Diwali is an important milestone for many staff and students within the Humber and UofGH community. One of the goals of our new strategic plan is to establish a supportive campus culture, rich in diversity of thought and identity. As such, it’s important that our student focused programming is supported by strong role models and mentors that reflect students’ diverse backgrounds and experiences. Both Diwali celebrations, held on November 6 and 7 at North and Lakeshore Campus respectively, were organized by Senior Peer Mentors who are part of the First Year Experience program in Student Success and Engagement. 

Earlier in November, the Life at Humber team partnered with the First Year Experience Program and International Centre to produce The Story of Diwali, a short documentary that showcases the Diwali experience from three unique perspectives; that of an international student celebrating Diwali away from home for the first time, and those of the planning committees at North and Lakeshore Campus. 

Watch the short documentary

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About Life at Humber
Life at Humber is the student communications team within Student Success and Engagement. We work with talented media students from Humber and UofGH, using their unique perspectives to develop media content that’s timely and relevant to the student experience – all while providing them with meaningful work-integrated learning opportunities. If you haven’t had the chance, check us out on any of the WeGotYou media channels below, or at wegotyou.humber.ca. 

Facebook / Twitter / YouTube

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is an international campaign which begins on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25 and ends on International Human Rights Day on December 10. The campaign aims to increase awareness about the disproportionate levels of violence faced by women and girls, as well as diverse populations, including Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ2 community members, gender non-binary individuals, those living in northern, rural, and remote communities, people with disabilities, newcomers, children and youth, and seniors. GBV involves the use and abuse of power and control over another person and is perpetrated against someone based on their gender identity, gender expression or perceived gender. Violence against women and girls is one form of GBV. It also has a disproportionate impact on LGBTQ2 and gender non-binary individuals.

This year’s theme, #MYActionsMatter, carries on the message from last year’s successful campaign and is a call to action that asks everyone to take concrete steps to question, call out, and speak up against acts of GBV. 

Here at Humber College, and the University of Guelph-Humber, we have a dedicated team of students, known as the Consent Peer Educators (CPEs) who work effortlessly on consent education through various outlets. The Consent Peer Educator team would like invite all to attend/share the upcoming events and initiatives to demonstrate your commitment to the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. We encourage you to spread the message by using #MYActionsMatter, and/or stop by our next event to meet our team of students!

To learn more about our Consent Peer Education program, upcoming events, training and prevention efforts to end sexual and gender-based violence, please visit: humber.ca/sexualassault.

Humber College is committed to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The Employment Equity Act was passed in 1986. Recognizing that "systemic discrimination" was responsible for most of the inequality found in employment, the Abella Royal Commission on Equality in Employment outlined a systemic response and chose the term "Employment Equity" to describe the process.

Humber voluntarily complies with the Employment Equity Act.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity is re-establishing the Employment Equity Program at Humber.

As part of the Employment Equity Act, we must fulfill the following requirements:

• collect workforce information;
• complete a workforce analysis and an achievement report;
• establish short-term and long-term numerical goals; and
• make reasonable efforts to ensure that reasonable progress is made towards having full representation of the designated groups within its workforce.

Please visit the Centre website for Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to Humber’s Employment Equity Program.

If you have questions pertaining to Humber's Employment Equity Program, please contact: Bharat Saini at 416.665.6622 x5160 or bharat.saini@humber.ca.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity thanks you for helping to build a more inclusive Humber.

Exhibition runs: November 26, 2018 to January 18, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 6, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Our lives come into being through stories. Stories give shape, meaning, and purpose to our existence, showing us who we can be, now and in the future. They help us to discover the limits and possibilities of our humanity, planting deep roots in rich soil.

The Aboriginal Resource Centre (ARC) and Humber Galleries are honoured to feature visual art, dance, photography, beadwork, mixed media, and installations by emerging Indigenous artists. Dbaajimowinan: Our Stories is a dynamic and engagingly fresh take on how the stories we tell— about ourselves, the world and everything in it— are the basis of reality and future experience. Applying a mix of traditional and contemporary concepts, techniques and styles, these artists make and remake themselves, imaginatively and philosophically, with each story. At its heart, Dbaajimowinan: Our Stories invites the audience to join the conversation, exploring not only who we are as individuals, but also what we are inspired to create.

