Date: Thursday, November 23, 2023

Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST

Location: 136 ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Road W. University of Manitoba

Registration (FREE event) : www.eventbrite.ca/e/patricia-bovey-my-senate-reflections-tickets-753280210387

The School of Art is thrilled to invite the public to a captivating event featuring The Honourable Patricia Bovey. Join us on Thursday, November 23, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, as Patricia shares her invaluable reflections on her tenure as a Senator. This evening promises an insightful exploration of various topics, including the arts, legislative processes, and cultural policy.

Patricia Bovey: A Remarkable Journey

Patricia Bovey’s journey to the Senate of Canada is a testament to her commitment to the arts, culture, and the well-being of her community. Appointed as an Independent Senator from Manitoba in November 2016, Patricia’s remarkable contributions have left an indelible mark on Canadian society.

During her time as a Senator, Patricia served on various committees, including the Foreign Affairs & International Trade Committee, Rules, Procedures, and the Rights of Parliament Committee, and the Official Languages Committee. She also took on significant roles such as Deputy-Chair of the Special Senate Committee on the Arctic and the Transport and Communications Committee. Notably, Patricia chaired the Senate Artwork and Heritage Advisory Working Group, emphasizing the importance of art and culture in the Senate and throughout society.

As the first art historian and museologist to be appointed to the Senate, Patricia Bovey approached her duties through the lens of arts and culture. She passionately advocated for the arts’ positive impact, particularly in areas such as health and crime prevention. Her dedication to showcasing the work of Black Canadian Artists in the Senate, for the first time since 1867, is a testament to her commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the arts.

A Distinguished Career in the Arts

Patricia Bovey’s influence extends beyond the Senate chamber. With a background as a gallery director, art historian, professor, and arts and culture management consultant, she has made significant contributions to the arts and culture sector. Notably, Patricia served as the Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1999-2004) and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1980-1999). She was also the Founder of St. Boniface Hospital’s Buhler Gallery and played a pivotal role in establishing the University of Winnipeg’s Arts and Culture Management Program and MA in Curatorial Practice.

An author and lecturer on Western Canadian art, Patricia’s publications include works like “Don Proch: Masking and Mapping” and “Pat Martin Bates: Balancing on a Thread,” among others. Her ongoing work on “Impacts and Turning Points: The Western Voice in Canadian Art” promises to be a valuable addition to the field.

Awards and Recognitions

Patricia Bovey’s dedication to the arts and culture sector has earned her numerous accolades and honors, including the 2015 Winnipeg Arts Council Investors Making a Difference Award. She is also a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Society for the Arts and a Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association. Her commitment to public service has been recognized with awards such as the Canada 125 Medal, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, and the Canadian Museums Association Distinguished Service Award, among others.

Join Us for an Engaging Evening

We invite you to join us on November 23, 2023, at 180 Dafoe Road West Room 136 in Winnipeg for an enriching evening with Patricia Bovey. Her insights into the Senate, the arts, and cultural policy are sure to inspire and inform. Following her presentation, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a question and answer session and connect with fellow attendees during a reception.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from a distinguished Senator and arts advocate. Register today to secure your spot for this thought-provoking event: Register Here.

We look forward to welcoming you to an evening of inspiration and dialogue.

From November 16, 2020, to February 14, 2021, the School of Art Gallery presents One Queer City, a multi-site exhibition featuring the work of Jean Borbridge, Mahlet Cuff, Dayna Danger, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Larry Glawson, and Ally Gonzalo. Curated by Blair Fornwald, SOA Gallery Director/Curator.

One Queer City revisits and builds upon the premises of One Gay City, a not-fully-realized public art installation by collaborative duo Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, who created three prints for transit shelters in 1997.  Each image featured smiling Winnipegger and the slogan “Winnipeg: One Gay City!” – a somewhat facetious claim aimed at then-Mayor Susan Thompson, who refused to officially sanction Gay Pride Day. The works were never installed in transit shelters, as the ad agency objected to the gay content.

One Queer City will see Dempsey and Millan’s project finally installed in transit shelters as it was intended. Public perceptions and attitudes toward gay people have shifted so significantly over the last two decades that is seems strange these images would arouse such controversy. Presenting them now makes this shift in attitudes toward queerness visible, and in doing so, underscores the radical potential of this work, and of art in general – by imaging more just and equitable realities, it can actually help will that reality into being.

