Truth and Reconciliation Response Projects_Save the Dates

[Sorouja Moll]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Truth and Reconciliation Response Projects' collaborators, we are delighted to announce two major events that will be taking place this fall: The Mush Hole Project and Integrating Knowledges Summit. Programming is free and open for faculty, staff, students, and community participation.

We encourage instructors to keep the events in mind as you create your course syllabi. Save the dates!

Information about the events can be found on the Truth and Reconciliation Response Projects <http://uwaterloo.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-response-projects/> (TRRP) resource website with ongoing updates as programming details become available.


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Mush Hole Project
September 16, 17, and 18, 2016
Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford
(Bus transportation from the University of Waterloo will be available and free of charge)

The Mush Hole Project is an immersive, site specific art and performance installation that engages with the site of Canada's first residential school. It will become a space in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, researchers, and the public can meet and 1) acknowledge the residential school legacy, 2) challenge the concepts of "truth" and "reconciliation," and 3) practice interdisciplinary art and performative methods of decolonization.

This project responds to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Calls to Action. It aims to preserve, query, and reveal the complex personal, political, and public narratives around Canada's residential school system, specifically the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School (at the Woodland Cultural Centre).

Integrating Knowledges Summit
October 14, 15, and 16, 2016
Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre and University of Waterloo

The objective of the Summit is to materialize the research and practices of "truth" and "reconciliation" with a focus on collaborative education, pedagogical histories, and methods of decolonization. A direct response to the TRC's Calls to Action, the Summit promises an intercultural calling-in of researchers, scholars, social justice advocates, elders, intergenerational survivors, artists, knowledge keepers, cultural and multidisciplinary practitioners and performers, educators, and students, among others to reflect on the consequences that emerged from the residential school legacy and the impact on educational paradigms.

Events include keynote speaker Dr. Cindy Blackstock<http://uwaterloo.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-response-projects/integrating-knowledges-summit/cindy-blackstock-keynote-address>, a performance workshop<http://uwaterloo.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-response-projects/integrating-knowledges-summit/performance-workshop>, Circle Discussions, a Six Nations and Waterloo Region Youth Workshop, TRC Reading Challenge, Mini Ode Kwewak N'gamowak (Good Hearted Women Singers), the Blue Sky Singers, and more.

Projects are funded by SSHRC Connection Grant, Ontario Arts Council, Robert Harding Humanities and Social Sciences Award, Canadian Heritage, University of Waterloo, among many other generous organizations and individuals. The growing list of our many contributors and collaborators is available at https://uwaterloo.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-response-projects/partners

For additional information or about how to participate please contact:
Sorouja Moll – smoll at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:smoll at uwaterloo.ca> and Andy Houston – houston at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:houston at uwaterloo.ca>

Please share information about the events and the website!

Thank you.


Sorouja Moll, Ph.D
Definite Term Lecturer
Department of Drama & Speech Communication
University of Waterloo

ML 238
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Canada
e. smoll at uwaterloo.ca
t. 519.888.4567 x.31985

https://uwaterloo.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-response-projects/

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