Category Archives: Sharing Circle

Recollections and Reflections to the Sharing Circle: Water

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Recollections and Reflections to the Sharing Circle: Water with Aaron Nelson-Moody/Splash (Tawx’sin Yexwulla), Meagan Innes and Jamie Thomas held in the Aboriginal Gathering Place, March 3, 2022. 

It was an incredible sharing circle with three amazing cultural keepers. I listened to each share their knowledge of the site where Emily Carr University’s building sits before it was filled in, when the tide flowed.

I know many of our AGP talks and circles are not recorded for various reasons. I also believe in witnessing and oral knowledge sharing practices. This is the reason I approached Laura Kozak and Pat Vera to write their recollections and reflections of this sharing circle. It always amazes me to see diversity of the way in which knowledge is witnessed. Please enjoy the writings.

Click individual images to see them full size or see them all together: Pat Vera and Laura Kozak’s responses.

 

   

Sharing Circle: Land Back

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jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating utopia.

they are published in several magazines including Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Magazine: Green, GUTS Magazine, SubTerrain, Grain and Room. They are in two anthologies: Hustling Verse (2019) and Love After the End (2020). Their first poetry collection, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Ed.) was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award and a 2021 Dayne Ogilvie Prize Finalist while also winning the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English.

they are a displaced Indigenous person resisting, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver.