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Creativity, Coalition & Radical Kinship | A Conversation with Dr. Balbir K. Singh

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Join us for the first event of the How to Be Your Own Art Historian: An Online Conversation Series for BIPOC Creatives.

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Passcode: 20205

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Dr. Sue Shon | sshon@ecuad.ca

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In the first event of the How to Be Your Own Art Historian: An Online Conversation Series for BIPOC Creatives, Dr. Balbir K. Singh will reflect on art and curatorial practices developed from coalitional cross-racial futurist perspectives and will also open up the conversation for BIPOC students to reflect on their own creative practices. Please note that this conversation is open to BIPOC students.

When: Tuesday, November 10, 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Where: Zoom meeting room
Meeting ID: 886 2771 6682
Passcode: 20205

This online conversation series is for BIPOC students who are experiencing challenges with their art school practice and interested in experimenting with critical race, ethnic, and diasporic frameworks for creative production. How to Be Your Own Art Historian is hosted by Dr. Sue Shon with generous support from the Teaching and Learning Centre and the Office of Research. Stay tuned for more conversations in Spring 2021 on topics including Black Studies, Caribbean aesthetics, and creative practices of diaspora!

Dr. Balbir K. Singh is a Punjabi-Sikh, Asian diasporic, woman of color feminist, mother, and scholar. She is invested in the creative power of revolution, ethnic studies, art by BIPOC, and anti-colonial thought and practice. She grew up around Buffalo, NY, aka the Greater Toronto Area, and developed formative intellectual and political community in Seattle. She now works as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Theory in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. She is sometimes hard at work on her first book, “Militant Bodies: Racial/Religious Opacity and Minoritarian Self-Defense.”