The Student Wellness Centre teamed up with the Student Union to host a Pizza Party and Info Fair for International Students!

Drop-in at any time during the event to chat with some student groups, learn about International Student services, and get some free pizza.

There will also be the chance to win a giftcard or a prize bag from Above Ground Art Supplies! Don't miss out, make sure to register for the event using the Google Form in by November 16th.

Date: Wednesday, November 17th
Time: 1:30-3:30 pm
Location: Lobby of the main building at 100 McCaul

Please join us for the virtual book launch event for Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines, on October 28th, 5pm to 7pm EDT, hosted by OCAD University’s Faculty of Arts and Science and School of Graduate Studies, in partnership with Onsite Gallery.
 
Co-edited by Caroline Seck Langill and Lizzie Muller, Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Contributing writers describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organizing and sharing knowledge.
 
Bringing together leading artists and curators from Australia and Canada, Curating Lively Objects addresses object liveliness from a range of entwined perspectives, including new materialism, decolonial thinking, Indigenous epistemologies, environmentalism, feminist critique and digital aesthetics. Foregrounding practice-based curatorial scholarship, the book focuses on rigorous reflexive accounts of how curating is done. It contributes to global topics in curatorial research, including time and memory beyond and before disciplinarity; the relationship between human and non-human across different ontologies; and the interaction between Indigenous knowledge and disciplinary expertise in interpreting museum collections.
 
Caroline Langill and Lizzie Muller will be joined in conversation by Ryan Rice, Lisa Myers, Randy Lee Cutler, Tess Allas, Lucas Ihlein, and Sarah Cook.
 
REGISTER HERE

Become a Task/Time Management Guru with To Do’s

The goal of this workshop is to equip you with strategies, paired with the appropriate technology, to more effectively manage your time and prioritize tasks using targeted Microsoft applications.

Workshop topics will include:

• Breaking down your tasks
• Microsoft To Do’s vs. Planner
• To Do integration with Outlook, Planner and Teams
• Creating an effective time/task management workflow

When: Tuesday, October 19^th, 2:00PM-3:30PM (1.5 hours)

Where: MS Teams Meeting

Spaces are limited! Please email sas@ocadu.ca by 9am, Friday, October 15^th to reserve your spot. Once you RSVP, you will receive a MS Teams meeting link.

If you RSVP and are no longer able to attend this workshop, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer spaces to other students.

Please email us if you have any questions, or accommodation or access requests.

Work SMARTER, not HARDER

At Session 1, learn about strategies and techniques to up your academic gains

We will be joined by D.J. Cunningham, the CEO of LEARNstyle, to share his learning journey and how he gained confidence and experienced success using assistive technology. This session will provide you with an introduction to the role assistive technology can play in your learning journey and set you up to attend our future sessions on assistive technology as it relates to specific academic tasks, such as organization and time management and idea generation.

Student Accessibility Services (SAS) is excited to invite you to the kickoff of a series of workshops we will be presenting over the Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 terms presented in partnership with LEARNstyle (https://learnstyle.com). The goal of these sessions is to introduce you to assistive technology and how it can support you in meeting your academic goals.

When: Tuesday, October 5^th, 2:00PM-3:00PM
Where: MS Teams Meeting

Email sas@ocadu.ca to RSVP. Once you RSVP you will receive a MS Teams meeting link. We look forward to having you join us!

Please email sas@ocadu.ca if you have any questions, or accommodation or access requests.

The SWC Peer Wellness Program works to de-stigmatize conversations on mental health in our community through Brave Spaces and Anti-Oppressive Programming. We will be discussing physical fitness, creating SMART Goals, strategies to increase motivation, and getting back in touch with your values. 

Led by SWC Student Navigators Andres Navas Suarez and Rei Pierre. 

Workshop Agenda
01 Workouts
02 Tips 
03 Share
04 Fuel
05 What works?
06 Experiences

Poster description: barbells used to workout with the Workshop Agenda on the right.

The JVCS will be having their second annual undergraduate colloquium in visual culture. We are accepting texts and stories by artists, writers, and designers that addresses how online living has altered the fabric of our sociality, temporality, and embodiment. How has online living changed practices of self and community care? How has this past year of isolation affected our introspection and awareness of self, and others? How have we changed the way we create?

Submissions are open to current undergraduate students. Priority will be given to BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ applicants. Formats can include but are not limited to: academic essays, personal essays, letters, poetry, manifestos, and more.  Texts should be sent as a docx or doc to visualcriticalstudies@gmail.com.

Deadline extended to Friday, July 30th!

OCAD U Faculty of Arts & Science Speaker Series Presents Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson

“Black Body Politics and Self-Care: Slave Dress as Resistance in Caribbean and Canadian Slavery”

Thursday, April 29, 2021
12:00PM – 1:30PM EST

This lecture pursues a comparative exploration of slave dress, cultural preservation, and self-determination in Canada and British Caribbean islands like Jamaica and St. Vincent. Recuperating the histories of three enslaved black women-- Dutchess, Florimell, and Cash-- and one enslaved black man, Andrew, it explores how they acquired the means and materials to adorn, protect, and beautify their bodies amidst endemic material deprivation, cultural prohibitions, economic disenfranchisement and pervasive physical violence. Drawing on Rebecca Earle’s concept of “clothing acts,” the lecture examines genre studies, portraiture and fugitive slave advertisements to explore the spaces between the imposition of cloth rations in tropical planation regimes like Jamaica, the use of European second-hand clothing in Canada and the preservation of African cultural dress practices like headwrapping across the Americas.

Charmaine A. Nelson is a Professor of Art History and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University in Halifax, where she is also the founding director of the first institute focused on the study of Canadian Slavery. Nelson has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery, Race and Representation, and Black Canadian Studies.

Interlocutor:
Camille Isaacs, Associate Professor, English, Faculty of Arts & Science

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Image Credit: Agostino Brunias, Linen Market, Dominica (1780), oil on canvas, 49.8 x 68.6 cm., B1981.25.76, Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.  

Photo credit: Charles Michael

Come learn about the overview of benefits, how to submit claims, how to contact Student Care and more! + Q&A session at the end (studentcare.ca) 

Click here to join the meeting.

The virtual art therapy group is designed with OCAD U students in mind. This group provides students with a space for self-expression, exploration, connection, and stress reduction in a non-judgmental environment. This group will introduce students to therapeutic and visual art techniques that can work together to better understand and navigate the feelings of stress to better manage the effect of those feelings.

The goals of the group revolve around creating art for yourself, relaxing in the art making process, gaining awareness of the feelings of stress, and creating positive coping skills that are unique to your experiences. The group has been designed to facilitate various visual art techniques with affordable and accessible art supplies.

The first group is on:

February 10^th at 1:30pm to 3:30pm

The group will continue every Wednesday at the same time throughout the semester. Students can join at any point throughout the semester.

To sign up for the group email: ddavis@ocadu.ca

 Hello Students, 

We are excited to invite you to the next SAS Meet-up, “Keeping Motivated”.  This session will focus on getting through the midterm slump, including time management and motivation strategies.  We will share resources and you will get to hear from a fellow student on strategies that have worked for them. Note: this session is only for students currently registered with SAS.

Please RSVP by emailing SAS@ocadu.ca  

We look forward to seeing you at 3PM!  If you cannot make it to this session, please keep a look out for future session invites.

SAS Team