One Queer City will also include bus shelter ads created by an intergenerational cohort of queer photo-based artists from Winnipeg whose works represent a range of intersectional identities. Brought together, they remind the viewer that there is no one queer experience, no homogeneous queer community, and that access and privilege is not granted equally or simultaneously to all. The artists employ a variety of representational strategies: some, like Dempsey and Millan, make carefully staged performative photographs, some take candid snapshots that capture moments of queer joy, and some capture their sitter’s careful performances of self in traditional portraiture. All are imbued with utopian glimmerings, articulating theorist José Esteban Muñoz’s assertion that queerness is a destination always just out of reach. Winnipeg wasn’t queer in the nineties, isn’t yet queer, but these glimmerings may help us to imagine a queer future on the horizon. By claiming public space to present these glimmerings, we can bring that future closer to the present.

One Queer City

Presented by the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba in partnership with PLATFORM centre for photographic + media arts

November 16, 2020 – February 14, 2021

Associated Programming:

• Artists in Conversation

Online artist talk with Jean Borbridge, Mahlet Cuff, Dayna Danger, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Ally Gonzalo, and curator Blair Fornwald.

November 19, 7:00 – 8:30 pm CST

Online via Zoom and live streamed via Youtube

⁣⁣⁣ALS interpretation available on Zoom.

Jean Borbridge, Cladding: the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer., 2020, digital photograph. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

• Jean Borbridge: Cladding an Animation

POSTPONED: Unfortunately due to the critical code red phase in Manitoba, Jean’s performance is currently postponed until January 30, 2021 at 5:00 pm.

Jean Borbridge’s contribution to One Queer City is a richly layered self-portrait entitled Cladding: the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer. By photographing herself in heavily-collaged environments, cropping details from these photographs, and then re-photographing them back in the same heavily-collaged environment, the artist highlights the failures of photography to accurately represent the subject, the complex performance of gender, and queer femme invisibility. Adding yet another layer to an almost comically dense work, the artist re-animates this work in a site-specific performance combining sound and live collage action. Curated by Blair Fornwald, Director/Curator.

School of Art Gallery

255 ARTlab

180 Dafoe Road

Winnipeg MB R3T2N2

http://umanitoba.ca/schools/art/gallery

The University of Manitoba campuses are located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.

We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

The panel included David Watt, associate professor in the department of English, film, and theatre and Director of the Institute; Jennifer Watt, assistant professor in the Faculty of Education; Gretchen Derige (MA/15); and Katie Leitch (MA/16). The idea for the panel came about from David Watt’s idea to have a Harry Potter reading group on campus, which involved Derige and Leitch during their graduate studies. Derige says that when asked by Watt if they would like to join the reading group, “we both said yes before he even finished talking.”

Opportunities such as this are an important part of the social fabric of programs in the humanities, which provide students with knowledge that can take them in many directions. The panel provided the public and the panelists with new ways of appreciating the books that were and still are so loved. Leitch says that her education “provided me with additional skills to appreciate and understand all literature in a new way, but most importantly, it provided me with a network of people to share my love of stories with.”

Both alumnae presenters noted that there were a great number of younger readers in the audience, the next generation of ‘Potter heads’ who might one day present their own panels after studying literature. Leitch notes that as she has grown older, one of her favourite things about the books is “how the story changes with me as I grow – as I move through different stages in my life, I connect with different characters and elements of the plot.” Jennifer Watt noted as part of her presentation that several students she has encountered in the faculty of education ascribe their own creativity and creative practice to being introduced to writing through Harry Potter.

Established in 1990, the Institute for the Humanities regularly offers this type of creative, thoughtful, and timely programming both on and off campus. While the Institute is located within the Faculty of Arts, it serves the entire Humanities constituency in the University and the general community. Activities include programs, research clusters and affiliates, events, an annual graduate fellowship, and the hUManities blog.

Derige and Leitch both completed masters’ of arts in the department of English, film, and theatre, and have remained in touch with many of their cohorts cultivating their interest in and discussions about literature. Opportunities such as this help to move knowledge about literature and media beyond the academy and into the public arena, opening the discussions to a whole new world and hopefully, future students.

