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A Beautiful Start to Fall🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻❤️🌻 |
The SASAH community is celebrating the marriage of two beloved alumni just last weekend! Congratulations to Victoria Burnett and Jill O’Craven (class of 2020). One of the biggest joys of this program is seeing where life takes our incredible students.Â
Victoria and Jill’s beautiful day saw plenty of SASAH folk in attendance. In Victoria’s words: “We were lucky that Rikki Bergen (class of 2019) agreed to be our sentimental officiant, and Sarah Vagners (nee Ball, also class of 2019; pictured with her new husband, Karl) was one of our witnesses. It was a SASAH family affair throughout, with Nicole Barratt (class of 2020) and Sarah Graham-Shaughnessy (class of 2017) also in attendance. Emily Ritson was also in SASAH for a few years, same with one of my bridesmaids, Danielle Sequeira. It was a gorgeous day at Fanshawe Pioneer Village that Saturday, the 14th.”
WOOH LOVE! |
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Course Spotlight: ARTHUM 1020E, "Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st Century
The second half of SASAH’s Year One foundations course will take place in the winter semester: Arts and Humanities 1020E - “Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st Century.” In this semester, Kate Stanley asks: How might art and literature help us to navigate the urgent reality of climate change? What function might the humanities serve when the terms of human life seem increasingly precarious? In grappling with these questions, this course draws on two insights that unite climate scientists and climate justice organizations: first, to mobilize meaningful responses to ecological emergency we must overcome individualism and polarization; and second, fostering collectivity depends on our capacity for a new kind of conversation. In this course, we will develop collaborative creative and critical practices drawing inspiration from artists, activists, scientists, educators, and other climate communicators who have innovated new methods and forms for establishing common conversational ground as a platform for climate action.
Kate Stanley is Associate Professor in the Department of English where her research and teaching focuses on the role of the humanities in helping us to navigate the climate crisis. She is currently at work on a book project called “Practices of Possibility" that investigates how aesthetic responses to ecological emergency can inspire and sustain impactful forms of climate action. She did her PhD at Columbia and turned her dissertation into a book called Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson (Cambridge 2018). She recently completed two projects: a co-edited special issue of the journal PMLA on the future for aesthetic education in the humanities and a co-edited volume on what the field of literary studies can learn from her favourite philosopher, William James. |
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Cut and Paste: Narrative Zines Tuesday, September 24th, 6-9PM
Join us for a free zine-making workshop, hosted in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Student Council and ICONOCLAST. This workshop will be facilitated by Western's Student Writer-in-Residence Jules Lee. Materials will be provided. |
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Saturday, September 28, 3-5PM
This free workshop introduces visual and verbal connections at the crossroad of the two genres of poetry and painting. Nafiseh Shajani will speak about the history of ekphrasis as a rhetorical device. Participants are then invited to respond to different paintings using your ekphrastic creativity. |
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Connections, Collaboration and Kinship in Art Katie Wilhelm and Summer Bressette in conversation, facilitated by Sara Mai Chitty |
SATELLiTE Project Space Sunday, September 29, 1-3PM In partnership with Forest City Gallery and Museum London Free and open to all
Join us for this warm and participatory conversation between London-based Anishinaabe artists Katie Wilhelm and Summer Bressette, longtime collaborators, artists, and engaged community builders. Katie and Summer collaborated on the 2022 project, Baagaakige: It Makes A Sound Like Little Thunder, at Forest City Gallery. In anticipation of their upcoming digital media artwork for Museum London's Centre at the Forks, Baapaagimaak: Weaving Endurance, SASAH invites them to discuss their individual and collaborative practices.Â
Katie Wilhelm is an Anishnaabe from Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is an award-winning designer and consultant and received a London Top 20 Under 40 designation in 2021. Her artwork centres on themes of reconciliation and reclaiming Indigenous joy. A champion for the Indigenous community, she continuously looks to inspire others to create a more colourful future for Turtle Island.Â
Summer Bressette is an Anishinaabe from Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. She is a curator, community animator, educator, public speaker, and storyteller. In 2013, she earned her Master's in Education from Western University, where she specialized in Indigenous Education Policy Leadership. Summer is passionate about the arts, education, and language revitalization.
Sara Mai Chitty is a member of Alderville First Nation, a Board Member of Forest City Gallery, and Curriculum and Pedagogy Advisor for Indigenous Initiatiives at Western University. |
More Local Community Events with SASAH Colleagues for your Calendar
Michael Gibson Gallery, Saturday, September 21, 2-4
Bikes, Film, Art! FCG, London Cycle Link and MEC are partnering on a day of bikes, art, and a free outdoor screening. September 21st at Boyle Park.
Concrete Beach, September 23, 10-11 AM (wear an orange shirt!)
September 28, Dundas Place, 11-4PM
Weldon Library Community Room, September 30, 2-5PM
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The School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH) offers an enriched undergraduate learning experience that is unique in Canada. Students gain practical experience in many career fields in a range of sectors—including arts and culture, non-profit, for-profit, education, and information technology—and undertake opportunities in the London community and beyond. We are grateful for our community: our students and alumni, our teaching fellows, our valued Advisory Council, our community partners and our supporters.
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