Summer has fully arrived, and with it gorgeous flowers and delicious fresh fruit and veggies! We hope you have a chance to enjoy those things during your time off this summer. If you are looking for some tasty seasonal treats consider checking out the events hosted at the UBC Farm or other farmers markets in the area. 

If you are beginning to make plans for the fall and are interested in meeting with one of our consultants, please don't hesitate to reach out using our new(ish) consultation form. 

Join CTLT Indigenous Initiatives in a guided exploration of the What I Learned in Class Today Project. During this Summer Institute Session, the project team is excited to offer a demo of the Renewed What I Learned in Class Today Facilitation Guide and Toolkit. Participants will have the chance to ask questions and to reflect on ways to apply the What I Learned in Class Today resources to their specific learning contexts.

Date: August 20, 2025
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Room 2.22, IKBLC

The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) team at CTLT is excited to welcome you to Building Capacity—Networking and Resource Sharing for IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community, a networking, wellness, and educational space offered to the IBPOC identifying teaching and learning community during the CTLT Summer Institute. This is an intentional space to connect IBPOC faculty, students, and staff across the University, to cultivate kinship, community care, and support. While we recognize the variety of spaces, collectivities and modes of organizing across the IBPOC communities as UBC, this event is designed to cultivate an open space of connection and solidarity-building across affinity groups. Acknowledging that connection is foundational to anti-racist teaching and learning, this session is for new and returning IBPOC educators at UBC to connect and share teaching, learning and wellness resources and ideas in a mutually supportive space.

Date: August 22, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am
Location: Room 2.22, IKBLC

We welcome you to attend one of CTLT Indigenous Initiatives‘ monthly Virtual Coffee Hours. They are an informal space to connect with consultants on the team and other colleagues across the university. Some common topics that come up include:  

• Professional development plans for individuals, teams, and departments  
• Engaging with the Indigenous Strategic Plan
• Fostering a respectful classroom and campus climate
• Connecting with a network of people across the university
• Locating relevant resources
• Meaningful land acknowledgements

…and more!

Upcoming Dates: 

• July 22, 2025
• August 27, 2025
• September 10, 2025
• September 25, 2025

On behalf of the stɑl̓əw̓ Arts and Cultural Society, with our head office located on Kwantlen First Nation land in Fort Langley, we are delighted and honoured to host the Fourth annual stɑl̓əw̓ pow-wow held at the Langley Events Centre.  

Date: September 12-14, 2025
Location: 7888 200 St, Langley

This section of the newsletter is a space for intersectional Anti-Racist Teaching and learning (A-RTL) program reflections, community care commemorations, and updates.  

The ARTL program has been working hard this semester to design and deliver fresh programming, resources, and support for the UBC community, including monthly newsletter highlights. At the Intersections highlights the center of anti-racist solidarity: intersectionality, community, and most importantly, joy and celebration. Our first instalment of At the Intersections reflects July being Disability Pride Month. 

Disability Pride Month encourages us to celebrate the diversity of communities living with disabilities, while also reflecting on the systemic and social barriers that continue to limit participation, access, and drive ableism. Delving into the diversity of Disability Pride Month invites us to think about the intersectional identities of those living with disabilities. The compounding social, economic, educational, and systemic inequities that people of color who live with disabilities face in Canadian society have been widely studied. As we reflect on the ongoing impacts of ableism, systemic discrimination and social prejudice, processes that invisiblize people of color and people with disabilities, we wish to offer you question to ponder: What are the interconnections between anti-racist solidarity and anti-ableist solidarity? How do you ensure your anti-racism journey incorporates the principles of disability justice?  

If you want to learn more about the intersections of race and disability, we encourage you to check out a cool resource called the Disability Visibility Project by Alice Wong, for some curated pieces and blogs on the intersection of racism and disability here: Disability Visability Project 

What's Coming Up from ARTL: Building Capacity—Networking and Resource Sharing for IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community

Join us for a fun and interactive afternoon of crafts and community-building with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS). In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to make their own Pride-themed weaving with the help of IRSSS facilitators, and to share their work with others.

Date: July 18, 2025
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Central Library, 350 West Georgia St.

Are you curious about the history of land relationships in Vancouver? Join us for a hyper-local exploration of Indigenous land title and rights in the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. This course introduces the historical foundations of modern land use in Vancouver to provide context for the city's new developments and processes like Sen̓áḵw and the City of Vancouver's UNDRIP Task Force. Question and answer session included, and VPL staff will provide access to further learning resources.

Date: August 14, 2025
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Zoom

The NYP, a summer work-learn program for Indigenous secondary students offered by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), is the longest-running Indigenous youth program in the country. In 1978, MOA curator Madeline Rowan and Heiltsuk educator Brenda Taylor conceived of the program as a unique opportunity for Indigenous high school students to get involved with museum and curatorial work. They applied for federal funding and hired on the NYP‘s first cohort of students in the summer of 1979.

Jesse Carson joined Xwi7xwa Library earlier this year as its first full-time archivist. Managing archival materials introduces a whole new set of considerations particularly around informed consent, data sovereignty and permissions. Part of Carson‘s work will be to develop and recommend policies and procedures for not only the processing and preservation of Xwi7xwa Archives, but also the culturally appropriate handling of materials, managing access and implementing an Indigenous and decolonized approach to the archives.