International Week 2018 program

January 29 – February 3

Welcome to International Week 2018:

For A Better World

As we head into UAlberta’s 33rd International Week, I can’t help but be excited by our theme: how the arts contribute to social and environmental justice. Though art can reflect the values of a society, artists often use their skills to push boundaries. They challenge us.

They make us uncomfortable. They use their art to make us question the norms. Art creates dialogue – sometimes extremely heated dialogue – and dialogue can lead to change.

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International Week 2018 offers a unique opportunity for us to learn from an incredible group of artists who have been using film, visual art, dance, theatre, writing, spoken word, etc., as tools to improve our communities. These artists will share their skills and passion with us, so we can learn more about local and global issues while gaining inspiration to take action, as global citizens, on issues close to our own hearts.

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Join us for International Week 2018 as we embark on an artistic journey that will entertain and empower us all to create change for a better world.

International Week is brought to you by the Global Education team: Saba Al Hammouri, Sarah Bowes, Dulce Calderon, Lisa Lozanski, Carrie Malloy, James Wang, Leslie Weigl, led

by Nancy Hannemann; with assistance from Coleen Eiman, Nicole Hein, Atiya Kanji, Tori LaRoche, Sasha Lussaint and Donna Wong.

Carrie Malloy Global Education Coordinator University of Alberta International

Get involved with University of Alberta International works with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to support the creation of an internationally vibrant learning and research environment.

How can you get involved with UAI? Volunteer for International Student Services!

Become a Welcome Ambassador, Event Assistant or Senior Peer and help to welcome and support international students – Nearly 7,000 students from 133 countries are studying at UAlberta!

Share your international experiences in the community through the Bridges Student Speakers Program.

More info at: uab.ca/ISSVolunteer

Study or Work Abroad. With close to 300 programs in 40+ countries, UAlberta sends more than 1,300 students on Education Abroad programs each year.

From semester exchanges to summer programs to international internships, these unique experiences give students a leading edge in an increasingly globalized world. After returning to UAlberta students have the opportunity to volunteer as a Student Ambassador through the Education Abroad Squad International (EASI) initiative.

Earn the Certificate in International Learning (CIL). The CIL is open to undergraduate students in all faculties and can be completed alongside your regular program of study. See our ad on p. 14.

Live in International House (I-House). I-House provides students from Canada and around the world an opportunity to live and learn together in a community which fosters global citizenship, socially responsible leadership and enduring friendships.

Change Your View. Go Abroad.

Visit: goabroad.ualberta.ca

Keep up to date on the latest international news, partnerships and funding opportunities UAlberta works with high caliber international partners around the globe with regards to research, capacitydevelopment, academic mobility, and more. Subscribe to the International Update e-newsletter to learn about the latest opportunities.

Subscribe to our Reading Your World newsletter.

Be the first to hear about events and opportunities that focus on global issues and intercultural understanding.

international.ualberta.ca/enews

More info at: globaled.ualberta.ca

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Ongoing and Surrounding Events January 26 – 27 Student Sustainability Summit Office of Sustainability and Sustain SU

NOON GROOVE

This weekend event includes sessions and panels designed to provide students with personal and professional development opportunities.

Student from across Alberta will delve into topics including social justice, sustainable food systems, change management, local economies and campus sustainability. Further information: sustainability.ualberta.ca/en/Events/ StudentSustainabilitySummit.

January 29 – February 2 12:00 - 1:00 pm SUB Stage, Students’ Union Building Mark your calendars and support the artists who create change for a better world! An eclectic cross section of Indigenous, multi-ethnic, and multicultural artists using music, visual art, dance, and spoken word poetry will uplift and inspire!

I-Week welcomes Kat Danser, this year’s Noon Groove host and creative director An acclaimed Alberta roots & blues artist, Kat has completed five full length albums and four collaborative albums; she is an award winning sessional instructor of popular music at UAlberta and a doctoral candidate in musicology.

January 27 The Alberta Student Leadership Summit Students’ Union The Alberta Student Leadership Summit is an annual conference that brings current and potential student leaders across Alberta and Western Canada together. Further information: su.ualberta.ca/services/leadership/asls

January 29 – February 2 Cameron Library, 1st Floor Lantern - to celebrate the light in each one of us Amy Loewan, artist Amy Loewan’s Lantern conveys a message of hope and illuminates the path towards peace.

The warp and weft of the weaving panels invite us to contemplate the profound interplay of unique identity and inter-connectedness of us all that are essential for building peace. Embedded into the weaving panels, reverberated in over 35 world languages, are the following eight words: compassion, kindness, respect, understanding, patience, tolerance, gentleness and forgiveness.

Amy Loewan, who is of Chinese origin, has been based in Edmonton since 1978. She is celebrated for her dedication to creating artwork that promotes peace and human understanding. Her work has been exhibited in Australia, Canada, Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.

January 27 • Education Gym • 7:00 - 11:00 pm

U of A Annual Round Dance Aboriginal Student Service Centre

Everyone is Welcome to join the Circle!

