Powell Street Festival Society's Paueru Gai Dialogue explores mental health and art, online September 18
Sue Arai hosts latest installment of discussion series
Moderator Sue Arai
Panellist Leanne Toshiko Simpson
Powell Street Festival presents Paueru Gai Dialogues #7: On Mental Health and Art on September 18 at 1 pm, via Zoom.
PANELLISTS DISCUSS THE WAYS that art can heal intergenerational trauma at the Powell Street Festival’s latest Paueru Gai Dialogue.
The fest kicked off the online series earlier this year as a way of giving BIPOC artists and activists a chance to share their perspectives on today’s most pressing social issues. The project is aimed at inspiring civic engagement and community building during pandemic disruption, and focuses on art as activism.
This seventh installment features host Sue Arai with speakers River Blondin Burt, (a Dene-Scottish-Scandinavian artist and entrepreneur), Leanne Toshiko Simpson (a mixed race Yonsei writer and mental health educator from Scarborough), and Jotika Chaudhary Samant (Queer Glitter Femme and expressive arts therapist) share insight into art and its ability to build mental health.
As is the usual format for the online dialogues, panelists give give 7-to-10-minute presentations. Then, participants are invited into breakout groups to share their perspectives with one another, and then the event wraps with everyone will reconvene to offer questions and debrief together.
The two-hour event is free, with pre-registration required here.
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