IN THE WAY / OUT OF THE WAY 5TH SYMPOSIUM

5th Symposium on Reconciliation and the Arts 2019
Hear from Coast Salish and settler artists and policy workers about their experience navigating this time and space. See how good intentions, performing reconciliation, and territorial acknowledgement gestures miss solutions needed to get out of the way of Coast Salish cultural sovereignty.
VIDEO REPORT FROM OUR 5TH SYMPOSIUM HELD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 AT 312 MAIN STREET.
00:01 Welcoming with Tasha-Faye Evans
01:30 Irwin Oostindie, Opening Remarks
10:30-0:48:20 The State of Reconciliation and Redress with David Ng and Irwin Oostindie
30:40 Maynard Thii Hayqwtun Johnny Jr.
38:45 Siobhan Barker
48:20 Coast Salish Sovereignty Panel with Ronnie Dean Harris, Brandon George, Cease Wyss and Tasha-Faye Evans. Moderated by Irwin Oostindie. Talking about Coast Salish cultural resurgence.
2:11:20 Donna Clark - what choices am i making through unlearning and taking action?
2:24:30 Accomplices not Bystanders
2:26:30 Heather Lamoureaux & Lianne Payne working thru Organisational Change. Organisational Inventories: How are our HR, programming, operations, and budgets can be better aligned to support redress and Coast Salish sovereignty.
This is the fifth year Vancouver Moving Theatre / Heart of the City Festival and Salish Coast LIVE are collaborating... and this year we're going bigger with a full day! Every year it sells out in advance so don't wait til the last minute.
Make time in your life for a unique symposium for cultural workers to place colonial redress in their practice. Pam Palmater describes reconciliation as “fluff”, so how can redress bring change to the economic dominance of settler culture in Vancouver?
Despite baby steps at reconciliation, settler culture continues to overwhelming dominate the region financially and structurally. Let’s talk about place-based commitments settlers and migrants can make personally, organizationally, and collectively as a sector. Today’s sessions are structured for deeper learning through a mix of panel discussions and plenty of small group discussions. We believe in decolonizing Vancouver’s arts community and recognize this is both an unlearning process individually, as well as work to inventory our organisations in order to then enable making change as a sector. Last year we realized it takes time to get past the individual work for settlers and migrants, and so we've added time to do more! Just a note of context, this training is of course welcoming (and most importantly) accountable to Coast Salish People, and is framed towards unpacking the settler privilege, not for general dialogue on reconciliation. There are lots of "reconciliation dialogues" in Vancouver already, and this is about redress, and specific to settlers and migrants getting out of the way, not in the way.
Bring your questions, your inventories, your successes, and your challenges!
VIDEOS from previous year's events:
Making Coast Salish Territorial Acknowledgements Matter
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We just put this one up: "Reconciliation and the Arts in Vancouver, 2018" www.youtube.co....