"To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffat... more "To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffatt. We’ll be sharing some of our process running the show as hosts and curators, waxing about the history of underground arts shows and discussing the future of concerts in the virtual world." Ken Moffatt and the Jack Layton Chair supported the online music festival "ponyHAUS presents: NEIGHbourhood", allowing the featured artists to be financially compensated for their work. The festival took place over July 3rd and 4th, featuring performances by visual artists and musicians, wellness sessions, interviews and more.
Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explo... more Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explore this and more with William Gooding and Ricky Varghese. This event focuses on the principles and expression of pleasure in and as a form of practice. The presenters are steeped in community practice, as well as academic theorizing and clinical work. We discuss the usefulness of psychoanalytic thought for community healing and social justice-focused practice. The presenters discuss what practice looks like that centers on pleasure and why pleasure is dismissed, ignored, or disciplined so often in politics and the helping relationship.
Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of... more Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of cultural creators artists and activists to speak about the link between art and social change. The first season includes interviews with Kiké Roach and Alex Bierk along with series co-creator Ken Moffatt. As with the practice of art the interviews span a great many topics and a wide variety of creative interventions.
This session focuses on the powerful forces of institutional structures as they constrain the exp... more This session focuses on the powerful forces of institutional structures as they constrain the experience of service users and the role of service providers. With this in mind, the speakers discuss the importance of resistance through relationships to make possible creative forms of caring that resist these institutional constraints. Relationships are vital to work against exclusion and to bridge access to care and education. Hagit Sinai - Glazer and Sara Singh are in discussion with Esther Ignani
"To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffat... more "To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffatt. We’ll be sharing some of our process running the show as hosts and curators, waxing about the history of underground arts shows and discussing the future of concerts in the virtual world." Ken Moffatt and the Jack Layton Chair supported the online music festival "ponyHAUS presents: NEIGHbourhood", allowing the featured artists to be financially compensated for their work. The festival took place over July 3rd and 4th, featuring performances by visual artists and musicians, wellness sessions, interviews and more.
In A Poetics of Social Work, Ken Moffatt considers the epistemological influences in the field of... more In A Poetics of Social Work, Ken Moffatt considers the epistemological influences in the field of Canadian social work and social welfare from 1920 to 1939. Here, modernist constructs of knowledge are explored through the analysis of the thought of leading social welfare practitioners, namely Dorothy Livesay, Carl Dawson, Charlotte Whitton, and E.J. Urwick. These four figures represent a wide cross-section of Anglo-Canadian social thought at two of Canada's most influential universities (McGill and Toronto), and Moffatt's study of their thinking reveals the presence of a diversity of approaches to social work and social change during this period. By challenging the notion that human values and humanitarian concerns were abandoned in favour of science, empirical findings, and technical interpretation of authoritative knowledge, the author attempts to expand the concept of the social work knowledge base and explores how social work emerged as a profession in Canada. Moffatt's study presents a broad context for analysis, and provides fascinating reading and source material for those interested in history, philosophy, literature, and biography, as well as social work and the social sciences.
With music communities cut off from one another physically due to COVID-19, collaboration and cre... more With music communities cut off from one another physically due to COVID-19, collaboration and creation has greatly shifted. The pandemic has restricted what avenues are possible for sharing work, and technology has allowed us to continue to connect, create and use our voices during social isolation. At the same time, technology continues to affect the economic well-being of musicians at a time of increasing precariousness and mediates how we relate to one another. Through a series of live streamed performances and discussions, six musicians and educators explore the complexities of creating music and culture intertwined with technology.
Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explo... more Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explore this and more with William Gooding and Ricky Varghese. This event focuses on the principles and expression of pleasure in and as a form of practice. The presenters are steeped in community practice, as well as academic theorizing and clinical work. We discuss the usefulness of psychoanalytic thought for community healing and social justice-focused practice. The presenters discuss what practice looks like that centers on pleasure and why pleasure is dismissed, ignored, or disciplined so often in politics and the helping relationship.
Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of... more Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of cultural creators artists and activists to speak about the link between art and social change. The first season includes interviews with Kiké Roach and Alex Bierk along with series co-creator Ken Moffatt. As with the practice of art the interviews span a great many topics and a wide variety of creative interventions.
Pete Johnson, Juno Award winning bassist and composer, presents his compositions and collaborati... more Pete Johnson, Juno Award winning bassist and composer, presents his compositions and collaborative work of band Stranger Still. Pete is then joined by Randi Helmers, professional actor and singer, to discuss music and their ongoing collaboration during COVID 19 with Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair. This was part of a day long event,. Musicians During COVID-19, Collaboration, Connection, and Cacophony, originally aired on October 8, 2020. The event was co curated by MJ With and Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair.
