June 21 @ 5:30 PM | Keeping the Door Open: A Conversation About Safer Spaces for LGBTQ Seniors
Join Age-Friendly Peterborough, Elder Abuse Ontario, and PARN - Your Community AIDS Resource Network, for a conversation about creating inclusive spaces and services for LGBTQ seniors in Peterborough. The event will include a screening of the 2016 film Cecil & Carl, "a touching portrait of commitment, love and duty in a couple's aging years" (Reframe Film Festival, 2017), followed by a discussion with local LGBT seniors and their allies. The event is from 5:30 PM- 7:30 PM at
Oral history and aging: Transmitting life stories of being and becoming across cultures and generati
Over the first two weeks of June, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in Columbia University’s Oral History Summer Institute, entitled “Oral history and aging: Transmitting life stories of being and becoming across cultures and generations.” Hosted by the Columbia Centre for Oral History Research (CCOHR), the program brought together 26 fellows and 18 speakers from around the world, among them graduate students, scholars, activists, practitioners, archivists, and
October 30 @ 11:00 AM | Stories of Resistance, Resurgence, and Resilience Part II: Workshop #1
This will be the first in a series of intergenerational activist storytelling workshops, in which we will produce a second set of media capsules to add to the ongoing Stories of Resistance, Resurgence, and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough series. In these workshops, Trent University students will work with social change makers of various ages and identities in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough to create media capsules to add to our living archives of social change narratives.
November 6 @ 11:00 AM | Stories of Resistance, Resurgence, and Resilience Part II: Workshop #2
This will be the second in a series of intergenerational activist storytelling workshops, in which we will produce second set of media capsules to add to the ongoing Stories of Resistance, Resurgence, and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough series. In these workshops, Trent University students will work with social change makers of various ages and identities in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough to create media capsules to add to our living archives of social change narratives. T
December 7 @ 11:00 AM | Stories of Resistance, Resurgence, and Resilience Part II: Workshop #3
This will be the third in a series of intergenerational activist storytelling workshops, in which we will produce media capsules to add to the ongoing Stories of Resistance, Resurgence, and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough series. In these workshops, Trent University students will work with social change makers of various ages and identities in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough to create media capsules to add to our living archives of social change narratives. The workshop wil
May 31-June 2 | Francis Nasca at Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities
At the 2017 Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Francis Nasca presented a paper at the Canadian Sociological Association conference on a panel entitled "Community Based Research – Centring Community Priorities and Needs"
June 4-16 2017 | Oral History Summer Institute
Emma Langley attended the 2017 Oral History Summer Institute hosted by Columbia University’s Centre for Oral History Research (CCOHR). The institute was entitled, “Oral history and aging: Transmitting life stories of being and becoming across cultures and generations”. It took place June 4 to 16, and a blog post about Emma's experience at the Institute is coming soon. Stay tuned!