A Free Family Event

Save the date for Science Rendezvous Kingston 2022!

Saturday, May 7, 2022 at the Leon’s Centre

Celebrate science and honour our amazing Kingston-area researchers & scientists! From May 7-22 you’re invited to hundreds of virtual and in-person events! Interested in the Ice Age? Deep space? Robots? Hearts? Brains? Climate? Mining? We’ve got all this and more and everything is free! Whether you’re 9 or 90, you’ll learn, have fun and be inspired by the wonder and possibilities of science, technology and engineering.

This event is free and family-oriented.

There is something for everyone!

Science Rendezvous events and workshops go well beyond the May 7 date - visit the Science Rendezvous webpage to find out more. 

For more information contact Kim Garrett at community.outreach@queensu.ca.

With this talk, Dwayne will discuss colonialism as an ideological and structural predominance embedded within schooling culture and share insights on what it might take to unlearn colonialism.

When: Tuesday, May 10 4:00pm-5:30pm

Where: Outdoor classroom (in Paul Park, the courtyard at Duncan McArthur Hall, 511 Union St.). This is a covered outdoor space, so please come rain or shine.

Dwayne Donald is a descendent of the amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills people) and the pâpâsces nehiyawak and works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. His work focuses on ways in which Indigenous wisdom traditions can expand and enhance understandings of curriculum and pedagogy.

The event is free to all members of the community and there is no registration required.

The Muna Taro art exhibition will take place in the Tett Centre Gallery from June 2 – 29, 2022.
This event is free and all are welcome!
Meet the Muna Taro Team from 2pm to 4pm on June 2, 2022!

Who, Where, Why, What?

East meets West, North meets South. Innovative solutions blend with deeply rooted cultures. We weave the powerful elements at our disposal to create an empowered modern African Youth. We are coming together, please join us!

Muna Taro is a collaboration between Five Cowries Arts Education Initiative, 1 Million Teachers and Girl Rising. It is a call to action for us to come together to find innovative solutions that improve and support quality learning experience for children and youth, especially girls in Nigeria/Africa. In addition, it highlights how they are challenging conventional systems that may not be relevant to 21st century realities.

The exhibition will comprise of photographs that illustrate the positive influence of education when combined with highly skilled, trained, and empowered educators in the lives of children, especially the girl child. One of the projects that will be showcased is "My Story of Water". It is a project that educators can deliver in the classroom, in the community or in the home.

It introduces learners to challenging issues around water by focusing on various aspects of their own “Water Story”. From the science of water to trade to environmental issues young people develop, life skills and knowledge that will enable them to positively impact on their communities’ water reality. There will be hand painted water jerry cans from children in Nigeria to showcase their story of water.

The Muna Taro gallery exhibition is sponsored by The Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning. Please visit www.tettcentre.org for exhibition dates & hours. Queen’s University will collaborate with Limestone School District for elementary school children in Kingston and surrounding areas to have the opportunity to visit the Tett Centre in the month of June to learn more about education in Nigeria.

Presenter: Professor Santoshi Halder, Department of Education, University of Calcutta, India; Visiting Queen’s as the Shastri-Indo Canadian Mobility Award Fellow. Learn more about the presenter (PDF 196 KB).

Host: Dr. Jordan Shurr

The wider and broader connotation of the term inclusion is to address any sort of seclusion and minority experiences due to background, identity, and ability (i.e., gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, culture, and social class) or a combination of one or more of these together. Historically societies have witnessed different grounds of discrimination, based on the social and historical processes that shaped the constitutional traditions of each country and context or region. Categorization based on abilities or disabilities has influenced to a greater extent the well-being of human beings. Highlights of the presentation:

• Huge Gap: Inclusion as a theory and practice for various reasons
• Current status of participation and inclusion of people with disabilities (PwD).
• Developing country perspective, highlighting India. The historical trajectory of legislation and Policy in India and its differential effects in the implementation due to socio-cultural factors.
• Case studies/excerpts of the practices and the challenges (extracts from own research), focusing on women with disabilities and the socio-cultural factors.
• Concludes with key priority areas for Future directions

Registration closed.