9th Symposium on Reconciliation & Redress in the Arts
Speakers include: James Harry, Christie Lee Charles, Cease Wyss, Brandon Gabriel, Tasha Faye Evans, Cory Douglas, Irwin Oostindie, Kamala Todd, and more.
We bring together Coast Salish cultural leaders and accomplices to share lessons, build settler and Indigenous solidarity practices, and create training opportunities for settlers and migrants who seek to practice place-based redress in their arts and culture, urban and land-use planning, and non-profit sector work. This year we will be both online (with a facilitated online Zoom experience) and in-person at Creekside Community Centre for a series of panel discussions. We encourage masking with the current elevated Covid levels, and to assist our immunocomprised collaborators.
SESSIONS OF THE DAY
Session 0 (10-10:30am) - Opening Welcome and Introductions, by Nick George.
Session 1 (10:30 - 11:30am) - Learning from the Land
Session 2 (11:30am - 12:00pm) - What you need to know to activate UNDRIP in your organisation and city
Session 3 (12- 12:45pm) - Lunch & Networking
Activity: Ask your questions to feature in the Toolkit “In the Way / Out of the Way: Toolkit for Redressing Arts in Vancouver”
Educational Display: "Redressing the Commons of the Pioneers"
Session 4 (12:45 - 1:30pm) - Decolonizing Public Art in Vancouver
Session 5 (1:35 - 2:15pm) - Shaping the City: Redress and Urban Planning
Session 6 (2:15-2:45pm) - The face of Coast Salish culture on the land
Session 7 (2:45-3:00pm) - Closing words
Emerging from our series of symposia will be the "In the Way / Out of the Way: Toolkit for Redressing Arts Policy" publication, which encapsulates valuable insights garnered from previous symposiums and aims to mobilize meaningful change within the field.
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Produced by Voor Urban Labs and presented by Coast Salish Culture Network and Vancouver Moving Theatre/DTES Heart of the City Festival, National Urban Indigenous Coalitions Council, with the financial assistance of the Arts, Culture and Community Services Dept of the City of Vancouver, as well as the Vancouver Park Board.