Please join us for a series of online conversations with essential workers, food justice advocates, and the adult literacy community. Learn about collective strategies of mutual support and grassroots organizing. Experience some of the cultural practices being created during this time of global transition.

These two important panel discussions will explore community care in Toronto and beyond.

Panel One: What is Collective Care?

May 13, 2020 | 2-3pm

The pandemic may have forced many of us to practice physical distancing, but is also encouraging some to collaborate and support each other in creative ways. This discussion focuses on Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood, and how people are providing collective care to the most vulnerable members of their community. Looking beyond COVID-19, what can we learn from these strategies, and are they here to stay?

Panelists:

Angela ElzingaCheng, Executive Director, Greenest City

Tish Carnat, ESL Instructor for the Toronto District School Board in the Parkdale Public Library and Board Member, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust

Phylicia Davis-Wesseling, Founder of KGO Adult Literacy and Board Co-chair at Parkdale Project Read

TBD - Community Legal Worker, Parkdale Community Legal Services

Storytellers:

Jillian Tamaki, Illustrator and Parkdale Project Read Tutor

Victoria Miller Johnson, Author and Parkdale Project Read Learner

Moderator:

This event is presented in partnership with : Kwentong Bayan Collective, who are Myseum of Toronto's 2020/2021 Artist Collective in Residence

Panel Two: Precarious Workers are Essential Workers

May 20, 2020 | 2-3pm

Grocery store workers, farm labourers, and cleaners were already precarious workers before the pandemic. Job insecurity, low wages, hazardous working conditions, and the looming threat of becoming undocumented are just some of the challenges they face. Yet, their work continues to be essential to ensuring society’s basic needs. How can we better protect workers who are providing essential services but are marginalized by the system? This panel features workers’ sharing the realities of their daily lives and recommendations on how to ensure their safety and protection.

Panelists:

Laura Pena, United Food and Commercial Workers Union representative

Nathalie Vengal, United Food and Commercial Workers Union representative

Jesson Reyes, Managing Director of Migrants Resource Centre Canada

Valrie Francis, Grocery store worker, member of UFCW Local 100

Storytellers:

Emilio, Migrant farm worker under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program

Lourdes de la Peña, worker/leader of Migrante Ontario

Moderator:

This event is presented in partnership with : Kwentong Bayan Collective, who are Myseum of Toronto's 2020/2021 Artist Collective in Residence

PLEASE NOTE:

• We will email you the webinar link for these panel discussions 24-48 hours prior to their respective dates.

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• In case of changes or cancellation we will do our best to notify you in advance via email.

• This webinar will be recorded.