Featuring artists and performers from
all around the world, the Muhtadi Toronto International Drumming Festival has events,
workshops and performances planned throughout Toronto on June 1, 5 and 8-10. Click
here for the event poster or visit The Festival website. Tickets for the June 9th
International drumming performers and dancing to the beat of Latin Rhythms also available
from Ticketmaster.
23rd
FRIENDS OF OCASI DINNER & DANCE JUNE 14th
The Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) is holding its 23rd Friends of
OCASI Dinner & Dance Celebration at the Latvian Canadian
Cultural Centre in Toronto.
Partygoers can expect great people, music from around the world, fantastic food and lot's
of fun. Cost: $50/person for community groups. Table discounts available.
Visit http://www.ocasi.org to download an order form or
call Eli Cohen at (416) 322-4950 ext. 228 to reserve your tickets today.
THE ST.
LAWRENCE CENTRE FORUM'S 'ON WHEELS!'
The St.
Lawrence Centre Forum is launching a new initiative: The Forum 'On Wheels!' Forums will be
held at locations across the amalgamated Toronto. The majority of Forums will continue to
be held at our usual Front Street location: The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. The
Circle Comes Around: Relations Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Peoples.
Date: SATURDAY
MAY 5, 2001 1:00-3:00 PM.
Location:
Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. (North of Bloor). Admission is free. Phone: (416)
964-9087. Web site: www.stlc.com/forums.htm
CUCS
PUBLIC SEMINAR
Globalization
and the Vulnerability of the City
Patrick
Troy, Professor, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies,
Australian
National University
As cities
privatize and deregulate the provision of urbanservices such as water supply, power and
transport they make themselves increasingly vulnerable to the vagaries of the finance and
management of those services. The ownership may be held by corporations some distance from
the cities served and therefore from the social and political expectations of their
residents. This may result in lower standards of service and reluctance, or even failure,
on the part of the service corporation to comply with environmental standards. Another
consequence of the globalization of industrial production and commerce is that competition
between firms has increasingly been replaced by competition between cities. One effect of
this is that the employment base of a city may be eroded by decisions made by the 'city
fathers' in another - often by those in another city in another country. The loss of
security of employment of individuals may be replaced by the loss of the security of the
economic base of entire cities.
WEDNESDAY,
MAY 9, 2001 4:00 P.M.
Room 548,
246 Bloor St. West (at Bedford Rd, St. George subway station)
This
seminar is co-sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies (CUCS), the Faculty
of Social Work’s Centre for Applied Social Research, and the Dr. Chow Yei Ching Chair
in Housing.
KALABASH
SUNDAY MAY 20
Kalabash is
a jazz fusion sextet that was formed in 1993 with two goals: first, to feature the steel
drum as a lead voice in a jazz ensemble, and second, to experiment with a fusion of the
folk and popular rhythms of the Caribbean with the improvisatory form and rich harmonies
of jazz. The repertoire of the group comprises jazz standards, jazz fusion gems and
originals that often use the rhythms of the Caribbean as a starting point. The group has
becoming established as one of the hottest jazz fusion groups in Toronto.
The group
has just completed its first CD and the Toronto launch is
SUNDAY, MAY
20, 6 P.M. cover $15 CD’s on sale
Berlin
Restaurant and Nightclub, 2335 Yonge St. at Eglinton
MANUAL
ON DEVELOPING OUTCOME MEASURES
A launch of
the new manual "Splash and Ripple: Creating Outcomes Measurements for Agencies
Serving Immigrants" will take place on at the OCASI office at 110 Eglinton Avenue W.,
Suite 200, Toronto
This
project has been funded by Canadian Heritage and implemented by OCASI with the support of
a community advisory committee. For further information contact OCASI or visit their
website at <www.ocasi.org>.
The
Faculty of Social Work Alumni Association Annual General Meeting
will take
place on THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2001.
