable urban spaces.Resources: Meet Steve Tornes: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/about/updates/all-updates/meet-steve-tornes.htmlMapping Daily Mobility in Metro Vancouver: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18639Embodied Fear, Perceived Safety and Transit-Based Mobility Among Women of Color in Metro Vancouver: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18639Fresh Voices Report: http://freshvoices.ca/reports/2015-report/The Untokening: http://www.untokening.org/summaryDignity Institute: https://thrivancegroup.com/dignity-institute
Author: Lori MacDonald, Author: Sadia Tabassum, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-07-05
Tony Valente is a first term City Councillor. Tony has an MBA from UBC and for the last twelve years he has worked as a project manager delivering complex infrastructure projects in the public sector. Tony is currently working as a Risk Director with a Crown corporation.Tony envisions a vibrant, diverse City of North Vancouver where transportation and housing options abound, and our public spaces are the envy of Metro Vancouver. All of this is supported by a strong local economy where small business thrives.Dr. Meghan Winters is an epidemiologist interested in the link between health, transportation, and city design. She received her PhD in 2011 from the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility at Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, studying on older adults' mobility and the built environment. Dr. Winters joined the Faculty of Health Sciences as an Assistant Professor in July 2011. Resources: Councillor Tony Valente: https://www.tonyvalente.ca/about-tony/Dr. Meghan Winters: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/meghan-winters.htmlHUB Cycling: https://bikehub.ca/Esplanade Complete Street: https://letstalk.cnv.org/esplanade-complete-streetCHATR Lab: https://chatrlab.ca/Bike Maps: https://bikemaps.org/Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure in Mid-Sized Cities (IBIMS): protocol for a natural experiment study in three Canadian cities: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29358440/COVID-19 street reallocation in midsize Canadian cities: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33650060/Not quite a block party: COVID-19 street reallocation programs in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000446WalkRollMap: https://chatrlab.ca/projects/walk-roll-map/
Author: Tony Valente, Author: Winters, Meghan, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-07-19
Micheal Vonn is CEO of PHS Community Services Society, previously known as the Portland Hotel Society.For fifteen years, Micheal was the Policy Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. As an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the Faculty of Law and in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, she taught civil liberties and information ethics.Through her work in HIV/AIDS, Micheal has been granted both an AccolAIDS Award and a Red Ribbon Award. She was also the recipient of the 2015 Keith Sacré Library Champion Award for support, guidance and assistance given to the BC library community. Resources: PHS Community Services Society: https://www.phs.ca/about/Pigeon Park Savings: https://www.phs.ca/our-services/pigeon-park-savings/BC Civil Liberties: https://bccla.org/AIDS Vancouver: https://www.aidsvancouver.org/
Author: Micheal Vonn, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-12
Dr. Rumena Filipova studied Political Science and International Relations at Cambridge and Oxford and she is Chairperson and Co-Founder of the Institute for Global Analytics.Rumena's main research interests focus on the politics and international relations of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular reference to questions of identity, media and disinformation, and the authoritarian influence exercised by Russia and China in the region. Constructing the Limits of Europe: Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989, is Rumena's latest book and will be published in April, 2022. Resources: —Institute for Global Analytics: https://globalanalytics-bg.org/— Constructing the Limits of Europe Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/constructing-the-limits-of-europe/9783838216492— Episode 21: Do we really know what democracy is? — with Astra Taylor: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/21-astra-taylor.html— Episode 129: Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/129-alberto-toscano.html— Europe and right-wing nationalism: A country-by-country guide: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36130006— Serbia halts China-owned mine over environmental breaches: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/serbia-halts-china-owned-mine-over-environmental-breaches-2021-04-14/
Author: Rumena Filipova, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-03
Councillor Christine Boyle was elected to Vancouver City Council with OneCity Vancouver in 2018.Christine is a community organizer, climate justice activist, and United Church Minister, born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, BC. She is passionate about tackling inequality, contributing to climate solutions, and deepening democratic engagement.Christine has an BSc in Urban Agriculture and First Nations Studies from UBC, and an MA in Religious Leadership for Social Change from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is a founding member of OneCity Vancouver.Resources– Christine Boyle's website: https://christineboyle.ca/ – Christine Boyle's profile on the City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/christine-boyle.aspx – Christine Boyle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/christineeboyle – United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html – COP 26 - Glasgow: https://ukcop26.org/ – "Superblocks: Barcelona's car-free zones could extend lives and boost mental health" - The Conversation:s: https://theconversation.com/superblocks-barcelonas-car-free-zones-could-extend-lives-and-boost-mental-health-123295 – Report: "How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning" - The Century Foundation: https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/?session=1 – Drug User Liberation Front: https://www.dulf.ca/ – BC Compassion Club: https://thecompassionclub.org/
Author: Christine Boyle, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-08
Nicolas Leech-Crier (and his secret identity, "Mr. Essential") is an adoptee of Cree heritage and a freelance writer.At 43 years old he has spent approximately half his life surviving in the streets and more than a decade in the DTES. It never occurred to him that being a "drug user" would ever be useful, but thanks to the incredible support and loving friendship shown to him by his many neighbours and friends in the DTES, he's parlayed his street smarts and community connections into a successful career as an overdose responder and outreach worker.In 2018, Nicolas became a coordinator and facilitator for the Speakers Bureau at Megaphone and just recently his title was upgraded to Storytelling and Community Networking Liaison. (Mr. Essential's title remains the same: One-time Imaginary Podcast Host of Some Notoriety). In everything he does — from powerful plays, to playful pictures, or post-secondary presentations and paradigm-shifting podcasts — he sends love to his 11-year-old son, Money. Resources: — Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/— UBC Transformative Health and Justice Research Cluster: https://transformhealthjustice.ubc.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services - UNITE Project: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/about/news-stories/stories/challenging-stigma-through-storytelling— Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/
Author: Nicolas Leech-Crier, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-02-15
Jules was born and raised in Kitsilano, but has spent most of her adult life in the Downtown Eastside.Jules is no stranger to activism. She's a peer support/outreach worker for SWUAV (Sex Workers United Against Violence) and is involved with the B.C. Association for People on Methadone and the B.C. Centre on Substance Use. Jules is a co-author of Research 101 Ethics Manifesto, Community Ethics & Cultural Production Empowering Informed Consent Cards and Opioids, A Survivor's Guide. She is one of the first peers/vendors from Megaphone to have completed a peer journalism mentorship through Megaphone and Langara College. Jules has been a Megaphone vendor since 2003 and joined Megaphone's Speakers Bureau in 2019. Jules feels at home in the DTES, saying there is no other community like it. And she has a message for those outside the DTES who are dismissive of its residents and the formidable challenges they face: "Stop acting like it's not their problem. It is everyone's problem." The two most pressing issues, Jules says, are the lack of affordable housing and the ongoing overdose crisis. Elaine Schell was born and raised in southern Ontario and came to B.C. in the early 1990s when she was in her 20s.Her landing in Vancouver was a rough one, with Elaine living on the streets for a few months. But getting connected through the Carnegie Community Centre and other people who were also struggling helped Elaine find her feet.With a collection of others, Elaine says she helped co-found an early incarnation of The Gathering Place, which is now a thriving community centre in downtown Vancouver that offers a place for Downtown Eastside residents to have a meal, take a shower, access a health clinic or participate in activities.Elaine has been writing poems since she was a kid. "I come from a family of readers, writers and storytellers," she says, "but life kind of got in the way."Elaine continues to find inspiration in the world around her through reading scriptures, writing, family, friends, nature and local events of the day. "It's all one big beautiful world to play in, and I'm grateful to be a part of it. Resources: Mental Health Support:— Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/ More Resources:— Opioid Survivors Guide: www.bccsu.ca/opioids-survivors-guide— Empowering Informed Consent: community ethics and cultural production: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0381026— Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside:https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0377565
Author: Jules Chapman, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse, Author: Elaine Schell
Date created: 2022-02-22
Yvonne Mark (Nisga'a-Gitxsan) was born in Haida Gwaii.Her parents had moved the family there so Yvonne wouldn't have to go to residential school. She came to Vancouver when she was 16. In addition to her volunteer work at Carnegie Community Centre, Yvonne is a Megaphone vendor and member of Megaphone's Speakers Bureau, working to end stigma around substance use. She has taken part in Megaphone's Community Journalism 101 writing workshop, held in partnership with SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, and is an outspoken advocate for the Downtown Eastside. Dennis Gates (Haida), at 60 years old, has lived in the Downtown Eastside for 25 years. He says he is proud to still be learning new things about himself.As a participant in Megaphone's recent writing workshops for people with lived experience of incarceration — offered through a partnership with the UBC Transformative Health and Justice Research Cluster — Dennis was able to explore and express himself for the first time since being released from a federal institution in 1996, about what it was like to go to prison."The first thing you do when you finish a long bit in prison is sit down on the sidewalk and cry," Dennis says. "A 10-year sentence is frightening to remember, but these workshops, and all the people involved, have shown me a new confidence. And if this work can help someone inside not give up hope, then I am honoured." Mental Health Support: — Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/More Resources:— Yvonne's website - I Live to Tell: https://www.ilivetotell.ca/— Pivot Legal Society: https://www.pivotlegal.org/— BC Civil Liberties Association: https://bccla.org/
Author: Yvonne Mark, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse, Author: Dennis Gates
Date created: 2022-03-01
Nicolas Leech-Crier (and his secret identity, "Mr. Essential") is an adoptee of Cree heritage and a freelance writer.At 43 years old he has spent approximately half his life surviving in the streets and more than a decade in the DTES. It never occurred to him that being a "drug user" would ever be useful, but thanks to the incredible support and loving friendship shown to him by his many neighbours and friends in the DTES, he's parlayed his street smarts and community connections into a successful career as an overdose responder and outreach worker.In 2018, Nicolas became a coordinator and facilitator for the Speakers Bureau at Megaphone and just recently his title was upgraded to Storytelling and Community Networking Liaison. (Mr. Essential's title remains the same: One-time Imaginary Podcast Host of Some Notoriety). In everything he does — from powerful plays, to playful pictures, or post-secondary presentations and paradigm-shifting podcasts — he sends love to his 11-year-old son, Money. Eva Takakanew was born in Edmonton, Alberta and is from Thunderchild First Nation near Turtleford, Saskatchewan. She is a descendant of Chief Poundmaker.Eva moved to Vancouver and lived with her biological mom until just after her first birthday and then was adopted at the age of two. Last July, Eva graduated with a diploma in family community counselling from Native Education College and hopes to one day work with youth. She also has aspirations to become a Native court worker. Eva loves to write and says it helps her calm her busy brain, which never seems to shut off. Mental Health Support:— Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/ More Resources:— UBC Transformative Health and Justice Research Cluster: https://transformhealthjustice.ubc.ca/— Music by Paul Che oke' ten Wagner: https://www.sacredbreath.ca/— Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/
Author: Nicolas Leech-Crier, Author: Eva Takakanew, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-03-08
Angel is aboriginal from the Haida Nation.She is the proud mother of three amazing kids and has been a dog owner for five years. She is a passionate human being and activist always fighting for human rights or the environment. When she is not doing work with the Megaphone Speakers Bureau, she is an actress. She has been nominated for Best Actress twice. At night she likes to relax with a glass or two of vodka and smoke crystal methamphetamine. Peter Thompson (Nlaka'pamux) was born in Lytton, B.C. in the Fraser Canyon and has lived in East Vancouver for more than 46 years.He enjoys trout and salmon fishing in the summer and loves getting out of the city to spend time in nature and with his grandchildren.Peter has been involved with Megaphone for more than a decade and can be found selling publications outside Whole Foods at West 4th Avenue and Vine Street in Vancouver. He has been published many times in Voices of the Street, has had several winning photographs appear in the Hope in Shadows calendar, and is a frequent contributor to Megaphone magazine. He has built a strong community of supporters, friends, and customers over the years. Mental Health Support:— Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/ More Resources:— "Lytton Memories" by Peter Thompson: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/vendor_voices_august_2021— Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/
Author: Angel Gates, Author: Peter Thompson, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-03-15
Angel is aboriginal from the Haida Nation.She is the proud mother of three amazing kids and has been a dog owner for five years. She is a passionate human being and activist always fighting for human rights or the environment. When she is not doing work with the Megaphone Speakers Bureau, she is an actress. She has been nominated for Best Actress twice. At night she likes to relax with a glass or two of vodka and smoke crystal methamphetamine. Eva Takakanew was born in Edmonton, Alberta and is from Thunderchild First Nation near Turtleford, Saskatchewan.She is a descendant of Chief Poundmaker. Eva moved to Vancouver and lived with her biological mom until just after her first birthday and then was adopted at the age of two. Last July, Eva graduated with a diploma in family community counselling from Native Education College and hopes to one day work with youth. She also has aspirations to become a Native court worker. Eva loves to write and says it helps her calm her busy brain, which never seems to shut off. Mental Health Support:— Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/ More Resources:— "The truth must be told" by Eva Takakanew: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/vendor_voices_july_2021— 'Neglected in Life, Dishonoured in Death' - The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/06/01/Neglected-Life-Dishonoured-Death-TRC-Excerpt/— Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/
Author: Angel Gates, Author: Eva Takakanew, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-03-22
adrienne maree brown is a writer. She is currently the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.adrienne is the author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Resources: - adrienne's website – https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - adrienne's Twitter – https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree - Octavia's Brood – https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html - Pleasure Activism – https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html - Emergent Strategy – https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html - Audre Lorde's "The Uses of the Erotic" essay — https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf - Public Reading and Dialogue on Octavia Butler and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMZbgo0XZA
Author: adrienne maree brown, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-03-29
Jean Swanson has been a city councillor in Vancouver since 2018, when she was elected through COPE (The Coalition of Progressive Electors).Jean is an anti-poverty activist who has been working with Downtown Eastside organizations for almost 50 years, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2017. She is the author of the book, Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. Jean recently announced her intention to run for re-election in 2022. Resources: Housing For All Of Us: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-making-home-kennedy-stewart-revisedCarnegie Action Projects: http://www.carnegieaction.org/reports/Residential Tenancy Act: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/lc/statreg/02078_01Vacancy Control: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-needs-vacancy-control-tenants-group-says-following-alarming-evictions-study-1.5588483CMHC: Rental Market Report: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/market-reports/rental-market-reports-major-centresRenter Services Centre: https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/renter-office.aspxIan Mulgrew: B.C.'s chief coroner laments lack of action as opioid crisis hits worst death toll yet: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/change-bonnie-henry-to-b-c-s-chief-coronerVancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU): https://vandureplace.wordpress.com/Drug Users Liberation Front (DULF): https://www.dulf.ca/Fair Price Pharma: http://fairpricepharma.ca/Insite: https://www.phs.ca/program/insite/
Author: Jean Swanson, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-05
Bios:Justine A. ChambersJustine A. Chambers is a dance artist living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.Her movement based practice considers how choreography can be an empathic practice rooted in collaborative creation, close observation, and the body as a site of a cumulative embodied archive. Privileging what is felt over what is seen, she works with dances that are already there – the social choreographies present in the everyday. She is Max Tyler-Hite's mother. Alana GereckeBased in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəjˀəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil Waututh) First Nations, Alana Gerecke is a settler scholar, mother, and dance artist of mixed European descent.She researches choreography in public space, asking questions about how bodies are cast into relation with natural and built environments, and with other bodies. Her current book project, Moving Publics, examines the social and spatial politics of site-based dance in Vancouver. A former Trudeau Scholar and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Alana is currently a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities (Urban Studies, SFU) and Artist-in-Residence at Vancouver's Dance Centre (2021-22).Annabel VaughanAnnabel Vaughan is an architect and project manager at ERA Architects, she recently returned to Vancouver to manage projects in BC.She received her Master of Architecture from The School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, where her master's thesis examined the use of heritage buildings as mnemonic devices for the collective memory of cities and their public lives. Annabel joined ERA Architects in 2015 after two decades in Vancouver, including 10 years at Birmingham & Wood where she was involved in all aspects of design and construction, including the award-winning Mountain View Cemetery. A project that revitalized an important cultural heritage landscape in the middle of the city. Her professional work includes heritage conservation, small-scale landscape architecture insertions, civic and residential building design, urban design and research, performance art lectures, and curatorial projects.She writes, teaches and participates regularly in discussions concerning the role that architecture and public art can play as agents of political change in the city.Resources: — Alana Gerecke's website: https://agerecke.wixsite.com/alanagerecke— Justine A. Chambers's website: https://justineachambers.com/— About Annabel Vaughan: https://www.eraarch.ca/person/annabel-vaughan/— Everyday Choreographies (2016) event recording: https://soundcloud.com/sfu_voce/everyday-choreographies-alana-gerecke-and-justine-chambers?in=sfu_voce/sets/public-event-recordings
