Below the Radar

Content Warning: The stories in this series deal with difficult and sometimes traumatic topics. Please practice self care, stop listening, and seek help if you need to. Scroll down to find links to available supports.

Be transported into the soundscapes of two different poems. This installment of the Voices of the Street podcast is produced by Jules Chapman, a writer and peer support worker who is deeply involved in the Downtown Eastside community.

Jules reads from the Voices of the Street anthology, sharing Elaine Schell’s “The Din from Within” and the original poem that Jules was inspired to write in response. These pieces take us through writerly reflections on poetic expression, getting to know yourself, processing through writing and sharing creative work with the world.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street/161-jules-chapman.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/161-jules-chapman.html

Mental Health Support:

Crisis Centre BC: https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/

Indian Residential School Survivors Society: https://www.irsss.ca/services

KUU-US Crisis Line: https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/

WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre: https://www.wavaw.ca/

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/

More Resources:

Opioid Survivors Guide: www.bccsu.ca/opioids-survivors-guide

Empowering Informed Consent: community ethics and cultural production: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0381026

Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0377565

About the series:

The 2021 Voices of the Street anthology, “INSIDE we are all the same,” jumps from the page in this special podcast series.

Featuring interviews with writers and personal reflections on how their lived experiences merge with the themes of the text, this podcast series illuminates Voices of the Street in a new way.

The Voices of the Street podcast is a six-part series for Below the Radar, curated and hosted by participants of Megaphone’s Speakers Bureau.

Read more: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street.html

Bios:

Jules Chapman was born and raised in Kitsilano, but has spent most of her adult life in the Downtown Eastside. Jules is no stranger to activism. She's a peer support/outreach worker for SWUAV (Sex Workers United Against Violence) and is involved with the B.C. Association for People on Methadone and the B.C. Centre on Substance Use. Jules is a co-author of Research 101 Ethics Manifesto, Community Ethics & Cultural Production Empowering Informed Consent Cards and Opioids, A Survivor's Guide. She is one of the first peers/vendors from Megaphone to have completed a peer journalism mentorship through Megaphone and Langara College.

Elaine Schell was born and raised in southern Ontario and came to B.C. in the early 1990s when she was in her 20s. Her landing in Vancouver was a rough one, with Elaine living on the streets for a few months. But getting connected through the Carnegie Community Centre and other people who were also struggling helped Elaine find her feet.

Cite this episode:

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Chapman, Jules. “Voices of the Street: The Din from Within” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 22, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street/161-jules-chapman.html.

Content Warning: The stories in this series deal with difficult and sometimes traumatic topics. Please practice self care, stop listening, and seek help if you need to. Scroll down to find links to available supports.

The Voices of the Street podcast makes its debut on Below the Radar! Over the next six weeks, follow along as Megaphone storytellers weave tales and read from the 2021 Voices of the Street anthology. In this first installment, we hear from poet, writer, actor, research tech and overdose responder Nicolas Leech-Crier, in conversation with your host for this episode, Mr. Essential.

Nicolas shares his journey with Megaphone and how he’s cultivated a passion and skill for community storytelling and journalism. He also reads his original poem, “Why I Choose to Stay,” published in the 2021 issue of Voices of the Street.

Due to Nicolas’s story featuring trauma-heavy content, should the poem or anything said during the episode have an adverse effect on your emotional or mental health, we recommend you stop listening to the podcast and refer to your best practices of self-comfort and/or seek support (links provided below).

Listeners are invited to reach out to Nicolas, the creator of this episode, at [email protected] if they would like to discuss the contents of the episode.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street/160-nicolas-leech-crier.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/160-nicolas-leech-crier.html

Mental Health Support:

Crisis Centre BC: https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/

Indian Residential School Survivors Society: https://www.irsss.ca/services

KUU-US Crisis Line: https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/

WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre: https://www.wavaw.ca/

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/

More Resources:

UBC Transformative Health and Justice Research Cluster: https://transformhealthjustice.ubc.ca/

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services - UNITE Project: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/about/news-stories/stories/challenging-stigma-through-storytelling

Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/

About the series:

The 2021 Voices of the Street anthology, “INSIDE we are all the same,” jumps from the page in this special podcast series.

