Intercultural Connections and Anti-Racism Engagement (ICARE)

Intercultural Connections and Anti-Racism Engagement (ICARE) is a project to build relationships between Indigenous, newcomer, established immigrant, and settler organizations and community members while addressing racism, oppression, and colonialism through an intersectional decolonial lens. Some aspects of the project will take place in specific communities, others will have a provincial reach.

ICARE is explicitly designed to work toward the elimination of discrimination, racism, and prejudice through workshops for a variety of audiences, online resources and conversations including regional intercultural and anti-racism community activities, regional organizational networking, deepening the understanding of racism and colonialism in the multicultural community, and a virtual book club.

ICARE is all about working together to build awareness and change attitudes. It is founded on the belief that the combination of intercultural relationships and anti-racism education allows people to sit with discomfort and learn. The components of ICARE take this a step further by including opportunities for plans for action to make communities better places for all.

Meet our ICARE Coordinator – Risa Naytowhow

Risa Naytowhow is a Nehiyiwak Iskewak from Sturgeon Lake Saskatchewan.

She graduated from the ITEP program in 2019 and taught for three years at her beloved community, Piapot. She is currently doing her masters with the University of Saskatchewan with an area of focus in anti-racist education. She loves the arts and in her free time she writes scripts and dabbles in photography and love film.

She is so excited to become part of the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan family as the coordinator for the new ICARE program.

Contact Risa – ic***@mc**.ca

ICARE Events

Check back for upcoming events, programs, and workshops!

Between the Pages, Speak Up! An ICARE Book Club

The Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan (MCoS) is excited to introduce our new book club! Through this ICARE project, we’re focusing on reading and discussing anti-racist and decolonial books covering both fiction and non-fiction.

Join our Facebook Book Club Group HERE. If you aren’t on Facebook please reach out to Risa at ic***@mc**.ca for meeting Zoom links and further details. Updates regarding book club meetings will also be shared on our website under News & Updates.

Between the Pages, Speak Up! Meetings will take place on the last Thursday of every month from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (SK time) on Zoom.

Upcoming Meetings!

March 30th – Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

April 27th – This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

May 25th – We Two Alone: Stories by Jack Wang

June 29th – Making Love With The Land by Joshua Whitehead

July 27th – White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Profession, Editors Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah Mclean, and Verna St. Denis

August 31st – Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, Editor Neal Mcleod

September 28th – Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes

Resources

More details coming soon!

Thank you to the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding this project!

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Land Acknowledgement

MCoS’ work and support reaches lands covered by Treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 & 10 traditional lands of the Nehiyaw/Nehithaw/Nehinaw/Cree, Nahkawe/Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and Dene peoples and Homeland of the Métis/Michif.