What are our responsibilities as communications professionals living and working on colonized, Indigenous land?
We are honoured to invite you to join Kamala Todd and your CPRS friends to begin an introspective journey that will help us begin to explore our role in reconciliation.
Kamala, a Métis-Cree mother, community planner, educator, and filmmaker who was born and raised in the beautiful lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Skwxwú7mesh-speaking people (also known as Vancouver), will share her own learning and lived experiences with us. This conversation will inspire and encourage self-reflection, offer questions to ask ourselves about our responsibilities and relationships, and provide an opportunity for discussion. Kamala will also share some resources and tips to continue our own learning.
Thursday, November 26, 2020
6:30 - 8:00 pm (PST) Zoom
Cost: free for CPRS members, $65 for non-members
More about Kamala:
Kamala is an adjunct professor for the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. Recently, she was the City of Vancouver’s first Indigenous arts and culture planner, where she co-wrote the City's culture plan, Culture|Shift: Blanketing the City through Arts and Culture, and worked actively to decolonize planning processes. Kamala has twenty years experience working through community planning, storytelling, video, and public art to increase awareness of the diverse stories of Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and urban Indigenous people in Vancouver.
As a consultant, she was engaged with the Vancouver Dialogues Project, which brought together First Nations, urban Indigenous, and immigrant communities to build circles of dialogue and cultural-sharing.
Read Kamala's biography: https://www.sfu.ca/.../adjunct-faculty/kamala-todd.html
Watch her videography: https://vimeo.com/kamalatodd
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This event is the first of three events organized by the BC chapters of CPRS.
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