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SUMMARY:Water Advisory Launch
DESCRIPTION:Water Advisory! poster FINAL \nGreat Lake Waterworks @ New College is pleased to be a co-sponsor of WATER ADVISORY! \nExhibition Timeline: March 3 – 25\, 2018. \nOfficial Opening: Sunday\, March 4\, 2018. \nWater Advisory! is an exhibition of art by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists that will illustrate the current disconnection between society and water. Water Advisory! calls us with urgency to reestablish our right relationship with water. \nCo-Curators: \nCrystal Sinclair—Water Warrior\, Indigenous Artist\, Activist with Idle No More Toronto\nRochelle Rubinstein—Artist\, Environmental Activist\, Community Arts Facilitator \nThe exhibition will run from March 3 – 25\, 2018. This coincides with Canada Water Week (March 20 – 27) and World Water Day(March 22). Loop Gallery is an artist run gallery located at 1273 Dundas St. W. Toronto. \nThe official opening will be Sunday\, March 4\, 1p.m. to 4p.m. Hosting conversations with the artists and a performance by Test Their Logik. *This is an alcohol-free event. \nWater Advisory! Is an initiative of Wellington Water Watchers Campaign to phase out permits to bottle water in Ontario. To help spread the word and alert others about your attendance RSVP here! \nFor more information:  416-516-2581\ninfo@loopgallery.ca\nwww.loopgallery.ca
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/water-advisory-launch/
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SUMMARY:Rivers\, Ravines\, Resilience\, Resurgence
DESCRIPTION:Rivers\, Ravines\, Resilience\, Resurgence\nEvery Saturday in March.\n@ 11:00AM – 4:30PM.\n  \nTake a Field Trip every Saturday in March to learn about Toronto’s lost history with rivers and ravines and the relationships to who we are and who we aspire to be. Lunch is provided before the fieldtrip. This program is FREE and includes orientation\, guided tour and transport to and from the site. \nRegister now! *Preference is given to New College Students\, followed by U of T students. \nNew College/U of T students are chronicling their trips by feeding photos into the Instagram Feed for Dan Berman’s film ACCIDENTAL PARKLAND.  Follow their journey this month!  \n@accidental_parkland account on Instagram and @TO_Ravines on Twitter \nSelect images from the Instagram feed\, from New College/U of T students and other photographers\, will be exhibited at New College during the CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL\, May 10-20\, 2018. \nAlso to be exhibited:  \n*photographs of a beaded Great Lakes Map created by students at First Nations School working with  artist Amber Smith and landscape architect Sheila Boudreau (TRCA) \n*Images from projects by students at the Daniels School of Architecture and Planning (Alissa North’s course on Rivers and Ravines). \nUpcoming trips: \nSATURDAY\, MARCH 17th\, 2018 \nToronto Aboriginal Eco-Tours w/ Alan Colley \nWith the mighty Humber River as our backdrop\, Alan Colley and Toronto Aboriginal Eco Tours will connect ritual\, ceremony\, and the arts and lead us on a deeper understanding of the river and the land\, historical and contemporary. Toronto Aboriginal Eco Tours is a liaison of Aboriginal culture and environmental understanding provided by nature guide Alan Colley. Their mission is to create a sustainable relationship with Toronto\, Turtle Island (North America) and Mother Earth for generations to come. They help people nurture connections to the natural\, sacred spaces of Toronto. \nSATURDAY\, MARCH 24th\, 2018 \nLost Rivers/Rivers Rising w/ Helen Mills and Sabina Ali\, Chair\, Thorncliffe Park Women’s Committee \nLost Rivers reconnects people with the social and environmental history of the city\, and the way that human and natural systems interact in their own backyards. Rivers Rising explores Lost River Watershed communities to capture and share stories where food\, water\, history and cultures intersect. Students can even join the River Rising team. This trip will particularly touch on the historical role of women in water walks\, women and leadership\,  and contemporary question of new immigrants to this land. \nCentral question: How is the city haunted by the rivers that were buried?
