5 Days of Action 2023 schedule
If you see something missing, want to share your personal story with us, have any questions or accommodation needs please contact daysofaction@uvic.ca
We are taking a dual approach for 2023. Some events are in-person and some are offered online. All students, employees and community members are invited to participate throughout the week. In some events, target audiences are acknowledged.
Consider reviewing our Calls to Action for things you can read, watch, and do any time.
How to register for events
Click on the links to learn more about each session and register. Some sessions are noted as reserved for UVic employees or students. Sessions without the note are open to everyone.
- Monday, October 30: Listen
- Tuesday, October 31: Reflect
- Wednesday, November 1: Dialogue
- Thursday, November 2: Engage
- Friday, November 3: Take Action
- Future Events: 365 Days of Action
Monday, October 30: Listen
5 Day Hub
Drop by our hub to learn about the weeks events while sipping on coffee and tea. Test your equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and start conversations.
- 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
- Outside the McPherson Library
Advancing Black inclusion and addressing anti-Black racism in the community
UVic signed the Scarborough Charter to commit to reducing anti-Black racism and support Black flourishing. Join for a progress update.
- 10:00 A.M. - 11:20 A.M.
- Sŋéqə ʔéʔləŋ (Snequ) House
Highlights: 2023 Moving Trans History Forward Conference
Highlights from the 2023 Moving Trans History Forward conference, featuring presentations from local and international speakers.
- 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
- McPherson Library's Digital Scholarship Commons and Zoom
Foundations to equity, diversity and inclusion
Gain practical knowledge and understanding of key concepts and ideas associated with creating more equitable, diverse and inclusive spaces.
- 3:00 P.M. - 4:20 P.M.
- Clearihue Building A224
Indigenous Cultural Acumen Training
Broaden your understanding of Indigenous peoples and issues, colonialism, and education and consider how to move forward.- 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
- First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall
- Open to all UVic members
Poetry Meets Visual Arts
Poetry meets visual arts to address topics of anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion and/or sexualized violence prevention.
- 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
- Harry Hickman Building 105
Tuesday, October 31: Reflect
5 Day Hub
Drop by our hub to learn about the weeks events while sipping on coffee and tea. Test your equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and start conversations.
There will also be a mini donut food truck on site to fundraise for the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre.
- 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
- Outside the McPherson Library
Power, Privilege and Accountability
This workshop is designed to cultivate a shared understanding among UVic leaders, supervisors, and administrators of the role power and privilege play in successfully navigating workplace conflict and leading individuals and teams.
- 9:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
- Harry Hickman Building Rm 128
- Open to UVic leaders, supervisors and administrators
Kil Daagwiiyaay - “Strong Voice”: Rematriation as resistance
This session provides an overview of Rematriation and its epistemologies (ways of knowing), ontologies (ways of being), and axiology (values) to support in the development of action-based identity-building frameworks that will support participants in upholding Rematriation as resistance.
- 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
- David Strong Building C124
Seeking equity in the workplace: Practical strategies to a strength based self-identification process
Join UVic's Co-op and Career Services for a practical session and draft a self-identification plan for the workplace.
- 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
Broadening Accessibility
Offered by the Society for Students with a Disability and rooted in disability justice, this workshop seeks to provide practical suggestions and methodology to create safer, more accessible spaces for all who may enter the classroom.
- 1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
- Cornett Building B143
Foundations to equity, diversity and inclusion
Gain practical knowledge and understanding of key concepts and ideas associated with creating more equitable, diverse and inclusive spaces.
- 4:30 P.M. - 5:50 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
Wednesday, November 1: Dialogue
5 Day Hub
Drop by our hub to learn about the weeks events while sipping on coffee and tea. Test your equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and start conversations.
- 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
- Outside the McPherson Library
Indigenization and decolonization in the classroom
Join Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France in this workshop where you will engage in activities, and explore resources and approaches to weave Indigenous ways of knowing into your work creating pathways for anti-racist practice.
- 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
Better data as a driving force for equity action
This seminar discusses the Better Data Project and its importance to advancing equity action across the University of Victoria community.
- 10:30 A.M. - 11:20 A.M.
- Online via Zoom
- Open to UVic employees and students
Employer panel – EDI practices in a workplace
Learn from local employers in Victoria focused in creating a welcoming environment for their employees and for the communities they service.
- 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
MSA presents: Amplifying Voices
UVic's Music Student Association (MSA) presents their annual recital featuring underrepresented voices in music. School of Music student performers will present and discuss works that highlight marginalized voices, bringing awareness to EDI-related challenges that musicians and musical institutions are facing.
- 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M
- Phillip T. Young Recital Hall and live stream
Indigenous 101: The Stories We are Told
The session is to contextualize and re-examine the stories we have heard about Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
- 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
Gender Diversity on Campus
Positive approaches for supporting transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit employees and students.
- 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
- Open to UVic employees
Foundations to equity, diversity and inclusion
Gain practical knowledge and understanding of key concepts and ideas associated with creating more equitable, diverse and inclusive spaces.
- 4:30 P.M. - 5:50 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
Thursday, November 2: Engage
5 Day Hub
Drop by our hub to learn about the weeks events while sipping on coffee and tea. Test your equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and start conversations.
- 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
- Outside the McPherson Library
Foundations to equity, diversity and inclusion
Gain practical knowledge and understanding of key concepts and ideas associated with creating more equitable, diverse and inclusive spaces.
- 10:00 A.M. - 11:20 A.M
- Bob Wright Centre A104
Equity Action Plan - Implementation Framework
This workshop is for unit leaders and those interested in leading their unit’s advancement of the Equity Action Plan. Learn about UVic’s first institution-wide equity plan and how your unit can contribute to the actions included in the plan by using the new Implementation Framework and Toolkit.
- 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
- Open to UVic unit leaders, staff, faculty and students
Stories and Sound
Join us for a 50-minute collaboration between storytellers from the UVic community and UVic School of Music musicians. This performance will immerse you in diverse tales of challenge and joy amidst a tapestry of improvised sound as an agent to enhance narrative and meaning.
- 12:00 P.M. - 12:50 P.M.
- Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
(Re) Storying Disability “Inclusion”
Learn through stories the kinds of interventions can be made towards greater disability inclusion, equity, and affirmation.
- 1:00 P.M. - 2:20 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
Helping to Move Each Other Forward: Breathing life into the renewed Indigenous Plan
A panel discussion about the new Indigenous Plan, how it came to be and what it means to you.
- 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
- First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall
- Open to UVic members
Barriers to Inclusion in Christian Communities - Panel
Join a live taping of “Let’s Talk About Faith & Justice Podcast” as Lyndon, Boston, and special guests to explore the barriers Christian communities face when working to be overtly queer-affirming and anti-racist.
- 4:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
- Student Union Building B028
Friday, November 3: Take Action
5 Day Hub
Drop by our hub to learn about the weeks events while sipping on coffee and tea. Test your equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and start conversations.
- 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
- Outside the McPherson Library
Cultural Intelligence in the Workplace
This session will develop your understanding of cultural intelligence, how it complements emotional intelligence, and how you can develop your own capability for success in diverse cultural contexts, be it in your workplace or your classroom.
- 8:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
- SUB Upper Lounge
- Open to UVic employees
Concert and Lecture: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
In parallel to 5 Days of Action, this concert and lecture draws from Dr. Dan Stone's new book “The Holocaust: An Unfinished History,” Dan Stone focuses on the need to understand the significance of Nazism’s genocidal ideology; why the Holocaust is not synonymous with the history of the Nazi concentration camps; the shortcomings of the commonly heard concept of “industrial genocide”; and the fact that the genocide of the Jews required continent-wide collaboration.
This event will open with a performance of the first movement of Günter Raphael’s Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 8 by UVic School of Music flute professor Suzanne Snizek and guest pianist Yoomi Kim.
- 12:00 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
- Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
EDI in Grant Applications
This workshop will present the key concepts related to equity, diversity and inclusion. The facilitators will then present emerging directions from the Tri-Agency on EDI considerations in research and share a few tangible examples on how to embed EDI considerations in a funding application.
- 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
- Online via Zoom
- Open to UVic researchers
Future events: 365 Days of Action
Gaayinxal – “Come Closer on a Boat”: Deconstructing Colonial Power Structures
This session provides an in-depth overview of colonial power structures predominately tied to lands within colonially-called “Canada”.
- November 8, 2023 (9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.)
- Online via Zoom
- Open to all UVic members
MaahlGa Sdiihlga GawGa – “Returning Missing Seeds”: Reclaiming Indigenous Power Structures
This session provides an in-depth overview of Indigenous-focused power structures aimed at revitalization, reclamation, and reconciliation at personal, community, and institutional levels.
- November 21, 2023 (9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.)
- Online via Zoom
- Open to all UVic members
Representation matters: Using preferential and limited hiring effectively
This session will support participants in understanding the purpose and effective use of UVic’s Preferential and Limited Hiring policy through review of the foundations and common questions about the policy and the process.
- November 22, 2023 (10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.)
- Online via Zoom
- Open to all UVic employees
Indigenous Cultural Acumen Training
Broaden your understanding of Indigenous peoples and issues, colonialism, and education and consider how to move forward.
- November 28, 2023 (1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.)
- First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall
- Open to all UVic members