As part of the day long event Jack Layton Chair presents Musicians during COVID 19: Collaboration... more As part of the day long event Jack Layton Chair presents Musicians during COVID 19: Collaboration, Connection and Cacophony, Waubkunii Kwe shares Anishinaabe drumming and singing as well as her photos. Peformance is followed by an interview with Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair, Ryerson University. First streamed on October 8, 2020.
This article draws upon data from a Canadian study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities R... more This article draws upon data from a Canadian study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The focus was on how trauma has been experienced by three communities who have been historically marginalized: The El Salvadorian community, Indigenous peoples and those identifying as 2STLGBQIA+. The focus of this article is on the Salvadorian diaspora in Canada, which has the shared experience of historical colonial trauma; on-going coloniality leading to civil war; and poverty, leading to forcible displacement. The latter resulted in re-negotiating their lives in the diaspora and transnationally in El Salvador. As with Indigenous and 2STLGBQIA+ communities, Salvadorians in Canada share experiences of multiple oppressions and marginalization based, in part, on perceptions of belonging and worth, rooted in racism. Exploring notions of community development as it exists in diaspora communities must include a history of war, resettlement and marginalization that contribute to trauma at the community level.
Introduction Chapter One : The Mestizo refuses to confess: Masculinity from the standpoint of a L... more Introduction Chapter One : The Mestizo refuses to confess: Masculinity from the standpoint of a Latin American Man in Toronto Chapter Two : Yearning to break silence: Reflections on the functions of male silence Chapter Three: Instruction in the art of the masculine: The art of Daryl Vocat Chapter Four: Troubling role models: Seeing racialization in the discourse relating to 'corrective agents ' for Black males Chapter Five: Queering Asian masculinities and transnationalism: Implications for anti-oppression and consciousness raising Chapter Six: "Keeping it real": The art of the masculine Chapter Seven: Dancing without a floor: The artist's politic of queer club space Chapter Eight: Boy to the Power of Three: Toronto's Drag Kings Chapter Nine: Eyes of Excess: the darkness and the fire at the centre of growing ? up male in Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s Notes
"To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffat... more "To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffatt. We’ll be sharing some of our process running the show as hosts and curators, waxing about the history of underground arts shows and discussing the future of concerts in the virtual world." Ken Moffatt and the Jack Layton Chair supported the online music festival "ponyHAUS presents: NEIGHbourhood", allowing the featured artists to be financially compensated for their work. The festival took place over July 3rd and 4th, featuring performances by visual artists and musicians, wellness sessions, interviews and more.
Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explo... more Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explore this and more with William Gooding and Ricky Varghese. This event focuses on the principles and expression of pleasure in and as a form of practice. The presenters are steeped in community practice, as well as academic theorizing and clinical work. We discuss the usefulness of psychoanalytic thought for community healing and social justice-focused practice. The presenters discuss what practice looks like that centers on pleasure and why pleasure is dismissed, ignored, or disciplined so often in politics and the helping relationship.
Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of... more Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of cultural creators artists and activists to speak about the link between art and social change. The first season includes interviews with Kiké Roach and Alex Bierk along with series co-creator Ken Moffatt. As with the practice of art the interviews span a great many topics and a wide variety of creative interventions.
This session focuses on the powerful forces of institutional structures as they constrain the exp... more This session focuses on the powerful forces of institutional structures as they constrain the experience of service users and the role of service providers. With this in mind, the speakers discuss the importance of resistance through relationships to make possible creative forms of caring that resist these institutional constraints. Relationships are vital to work against exclusion and to bridge access to care and education. Hagit Sinai - Glazer and Sara Singh are in discussion with Esther Ignani
"To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffat... more "To kick off the weekend, Evie and Emjay will be doing a live interview hosted by Ken Moffatt. We’ll be sharing some of our process running the show as hosts and curators, waxing about the history of underground arts shows and discussing the future of concerts in the virtual world." Ken Moffatt and the Jack Layton Chair supported the online music festival "ponyHAUS presents: NEIGHbourhood", allowing the featured artists to be financially compensated for their work. The festival took place over July 3rd and 4th, featuring performances by visual artists and musicians, wellness sessions, interviews and more.