Read more: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street.html

Bio:

Nicolas Leech-Crier (and his secret identity, “Mr. Essential”) is an adoptee of Cree heritage and a freelance writer. At 43 years old he has spent approximately half his life surviving in the streets and more than a decade in the DTES. It never occurred to him that being a “drug user” would ever be useful, but thanks to the incredible support and loving friendship shown to him by his many neighbours and friends in the DTES, he’s parlayed his street smarts and community connections into a successful career as an overdose responder and outreach worker.

In 2018, Nicolas became a coordinator and facilitator for the Speakers Bureau at Megaphone and just recently his title was upgraded to Storytelling and Community Networking Liaison. (Mr. Essential’s title remains the same: One-time Imaginary Podcast Host of Some Notoriety).

In everything he does — from powerful plays, to playful pictures, or post-secondary presentations and paradigm-shifting podcasts — he sends love to his 11-year-old son, Money.

Cite this episode:

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Leech-Crier, Nicolas. “Voices of the Street: Why I Choose to Stay” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 15, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street/160-nicolas-leech-crier.html

Content Warning:

The stories in this series deal with difficult and sometimes traumatic topics. Please practice self care, stop listening and seek support if you need to. Help is available (links below)!

The 2021 Voices of the Street anthology, “INSIDE we are all the same,” jumps from the page in this special podcast series. For four Megaphone storytellers, poetry and prose from last year’s special literary edition are a starting point for exploring the themes that moved them — in a whole new form: audio storytelling.

Featuring interviews with writers and personal reflections on how their lived experiences merge with the themes of the text, this podcast series illuminates Voices of the Street in a new way.

The Voices of the Street podcast is a six-part series for Below the Radar, curated and hosted by participants of Megaphone’s Speakers Bureau. Created by Jules Chapman, Angel Gates, Nicolas Leech-Crier and Yvonne Mark, this series was recorded and produced on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Writers featured in this series include Dennis Gates, Elaine Schell and Eva Takakanew.

Tune in to hear from these talented storytellers as the series moves through immersive soundscapes, poetics and creative prose, and critical conversations about poverty, incarceration, Indigeneity and connections to home, land and relations.

Learn more about the Voices of the Street series and the storytellers: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street.html

and here: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/podcast

Read the transcript for this trailer: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/voices-of-the-street-trailer.html

This series was produced with support from the City of Vancouver, BC Arts Council, SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative and SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

The podcast was developed through a mentorship program led by Helena Krobath. Special thanks to the storytellers and Voices of the Street writers, the supporting mentors and the audio production team from the Below the Radar podcast.

Mental Health Support:

Crisis Centre BC: https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/

Indian Residential School Survivors Society: https://www.irsss.ca/services

KUU-US Crisis Line: https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/

WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre: https://www.wavaw.ca/

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/

Credits:

Theme music by John Brennan

Extra music and sound effects by John Brennan and Helena Krobath

Sound engineering, editing, mixing and mastering by Paige Smith, Fiorella Pinillos and Kathy Feng

Show art by Kathy Feng & Paige Smith

ABOUT MEGAPHONE:

​​Megaphone changes the story on poverty by promoting social equity, amplifying marginalized voices and creating meaningful work. It produces a high-quality monthly magazine and annual calendar that low-income vendors sell on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria to earn income and build community.

ABOUT SPEAKERS BUREAU:

Megaphone’s Speakers Bureau is a public awareness program connecting audiences with speakers who have lived experience of drug use and overdose prevention.

Visit Megaphone online: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/

City of Vancouver Councillor Christine Boyle sits down with Am Johal to discuss her hopes for the City’s future, and what can be done on the municipal level to combat the climate crisis, the housing crisis, and issue of drug poisoning on Vancouver’s streets.