Author: Justine A. Chambers, Author: Alana Gerecke, Author: Annabel Vaughan, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-19
Bio:Eldritch Priest writes on sonic culture, experimental aesthetics, and the philosophy of experience from a 'pataphysical perspective.He is Associate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Eldritch is also a composer and improviser as well as a member of the experimental theory group "The Occulture." He is the author of several essays and books including Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (Bloomsbury 2013) and most recently, Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and other Imaginary Refrains (Duke University Press 2022). Resources: Eldritch's new book, Earworm and Event: https://www.dukeupress.edu/earworm-and-event Eldritch's Website: https://www.strangemonk.com/ Eldritch's previous book, Ludic Dreaming:https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ludic-dreaming-9781501320804/ Eldritch's other previous book, Boring Formless Nonsense: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/boring-formless-nonsense-9781441122131/ The Logic of Sense, by Gilles Deleuze: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-logic-of-sense/9780231059831
Author: Eldritch Priest, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-04-26
Bio: David Spaner has worked as a feature writer, movie critic, reporter, and editor for numerous newspapers and magazines. David's also been a cultural/political organizer (Yippie, manager of the punk band The Subhumans). He is the author of Dreaming in the Rain and Shoot It! Hollywood, Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film.In 2021, Spaner published a behind-the-scenes book about the Solidarity resistance movement, Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale 2021) documenting the event using intimate storytelling and melding cultural and rebel politics to provide insight into the conflicts that are still with us. It was the largest political protest in the province's history and threatened to end in an all-out general strike. Resources: Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale 2021): https://ronsdalepress.com/all-books/solidarity/SHOOT IT! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film (Arsenal Pulp Press 2012): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Shoot-ItDreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest (Arsenal Pulp Press 2002): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Dreaming-in-the-Rain
Author: David Spaner, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-03
Liz Jackson is the director of the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph. Liz has also previously worked as the Research Collection Coordinator at the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Project and the Community Engagement Officer at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Currently, Liz is the board chair of Art Not Shame, a community-engaged, multidisciplinary arts organization serving youth and adults. Human rights and the politics and implications of artistic representation are some of the themes which Liz is involved in. Resources: Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI): https://www.uoguelph.ca/research/discover-our-research/centres-institutes-groups/community-engaged-scholarship-institute-cesi Critical Community-Engaged Scholarship (Critical CES): Cynthia Gordon de Cruz: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316638765_Critical_Community-Engaged_Scholarship_Communities_and_Universities_Striving_for_Racial_Justice CESI's Community Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Program: https://www.cesinstitute.ca/about-cetl CESI's Research Shop: https://www.cesinstitute.ca/about-research-shop Europe's Science Shop Model: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261948200_Science_shops CESI's Guelph Lab: https://www.cesinstitute.ca/about-guelph-lab Art not Shame: https://artnotshame.org/who-we-are
Author: Liz Jackson, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-10
Bio: Kevin Bruyneel is Professor of Politics at Babson College, teaching about race, colonialism and collective memory. He wrote the books, Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) and The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations (University of Minnesota Press 2007). Kevin was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, studied at Simon Fraser University and the New School for Social Research in New York City, and now lives and teaches in MassachusettsResources:Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States by Kevin Bruyneel: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665238/settler-memory/ Bacon's Rebellion: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/ W.E.B. Du Bois: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dubois/James Baldwin: https://nmaahc.si.edu/james-baldwinThe White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-white-possessiveLayli Long Soldier: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldierDr. Kim TallBear: https://kimtallbear.com/Cristina Sharpe: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/cesharpe/Cedric Robinson: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/robinson-cedric-j/I Am Not Your Negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/i-am-not-your-negro/Kyle Mays: https://www.kyle-mays.com/Afro Pessimism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimismFrank Wilderson: https://www.frankbwildersoniii.com/about/Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/Robyn Maynard: https://robynmaynard.com/Stuart Hall: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/hall-stuart/Kēhaulani Kauanui: https://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/Jean M. O'Brien: https://shekonneechie.ca/biographies/jean-obrien/Lee Maracle: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lee-maracle-death-bc-indigenous-writer-poet-1.6245582Jodi Byrd: https://as.cornell.edu/news/new-faculty-jodi-byrdCampuses and Colonialism: https://www.oah.org/insights/opportunities-for-historians/cfp-campuses-and-colonialism-symposium/Malinda Maynor Lowery: http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lowery-malinda-maynor.htmlStephen Kantrowitz: https://history.wisc.edu/people/kantrowitz-stephen/Alyssa Mt. Pleasant: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/africana-and-american-studies/faculty/faculty-directory/mt-pleasant.html
