Newsflash
Unruly salons are part of us, not apart from us.
- Leslie Roman, Ph.d. US.d., Unruly Salon Diva
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Salon Four - Feb 14th |
Reception Room, Green College, 4:30 to 7:30pm
4:30-4:45
Welcomes, Associate Dean of Indigenous Education, Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald, Associate Dean of Indigenous Education and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, and Canada Research Chair, Richard Vedan, Director, First Nations House of Learning, Senior Advisor to the President and S4DAC Artistic Director and Unruly Salon Artistic Director, Mr. Geoff McMurchy.
4:45-5:05
Tania Willard, Visual artist, Red Willow Designs, from the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation in the Interior of BC, Visual Artist, exhibits her woodcuts from “Crazymaking”. Through the exhibit of “Crazymaking”, Willard tells us about the historical traumas that frame mental health issues for First Nations people, particularly those that are hidden or erased such as stories about “Indian Insane Asylums, Mohawk Saints and Native Veterans”.
5:05-5:35
Leslie Roman, Sheena Brown and Alannah Earl Young are co-presenting a paper, “No Time for Nostalgia: Asylums, Residential Schools in British Columbia and Artistic Praxis for Social Transformation”. We ask the question: How have disability and indigenous arts and cultural praxis transformed and interrupted the historical sociological archival research journey we have undertaken to understand the relationships among asylum-making, medicalized colonialism and eugenics in the case of the Woodlands School, formerly the Provincial Asylum for the Insane in Victoria, British Columbia? Specifically, how can voices often silenced or suppressed in archival historical sociology and in official institutional records be re-claimed through the arts, oral history, and relational genealogies which are committed to engagement with communities, alternative ways of understanding the relationship between private and public lives, institutional or state secrets and the breaking of years of silence and silencing? Our presentation traces the significant encounters we have shared as a research team across our different epistemic, historical and social locations to learn from one another’s unruly histories. The paper shows how our research shifted and owes a significant debt to the art work of Tania Willard, the story of the land as told to us by Rhonda Larabee, and equally significantly, the powerful voices of the self-advocate survivors of the Woodlands, who speak for themselves in the documentary Inside/OUT (directed by Lorna Boschman and produced in conjunction with the British Columbia Association for Community Living) through their artwork. Our paper will show how unofficial and often artful and arts-inspired voices of disability and indigenous peoples interrupt, challenge, and transform ableism of medicalized colonialism.
5:35-5:55
Sheena Brown, MA candidate, Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. “Back to ‘Normal?’: A Familiar Conversation.”
5:55-6:05
Break
6:05-6:50
Chin, celebrated musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, talented song-writer and co-founder of the pop/funk/soul group Bass is Base, Chin will be performing songs from his upcoming CD.
6:50-7:30
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.