Events
A Burnaby Community Celebration. Join us for a morning of learning & sharing resources for newcomers. Lunch will be served!
Everyone Is Welcome
Racism And Active Witnessing
Join us for this online workshop on active Witnessing, microaggression & unconscious bias training for frontline workers.
Join us for this online workshop on active Witnessing, microaggression & unconscious bias training for frontline workers.
BREAK THE SILENCE
Racism And Active Witnessing (Farsi)
Join us for this online workshop on active Witnessing, microaggression & unconscious bias training for frontline workers.
Chinese Canadian History in Burnaby- Community Resilience and Redress
Join us as we celebrate Asian Heritage Month and BC Anti-Racism Week.
Traditional, Ancestral & Unceded: A conversation on territorial acknowledgements
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Are you new to Canada?
Join us to learn about soft skills in the workplace.
Join us for engaging and informative training with Tenniel Brown, B.A., M.S.W., R.S.W. who brings over 15 years experience in working collaboratively with diverse clients to transform the impact of racism, inequity, and mental health. This training session fosters an environment that is culturally relevant, holistic, engaging, collaborative, and skill building. Together we will learn and understand the cycle of oppression, the impact of oppression, anti-oppressive communication tools and strategies for addressing racism and oppression.
Understanding and Addressing Oppression
Education Tour Coordinator, Lorrie Gallant, guides viewers around the former Mohawk Institute Residential School. Lorrie provides the history of the institution’s 140 years of operation. Viewers will see the different rooms in the school, including the girls’ and boys’ dormitories, cafeteria, laundry room, and other rooms throughout the building. This session will also include interviews with five survivors of the Mohawk Institute.
Mohawk Institute Residential School Tour
Join us for a two part workshop that will take you through the highlights of Canada’s history. We will journey from the 1950s,when homosexuality was considered to be a “curable illness” to today.
Queer + Trans History in Canada and BC
RCMP Victim Services Presents- Hate Motivated Crimes and Incidents
Join us for a conversation on hate motivated crimes and incidents, the laws around them and support services available for victims.
Humanity Beyond Numbers
A presentation of stories of Refugees.
Come and share time with Luna Aixin (Pronouns: They/Them), a community planner who is queer, disabled, neurodiverse and multiracial and lives with Complex-PTSD, in a conversational session on Anti-Asian racism. They will also share stories of their experiences living in North Burnaby as an immigrant from Southeast Asia, how they are navigating internalized anti-Asian racism through ancestral healing and ways they are developing anti-racist relationships with these lands. They live, work and study on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
A Participatory Conversation Around Anti-Asian Racism
Join us for a viewing and discussion of “Swimming Upstream”, a film about the Japanese Canadian redress. This film provides important information on the long history of anti Asian racism in the province of BC.
Anti Asian Racism in BC - the Japanese Canadian Experience
Practical and interactive workshop that aims to denounce systemic racism against BIPOC people in Canada and empower participants with concrete skills on how to dismantle systemic racism and become effective anti-racist ally and ethically responsible citizen in the face of injustice and bigotry.
Developing Anti-Racism Skills and Competencies for Systemic Social Change
Join us for this webinar that explores knowing how to respond to incidents of non-inclusive language and behaviour in the community and the workplace.
This workshop will:
provide an understanding of “unearned advantage”
discuss the responsibility in using one’s unearned advantage to undo patterns of social inequity
provide clarity around demonstrating allyship and the five key traits of an ally
From Bystander to Allyship
For many decades Canada has been perceived as a multicultural country that celebrates diversity, however there is a growing awareness that racial inequality is a detrimental problem in our society. This introductory session will examine the following topics: What is racism? What are the impacts of racism on our communities? and finally, what are steps we can take to address racism? There will be opportunities for questions and discussion throughout the session.
Understanding Impacts of Settler’s Colonialism in Canada
Come and listen from Black, Indigenous, people of colour voices on Racism, how it shows up in the community and how to be Anti-Racist. This presentation includes a recording of a live, unrehearsed interpretation, targeted to a specific audience. Interpreting services provided electronically are often subject to vagaries of the internet and audio connections and, in addition, may include errors or omissions. Thank you for your understanding.
