The Burnaby Festival of Learning

The 2021 SFU and the City of Burnaby’s Burnaby Festival of Learning showcases Queer and Bipoc voices.

The Burnaby Festival of Learning is created by community, for community. Through vibrant and thought-provoking events, the Festival provides attendees of all ages with opportunities to join, play, question, and explore virtual events that celebrate the exciting initiatives and innovative inspiration that Burnaby has to offer. Come meet local experts in an open, enlivening, and creative environment.

All events are FREE! Join us May 7th - 11th, 2021.
To register visit: https://festivaloflearning.ca/events/

(Re)imagining Tomorrow: Honouring Our Past, Embracing Our Present, Designing Our Future:

In keeping with the festival’s vision to inspire curiosity, exploration, and meaningful connection, this year’s opening event explores the theme past, present and future. Through this lens, we are excited to feature a diverse group of performers and speakers who will share their creativity and insight – providing a vision forward. The evening provides insight into what we can learn and reclaim from our past to address the current challenges we face and build a more equitable, sustainable future, together.

The opening event is an opportunity to showcase BIPOC leaders and bring the community together to facilitate conversation and engagement in a fun virtual medium.

Supporting Transgender and Gender-Creative Children:

This 1 hour and 15-minute workshop for parents and caregivers aims to help parents learn and reflect on how to best support their transgender and gender-creative children (12 years old and younger). Family support is critical to supporting children and youth with gender identity and expression. Our goals for the attendees include offering a sanctuary for learning and acceptance of their child and a community of support for them and their children.

The afternoon will offer dialogue on gender basics, gender identity and sexual orientation, parental feelings and conflict, affirming vs. non-affirming parenting, finding the right community for you, your child and your family, the benefits of diversity, and we will offer a list of resources.

It’s a Fact! Or is it? The Turbulence of Gender:

Many societies and cultures think of gender as a system of binaries. But is gender really all that certain? What about those who do not fit into either of the two boxes? And how do different theories about gender help to shed light on these questions? It is an important topic to explore because the gender binary helps to create and sustain social hierarchies – including harmful ones. It is a key factor in perpetuating power, privilege, and status. However, there are always those who speak up and speak out to challenge the gender binary system in the struggle for equality, social justice, and fairness.

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Thanks so much for your time,

Cierra Johal