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November 5 – 9, 2018 Creating a Connected Community Program Guide November 5 – 9, 2018 #worldviudays world.viu.ca/worldviu-days world.viu.ca/worldviu-days Vancouver Island University is located on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation and we thank them for the opportunity to live, learn and work on their territory. Why we celebrate WorldVIU Days At Vancouver Island University, WorldVIU Days is a week-long annual event where we explore how culture influences the way we make sense of the world - our world view. This year we will focus on Creating a Connected Community at VIU. We will showcase initiatives that faculty, staff and students are making that increase social connections on and off campus, especially connections between international and domestic students or between people from different cultural backgrounds. The purpose of the week is to: • Raise awareness and build appreciation for the cultural diversity on campus. • Celebrate culture and recognize the richness that diverse perspectives bring to our campus and community. Thank you We would like to express our gradtitude to TD Bank for sponsoring our entertainment events. WORLDVIU DAYS Exploring identity, culture and community through hip hop Workshops • Performances • Panel Discussion Raul Espinoza The Northwest Kid (DJ Su Comandante) is a (Craig Frank Edes), Salvadoran-born Vancouver from Gitxsan Nation DJ and youth facilitator. He in northern BC, is one works with several hip hop half of the group Mob education organizations including Bounce. He delivers Surrey Urban Youth Project, hip hop Hope passionate and soulful and the Metaphor Project to name a few. hip hop music that blends acoustics and electronics with elements of Meryem Saci is a singer, his Indigenous cultures. Since 2015, Mob songwriter and MC Bounce has focused heavily on creating with a vocal range that social and environmental awareness fuses R&B, hip hop, through the arts by leading workshops and soul/jazz, reggae and youth dances to help youth explore their afro-arabian rhythms. cultural identity. Born and raised in Algeria, the two were forced Dr. Oop is a veteran emcee to escape the civil war and immigrated to and youth educator Canada as political refugees. Meryem is a from the Los Angeles member of the Montreal-based soul-jazz-hip underground hip hop hop super group Nomadic Massive. scene. He is best known for his dynamic MC-ing, freestyle skills, and thoughtful lyrics. Dr. Oop is no stranger to BC as he has toured here every summer for the past decade, has appeared numerous times at Shambhala Music Festival and is the main man behind The Red Gold & Green Machine, a hip hop-soul-reggae project together with Vancouver’s own Tonye Aganaba. See schedule for programming world.viu.ca/worldviu-days SCHEDULE OF EVENTS MONDAY, NOV. 5 TUESDAY, NOV. 6 Social Change WorldVIU Stage through Hip Hop 11:45 am – 12:45 pm 9:30 – 11:20 am Upper Cafeteria B180 R334 Live music and more Drawing on historic and contemporary Featuring: Dr. Oop & student performances examples, youth facilitator and DJ Raul Lunch & Learn: Global Engagement Espinoza (DJ Su Comandante) will present on the power of hip hop to give voice to Travel Grant “Story Slam” 12:00 – 1:00 pm marginalized communities and create social B305 R440 change. Join VIU faculty and staff as they share their Hosted by Child and Youth Care travel tales, and celebrate the engaging WorldVIU Days Kick-Off international teaching and learning that 12:00 – 1:00 pm the Global Engagement Grant program is Upper Cafeteria enabling across campus (all in 3 minutes or Join us in starting the week off on the less!). right foot. We’ll have hip hop dance Hosted by the Faculty of International Education performances and a giant cake to share. (Education Abroad) Bring your friends for selfies and photos at Positive Space Alliance Safe Space the WorldVIU Days media wall. Hosted by the Faculty of International Education Campaign Orientation 1:30 – 3:00 pm Film: The Growing Season B300 R152 1:00 – 2:30 pm Want to join the Positive Space Alliance B200 R203 in making VIU a welcoming place for Filmed over the course of a year in a nursing LGBTQ2+ individuals? Attending this home that is also home to a preschool, The training session is the way to join the Growing Season offers an intimate glimpse Positive Space Alliance’s safe spaces into a world where the very young and the campaign. very old learn and grow side by side for a Hosted by Positive Space Alliance fleeting moment in time. Hosted by Child and Youth Care and Nursing Homestay Host Information Session 2:00 – 3:00 pm Hip Hop en Español B250 R308 2:30 – 4:00 pm Interested in becoming a host family for B355 R103 the Vancouver Island University Homestay From his childhood in El Salvador to the Program? This session will help you gain Vancouver music scene, Raul Espinoza (DJ an understanding of hosting international Su Comandante) will share his