Aboriginal Awareness Week Events March 19-23, 2012

Monday March 19th, 4:30pm, Wallace Hall, JDUC:
Opening ceremony with Elder David Jock.

Also, please check out this event being put on by CFRC and OPIRG Kingston: Monday March 19 at 6:30pm, Dunning Hall Room 11, Queen’s University, Krysta Williams, “Indigenous made media: old and new forms of tellings our truths and stories” (http://cfrc.ca/blog/krysta-williams-dunning-11-mar-19).

Tuesday March 20, 6pm, Open Mic Night at the Common Ground:
Email us at qnsaclub@gmail.com if you are interested in performing! We will also be encouraging everyone to check out the Indigenous art installation at the fireside lounge.

Wednesday March 21, 11:30am-1:30pm, Dunning Hall, Room 12:
Terrance Houle and Adrian Stimson: Artist Talk and Discussion 

Wednesday March 21, 7pm-9pm, Union Gallery (in Stauffer Library): A performance by Terrance Houle and a performance of “Buffalo Boy Born Again” by Adrian Stimson. Reception at the Grad Club afterward.

Thursday March 22, 7pm, The Renaissance Room (285 Queen St.):
A duet performance “Buckskin Remounting” by Adrian Stimson and Terrance Houle.

Friday March 23, 1:00pm, Rm 201 Macdonald Hall (128 Union Street – Queen’s Campus)
Meet blogger Chelsea Vowel who wrote the post “Dealing with comments about Attawapiskat” which went viral in November 2011 amid the media coverage of the crisis in Attawapiskat, ON.

Chelsea Vowel’s blog and the post that went viral: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2011/11/30/dealing-with-comments-about-attawapiskat/

We will be having a reception on Friday after Chelsea’s talk. Food will be served and you will have a chance to meet Chelsea.

 

Krysta Williams March 19, 2012

Also check out this event during Aboriginal Awareness Week!!

CFRC 101.9fm and OPIRG Kingston Present an Aboriginal Awareness Week event:
Krysta Williams, “Indigenous made media: old and new forms of tellings our truths and stories”

Monday, March 19, 6:30pm
Dunning Hall Room 11, Queen’s University

In celebration of Aboriginal Awareness Week at Queen’s, this talk explores how Indigenous people, particularly youth, are using and reinventing media from storytelling to social networks. Krysta Williams is an Indigenous Feminist and Turtle clan from Moravian of the Thames First Nation. She is a traditional singer and drummer, has a degree in Psychology and Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Waterloo and is the Lead Youth Advocate of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a continent-wide organization by and for Native youth.

This is the third and final event of the CFRC-OPIRG Anniversary Speaker Series, celebrating Black History Month, International Women’s Day, Aboriginal Awareness Week, 90 years of CFRC and 20 years of OPIRG Kingston.

QNSA’s Aboriginal Awareness Week March 19-23, 2012!

Come on out to our events! If information is missing, we will be updating the website as soon as possible.

FDASC 13th Annual Symposium: Indigenizing the Academy

Friday February 3rd – Saturday February 4 2012. Please see the FDASC website for more details (click here) or see the links below for the poster and pamphlet.

We would like to invite all members of the FDASC fb group to attend the 13th Annual Aboriginal Symposium. This year’s topic is ‘Indigenizing the Academy’. Mark your calenders!

The symposium is conducted in a fashion expressing respect for traditional Aboriginal protocol. Aboriginal community members and Elders will be in attendance as participants and stakeholders, and presentations will be in the form of a talking circle. The sessions are moderated with the use of a talking stick and given guidance by Aboriginal Elders.

Keynote Speaker: Kathy Absolon-King

FDASC Symposium Pamphlet 

FDASC Symposium 2012 Poster

 

You’re invited to a presentation to the Four Directions Centre of the new book by Queen’s Prof. Scott Morgensen (Gender Studies), “Spaces between Us,” followed by a discussion.

Wednesday January 25

3:45 – 4:45 pm, prior to Feast

Four Directions Aboriginal Students Centre

Co-sponsored by QNSA and the 4DASC.

Book information:

Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

First Peoples – New Directions in Indigenous Studies book series

http://firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/book.php?id=1105

University of Minnesota Press

http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/spaces-between-us

First Peoples Blog post by Scott Morgensen

http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=4103

QNSA is having its first meeting of 2012 on JANUARY 18, 2012 at 5:30 PM at the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre (146 Barrie Street).

We will be discussing meeting times for this semester, our next social, and most importantly: ABORIGINAL AWARENESS WEEK (March 19-24th).

Hope to see you there with your ideas and enthusiasm!!!!

The QNSA Exec

“The Mushuau Innu. Surviving Canada” Screening

 

This Thursday, November 24, Canadian Lawyers Abroad (CLA) is presenting the documentary “The Mushuau Innu. Surviving Canada”. It looks at the 1993 Canadian Human Rights Commission’s report which found that the Federal government had been in violation of the Innu’s constitutional rights for more than 50 years, and explores the devastating impact these violations have had on the Innu and their future as a people.

It will be at 6:00pm in room 001. Food will be provided (pizza!). We will watch the documentary (about 45min in length) and also talk about some of the internship opportunities CLA offers both internationally and in Canada’s north.

The movie’s trailer: http://www.firstcontact.ca/Surviving-Canada/documentary.html#Synopsis

The CLA’s website: http://cla-ace.ca/