Faculty of
Social Work, Room 548, 246 Bloor Street West, University of Toronto
6 p.m. -
Reception, light refreshments will be served
6:15 p.m. -
Alumni Awards
6:30 p.m. -
Panel Discussion and Debate
7:30 p.m. -
Alumni Affairs
Topic:
Recovering the Caring Society: Reinvesting in People
Guest
panel:
Ben
Carniol, Professor, Ryerson University
Jack
Layton, Councillor, City of Toronto
David
Crane, Journalist, Toronto Star
Moderator:
Gordon Wolfe, Director, Jewish Family and Child Services, Toronto
Please let
us know if your planning to attend the AGM. RSVP by May 25th, to the Alumni Office Tel:
416-978-6394 Fax: 416-978-7072 E-mail: alumni.fsw@utoronto.ca
Announcing
the Fourth Annual Community Research Network Conference --
"RE-SHAPING
THE CULTURE OF RESEARCH: PEOPLE, PARTICIPATION, PARTNERSHIPS & PRACTICAL TOOLS"
When:
JULY 6-8, 2001
Where:
Austin, TX (USA) at the University of Texas.
Who:
Community activists and organizers, scholars, funders, students, experienced practitioners
of community-based research, and anyone interested in community-based research.
Full and
partial scholarships are available. Registration is currently underway. To get
registration and/or scholarship materials go to the conference website:
http://www.loka.org/conf2001/crn_conference_2001.htm
call us:
1-413-559-5860 email us: <Loka@Loka.org>
The 7th
Annual SUMMER PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH
VIDEOCONFERENCE
ON MINORITY HEALTH
JUNE 18-22,
2001; 1:30-4:30 P.M. EDT, from Chapel Hill, NC
www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2001/
Presented
by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health (Minority
Health Project, Dean's Office, and the Center for Health Statistics Research).
This
Videoconference covers issues and solutions related to: collecting, analyzing and
interpreting data for racial/ethnic populations; disentangling and assessing the
relationships among race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status; using ethnographic research
to improve enumeration and data quality; and community-academic research partnerships.
Videoconference participants ask questions and make comments via toll-free telephone, fax,
and e-mail. Speakers this year include Camara Jones (Keynote), Olivia Carter-Pokras,
Margaret Davis, Manuel de la Puente, Ralph DiClemente, Aida Giachello, William Hobson,
Felicia Hodge, Glenn Magpantay, and Gina Wingood.
The School
of Public Health is NOT charging a site fee this year. To obtain information or register
as a Videoconference site, visit: www.minority.unc.edu
or send
your questions to <Minority_Health@unc.edu>
Best
wishes, Victor J. Schoenbach, <victor_schoenbach@unc.edu>
UPCOMING
SESSION OF THE GTA FORUM
THURSDAY
JUNE 7, 2001 -- 4:00 P.M.
AGRICULTURAL
LAND POLICY: Debating the Alternatives
Speakers:
Christopher Bryant, Charlotte McCallum and Margaret Walton
Moderator:
T.B.A.
Place: The
Toronto Archives Auditorium, 255 Spadina Road, Toronto
For more
information please contact: <gtainfo@yorku.ca>
NATIONAL
SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
JUNE
18-20, 2001.
Ingrid
Hauck and Reza Shahbazi, co-chairs. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and the
settlement sector have announced the first National Settlement Conference, the first
national forum on settlement policy issues, to be held this June. This Conference will be
an opportunity to debate priority policy issues, to strengthen the settlement sector, and
to facilitate learning within the sector. The conference planning committee will bring
together invited delegates from the settlement community, provincial and federal
governments, and other community stakeholders who are directly involved with new
immigrants and refugees in Canada. For further information contact CIC or OCASI.
The
major "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance" (WCAR) will take place in South Africa, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2001.
A list-serve that provides regular information on the conference has been established. For
more information on the conference or to subscribe to the list-serve, send an e-mail to
<lwiseberg.hchr@unog.ch>.
Ethnicizing
the Nation -- Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Sixteenth Biennial Conference, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada on NOVEMBER 2-4, 2001
Themes:
Sites of popular culture; Memory, place and politics; Generations: continuity and change;
Intersecting Ethnicities.
