Fw: Reminder: Dr. Evan Adams tomorrow at 12 noon

[Wendy Philpott]

Join the first 2021 Indigenous Speakers Series event tomorrow at lunchtime, featuring Dr. Evan Adams, Deputy Chief Medical Officer First Nations & Inuit Health HQ, Indigenous Services Canada — speaking about reconciliation, Indigenous health perspectives, and pandemic impacts.

More details below. Here is the livestream link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTUwNDEzODAtY2FhYi00YTBkLWJlNzQtYzFmNjc3NjQ3MTQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d08d8851-fe2b-4817-a6ed-31358e450e86%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d> to join the MS Teams Event tomorrow, March 4, at 12pm.

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From: Wendy Philpott
Sent: February 17, 2021 2:05 PM
To: artsannounce at artsservices.uwaterloo.ca <artsannounce at artsservices.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Indigenous Speakers Series returns on March 4


The Faculty of Arts and the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre are happy to announce that the Indigenous Speakers Series returns this term with the first of our online events featuring Dr. Evan Adams, who will address impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous communities in Canada.


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Evan Tlesla II Adams<https://drevanadams.ca/> is a Coast Salish actor and physician from the Tla’amin First Nation near Powell River, BC, Canada. He starred in the 1998 film Smoke Signals, for which he won numerous awards. A physician since 2002, Adams was the first-ever Aboriginal Health Physician Advisor in the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC Ministry of Health (2007-2012). And from 2012 to 2014 he was the Deputy Provincial Health Officer for the province of BC. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer of the First Nations Health Authority.



WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

WHERE: Online livestream event via Teams

HOW TO JOIN: Join the event via the livestream link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTUwNDEzODAtY2FhYi00YTBkLWJlNzQtYzFmNjc3NjQ3MTQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d08d8851-fe2b-4817-a6ed-31358e450e86%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d>. No sign-in or registration required. Please note, if you join on a mobile device or tablet, you’ll need the Teams app<https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/microsoft-teams/download-app>. Computer users can join with no Teams app.

MORE INFO: Evan Adams event page<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/indigenous-speakers-series-presents-dr-evan-adams>



Following his talk, Dr. Adams will be joined by Lori Campbell, Director of Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, and Stephanie Marr, a Waterloo graduate who is now in medical school, for further conversation.



Also, mark your calendar for noon on April 8, when the Indigenous Speakers Series presents Professor Logan MacDonald, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Art.


Wendy Philpott
Communication Manager
Dean of Arts Office, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
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