<div dir="ltr"><div><div><p style="text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px;direction:ltr"><font size="4"><b>Ar(c)tivism and Policing Digital Archive Launched<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"></span></b></font></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><i><a href="http://artivism.ca">artivism.ca</a></i></font></span><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium">Led by Gabriel Friday and Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, <a href="http://artivism.ca/">'Ar(c)tivism and Policing'</a> is a digital archival project that centres on the potency of protest</span><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="3">art, particularly its role in advocating for change in policing (in Nigeria),</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="3">bad governance (in Bangladesh), and on an array of systemic issues such as Black Lives Matter, racism and policing (in Canada and the United States). It is part of Dr. Afolabi’s Canada Research Chair research project on "Staging Justice,” supported by Theatre Emissary International and its partner,</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="3">Mobile Research Lab.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium">More details about the work can be found here: </span><a href="https://www.artivism.ca/about" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium;word-break:break-word;direction:ltr">https://www.artivism.ca/about</a></p><p class="gmail-last-child" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium;line-height:24px;direction:ltr"><br></p><p class="gmail-last-child" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px;direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px">We</span><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">welcome you</span></font><font size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">r input</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, feedback,</span><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"> and engagement o</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">n</span><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"> the</font><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">digital archive. Whether you wish to share materials, provide feedback, or collaborate on expanding the archive, please don’t hesitate to contact us </font>using this link:<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.artivism.ca/contact">https://www.artivism.ca/contact</a></font></p></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">Best regards,</font></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Taiwo O. Afolabi, Ph.D. (he/him)</div><div>Artist | Researcher | Educator</div><div><a href="http://www.taiwoafolabi.com" target="_blank">www.taiwoafolabi.com</a></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></div><div><font size="1"><a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=BHryrqYAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a> | <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Taiwo_Afolabi2" target="_blank">Research Gate</a> | <a href="https://universityofvictoria.academia.edu/TaiwoAfolabi" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> | <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5905-1051" target="_blank">Orcid</a></font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="https://theatreemissary.wixsite.com/theatreemissary" target="_blank">Theatre Emissary International</a> | <a href="http://www.cset.ca" target="_blank">Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET)</a>| <a href="http://futureprairietheatres.ca" target="_blank">Future Prairie Theatre</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>