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/rivers-ravines-resilience-resurgence/
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SUMMARY:downstream:  reimagining water relations through interdisciplinary writing and Indigenous perspectives A discussion between writers and scholars Lee Maracle\, Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian
DESCRIPTION:Great Lakes Waterworks 2017-2018 Discussion Series @New College\, University of Toronto \ndownstream:  \nreimagining water relations through interdisciplinary writing and Indigenous perspectivesA discussion between writers and scholars Lee Maracle\, Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian \nWhen:  January 25\, 2017|6:30 p.m-8:30 p.m. \nWhere: Wilson Lounge @New College\, University of Toronto\, 40 Willcocks St \nJoin us for a talk with renowned Canadian writers and scholars Lee Maracle\, Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian as they discuss their collection downstream: reimagining water (2016). Moderated by York University geographer Chaya Ocampo Go\, the authors and editors of this book will discuss their collaborative work and the possibilities that interdisciplinary writing practices and Indigenous perspectives offer to reimagine our relationships to water. \nAbout downstream: Growing out of a conference organized by Lee Maracle\, on Imagining Asian and Native Women\, downstream brings together artists\, scientists\, writers\, Elders\, environmentalists\, scholars\, and activists to focus on cultivating peaceful and creative cultures that foreground water as a builder of relationships. \nRefreshments will be served. Questions? Contact justin.langille@mail.utoronto.ca \nAbout the Authors and Moderator \nDorothy Christian Cucw-la7 is a visual storyteller who is from the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations of BC. Ms. Christian completed her PhD in early 2017 at UBC’s Department of Educational Studies. Her dissertation “Gathering Knowledge: Visual Storytellers & Indigenous Storywork” links land\, story and cultural protocols. Publications include chapters in Thinking with Water (2013)\, Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity (2011) and Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous and non-Indigenous Relationships (2010).” \nLee Maracle is the Traditional Teacher in Residence at the University of Toronto First Nations House and author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works. She is also co-editor of a number of anthologies including the award-winning My Home as I Remember and Telling It: Women and Language across Culture. She is published worldwide. Maracle was born in North Vancouver and is a member of the Sto:Loh nation. \nRita Wong learns from and with water as an (un)settler living on unceded Coast Salish Territories\, who has responsibilities to build better relationships than colonization could imagine. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and has written four books of poetry-mokeypuzzle\, forage\, sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai)\, and undercurrent. \nChaya Ocampo Go is a transnational Filipina scholar whose work is a commitment to life and resurgence in ravaged ecologies-communities at the front lines of the climate crisis. She is currently a PhD student at York University’s Geography Department\, and a research fellow for the Citizens’ Disaster Response Centre in the Philippines.
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SUMMARY:Writing Water Futures:  Ceremonies and Science Fiction Readings and conversations with Nina Munteanu and Gwen Benaway two Toronto-based writers exploring the meaning of water in their work
DESCRIPTION:Great Lakes Waterworks Discussion Series 2017-2018\, @ New College\n \nWriting Water Futures:  \nCeremonies and Science Fiction\nReadings and conversations with Nina Munteanu and Gwen Benaway two Toronto-based writers exploring the meaning of water in their work\n \nWhen: December 07\, 2017|6:30-8:30 p.m \n \nWhere: The Atrium@New College\, University of Toronto\, 45 Willcocks St\n \nJoin us for readings and conversation between Gwen Benaway and Nina Munteanu\, two Toronto-based writers exploring the meaning of water in their works. University of Toronto anthropologist Kristen Bos will moderate a discussion between Munteanu and Benaway on their process and the significance of creative writing about the meaning of water today. This is part of the Great Lakes Waterworks discussion series. \n \nGwen Benaway will read from her 2015 book Passage\, her second collection of poetry. \n \nThis Magazine writes: In this book\, award-winning poet Gwen Benaway journeys through ancestral and geographic origins\, trauma history\, and gender identity. Broken into five sections named after the Great Lakes\, the poems within Passage are a testament to Benaway’s survival: of violence\, of rejection\, of being treated recklessly. Through grief\, loss\, exile\, and absence\, Benaway asserts that there is no right way to hold hurt—though there are quite brilliant\, evocative ways to write about it. Benaway does just that.\n \nNina Munteanu will read from her 2016 book Water Is… The Meaning of Water….