This section will be updated throughout the weekend as bios and photos roll in!
Keynotes
Rene Ross
My Blog: http://fckitty.blogspot.
Twitter Account: @firecatkitty
Allison Sparling
Allison Sparling is an engaged citizen of both Halifax and the Internet, and tries to make both a bit more feminist every day.
Creator of Walk With Them | Political Gadfly | 140 character conversations | always doing something
Presenters
Evan Coole
Evan Coole is some guy who lives in Dartmouth. His favorite ways to spend time include talking to strangers about oppression and sneaking into run-down apartment buildings to discuss improving housing conditions with tenants. He enjoys music, food and nerdy horror/fantasy tv/movies when not educating and organizing. He is also in need of a buddy to go to the Alderney Farmer’s market on Saturdays. Applications are welcome.
Jackie Stevens
Jackie Stevens has worked as the Community/Legal Education and Professional Training Coordinator for Avalon Sexual Assault Centre for the past 15 years. She has worked with equality seeking feminist organizations for the past 25 years in the areas of youth and women's sexual health, social justice, and violence against women. Jackie is an advocate for enthusiastic consent.
Avalon Sexual Assault Centre
The Avalon Sexual Assault Centre is a feminist organization working to eliminate sexual assault/abuse and to change the current socio-political culture that fosters sexism, social injustice and other forms of oppression. You can find them on Facebook, twitter and at http://avaloncentre.ca/. Avalon will be facilitating a workshop during ConsentFEST, titled When is it Sex and When is it Sexualized Violence? Exploring and Negotiating Consent. A interactive workshop to encourage participants to explore the concept of sexual consent and their needs in order to consent to sexual activity.
Katie Aubrecht
Katie has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto. She is Research Coordinator at the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University, and teaches Sociology part-time at St. Francis Xavier University and Saint Mary's University. Her research in disability studies has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has resulted in peer-reviewed publications, including articles in the journalsSeniors Housing & Care, Studies for Social Justice, and The International Review of Disability Studies on constructions of mental illness and a chapter that takes up the treatment of dementia in the forthcoming book Disability Incarcerated.
Jason Skinner
Community Artist in Residence: Lunenburg 2011-2012
BFA 2011, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
BAA 2008, Sheridan College
Jason graduated from NSCAD in the spring of 2011 with a BFA, Fine Arts major in painting. The primary focus of his work engages the relationships between people, community and nation. Inspired by his training in contemporary illustration, the mixed-media approach to his work is often heavily based in research, incorporating textual elements as well as design. When the weather is right Jason can be found engaging public walkways and audiences creating murals in chalk. In the fall of 2011, Jason represented Canada as an international judge for painting at the 8th International Abilympics in Seoul, South Korea. His most recent focus on community inspired works has extended his practice from visual artist, to community artist. As Community Artist in Residence for the town of Lunenburg from September 2011 to August 2012, Jason was asked at various points to be a judge, mentor, teacher, consultant and co-designer of a new community based social enterprise. He currently resides in Halifax continuing to be a community engager and maintaining his art practice.
Workshops
Sex + Respect + Consent
A youth led art project focusing on women and the naturalness of their sexualities, the respect of their bodies and importance of consent. Promoting self confidence and self respect while attempting to expose and destroy the cultures of Rape, slut shaming, victim blaming and abuse.
We will be taking pictures of women in whatever clothing they feel comfortable in, either completely covered or nearly naked. We want to emphasise that a woman dressed modestly does not necessarily have any more self-respect or stricter morals than a woman who prefers to show off her body. We will be printing and framing these photos and hanging them in our installation.
Ann Denny is a youth arts engagement and community development entrepreneur based in Halifax. She recently co-founded "Youth Art Connection" a federally incorporated non-profit aimed at facilitating professional art experiences for youth in priority areas across the province. When not helping youth connect to their passions through creativity, she can be found pursuing her own creative projects, including "Anna Danova" a musical comedy alter ego on a mission to save the world from minor inconveniences, and an avant-garde indie pop group called "mother of girl" (scheduled to showcase at the Open Waters festival in January 2013). Her love of freedom of expression and of taking on tough issues through the delicate and powerful tools of artistic expression have drawn her to this conference.
Caitlin Heimpel is an engaged young woman from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She developed a passion for leadership, outdoor adventure and community building from her years at YMCA summer camps. She discovered a love of the arts at Youth-on-the-Radar, an after-school arts program in Spryfield. She now creates spoken word, collage, photography and sculpture to express herself about social issues, especially women’s equality. Caitlin shows great leadership with her peers and has already created several community art projects designed to educate and positively impact her community (e.g. “Sex/Respect/Consent”). She is currently applying for a scholarship to do a women’s studies degree at Concordia. Her dream is to use her facilitation and artistic skills to create thriving, socially aware communities across Canada.
Paige Cameron is a social media and internet expert with an eye to educating youth about how to safely navigate the world's new digital reality. She has recently given presentations to the board of education about a youth-centered approach to tackling cyber-bullying and also helped to co-create the "Sex.Respect.Consent" project with Caitlin Heimpel and Sarah Paynter. A devoted community builder, Paige is also an online entrepreneur with an online t-shirt design business and well-visited blog. Paige is interested in how woman can talk about who they are and express artistically their identity as a way of creating safe consent boundaries in their lives. Her dream is to tour the province with a series of workshops that give young men and women the tools to thrive online and socially.
Zine Making with the Anchor Archive Zine Library
Katy Curwin is a local poet and zinester originally from the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, currently living in the North End. She is an animal lover and collector of strange facts.
Shay Enxuga is a transplanted haligonian who spends most of his time making coffee, dropping out of university, and occasionally making zines. He also really likes consent.
Zine Making with the Anchor Archive Zine Library
Katy Curwin is a local poet and zinester originally from the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, currently living in the North End. She is an animal lover and collector of strange facts.
Shay Enxuga is a transplanted haligonian who spends most of his time making coffee, dropping out of university, and occasionally making zines. He also really likes consent.
The Bad Bad Book Club
Organized like a traditional book club, The Bad Bad Book Club meets on a monthly basis to chat about erotica. We were founded based on a desire to raise awareness of healthy, sex-positive porn available to Haligonians. We recognize that mainstream porn is often problematic, but that doesn’t mean that all porn is bad! While it may be harder to find, lots of porn embraces bodies of all types and sizes, promotes sex as pleasure, encourages safer sex, talks about consent and shows off all the fun awkwardness that is part and par
cel of so many sexual encounters. We believe that by talking openly about porn we can help people get turned on, get off, and learn more about healthy sexual experiences of all kinds.
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