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Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose multi-layered practice calls for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience, the engaged practice employs imaginative hybridity and narrative re-framing, alongside reverie and a creative waywardness. Informed by suppressed histories, and alert to sources of radical hope, the work prioritises an enduring and equitable co-existence. Andrea grew up on a large council estate and left school at 16.Films include the Artangel-produced 'Here for Life' (2019), which received its world premiere in the Cineasti Del Presente international competition of the Locarno Film Festival (winning a Special Mention), 'Erase and Forget' (2017), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for the Original Documentary Award), 'Estate, a Reverie' (2015) (nominated for Best Newcomer at the Grierson awards) and 'Taskafa, Stories of the Street' (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.Selected exhibitions include 'Civil Rites', the London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, Bristol and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery. Andrea co-founded the cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary 'The Look of Silence').Andrea co-edited the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press) and has published extended essays in 'Open Democracy', 'La Furia Umana', 'Another Gaze' and 'Homecultures', among others.Resources:— Fugitive Images fugitiveimages.org.uk/about/— Taskafa, Stories of the Street lux.org.uk/work/taskafa-stories-of-the-street— Estate, a Reverie lux.org.uk/work/013429-estate-a-reverie— Here For Life www.artangel.org.uk/project/here-for-life/— Shelter in Place www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/…in-place.html

Author: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi

Date created: 2021-10-05

Land Defense and the Climate Emergency — with Grand Chief Stewart Phillip

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is President of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Over a 14-year period (1994-2008) he served four consecutive terms as Chief of the Penticton Indian Band (PIB) with an additional 10-years as an elected Band Councillor, and served as the Chair of the Okanagan Nation Alliance for 15 years. In October 2006, the Okanagan Nation, led by the Elders of the Penticton Indian Band, acknowledged his lifetime commitment to the defense of Indigenous Peoples' Title and Rights by bestowing on him and his family the rare honour of the title of Grand Chief. Grand Chief Phillip has taken an active role in the defense of Aboriginal Title and Rights by readily offering support to Native communities in need. He has taken a personal approach seeing first-hand the impact of fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago, lobbying on Parliament Hill to defeat the First Nations Governance Act, standing with Elders of Treaty 8 against oil and gas development in the Peace River, burning referendum ballots with fellow chiefs in protest and has stood on the steps of the Legislature with 3000 other people united under the Title and Rights Alliance banner. In November 2018, Grand Chief Phillip was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of British Columbia for his life-long advocacy and work.Grand Chief Phillip has been married for 36 years to his wife Joan. They have four grown sons, two daughters, seven granddaughters and seven grandsons. He is currently enjoying his 34th year of sobriety. In this regard, he is a firm believer in leading by example.Resources:— Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC): www.ubcic.bc.ca/ — Okanagan Nation Alliance: www.syilx.org/ — Grand Chief Stewart Phillip's testimonial with the Unist'ot'en Camp: unistoten.camp/grand-chief-stewart-phillip/

Author: Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi

Date created: 2021-09-28

Women, Work, More: Young Women Navigating Food Service — with Kaitlyn Matulewicz

Kaitlyn Matulewicz has a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Victoria. Her dissertation examined how women restaurant workers' unwanted or uncomfortable sexual interactions with managers, co-workers, and customers are still happening more than three decades after sexual harassment was first named sex discrimination in Canada. She argues that restaurant work in BC is organized in such a way that uncomfortable or unwanted sexual experiences at work are made normal. Her dissertation tells the story of how law is implicated in the construction of such restaurant workplaces within which sexual harassment and unwanted sexual experiences are normalized. Kaitlyn has seven years of experience working in restaurants. She is the executive director of the Worker Solidarity Network and co-chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition. Resources:Worker Solidarity Network: workersolidarity.ca/May I?: workersolidarity.ca/addressing-sexu…rvice-industry/ May I?, zine: www.antiviolenceproject.org/wp-content/…-online.pdf F.E.D. U.P.: fedupyeg.wordpress.com/ Law, Sexual Harassment, and Restaurants: dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/8081 Law's Gendered Subtext: link-springer-com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article…-9322-z Law and the Construction of Institutionalized Sexual Harassment in Restaurants: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article/603009Kaitlyn's articles for the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Bios/Kaitlyn_Matulewicz/

Author: Kaitlyn Matulewicz, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng

Date created: 2021-11-04