Author: Kevin Bruyneel, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-17
As a sustainability researcher and project manager, Magda is dedicated to assisting communities in their efforts toward positive environmental and social change. She aims to really get at the heart of issues and propose meaningful ways forward.Magda actively supports the growth of knowledge-sharing communities within Community Campus Engage Canada, and oversees operations, research and communications. Prior to joining CCEC, Magda provided extensive research and evaluation support to a multi-year pan-Canadian project titled 'Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement' (CFICE), which explored community-driven community-campus partnerships. During the initial demonstration project phase of CFICE, she also provided direct assistance to a neighbourhood organization (Sustainable Living Ottawa East) over a period of three years.Magda's focus on community draws from experience in sustainability research consulting, where she has assisted individuals and organizations in building positive social and environmental change at neighbourhood scales. In 2019 she completed PhD research on household-scale climate change adaptation activities in urban areas in Canada.Magda is continually inspired by the optimism, compassion and inventiveness that are applied to environmental and social challenges in communities. When away from her work she enjoys seeking out hiking, biking or cross-country skiing adventures, or thinking up art projects and learning new things with her daughters. Resources: — Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC): https://ccecanada.ca/— Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement: https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/
Author: Magda Goemans, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-05-24
Bio:Shauna Sylvester is a graduate of McGill University and Simon Fraser University and until recently, served as the Executive Director of the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Currently she is Professor of Professional Practice at SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and in September she is delighted to be moving into a new role as Executive Director of Urban Sustainability Directors' Network for the US and Canada.She has co-founded and led five initiatives: the SFU Public Square, Carbon Talks, Renewable Cities, Canada's World, and IMPACS – the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society and has worked with colleagues in launching consortiums like Moving in a Livable Region and Canadian Cities + COP26. Shauna has years of experience working globally, in conflict and post-conflict zones, with incredible women's initiatives, media groups, multilateral processes and civil society organizations.In the early 1980s and 90s, she was active with HIV/AIDS, disability, peace and environment organizations. She also worked at IDERA – the International Development Education Research Association, CUSO, Community Living Society and Canada World Youth. Shauna co-chaired SPARC BC's first Community Development Institute, the Civicus World Assembly, led the Canadian forestry working group for the EarthSummit, organized the Canadian meeting for the Beijing Women's conference in 1994 and participated in three COP processes. She has published widely in mainstream newspapers, provided commentary to national and local TV and radio and authored her own climate blog.Resources:The SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue.htmlThe Social Planning and Research Council of B.C. (SPARC BC): https://www.sparc.bc.ca/Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS): https://reliefweb.int/organization/impacsCuso International: https://cusointernational.org/Canada World Youth: https://canadaworldyouth.org/CIVICUS World Assembly: https://www.civicus.org/worldassembly/Imagine Canada: https://www.imaginecanada.ca/enCanada's World: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/programs/international-relations/canadas-world.htmlCOP26: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop26Fossil of the Year Award: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-tagged-as-fossil-of-the-year-1.827062Carbon Talks: https://carbontalks.wordpress.com/about/Renewable Cities: https://www.renewablecities.ca/about-renewable-citiesSFU Public Square: https://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/about.htmlRenovictions: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/ending-a-tenancy/renovictionsSemester in Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/semester/Ecotrust Canada: https://ecotrust.ca/The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (The Circle): https://www.the-circle.ca/how-we-work.htmlUrban Sustainability Directors Network: https://www.usdn.org/about.html
Author: Shauna Sylvester, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-06-07