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Dbaajimowinan: Our Stories
Presented by Humber College Aboriginal Resource Centre and Humber Galleries
November 26, 2018 – January 18, 2019
Opening Reception Thursday, December 6th, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
North Space Gallery

Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

North Space Galleries is a fully accessible and barrier free space.

For additional information please contact danica.evering@humber.ca, visit humbergalleries.ca, or find @humbergalleries on social media.

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Artists

Mike Alexander
In 1974, Mike was born in Winnipeg, MB and aodopted out to a non-Native family as part of the Sixties Scoop. Without his language, culture or biological family, Mike grew up in Winnipeg, found music and art as well as drugs and alcohol. It wasn't until at age 41 that Mike found sobriety and began to embrace the artistic birthright left for him by his anscestors.

Since moving to Victoria almost four years ago, Mike has experienced the struggle of self-placement as an emerging artist surrounded by master Pacfic Westcoast carvers and painters that he admires, whose work rightfully dominates the regions of the people the land belongs to. His personal healing journey has awoken a fire within, to explore the meaning of art within the framework of his own culture, to visit stories he has been told and to imagine the world as designed by his own ancestors.

Lyla Buell
Lyla Buell is an Inuit artist born and raised in Ottawa, On. Her interests include a fascination with mathematics, throat singing, creating art of all mediums and networking. She was given a certificate of recognition on behalf the Senate of Canada for her completion of instruction at Ottawa Inuit Childrens’ Centre. Lyla has received training in art from the Ottawa School of Art through programming available to children her age.

Simon Buell
Simon Buell is an exceptionally talented nine-year-old Indigenous artist. He creates everything from abstract art to clay, water, oil and acrylic paints, and oil pastel creations among other things. His interests include Lego, martial arts, any type of art activity and writing among other things.

Christian Chapman
Christian Chapman (b, 1975) is of Anishinabe heritage from Fort William First Nation, Ontario. He creates two dimensional mixed-media artwork that fuses elements of painting, drawing and printmaking. Christian uses storytelling as a main theme in his practice to create his images. The act of storytelling has been an important part of his life: it has informed him of his culture by shaping his identity, personal experiences, and worldview.

Marissa Groulx
Northern born artist Marissa Groulx has always had a passion to design and create. Started from a young age then to becoming apart of Fanshawe Alumni’s Fashion Design. She has continued to further her education in the Fashion Arts & Business at Humber College. Marissa is currently finishing her Bach of Commerce: Fashion Management at Humber College Lakeshore. She’s always craved to learn about her culture and the arts they hone. Marissa eventually self-taught herself to bead and explored other techniques.

Jay Havens
Jay Havens is a multi-disciplinary artist of Haudenosaunee-Mohawk and Scottish-Canadian ancestry. He works throughout Turtle Island as a freelance artist/designer, artist in residence, and educator for production companies, public institutions and schools alike. Jay is most interested in projects which inform his audience’s ideas around Indigeneity and he often works in production design, mural making and installations.

Sundance Kaminawaish
Sundance Kaminawaish is from Sachigo Lake and was born in 1994. Having grown up in a remote community in Northwestern Ontario and spending most of his youth out on the land, his love of the outdoors grew tremendously. Sundance’s interest in photography developed through high school art classes and the urge to share some of beautiful sights of his hometown. This growing interest led him to enrolling in a photography program at Humber College in Toronto. Although unable to complete his studies, the skills and experience he gained from it have helped Sundance find success through his photography.

Emma Petahtegoose

Sage Petahtegoose

Ayanna Proctor
Ayanna Proctor (b. 1993) is a leather artisan, quillworker, ceramist, freelance illustrator, and an enrolled member of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, Turtle Clan of the Chesapeake region. Her illustrations primarily focus on nature that remains unscathed and undisturbed. A deeply rooted sense of belonging to the wilderness came from hiking and living in New England as well as time spent as a youth traversing the forested Shenandoah Valley.

Lorralene Whiteye

James Wilson
James Wilson is an Indigenous singer/songwriter from the Six Nations of the Grand River. He has performed at many venues and competitions around Canada and the United States. In 2017 had the great opportunity to sing back-up for "Lorde" at the MMVA's (Much Music Video Awards). He is currently recording his first full-length album with producer Jace Martin. The album is set to release in 2019.

Click here for full artist bios and links.