XCHANGES 2022: Cultivating Community

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Saturday, Mar 26, 2022 at 9:30 AM  - 3:30 PM EDT 

{ "name":"XCHANGES 2022: Cultivating Community", "description": "https:\/\/ticketfi.com\/event\/4516\/xchanges-2022-cultivating-community\n\nRacial Advocacy for Inclusion, Solidarity, and Equity (RAISE) presents XChanges: Cultivating Community, our fourth annual conference.  \n\nDue to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the past two years have been filled with unprecedented levels of isolation and disconnection, so this conference aims to provide our community with the opportunity to cultivate new connections, reignite old ones that may have been lost through this pandemic, and highlight the amazing work that is being done in our community. In doing so, we aspire to equip our students with the skills to build relationships, heal, and be prepared to build a future that leads with love and human connection. Humans are not supposed to exist in isolation, but rather in entangled networks, and through these networks, cultivate spaces to form bonds, relationships, connections, and more importantly, solidarity. Our hope is that through this conference, we are able to replenish love, unity, and hope. In the words of the late bell hooks, \n \n\n\n“[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone”.\n\n\n\nWe have invited speakers from the Kitchener-Waterloo Region and Greater Toronto Area who we believe are community leaders in their respective fields and are excited to share their knowledge, lived experience and stories. We hope that attendees can grasp a sense of community through our sessions and feel emboldened to reach out and partake in community organizations, initiatives and events that resonate with them. \n\nAccessibility: \n\n\n\tClosed Captioning \n\tASL interpreters during live event\n\tRecordings of each individual workshop accessible up to 60 days after the event. \n\n \n\nSCHEDULE OVERVIEW \n\n \n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tTime (EST)\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t9:30 am - 10:00am \n\t\t\tWelcome and Land Acknowledgement\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t10:00 am - 11:20 am\n\t\t\tCultivating Community:\n\t\t\tNourishing One Another\n\t\t\tCultivating Community:\n\t\t\tReclaiming Culture, Space and Land\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t11:30 am - 12:00 pm\n\t\t\tBreak \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t12:00 pm - 1:20 pm\n\t\t\tCultivating Community:\n\t\t\tHealing Hand in Hand  \n\t\t\tCultivating Community:\n\t\t\tBringing Words to Life  \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t1:30 pm - 3:00 pm\n\t\t\tKeynote\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t3:00 pm - 3:30 pm\n\t\t\tFarewell\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n \n", "startDate":"2022-03-26", "endDate":"2022-03-26", "startTime":"09:30", "endTime":"15:30", "location":"", "label":"Add to Calendar", "options":[ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone":"US/Eastern", "trigger":"click", "inline":true, "listStyle":"modal", "iCalFileName":"invite.ics" }