Global Justice & Change Program Launch!

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Join us virtually on April 6th from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST to celebrate our University’s* new Global Justice & Change (GJC) program!

Join us virtually on April 6th from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST to celebrate our University’s* new Global Justice &amp; Change (GJC) scholarship program. Opening for applications in fall 2022, the program will provide funded opportunities for students from equity-deserving communities to access in-person or virtual, credit-bearing, global experiences.The GJC program will provide students from equity-deserving communities the opportunity to access funded, credit-bearing, short-term opportunities for global engagement. Students from all faculties and academic disciplines will be eligible to apply. The program is a unique offering that explores the historic and systemic analysis of contemporary global issues from an equity and justice-oriented lens. To celebrate the program’s launch, we have invited scholars, artists and community leaders to explore what global justice and change means to them. Amai Kuda et Les Bois will open the event with a song, followed by a roundtable conversation moderated by Dr. Sumie Song and Emma Wright with Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia and brontë velez, a black-latinx transdisciplinary artist, curator, trickster, educator and wakeworker. Janice Jo Lee will close our celebration with a spoken word performance.Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to inquire, inspire, and imagine justice and change on a global scale.Live captioning will be provided on zoom. The university is committed to accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities. If you require any additional accessibility accommodations to ensure your full participation, please let us know on the registration form or via email global.learning@ryerson.ca * In August 2021, our university&#x27;s Standing Strong (Mash Koh Wee Kah Pooh Win) Task Force submitted 22 recommendations to guide commemoration at the university, and to respond to the history and legacy of Egerton Ryerson within the context of the university’s values. Our Board of Governors approved a motion to accept all 22 of the recommendations that were presented, including the recommendation to rename the University. To learn more, please see: Standing Strong Task Force Report &amp; Recommendations.

Amai Kuda et Les Bois don’t fit into the usual boxes. Breaking boundaries is part of their superpower. Not a band or a solo act, they prefer to call themselves ‘a movement.’ Led by Amai Kuda, their shows and albums always begin with the pouring of libations and the invocation of ancestors. This spiritual element weaves its way throughout all their music, whether that be soothing acoustic ballads, dancy electronic grooves or alt-rock-hiphop-infused political tracks. For Amai Kuda et Les Bois, music is about healing – ourselves, our society and the earth, and that can’t happen unless we listen to the voices that have for too long been ignored. You can find their work at ynamai.com

brontë’s work and rest is guided by the call that “black wellness is the antithesis to state violence” (Mark Anthony Johnson). as a black-latinx transdisciplinary artist, curator, trickster, educator and wakeworker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking, abolitionist theologies, environmental regeneration and death doulaship. 

they embody this commitment of attending to black health/imagination, commemorative justice (Free Egunfemi) and hospicing the shit that hurts black folks and the land through serving as creative director for Lead to Life design collective and ecological educator for ancestral arts skills and nature-connection school Weaving Earth. they are currently co-conjuring a mockumentary with esperanza spalding in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony and caring for/being cared for by land with their partner in unceded Kashia Pomo territory in northern California.

mostly, brontë is up to the sweet tender rhythm of quotidian black queer-lifemaking, ever-committed to humor &amp; liberation, ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us and all of life —

Dr. Vanessa Andreotti is Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia and a founding member of the gesturing towards decolonial futures (GTDF) collective. Her latest book Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism explores what it means to exist during times of great complexity and crisis produced by colonialism, capitalism, and supremacist ways of thinking and being. Her work challenges learners philosophically and metaphysically, guiding inward to explore how modernity’s assertions of what it is to be human shape and limit what is imaginable.

Janice Jo Lee, aka Sing Hey, is a contemporary folk artist of Korean settler ancestry. She is a folk-soul singer-songwriter, spoken word poet, actor, bouffon, playwright, and educator. Lee is an award-winning performer who creates looping landscapes with her voice, guitar, trumpet and Korean jangu drum. She is a hard femme queer radical. She says the truth and gets in trouble for it often, on stage and off. She is interested in using art to build flourishing communities based in justice and joy. Her work explores gender justice, antiracism, friendship, burnout, community, ancestry and the Earth. Find her on social media: @janjolee.

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