Bison Sports Push for Playoffs
Make it a family event and cheer on the Bisons as teams make a push for post-season play. Catch the thrill of Bison hockey, volleyball, basketball and track every Friday & Saturday night until February 11.
Tickets: $10/adults, kids 12 and under are free!
Full schedule information: gobisons.ca

School of Art presents Synthia’s Closet by Ione Thorkelsson
Ione Thorkelsson’s installation of suspended glowing glass spheres contains fragile objects that marry the organic with the technological. It is a poetic, visual metaphor for a bioengineer’s pursuit of synthetic life.
Exhibition runs until February 24
School of Art Gallery, 255 ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Road
Free to all
Learn more: umanitoba.ca/schools/art/800.html

Asper MBA and Executive Education Open House
Attend the inaugural MBA and Executive Education combined open house to connect with our faculty and staff, ask current students and alumni about their experiences, and listen to our business intelligence panel to learn how our programs can help you achieve your personal and professional career goals.
February 4, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
James W. Burns Executive Education Centre,
177 Lombard Avenue, 2nd floor
Register to attend: asper-mba.ca

Café Scientifique
Baby Boomers Are All Grown Up: Implications for an Aging Manitoba
The Baby Boomer generation dramatically shaped the landscape of Canadian society over the late 20th and early 21st century. Now, the first Baby Boomers have turned 70 and – for the first time in Canadian history – the largest segment of the nation’s population is over 65. So what does this mean for Canada? Join our expert panel as they explore the ways in which Baby Boomers’ golden years will impact our health-care system, work environment and retirement.
February 6, 7 p.m.
McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue
Learn more: umanitoba.ca/cafescientifique

Winter Bike to Work Day Pit Stop
International Winter Bike to Work Day celebrates the fun of winter cycling.
Stop by for a hot drink, snacks and a chance to win prizes!
February 10, 7:30 a.m. to to 9:30 a.m.
Bannatyne Campus, Brodie Atrium and Fort Garry Campus, Sydney Smith entrance to Extended Education
Learn more: winterbiketoworkday.org

Louis Riel Day Celebrations
Join us for a conversation with Métis lawyer and Associate Professor Brenda Gunn about the Daniels case the historic Supreme Court ruling in 2016. Lunch will follow, with a performance by Métis musicians and the annual Adorning of the Sash ceremony at the Louis Riel statue.
February 17, 11:30 a.m.
Fort Garry Campus, Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge
Learn more: umanitoba.ca/indigenous

Open House
Explore the University of Manitoba and experience a day in the life of a university student at our annual open house for high school students and their families.
February 23
Students attend through high schools: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parents program: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. / registration recommended
Fort Garry Campus, UMSU University Centre
Register to attend: umanitoba.ca/openhouse

A Prairie Boy’s Life by John Greer
World premiere of A Prairie Boy’s Life featuring singers Tracy Dahl, Monica Huisman, Donna Fletcher, Rosemarie van der Hooft, Lois Watson-Lyons, Robert MacLaren, James McLennan and Mel Braun, and pianists Laura Loewen and John Greer. It celebrates the Prairie life as captured in the children’s books of painter and alumnus William Kurelek.
February 25, 7:30 p.m.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd
Tickets: $25/adults, $5/students
Learn more: http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=2/2/2017&todate=2/2/2017&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=13170&view=EventDetails&information_id=28228

3MT – Three Minute Thesis Competition
Hear our innovative graduate students explain their research – in three minutes or less. Cheer on the competitors and vote for the people’s choice winner!
March 8, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Fort Garry Campus, St. John’s College, Robert B. Schultz Theatre
Learn more: umanitoba.ca/3MT

Compared to most Sundays, this one will be very busy on campus.

As such, the university has granted the Winnipeg Football Club early shared access to their designated event parking lots. Kick-off is at 5:00pm. Thus, there will be some event staff and visitors in some of the campus parking lots prior to 90 minutes before the event (3:30pm).

University of Manitoba permit holders will still be allowed to park in Winnipeg Football Club parking lots up until the 90-minute window as per usual.

For a detailed transportation plan, please click here.

At 11 a.m. in the foyer of Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge, the U of M’s Indigenous community and allies will honour the memory of residential school Survivors by planting a Heart Garden. Initiated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and its partners, this project has planted 6,293 Heart Gardens across Canada to date. All are welcome to decorate a heart to honour those lost to residential schools. The U of M’s Office of Indigenous Achievement and the Indigenous Student Centre will provide supplies.

The U of M is honoured to participate in this special day, celebrating the unique and diverse cultures of First Nation, Métis and Inuit peoples.

“In addition to being a time of celebration, National Aboriginal Day is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on our University’s commitment to Indigenous Achievement, and to remember Survivors of Residential Schools as we work toward reconciliation,” says David Barnard, President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Manitoba. “Through the sharing of Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditions across our campuses, we can create a richer learning environment and foster greater understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members – for both current and future generations.”

More than 2,000 Indigenous students study at the U of M, one of the largest post-secondary populations in the country, and this year we celebrated the achievements of more than 350 Indigenous graduates.

