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Climate Week
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2005 Sooke Rd.
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Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
Canada
If we held Solidarity across difference as our highest community value, what kinds of bonds might be built? What community might those bonds enable? This workshop is an invitation to collectively pursue Victoria as a community of Solidary in regenerative social and ecological relations. The focus is to build power from within to drive better conditions for all.
Many in our Capital Region District are depleted after years and even decades of trying to change the conditions of our community through myriad means. This takes an active toll on each of us and also the way in which we act within our community. Like far too many communities, Victoria has unequal levels of material security, unjust relations, and over exploitation of the land, water, and kin species. Across experiences, community members hold the resonance and dissonance of how personal and communal realities align with their hopes, dreams, values, and beliefs. The need is growing for what Paolo Freire would describe as praxis - where reflection and action meet to transform communal conditions.
In this half-day workshop, we are inviting Victoria area community members across societal sectors who are compelled by the hunger for something else to come together, in-person. This workshop will create personal and collective space to see where you and we are in service of opening up new possibilities of how Victoria might move towards more generative and just social relations. Who am I/are we in relationship to this place called Victoria - its land, water, kin species - we share this home with? How might organisations and institutions be a nurse log for community actualization? This will be an emergent space to weave together without seeking unity or sameness.
Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix remind us Solidarity is made, not found. We invite you to express your interest to come build Solidarity with us, and to share this invitation with other community members aligned to this calling. Please complete the short form linked below, by November 5.
This event is hosted by RRU, the Resilience by Design Lab, Solvable and is delivered with support from University of Victoria's Faculty of Education.