A grounding event that focuses on relationship-building between settlers and Indigenous folks. The mediums of engaging will include smudge to open, a guided walk in Edmonton's expansive River Valley, and a beading workshop. The topic of conversation will focus on how to be in better relationship with Indigenous folks and with the land.
Past Projects
RISE Edmonton is building their project around the sub-theme of Community Education, specifically on the topic of burnout. Affectionately named Refresh, Reset, Recentre: Sustainable Self-Care. This cohort is coordinating a wellness fair, which will involve art therapy, yoga and goodies to take home!
Kitchen Kinship is a cooking event that highlights intergenerational knowledge shared through the creation of cuisine. It focuses on the value of traditions passed between generations orally and experientially rather than through transcripts.
RISE Hive is the Edmonton C8 community project. Our sub-theme explores the topic of Mutual Aid and addresses the need for community-based and grassroots organized support. Our project focuses on the initiatives that have been started in our city and we aim to build on the existing structures in our community. We are creating a physical and a virtual map that outlines the Mutual Aid resources that are available in Amiskwacîwâskahikan territory and we're inviting representatives from each organization highlighted on the map to attend a brunch event where they're encouraged to build their connections and provide Mutual Aid support to one another.
Kaleidoscope is a project for QTBIPOC youth to share what their ideal re-imagined healed society looks like: in the eyes of the ambassadors, that’s a place that is intersectional, and challenges and deconstructs harmful systems like patriarchy and gender norms. It is a place where folks from the margins of society are centred.
Breaking Free From the Binary is a Zine that brings together a collection of gender-focused resources, information, organizations, and initiatives for youth in Amiskwaciy-Wâskahikan (Cree for Beaver Hill House where Edmonton is located).
Oh, My Gender (OMG)! Weekend is a virtual event where BIPOC youth are given space to engage in exploring gender with a movie viewing and panel discussion.
Grounded is a portrait series highlighting environmental injustices to inspire thought in the BIPOC community about their relationship with land, identity, and culture. To further reach the BIPOC Community, we held an art show highlighting the portrait series and showcasing local BIPOC artists. We held an educational panel for community to gain a deeper connection at the GROUNDED. Art Show.We believe there is a need to reverse or reconcile the effects of environmental injustice on communities with histories of slavery, migration, colonization (or other injustices) with a special centralization of the indigenous people to Turtle Island.
BIPOC in Bloom hosted an eco-fair that raised food waste awareness and bridged the gap with food insecurity through a decolonizing and culturally inclusive lens.
Stay WOC is a celebration of the intersectionalities that women can hold and live with. It is a safer space for Black and Indigenous Women, other Women of Colour, including trans and non-binary identities, to gather and share their stories and talents, embrace their power, and build new relationships. Our goal is to inspire more representation of WOC in Edmonton by celebrating diversity as a strength in the community.
From a multitude of influences, we have unconscious assumptions and biases, which lead to harmful narratives, misjudgements and ultimately social exclusion of young people in our communities. This project aims to explore and challenge this by bringing diverse people together to share and challenge these assumptions and biases with each other.