The Round Dance ceremony illustrates the Cree philosophy of death and its relationship between us and Spirits. The Elders teach us that our loved ones who have passed on come to dance with us at the Round Dance, therefore our relatives are always with us. We join hands in a circle and dance clockwise with the drum and singers sitting in the middle. The beat of the drum is like the heartbeat of the community and all members move as one. This ceremony is a place where we are able to break down the barriers that at times separate us. It is a joining of the whole community regardless of background, race and religion – a time where we all hold hands as one people in celebrating our communal history. Further information: aboriginalservices.ualberta.ca/GatheringsCeremonies/RoundDance

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Ongoing and Surrounding Events

January 29 - February 2 Various locations around campus I-Week Chalkboards

Back by popular demand, the I-Week chalkboards will be stationed around campus, collecting the wisdom of students, staff, faculty and community members on topics like peace, justice and sustainability. Leave your thoughts and see what others have written.

February 4 - 10 International Development Week

February 5 - 9 International Week at Augustana Campus

International Development Week (IDW) is an opportunity to explore how Canada and Canadians are making a difference around the world! Throughout the week you are encouraged to learn more about international development, become engaged, and share your experiences with friends, family, colleagues and your community.

Further information: acgc.ca

You are welcome to join International Week activities at Augustana Campus!

Further information: ualberta.ca/augustana/ programs/admissions/international/internationalweek Month of February Black History Month February is Black History Month! Events that honour the legacy of black Canadians, past and present, will be taking place across the country.

Further information: nbccedmonton.ca

Research On Control 5 January 30 - February 1 12:00 - 2:00 pm Rutherford Library Atrium Live Graffiti Wall AJA Louden, artist Join artist AJA Louden in creating a graffiti style mural that speaks to I-Week’s “for a better world”.

Come by to watch a mural take shape; pick up a brush and have your words and images become a part of this piece of art!

AJA Louden is based in Edmonton. Born to a family tree with roots split between Jamaica and Canada, Louden is a child of contrast. Bold and arresting freehand spray-painted portraits of figures from Jimi Hendrix and Richard Nixon to more local heroes like Rollie Miles often alternate with hand-lettered designs and vibrant patterns borne of a background in graffiti. Louden looks to bring a multifaceted, collaborative, and multi-narrative approach to contemporary urban muralism.

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Monday

January 29

12:00 - 12:50 pm Telus Centre 134 Music and Refuge: The Power of Music in Refugee Camps World University Service of Canada

11:00 am - 7:00 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 2-420 Global Health Fair Sponsored by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry’s Division of Community Engagement, UAlberta’s Biomedical Global Health Research Network and the Medical Students’ Association Keynote Speaker

Dr. Michael Houghton, PhD, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology This full day event explores topics in global health, with sessions ranging from biomedical science to clinical practice. Hear about new and exciting research in the field. Chat with students about the insights they gained during international electives.

Attend the keynote presentation and learn more about infectious diseases. Gain a world of knowledge in one day!

Further information: GHFoMD@ualberta.ca

Dr. Michael Frishkopf, Centre for Ethnomusicology; Roy Abd Alnour, musician

Gerry Morita, Artistic Director, and Jodie Vandekerkhove, Education Outreach Coordinator, Mile Zero Dance Society

Music is a powerful response to the social impact and realities of war and expresses individual and collective experiences of displacement, loss, reconciliation, and peace. Dr. Frishkopf will speak to the role of music in the Buduburam Liberian Refugee Settlement in Ghana and other locations, and violinist Roy Abd Almour, who came to Canada as a refugee from Syria, will share some moving melodies.

Through elementary school residencies, Mile Zero Dance reaches some of the most needy children in the city, demystifying dance, and getting children excited about movement and their own creative potential. Through a team-teaching approach, dance becomes fun and engaging, respecting the diversity and uniqueness of all children. Learn more about Mile Zero Dance’s approach and create some movement of your own.

12:00 - 12:50 pm International House Meeting Room ARTifacts of Protest: Performativity of the Women’s March on Washington - YEG

2:00 - 2:50 pm Telus Centre 134 How to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Savanna Harvey, artist In January 2017, artist Savanna Harvey performed in the Edmonton Women’s March on Washington.

She has since created and presented an exhibit, ARTifacts of Protest, examining the shared performativity of civil rights marches and performance art, the differences between artifact and art, and the utility of civil rights marches and political art. Savanna will discuss her exhibit and facilitate a discussion around the questions raised by her project.

NOON GROOVE

12:00 - 1:00 pm SUB Stage, Students’ Union Building Slide on Over an’ Make Some Room One voice, competing voices, or the unity of many voices…all are welcome in the world of art. With Faith Crisis and Paula Kirman, featuring the I-House Musical Ensemble: a culturally diverse group of instrumentalists performing a medley of fourteen folk songs from eleven countries. Led

by Maja Matlinska (Poland) and Kim SangHon (Korea) performers hail from Bangladesh, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Macau and Sweden.

1:00 - 1:50 pm Telus Centre 131 Theatre in the Sacrifice Zone Leslea Kroll, playwright; Rebecca Starr, Laura Raboud and Eileen Sproule, actors; Frente Theatre Collective The play “Swallow” is the story of two sisters, migrant workers from the submerged land of Aluvut, employed as keepers of a tailings pond.

“Swallow” was first staged in March 2008, a month before 1500 ducks drowned in a tarsands tailings pond. It was remounted in June 2016, a month after the evacuation of Fort McMurray.

Members of the Frente Theatre Collective read excerpts from the play and discuss the challenges of presenting environmentally responsive work in times of crisis.

