You’re invited to join The Learning Continuum Series on Thursday, October 28 | 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Community partners of the McMaster Faculty of Humanities’ Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts (CCENA) discuss how storytelling and the “narrative arts” can contribute to community thriving, creativity, and care.

The Learning Continuum Series – Building Community Through Narrative Arts
Thursday, October 28, 2021
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. EST

Please register today!

Agenda

6:30 p.m.: Introduction
Speakers: Lorraine Carter, Director, McMaster Continuing Education, Lorraine York and Daniel Coleman, CCENA Co-Directors

6:40 p.m.: Art in Hard Times: Listening, Witnessing, and Storytelling as Community Care
Speaker: Michelle Peek, Founder and Executive Director of Art Not Shame
In this talk Michelle will walk us through the community-engaged process that informed Art Not Shame’s Covid-response project “The Mural Project: Art in Hard Times.” The Mural Project brought together 67 people in June of 2020, in a process of collective community-making through art, culminating in the creation of a large-scale digital mural. She will focus on the nature of listening, witnessing, and storytelling as critical components of a responsive process and community care.

6:50 p.m.: The Thematics and Storyings of Care by Hamilton Arts & Letters (HA&L), a Mighty Small Hamilton Magazine
Speaker: Shane Neilson, Editor, HA&L
In this ten-minute talk, Shane will discuss HA&L magazine’s thematics and storyings of care as embodied in its special HAMMER (Hamilton) and ASYLUM (illness) issues. Shane will also mention HA&L’s broader engagement of care w/ Canadians with its Dis/ability Poetics issue. He’ll conclude with a closer look at “My Life in Pieces”, a nonfiction piece in the aforementioned HAMMER issue, by Peggyanne Mansfield.

7:00 p.m.: Question and Answer Session