Cultural Spotlight: A dream come true
It was all a dream – literally. Rebecca Lyon was in the middle of pursuing her PhD in Indigenous studies when she had a dream about a jacket, unlike any she had ever worn.
“One of our …
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August 16 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - The Hands of Knowledge: female perspective
“The fact that these are women doing this work is great because look at the work, it’s phenomenal,” says artist Joanne Finlay. “It’s the knowledge that they carry, it’s the patience that…
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July 5 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight: Podcasting: space and storytelling
Podcasting has been growing as a media format. Inspired by oral storytelling, Darylina Powderface will be joining it this summer with Aiysiniiksin: Keeping the Tradition Alive.
“I want to see …
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June 21 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight:Working the Green Chain. Celebrating Coquitlam’s South Asian heritage
Working the Green Chain
Tannis Koskela, heritage assistant at the Mackin House Museum in Coquitlam, hopes people will become more aware that the South Asian community is almost as old as the …
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June 7 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - Cross-cultural writing: the exchange and combination of writing and knowledge
Despite younger generations reading less in general, Shuyu Kong believes that storytelling and sharing those stories will endure. The Chinese/Canadian Writing Speaker Series, after three successful …
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May 24 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - What do babies know about numbers?
The UBC Early Development Research Group (EDRG) will host their latest Wonder Kids talk with associate professor and developmental psychologist Darko Odic (PhD) on May 29. The webinar will explore …
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May 10 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight: Grandmaster Li Rong brings the ancient art of qigong to the 21st century
Photo courtesy of Li Rong
Li Rong has been a grandmaster and trainer of tai chi and qigong for the last 30 years. She is the founder and director of the Tristar Taiji and Qigong Academy in …
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April 26 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - Building fish traps, building community
Brazilian mathematics educator Marcelo C. Borba once compared the visualization of ethnomathematics to a forest ‘in which each tree would be considered as a different expression of …
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April 12 2021 Community Working towards a violence-free society
There is no vaccine for domestic violence. But that has not deterred Balbir Gurm from working to prevent relationship violence. “It’s not a shadow pandemic, it was a pandemic before COVID came …
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March 22 2021 Community Cultural Spotlight - An Indigenous healing connection to the land
Suicide among Canada’s Indigenous people is disproportionally higher than in the non-Indigenous population according to a survey done by Statistics Canada (2011–2016). Less well known are the …