Stories Spark Change: An Evenings with adrienne maree brown

Join internationally renowned writer, activist, musician, and facilitator adrienne maree brown for an in-depth conversation on joy, pleasure, and healing. This virtual event will feature student poetry and artwork, and the conversation will be moderated by Keneisha Charles.

January 26th, 6-730pm
Virtual

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of seven published texts and the founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, where she is now the writer-in-residence.

We are also looking for Black, Indigenous and racialized undergraduate and graduate students to submit artwork and/or poetry for this event. Selected artists will be paid an honorarium. We are looking for art submissions to focus on healing, care, and joy or specifically inspired by adrienne maree brown’s work. The deadline for all submissions is Monday January 16th, learn more and apply via the link in the bio.

Stories Spark Change is part of Consent Action Week, an educational initiative held during the last week of January at universities across Ontario. The week is an opportunity for campus communities to create a dialogue about consent, pleasure, relationships and increase understanding of sexual violence. It's also an opportunity to raise awareness of both on and off-campus services. The Ontario University Sexual Violence Network created Consent Action Week.