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/mhso/conferenceinfo.htm
CONFERENCE
ON IDENTITY
The
Association for Canadian Studies in partnership with the Multiculturalism Program
(Department of Canadian Heritage), and the Metropolis Project Team (Citizenship and
Immigration Canada), is organizing a two-day policy-research seminar on ethnocultural,
racial, religious and linguistic identity. The seminar will take place in Halifax NOVEMBER
1 - 2, 2001 immediately before the biennial Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Conference.
Background
papers have been commissioned to explore some of the critical policy and research issues
along a number of axes.
Racism,
Discrimination and Hate (Sam Noh and Violet Kaspar, University of Toronto)
Sport (Noel
Dyck, Simon Fraser University)
Religion
(Paul Bowlby, St. Mary’s University)
Education
(Yvonne Herbert, University of Calgary)
Culture
(Will Straw, McGill)
Representative
Institutions (Cynthia Baker, Universite de Moncton)
Life in the
Electronic Age (Cynthia Alexander, Acadia University)
Leadership
(Jack Jewab, McGill University)
Recognition
and Reconciliation (Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa)
Heritage
Languages (Henry Chow, University of Regina)
Immigration
(Evie Tastsoglou, Saint Mary’s University)
Cultural
Spectacle (Paul Bramadat, University of Winnepeg)
Food
(Jennifer Welsh, Mustafa Koc, Ryerson Polytechnic University)
Media
(Minelle Mahtani, University of British Columbia)
Labour
Market (Peter Li, University of Saskatchewan)
If you are
interested in participating in the seminar, or know of colleagues who may be interested,
we ask that you contact us at <general@acs-aec.ca> and let us know which two areas
would interest you the most. (The structure of the seminar will allow participation by
each individual in, a minimum of two sessions).
If you are
interested in the content of the seminar, but are unable to attend, please let us know and
we will keep you connected electronically and ensure that you receive copies of background
papers and the draft research framework which will emerge from the seminar. A follow
meeting will be held in May 2002 in conjunction with the Association for Canadian
Studies’ Annual Conference.
A
literature review of the English-language research on identity done in Canada has also
been completed by Dr. Anneke Rummens, University of Toronto. A French-language review by
Claude Couture, University of Alberta, is also underway. If you would like to receive
copies of these, please let us know.
METROPOLIS
CONFERENCES
The FIFTH
CANADIAN NATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE will be held in Ottawa, Canada OCTOBER 16 - 20,
2001. For more information please contact Steven Morris at <Steven.Morris@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca>
The
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE will be held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands NOVEMBER
26 - 30, 2001.
Details
for Call For Workshop Proposals are now availble:
http://international.metropolis.net
If you are
interested in receiving more information please contact either
Rinus
Penninx at <penninx@pscw.uva.nl> or
Howard
duncan at <howard.duncan@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca>
CALL FOR
PAPERS
REFUGEE
RECEPTION AND INTEGRATION: BEST PRACTICES
Guest
Editor: Marzia Ali
Refuge
invites contributions to an upcoming issue dedicated to best practices in refugee
reception and integration. The publication of this issue will follow an international
conference in Sweden on the same subject, hosted by Integrationsverket, in April, 2001.
Refuge
particularly invites submissions on topics including but not limited to: resettlement as a
tool of international protection; reception and integration of refugees with special
needs, such as women-at-risk,survivors of violence and torture, minors and the elderly;
identity andadaptation in the integration process; comparative studies of reception and
integration practices; the role of refugees in their own integration; the role of NGO's in
the reception and integration process; capacity building with refugee involvement;
economics and integration; and the role of the media in educating receiving communities.
Refuge welcomes submissions from authors inside and outside Canada, particularly from
persons participating in the Integrationsverket conference.
Deadline:
AUGUST 6, 2001.
