Launch of Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice

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We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice on Wednesday, September 27th from 7-9pm at the Art Gallery of Guelph.

Join us for light refreshments, a cash bar, and riveting talks from Indigenous (Lenape-Potawatomi) education leader and scholar Dr. Susan Dion, cutting-edge disability artist and academic Dr. Eliza Chandler, and artistic performance by the brilliant Indigenous (Lenape-Potawatomi) and disability-identified artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher.

The Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice is a newly established social science and arts-informed research centre at the University of Guelph in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences. Re•Vision has a mandate to use arts-informed and community engaged research methods to foster inclusive communities, well-being, equity, and justice. We investigate the power of the arts, and especially story, to positively influence decision-makers, to build intersectional alliances, and to imagine more just futures.

Building on Dr. Carla Rice’s successful Canada Research Chair program (Project Re•Vision) in Gender, Care, and Relationships, the Centre will grow an already well-established network of multimedia storytelling facilitators, faculty researchers, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate student collaborators to broaden the reach and impact of its methodological work. At the heart of Re•Vision is REDLAB (the Re•Visioning Differences Mobile Media Arts Lab), a physical space and a mobile media lab where participants create multi-media stories—1 to 5 minute-long videos that pair personal narratives with artwork, video, sound, music and more. To date, Re•Vision collaborators have together generated an archive of over 400 films, which have been screened widely.

In the coming years, the Centre will be involved in research projects in three main areas of focus:

1) Transforming professional care encounters with/ for people with disabilities and differences

2) Representing Indigenous voices and perspectives in educational and artistic processes and practices, and

3) Developing feminist- and disability-focused creative research practices.

We look forward to celebrating the launch of the Centre with you!

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