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SUMMARY:Words to Give Back: Words that have Lifted us Up
DESCRIPTION:\n\n \n\nIn this workshop participants are asked to honour an 
 Indigenous writer by giving back a sentence\, a lyric\, a passage\, a 
 word.\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nI learned to love reading because of my 
 mom and dad. They both prioritized reading in their own ways. My dad\, 
 Pierre\, took us to the Smithers Public library every Sunday. My Mom\, 
 Janell\, would hold us while she taught us how to read. Books have always 
 been a part of my world\, and my work\, because of this history. Books 
 started to hold me\, they helped me to dream\, and they kept me safe when I 
 needed to be safe. Like so many of us\, I came to Indigenous Authors a bit 
 later in the story\; folks like Chrystos\, Lee Maracle\, Beth Brand\, Joy 
 Harjo\, Leslie Marmon Silko\, Tom King\, Gregory Scofield. Their words 
 easily filled my heart. Their words easily became my Elders\, my friends\, 
 my fighting partners\, my lovers\, my teachers. We meet words as much as 
 they meet us. If you feel like me\, please join us in giving back to these 
 words that lifted us up\, and to Indigenous Authors who shared them with 
 us. The performance starts with an old-school poster board-making 
 workshop\; you join in! You come with words from Indigenous Authors that 
 have lifted you up. And together\, we march with our collective placards to 
 locations around the UBC campus and offer these words to the sky to 
 read.\n\n\n\nThe #HonouringIndigenousWriters festival and Twitter campaign 
 were created\, in part\, to acknowledge the contributions Indigenous 
 authors make to all of us. The diversity and richness of our Indigenous 
 cultures can be found in our stories\, how we share them and how we receive 
 them. We are gifted this love and care in Grandmother’s laps\, at kitchen 
 tables\, on road-trips while fighting with your cuzzin for leg room\, in 
 classrooms\, next to winter fires\, and in our childhood homes. These words 
 came in closer when we needed help dreaming\, and when we needed a safe 
 place to hide. Indigenous Authors have given so much through their words\, 
 and through their offerings they have remade countless future 
 worlds.\n\n\n\nIn this workshop participants are asked to honour an 
 Indigenous writer by giving back a sentence\, a lyric\, a passage\, a word. 
 We invite you to bring these word gifts that nurtured you on March 14th. We 
 will begin in the CEDaR Lab where we will create signs displaying the words 
 that upheld us. Afterward\, we will walk them across UBC\, with a 
 megaphone\, offering these words to the sky\, the land\, and to places on 
 campus that might need healing. Please join us in this collective work of 
 care and acknowledgment.\n\n\n	\n		\n			\n			Poster Board 
 Workshop\n\n			\n\n			Date: Monday\, March 14\, 2022\n\n			\n\n			Time: 
 11:00am – 12:00pm (PT)\n\n			\n\n			Location: CEDaR Lab (104A Buchanan 
 Tower 1 873 East Mall)\n\n			REGISTER\n			\n			\n			Walk\n			\n\n			Date: 
 Monday\, March 14\, 2022\n			\n\n			Time: 12:00pm – 2pm 
 (PT)\n			\n\n			Location: Help us pick the march route 
 \n\n			REGISTER\n			\n		\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\nPeter Morin is a 
 grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s work highlights 
 cross-ancestral collaboration and deeply considers the impact zones that 
 occur between Indigenous ways of knowing and Western Settler Colonialism. 
 Morin’s practice has spanned twenty years so far\, with exhibitions in 
 London\, Berlin\, Singapore\, New Zealand\, and Greenland\, as well as 
 across Canada and the United States. Morin currently holds a tenured 
 appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design 
 University in Toronto. Throughout his exhibition and making history\, Peter 
 has focused upon his matrilineal inheritances in homage to the matriarchal 
 structuring of the Tahltan Nation. Morin was longlisted for the Brink and 
 Sobey Awards\, in 2013 and 2014\, respectively. In 2016\, Morin received 
 the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Canadian 
 Mid-Career Artist. Morin is a member of the artist collectives BUSHgallery 
 and O’kinādās. He currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty 
 of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 
 Toronto.\n\nThis event is part of the Honouring Indigenous Writers series\, 
 which seeks to increase awareness of Indigenous authors.  This year we have 
 put together a schedule of author readings and workshops throughout the 
 month of March\, as well as asynchronous Wikipedia activities to increase 
 awareness of Indigenous literature and improve the coverage of Indigenous 
 writers on Wikipedia.
ORGANIZER;CN="Scholarly Communications Unit":MAILTO:scholarly.communications@ubc.ca
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week , Open Scholarship, Research Commons, Special Events
CONTACT;CN="Scholarly Communications Unit":MAILTO:scholarly.communications@ubc.ca
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