Performance / Ceremony / Event

Every Child Matters Virtual Event - September 30, 2020 on Zoom.

Register for a Fresh Good Food Box by emailing SAS@viu.ca

T-Shirts available for sale at the VIU Nanaimo Campus Store. All proceeds go to a new bursary for Indigenous Students

“My ‘useless’ degree and where it got me”

When VIU President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Deborah Saucier graduated with a PhD in Psychology in 1995, the country was in the middle of a recession and people told her she was very lucky to get a job given her “useless” degree. But after 10 years of studying, working in the lab, publishing and training other students, was it really luck?

7 visiting Aboriginal people, training to be elementary teachers, and 2 of their professors from Western Sydney University will present a seminar and hands-on workshop.

This will include some commentary on current events and an introduction to Australian Indigenous language and art!

"Building Reconciliation: The Balanced and Unbalanced"

In October 2019, the presenters attended the 5th annual National Building Reconciliation Forum at Algoma University in Sault Ste Marie, ON. This Soup & Bannock Lunch & Learn presentation is informed by their reflections and gleanings from the Forum and the state of truth and reconciliation in the Canadian post-secondary context.

Sponsor: Office of Aboriginal Education and Engagement

This speaker’s series is held by Office of Aboriginal Education and Engagement at Vancouver Island University and sponsored by various VIU departments. These talks are Tuesday over the lunch hour once a month in Shq’apthut – A Gathering Place and provide the opportunity for students, staff, faculty and community to expand their experience and awareness in current Indigenous topics and various aspects of Aboriginal Ways of Being and Knowing. 

"Sowing Seeds in an Imperfect World: The art of doing something" with Dr Beth McLin

CANCELLED TO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER

"Building Reconciliation: The Balanced and Unbalanced"

In October 2019, Sharon Hobenshield, Noreen McHale and Chyanne Trenholm attended the 5th annual National Building Reconciliation Forum at Algoma University in Sault Ste Marie, ON. This Soup & Bannock Lunch & Learn presentation is informed by their reflections and gleanings from the Forum and the state of truth and reconciliation in the Canadian post-secondary context.

Toward a More Inclusive University: Expanding the International Dimensions of VIU’s Indigenization Policies

VIU is a leader in Canada in promoting a more inclusive community for Indigenous students. The Soup & Bannock Lunch & Learn will explore the efforts to develop international networks of like-minded universities to better understand the synergies/similarities between internationalization and indigenization, their differences and the ways we can work collectively toward inclusion and reconciliation.

RSVP on our Shq'apthut Facebook site for a great night of Pow Wow Singing and Dancing by the Hooksheda Singers and Dancers.

"Strengthening Relationships for Indigenous Resurgence"

Join IndigenEYEZ Program Director Kelly Terbasket for a presentation about her work in strengthening relationships for Indigenous resilience and resurgence.

This event is inspired by Nanaimo Art Gallery's year long inquiry, "What are generations?"

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is a facilitated two-hour interactive exercise. The exercise uses blankets to represent the lands of what is now called Canada, and the distinct cultures and nations, which live on those lands to this day. Participants represent the First Peoples; when they move onto the blankets, they are taken back in time to the arrival of the Europeans.