In A Poetics of Social Work, Ken Moffatt considers the epistemological influences in the field of... more In A Poetics of Social Work, Ken Moffatt considers the epistemological influences in the field of Canadian social work and social welfare from 1920 to 1939. Here, modernist constructs of knowledge are explored through the analysis of the thought of leading social welfare practitioners, namely Dorothy Livesay, Carl Dawson, Charlotte Whitton, and E.J. Urwick. These four figures represent a wide cross-section of Anglo-Canadian social thought at two of Canada's most influential universities (McGill and Toronto), and Moffatt's study of their thinking reveals the presence of a diversity of approaches to social work and social change during this period. By challenging the notion that human values and humanitarian concerns were abandoned in favour of science, empirical findings, and technical interpretation of authoritative knowledge, the author attempts to expand the concept of the social work knowledge base and explores how social work emerged as a profession in Canada. Moffatt's study presents a broad context for analysis, and provides fascinating reading and source material for those interested in history, philosophy, literature, and biography, as well as social work and the social sciences.
With music communities cut off from one another physically due to COVID-19, collaboration and cre... more With music communities cut off from one another physically due to COVID-19, collaboration and creation has greatly shifted. The pandemic has restricted what avenues are possible for sharing work, and technology has allowed us to continue to connect, create and use our voices during social isolation. At the same time, technology continues to affect the economic well-being of musicians at a time of increasing precariousness and mediates how we relate to one another. Through a series of live streamed performances and discussions, six musicians and educators explore the complexities of creating music and culture intertwined with technology.
Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explo... more Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explore this and more with William Gooding and Ricky Varghese. This event focuses on the principles and expression of pleasure in and as a form of practice. The presenters are steeped in community practice, as well as academic theorizing and clinical work. We discuss the usefulness of psychoanalytic thought for community healing and social justice-focused practice. The presenters discuss what practice looks like that centers on pleasure and why pleasure is dismissed, ignored, or disciplined so often in politics and the helping relationship.
Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of... more Downstream From What explores the links between art, and social justice. We interview a series of cultural creators artists and activists to speak about the link between art and social change. The first season includes interviews with Kiké Roach and Alex Bierk along with series co-creator Ken Moffatt. As with the practice of art the interviews span a great many topics and a wide variety of creative interventions.
Pete Johnson, Juno Award winning bassist and composer, presents his compositions and collaborati... more Pete Johnson, Juno Award winning bassist and composer, presents his compositions and collaborative work of band Stranger Still. Pete is then joined by Randi Helmers, professional actor and singer, to discuss music and their ongoing collaboration during COVID 19 with Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair. This was part of a day long event,. Musicians During COVID-19, Collaboration, Connection, and Cacophony, originally aired on October 8, 2020. The event was co curated by MJ With and Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair.
As part of the day long event Jack Layton Chair presents Musicians during COVID 19: Collaboration... more As part of the day long event Jack Layton Chair presents Musicians during COVID 19: Collaboration, Connection and Cacophony, Waubkunii Kwe shares Anishinaabe drumming and singing as well as her photos. Peformance is followed by an interview with Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair, Ryerson University. First streamed on October 8, 2020.
This article draws upon data from a Canadian study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities R... more This article draws upon data from a Canadian study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The focus was on how trauma has been experienced by three communities who have been historically marginalized: The El Salvadorian community, Indigenous peoples and those identifying as 2STLGBQIA+. The focus of this article is on the Salvadorian diaspora in Canada, which has the shared experience of historical colonial trauma; on-going coloniality leading to civil war; and poverty, leading to forcible displacement. The latter resulted in re-negotiating their lives in the diaspora and transnationally in El Salvador. As with Indigenous and 2STLGBQIA+ communities, Salvadorians in Canada share experiences of multiple oppressions and marginalization based, in part, on perceptions of belonging and worth, rooted in racism. Exploring notions of community development as it exists in diaspora communities must include a history of war, resettlement and marginalization that contribute to trauma at the community level.
Introduction Chapter One : The Mestizo refuses to confess: Masculinity from the standpoint of a L... more Introduction Chapter One : The Mestizo refuses to confess: Masculinity from the standpoint of a Latin American Man in Toronto Chapter Two : Yearning to break silence: Reflections on the functions of male silence Chapter Three: Instruction in the art of the masculine: The art of Daryl Vocat Chapter Four: Troubling role models: Seeing racialization in the discourse relating to 'corrective agents ' for Black males Chapter Five: Queering Asian masculinities and transnationalism: Implications for anti-oppression and consciousness raising Chapter Six: "Keeping it real": The art of the masculine Chapter Seven: Dancing without a floor: The artist's politic of queer club space Chapter Eight: Boy to the Power of Three: Toronto's Drag Kings Chapter Nine: Eyes of Excess: the darkness and the fire at the centre of growing ? up male in Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s Notes
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