Student Life

Please join us at Shq'apthut - A Gathering Place, where the Nanaimo Global Film Festival will be featuring the following films:

Thursday February 6, 2020
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Featuring Doctrine of Discovery:  Stolen Lands, Strong Hearts and Jordan River Anderson:  The Messenger

Friday February 7, 2020
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Featuring Nipawistamasowin:  We Will Stand Up and Yalis Rising:  Celebrating the Tlisalagi'lakw School

Join us for gentle and energizing Shc'enuctun (chair) yoga at Shq'apthut - A Gathering Place.

Join us for gentle and energizing Shc'enuctun (chair) yoga at Shq'apthut - A Gathering Place.

Please join us for a cultural event presenting the Khowutzun Tzinqwa Singers and Dancers at Shq'apthut - A Gathering Place, Building 170. Look forward to seeing you all here!

We welcome our VIU students and their family to our Family Movie Night at Shq'apthut - A Gathering Place. We're featuring Angry Birds 2 :)

Attention Restide and Aboriginal Students

Please join us on January 9, 2020 for our Welcome Back Feast.Drop in and say hello and build your own sandwich. Let's start the New Year off right!

Sponsored by Restide and Services for Aboriginal Students 

Please join us for Hot Dog Day :)

Canada is actively building collective knowledge about our true shared history with Indigenous
peoples, language, identity and nationhood. With national movements underway, have you found
yourself tongue-tied trying to find the right language to engage Indigenous peoples and start
meaningful conversations? Learn how to become a better ally by exploring how language can
strengthen relationships with First Nation, Métis and Inuit peoples.

Please join us on Tuesday October 15, 2019 for this interactive discussion with Victoria Grant and Bruce Lawson.

Please join us at Shq'apthut - A Gathering Place for Cedar Bark Weaving with Emily Mack.

Come and have fun creating head pieces, roses and or bracelets.

Everyone welcome!

Orange Shirt Day, held on September 30th annually, is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake, BC, Canada, in the spring of 2013. It grew out of Phyllis Webstad’s account of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of school at the Mission, and it has become an annual discussion on all aspects of residential schools.