CREDIT: Ice Breakers (Sandi Rankaduwa, NFB, 2019). Image provided by the National Film Board.
Event Description
The lunch & learn workshop series—Antiracist Images: Screening and Discussing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Decolonization (EDID) Values in Canadian Workplaces—is offered to UBC Faculty of Education CUPE and M&P staff as part of our commitment to enhance awareness on race issues.
This first lunch & learn features a screening and discussion of Sandamini Rankaduwa’s film Ice Breakers (2019), which depicts Josh Crook’s struggles as a Black hockey player in Canada. This screening invites audiences to think beyond their own racialized experiences, challenge normalized practices at the workplace, and continue these conversations with their colleagues.
To begin reflecting on the invisible history of Black civil rights in Canada, we invite you to watch another short film, Roger McTair’s film Journey to Justice (2000), prior to the event: nfb.ca/film/journey_to_justice.
Films are provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Date
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Time
12:45 to 2:00 pm PT
Location
Multipurpose Room, Ponderosa Commons North
2012 – 6445 University Blvd, UBC
Facilitator
Karen Fayemi
Registration
Registration is open to UBC Faculty of Education staff. Seating is limited. Please register by Thursday, September 15, 2022.