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EVENTS

A listing of recent and upcoming Global College events and other items of interest from our Institutes and community. Click on highlighted listings or scroll down the page.

• November 23: Human Rights in Prison? Prisoners' Rights to HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Care
  
• September 21: EYE on Poverty and Human Rights Youth Summit
  
• June 6:       Winnipeg Run for Rights
• May 30-31: Compassionate Listening Training - Institute of Literacy & Transformative Learning
• May 29-30: Black Women's Festival of Art & Culture
• March-May: Simplicity Practice & Resource Centre : sessions, forums

Click here to see Summer Institute listings.
Click here to review previous Global College events.
Go to Academics for information on courses, workshops, etc.

EYE on Poverty and Human Rights Youth Summit

On September 21, 2009, approximately 200 diverse aboriginal, newcomer and high school youth will come together at the EYE Summit to explore how positive change can be made in their communities. The Summit will be an opportunity for participants from various locations across Manitoba to engage in dialogue by looking through the different lenses of poverty.

Through a series of presentations, workshops, and dialogue sessions, young people will have the opportunity to share and learn from individual activists, community leaders and senior government officials. 

Click HERE for full details

The Global College invites you to a Public Forum on Winnipeg as a Human Rights City.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
7:00pm 8:30pm
Bulman Centre - Lower level of Riddell Hall

Topic of Public Discussion - Can Winnipeg be a human rights city? 

With special guest Renee Vaugeois, executive director of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights will be presenting the Edmonton model of a Human Rights City project. 
There will be a panel of community members responding: 
-  Judith Harris, Faculty of Urban and Inner City Studies,
-  Jim Derksen, founding member and past president of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, and
-  Leslie Spillett, Executive Director, Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc 
-  Chair: Jino Distasio, Director of Institute of Urban Studies

Please bring friends and colleagues for this stimulating and timely dialogue!
For more information please contact the Global College at 204.988.7105 or global.college@uwinnipeg.ca

The The African Youth Summit will be held on May 9th, 2009 in the Bulman Centre,
University of Winnipeg.
For more information please contact Faiza Juhar at faiza_jwh@yahoo.ca

The University of Winnipeg Institute for Women's and Gender Studies invites you to join us at the launch and discussion of Judy Rebick's new book, "Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political." 

Judy Rebick, book launch and discussion
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Mondragon Coffeehouse and Bookstore
91 Albert Street, Winnipeg, MB

This event is co-sponsored with M.S. Citizenship Collective and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Manitoba) and is being generously hosted by Mondragon Coffeehouse and Bookstore.

8TH ANNUAL WINNIPEG RUN FOR RIGHTS

Support social justice and human rights by making a donation or collecting pledges for the participating organizations. You can walk, cycle, run, wheel or rollerblade a 5 km or 10 km route.

Date:           Saturday June 6
Start Time:  9:30 a.m.
Where:        Kildonan Park

See a list of participating organizations and the route map here

To take part in the Run for Rights, you may collect pledges for - or make a donation to - one of the participating organziations. You may also do the same for the Run for Rights as a group, in which case funds are used to support all participating organizations. Everyone is welcome, and there is no minimum donation or pledge required to participate!

Volunteers Needed
If you're unable to take part in the event, but want to get involved, become a race-day volunteer! We are looking for route marshals to help us cheer the runners on and direct runners along the route.

For more information and pledge forms: Call Louise at 204.475.4565
or   email  run4rights@mts.net

Run for Rights is a coalition of diverse organizations working together to organize this event. Each organization is fully independent in undertaking their human rights and social justice work. The strategies and policy positions adopted by participating organizations are not necessarily shared by other coalition members.

"MANITOBA'S EBONY EXPRESSIONS"
Black Women's Festival of Art & Culture
Please join The Congress of Black Women of Canada - Manitoba Chapter, for their first celebratory festival of culture and arts.

Friday May 29, 2009           6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Meet & Greet, with music and displays by local artists. Complimentary appetizers, cash bar.
Saturday May 30, 2009       9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Readings by local writers and poets, film presentation, children's program. Lunch included in pass.

Location:  Winnipeg Winter Club,  200 River Avenue

Festival Pass (Adult/Youth)     $30.00
Children's Program (5-12 yrs)   $15.00

Please contact the Congress office at 775-4378.

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OROMO YOUTH CULTURAL SHOW
A fundraising event for the Khulafa Al-Rashidin Orphanage

Saturday April 25
Starts at 4:00 p.m.
Bulman Centre, The University of Winnipeg

Tickets:  $10 Adults / $5 Children
All proceeds go to the Khulafa Al-Rashidin Orphanage, Oromia, East Africa.
Tickets can be purchased at 997-8400  or at the UWpg Info Booth.

Cultural dances & food, fashion show, poetry, drama, media presentation.
Lots of door prizes!!

Khulafa Al-Rashidin Orphanage, Oromia, East Africa (part of the Ethiopian Empire) is a centre that doubles as an elementary school. It provides free education, school uniforms, and school supplies to those who cannot afford the cost. It promotes literacy and encourages education for the most desititute and vulnerable children of the community. It is now struggling, for lack of funding. Faiza Juhar, a UWpg International Development student, spent  her practicum placement here. She and the Winnipeg Oromo Youth Assoc. are now trying to raise $1400 for the orphanage.

For more information on the orphanage, go to the website of KAROAD

DR. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Speaking about the environment, climate change, politics and his new book "Carbon Shift"

"Thomas Homer-Dixon is one of the best-informed and most brilliant writers on global affairs today."
- The Guardian

Dr. Homer-Dixon is one of the world’s leading experts on the intricate links between nature, technology, and society. An award-winning author and teacher, he shows how challenges such as economic crisis, energy scarcity, global warming, and infoglut affect people, companies, and societies. And he explains what we can all do to adapt and prosper in a world of ever-greater complexity, speed, and surprise.

Co-sponsored by Sierra Club Prairie, McNally Robinson, Global College
McNally Robinson will be selling copies of "Carbon Shift" at the event

WINNIPEG CHILD
Aboriginal & New Immigrant Youth Unite In A Live Stage Performance
About Life On The Streets Of Winnipeg

Five months ago a group of youth walked through the door of Crossing Communities Art Project to learn about Hip Hop.  One day later a few were ready to fight as heated words were exchanged amongst youth from opposing gang neighbourhoods in the city of Winnipeg.  But they didn’t fight each other instead they focused their energy elsewhere.

During the last five months the youth continued to work together six days a week to produce a live half-hour stage performance about their lives and dreams for the first time.  The performance showcases several rap songs, spoken word, dance and visual art projections about life in Peg city that is guided by mentoring artists from Winnipeg and Montreal. The youth’s program lyrics and art are insightful, honest and raw.  The rap songs include a response to the story of an Aboriginal man being beat on New Year’s Eve and a Newcomer’s perspective on what it is like to come to Canada from Kyrgyzstan and know hunger on both sides of the sea.

The two performances highlight the talent of ten young men & women from low-income neighbourhoods in Winnipeg.  The combination of voices that set the stage range in age from 14-19 years old and are from the North - West sides of Winnipeg including newcomers from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kyrgyzstan.

Friday April 3      -  7:30 pm
Saturday April 4  -  4:00 pm
Location: The Rachel Browne Theatre, WCD 204-211 Bannatyne Avenue
Mentoring Artists:     Wab Kinew - CBC, Dammecia Hall – WCD, Jessica MacCormack – CCAP, Pat Aylesworth - CCAP, Alison Davis - CCAP, T’ai Pu
Artistic Direction:      Edith Regier, Crossing Communities Art Project, Brent Lott, Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers

For tickets & more information, please contact: 
Crossing Communities Art Project   204.947.5430
Stephanie Scott, Project Coordinator
www.crossingcommunities.org

Crossing Communities gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders National Crime Prevention Strategy, Neighbourhoods Alive, The Winnipeg Foundation, Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg Partnership Agreement and our anonymous donor.

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Exploring Diversity: Human Rights and Human Rights-Related Issues in China
April 3 & 4, 2009
Sponsored by Religious Studies Department, The University of Winnipeg Research Office, and the Office of the Associate VP (International).

Friday April 3        Room 2C13
Session #1   11:30 - 1:00
Session #2     1:30 - 3:00
Session #3     3:15 - 6:15

Keynote Address: Hua Li, University of Manitoba ("Constitutional Reform in China: Charter 08 - Opportunities or Challenges to the Party/State?")

Saturday April 4      Room 2M74
Session #4    10:30 - 12:00
Session # 5     1:30 - 2:30 (Roundtable)

For more information contact Dr. Albert Welter, Acting Chair - Religious Studies
Call  204.786.9202

SIMPLICITY PRACTICE & RESOURCE CENTRE (SPARC)
Voluntary simplicity is a freely chosen way of life that aims to discover and actively fashion the lowest level of material consumption consistent with the highest level of human good.

The Simplicity Practice and Resource Centre (SPARC) catalyzes the transformation of individuals, communities, and Canadian society, through research, educational programs, and resources that promote the values and practices of voluntary simplicity and sustainable livelihood.

See the SPARC website and a list of sessions and forums.

“What Men Aren’t Told”
Dropped Threads for Men

Hear three prominent Winnipeg men speak out on

• Areas of surprise and silence in the lives of men;
• Experiences that amazed, disappoint, catch men off guard;
• The important pieces of learned wisdom that now need to be passed on to younger men.

Panelists: David Elias, Author, Waiting for Elvis (2008, Coteau Books)
                Terry MacLeod, Host, CBC Radio One Morning Show
                Morley Walker, Books Editor, Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, March 24 at 8 p.m.
Prairie Ink Café, Grant Park
Hosted by McNally Robinson

This is the second in a series of  “Symposium Samplers”  providing a taste of what’s to come at the  Festival of Voices, the inaugural Carol Shields Symposium held at the University of Winnipeg, May 8-10 2009.

A Grandmother's Tribe
a film by Dean Easterbrook and Qiujing Wong

Grands'n'More Winnipeg presents this documentary film which focuses on the power of African Grandmothers. Proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation www.stephenlewisfoundation.org

Monday March 16
7:30 p.m.
Gas Station Theatre, 445 River Avenue (at Osborne)
Tickets: $10
Contact: 204.253.0066 or grandsnmore@gmail

Why you should be MAD: Canada & its international commitments to women
A talk by Shelagh Day

An expert on women's rights, Shelagh Day will talk about Canada's record and recent backward steps on international human rights, such as the federal pay equity rollback.

Shelagh Day is currently a Director of the Poverty & Human Rights Centre, whose central goal is to strengthen the human rights of the poorest women, and Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action. She has written books and numerous articles on women's equality rights, and has appeared before United Nations treaty bodies when they examine Canada's compliance with its international human rights obligations. She was recently awarded the Governor General's Persons Award for her contributions to advancing the equality of women in Canada.

Wednesday March 18
12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall

Issa Nyaphaga
Performance  & Exhibition

Issa Nyaphaga is a politically-active visual artist and poet from Cameroon. Because of the political challenge his art presented to the regime, he was forced into exile in France. Nyaphaga has developed a philosophical performance concept which involves the ritualistc painting of his body, accompanied to live music, as an act of protest against his exile. There will also be a short documentary presentation.

Wednesday March 25
Performance: 7:00 - 8:00 / Discussion: 8:00 - 8:30
Location: Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall

Sponsors: Gallery 1C03 - The University of Winnipeg; Alliance Francaise du Manitoba; Global College
Contact: Milena Placentile, Art Curator   m.placentile@uwinnipeg.ca   204.786.9253

Click here to see news release about this event.

