KWIC Weekly News & Events

January 27th, 2018
7:30 PM
How I Learned to Make Light: The Art of Relationship

KWIC-ReFrame Sat Night Feature Event  In conjunction with the documentary film, Shut Up and Say Something featuring spoken word artist and activist, Shane Koyzcan (Canada, 2017; Melanie Wood), with special guests Charlie Petch and Moe Clark, and a Q&A with filmmaker Melanie Wood. Charlie Petch is a Peterborough-grown, Toronto-based playwright, spoken word artist, musical saw player and creative director of "Hot Damn It's A Queer Slam." www.charliecpetch.com. Métis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark fuses layers of vocal sound and spoken word to create meaning rooted in personal legacy and ancestral memory. Moe recently launched intercultural arts organization nistamîkwan. www.moeclark.ca Entrance with a ReFrame Feature Film Ticket ($15.00). 7:30pm at Showplace Peterborough. Tickets at GreenUP, Happenstance and reframefilmfestival.ca. More info: kwic.info


January 28th, 2018
1:30PM
Askîhk Petakosiw: voicing the earth body with Moe Clark

This workshop is the perfect introduction to the improvisational and alternative use of our voices with a heightened awareness of listening through the body. Working with techniques of vocal improvisation, Linklater technique and active listening, participants will be guided in a step-by-step exploration of their breath, body, internal and external voices, as well as group sound-creation. We will move breath and sounds of varying qualities through our bodies. Then, moving around the room, we will explore how sound and movement play together in space. One by one we go through this process of sound making to tap into authentic voice. Workshops advance as elements of circle singing and voice orchestras are explored. About the Facilitator: Métis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a nomadic songbird with wings woven from circle singing and spoken word. Mistress of the looping pedal, her poetic songs resonate with the power to heal and to connect with authentic purpose. Originally from Treaty 7, she’s called Tio’tia:ke/ Montreal home for nine years. As an educator, she facilitates creative workshops in community and with indigenous youth with a basis for deepening embodiment and awareness through personal and collective expression. www.moeclark.ca / www.nistamîkwan.com 
RSVP REQUIRED – only 14 spots! - info@kwic.info or 705-748-1680
(prioritizing spaces for Indigenous folks and people of colour)
The Theatre on King, 
159 King Street, Peterborough (at the back through the parking lot)
Cost: PWYC donation at the door ($0-$40)
PARKING available in the parking lot on the weekend.
For more information on this event, please view the event on http://kwic.info/ask%C3%AEhk-petakosiw-voicing-earth-body-moe-clark


January 29th, 2018
5:00PM
Crafting Kombucha with Belly of the Beast at Seasoned Spoon Cafe
Kombucha is a refreshing, carbonated beverage made by fermenting sweet tea with a starter culture or "mother". In this workshop, Dani Richardson, owner of Belly of the Beast Craft Kombucha, will teach you how to brew, ferment, and bottle this delicious drink. Participants will have the opportunity to taste a variety of brews, as well as take home a bottle of individually infused booch! This fizzy fermented drink filled with probiotics and live enzymes is an awesome addition to your fermented food repertoire and a healthy alternative for carbonated cravings!
**suggested $5 - $10 donation
email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info and registration
 

A reminder that the KWIC Global Education Resource Centre (Trent U East Bank, Environmental Sciences Building, B101) is open weekdays from 7 AM - 7PM, and everyone is welcome to make use of the space. The Centre is a quite meeting, study, and prayer-friendly space. With a free lending alternative library.

TRENT OXFAM

January 22: 
Trent Oxfam & The CGSJ present: Creating Spaces
Creating Spaces is a monthly panel series to address gendered issues. We intend to create a space for discussion and understanding. How do these issues affect us as Women and gender-oppressed people? How do our experiences differ based on location? How are they the same? Creating Spaces aims to bridge the gap between the experiences of women and gender-oppressed people in the Global South and Global North, through expert speaker panels and community discussion. Join us on January 22 to discuss HIV and AIDs, with panelists: David Macmillan - Gay Men's Health Coordinator at the AIDs Coalition of Ottawa and Ariel O'Neil - Women's Outreach Coordinator at PARN. 

January 25: 
Join us for the Trent Oxfam Pub Night! 
Come join us at Sadleir House for Trent Oxfam's Pub Night! Come get to know us, what we've done this past semester and what our plans for the future are! Please bring with you, an unused full sized bottle of shampoo or conditioner, an unused full sized deodorant or an unused bar soap, which will be donated to the YES shelter for Youth and Families. We will accept anything from their wish list: http://yesshelter.ca/get-involved-now/wish-list/

January 30
Join us for our monthly working group meeting. Find out what we're working on and how YOU can get involved! Facebook event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1554513984643673/

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