In continuation of Black History Month, Waterloo Architecture continues to highlight affordable events which are available for its community members.
Black
Lives,
White
(Sugar)
Empires:
Notes
on
Confinement
and
Care
in
the
Wake
of
the
Texas
Prison
System:
Lecture
(Free)
Monday,
February
7th,
2022
at
5
PM
ET
University
of
Virginia
School
of
Architecture
Dr.
Ashanté
Reese
presents
Black
Lives,
White
(Sugar)
Empires:
Notes
on
Confinement
and
Care
in
the
Wake
of
the
Texas
Prison
System.
Few
commodities
have
shaped
and
continue
to
haunt
the
lives
of
Black
people
across
the
diaspora
as
much
as
sugar.
Yet,
to
only
view
Black
people’s
relationship
to
sugar
through
violent
histories
and
presents
is
to
miss
a
sweetness—belonging,
intimacy,
connection—that
exceeds
it.
Simultaneously
engaging
violence
and
care
as
co-constitutive
forces
that
structure
Black
life,
this
talk
draws
from
archival
research
about
carceral
structures
and
sugar
production
alongside
my
own
practice
of
baking
in
search
of
answers
to
the
question:
how
might
we
map
a
distinction
between
sugar—a
product
of
racial
capitalism—and
sweetness,
a
necessary
component
of
Black
life?
Identifying
&
Uprooting
Internalized
Racism
-
Student
Workshop:
Workshop
(Free)
Tuesday,
February
8th,
2022
at
1
PM
ET
University
of
Waterloo
Who
is
Canadian?
Why
are
racialized
individuals
constantly
othered
and
made
to
feel
we
don’t
belong?
This
workshop
is
for
racialized
students
who
are
grieving
the
racism
in
the
world
while
investigating
our
own
internalized
racism.
We
will
detail
our
personal
relationship
to
global
colonialism,
anti-Blackness
and
Indigenous
colonization.
We
will
question
how
mainstream
Western
culture
assimilates
us,
socializes
us
into
anti-immigrant
sentiment,
self-hate
and
losing
connection
to
our
heritages.
Black
History
Month:
A
Celebration
of
Honest
Expression:
Performance
(Free)
Wednesday
February
9th,
2022
at
12PM
ET
On
the
Stoop
Dwayne
has
received
both
the
African
Canadian
Achievement
Award,
and
the
Harry
Jerome
Award
for
Excellence
in
the
Arts.
Morgan
is
the
winner
of
3
Canadian
Urban
Music
Awards
(2001,
2003,
2005).
In
1998,
Morgan
introduced
regular
poetry
slams
to
Toronto,
and
has
watched
them
blossom
across
the
GTA
and
beyond
ever
since.
He
is
a
published
author
and
runs
workshops
for
children
with
various
school
boards
in
the
GTA.
Ujima
Black
History
Month:
research
and
learning:
Lecture
(Free)
Thursday
February
10th,
2022
at
12PM
ET
University
of
Waterloo
Hosted
by
Akua
Asare-Anim,
international
recruitment,
Registrars’
Office,
with
talks
by
Nancy
Reeves,
associate
director,
Equity,
Diversity,
Inclusion
and
Anti-racism
on
equity
and
social
work,
Dr.
Clive
Forrester,
Department
of
English
Language
and
Literature,
on
Caribbean
language
and
culture
in
Canada,
and
Aaron
Francis,
PhD
candidate
in
Global
Governance
on
Vintage
Black
Canada.
Conversation:
Black
Land
Consortium:
Live
sharing
and
workshop
(Free)
Thursday
February
10th,
2022
at
6PM
ET
Bernard
and
Anne
Spitzer
School
of
Architecture
at
the
City
College
of
New
York
The
Black
Land
Consortium
is
an
ongoing
dialogue,
convened
by
Emanuel
Admassu,
Jerome
Haferd,
Curry
Hackett,
and
Jennifer
Newsom,
to
discuss
how
concerns
of
Blackness
and
Land
relate
to
design
and
pedagogy
today.
In
this
live
sharing
and
workshop
session,
the
collaborators
will
connect
urgent
questions
emerging
in
their
practices
and
relative
geographies
to
pedagogy
and
curricula.
How
can
we
disentangle
architecture
and
urban
design
from
property?
How
can
we
disassemble
the
exploitative
regimes
of
speculation
and
displacement
that
anchor
the
built
environment?
Justice
Matters
to
US:
Workshop
(Free)
Thursday
February
10th,
2022
at
6:30PM
ET
LES
Social
Justice
Working
Group
Justice
Matters
to
US
is
a
series
of
curated
events
discussing
the
practice
of
social
justice
within
our
communities,
as
experienced
during
the
COVID-19
pandemic
and
George
Floyd
uprisings.
Each
month
will
discuss
1
of
the
4
principles
of
social
justice
framed
around
the
theme
of
Covid-19,
with
community
leaders,
leading
advocates,
and
creative
artists.
Along
with
conversations,
there
will
be
opportunities
for
interactive
collaboration
amongst
attendees
and
facilitators
through
breakout
groups.
Black
Presence
in
Berlin
walking
tour
starting
at
Kitchener
Market:
Waterloo
Region
Community
Event
($25/person)
Saturday,
February
12th,
2022
at
2:30PM
ET
Stroll
Walking
Tours
A
series
of
curated
events
discussing
the
practice
of
social
justice
within
our
communities,
as
experienced
during
the
COVID-19
pandemic
and
George
Floyd
uprisings.
Each
month
will
discuss
1
of
the
4
principles
of
social
justice
framed
around
the
theme
of
Covid-19,
with
community
leaders,
leading
advocates,
and
creative
artists.
Along
with
conversations,
there
will
be
opportunities
for
interactive
collaboration
amongst
attendees
and
facilitators
Many
people
think
that
Kitchener’s
first
Black
residents
only
came
here
in
the
1960s
and
70s,
but
did
you
know
that
the
first
Black
person
actually
arrived
in
Waterloo
region
in
1806?
On
this
walk
we
will
talk
about
Berlin’s
connection
to
the
early
Black
settlers
of
the
Queens
Bush
settlement.
Further,
we
will
visit
former
sites
where
Black
residents
lived,
had
their
businesses
and
schools
in
the
19thcentury
and
learn
about
their
lives
and
contributions
to
our
community.
You
will
hear
about
black
teachers,
a
black
lawyer,
and
black
domestic
workers.
One
of
Berlin’s
black
residents
even
ran
for
office!
Come
join
us
to
find
out
who
that
was.
As
we
recover
and
re-tell
these
histories
you’ll
look
at
this
town
differently
and
realize
that
Kitchener’s
heritage
is
more
colourful
and
richer
than
we
thought.
breakout
groups.
Organized
by:
University
of
Virginia
School
of
Architecture
University
of
Waterloo
On
the
Stoop
Bernard
and
Anne
Spitzer
School
of
Architecture
at
the
City
College
of
New
York
LES
Social
Justice
Working
Group
Stroll
Walking
Tour