The Arts
Freeze: Sculptural Installation
Courtyard, Niagara-on-the-lake Campus, Niagara College
This is the second installation of Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero’s temporal sculpture, Freeze. An anti-monument, its power relies on the memories and associations that linger well beyond the physical fact of its disappearance. As ice melts into air over the two days of the human rights conference, the aspiration is that the weight of oppression, personal and systemic, begins to evaporate as well.
last seen alive in police custody
under the influence
found 5 days later frozen to death in a field
wearing one shoe
marks on his body likely caused by handcuffs
aboriginal teenage boy
dropped off and walking to where?
In memory of Neil Stonechild (1973-1990)
- The installation Freeze is a public art project of the convenience curatorial collective
Harmony Them = Us: Photographic Display
Cafeteria, Niagara-on-the-lake Campus, Niagara College
This exhibition of photographs and words captures the story of Canadian diversity. The stories behind the photographs form an essential part of the exhibition: tales such as that of Roya Movafegh, who turns her camera over to a young First Nation's child so that his voice could also be part of her journey, and that of Paul Wong, whose return to the Chinese cafes in which he grew up prompted a highly emotional encounter. These photographic journeys transcend cultural boundaries and inspire people top reflect on issues of diversity.
- Courtesy of Harmony Movement
Drumming Performance: Niagara Regional Native Centre
The Gathering Thunder drum group is a local drumming group from the Niagara Region that has been together for five years. They have been the host drum for numerous powwows all across Ontario, and have been featured in many local events and performances. During the conference they will be showcasing their talent by doing two 15 minute performances.
Human Rights Art Display: Orchard Park Elementary School, Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara College, main hallway
Grades 2 and 3 students from Orchard Park Elementary School in Niagara Falls have been studying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its impact over the past 60 years. They have expressed their feelings about human rights and the Declaration in art projects. Some of these projects will be on display during the Conference. Several students and their teacher will be present to talk about their art with delegates.
Fierté!: Racism Campaign Posters
Niagara College Breakout rooms
La Passerelle I.D.É. (Integration and Economic Development) is a francophone non-profit organization, founded in 1993, to meet the integration and development needs of francophone youths coming from the various cultural communities in the Great Toronto Area.
For more than a year, la Passerelle I.D.É. team worked for the success of its project called Fierté!, a project to sensitize and prevent hate crimes among Francophone, racial and ethnocultural minority youths and their peers, in francophone High Schools, and among the community, in the Great Toronto Area.
The concept for this campaign was developed as a result of important research based on meetings with key people in the community and organized meetings with youth, victims, teachers and principals. The purpose was to sketch the current situation of hate crimes affecting young people attending francophone High Schools in the Great Toronto Area. La Passerelle I.D.É. conceived sensitization tools based on real testimonies.
Themes treated in this 8 poster series has been chosen consciously to reach francophone youth in their own language and to sensitize them on the seriousness of some remarks, too often used.
Deliberately, la Passerelle I.D.É. gambled on the diffusion of a high impact message to deeply impress people and to begin long-term change.
Seneca College Marketing Campaigns
Niagara College Breakout rooms
For the past three years, the Ontario Human Rights Commission teamed up with students and faculty from Seneca College’s graphic design program at York University to develop human rights awareness campaigns. These artists of tomorrow have presented an exciting, fresh perspective on such human rights issues as race, family status and the transformation of Ontario’s human rights system.
All of the work has been of such high quality that the Commission continues to seek opportunities to showcase it, and find partners to expand the campaigns and reach a wider audience.
When you visit breakout rooms, be sure to look for examples of the contribution youth and marketing can make to promoting human rights across Canada.
Piano Performance
Emily Strojin, assisted by her dad, Alan Strojin, will play a variety of piano music for our enjoyment during the CASHRA reception on June 16, 2008. Emily is in her 4th year of piano and is instructed by Ms Valerie Merlo of St. Catharines."
CASHRA 2008 National Human Rights Conference, presented by the
Ontario Human Rights Commission
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