Cambium Arts and Education

Take a look at this amazing series of events curated by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. Great to see a powerhouse panel on defunding the police, in partnership with the Ontario Federation of Labour! This is the kind of tangible leadership we need to see from the labour movement, moving us beyond EDI to visionary models of racial justice.

The Vancouver School Board meets today at 5 pm. There's still a a little bit of time to send an email demanding the end of the SLO program (Cops in School). The safety of Black and Indigenous youth in particular is at stake. Cambium is in unequivocal support of abolishing all police in school programs. Racial justice is a daily practice and a lifetime commitment. #CopsOutOfSchools

Winter solstice wishes to you & yours

Settlers: There's not even records that Natives were that good at land management. Explorer Diaries: This is God's Country/Today we crossed a mountain and looke...d into Heaven/These people had a literal ton of food to just give us on arrival/the fish are bigger than a tall man... - @LammaticHama on Twitter

Black trans, non binary and gender non-conforming people, we love you. This is a love letter from us to us, with some words from those fighting alongside us to... ensure the all #BlackTransLivesMatter . Thank you to Ayo Tsalithaba this incredible video creation. Thank you to LAL for the use of the song Close. TURN ON CAPTIONS as needed! See more

Thanks so much to Simran Singh and The Daily Hive for chatting with us about Diwali/Deepavali and Bandi Chhor Divas at Carnegie. What a lovely write up celebrating the collective community spirit that made this all happen!

Amidst a very busy year doing deeply transformative, long term racial justice & anti-oppression work with various clients, Cambium Arts & Education recently took some time to curate Diwali & Bandi Chhor Divas Carnegie Community Centre, working with some wonderful staff. . Yesterday, the outreach team distributed mithai & chai through the community. The mithai was made fresh and each of the 250 pieces were individually wrapped by a local South Asian woman caterer with a smal...l business. . Today, Carnegie’s first ever Diwali lunch will be served to go, from the patio windows. Free! Made by staff Chef Andeeleep. Till November 16, you can walk by from the outside to see Sandeep Johal’s beautiful mandalas on the windows & hand crafted Diwali lanterns by Cambium. . Every Diwali night, diyas will be laid out with (battery) tea lights for people in the community to enjoy & take as they wish. . So grateful to continue the collaboration we started with Carnegie as last year’s artists in residence. The DTES community continues to teach us so much. This is one small way to give back. . Please share the menu! #dtes #diwali #festival #art #communityengagedart

We've put together some easy to share infographics to help spread the call for support regarding this week's city council motion on collecting disaggregated race-based and socio-economic data. Wording is from the motion which integrates the input of BIPOC communities and allies. Please share widely. Sign up to speak or email a letter of support (can be brief) by the end of today: bit.ly/2YnwklJ Council will hear from speakers on June 24.... [Image Description: White text on black background in 6 images. Black text in yellow box in all images says hashtag Health Justice is Racial Justice. Image 1: Help pass a motion at Vancouver City Council asking the province to collect race-based & economic data regarding COVID. Sign up to speak or send a letter by the end of today: but.ky/2YnwklJ. Text in images 2-6 can be found at bit.ly/2Va5jAl] #HealthJusticeisRacialJustice #JustRecovery #DataJustice

Dear Community, . Please consider lending your support to an upcoming city council motion calling on the the province to collect disaggregated race-based and socio-demographic data regarding the pandemic. Amal has been working on this alongside many others. . The motion incorporates input and draws from the work of BIPOC communities who have been calling for this data collection.... . Leadership of racialized communities on this issue and the additional momentum of this motion played an absolutely crucial role in the recent announcement that the province wants to start collecting race based data. . We need your support to keep the momentum going/the pressure up. Help pass the motion at this week's council meeting. . Council will hear from Speakers on June 24. . Please support and share widely. . Full Motion: bit.ly/2Va5jAl . Sign up to speak/send letters of support: bit.ly/2YnwklJ See more