We are a group of artists, community members, and academics seeking to build mutually beneficial education and art partnerships with Indigenous artists and communities.
Our goal is connecting the new Creative Technologies program at York University’s new Markham campus with Indigenous communities in the area. In the meantime, we are creating new land-based Experiential Education programming in Creative Technologies at Keele and Markham and training team members in trauma awareness and cultural competency, with the long term goal of decolonizing/Indigenizing education.
We are building relationships between Treaty holders, local knowledge keepers and Elders, university students, professors and staff, young artists, and possible research partners, to keep thinking about what this Indigenous Advisory Council might do and might become in the future, what our collaborative projects might grow into, and how this might impact a next generation of teachers and learners.