The day’s schedule of events includes:

Bannatyne campus celebrations in partnership with the WRHA and HSC:

• 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. – Raising of the tipi and traditional pipe ceremony at the Medicine Garden of Indigenous Learning, located outside 750 Banntyne Ave.
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Health program Displays, 720 William Ave.
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Live-artists painting, craft vendors, opening remarks (11a.m.), food blessing, Brodie Centre Atrium, 727 McDermot Ave.
• 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Cultural performers and Feast, Brodie Centre Atrium, 727 McDermot Ave.

Fort Garry campus celebrations:

• 11 a.m. – Noon – Heart Garden, Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge, Fort Garry campus
• Noon – 1 p.m. – Lunch, Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge, Fort Garry campus
• 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. – Bannock bake-off, Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge, Fort Garry campus

All activities are free and everyone is welcome.

For more information, visit Indigenous Connect.

Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire’s Bio:

Roméo Dallaire is a retired lieutenant-general, Senator, and celebrated humanitarian. Lieutenant General (LGen) Dallaire is President of the Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire Foundation; founder of The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, an organization aimed at eradicating the use of child soldiers; an outspoken advocate for human rights, particularly war-affected children, women, the Canadian First Nations, and military veterans; a respected champion of genocide prevention initiatives, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, and nuclear non-proliferation, as well as a best-selling author.

Throughout his distinguished military career, LGen Dallaire served in staff, training, and command positions through North America, Europe, and Africa, rising in rank from Army Cadet in 1960 to Lieutenant-General in 1998.

Most notably, LGen Dallaire was appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) prior to and during the 1994 genocide.  LGen Dallaire provided the United Nations with information about the planned massacre, which ultimately took more than 800,000 lives in less than 100 days yet permission to intervene was denied and the UN withdrew its peacekeeping forces.  LGen Dallaire, along with a small contingent of Ghanaian soldiers and military observers, disobeyed the command to withdraw and remained in Rwanda to fulfill their ethical obligation to protect those who sought refuge with the UN forces.

LGen Dallaire is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, and a Commander of the Order of Military Merit.  He is the recipient of the United Nations Association of Canada’s Pearson Peace Medal, the Arthur Kroeger College Award for Ethics in Public Affairs from Carleton University, the Laureate of Excellence from the Manitoba Health Sciences Centre, and the Harvard University Humanist Award.

He is author of two best-selling books.  His harrowing experiences in Rwanda are detailed in Shake Hands with the Devil – the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2004 and the “Shaughnessy Cohen Prize” for political writing awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.  It provided the basis for an Emmy Award-winning documentary as well as a major motion picture of the same name; it has also been entered into evidence in war crimes tribunals trying the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.

Each of the four speakers presented a five-minute answer to the evening’s topic, “Beyond the Ivory Tower: What should universities do for their cities?” A question-and-answer period with the audience followed.

The Panelists

Snow: What makes us love where we live?

Architect Julie Snow speaks at the Visionary (re)Generation public discussion.

Minneapolis architect Julie Snow (Julie Snow Architects Inc.) began her presentation with another question: “What makes the city a better place to live?” In her practice, she noted, she liked to ask what makes people love where they live.

Her answers included: A city’s social offerings — public life with opportunities for social life and community, conversation and connection; a city’s openness, or a sense of place and welcome for everyone; and beauty, which involved “universals such as people’s ability to connect with nature […] and history.” Her framework, she noted, “reverses the typical question ‘Can we afford it?’ to become ‘Can we afford not to?’”

Micke: Go public

Berlin-based landscape architect Tobias Micke speaks at the Visionary (re)Generation evening discussion.

Tobias Micke, landscape architect, founder and partner of ST raum a., Berlin, brought the topic to the specific context of the university’s relationship with the city. “The U of M is geographically detached from the city,” a challenge that could be mitigated by the university itself, he said.

“Go public,” he suggested. “Become an active part of urban life” — by holding lectures in public, open discussions, throwing temporary interventions and using the university as a public meeting point. Micke demonstrated his points by showing several slides of Berlin and Copenhagen examples of urban interventions or involvements that could be mounted or otherwise supported a university, including a community garden, a pop-up public lecture space designed by architecture students and an alternative lifestyle, collectively-run living space.

Mercredi: Aboriginal reconciliation and accommodation

Ovide Mercredi speaks at the Visionary (re)Generation discussion.

U of M alumnus and lawyer Ovide Mercredi was the next speaker. Mercredi, who is former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and a member of Misipawistik Cree Nation, suggested that the question was “too narrow.” It could better reflect the U of M’s student population, he pointed out, which is from the entire province, and not only urban.

