<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px">Nanaay Gyaatl’l dii ga – “Grandmother is Sewing”: Stitching Together Rematriation & Redress</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)">This cohort-based interactive workshop series explores Rematriation and Redress aimed at actionable revitalization, reclamation, and reconciliation practices. Areas covered will include:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The development of action-based identity-building frameworks that support participants in upholding Rematriation as resistance</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Understanding the importance of dismantling colonial power structures such as white supremacy, white privilege, white fragility, and settler moves to innocence as foundational to Redress</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Identifying and healing the effects of intergenerational trauma, biological warfare, and forced relocation</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Utilizing Rematriation, Decolonization, and Indigenization beyond theory</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Much of these knowledges are tied to Indigenous lands on Turtle Island (colonially-called Canada) but are fluid, flexible, and adaptable by expanding to lands impacted by colonialism, white supremacy, and eco-terrorism - especially within museum contexts. Centralizing relationality and understanding the colonial hi/stories of the lands we are situated on is a starting point to support the reclamation of Indigenous knowledge systems and power structures.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)">The session facilitator, Yahlnaaw (she/they), is a Skidegate Haida, Queer, Transgender person and Founder of Taajuu Consulting - an Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+ and anti-oppression consulting firm. Yahlnaaw aims to continuously integrate her identity and intersections into her everyday practice prompting participants to reflect on the positionalits of their identities in anti-oppression work.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Workshops will be delivered over the course of two sessions, and offered twice. Please only register for one cohort (March or April).</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dates: March 18, 25 10:00am - 12:00pm (<a href="https://members.museum.bc.ca/public/event/details/d6ae3d20fba31d1979c845ef236cdd7e62642354/1">March registration link</a>)<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">or </span>April 22, 29 | 1:30pm - 3:30pm (<a href="https://museum.bc.ca/event-list/?eid=217&instid=635">April registration link</a>)<br style="box-sizing:border-box">on Zoom<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Cost: $50 (BCMA Members) $75 (Non-Members)</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0)">We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada.<br style="box-sizing:bord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 peoples (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations). We respect past, present, and 
future Indigenous stewards and recognize that we are uninvited guests on
 this territory.</font></span></div></div><div><br><div><font color="#888888"><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BC Museums Association || 675 Belleville Street  || Victoria, BC || V8W 1A1 </span></p></font><font color="#888888"><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.66px"><a href="http://www.museum.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">museum.bc.ca</a></span></p></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>