February 2012
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Creative Workshops Postponed for a week!
Unfortunately, due to illness, this workshop series will be starting on Monday March 5th, and NOT Feb 27. If you would like to attend, but haven’t yet applied, please send an email to: shaunga@cassa.on.ca
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to Our Elders
FREE workshops for self-identified youth of colour and Indigenous youth
Monday evenings, 5-8pm || March 5 - Apr 9, 2012
Including...
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Legacies of the Komagata Maru
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to Our Elders *FREE 6-week creative workshop series for self-identified youth of colour, Indigenous and mixed-race youth!
*Application Deadline: Feb 23, 2012, 5pm
*If you are unable to fill the application before the deadline, but still wish to check out the workshops, you can register at first workshop, or by phone. If you plan to attend, please send...
looking for community animators - Brown Canada...
Brown Canada is a 2-year comprehensive South Asian history project that seeks to document and create history from a diverse range of perspectives that fall under the ‘South Asian’ umbrella. During this project, we will be creating a comprehensive website with photos, videos and articles, creative and digital storytelling workshops, resource booklets, a DVD, as well as a memorial website and...
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Kids of Color and the New American Whitewashing →
“Because I so rarely saw black characters in books when I was a child, I learned to relate to protagonists who didn’t look like me — but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t identify with their struggles, triumphs, etc. It did mean, however, that I started to erase aspects of myself when I read — I couldn’t consciously be black and read a lot of those books because then I’d realize there was no place...
