Events
The Scarborough Charter Steering Committee aims to create, collaborate, or provide information on events and initiatives that celebrate Black inclusion, joy, and achievements. Below is a list of events that have been shared with us.
Disclaimer: This page includes events that may not be affiliated or endorsed by UVic or the Scarborough Charter Committee. However, the events listed may be of interest to those who are a part of UVic's community.
If you would like to share an event within the Greater Victoria area that aims to celebrate and/or recognize Black inclusion please email us at blackinclusion@uvic.ca.
Upcoming UVic events
The Chorus is Speaking: Experiencing Identities of Blackness in Canada
Opening Reception: September 18, 2024 from 4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
Free and open to the public
Please join the Legacy Art Galleries for this exhibition featuring the art of Ojo Agi - Christina Battle - Charles Campbell - Chantal Gibson - Dana Inkster - Karin Jones - Jan Wade - Syrus Marcus Ware.
These 8 artists of incredible insight and inventiveness are brought together in an exploration of facets of the Black experience on Turtle Island through sculpture, drawing and painting, installation, film, and poetry.
Co-curators Michelle Jacques and Jenelle Pasiechnik (MA, UVic) will be in attendance.
Through Liminality: Transformative Leadership in VUCA Times
For Dr. Wendi S. Williams, leading in “these” times is a formulation layered with complexity and opportunities for generativity grounded in legacies of abolition and liberation first articulated by our ancestors and elders. In her talk, “Through Liminality: Transformative Leadership in VUCA Times”, Dr. Williams complicates the notion of “these” times by exploring the experience of VUCA through Afro-Indigenous lenses of persistent precarity when in relation with settler-colonial violences. How does a framework, such as VUCA which amplifies the pervasive sense of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity and was crafted through a militaristic lens at the end of the Cold War, frame the context of leadership for her, a Black American woman, higher education and disciplinary leader in the field of psychology?
Leading in contexts that carry the legacy of disproportionate dominance, oppression, and harm, Dr. Williams will address the nature of the continuity of VUCA for Afro-Indigenous peoples as a framework for preparing leaders to be responsive to the contemporary needs of our institutions and organizations grappling with the necessity and inevitability of change today.
B(l)ack to School Social
September 24, 2024 from 4:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
Free and open to everyone
Front lawn of the Multifaith Centre
To welcome and connect Black students, staff and faculty at UVic through joyful activities with food, music and games. Learn about on-campus and off-campus resources available to support African, Caribbean and Black people and cultures.
to help us plan for food
Rooting for Reclamation
October 2 – December 7, 2024
| 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Rooting for Reclamation is a space of Black reclamation by guest curator Madison Bridal. Featuring local artists Aya Behr, Kemi Craig, Nathan Smith, and Tajah Olson, this exhibition showcases each artist's personal interpretation of what Black reclamation means to them. Themes of identity, connection to ancestry, Black beauty, Black joy, strength, representation, community, and home are all explored through the meaningful pieces shared in this exhibition.
Upcoming community events
September 21, 2024
Philippine Bayanihan Community Centre
1709 Blanshard Street Victoria, BC
January 31 - February 1, 2025
1 Athletes Way, Vancouver, BC V5Y 0B1, Canada
June 26, 2025
Downtown Victoria, location TBD.
Past events
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Mechanisms of Injustice: Bridging gaps in access and treatment to address inequities for minoritised children and young people living with chronic pain - Lansdowne Lecture - September 12, 2024
- - August 31, 2024
- - August 24-25, 2024
- - June 30, 2024
- - June 22, 2024
- - June 19, 2024