The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion is pleased to invite you to its first Equity and Inclusion Dialogue for the 2021-2022 academic year, Gender Diversity 201.

Online registration is now open. Limited seating available.

Pride Month is a time to acknowledge and celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ communities and honour their continued struggle for recognition and equity. While we cannot hold the wonderful in-person celebrations that usually take place on our campuses in June, we still have the opportunity to recognize Pride Month and reaffirm our commitment to building a more equitable, diverse and inclusive Humber and Canada.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion invites you to acknowledge the historical and current challenges of the 2SLGBTQ+ community in all their intersectionalities. Those of us who are allies must engage and hold ourselves responsible to end all forms of discrimination and harassment directed to the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Humber provides support for 2SLGBTQ+ students through the LGBTQ+ Centre. Additionally, the College offers many educational and training opportunities throughout the year to assist us in building our capacities to work and teach effectively with our diverse students and employees.

Humber is deeply grateful for the contributions 2SLGBTQ+ students, faculty and staff make to the College and to our growth as an institution of higher learning. The College is committed to providing an environment where members are respected and feel a true sense of belonging.

The Culture's Compass team is looking for gallery submissions! 

Culture’s Compass navigating the wave of change is an impactful digital experience created by Humber students, highlighting stories of artist resilience and perseverance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital experience will accommodate the arts through a digital gallery, a docu-series, as well as contain information and resources on the Culture’s Compass website about the state of the industry in 2021.  

The digital gallery will hold works from both emerging talent and established artists of various mediums. It will also include aspects of augmented reality programmed within the gallery that the audience can view in their own home. For more information, please reference the attached brief on the opportunity.  

Applicants interested in participating can fill out the form here. We will get back to applicants as soon as possible. Please note that selected applicants will be compensated for their work.  

If you are not an emerging artists yourself we would appreciate your help in sharing the following information with emerging artsits/students in your network. 

Submissions are due by June 25, 2021.

THE SPECIFICS

Culture’s Compass Navigating the Waves of Change is an impactful digital experience led by Humber students. This digital experience consists of a website, a digital gallery, and a minidocuseries. The website will contain information and resources about the state of the cultural industries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This website will also include a digital gallery housing works from both emerging talent and established artists of various mediums.

IS THERE A THEME?

There's always a theme. This year, the theme is resilience - we want your stories about perseverance and adaptability during the pandemic. We want to know how you've found success, overcome setbacks, and created opportunities for yourself and for your passions despite the worst this year has thrown at you.

And we want to tell the world about it.

WHO WE ARE

We are a diverse group of Humber students tasked with creating an impactful digital experience that highlights stories of artist resilience and perseverance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OUR MOTIVATION

The arts sector has been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; to rebuild, advocacy is required. This website will be a platform for stakeholders to obtain a better understanding of the cultural landscape and to access resources allowing them to build back strong.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

Are you an artist or creative? We want to speak with you!

The Culture's Compass team is looking to record interviews, and help you tell your story. We'd love to showcase your work in our digital gallery and on our social media accounts.

The website will be created in the early weeks of June. By the second half of June interviews will be conducted and artwork will be collected. We're looking to collect footage, artwork, and stories which will be used to highlight the journey of the artist during the COVID-19 pandemic, how they’ve overcome difficulties and continued to pursue their passions.

We have a spotlight, and we'd like you to step into it.

Join us for a conversation on the impacts technology has on equity and how policy and innovation could bridge the digital divide.

Date: June 24, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Microsoft Teams

Guest speakers include Alice Xu, Manager, Connected Community, City of Toronto, Mohamed Elmi, Director of Research, Ryerson University; and Nivedita Lane, Manager of Community Development and Partnerships, Humber College.

Nivedita will speak about how equity in digital access is connected to larger strategies related to workforce development, systems thinking, digital fluency, inclusive economic growth, and the interconnections between equity in digital access to collaborative, community development approaches that advance equitable outcomes overall for underserved communities.

Register here

The Office of Sustainability is pleased to share the 2020-2021 Humber Sustainability Report.

We want to thank all our campus partners who have continued to prioritize sustainability, equity, diversity, and inclusion in a year full of many surprises and challenges.

As always, there is still much more work to do. We look forward to working alongside the Humber community to advance our long-term goals outlined in the Humber Sustainability Plan.

To view our progress, please read the 2020-2021 Humber Sustainability Report.

The Office of Sustainability

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