Unsettle the Future

Re-Story, Research, & Reclaim Indigenous Sexualities & Relations
November 7-9, 2019

Symposium & Tipi Confessions Show

Join us at the University of Alberta for the RELAB launch symposium, Unsettle the Future: Re-Story, Research, & Reclaim Indigenous Sexualities & Relations.

The symposium will feature “research-creation” presentations. That is, research and creative works that are co-constituted, that infuse and inform one another. Such work is sometimes also referred to as “arts-based research.”

The symposium will open Thursday evening November 7, with a keynote lecture by Prof. Jason Edward Lewis of The Initiative for Indigenous Futures, followed by a day and a half of panels on Friday-Saturday, November 8-9. The symposium will feature on Friday evening a Tipi Confessions sexy storytelling and cabaret show.

Tipi Confessions is a live storytelling show on sex, sexuality, and gender, featuring performance and anonymous audience confessions. We highlight Indigenous, decolonial, political, humourous, creative, feminist, queer, and educational perspectives.

Opening Lecture with Prof. Jason Edward Lewis,
The Initiative for Indigenous Futures

Thursday, November 7, 2019
6:00PM to 10:00PM
CKUA Performance Space and Lobby

Symposium
Friday, November 8, 2019
8:30AM to 3:00PM
Enterprise Square

Tipi Confessions*
6:30PM to 10:30PM
Ledcor Theatre and Lobby, Art Gallery of Alberta
*Separate tickets

Symposium
Saturday, November 9, 2019
9:00AM to 1:00PM
Enterprise Square