POSITION: Community Animator, Volunteer

PROJECT: Brown Canada: Documenting and Creating South Asian Histories in Canada

 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF INTEREST, RESEARCH, EXPERIENCE AND MOBILIZATION

 **Bangladeshi **Indo-Caribbean **Indian  **Muslim **Pakistani **Punjabi **Sikh **Tamil **LGBT **Women **Person’s with Disabilities **Labour **Arts/Culture

 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 youth-led play dedicated to exploring histories of the Komagata Maru.

 We are looking to fill several Community Animator positions to be responsible for gathering content and mobilizing interest within a specific South Asian community or theme. These positions will work closely and report to the Project Coordinator.

 Responsibilities:

-act as a liaison between specific community and overall ‘Brown Canada’ project

-research and compile information with regard to specific community/theme

-address particular needs, goals, struggles of specific community/theme

-community outreach and volunteer recruitment/coordination

-coordinate interviews with members of community

-use creative art/media such as video, digital storytelling, and creative writing to educate and raise awareness

-launch an educational campaign through direct community engagement and media

-other administrative duties as assigned

Qualifications:

-interest and/or experience in areas of South Asian history, issues, politics or activism

-enthusiastic about learning and sharing knowledge

-interest in arts, media, research and writing

-ability to work effectively independently and in a group

-good verbal and written communication skills

-knowledge of anti-oppression analysis 

Please send your resume and one-page cover letter indicating area of interest. Please use the cover letter to discuss if you would like to be involved in a subject/community area not already indicated, or if you have interests in the intersections of multiple categories.

Send applications to: hr@cassa.on.ca

Accepting applications until Friday, January 27th, 2012. Please apply early as we will start filling up positions from January 10th, 2012 onward.