On Tuesday, January 28 CCEL is hosting an event on how art can be used for social change and to break down stereotypes.
Event Details:
At this event, Founder and Director of BlackArtGastown, Nya Lewis, will talk about how art can be used to facilitate social change and raise awareness, and will offer some principles and promising practices to designing art through a lens of racial and cultural inclusion, diversity and equity.
Designathon Project:
This event is part of a city-wide poster campaign on ethnicity, immigration, race, religion, and culture for the Burnaby Together Coalition Against Racism and Hate intiative led by Burnaby Family Life.
Attendees will have the opportunity to opt-in to form teams of 3 to 4 people to designing a poster. Design teams will have up to a month following the event to design a poster. $500 cash prize for the first team, gift cards for the second and third, and a free social justice workshop for all teams. *Note: Wanting to join a design team is not a requirement to attending this event. All are welcome.
Date: Tuesday January 28, 2020 Time: 6pm to 8pm Location: Community Hall at Kitsilano Neighbourhoods House (2305 W 7th Avenue, Vancouver) (click here for map)
DABC has received the following information from the University of Toronto:
Women with physical disabilities have 6.6 times higher chance of developing heart disease and 5.9 times higher chance of having cardiac pain compared to women without disabilities. We are partnering with the Network of Women with Disabilities (NOW), the Canadian Council of Disabilities (CCD) and the DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) of Canada to learn how to improve decision-making, access and quality of care for women who have disabilities and cardiac pain through patient journey mapping.
We would like to recruit 10-16
English-speaking women over 40 years of age living with a mobility disability
(e.g., paraplegia, quadriplegia, osteoarthritis, etc.) and cardiac pain/cardiac
symptoms (e.g., shortness of breath). Women will be eligible if they respond
‘yes, sometimes’ or ‘yes, often’ to any of the following three questions: ‘Does
a long-term physical condition or health problem, reduce the amount or the kind
of activity you can do’ (Q1), ‘at home?’ (Q2) ‘at work?, and (Q3) ‘in other
activities (e.g., transportation, leisure)?’ We will ask potential participants to have a 10-20-minute
telephone call with us where we will explain our study and project and then we
will ask screening questions. The next step will involve an individual
interview to discuss your experiences, either face-to-face or by telephone or
using the internet. Patterns and connections discovered in the interviews will
inform the creation of storyboards/patient journey maps. If you choose, you can
participate in a discussion group with other women and health care providers.
You will have a chance to review and comment on the storyboards/patient journey
maps in the discussion group.
We will provide a lay summary about the study and its findings to
all those who participated and indicated that they wished to receive a copy.
Travel costs will be reimbursed if you live near Toronto and participants will
receive a $25 honorarium for participating in an individual interview or a
discussion group. If women participate in both they will receive $50.
Disability Alliance BC’s office will be closed for the holidays from Thursday, December 19th – Wednesday, January 1st. It will reopen on Thursday, January 2nd.
From all of us at DABC, we wish you a happy and peaceful holiday season and all the best in the new year!
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