Future undergraduate students

How should we conduct research in cooperation and partnership with Indigenous communities? What does it mean for Indigenous scholars and students to do research within the colonial structures and settler epistemologies of Western universities? The panelists, consisting of Indigenous students and researchers as well as settlers working with and for Indigenous communities, will share their perspectives and experiences on these questions.

Dr. Bird presents the importance of teaching the history of Indigenous representation in games and will break down various examples from Custer’s Revenge to the Mortal Kombat and Red Dead Redemption series to demonstrate these types of gamic language.

Earth Day Teaching with Lotunt Honyust & Myeengun Henry. Please join us for an evening of learning surrounding Earth Day and Indigenous perspectives.

This interdisciplinary panel will outline roles and responsibilities as well as best practices for graduate student supervision to frame a discussion of how to foster and maintain just relationships among researchers, with a focus on the principles and practices animating non-extractive student-supervisor relationships.

A discussion of the promise and peril of POC video game character voice acting, focusing primarily on the connections of Black male anger and Black fatherhood in God of War through the voice work of TC Carson and Christopher Judge, contextualized against the audio Brownface of two voice POC women characters in Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves.

Join us for a Q&A talk with Fangjin Yang the Co-Founder and CEO of the hugely successful analytics company, Imply. Yang will share his experience in starting a company and how you can set yourself up for success and get your startup out of the garage.

From more than 100 applications, the final eight student-led teams pitch to a panel of judges in hopes of winning their share of $20,000 for their ambitious idea!

Our concert will feature ACE, The AcaBellas, The Musical InterDudes, The Unaccompanied Minors, The Water Boys, In Full Colour and other groups performing stunning sets with only the sounds of their voices. Invite your family and friends for a night of live music and wonderful entertainment!

Join us for a panel discussion featuring guest speakers Dr. Mohamad T. Araji and Dr. Amelia Clarke - University of Waterloo, Matthew Day - WR Community Energy and Alex Tadesco - LGA Architectural Partners. 

Our festival showcases the diversity and creativity of Black filmmaking, from both political and musical documentaries to the telling of real Black Canadian narratives. To champion Black youth being represented not only on screen but behind the screen too, we are showing the Reel Black: our film stories to launch the festival! This is a short documentary on the state of the Black film industry right here in Canada!