I-House Musical Ensemble

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1:00 - 2:30 pm Education Centre North 4-104 De-Mystifying Dance Through Elementary School Education

Jennifer Quist, graduate student, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies What does it take to win the most famous literary prize in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Is a well-developed, critically acclaimed body of great writing enough? According to Jennifer Quist’s analysis of 25 years of Nobel Prize winners, is not. Find out what the committee that awards the prize is really looking for.

3:00 - 3:50 pm International House Meeting Room Sustainable Me Theresa Wynnyk, Producer, Company of Women on the Screen Sustainable Me is a six part film series that explores how young people in Edmonton are making their lives, communities and their world a better place to live. With an eye on environmentalism, the series examines a new way of thinking about food, living spaces, consumerism, transportation, water and ethics.

View some episodes and discuss how media and TV can challenge us to explore pre-existing ways of thinking and make our own organic changes to how we live.

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January 29

3:00 - 5:00 pm Education Centre North 4-110 Paint the Rails with Your Stories Maigan Van der Giessen, lead facilitator, John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights; AJA Louden, artist, AJA Louden Studios; Carla Rae Taylor, artist Join us for an immersive, hands on workshop exploring local history through dialogue and storytelling. Your art pieces will be integrated into the University LRT Station Paint the Rails Project.

Celebrate our shared history and collaborate on a common vision for tomorrow.

Paint the Rails is a project of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights in partnership with Edmonton Transit (ETS). First come, first served. Maximum 25 participants.

4:00 - 6:00 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 1-182 “The Nest Project”: Who will hear the last bird sing?

Teresa Stieben BFA, visual and environmental artist Teresa Stieben is a visual artist whose work encompasses painting, photography, printmaking and mixed media sculpture. While out gathering reference for wildlife and bird paintings, Stieben noticed that many birds were weaving consumer trash into nests, which made her ponder “who will hear the last bird sing?” Hear about Stieben’s five year journey of working with found materials to create over one hundred forty nests and join in a hands-on nest building workshop. First come, first served. Maximum 25 participants.

5:00 - 5:50 pm Telus Centre 134 The Power of Collaboration in Art Linda Ozromano, photographer Linda will share her personal journey as a volunteer coordinator and photographer on how the power of collaboration in art has led a group of talented filmmakers in Uganda to win the best short film nomination in the Uganda Film Festival. Through a photography exhibit, discussion and film screening, you can observe how they tackled many social justice issues in their community.

KEYNOTE 7:00 - 9:00 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-190

Behind the Scenes with Tipi Confessions: Exploring arts based approaches for good relations

Dr. Kim Tallbear, Kirsten Lindquist and Dr. Tracy Bear

Tipi Confessions is a sexy storytelling show that is produced by three Indigenous women, locally and nationally, exploring sex and sexuality through lenses of humour and vulnerability. Tipi Confessions is also a key initiative of ReLab, a research-creation laboratory at the Faculty of Native Studies at UAlberta.

Foregrounding Indigenous analytics, standpoints, and contemporary practices, we produce research, performance and art. With good relations in mind, our research and creative practice intersect two areas of inquiry, Indigenous sexualities and Indigenous “naturecultures”. This talk will focus on our “behind the scenes” reflections on producing the show, and how art and performance informs the way we relate in teaching, research, and our everyday lives.

Get your free tickets at: uab.ca/iweek Dr. Kim TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (South Dakota, USA), Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies and a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment. She is a co-producer of Tipi Confessions.

Kirstin Lindquist, AKA Pemmican Milkshake, is Cree-Metis and born in Edmonton. She teaches a class on social media in the Faculty of Native Studies, and is co-producer of Tipi Confessions.

Dr. Tracy Bear is a Nehiyaw’iskwew from Montreal Lake Cree Nation and an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Native Studies and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She teaches Indigenous erotica.

She is a co-producer of Tipi Confessions.

We are all a part of a whole. The animals and plants, lands and waters, are our relatives each with as much right to exist as we have. When we see ourselves as separate from each other and think of other species, the waters and the planet itself as objects that can be owned, dominated or subjugated, we lose connection with our humanity and we create imbalance on the earth. This is what we are witnessing around us….Perhaps it’s time to place the rights of Mother Earth ahead of the rights to Mother Earth.

-Christi Belcourt, Metis visual artist and author

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Tuesday

January 30

11:00 am - 12:20 pm Henry Marshall Tory Building B-125 Community Organizing 101

12:30 - 1:50 pm Telus Centre 131 Changing the World One Toy at a Time

Alexandru Caldararu, Norquest College

Dr. Michiko Maruyama, Department of Art and Design and Department of Cardiac Surgery

Learn the basics of community organizing! This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the principles of organizing and provide an opportunity to design their own social/ environmental justice campaign in response to a real-life scenario provided by the facilitator. In a world increasingly beset by war, poverty, and ecological destruction, it is up to ordinary people to organize and fight for the world they wish to see.

This workshop demonstrates how art and design can be used to make educational resources accessible to students and patients of all ages. This workshop will involve making paper anatomical models of the heart and other organs. Through the making and use of these models, the audience will learn about anatomy as well as how art, medicine and design can be integrated together.

12:30 - 1:50 pm Education Centre South 254 If You Build It -- Will They Be Housed??

Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (ECOHH)

NOON GROOVE

12:00 - 1:00 pm SUB Stage, Students’ Union Building Up Above My Head, There is Music in the Air

Jim Gurnett, ECOHH; Keith Turnbull, sculptor; Ritchie Velthius, sculptor

Human imagination is the only limitation to art. Beyond the notes and the steps is a sound world of wonder! See the Tiffany Grace Trio and Corona Guan Wang Ensemble, featuring Kiruthika Rathanaswami, a traditional interpretive performer of the poet Lingaraja praising the feminine beauty

embodied in the divine goddess. “Oh merciful one, you bloom like

a flower in my heart.”

Public art can be controversial, and when an Edmonton project saw money given to a sculpture highlighting the crisis of homelessness in the city, there were loud voices of opposition. But today Homeless Memorial Plaza, in the heart of downtown, provides a powerful focus to highlight this issue. Join respected sculptors Ritchie Velthuis and Keith Turnbull and housing activist Jim Gurnett to explore how this project happened, with many homeless people involved.

Kiruthika Rathanaswami

1:00 - 4:00 pm Students’ Union Building main floor Doctors Against Tragedies

12:00 - 2:00 pm Rutherford Library Atrium Live Graffiti Wall

“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. See further details in description of Wednesday events (1:00 - 4:00 pm).

AJA Louden, artist 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).

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2:00 - 3:20 pm Alberta School of Business B-28 Finding and Preserving the Human Past Dr. Candace Rice, and Dr. Margriet Haagsma, Department of History and Classics; Dr. Nichole Sheldrick, Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Archaeological sites across the world provide tangible links to the human past, and crucial evidence of peoples and cultures often ignored by standard historical narratives. But war, environmental change, economic development, and natural disasters regularly threaten physical remains. This workshop addresses new ways of documenting cultural heritage in the face of such risks. Participants will explore targeted areas using GoogleEarth with guidance on how to look for and recognize sites.

2:00 - 3:20 pm Education Centre North 4-104 Canvas Is...

Krizia Canvas Carlos, Founder and Creative Director, Canvas Is Me; Connie Jakab, CoFounder and Creative Director, Movement with a Message; Zoe Slusar, student advocate What role do the arts play in promoting positive mental health and building a resilient community?

Join us and experience what it means to ignite creativity to inspire positive mental health. This session includes a mix of listening, learning, and social interaction through music.

3:30 - 4:50 pm Humanities Centre L-1 Unintentional Activism: Teaching Islam in the Canadian University Salima Versi, Department of Religious Studies; Dr. Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music; Dr. Joseph Hill, Department of Anthropology; Dr. Mojtaba Mahdavi, Department of Political Science

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How to understand the place of Islam in Canada and the world is an important subject for study and teaching in today’s university. Teaching about Islam often overlaps with social activism, as well.

This panel of experts will discuss their experiences

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Tuesday

January 30

Unintentional Activism: Teaching Islam in the Canadian University (cont.)

in teaching about Islam at the University of Alberta, with special attention to how they view the relationship between teaching and activism.

The session will illustrate the diversity within Islam and in approaches to teaching about it.

3:30 - 4:50 pm Telus Centre 134 Dangers of Film Representation in the World Canadian International Council John M. Evjen, undergraduate honours student, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies This presentation uses theories on film, photography, drama, and identity as well as film excerpts to show how film identity affects First Nations, Metis and Inuit (FNMI) people in Canada. Normative film portrayals of FNMI people will be challenged and these ideas will be transposed to other people, such as immigrant populations.

5:00 - 6:20 pm Education Centre North 2-103 (KIVA) So We are Here, and...: The Outsider vs. The Insider Kristina de Guzman, artist/facilitator; Yazmin Juarez, artist/facilitator; Poushali Mitra, facilitator, ImagiNation Miscellany; Marco Luciano, Migrante Alberta; Oliver Kamau, Edmonton Immigrant Services Association This interactive theatrical workshop explores the moments of “outsiders” and “insiders” within us through the experiences of Indigenous peoples, immigrants, and/or migrant workers and how that relates to connection to place and sense of belonging - whether it be country, neighbourhood, work, school, religion, one’s internal world. Should we ask “Where did you come from?” or rather, “How did you get here?” and “Why did you come here?”

4:45 - 6:45 pm Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science L2-190 Bending the Arc Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine Dr. Pamela Brett MacLean, Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine program and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine; Dr. Jill Konkin, Division of Community Engagement and Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry “Bending the Arc” is a film about the charitable medical work of a team of young people which ignited a global health movement 30 years ago. Fighting entrenched diseases, political challenges, and bureaucratic machinery of established agencies, they took their fight from the village to the world stage, to ensure that healthcare is a right for all - and that geography should not determine destiny. - “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” - THEY BENT IT FASTER! KEYNOTE 7:00 - 9:00 pm Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science 1-430

The Race for a Clean Energy Future

Shalini Kantayya

Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, the City of Edmonton, MacEwan University, ATCO and the Global Education Program Award-winning filmmaker Shalini Kantayya drops us into the middle of the high stakes, fast paced race to build a clean energy future—the biggest economic opportunity of our time. In her films, she tells the story of the rapid innovation that is disrupting outmoded industries and putting power back into the hands of those who need it most.

Not only is Shalini Kantayya witnessing change—her film work is helping communities take action. Her scifi film A Drop of Life is set in a near dystopic future, but it has already been used as a tool to organize water rights in 40 villages across Africa. And her feature documentary Catching the Sun uses the stories of entrepreneurs in the US and China to show how solar energy can be a powerful force for democratization.

