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Poster for history and culture through games workshop
Thursday, December 7, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Workshop: History and Culture through Traditional Games

This workshop hosted by Dallas Squire of Onkwehonwe Games offers participants the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of the people of the Six Nations (also called Haudenosaunee) through Traditional Games.

Interactive and hands-on, their approach to teaching is indigenous in its foundation. While learning about traditional games of the Six Nations of the Grand River, participants will simultaneously be learning about and experiencing local First Nations culture. In Kanyen'keha Onkwehonwe translates to ‘the original or first people’. The traditional way of many Onkwehonwe is to live in harmony with Mother Earth. Living in this good way requires a balance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Games were and are still used as a way to stay healthy and connected to a person’s community. Six Nations traditional games are used to enhance individual and team skills, as well as create sportsmanship, connection and laughter.

This event is part of the “ADE for Game Communities: Enculturing Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ADE) in Games Research and Creation” series from the ADE Committee of the Games Institute, University of Waterloo, and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Watertalk poster
Thursday, December 7, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

WaterTalk: What’s public about public water?

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. David McDonald, Professor, Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, will present: What’s public about public water?

This event is in person in DC 1302 with a lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl).

Debates about water privatization have tended to construct a simplistic binary of public versus private. In reality, ‘public’ water is varied and complex in its institutional and ideological make-up, illustrated in part by the rise of very different types of ‘remunicipalized’ water services over the past ten years as well as the growth of ‘corporatized’ public utilities. Drawing on two decades of empirical and theoretical work on this topic, Dr McDonald will highlight key tensions and synergies in the emerging debates about the nature of public water services.

David McDonald is Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University and Director of the Municipal Services Project. He has conducted research on public services in more than 50 countries and has written extensively in academic and popular formats. His most recent book is “Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services”

This talk will take us through the rich life experience of Jacob Ezra Thomas, which made him the most important Iroquoian Elder of the twentieth century.
Thursday, January 18, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

The Supreme Elder: Jacob Ezra Thomas - A teaching by Elder-in-Residence William Woodworth

Jacob Ezra Thomas Hadajagretha “he makes the clouds descend” Deyohonwede “he is the one who is so real in two ways” was born at Six Nations in 1922. He spent his entire life, before he passed on in 1998, practicing, teaching, and guiding the community in strict Iroquoian culture in the most rigorous way possible. This talk will take us through the rich life experience which made him the most important Iroquoian Elder of the twentieth century.

Meditation Mondays
Monday, January 29, 2024 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Meditation Mondays

Meditation has been shown to reduce stress, increase balance and stillness, increase awareness, and even expand acceptance and compassion for yourself and others. Each week will vary slightly. “Practices” include breathing, mindfulness, body awareness, earthly grounding, spacial awareness, centring, and more.

Meditation Mondays
Monday, February 5, 2024 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Meditation Mondays

Meditation has been shown to reduce stress, increase balance and stillness, increase awareness, and even expand acceptance and compassion for yourself and others. Each week will vary slightly. “Practices” include breathing, mindfulness, body awareness, earthly grounding, spacial awareness, centring, and more.