Join us for the third session in our series “Stories of Partnership,” dedicated to highlighting collaborations that embody reciprocity.
In this session, Erik Beardmore (Kelowna Museums) and Donna Langille (UBC Okanagan Library) will reflect on their partnership and lessons learned over the past two years. Discover how they collaborated on the Okanagan QueerStory podcast and Kelowna’s first Queer Zine Fair, as well as their future plans to continue celebrating and amplifying Kelowna’s queer history. This conversation will be moderated by Christian Isbister (UBC Okanagan Library).
Date: October 2, 2024
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)
Location: Okanagan Special Collections, COM004B (located on the ground floor, in the university’s Commons building), 3287 University Way, Kelowna
Join us if you are interested in:
- Exploring good practices for collaborating with community partners on podcasts and events;
- Gaining candid advice and practical strategies for fostering reciprocity in community-university partnerships;
- Enjoying coffee/tea and a light lunch from Kekuli Cafe among fellow community engagement enthusiasts.
While the Community Engagement Network (CEN) is intended for UBC staff and librarians who do community engagement work, we welcome faculty, students, and community partners to join us for our Stories of Partnership series.
Speakers
Erik Beardmore (she/they/he), Programming Associate, Kelowna Museums: Erik is a queer artist, educator, and multimedia handyman working as an interpretive voice in museums alongside creating comics and zines. They have a bachelor’s degree in what was originally Radio & Television Arts from Ryerson University, which is now a bachelor’s degree in Media Production from Toronto Metropolitan University. (Their own name changed over that time, too!) Erik is an eighth generation settler, born and raised on syilx territory, whose family main homesteads were established on the traditional lands of the Niitsitapi, the Tsuut’ina Nation, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, and the Otipemisiwak Métis.
Donna Langille (she/her/they/them), Community Engagement Librarian, UBCO Library: Donna lives and works as an uninvited settler on the unceded traditional territory of the Syilx Okanagan peoples. She is the Open Education Librarian, as well as the subject liaison librarian for film studies, theatre, media studies, and the digital humanities at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO). Their work includes providing support to students, staff, and faculty working on open educational resources (OER), and building advocacy and awareness of OER at her institution. They are also a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBCO. As a queer scholar, they are interested in reframing the way we observe and acknowledge queer histories in relation to and with feminist technologies.
Christian Isbister (he/him), Indigenous Initiatives Librarian, UBCO Library: Christian is a librarian working on the traditional and unceeded lands of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. He was born on the border of Treaty 6 and 7 Territory with Metis, Ukrainian, Dutch, and Irish ancestry and family spread across the Prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan. He works as the Indigenous Initiatives librarian at UBC Okanagan, where his role intersects with the Indigenous studies and Indigenous Language Fluency Degrees.
About the Event Organizer
The Community Engagement Network (CEN) is for staff and librarians at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan who do community engagement work. Our purpose is to: (1) create and sustain a sense of community among staff at UBC who lead and support community-university engagement and (2) increase our collective capacity and provide tools for reciprocal, community-led engagement.
Series Objectives
- To highlight and learn from community-university partnerships that exemplify reciprocity.
- To provide opportunities for staff and librarians to learn from community partners’ feedback to better our collective engagement practices.
Registration is now closed.