Please complete this form with your name, email. This will register you for the conference (and food).  In addition, we are asking for pre registration to the saturday afternoon workshops because there are limited spaces. Registration will be done on a first come first serve basis. Here is a description of the saturday afternoon events.  

Community workshops
Pre registration necessary, sign up HERE

Coast Salish Drum-making  
MAC D107
Facilitator: Wade Charlie, Coast Salish Artist
Time: 10:30am-5:00pm
Cost: $50 cash day of (if budget permits this will be further subsidized. please contact organizers if price is an issue)
Make a traditional Coast Salish drum! The workshop will begin with a presentation on land based connections followed by preparing and creating a drum. This full day workshop offers participants the opportunity to connect with the spirit of drum-making. Participants keep their drum. Maximum 12 participants.


Social Justice Walking Tour
Meet at MAC D105 travel downtown together (bus)
Facilitator: Rose Henry
Time: 13:00 – 17:00
Free

Join us for a walking tour of downtown Victoria from a social justice perspective. Insights include criminalization of the homelessness and an urban art tour. This is an experiential tour. Maximum 20 participants.


Ross Bay Cemetery tour
Meet at MAC D109 travel downtown together (bus)
Facilitator:  Fern Perkins
Time: 13:00-16:00
Free

Fern Perkins is the Métis, triple granddaughter of Isabella Mainville Ross and HBC Chief Trader, Charles Ross, who supervised the building of Fort Victoria.  Fern provides tours at Ross Bay Cemetery, the remnant of her grandmother’s farm. This tour will include graves of the Hudson Bay Company Métis families that established Fort Victoria along with First Nations Chiefs and other peoples who were affected by the colonization of BC and the local region.  Fern is a professional educator who has taught in Canada and the US. She coordinates the Métis Education Enhancement Program for the Greater Victoria Métis Nation in local elementary and secondary schools. Maximum 25 participants.


What the bearded lady said: Metissage & the art of weaving our gendered selves together.
Mac D101
Facilitators: Lindsay Cavanaugh & Rachel Lallouz
Time: 13:00 – 15:00
Free

Come one, come all: Queer, Straight, Asexual, Intersex, Trans*, Cis and Non-Conforming folk! Let’s examine our great societal gender dichotomy. This creative-resistance workshop will invite participants to recall, rewrite, and reclaim hegemonic, popularized narratives about gender and sexuality.  Our writing workshop seeks to raise consciousness about the diversity of gender identities and sexualities. We aim to confront and transform internalized gender stories. Writing is a personal and social process that has the power to reshape the ways we think and talk about ourselves and our identities.  Through play with genderized props and various writing exercises, we will tease out our own experiences of gender and sexuality, forming a new, collaborative and complex story.  This story, which is far from singular, will take the form of métissage — an active literary site merging texts, identities, and strategies of resistance. The individual products of our activities will be melded together at the conclusion of our workshop to weave a comprehensive group narrative.  Although this workshop will ask participants to write about personal experiences and feelings concerning gender and sexuality, we respect and honour the different ways we can share our stories. Facilitators will do their best to ensure a safe space for those attending at all times. Everyone is welcome. Don’t miss this chance to listen to the bearded lady speak, and speak LOUD. Maximum 20 participants.


Documentary Film: documentary film screening of 'Burnaby Mountain Resistance: How It Went Down' followed by a discussion and/or Q&A
Mac D103
Facilitator: Ja Wicz
13:00-16:00
Part of a nation wide tour to connect with other communities while fundraising for frontline indigenous camps/resistance. Conversations on what we can do in resistance and solidarity. Maximum 40 participants