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Moccasin workshop a success
It was a delight to welcome the team from our partner, the Moccasin Identifier initiative to Markham campus to work with first year students in the Creative Technologies program and members of the public. We were also grateful to member of our Indigenous Advisory Circle, Tristan Martell, who came and offered opening prayers for the…
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Finding a name
It has been an adventure thinking how to collectively name this group and given its very diverse backgrounds and activities. With advice from knowledge keepers and community leaders, we continue to think of this project’s “journey” as a series of parallel and occasionally intersecting paths with different names and different purposes. We asked community members…
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Officially launching the Circle at the Varley Art Gallery!
So thankful to every one that attended the official opening of our Indigenous Advisory Circle at the Varley Art Gallery. The event included a wonderful talk by guest artist Archer Pechawis, dance by Circle member Shane Martell, prayers and guidance from knowledge keeper Phil Cote, and a chance to eat (food from the incredible Dashmaawaan…
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Partnered project got funding!
So pumped for our Circle and team to get to work on this project, with our partners. Game design camps supporting Indigenous youth, community visits, experiential education for York students, its going to be exciting!
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Land-based knowledge sharing (and graduate class)
What a gift to have Circle member, Dustin Brass, sharing his knowledge with us as we develop land-based learning strategies. Dustin worked with graduate students in the AMPD Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Summer Institute class, visited with York centres and partners , and did site visits at Markham to plan our future experiential…
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The Connected Minds project is supporting our work
Delighted that the incredible research project Connected Minds has given us seed funding to support our Circle’s work and partnered projects. The project “Towards Socially-Responsible “Transfer Learning”: Connecting Artists, Engineers, Neuroscientists and their Partners through Interdisciplinary Knowledge Mobilization”will be helping to support our explorations of land-based learning through augmented reality and moccasin stencilling, as well…
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Our opening meetings and events brought us together
Before we even had a University campus building at Markham, we were planning how we might build partnerships together, with the advice of an incredible team of artists and Indigenous leaders, professors, students, and guests. We began this work with an event at the Royal Ontario Museum entitled “Art, Tech, Education and Listening to the…
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Training to learn about history, cultural competency, and trauma
So grateful for this incredible training designed by Dr. Maya Chacaby (leader of our partner project Biskaabiiyaang through York’s Glendon Campus. It is open to all people (you do not have to be a York student), and attracts settler and Indigenous people from across the country, helping to better understand history, trauma-awareness, and cultural competency.…