Come meet a ground-breaking new voice in documentary film, and learn about the clean energy revolution that is happening all around us, right now. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Shalini Kantayya uses film clips to tell stories that move the heart, reach new audiences, and make real change in the world.

Get your free tickets at sustainability.ualberta.ca/speaker Shalini Kantayya earned an MFA in Film Direction at the City College of New York. She is best known for her feature documentary, Catching the Sun, which premiered at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival and was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick before debuting on Netflix. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Sundance Documentary Film Fellow, a TED Fellow, and in 2017 was resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.

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WEEK AT A GLANCE MON Jan 29

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WED Jan 31

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11:00 am - 7:00 pm D9 Global Health Fair

11:00 am -12:20 pm H1 Community Organizing 101

11:00 am - 12:50pm N2 Using Art to Engage Kenyan Youth

11:30 am - 12:20pm A1 My Marvellous Museum

11:00 - 11:50 am N1 Uganda: Handicraft & Livelihoods

12:00 - 1:00 pm M1 Slide on Over an’ Make Some Room on SUB Stage

12:00 - 1:00 pm M1 Up Above My Head, There is Music in the Air on SUB Stage

12:00 - 1:00 pm M1 Dig Way Down Deep on SUB Stage

12:00 - 1:00 pm M1 Routes for my Roots on SUB Stage

12:00 - 1:00 pm M1 Connected Beyond the Known on SUB Stage

12:00 - 12:50 pm N2 Music and Refuge

12:00 - 2:00 pm L1 Live Graffiti Wall

12:00 - 2:00 pm L1 Live Graffiti Wall

12:00 - 2:00 pm L1 Live Graffiti Wall

12:00 - 12:50 pm F2 Instagram, Wild Law and Environmental Justice

12:00 - 12:50 pm K1 ARTifacts of Protest

12:30 - 1:50 pm N1 Changing the World One Toy at a Time

12:00 - 12:50 pm I1 Singing Justice

12:30 - 1:50 pm N2 Women in Contemporary African Cinema

1:00 - 1:50 pm N2 Documenting Activism

1:00 - 1:50 pm N1 Theatre in the Sacrifice Zone

12:30 - 1:50 pm F1 If You Build It -- Will They Be Housed??

1:00 - 1:50 pm D2 Disputed Monuments

2:00 - 3:20 pm E4 Artivist Workshop

2:00 - 2:50 pm D8 Recite the Truth

1:00 - 2:30 pm E3 De-Mystifying Dance

1:00 - 4:00 pm M2 Doctors Against Tragedies

1:00 - 4:00 pm M2 Doctors Against Tragedies

2:00 - 3:20 pm D3 Art and Housing

3:00 - 4:20 pm D4 Design Thinking for Social Change

2:00 - 2:50 pm N2 How to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature

2:00 - 3:20 pm A2 Finding and Preserving the Human Past

2:00 - 3:50 pm D7 Music for a Healthier World

3:00 - 6:00 pm D5 World’s Challenge Challenge Competition

5:00 - 6:30 pm N4 Top Thirty Under Thirty

3:00 - 3:50 pm K1 Sustainable Me

2:00 - 3:20 pm E3 Canvas Is...

3:00 - 3:50 pm D2 Filmmaking as Activism

4:00 - 5:20 pm D1 Indigenous Resilience and Resistance in the Arts

7:00 - 9:00 pm N3 Keynote: Daniel Arzola

3:00 - 5:00 pm E4 Paint the Rails with Your Stories

3:30 - 4:50 pm J1 Unintentional Activism

4:00 - 4:50 pm N2 God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty

5:00 - 6:30 pm The Art of a Career in International Affairs

4:00 - 6:00 pm D6 “The Nest Project”

3:30 - 4:50 pm N2 Dangers of Film Representation in the World

4:00 - 4:50 pm G1 Flipping Design

7:00 - 9:00 pm Garneau Theatre 8712 - 109 St. Keynote: Kristina Wong

5:00 - 5:50 pm N2 The Power of Collaboration in Art

5:00 - 6:20 pm E1 So We are Here

5:00 - 5:50 pm E2 Improv Performance

7:00 - 9:00 pm D1 Keynote: Behind the Scenes with Tipi Confessions

4:45 - 6:45 pm B2 Bending the Arc

5:00 - 6:45 pm N1 The Art of Redesigning

7:00 - 9:00 pm B3 Keynote: Shalini Kantayya

7:00 pm C Concert: Music for a Better World

SAT Feb 3 1:00 - 5:00 pm N4 Art Fest 2018

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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.

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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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Wednesday

January 31

3:00 - 3:50 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-420 Filmmaking as Activism: Female Filmmakers and Social Change

5:00 - 5:50 pm Education Centre North 2-115 Improv Performance The University of Alberta Improv Group

Dr. Elli Dehnavi, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies

The University of Alberta Improv Group is happy to bring you an improv performance full of laughs, giggles and maybe even some happy tears! Come and explore how the arts can help create change while laughing with/at us!

How can cinema be used as a tool to promote social change? How can fictional films raise awareness about social issues? What roles have filmmakers played in the socio-cultural discussions around women’s issues? This lecture attempts to answer these questions by examining the works of female filmmakers, who use social cinema to challenge economic, legal, and social discrimination against women and shed light on the cultural roots of gender inequity.