\nPart history\, part science and part philosophy and spirituality\, "Water Is..." combines personal journey with scientific discovery that explores water's many "identities" and ultimately our own. Water\, she writes\, is magic\, life\, motion\, communication\, memory\, rhythm\, beauty\, story\, prayer\, wisdom and joy.\n \n \nAbout the authors\n \nGwen Benaway is a trans girl poet of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published two collections of poetry\, Ceremonies for the Dead and Passage\, and her third collection\, Holy Wild\, is forthcoming from BookThug in 2018. She has received many distinctions and awards\, including the Dayne Ogilvie Honour of Distinction for Emerging Queer Authors from the Writer's Trust of Canada. Her poetry and essays have been published in national publications and anthologies\, including The Globe and Mail\, Maclean's Magazine\, CBC Arts\, and many others. \n \nNina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist and internationally published novelist of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to eight published novels\, Nina has written award-nominated short stories\, articles and non-fiction books\, which have been translated into several languages throughout the world. Recognition for her work includes the Midwest Book Review Reader’s Choice Award\, finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award\, the SLF Fountain Award\, and The Delta Optimist Reviewers Choice. Nina regularly publishes reviews and essays in magazines such as The New York Review of Science Fiction and Strange Horizons.\n \nAbout the moderator\n \nKristen Bos is a Métis archaeologist\, anthropologist\, activist\, and researcher of Indigenous material culture. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship and the President’s Award for Outstanding Native Student of the Year. She is also the lab manager for the Technoscience Research Unit and the T.A. trainer for the Social Sciences at the Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation. Her research engages with the material culture of the Métis\, Indigenous feminism\, and settler colonial studies with an emphasis on decolonizing methodologies and transgressing disciplinary boundaries.
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LOCATION:New College\, 40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The People’s Great Lakes Summit 2.0
DESCRIPTION:People who care about the waters and wetlands of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence River Basin will be gathering for The People’s Great Lakes Summit 2.0\, a workshop for Canadian individuals and organizations that are interested in Ontario’s water-related policies on November 13-14\, 2017 in Toronto. If you are interested\, please register by Tuesday\, October 31\, 2017 using this form: https://goo.gl/forms/nfIf1HDLRbLSIvX03 \nSpaces for The People’s Great Lakes Summit 2.0 are limited\, so register early! There is no conference fee. We also expect to be able to provide some travel support\, if needed. We ask that you limit registration to 2 people per organization for now. If there are more than 2 people interested in attending from your organization\, please let us know. \nThe People’s Great Lakes Summit 2.0 is a follow-up on a Summit hosted on May 17\, 2017. The full report of the May Summit is available for download here: http://www.cela.ca/peoples-great-lakes-summit. \nEven if you weren’t able to attend the May Summit\, you are welcome to attend in November! Please forward this message to anyone that you believe might be interested. \nPreliminary itinerary:\nNovember 13 – please plan to arrive in Toronto in the morning\nNovember 13 –12noon-4:30pm – lunch and afternoon plenary sessions\nNovember 13 – ~5pm-9pm – reception and dinner\, networking event\nNovember 14 – 8:30am-4:30pm – light breakfast\, followed by both plenary and concurrent workshops\, lunch included\nWe anticipate having a draft agenda and additional materials available shortly. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact Anastasia: anastasia@cela.ca or 647-705-7564 or Natalija: natalija.m.fisher@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/the-peoples-great-lakes-summit-2-0/
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SUMMARY:Honouring Josephine Mandamin
DESCRIPTION:New College is honoured to host this event\, a celebration\, recognition event\, and a feast\, for and with Grandmother Josephine Mandamin. It’s open to the community; All are welcome\, but you are asked to reserve a seat. \nSee details below and attached poster. \nHonouring Josephine Mandamin\nA Recognition Celebration for All Her Work for Nibi and Creation \nWhere: William Doo Auditorium\, New College\, University of Toronto\, 45 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, Ontario \nWhen: Saturday\, November 11\, 2017\, 2:00pm-5:00pm\nMC: Edward George \nItinerary: \nOpening Remarks \nJingle Dress Healing Dance \nGimaa Duke Peltier \nAutumn Monague \nGift Honouring Maurice Switzer \nClosing Remarks and Nibi Song \nCatered Feast \nNo cost\, all welcome\, limited seating. \nContacts: \nCrystal Osawamick\nTel: (705) 923-4227 \nEmail: info@maawnjidmi.com \nEdward George\nTel: (519) 691-6791 \nEmail: waasekom@icloud.com
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/honouring-josephine-mandamin/
LOCATION:New College\, 40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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