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SUMMARY:Weaving Connections: Extractive Colonialism in Africa & Call for Submissions: "Nature Speaks in Every Language" Poetry Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Weaving Connections: Extractive Colonialism in Africa\nThis discussion hosted by UTM Student Association for Geography & Environment centres Extractive Colonialism in Africa\, and how legacies of colonialism\, imperialism\, and the greed for natural resources causes instability and environmental injustice (amongst many other issues) within different countries in Africa. \nDate: Friday\, November 7th\, from 3pm to 6pm \nLocation: 1867 Inner Cir Rd\, Mississauga\, ON L5L 1C6 in room DV3130 \nRSVP: here \nCall for Submissions: “Nature Speaks in Every Language” Poetry Exhibition\nThis exhibition is a great way for students who enjoy writing and poetry to showcase their talents. This exhibition aims to celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity through poetry.\nWe are currently asking for students who are interested to submit their work to our Google Form linked below. If your work is accepted\, it will be displayed for our exhibition on November 19 and 20 in MN (North Reception). \nAdditionally\, students who submit their work will automatically be considered to have their work featured in Folia and selected poems may be featured in The Medium! \nDate: Submissions due November 14th\, 2025 \nFill out the form: here!
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LOCATION:William G. Davis Building\, 1867 Inner Cir Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Standing Together for the Land - Taking on Bill 5
DESCRIPTION:Join this film screening and public discussion hosted by Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence (LAND) and Okiniwak. Hear from Indigenous youth organizers from Attawapiskat together with allies from as we raise awareness and solidarity to protect the land\, honour Treaty promises\, and stop Bill 5.\n\n\nEvent Details\nDate: Nov 18 from 7pm to 9pm EST\nLocation: CSI – 192 Spadina Avenue (Suite 101 Toronto\, ON M5T 3A4)\nRSVP: here (Tickets by donation – Space is Limited!)\n\n\n\nAbout the Event from LAND\nYou’re invited to join Ramon Kataquapit\, founder of the Indigenous Youth movement Okiniwak\, and Kerrie Blaise\, founder of LAND for an evening of sharing\, discussion and solidarity as together\, we work to stop Bill 5 and protect the Attawapiskat River.Learn about ongoing efforts against Bill 5\, including grassroots organizing and litigation\, and enjoy our new short film featuring faces and stories form the lands and waters in Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario where the Ring of Fire is proposed.\nFollow @naturesdefence\, @mahegkan\, @okiniwak on Instagram!
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/standing-together-for-the-land-taking-on-bill-5/
LOCATION:Centre for Social Innovation – Suite 101 Toronto\, 192 Spadina Avenue\, Toronto\, Ontario\, ON M5T 3A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetics of Water II: LA DERNIÈRE GOUTTE
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Classics\, Cinema Studies Institute\, Department of Art History\, and Centre for Medieval Studies for Poetics of Water II: La Dernière Goutte. \nDate: December 6th\, 2025 (9:30 AM – 6:15 PM)\nLocation: Lillian Massey 312\,125 Queen’s Park\nRSVP: Drop-in! No RSVP required \nAbout the Event \n9:30-9:45: Welcome \n\nJames Cahill and Victoria Wohl\n\n  \n9:45-11:00: ‘Writ in Water’: Like a Lagoon \n\nCarol Mavor\n\n  \n11:15-12:30: Seeing Water: Histories of Place\, Landscape\, and Self \n\nRobert Burley\nBonnie Devine\nSherry Lee (Moderator)\n\n  \n2:00-3:15: Talking Water: Conversations in Process \n\nJane Wolff\n\n  \n3:30-4:45: Water Gathering with Ziibii (Credit River): Decolonizing Municipal and Provincial Understandings of Lands\, Parks and Rivers \n\nBonnie McElhinny\nGiidaakunadaad (The Spirit Who Lives in High Places)\, Nancy Rowe\n\n  \n5:00-6:15: Water\, Given Time \n\nSarah Nooter
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/poetics-of-water-ii-la-derniere-goutte/
LOCATION:LILLIAN MASSEY 312\, 125 QUEEN’S PARK DECEMBER 6\, 2025
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SUMMARY:Protecting Water\, Defending Land: Intersectional Justice Forum