An organizer, minister and activist, Christine also speaks to her work on the City’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Task Force and how the City can take action on the crises we are facing in a way that addresses inequality.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/159-christine-boyle.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/159-christine-boyle.html

Resources:

– Christine Boyle’s website: https://christineboyle.ca/

– Christine Boyle’s profile on the City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/christine-boyle.aspx

– Christine Boyle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/christineeboyle

– United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html

– COP 26 - Glasgow: https://ukcop26.org/

– ”Superblocks: Barcelona’s car-free zones could extend lives and boost mental health” - The Conversation:s: https://theconversation.com/superblocks-barcelonas-car-free-zones-could-extend-lives-and-boost-mental-health-123295

– Report: “How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning” - The Century Foundation: https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/?session=1

– Drug User Liberation Front: https://www.dulf.ca/

– BC Compassion Club: https://thecompassionclub.org/

Bio:

Councillor Christine Boyle was elected to Vancouver City Council with OneCity Vancouver in 2018.

Christine is a community organizer, climate justice activist, and United Church Minister, born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, BC. She is passionate about tackling inequality, contributing to climate solutions, and deepening democratic engagement.

Christine has an BSc in Urban Agriculture and First Nations Studies from UBC, and an MA in Religious Leadership for Social Change from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is a founding member of OneCity Vancouver.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “The Future of Urban Housing & Climate Policy — with Christine Boyle” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 8, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/159-christine-boyle.html.

Writer, researcher, and Chairperson of the Institute for Global Analytics, Rumena Filipova joins host Am Johal to discuss her latest book, Constructing the Limits of Europe: Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989. Rumena speaks to how dominant conceptions of national identity have shaped the foreign policy behaviour of the Balkan states, Hungary and Russia. She explores the internal politics of European Union member states, the competing regional forces of Europeanization and their impact on traditions of national identity.

Am and Rumena discuss the rise of right-wing populism worldwide and how climate change could exacerbate existing geopolitical tensions. This episode also highlights the way national identities can be in flux, and how activists and local community organizers are reasserting liberal democratic norms and their rights through protest.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/158-rumena-filipova.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/158-rumena-filipova.html

Resources:

— Institute for Global Analytics: https://globalanalytics-bg.org/

— Constructing the Limits of Europe Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/constructing-the-limits-of-europe/9783838216492

— Episode 21: Do we really know what democracy is? — with Astra Taylor: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/21-astra-taylor.html

— Episode 129: Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/129-alberto-toscano.html

— Europe and right-wing nationalism: A country-by-country guide: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36130006

— Serbia halts China-owned mine over environmental breaches: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/serbia-halts-china-owned-mine-over-environmental-breaches-2021-04-14/

Bio:

Dr. Rumena Filipova studied Political Science and International Relations at Cambridge and Oxford and she is Chairperson and Co-Founder of the Institute for Global Analytics. Rumena’s main research interests focus on the politics and international relations of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular reference to questions of identity, media and disinformation, and the authoritarian influence exercised by Russia and China in the region.

Constructing the Limits of Europe: Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989, is Rumena's latest book and will be published in April, 2022.

Cite this episode:

Chicago Style

Johal, Am. “Russian Influence in Eastern Europe — with Rumena Filipova” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 03, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/158-rumena-filipova.html.

Sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at SFU’s School for International Studies, Darren Byler joins Am Johal to speak about his latest book, “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City.” Darren describes how China surveilles and dispossesses Uyghur populations through a mass digital surveillance system, connecting it to the war on terror. Darren and Am also discuss the similarities and differences between the colonialism of China with India, Israel, and other Western countries.

Finally, the conversation goes into how Uyghur men protect their wellbeing by developing anti-colonial friendships. The conversation also highlights how many Han Chinese people are building a community of inter-ethnic solidarity to refuse the colonial structures of the state system.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/157-darren-byler.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/157-darren-byler.html

Resources:

— Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City: https://www.dukeupress.edu/terror-capitalism

— In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696114/in-the-camps-by-darren-byler/

— Glen Coulthard on Below the Radar: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/37-glen-coulthard.html

— Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon: http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf

— Justice for “Data Janitors by Lilly Irani: https://www.publicbooks.org/justice-for-data-janitors/

— Amazon Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/

— Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jordan Jefferson: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Digitize-and-Punish-by-Brian-Jordan-Jefferson-author/9781517909239

Bio:

Darren Byler a sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for International Studies. His research examines the dispossession of stateless populations through forms of contemporary capitalism and colonialism in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. He has written two books, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City, and In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony. Darren is part of the Xinjiang Documentation Project, which features personal testimonies and archives, internal police reports, translations and other documents about the ongoing detention of Turkic Muslims in China and the erasure of their native knowledge.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Terror Capitalism and Uyghur Dispossession — with Darren Byler” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 01, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/157-darren-byler.html.