Dr. Vincent Harding is a distinguished Civil Rights activist, historian of the African-American experience, and was a speech writer and confidant of Martin Luther King Jr.  Dr. Harding is currently Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, and visiting Distinguished Professor, African-American Religion, Drew University.

Thursday 2 April 2009
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Eckhard-Gramatte Hall, The University of Winnipeg
Free admission. Donations to the Opportunity Scholarship Fund appreciated.

This event is co-sponsored by Global College's Institute for Human Rights & Global Studies and others, as part of Manitoba's Black History Month activities.

FORUM ON WOMEN, PEACE & DEVELOPMENT
An interactive discussion, with Q&A to follow

Tuesday April 21
7:00 p.m.
Location: 2M70, The University of Winnipeg
Free admission - all are welcome to attend.

Panelists : Menno Simons College Faculty
Moderator: Muriel Smith

• Anna Snyder, PhD : "Ambivalent Empowerment: Women's Refugee Organizations fostering Human Rights Awareness"
• Stephanie Strobbe, PhD (Cand.) : "Conflict & Global Sustainability: The Relationship of Lao Ethnic Minorities to Their Environment"

This forum examines the interrelationship between peace and development issues in order to understand how local people struggle to deal with conflicts, such as war, violence, poverty, exploitation, injustice, and marginalization. The Western notions of development, poverty reduction and enhancement of livelihood of people, have conflicting stakeholder interests. How does self- interest influence development work?  Furthermore, some western development theory and practice are at odds with or fail to take into account local knowledge and traditional ways of life. Thus, this forum will examine how women in refugee camps in Burma experience empowerment and explore developmental issues affecting ethnic minorities and their environment in Laos. Specifically, how women and ethnic minorities see themselves in conflict? What are disempowering and empowering aspects? Do conflicts have a positive side in transforming gender and ethnic relations in refugee camps and villages?

Interactive discussion with case studies presentation (Burma, Laos) followed by Q&A. The forum will be based on interactive discussion chaired by Muriel Smith. The participants of the forum are Anna Snyder and Stephanie Stobbe – faculty at the Menno Simons College in the department of Conflict Resolution at the University of Winnipeg. Anna Snyder will talk about women’s experiences of empowerment in Burmese refugee camps. Stepahnie Stobbe will discuss issues related to conflict and global sustainability, the relationship of Lao ethnic minorities to their environment. Questions and comments will proceed.

Organized by UNAC (United Nations Association of Canada - Winnipeg Chapter)
Supported by Menno Simons College and Unifem

"Will there be a Middle East?"
A discussion with Prof. Amos Guiora, University of Utah

Monday March 9
12:30 - 1:30 pm
The University of Winnipeg, Rm 1L04

Prof. Guiora teaches criminal law, global perspectives on counter terrorism, religion and terrorism, and international security law. As an expert commentator, he is frequently interviewed and quoted in the international media.  Prof. Guiora will also be the instructor for the Summer Institute, "Religion and Terrorism", April 27 - May 1 2009.

For more information, call 204.477.7423
Other venues: CMU, March 8 - 4:00 pm; UManitoba, March 10 - 1:30 pm

Fusion Concert

"Where Music and Justice Meet"
Saturday, March 7, 2009   7:00pm
Convocation Hall,
The University of Winnipeg

Brian Cook | Paul Vieira | Quinzy | The Shouting Ground | Magician Chris Funk | African Dancers | Free Food

Bring a dry good item for UWSA hamper program
100% of Proceeds go to Supporting War Affected Children in Northern Uganda

Tickets $15 or $10 for students, available at the Info Booth and Into the Music (245 McDermot ave) or at the door. for more info: 988.7105
www.musicforjustice.com

International Women's Week Events
for more information, contact Roewan Crowe   r.crowe@uwinnipeg.ca

