Events + Opportunities
UNPFII Panel: Indigenous Youth Leading Solutions for Climate Justice
WECAN International hosted panel event, “Indigenous Youth Leading Solutions for Climate Justice”.
Supporting Youth Wellbeing in the Climate Crisis
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Time: 11 AM PDT \\ 12 PM MDT \\ 1 PM CDT \\ 2 PM EDT
Location: Zoom, Register Here
Hosted by YouthREX | Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange. Join "Supporting Youth Wellbeing in the Climate Crisis" – an exploration of critical understandings and hopeful practices to support youth wellbeing in the climate crisis, featuring an engaging discussion with special guests – including practitioners, researchers, and young changemakers – on how these understandings and practices can be taken up and applied in our work with youth.
Speakers:
Swelen Andari, Senior Manager, Climate Resilience & Youth Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Laura Glover, Youth Worker, Therapist, Researcher, and PhD Student, School of Social Work, York University
Willo Prince, Education Coordinator, Indigenous Climate Action
Mariam Sarikaya, Youth Climate Collective, Lakeshore Arts
Abhay Singh Sachal, Founder & Executive Director, Break The Divide
Fraser Thomson, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice
This event will also feature a performance by poet Robyn Kaur Sidhu.
Artivist Youth Workshop Series | Change the Story to Change the World
This is a two-day workshop series led by the Artivist Network and hosted by Indigenous Climate Action’s Youth Leadership Program.
This workshop is designed for Indigenous youth age 18-29.
All Our Relations | Intersectionality and Prophecy
This session will give a brief introduction to prophecies internationally and work that is being done to support the Earth. This webinar is meant to support knowledge sharing with youth from various elders, grandmothers, and Earth workers on what is happening on the Earth and how it includes all of our relations within this work.
In this session we will be hearing from:
Grandmother Dianne Ottereyes Reid - Cree grandmother from Waswanipi, Quebec; Midewiwin; traditional healer and teacher of traditional knowledge.
Mike Nadjiwon - Ojibway Nation; Midewiwin; working with prophecy for the future generations.
Mindahi Bastida - caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec Peoples of Mexico; Otomi-Toltec Ritual Ceremony Officer.
Pooven Moodley - Human Rights and Environmental Lawyer and social justice activist from South Africa; working with environmental and land defenders, backing up Indigenous communities and their territories using technology.
ICA Zine Submission Deadline
We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 01: 🌱 The Stories We Carry (relating to climate, social, cultural, etc., justice)