His presentation focused on the importance of “a sense of belonging” for Aboriginal peoples, and how the university could best accomplish that. “Rather than alienation in feeling ‘this is not your place,’ we need to find ways to accommodate people, and a way towards [Aboriginal] reconciliation to the future of the university,” he said.

“Because the university is on traditional territory lands,” he continued, “we need to find a way of partnering and collaborating beyond urban experience and design, on the issues of land use and resources beyond the colonial practices of architecture.” Besides “continual consultation” with Aboriginal peoples about the Visionary (re)Generation project, he said, the university should go “beyond the borders to reach out into[Aboriginal] communities,” recruiting students, putting Aboriginal people in key administrative positions and extending welcome to Aboriginal peoples.

Keesmaat: The university as lifeblood of a place

Jennifer Keesmaat, chief city planner, City of Toronto, speaks at the Visionary (re)Generation evening discussion.

Jennifer Keesmaat, chief planner and executive director, City of Toronto, suggested that the university is essential to the lifeblood of cities or places.

Universities are “tasked with the arduous formation of a critical, creative and compassionate citizenry,” she said. According to Keesmaat, universities should be involved with questions alongside cities: how to facilitate innovation and sustainable economic development; populations health facilitation; helping us understand the places we share and hold in common; facilitating prosperity that is sustainable and resilient; facilitating inclusion and the transition to the middle class. Both cities and universities, she pointed out, are involved in the negotiation of inclusion and exclusion of people.

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

In the question-and-answer period that followed the presentations, audience members asked questions about areas of concern, including an emphasis on the principles of winter cities,

Another issue that was repeatedly raised was about maintaining the wildlife, forest and indigenous fauna and flora in the new space that would be gained with the Southwood Lands. One audience member expressed concern for building places for “quiet and reprieve” on campus.

“The wildlife I see and have contact with gives me a connection to the land,” one audience member pointed out. “What can be done to preserve this when there is so much pressure to develop densely?”

Keesmaat suggested that people can participate in mapping the wildlife corridor, and raise awareness and planning for preservation through social media.

Later in the discussion, Mercredi added that perseveration of wildlife was also a concern for Aboriginal peoples. “We aren’t much into urban density,” he said.

“This is an opportunity to do something different — not just a park, but reclaiming the river as a meeting place…. Let people support the rural areas with farmer’s markets and Aboriginal artist markets, with buildings that speak to the place itself.” He suggested a house of Indigenous knowledge as part of the conceptual design for the new space.

Deborah Young, the U of M’s executive lead for Indigenous achievement, agreed, asking “How do we indigenize this [campus]?” She pointed to the importance of reflecting the diversity of the First Nations and Metis cultures in Manitoba and the necessity of “seeing with their eyes.”

“The Southwood lands purchase and design process give us an opportunity to engage with this question,” she said. Snow agreed, adding that a design process is “dialogic” and allows for “channelling of” and “embracing how others see space and materials” beyond the merely symbolic, and suggested working with an Indigenous architect, for example.

The two things needed, said Mercredi, were “the intention to do it” and a “process to do it” — open, “ongoing consultation with the [Aboriginal] people” and a “fluid” process that doesn’t constrain the conversation, he said.

Mercredi concluded with the example of the architect who designed the space for the Inuit collection at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The architect spent a couple of weeks in Nunavut, he said: “he has gone through a transformation — he has been re-educated.”

Competition finalists will be announced later this fall.

This article first appeared in the September 26, 2013 edition of The Bulletin.

Visionary (re)Generation at the Fort Garry campus

On November 9, 2012, U of M President David Barnard announced the Visionary (re)Generation Open International Design Competition to members of the media and community stakeholders. During this announcement, the president officially introduced the competition, outlined an exciting new partnership and introduced members of the competition jury, many of whom were in attendance.

The competition was officially launched in December 2012 after an open house and feedback event for staff, students, members of the faculty and general public on October 11, 2012. The Visionary (re)Generation Open International Design Competition will help transform the existing Fort Garry campus, along with the 120-acre Southwood precinct, into a sustainable campus community with a 24/7 “live, work, learn, play” environment.

On January 18, 2013, participants in the Visionary (re)Generation Open International Design Competition were invited to attend an introductory event. Participants were given a tour of the competition site and surrounding adjacent areas to learn about the site context and key characteristics. Following the tour, there was an afternoon discussion session, moderated by Benjamin Hossbach, the competition advisor from Phase One. Competitors were given the opportunity to ask questions and seek clarification on the competition design objectives and process with members of the jury and competition management team. Topics were addressed in the order of the various sections of the competition brief. Responses have been posted online in minutes of the event, available to all registered competitors.