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1. Classroom Climate Winter 2020 Offerings 
   a) Beyond Inclusion: Redistributing Responsibility for Institutional Change: March 31, 2020 from 1-3pm at  
      IKBLC Stikine Room 260 ** Sold out - register for waitlist **
2. Women’s Memorial March: Friday, Feb 14th, 12pm at Carnegie Community Centre Theatre
3. IN/Relation Graphic: Call for Artists
4. Across our desks: news, articles, and resources related to Indigenous engagement in teaching and learning

This workshop invites non-Indigenous faculty to face their complicity in the reproduction of systemic colonial patterns, and take responsibility for doing more of the intellectual, effective, and relational work that is required for institutional change beyond conditional forms of inclusion.

Facilitator: Sharon Stein 

The Women’s Memorial March which happens annually in the Downtown Eastside on Valentine’s Day will be on Thursday, February 14th. The public is invited to join the march by gathering at Main and Hastings at noon. The march will occur through the streets in the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where women were last seen or found; speeches by community activists at Main and Hastings; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 2:30 pm; and finally a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall.

"The first women’s memorial march was held in 1992 in response to the murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories.

The women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women and all women’s lives lost in the Downtown Eastside." -- womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com

Learn more and find out how you can support the Women’s Memorial March by visiting their website and by reading the resources below. 

Are you a UBC Indigenous and/or international student who is an emerging artist/designer between 19 and 30 years of age? The team at IN/Relation: Resources for International Students Learning Indigenous Contexts and Histories at UBC is looking for a new graphic to illustrate the international student’s community’s interest in learning about Indigenous peoples and culture. The successful candidate will be awarded a $500 honourarium. Submission deadline: February 24, 2020. http://ow.ly/D3u950yduVZ 

"On April 3, 2019, The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) released Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside based on the lived experience, leadership, and expertise of Indigenous women survivors.  This comprehensive report is the culmination of a participatory process with 113 Indigenous women and 15 non-Indigenous women regarding the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls." -- DEWC

View the report. 

Best wishes, 
CTLT Indigenous Initiatives