U of T Indigenous Bookclub
Arts and Administration Building (UTSC) Room AA 160Join us for Part 1 of the U of T Indigenous Book Club where we will learn about books, podcasts, & other media by Indigenous peoples of Canada. The event will include a sharing circle where participants will select 3 items to read or listen to by Wednesday, November 9th, 2022. [...]
Exploring Drumming & Music as Home
The Leigha Lee Browne Theatre (UTSC)As part of Truth & Reconciliation Week we will be celebrating the revitalization of community music and cultural drumming by featuring local & global communities in the GTA that have cultural drumming and music as a key piece of their identity. We want you to participate in a space [...]
Screening of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Maanjiwe nendamowinan (Room 170) 1535 Outer Circle (Shared with Deerfield Hall), Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaJoin us at U of T Scarborough as we celebrate Truth and Reconciliation Week with a screening of Rumble: the Indians Who Rocked the World. This featured documentary covers the role of Native Americans in popular music history that shaped the soundtracks of our time. This event is on [...]
Orange Shirt Day 2022
Hart House 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHonour the experiences of residential school survivors by joining a University-wide event to recognize Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Students, librarians, faculty and staff may register to attend this event in-person or watch the livestream.
Reopening Wounds or Healing Words? Apologies and Residential Schools
Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building (91 Charles Street West)In 2022, the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury came to Canada to engage with Indigenous communities and Residential School Survivors on how the respective churches that each represents, the Roman Catholic and Anglican, were instrumental in a system that inflicted “spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of [...]
FNH Presents: Fresh Food Mondays
First Nations HouseFresh Produce for U of T Indigenous Students at First Nations House
U of T Indigenous Community Gathering
Hart House FarmIndigenous students, staff and faculty are invited to the University of Toronto Indigenous Community Gathering on October 3rd at the Hart House Farm. This will be an opportunity to share space with each other and to prioritize community care following the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (Orange Shirt [...]
Reflecting on Indigenous Land Acknowledgments (Staff & Faculty Training)
Virtual Learning - Remote LearningU of T Indigenous Training This is a Virtual Session. Instructions will be provided closer to the day of class. Many Canadian Institutions, including the University of Toronto, do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations and at seminars and conferences, but why do we do them; what is their [...]
FNH Presents: Fresh Food Mondays
First Nations HouseFresh Produce for U of T Indigenous Students at First Nations House
FNH Presents: Fresh Food Mondays
First Nations HouseFresh Produce for U of T Indigenous Students at First Nations House
Canceled CANCELLED – Speaking Our Truths: The Journey Towards Reconciliation Part 2 (Staff & Faculty Training)
Virtual Learning - Remote LearningU of T Indigenous Training This is a Virtual Session. Instructions will be provided closer to the day of class. Many Canadian Institutions, including the University of Toronto, do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations and at seminars and conferences, but why do we do them; what is their [...]
Speaking Our Truths: The Journey Towards Reconciliation Part 2 (Student Training)
Virtual Learning - Remote LearningU of T Indigenous Training This is a Virtual Session. Instructions will be provided closer to the day of class. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and traditions. [...]
FNH Presents: Fresh Food Mondays
First Nations HouseFresh Produce for U of T Indigenous Students at First Nations House
Indigenous Education Week 2022
Indigenous Education Week 2022 will host several events from October 31 – November 4, focusing on the theme of Death and Dying.
Talk: A Celebration of Spirit with Richard Van Camp (In-person & Virtual)
Teaching Lodge, Earth Sciences Courtyard & Virtually via ZoomPlease join us for this good visiting keynote with Tlicho author and storyteller Richard Van Camp who will share the interviews he's conducted with Indigenous Elders who have passed into Spirit and have returned sharing their recollections and what they learned in the Spirit World. Richard will also share [...]
Listening Party with Mayan Elder Bartolo on Indigenous Waves (In-person & Radio)
Map Room Studio at Hart HouseJoin Jenny Blackbird and Jennifer Sylvester on Indigenous Waves 89.5 CIUT with Mayan Elder Bartolo at the Map Room Studio at Hart House. Indigenous Waves is a celebration of Indigenous cultures; locally, nationally and globally. Through music, storytelling, interviews, panel discussions, art, and humour we explore the diversity of Indigenous Peoples. Jenny [...]
Reflecting on Indigenous Land Acknowledgements (Staff & Faculty Training)
Virtual Learning - Remote LearningThis is a virtual session. Instructions will be provided closer to the day of class. Many Canadian Institutions including the University of Toronto do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations and at seminars and conferences, but why do we do them; what is their purpose and are they an effective tool of reconciliation and decolonization. The fear is that land acknowledgements have become largely performative and rote stripping them of their potential to bring about change. These are some of the questions and topics that will be explored in this one and half hour session, Indigenous Land Acknowledgements.
Aztec Dance (In-person)
Great Hall at Hart HouseAztec performers from the Dia De Los Muertos collective will showcase their dance in partnership with Hart House and First Nations House. The Día de Los Muertos Collective is a nonprofit that coordinates the efforts of Toronto's community to bring a celebration that honors the dead, delights the living, [...]
Dead Feast Discussion with Dorothy Peters (In-person)
Teaching Lodge, Earth Sciences CourtyardWith Elder Dorothy Peters, we will be having a feast and discussion around death and dying from an Anishinaabe perspective. Medicines will be provided as well. This discussion will move inside to the First Nations House 3rd Floor Lounge if the weather is inclement. Register here