4:00 - 4:50 pm Telus Centre 134 God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty Dr. Shelby Haque, Muslim Chaplain, Interfaith Chaplains’ Association For centuries, Muslims focused on beauty as a reflection of Divine Grace. The breathtaking architecture of the Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in India were the result of Islamic civilizations at opposite ends of the earth. The poetry of Rumi, textiles of Egypt, tilework of the Maghreb and many other forms of art were used throughout the Muslim world to express love for The Creator and Creation. How could a renewed focus on beauty and art cure what ails the postmodern world?

5:00 – 6:45 pm Telus Centre 131 The Art of Redesigning Shirley Zago, designer, G&G Designs In this workshop you will learn how to take objects such as scarves, fabric, flower vases, lamps and jewellery and recreate them into something new. The focus is appreciation of green, unique, versatile and local. Bring in some old jewellery and leave this workshop wearing a piece in your own unique style! First come, first served.

Maximum 25 participants.

CONCERT 7:00 pm Convocation Hall

Music for a Better World: Transcending Boundaries

Featuring the Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra

Sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Department of Music The new Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra draws members from every corner of our community, in all its diversity, to perform music that crosses and erases the boundaries that separate us.

Please join us in creating connections and understanding through melodies that have traveled the world.

Free admission. Accepting donations for Rohingya refugees.

4:00 - 4:50 pm Fine Arts Building 2-28 Flipping Design: Critical Action Service Research Kathleen Danser, MacEwan University and doctoral candidate (Ethnomusicology) New ideas like the sun sometimes hide behind the darkest skies. It takes patience, support, and effective mentorship to nurture pedagogical innovation. This session flips the way we view the role of culture communities in the lives of undergraduate students and the role that academic institutions can have in supporting often underserved marginalized young artists.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is – it’s to imagine what is possible.

-Bell Hooks, American author

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Thursday

February 1

11:30 am - 12:20 pm Alberta School of Business B-5 My Marvellous Museum: Recuperating Histories Through Art Spectatorship Luciana Erregue, Borderlines Writers Circle 2017, Writers’ Guild of Alberta

12:00 - 2:00 pm Rutherford Library Atrium Live Graffiti Wall

2:00 - 3:20 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-430 Art and Housing

AJA Louden, artist

Lindsay Hunt, Education Lead, Capital Region Housing

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).

Part auto-ethnography, part workshop, Luciana’s inquiry into the nature of art spectatorship in the twenty-first century explores the apparently intractable border between spectatorship and curatorship. Looking beyond fixed categories of time, place, and memory, the session will open up a space for the recuperation of individual and collective histories by discussing Luciana’s encounters with art as an Argentinian-Canadian art historian, art educator and writer of poetry.

12:30 - 1:50 pm Telus Centre 134 Women in Contemporary African Cinema Dr. Onookome Okome, Department of English and Film Studies “Une Feuille Dans Le Vent,” a film by the acclaimed African filmmaker, Jean-Marie Teno, is an exquisite document about the place of the African woman in contemporary Africa. Although the story is about a Cameroonian woman, the pain and anguish expressed in the life of Ernestine Ouandie is no different from those of many women across the continent. It is truly a story of the African women at the cusp of a rapidly changing Africa. This film asks questions that we need to pay attention to. French with English subtitles.

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12:00 - 1:00 pm SUB Stage, Students’ Union Building Routes for my Roots Artistic progression can use any avenue available to bring images to life, whether they are on film, strings or the vocal cords. With 3rd Beat (Thato Plane), Wanduni (Mohamed Jollah), and Vadim Bulitko, featuring the Deepak Paramashivan Duo: Deepak Paramashivan is an internationally recognized leading authority on the Sarangi (Indian stringed instrument) and is pursuing his second doctorate in Musicology here at UAlberta.

2:00 - 3:20 pm Education Centre North 4-110 Artivist Workshop

Art and housing. Two seemingly disconnected sectors/practices. But maybe not! Join Lindsay Hunt, educator and independent communityengaged artist, in a workshop exploring the past and present uses of art in addressing issues related to housing/homelessness, and explore future potential art-housing-social justice connections.

Come prepared to participate and be creative!

3:00 - 6:00 pm Edmonton Clinic Health

Academy L1-490

Teams of students will present their innovative solutions to global issues in 5-minute presentations. The top team wins a trip to the international competition where they have a chance to win $30,000. Be inspired by these students, enjoy a reception while the judges make their decision, and vote for the People’s Choice Award.

RSVP at: uab.ca/iweek

Daniel Arzola Learn what “artivism” is and become an “artivist” yourself. Daniel Arzola will take you through the steps to create your own artivist poster. For further information about Daniel, see p. 15.

Register at uab.ca/iweek

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Deepak Paramashivan

-Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist

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Thursday

February 1

4:00 - 5:20 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 1-190 Indigenous Resilience and Resistance in the Arts Indigenous Women and Youth Resilience Project, Faculty of Native Studies Brenda Morency, artist and illustrator; Tashina Makokis, artist and producer of “Indigenous Pillow Talks” podcast; Amanda Gould, Office of the Provost and VicePresident Academic and dancer; Kenneth T. Williams, Department of Drama and playwright; Moderated by Dr. Tracy Bear, Faculty of Native Studies and Department of Women’s And Gender Studies The Indigenous Women and Youth Resilience Project at the Faculty of Native Studies explores the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls through a lens of Indigenous resilience. In this first event of the project, an Indigenous panel consisting of a dancer, playwright and visual artists explores the question: what is the relationship between Indigenous practices of resilience or resistance and the arts?