Continental philosopher and assistant professor of Philosophy and Women Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Elisabeth Paquette, joins Am Johal to speak about her latest book, Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou.

Elisabeth speaks about some of her transformative moments as a continental philosopher, including an essential question posed to her by Paget Henry, and her experience joining the Black Lives Matter Charlotte Protests in 2016. Her and Am also speak about the important questions surrounding ideas of justice, how justice can be emancipatory, and the ways that states fail in enacting justice — due to its deep foundations upon race and culture.

Elisabeth spends time critiquing Badiou’s class-first philosophies that undermines possibilities for universality in the sense of race, and then discusses the histories of Marxism centering on whiteness and Eurocentric attitudes. She also speaks about the importance of positive conceptions of race, and draws from Sylvia Wynter to determine that true universal emancipation needs to be filled with the varied and particular knowledges of racialized folks.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/156-elisabeth-paquette.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/156-elisabeth-paquette.html

Resources:

— Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou, by Elisabeth Paquette: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Universal-Emancipation-Race-beyond-Badiou-Paquette/30926172047/bd

— LGBTQ Staff and Faculty Caucus at UNC Charlotte: https://qtsfc.charlotte.edu/about-u

— Decolonial Feminist Politics Workshop: https://decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com/

— Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Coulthard: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/red-skin-white-masks

— Glen Coulthard on Below the Radar: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/37-glen-coulthard.html

— Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon: http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf

— Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/

Bio:

Elisabeth Paquette is an assistant professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, and affiliate faculty with the Department of Africana Studies, the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies. She received her B.A. from Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), M.A. from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), and Ph.D. from York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

Her research interests include social and political philosophy, decolonial theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and continental philosophy. Her publications can be found in philoSOPHIA, Philosophy Compass, Radical Philosophy Review, Hypatia, Philosophy Today, and Badiou Studies. Her first book — Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou — was published with the University of Minnesota Press in October 2020.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Badiou, Universalism & Racial Politics — with Elisabeth Paquette” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 25, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/156-elisabeth-paquette.html.

In this episode, we spoke with Alessandra Pomarico about creating collaborative art for social change, both before and during the pandemic. The show begins by talking about friendship and different collectives in Italy and New York, before moving on to new ways of thinking which combine resistance and existence (re-existence). Centring re-existence in Latin American ideas and the Zapatista movement, Alessandra puts forward a new way of learning through collective living and collaborative art spaces.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/155-alessandra-pomarico.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/155-alessandra-pomarico.html

Resources:

Free Home University: https://www.fhu.art/

Ecoversities Alliance: https://ecoversities.org/

Learning With Covid: https://ecoversities.org/how-to-hospice-the-current-system-learning-with-covid/

16 Beaver: https://16beavergroup.org/

Society of the Friends of the Virus: https://16beavergroup.org/mondays/2020/03/22/society-of-the-friends-of-the-virus-volume-1/

Firefly Frequencies: https://fireflyfrequencies.org/

Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, & Roberto Esposito exchange letters: https://www.lacan.com/symptom/philosophy-the-coronavirus/

Chto Delat: https://chtodelat.org/

People of Flour, Salt, and Water: https://www.fhu.art/people-offlour-salt-and-water-session

Institute of Radical Imagination: https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/

When the Roots Start Moving. First Movement: To Navigate Backward: Resonating with Zapatismo: https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/2021/09/07/to-navigate-backward-resonating-with-zapatismo-book/

To Be Determined artist residency video: https://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/vancity-office-community-engagement/library/2016/to-be-determined.html

Bio:

Alessandra Pomarico is a founder of Free Home University. Originally from Italy and with a PhD in Sociology, Alessandra has been curating international and multidisciplinary artists’ residency programs in Italy and Europe. Her practice is based on facilitating collaborative, context-based art projects, with a focus on social change. She previously taught History and Italian Literature in high schools in disadvantaged areas.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Experimental Pedagogy & Art — with Alessandra Pomarico” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 18, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/155-alessandra-pomarico.html

On this week’s episode, we sat down with long-time Indigenous-rights advocate Scott Clark of the Coast Salish S'Klallam nation, and discussed creating systems of change from the ground up that produce positive and evidence based results. Diving into his work with ALIVE, or Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement Society, Scott talks about his hope regarding youth-led movements while critiquing how settler governments continue to fail Indigenous people.