For further
information, please contact: Marzia Ali, Guest Editor, Program Coordinator, Action
Refugiés Montréal, 1410 Guy Suite 25, Montréal, Québec, H3H 2L7, Email:
actionr@jonction.net (or) Sharryn J. Aiken, Editor-in-Chief, Centre for Refugee Studies,
York Lanes, Suite 322, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
Email:
refuge@yorku.ca
________________________
There will
be a special issue on "Racism and Refugee Policy" in Refuge, guest edited by Dr.
Rudhramoorthy Cheran. The publication of this issue will coincide with the UN World
Conference Against Racism, to be held in South Africa in September 2001. Refuge invites
contributions for the special issue. The themes include comparative international
perspectives on racism and refugee policy, the intersection of racism and sexism and NGO
experience in reducing racism in refugee policy. Also are welcome related country specific
articles.
The
deadline for submissions is JUNE 15, 2001.
For more
information, and for guidelines for contributors, please contact:
R. Cheran,
Research Associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York Lanes, Suite 322, York University,
4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario M3J 1P3; e-mail: <cheran@cheran.net> (or)
Sharryn J. Aiken, Editor-in-Chief, Centre for Refugee Studies;
e-mail:
<refuge@yorku.ca>.
CALL
FOR ARTWORK/PROSE/POETRY FOR ALTERNATIVE REPORT
**please
distribute/post as widely as possible**
The
Immigrant Rights Working Group, sponsored by the National Network for Immigrant and
Refugee Rights, is looking for artistic submissions to include in an alternative report
published for the upcoming World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related
Intolerance, to be held this September, in Durban, South Africa. Submissions may also be
part of an artistic display that will be presented at the World Conference.
This
alternative report will document human rights abuses against immigrants and refugees
through collected testimony, critique specific anti-immigrant legislation, analyze
theoretical arguments on the role of migration in the global economy, and will suggest
linkages between the migrant and refugee rights movements and other anti-racial movements
around the world. Artistic submissions accepted will be included in the
report to
highlight and emphasize articles.
Artistic
submissions should address the lives, struggles, and the power of immigrants and refugees
in the United States. Photographs and other visual art should be submitted in sizes
8.5"x11" or smaller. Digital submissions (in high resolution), are also accepted
in JPEG or TIFF format. Poetry and prose should be approximately 250 words or less.
All artists
will be cited for their contribution if published. Please attach name, address, phone
number, and email (if applicable) to submission. Submissions will be returned, please
include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Deadline is JUNE 1, 2001.
Please
submit pieces to: Eunice Cho, World Conference Campaign—Alternative Report Artwork
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 310 8th St., Suite 307, Oakland, CA
94709 or email to: echo@nnirr.org. For more information about our campaign, check out:
<www.wcarmigrants.org> or call 510-465-1984.
CALL
FOR ARTICLES FOR INSCAN
Research
Resource Division for Refugees (RRDR) is seeking contributions to Volume 15 of its
quarterly newsletter INSCAN: International Settlement Canada . As many of you are already
aware, INSCAN is circulated across Canada and includes subscribers in the United States
and Europe, providing information on the issues facing refugees, immigrants and those
working with them during the resettlement and integration process.
RRDR
particularly invites article submissions on the following broadly-based themes: Vol. 15
(1) the resettlement/integration experiences of refugees and those working with refugees
outside of larger urban areas and Vol. 15 (2) newcomers' experiences in the labour market.
Articles addressing other pertinent topics, book reviews, videos, conference reports or
information on other resources are also welcome.
Articles
are limited to approximately 1000 words in length. The writing style is at the discretion
of the author, although INSCAN's primary audience - the refugee/immigrant service provider
- should be kept in mind when determining content. All articles should be submitted in
either Word or WordPerfect and the author's biographical and contact information should be
provided.
Deadlines:
Issue One - JUNE 8, 2001; Issue Two - SEPT 7, 2001
For further
information, please contact: Leah Forcese, Research Resource Division for Refugees,
Carleton University, SRB 112, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Phone:
613-520-2717; Fax: 613-520-3676 Email: lforcese@ccs.carleton.ca
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