Saturday Zoom | Cultivating Collective Care in the Arts with a Decolonized Framework with Geraldine Ysselstein
Virtual Office with the Staff of CARFAC Alberta
Saturday July 13, 1:30-3pm

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About the Webinar:

In this interactive webinar, we will look at how cultivating collective care can counteract the systemic and structural impacts and challenges of colonization. Using the cultivating safe spaces (CSS) framework designed and shared by Elaine Alec of the Syilx and Secwepemc Nations, the CEO of Naqsmist, we will explore the following questions: how can we understand ourselves on this land, how can we see from multiple perspectives, how can we value the interconnection between ourselves and all beings and land, how can we practice multiple expressions of care, and how can we differentiate between colonization and decolonization in the arts? 

About the Presenter

Geraldine Ysselstein (she/her) is an artist, facilitator, consultant, and collaborator in the Treaty 7 territory. She was born in the Netherlands, grew up on the ancestral homelands of the Anishinaabek Peoples, and for the last 11 years has been living in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). Geraldine has a 15+ year career as an arts manager and arts leadership educator working in the non-profit arts and culture sector. She is a trained facilitator of the cultivating safe spaces (CSS) framework since 2022 and facilitates it within the arts as a way to approach systems change work through care, curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. 

Website: https://www.riverstonecreating.ca