Having decades of experience working with urban Indigenous people in the Downtown Eastside, Scott explains his misgivings around nonprofits and how, due to funding sources, they can become extensions of a colonial government at the neighbourhood level. He instead proposes Indigenous self-government and the development of more inclusive and fair policy documents.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/154-scott-clark.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/154-scott-clark.html

Resources:

Aboriginal Live in Vancouver Enhancement Society (ALIVE): https://alivesociety.ca/

ALIVE Report: Our Place, Our Home, Our Vision: Youth Voices of East Vancouver: https://alivesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alive-youth-policy-report-V02.pdf

Bio:

Scott has 30 years plus of advocacy, from Canada’s most impoverished/oppressed postal code, the downtown east side of Vancouver through to municipal, provincial, federal and international levels. He currently is the executive director and founding director of Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement (ALIVE) society

Cite this episode:

Chicago Style

Johal, Am. “ALIVE: Creating Systems of Change — with Scott Clark” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 11, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/154-scott-clark.html

Am Johal sits down with the team at InterGenNS, a North Shore community project working to inspire intergenerational connections. This intergenerational trio, Rachelle Patille, Sue Carabetta, and June Maynard, speak about bridging the gap of academia and community, the impacts that COVID had on project goals and funding, and the challenges of embarking upon community-engaged research.

The team also explores their personal stories that led them towards intergenerational programming, and discusses how InterGenNS has created community connectivity and collaboration among organizations, partners, and community members across different ages and social intersections. They also speak about their optimism and excitement surrounding the future of InterGenNS as we slowly emerge from the pandemic.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/153-intergenns.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/153-intergenns.html

Resources:

— Celebrating Intergenerational Day with the InterGenNS Project: https://www.sfu.ca/gerontology/news-events/news/celebrating-intergenerational-day.html

— North Shore Community Resources: https://www.nscr.ca/

— SFU’s Gerontology Research Centre: https://www.sfu.ca/grc.html

Bios:

Sue Carabetta

Sue has been a manager at NSCR since March of 2020. She loves people, laughter and journeying the highs and lows of life and health alongside others. She is passionate about building a thriving community on the North Shore and never ceases to be amazed at all the stories of incredible volunteers and seniors.

Before taking time to raise her three kids, Sue graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and worked with seniors as the Director of the Dietary department at Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver. More recently, she worked in stroke recovery on the North Shore before joining our team. She currently oversees our staff and programs for Better at Home, Caregiver Support, Seniors One Stop, Volunteer North Shore, and our Inter-Agency Network.

June Maynard

June is a retired early childhood educator who worked in direct child care, community care facilities licensing, and managing a child care resource program. She has always had an interest in intergenerational concepts and has seen first hand the life changing impacts of such programs. Once retired, June wanted to pursue intergenerational initiatives for the North Shore from a community development perspective. She assisted in the launch of the InterGenNS (Intergenerational North Shore) Project in July of 2019. In the process she has very cleverly created her own volunteer position and has had a rewarding experience in being a community representative for this Project.

Rachelle Patille

Rachelle Patille is a Gerontology Graduate Student at SFU who works as a Graduate Research Assistant on the InterGenNS Project, with the support of SFU and various North Shore Organizations. Her research focuses on the impact of intergenerational connections and relationships on older adults in a society that is segregated by age and divided generationally. She has previous experience in the public health and community health sectors with a specific focus on older adults health and well-being.

Cite this episode:

Chicago Style

Johal, Am. “Intergenerational Community Building – with InterGenNS” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 6, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/153-intergenns.html