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Policy Development Capacity to Attract Immigrants to Remote Regions | La Capacité D\u27élaboration de Politiques en Matière D\u27attraction D\u27immigrants Dans Les Centres Eloignés
No full textPolicy Development Capacity to Attract Immigrants to Remote Regions
La Capacité D\u27élaboration de Politiques en Matière D\u27attraction D\u27immigrants Dans Les Centres Eloignés
Mental Health, Rural Well-being & COVID-19
No full textPresentation on Mental Health, Rural Well-being & COVID-19 as part of the panel discussion on Care and Community
Beyond Seasonal Economies: A supernatural offering
No full textAre the stories told on Charlottetown’s Ghostly Realm walking tours true? Does it matter? Is the folklore of Prince Edward Island a window into a distorted past or a resource that promises to deliver economic benefits to local communities?
A map of local legends pertaining to the Island’s supernatural heritage is presented. Stemming in graduate research, it offers to augment existing visual aids made available to visitors: such as the routing of the Confederation trail; the well-marketed image that divides ‘The Gentle Island’ into four touring regions (i.e., the Green Gables Shore, Red Sands Shore, Points East Coastal Drive and North Cape Coastal Drive); or the map that marks the locations of island shipwrecks and lighthouses.
The graphic representation of local legends not only puts smaller island settlements ‘on the map’ in a climate of shifting demographics and tourism trends, but inspires one to ask whether the cultural heritage of Islanders can help offset the strain that seasonality imposes on local businesses. The underlying hypothesis is that the folkloric knowledge reflected in supernatural stories about the island can create a strong backbone for place-based economic diversification by extending the range of year-round cultural activities
Vibrancy and resiliency - through youth-led social and economic and social innovations
No full textHow do we foster communities that welcoming, wealthy and wise? Engage Colchester-Truro (Engage C-T) is facilitating purposeful, positive, and leadership by students at both NSCC and Dalhousie University in a local movement for greater resiliency and vibrancy. The ONE Nova Scotia study indicated low economic performance and declining rural populations. This sessions examines some interesting ways to bolster youth resiliency and engagement. Students also are community facilitators, change agents and learners. As well, several student researchers are investigating ways to make the region the best it can be. These initiatives help Colchester-Truro to rewrite its story of how we are making this the coolest place to live and the best story to tell. Two of the collaborators, a student and a professor, will discuss what they have gained from community research for community change. This session has relevance to policy at all levels of government. Strategies to enhance resiliency include playful and strategic social and economic development intervention. It also includes discussions of ways to nourish the cultural fabric of the community, include newcomers and celebrate artist and innovative approaches to community resiliency
Slemon Park: Living Inside the Park but Outside the Box
No full textPresentation as part of the panel discussion titled "Building Sustainable Communities Slemon Park". 
A progressive approach to climate change adaptation in Prince Edward Island First Nation communities
No full textData collection through one on one interviews have been refined over a ten year period in First Nation Communities on Prince Edward Island. Interview methods that are designed to capture spatial, physical, as well as cultural data and traditional ecological knowledge have required a merging of several techniques. I will review the evolution of our land use program to a legal consultation tool, and then to a community based vulnerability assessment (CBVA) framework. I will look at the socio-economic, governance, environmental and cultural conditions that shape our First Nation communities, and help us understand how best to adapt to climate change
Food security - Grassroots initiatives on PEI
No full textIn 2013 the Report on Household Food Security concluded that PEI had one of the highest rates of food insecurity in Canada. This in a province know as a million acre farm. In response to this report, a group was formed to harvest excess crops from local farms. The Food Exchange harvested 20,000 pounds of food in 2013 and 2014 that would have otherwise remained in the field. The harvest is shared one third to the people who help with the harvest, one third to the farmer and one third is delivered to service agencies for those in need. The Food Exchange is a grassroots group committed to increasing food security on PEI by empowering individuals to increase food security for themselves and their communities through gleaning, growing food and education
The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers by Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet
No full textMichael Kaler reviews The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers by Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet
"Sound Come-Unity": Hafez Modirzadeh and the Role of Intercultural Improvisation in Decolonial Pedagogy and Praxis
No full textRecent scholarship examines how improvisational pedagogy can model ethical social practices and relations (Heble and Waterman 2008). A parallel strain of literature highlights the importance of decolonizing Western knowledge systems through more global pedagogies (De Lissevoy 2010; Nakata 2012). Little work, however, considers the role of improvisation in decolonizing the institution. In this essay, I examine the role of intercultural improvisation as a critical decolonial pedagogy and practice within the neoliberal university through an auto-ethnographic reading of my experience as performer in the ImprovisAsians! 2017 Festival. Hosted by Asian Improv ARts, a pan-Asian musical collective dedicated to Asian American activism and community building, this week-long festival brought together artist-scholars of color for a series of collaborative performances and discussions on the campus of San Francisco State University, the generative site of the 1968 Third World Liberation Front Strikes (TWLF). Almost fifty years later, this institutional space was my entry point into what Asian Improv artists Francis Wong and Hafez Modirzadeh describe as their “sound come-unity,” an ethical collective built and sustained through musical sound. Following George Lewis’ call for an improvisational pedagogy as critical methodology (2008), I explore the musical intimacies and listening strategies of this particular “sound community” within the context of discourses on academic diversity and inclusion. I argue that intercultural improvisation serves as a site of fugitive planning and collaborative study with the potential to decolonize institutional epistemologies
Rural and Northern Mental Health
No full textMental health is a critical component of community health. In recent years conversations have started to open up around mental health issues, including addictions, depression, stress and family violence. Those in small rural and northern communities may face additional challenges with regards to isolation, stigma, and lack of adequate services and supports. In this panel, speakers will provide perspectives on the impacts of mental health issues in northern & Indigenous, and rural & farming communities, and ways of empowering rural residents and communities to address them