About Us
Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab
The Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab was created in 2017, by founding director Eve Tuck, and includes students, faculty, staff, and community researchers. The physical space of the lab is located at OISE, and includes rooms dedicated to arts- and materials-based research, participatory research with youth and communities, visual and audio research, and community gatherings. The lab commitments are to social change, supportive openness, and collaboration and collaborative writing. The members of the lab try to grow the lab with intention and in good relation to each other, to communities in the city of Tkaronto, and with lands and waters.
https://www.tkarontocirclelab.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tkarontocirclelab
Creating the Land Education Dreambook
The initial iteration of the Dreambook was created with input and feedback from three organizations in the Land Relationships Super Collective. Collaborators from Sogorea Te’, The Underground Center, and Métis In Space provided direction on what was important to include and emphasis in the Dreambook, helping us to define the purpose, scope, and ethics that guided this work. More information on the Land Relationships Super Collective can be found here: http://www.landrelationships.com/
Organizations involved in this phase of the project:
Sogorea Te’
Sogorea Te Land Trust is an organization led by Urban Indigenous women in the Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is devoted to Indigenous sovereignty, return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people and self-determination also to educate others of the history and presence of Indigenous peoples, specifically in the Bay Area.
https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
https://www.instagram.com/sogoreatelandtrust/
https://www.facebook.com/SOGOREATELANDTRUST/
The Underground Center
The Underground Center (UGC) is a space to explore viable alternative ways of living and to define the work required to realize it. The alternatives are diverse, but share a common goal: to create community that does not depend on exploitation, but instead nourishes the systems that sustain it. UGC is committed to a movement for social change from the bottom up by empowering marginalized peoples to create economic and social power through mutual aid and interconnectedness with the land.
http://www.theundergroundcenter.org/
https://www.facebook.com/TheUndergroundCenter/
Métis In Space
Métis in Space is a podcast where hosts, Molly Swain and Chelsea Vowel, hilariously deconstruct the science fiction genre through a decolonial lens. The hosts invite their viewers to join them as they drink a bottle of (red) wine and, from a tipsy, decolonial, perspective, review a sci-fi movie or television episode featuring Indigenous peoples, tropes, and themes. They are unapologetically Indigenous, unabashedly female, and unblinkingly nerdy.
http://www.metisinspace.com/
https://twitter.com/Metis_In_Space
Further development of the Land Education Dreambook happened in partnership with the Legacy of Hope Foundation and our work with three Indigenous community organizations: Blackbird Medicines, Edmonton 2 Spirit Society and Kílala Lelum. Through this iteration of the project, we used activities from the Dreambook to vision and plan land education programs, and explore how land education can nourish positive and meaningful relationship to land and waters for residential school survivors, Sixties Scoop survivors, and their families.
Organizations involved in this phase of the project:
Blackbird Medicines
Blackbird Medicines was founded in 2018 by Chrystal Toop. A social enterprise and sole proprietorship, Blackbird Medicines coordinates community and cultural wellness services, projects, and events.
http://www.blackbirdmedicines.ca/
https://www.instagram.com/blackbird_medicines
https://www.facebook.com/BlackbirdMedicines/
Edmonton 2 Spirit Society
The mission of the Edmonton 2 Spirit Society (E2S) is to re-establish and enhance traditional roles and responsibilities as Two Spirit people in Indigenous communities while creating supportive environments within all societies for contemporary Two Spirit peoples. The E2S was incorporated as a non-profit in 2018, and is guided by a board of directors, as well as Elder and Matriarch councils.
https://e2s.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/edmonton2spiritsociety
https://twitter.com/e2s_2
https://www.instagram.com/edmonton_2_spirit_society/
Kílala Lelum
Kílala Lelum (Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative) aims to partner Indigenous Elders with physicians and allied health professionals to provide physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual care to the community in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
https://kilalalelum.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/uihhc/
https://www.instagram.com/kilalalelum/
Spencer Foundation
This project was made possible through funding from the Spencer Foundation. The Spencer Foundation has been a leading funder of education research since 1971. The Spencer Foundation invests in education research that is transformative, methodologically rigorous, and helps create a better society.
