Dear Friends of UMIH,

Programming for Winter 2025 is winding down but we have four exciting events left to look forward to and one of them will take place later today! Here is the information you need:

“Dear Alice: Writing and Stitching with Archival Materials”

CCWOC Writer-in-Residence Dr. Sonja Boon

TODAY: Monday March 17; 2:30 – 4:00PM; Tier 409

This workshop, co-hosted by CCWOC and UMIH, brings archival materials, found poetry, and textile art into conversation with one another. The first session took place in UM Library’s Archives & Special Collections. The second session, in Tier 409, will introduce found poetry as a mode of inquiry and creative exploration. Participants will create individual blocks of a quilt that will be stitched together by Sonja Boon. All are welcome to join us today. You do not need to have attended the first workshop to learn from and enjoy today’s event.

Let’s have a ball: A Film Screening and Discussion of Paris is Burning

Organized and hosted by UMIH Intern Patrick Fermin (Department of History)

Tuesday March 18; 2:30 – 4:30PM; Tier 409

Join us to view and discuss Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s celebrated documentary on ball culture in 1980s New York City. Popcorn will be served. All are welcome.

Open Mic Event

Organized by UMIH’s Ecology, Canadian Poetry, and Labour Research Cluster

Co-hosted by Alison Holliday and Dr. Jamie Paris

Friday March 21; 4:00 – 5:30PM

Haney Reading Room, Fletcher Argue 625

Please join us to read your work and to hear others read. All are welcome.

Refreshments will be served. More information about this event and about an online publication opportunity can be found here: https://forms.gle/wGE4o4kzaNxZLkxt5

Experiential Teaching and Learning in Humanities Classrooms:

A Roundtable Conversation

Tuesday March 25; 2:30 – 3:30PM; Hybrid event: Tier 307 + on Zoom

Co-hosted by UMIH and The Office of Experiential Learning (CATL)

Our speakers— Dr. Danielle Dubois (Religion), Dr. Christine Stewart (Women’s and Gender Studies), and Dr. David Watt (English, Theatre, Film & Media) — will share examples of experiential teaching and learning in the Faculty of Arts. Join us to get inspiration and advice on how you can bring an experiential approach to your teaching. All are welcome. No registration required.

Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director

Institute for the Humanities

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca

umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanitieshttp://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities