Lecture / Seminar
Debriefing Workshop from 3 – 5pm.
Dialogue with Kesalul! ReconciliACTION artists, Dr. Gerald Gloade and Lily-Beth Fisher
Dialogue with MK Partner, Ann Sylliboy
Dialogue with the CEWIL Team
Student Showcase and Light Supper from 5 – 6:30pm.
Finale from 6:30 – 8:30pm
Opening Ceremony
Words of Welcome
Opening Remarks: Ann Sylliboy (MK) and the CEWIL Team
Indigenous Expert, Keynote: Taylor Baker, Executive Council Member, Tsawwassen First Nation, Acadia University Alumnus, “ReconciliACTION: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Academia” .
Taylor Baker is an Executive Councillor and Legislator for Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN). She is Indigenous with both Coast Salish and Gitxsan ancestry. Taylor was elected in 2022 at 26 years old for a 4-year term, also serving as Co-Chair for TFN’s Housing Advisory Committee. Taylor also worked on the Speaker’s Indigenous Reconciliation Advisory Committee that assisted in the development of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Reconciliation Action Plan release in May 2024. In 2019, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Acadia University.
Indigenous Expert, Keynote: Reflections from Renowned Inuit Educator and Drum Dancer, David Serkoak from Arviat, Nunavut
David Serkoak was in born at Hicks Lake, Nunavut west of Arviat, Nunavut. David has worked in many levels in education as a teacher primary/secondary schools and vice-principal, principal, Instructor at Nunavut Arctic College, and as a curator at the British Museum of Mankind in England.
David helped to develop Inuktitut teaching materials at all levels local, regional and territorial both in NWT and Nunavut.
During his free time he spends his time making Inuit drums to many Arctic communities to the youth. In 2008, David retired from teaching but still very busy giving workshops on Inuit Social History to Civil Servants and several Universities in Ottawa area.
He and his wife Lesley have three grown daughters, Amanda, Meeka and Karla. David spends many hours with his six grandchildren, Briana, Makayla, Kyle, Laura, Ryan and Emma. Summer of 2017, he was invited to drum dance at North Pole via Murmansk, Russia.
In 2022, he was part of Indigenous delegation to Vatican as an Inuk elder and drum dancer.
David is also past and founder of Ahiarmiut Relocation Society, It took 28 years to get Canada to apologize to the Ahiarmiut of forced relocations. In 2019, Ahiarmiut finally received their long-waited apology from Canada.
Unveiling the Kesalul! ReconciliACTION Art Series co-created by Dr. Gerald Gloade and Lily-Beth Fisher
Words of Appreciation
Closing Prayer
Debriefing Workshop from 3 – 5pm.
Dialogue with Kesalul! ReconciliACTION artists, Dr. Gerald Gloade and Lily-Beth Fisher
Dialogue with MK Partner, Ann Sylliboy
Dialogue with the CEWIL Team
Student Showcase and Light Supper from 5 – 6:30pm.
Finale from 6:30 – 8:30pm
Opening Ceremony
Words of Welcome
Opening Remarks: Ann Sylliboy (MK) and the CEWIL Team
Indigenous Expert, Keynote: Taylor Baker, Executive Council Member, Tsawwassen First Nation, Acadia University Alumnus, “ReconciliACTION: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Academia” .
Taylor Baker is an Executive Councillor and Legislator for Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN). She is Indigenous with both Coast Salish and Gitxsan ancestry. Taylor was elected in 2022 at 26 years old for a 4-year term, also serving as Co-Chair for TFN’s Housing Advisory Committee. Taylor also worked on the Speaker’s Indigenous Reconciliation Advisory Committee that assisted in the development of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Reconciliation Action Plan release in May 2024. In 2019, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Acadia University.
Indigenous Expert, Keynote: Reflections from Renowned Inuit Educator and Drum Dancer, David Serkoak from Arviat, Nunavut
David Serkoak was in born at Hicks Lake, Nunavut west of Arviat, Nunavut. David has worked in many levels in education as a teacher primary/secondary schools and vice-principal, principal, Instructor at Nunavut Arctic College, and as a curator at the British Museum of Mankind in England.
David helped to develop Inuktitut teaching materials at all levels local, regional and territorial both in NWT and Nunavut.
During his free time he spends his time making Inuit drums to many Arctic communities to the youth. In 2008, David retired from teaching but still very busy giving workshops on Inuit Social History to Civil Servants and several Universities in Ottawa area.
He and his wife Lesley have three grown daughters, Amanda, Meeka and Karla. David spends many hours with his six grandchildren, Briana, Makayla, Kyle, Laura, Ryan and Emma. Summer of 2017, he was invited to drum dance at North Pole via Murmansk, Russia.
In 2022, he was part of Indigenous delegation to Vatican as an Inuk elder and drum dancer.
David is also past and founder of Ahiarmiut Relocation Society, It took 28 years to get Canada to apologize to the Ahiarmiut of forced relocations. In 2019, Ahiarmiut finally received their long-waited apology from Canada.
Unveiling the Kesalul! ReconciliACTION Art Series co-created by Dr. Gerald Gloade and Lily-Beth Fisher
Words of Appreciation
Closing Prayer
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
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