Featuring short films and visual art, our panelists discuss and critique this complex relationship, their experiences and motivations as Indigenous artists, as well the concepts of resilience and resistance within lived Indigenous experiences.

5:00 - 6:30 pm The Art of a Career in International Affairs

KEYNOTE 7:00 - 9:00 pm Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St.

The Wong Street Journal

Kristina Wong

Sponsored by the Metro Cinema and the Global Education Program Tickets: $10 (includes a free drink) at uab.ca/iweek Half psychedelic TED lecture and half hip-hop extravaganza, “The Wong Street Journal” breaks down the complexities of global poverty and economic theory using uneasy-to-read charts, never-before-proven economic strategies for survival and slideshows of hustlers from the first and “third” world. This solo theatre work illustrates the intersecting politics of charity and economic development across the globe.

Kristina Wong was recently featured in the New York Times’ Off Color series “highlighting artists of color who use humor to make smart social statements about the sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious ways that race plays out in America today.” She is a performance artist, comedian and writer who has created five solo shows and one ensemble play and has toured throughout the United States and UK. Kristina has been praised by the LA Times for her “stereotype skewering humor”, and by Bitch magazine for her “politically charged art with unapologetic humor”. She spent a month in Northern Uganda researching “The Wong Street Journal” and recording “Mzungu Price”, a rap album with local rappers. The show debuted to rave reviews, including the following from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Fiercely comic… the kind of politically focused theater that not only makes you think and question your own preconceptions but also have a great time doing it.”

Amy Roy Gratton, University of Alberta Career Centre; Sarah Suchotzky and Andrea Eriksson, Canadian International Council The Canadian International Council and the University of Alberta Career Centre invite you to explore the art of a career in international affairs in how we create meaningful personal connections and advance international relations.

This interactive event allows you to rotate through different tables and talk with each mentor about their career development stories and strategies.

Capacity is limited to 80 participants and registration is required at goo.gl/UFkG2y.

It’s futile to try to rush the river, and pretty hard to hurry the moon, and sometimes you have to be content to plant good seeds whenever you can and be patient as you watch them grow and ripen. Thinking about my early attempts to be effective, I can say that in my lifetime things have not changed nearly enough; but when I look back on the last forty years, things have changed incredibly and I have great faith that the world will continue to ripen.

-Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator

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Friday February 2

11:00 - 11:50 am Telus Centre 131 Uganda: Handicraft & Livelihoods (DIY bracelets)

12:00 - 12:50 pm Education Centre South 262 Instagram, Wild Law and Environmental Justice

2:00 - 2:50 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 2-190 Recite the Truth Muslim Students’ Association

Shelby Chau, Community Initiative for Integrated Rural Development

Michelle Hawks and Carrie Karsgaard, Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER)

Boonaa Mohammed, spoken word artist

Mother’s Creations was formed by mostly widowed mothers located in Kasaana, a remote village in Uganda. After struggling with poverty and sometimes sleeping on an empty stomach, they formed this group to face life in a positive way. They produce fine handmade beads from waste paper and magazines; transforming them into unique bracelets. This session will also enable you to design and create your own Mother’s Creations bracelet.

This interactive workshop will explore the links between the art of the selfie and its impact on our understandings of environmental justice as an aspect of being a global citizen. Through the viewing of various selfies of Spirit Island, participants will have the opportunity to learn about wild law, environmental justice, and the ethical considerations of nature photography and selfies on Instagram, including how these ideas relate to being a global citizen.

1:00 - 1:50 pm Telus Centre 134 Documenting Activism: A Practical Guide for Organizers

NOON GROOVE

12:00 - 1:00 pm SUB Stage, Students’ Union Building Connected Beyond the Known

Paula E. Kirman, Radical Citizen Media This session will educate and empower organizers and activists in documenting the social movements around them. Award-winning journalist and activist Paula E. Kirman will explore techniques of social media, photography, and video, as well as how to use digital media and communications to organize and make community connections.

The sacred elements of life are at the epicenter of the enduring art forms. Canadian Indigenous dancers, multicultural musicians, and spoken word artists will be the icing on the fantastic week of performances. With Indigenous Dancers, the Indian Music Academy, and featuring Anthony of Egypt (Anton Côté Iorga), a two-spirited, multiethnic, Ph.D. candidate and decolonial teacher at UAlberta; a hip-hop/spoken word artist and activist who creates safe spaces for marginalized and gifted youth.

3:00 - 4:20 pm Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-472 Design Thinking for Social Change Melissa Bui, Abygail Berg and Christen Oakes, Inclusion by Design Your cell phone, the clothing you’re wearing, the furniture you’re using, and the space you’re currently in were all created by design… but what happened behind the scenes for this all to exist?

Join us for an informational and engaging session where we uncover design processes and how they can be used to create an understanding of the world which surrounds us, as well as to foster social change.

UAlberta’s Certificate in International Learning is a certificate for undergraduate students with a big worldview.

A joint initiative of University of Alberta International and the Faculty of Arts

Why enroll?

• Get recognition for your international knowledge and skills • Expand your worldview and gain knowledge in global issues • Develop intercultural communication skills • Showcase your international and crosscultural experiences • Stand out to employers and graduate schools

Who can participate?

You can participate if you are studying in an undergraduate degree at UAlberta in any program and faculty.

What’s involved?

You complete the CIL alongside your regular program of study. Apply as soon as possible – before you have completed all of the requirements. The CIL program is designed to be flexible and is based on a combination of coursework and extracurricular involvement.

For full details, application deadlines, and to register visit globaled.ualberta.ca/CIL

Anthony of Egypt

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Have you wondered what labeling a religion of a billion people does to young individuals?

It suffocates their voices and leaves few or no platforms on which they can be heard. Join Boonaa Mohammed on a journey through the truth, the pain, and the fight. How is that when everything seems unjust and wrong, some still manage to get the message across?

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Saturday February 3

5:00 - 6:30 pm Telus Centre Atrium Top Thirty Under Thirty Alberta Council for Global Cooperation

1:00 - 5:00 pm Telus Centre Atrium and 150

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The Alberta Council for Global Cooperation will launch the 7th Annual Top 30 Under 30 publication and award featuring 30 exemplary young people from Alberta and around the world. This event will celebrate and showcase the recipients and their contributions in partnering towards the Sustainable Development Goals, including I-Week keynote speaker, Daniel Arzola.

RSVP at uab.ca/iweek.

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Islamic Relief UAlberta Join this event to hear Muslim voices - through visual arts, poetry, fashion and more. For further details: facebook.com/islamicreliefualberta

KEYNOTE 7:00 - 9:00 pm Telus Centre 150

Artivism

Daniel Arzola

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives.

Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Sponsored by the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation, APIRG, The Landing, the Faculty of Arts Student Life and Learning Enrichment Fund and the Global Education Program Learn the differences between activism and “artivism” and how to defend ideas in realities where being who you are is dangerous. Take a brief tour through the history of social art in different formats and learn about the impact of art as a tool for social transformation. Daniel Arzola poses art as an instrument of nonviolent action in contexts of high social conflict and censure.

Get your free tickets at uab.ca/iweek Daniel Arzola is a Venezuelan artist and defender of human rights, known worldwide for popularizing the term “artivism”, art as a form of activism. Daniel created the first viral LGBT campaign against homophobia in Latin America, “No Soy Tu Chiste” (I Am Not a Joke), a series of 50 posters which spread worldwide and was translated into 20 languages. This campaign earned him a special mention in the 2013 Human Rights Award of the Canadian Embassy in Venezuela. He received the 2016 Human Rights Award of the International Queer and Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam and his work was featured at the 2017 Logo Trailblazer Honors. Daniel has also received recognition from renowned artists such as Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and Tittus Burgess. As a result of experiencing a violent attack and death threats in Venezuela, Daniel now lives in Chile.

-Salvador Dali, Spanish artist

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I-Week at Campus St. Jean Lundi 29 janvier 2018

Jeudi 1er février 2018

Samedi 3 février 2017

12 h 00 à 13 h 00 Hall d’entrée du Pavillon McMahon Cérémonie de lever des drapeaux et exposition des pays dans les couloirs du CSJ

À partir de 18 h Grand Salon du Pavillon Lacerte et Auditorium du Pavillon McMahon Soirée interculturelle de l’EUMC

Salle Marcelle et Louis Desrochers (Le grand salon) Pavillon Lacerte Les saveurs d’Afrique (Taste of Africa)

Cette cérémonie solennelle marque le début de la semaine internationale au Campus Saint-Jean.

Au cours de celle-ci, les étudiants internationaux ont l’opportunité de revêtir leurs vêtements traditionnels et de porter fièrement leurs drapeaux. La cérémonie célébrera la diversité culturelle du Campus Saint-Jean qui comprend pas moins de dix-huit pays. Le lever des drapeaux sera accompagné par le chant d’un représentant de la Chorale Saint-Jean et suivi d’un discours du doyen, Pierre-Yves Mocquais.

À l’occasion de la semaine internationale, l’Entraide universitaire mondiale du Canada (EUMC) vous concocte encore une fois une expérience inoubliable. Au programme de la soirée, qui débutera à 19h00 à l’Auditorium, des performances artistiques des étudiants du Campus Saint Jean : chant, danses qui vont garder collés à vos sièges. Avant ce beau spectacle, retrouvez nous à 18h00 pour un buffet interculturel qui régalera vos papilles au Grand Salon.

African Students’ Association vous invite à venir déguster des saveurs africaines à vous envoûter les papilles.

Mercredi 31 janvier 2018 Projection du film ‘Home’ - collations gratuites

‘Home’ est un documentaire sur l’État de la Terre, vue du ciel, qui montre la pression que l’homme fait subir à l’environnement et les conséquences que cela entraîne sur le changement climatique. Yann Arthus-Bertrand ne le présente pas comme un film catastrophe, mais comme un message d’espoir, en rappelant qu’il reste 10 ans pour agir. Les thèmes abordés sont tous en relation avec l’environnement : le manque d’eau, la déforestation, la fonte des glaces ou encore l’épuisement des ressources naturelles.

Good art provides … people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate.

-Mos Def, American hip hop artist

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Art by I-Week guest Daniel Arzola. Check out Daniel’s workshop on Thursday, February 1 and his keynote on Friday, February 2.