Wednesday
January 31
11:00 - 12:50 pm Telus Centre 134 Using Art to Engage Kenyan Youth Engineers Without Borders
12:00 - 2:00 pm Rutherford Library Atrium Live Graffiti Wall
1:00 - 4:00 pm Students’ Union Building main floor Doctors Against Tragedies
AJA Louden, artist
Dr. Michiko Maruyama, Department of Art and Design and Department of Cardiac Surgery; Dr. Cheryl Mack, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine; Dr. Ferrante Gragasin and Dr. Vivian Ip, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Join artist AJA Louden in creating a graffiti style mural that speaks to I-Week’s “for a better world”. Come by to watch the mural take shape; pick up a brush and have your words and images become a part of this piece of art! See more about Louden in Ongoing Events (p. 3).
Gladys W. Muthara, Founder and Team Lead, Teen Action Program (TAP) Africa Gladys Muthara is based in Kenya where TAP Africa engages teens to address Gender Based Violence, with a focus on domestic violence and its effects on them, as children. This initiative encourages teens to weave up the conversations about violence through 8-pointed stars, to light up the darkness of violence. Over 500 teens in Kenya, wove thousands of stars, some of which will be displayed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia as part of the One Million Stars to End Violence project. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet an inspirational young change-maker and join in making a star to help light up the darkness!
12:00 - 12:50 pm HUB 176 - Multi-Faith Prayer and Meditation Space Singing Justice: Inspiration for the Journey Interfaith Chaplains’ Association Learn songs from diverse spiritual traditions that energize the passion for justice! Explore texts and music that can easily be taught for use in justice groups or gatherings!
1:00 - 1:50 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-420 Disputed Monuments: Reclaim or Destroy? University of Alberta Debate Society The Debate Society will be hosting a show debate round on the topic, “This House would prefer the reclamation of disputed monuments to their destruction.” Following the round, the audience can join into a discussion exploring various perspectives.
NOON GROOVE
12:00 - 1:00 pm SUB Stage, Students’ Union Building Dig Way Down Deep For the artist, change comes from the inside where the diamonds of creativity linger. These artists have overcome and triumphed! With Bushra Yousaf, Savanna Harvey, Natasha Prasad, featuring the What Life Requires Ensemble, an interdisciplinary performance that fuses dance with spoken word poetry to explore the resilience, ingenuity, diversity and brilliance of Black Life.
2:00 - 3:50 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 2-150 Music for a Healthier World Dr. Michael Frishkopf, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology; Kreisha Oro, Intercultural Consultant and Community Based Researcher, Multicultural Health Brokers; Tiffany Sparrow, Music Therapist and Musician with Artists on the Wards, University of Alberta Hospital; Dr. Elizabeth Papathanassoglou, Faculty of Nursing This session provides an opportunity to discover some of the many ways that music can be used to promote better health around the world.
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. -Arundhati Roy, Indian author
What Life Requires Ensemble International Week 2018: for a better world
The number of fentanyl related deaths is on the rise and this group is determined to do something about it. “Doctors Against Tragedies” is a team of medical students, residents and physicians who are taking an innovative approach to teach the public about fentanyl use. Come by, play a few games with the docs, ask questions and learn more.
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