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Intersections: A Dialogue Series

Wednesdays
Sept 28 - Nov 9, 2022
7 - 9pm 
'ZOOM' IN

Intersections: A Dialogue Series

  • Engage with Challenging Racist ‘British Columbia’: 150 Years and Counting (CRBC).
    - Produced for the commemorations of 150 years since BC joined Canada
    - Multimedia resources documents demonstrate how anti-racist activism in B.C.  is part of the broader history of challenging white supremacy for over 150 years by
    Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities.

    - This 7 Week Series brings people together in intentional conversations to:       
    • encounter our collective past;
    • locate ourselves as participants in the ongoing story of this place;
    • explore how to respond faithfully to the truths we find together.

Trained moderators offer each week information covered in the CRBC project, via
                    video, song, prayer, self-refection exercises, readings & group discussions.

Let us participate with God in
restoring creation, and
affirming the dignity of all people.

Outline:

  • Session 1: Introduction. 
    Introduces pedagogy and content for the series.

  • Session 2: Land, Language, Treaty. 
    Highlights the interconnection of land, language and the treaties
    that were signed, or not, in the process of colonization.

  • Session 3: Residential ‘school’ System. 
    Explores the legacy of residential ‘schools’,
    and the implications for us today.

  • Session 4: Restrictive immigration. 
    Unpacks the ways in which the provincial government restricted
    immigration from racial groups, other than white European, and
    engages some contemporary statistics for reflection.

  • Session 5: Japanese internment. 
    Revisits the response from Canadian authorities to Japanese Canadians during
    WWII, and anti-Asian racism as it is experienced today.

  • Session 6: Black experiences. 
    In the shadow of the Black Lives Matter movement, this session seeks to expose the experience of Black people in the province, both historically and in contemporary BC.

  • Session 7: Where to from here? 
    This session will complete the "Dialogue" series.
    It is the beginning of our next steps on this journey.

30 Participants Max

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