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Save The Date! July 2nd - 4th 2026

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9:00am PDT

Deep Dive - Pass the Torch: Theatre, Community, and Reconciliation

Friday July 3, 2026 9:00am - 11:30am PDT

This session is grounded in community relationships, responsibility, and care. Our group will travel to the site of a former Residential School, where participants will engage with the process behind a secondary theatre project in which students worked alongside Residential School Survivors to adapt a survivor’s memoir into a stage production.

Participants in this session can expect to discuss how to continue their own unlearning journeys, connect to their own local territories and cultural protocols to create authentic and reciprocal connections, and how centering Indigenous voices and stories can create hopeful, transformational change.

Participants won’t leave with all the answers, but are encouraged to continue reflections on the responsibilities that come with teaching difficult histories through creative practice and cultural humility.

Speakers

Jen Maxwell

Teacher, School District #33 Chilliwack - Imagine High Integrated Arts & Technology Secondary

Jen Maxwell is xwelítem (settler) in traditional, ancestral and unceded Ts'elxwéyeqw, Semá:th, and Pil'alt Territory. She is passionate about global Indigenous studies, genealogical research, and reading sci-fi and fantasy fiction. She is motivated by authentic, community-connected... Read More →

Penny Miller

Teacher, School District #33 Chilliwack - Imagine High Integrated Arts & Technology Secondary

Penny Miller has been working as an Arts Integration teacher for almost 20 years. Her passion for storytelling through theatre and history filtered with a social justice lens has been at the core of her teaching practice. Collaboration, connection, relationships with people and the... Read More →

Friday July 3, 2026 9:00am - 11:30am PDT
Imagine High - Room 217

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