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: Frontlines of Indigenous-Led Movements ~ Presentations & Panel Discussion\n5:30 – 7PM\, William Doo Auditorium. Doors open at 5PM! \n\nIndigenous-led and allied movements are fighting for a more just future for all life\, working to hold a frontline most of us will never see\, in defence of the lands and waters we all depend on locally and globally. \nBringing together diverse movements connected by their resistance of the ongoing colonial project\, this event features Indigenous and allied voices who will explore the changing frontlines of social and environmental activism. Speakers include Eve Saint (8th Fire Rising)\, Ramon Kataquapit (Okiniwak)\, members of Atelie Mukambu (Brazil)\, and Grassy Narrows Solidarity. \n          🌊 Learn about Indigenous water and land defence movements \n          🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Expand your personal activist & ally network \n          🙋🏽‍♀️ Discover opportunities to get involved where you are \nHow are we all connected to these struggles? How does Canada empower harm and what role do we have in changing its course? What are frontline and allied leaders seeing that we can learn from? Where is the road of solidarity taking us? Let’s dive in to learn and explore together. \n  \nPart 2: Social Mixer ~ Deepening Community Connections\n7 – 8:30PM\, William Doo Auditorium \n\nAfter the panel\, attendees are invited to share food\, drinks\, and conversation as we work to build community in Toronto toward a more just future for all. \n          🎁 Exciting prizes from Patagonia Toronto \n          🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Featured Toronto NGO & grassroots groups \n          🍕 Food\, drinks\, and great company! \nThis event is co-hosted by Water Watchers and Mining Injustice Solidarity Network\, with support in part by the Women & Gender Studies Institute Community Knowledge Alliance Fund and special thanks to Dr. Bonnie McElhinny for her contributions.
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LOCATION:William Doo Auditorium\, 45 Willcocks St\, New College\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Race and Nature Symposium 2026
DESCRIPTION:Register for the inaugural Race and Nature to be held in Mississauga\, Canada. The theme\, Mapping the Intersection of Race and Nature in Challenging Times\, examines how race shapes the ways nature is perceived\, accessed\, and experienced. \nDate: Monday 26\, October 2026 (8am – 6pm)  \nLocation: MN – Maanjiwe Nendamowinan Building\, UTM \nRSVP: Here \nRace & Nature Collective have organized an impressive line up of speakers with a wealth of knowledge\, experience and stories. Their voices are critical in these challenging times to provide direction and pathways to move forward with hope. \nAs global social and environmental conditions continue to shift\, dominant paradigms around nature are being re-examined. At the same time\, persistent race-based inequities influence who is able to access\, control\, and manage natural spaces\, and whose knowledge and relationships are recognised and valued. The demographic shift in Canada highlights the disconnect between being a multi-racial society and who has access to nature. \nChildhood access to nature shapes future perceptions of nature. About a third of children and youth in Canada are racialised\, Black\, Indigenous\, or are first- or second-generation immigrants. In Toronto\, this rises to about half of the youth population. If these children and youth are alienated from nature\, have limited access to nature programming\, or rarely see themselves represented in nature\, it makes it more challenging for them to care about or protect nature. The symposium will critically engage these race-and-nature challenges by centering the voices and lived experiences of Black and other racialised communities. It is the first such event to bring these groups together in Canada. The symposium is for scholars\, educators\, practitioners\, and community leaders from diverse backgrounds\, and others who are interested. \nSub-themes in race and nature: K-12 education\, food\, art\, health\, climate and social justice\, climate mitigation\, sustainability\, Indigenous relations\, funding. \nRace & Nature Collective Website\n 
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/race-and-nature-symposium-2026/
LOCATION:University of Toronto\, Mississauga
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