Yellowhead Fire | Dene Ke K’o: Honouring Creative Fires
Thu, Feb 29
|Toronto
Join the second Yellowhead Fire event featuring Dëneze Nakehk'o, Yellowhead Research Fellow and founding member of Dene Nahjo. Dëneze will discuss Dene knowledge, pedagogy and stories, which put an emphasis on creativity and imagination as survival skills.
Time & Location
Feb 29, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Toronto, 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
About the Event
Yellowhead Fire Registration | Dene Ke K’o: Honouring Creative Fires (February 29, 2024)
Speaker: Dëneze Nakehk’o, Founding Member, Dene Nahjo
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge Transfer - A Dene Perspective
Short Description: Understanding Dene ways of knowing and worldviews. The tactile and kinaesthetic ways of Dene learning requires safe spaces to create opportunities for cultural confidence to grow. Dene pedagogy puts a heavy emphasis on creativity and imagination as survival skills. It is the stories we share that help position ourselves on the lands, waters and climate of the circumpolar world. It also goes a long ways to how we relate to ourselves and one another, through Treaties and opportunities to learn about each other.
Date: February 29. 2024 Time: 7 pm to 9 pm (EST) Location: Toronto Metropolitan University, CUI 317, 44 Gerrard St. & Online
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