Sunday March 1
Feminist Cabaret
7:00 p.m.
The Lo Pub & Gallery, 330 Kennedy
$5 suggested donation;  18+
Featuring: Mackenzie, Jan Smith, Samantha Hals, Rosanna Deerchild, Chandra Mayor, Serena Postel, Keri Latimer & Shelley Marshall (of Nathan), The Angry Dragons, and more!
Sponsor: MS Citizenship
Wednesday March 4
Readings by Joanne Arnott, Rosanna Deerchild, Katherena Vermette, and guests
7:00 p.m.
Convocation Hall, The University of Winnipeg
Sponsor: Global College Institute for Women's & Gender Studies and UWinnipeg English Department
Saturday March 7
Stitch'N'Bitch
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women's Art), 611 Main Street
Three craftswomen will share their crafting, birch bark biting, finger weaving and embroidery skills
Sponsor: Global College Institute for Women's & Gender Studies and MAWA
Sunday March 8
International Women's Day March and Feminist Fair
1:00 p.m. start
March starts at York & Waterfront (by Museum of Human Rights site), 1:00 p.m.
March ends at The University of Winnipeg, Bulman Centre (displays & light refreshments)
Calling all construction workers, de-construction workers, community builders! We need your strength to help break new ground, create a plan and start building a new Canada. Join us with your tool belts, safety vests, hardhats, over-sized cutout tools, voices & energy. Bring a sign displaying what you think needs renovation in Canada!
Sponsor: MS Citizenship Collective and Global College Institute for Women's & Gender Studies
Sunday March 8
International Women's Day Dance Party
8:00 p.m.
The Royal Albert Arms, 48 Albert Street
$5.00 at door, 18+

What makes a peaceful world? Involve youth in leadership!
A fundraising presentation on educating youth in Afghanistan
by Farhanaz Majedi, a University of Winnipeg student

Date: Friday February 27
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Room 3C01
Contact: majedi.farhanaz@gmail.com

Join Winnipeg's Burmese Community
in a celebration of the 61st Annual Chin National Day

On February 21 all Chin peoples, one of the major ethnic groups in Burma, observe and celebrate their culture with traditional dances, songs and cuisine. You are invited to join in their celebration and share their unique songs, stories and food.

When: Saturday February 21, starting at 1:30 p.m.
Location: City Church, 484 Maryland St.

Contact: Indy at 204.296.7579 or lianhramcin@yahoo.ca
Contact: Zaceu Lian at 204.786.6794 or liansaleu@yahoo.com

Wednesday, February 4th
with a special launch event featuring award-winning poet and freedom writer Dunya Mikhail on Tuesday, February 3rd.

The Social Justice Fair is an annual event in which students can learn about development, peace and justice related issues and initiatives in Canada and internationally. The Social Justice Fair is organized by a committee of interested students which is co-ordinated by MSC Students Sane Dube and Zoë Gross.

All events are held at the University of Winnipeg.

Tuesday, February 3rd
Official Launch Event
Featuring Dunya Mikhail: Keynote Address and Poetry Reading
7-9 p.m. Eckhardt Grammatté Hall
Speaker Bio and Information can be found at http://www.dunyamikhail.com/

This event is made possible by the support of Menno Simons College, the UWSA, the Uniter, CKUW, Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Institute for Literary and Transformative Learning (Global College)

Wednesday, February 4th
Social Justice Fair: Community Organizations' Booths
11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

All events are free and open to the public.

The theme for the 2009 Fair is "Redefining Justice." This theme came out of discussions focusing on voices that are isolated, marginalized or largely invisible in social justice discourse and practice - ranging from women, beneficiaries of "development" in the global south, Indigenous peoples, immigrants, members of the LGBTTQ* community, and others.

For more information, please contact student organizers at 204.290.3831, mscsjf@gmail.com, or Bre Woligroski at s.woligroski@uwinnipeg.ca