Events, publications and activities of the ReImagining Value Action Lab in or related to Thunder Bay
Join us from August 10-21 in Thunder Bay for a two-week intensive dedicated to exploring the space between art, activism and critical inquiry on the topic: where to anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles intersect.
Decolonial reading group (weekly), Public lectures (monthly), Art and activism workshops (November 23-24)
RiVAL and the Thunder Bay Public Library are pleased to present a series of three lectures by RiVAL’s co-director and Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University Dr. Max Haiven. Saturday, September 21, 2pm: The Power and Poverty of the Imagination Saturday, October 26, 2pm: Read more…
The ReImagining Value Action Lab invites applications by August 2 to fund a small art-activism project in Thunder Bay, Ontario on the topic(s) of anti-racism and decolonization.
This is a quick note to tell you about all the exciting events we have planned for the fall, which is already underway. First comes a quick calendar and beneath that descriptions of the events. RiVAL is a workshop for the radical imagination located physically in Thunder Bay’s North Core Read more…
RiVAL has received tentative support from MITACs to encourage applications from undergraduates from selected institutions in Australia, Brazil, China, India, France, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Ukraine to work with us for up to twelve weeks on a research project on the potentials, limits and dangers for grassroots movements Read more…
RiVAL is pleased to welcome three visiting speakers/presenters this fall. Anti-Ethnography: Indigenous responses to colonial gaze Film screening and discussion with Brooklyn-based Ojibwe film-makers Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil: a curated selection of video works which examines the violence inherent in the ethnographic impulse, and unveils the absurd fetishism underpinning the Read more…
Join us each month to experiment with social justice-themed board games! For more information, visit: rival.lakeheadu.ca/games
Join us! RiVAL Research-Creation Associate Cassie Thornton will be leading a series of ‘free’ yoga classes dedicated to exploring feminist economics and liberation from money throughout fall 2017. For more information please visit: rival.lakeheadu.ca/yoga.
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