personal story students for the High School and University of becoming a DJ and hip hop educator. He within the Vancouver Island University will also give an introduction to Spanish program. language hip hop. The presentation will Hosted by the Faculty of International Education be conducted mostly in Spanish. Spanish (Homestay Program) language learners of all levels are encouraged to attend. Hosted by Department of Modern Languages Studies (Spanish) WORLDVIU DAYS Yves Engler: Left, Right, Marching to the Translating your International Beat of Imperial Canada Experiences after Education Abroad 2:30 – 4:00 pm 12:00 – 1:00pm B200 R203 B355 R211 The left is supposed to be opposed Learn about how to translate your Education to colonialism and at least skeptical of Abroad experiences for your resume, interview nationalism. However, Left, Right shows that, and further education.Hear from VIU students who are making their international for decades now, this hasn’t been the case experience work for them! in Canada. Hosted by Faculty of International Education Hosted by Political Science (Education Abroad) Culture Couch Hip Hop Edition: Exploring the Meaning of Belonging “blacklovematters” with Dr. Oop 12:15 – 1:15 pm 5:00 – 6:00 pm Closed Event B255 Learning Commons (1st Floor) For 8 weeks in 2018, 10 immigrant and Join Dr. Oop, a hip hop veteran from the Los refugee youth in Nanaimo participated in Angeles underground scene to learn about a forum theatre workshop to explore the the foundations of hip hop as it relates meaning of belonging. The presentation will to African-American identity, culture and share about the process and experiences of community. the youth. Hosted by the Faculty of International Education Hosted by The High School at VIU and The Central (Intercultural Programs) Vancouver Island Multicultural Society International Scholarship De l’Algérie au Canada: & Awards Ceremony L’histoire de la Chanteuse 5:00 – 7:00 pm Meryem Saci Closed Event 2:30 – 4:00pm An evening where we recognize the B210 R270 (nouveau edifice) exceptional contributions of international Montreal hip hop, R&B and soul singer students to VIU. (By invitation) Meryem Saci speaks about the role music, Hosted by the Faculty of International Education singing and rapping has played in her life from her early years in Algeria and leaving for Canada to where she is today. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7 The session will be conducted mostly Careers in Global Affairs Canada in French. Both native speakers and French language learners of all levels are 11:30 – 12:30 pm encouraged to attend. B250 R215 Hosted by Department of Modern Languages Studies What is it like to have a career with Global (French) Affairs Canada? Join Pierre Delorme, Trade Commissioner for Global Affairs Canada Film: Metamorphosis as he shares information and answers 5:00 – 7:30 pm questions about working in diplomatic B356 R109 relations, international trade, development A poem for the planet, Nova Ami and Velcrow and humanitarian assistance. Ripper’s film Metamorphosis takes the pulse Hosted by Center for Experiential Learning of our earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one world, WorldVIU Stage - Celebrating Diwali! and the birth of another. 11:45 am – 12:45 pm Hosted by Department of Geography and ACER Upper Cafeteria (Awareness of Climate Change Through Education Live Music, Treats, India Cultural Booth and and Research) More world.viu.ca/worldviu-days SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, NOV. 8 Hip Hop Forum Panel with Dr. Oop, Meryem Saci Indigenous Identity, and Mob Bounce Hip Hop & Resistance 2:30 – 4:00 pm Facilitated by The Northwest Kid (Mob Bounce) B210 R275 9:00 – 10:30 am VIU English instructor and hip hop Shq’apthut (B170) enthusiast, Paul Watkins, will ask this A presentation on the intersections of diverse panel of hip hop artists to speak Indigenous identity, hip hop and how about their personal journeys in finding connecting the two is not only a creative their voice through hip hop as well as outlet, but a tool for cultural resurgence how their art connects with culture, and resistance. community and personal identity. Hosted by Services for Aboriginal Students Hosted by The Sociology Department & Indigenous/Xwulmuxw Studies WorldBridger Film: Cornerstone The Making of a Global Citizen 7:00 – 9:00 pm 11:30 am – 12:50 pm B356 R109 B356 R317 Building a brighter future for HIV Aids Jackson Kaguri shares the powerful story Orphans in Rural Uganda. A film about of his journey from being a village boy in NYAKA AIDS ORPHANS PROJECT with Uganda, leaving Uganda for education founder Jackson Kaguri. and prosperity in the USA, coming face to face with the Aids Pandemic and the Hip Hop Open Mic & Cypher plight of children and families in his home 9:00 – 11:30 pm village, and his inspiration and energy to Student Union Pub (B193) make positive change.
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