{"id":1919,"date":"2025-09-27T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1919"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:07:55","slug":"indigenous-speaker-series-film-by-taras-hemon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/news\/indigenous-speaker-series-film-by-taras-hemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Speaker Series &#8211; film by Taras Hemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024\u20132025, NYCH partnered with the Toronto InterLIP Executive Committee to launch a groundbreaking Indigenous Speaker Series.<\/p>\n<p>Designed for organizations working with newcomers, the series offered meaningful opportunities to learn from Indigenous Elders, educators, and knowledge keepers. Each session explored Indigenous history, teachings, and worldviews\u2014helping participants reflect on how to respectfully embed Indigenous knowledge into newcomer programs and services.<\/p>\n<p>This film by Taras Hemon is a glimpse into this special series.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Indigenous Speaker Series\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pb0xb6TEUgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music Featuring:<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid Strickland<br \/>\nRyan McMahon<br \/>\nPhil Davis<br \/>\nTom Wilson and Junkhouse<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you to the Speakers:<\/strong><br \/>\nRyan McMahon<br \/>\nNaWalka Geeshy Meegwun (Longfeather)<br \/>\nDr. Pamela Rose Toulouse<br \/>\nMadeline Wilson Shaw<br \/>\nDr. Kitty R. Lynn LickersDr. Adriane Lickers Xavier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you to our Partners<\/strong><br \/>\nImmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada<br \/>\nCity of Toronto<br \/>\nDownsview Park<br \/>\nAccess Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services<br \/>\nAfghan Women\u2019s Organization Refugee and Immigrant Services<br \/>\nACSA Community Services<br \/>\nSchool of English as a Second Language at George Brown College<br \/>\nSkills for Change<br \/>\nToronto West Local Immigration Partnership (TWLIP)<br \/>\nToronto South Local Immigration Partnership<br \/>\nWoodgreen Community Services<br \/>\nYWCA Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Taras Hemon takes us into the Indigenous Speaker Series at NYCH. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1920,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[45,24,98],"class_list":["post-1919","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-resources","category-truth-and-reconciliation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}