{"id":81421,"date":"2022-10-24T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=81421"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:05:36","slug":"indigenous-content-creators-to-participate-in-decolonial-reading-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/10\/indigenous-content-creators-to-participate-in-decolonial-reading-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous content creators to participate in Decolonial Reading Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An array of Indigenous content creators will be speaking with the Brock community throughout the Fall and Winter Terms.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/09\/decolonial-reading-circle-welcoming-new-participants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decolonial Reading Circle<\/a>\u00a0(DRC), a two-hour meeting will take place each month to discuss literature or films created by Indigenous people, which everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>With all but one of the meetings taking place online, the gatherings also welcome many of the content creators to participate directly in the discussion of their work.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Brock\u2019s Acting Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement, said the opportunity for participants to be in dialogue with the visiting artists presented a chance for all involved to learn together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to read a book or watch a film, but it\u2019s an entirely different learning opportunity to discuss content with its creator,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like getting to go behind the scenes and taking the ultimate deep dive into the content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s events include:<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. \u2014 <em>Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining our Future<\/em> with local author Patty Krawec.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Nov. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. \u2014 <em>Unreconciled: Family, Truth and Resistance<\/em> with author Jesse Wente.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Dec. 14 from \u00a07 to 9:30 p.m. at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre \u2014 A screening of the film <em>Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Jan. 25 from \u00a07 to 9 p.m. \u2014 <em>Making Love With the Land<\/em> with author Joshua Whitehead<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. \u2014 <em>Rehearsals of Living<\/em> with authors Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/p>\n<p>March \u2014 TBD<\/p>\n<p>The DRC will also continue to collectively read and discuss the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and will be co-facilitated by Bourgeois and Fallon Farinacci, a M\u00e9tis community member from the Niagara region who served on the National Family Advisory Circle for the Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Originally hosted in person, the DRC moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to take place virtually to allow higher rates of participation.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=FRGudvwe8kqlNuKyRDrxoOkOgnpB_ctCi33khR3AwalUM0Q4Vk5XTzJTSlJEUUFOUzc3NjNZQUY2MC4u&amp;web=1&amp;wdLOR=c3F271048-66C2-2B45-A0B4-BA11E82E9BB8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up online<\/a>\u00a0in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An array of Indigenous content creators will be speaking with the Brock community throughout the Fall and Winter Terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,6833],"tags":[9281,9863,4226,6056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81440,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81421\/revisions\/81440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}