Power through Imagination: The Art of Gender Justice Panel Discussion

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Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Following the sold-out Women in Leadership Conference held in October 2016, it was apparent that the community need to continue the conversations based on gender justice and change.

The Society of Friends of St. Ann’s Academy (SFSAA), and the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria will host an evening with women who use art as means of gender justice and change in the community.

This event is part of a series of panel discussions designed in response to the feedback received. Dr. Darlene Clover, is a UVic Professor of Leadership Studies and will chair the panel. She believes that “conversations about the arts are important, as they bring hope and new pedagogies of possibility. Amidst concerns about our impoverished sense of the creative possibilities in human life, women artists are engaging in practices that rupture the systems of meaning that produce gender hierarchies and social injustices; to imagine our world not as it is, but as it could be”.

The panel will include:

Kimberly Croswell who works with puppetry and theatre;

Francis Dick, a painter;

Dr. Catherine Etmanski, who will introduce us to metissage;

and slam poet Ann-Bernice Thomas.

Lifecycles Project Society will provide light refreshments made from fresh produce. Admission to the event is by donation. To register, for general enquiries, or more information about the series, write to Satinder (Satty) Virdi, Executive Director at [email protected].

Alternatively contact Co-Presidents of the Society: Darlene Clover, 250-721-7816 or Lynne Milnes, 250-472-5031.