Re-Vision: Centre for Art and Social Justice

A Re•Vision Centre Work of Stories in the World Project
Transformative Justice Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Thursday May 14, 2026, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST ONLINE
https://uoguel.ph/tjfilms
You’re invited to join Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice for a screening of short films centred on Transformative Justice (TJ).
TJ is a movement committed to finding alternatives to punitive justice systems. TJ Artist-Facilitators Naty Tremblay and Nealob Kakar will co-host a virtual evening of short films that illustrate the impacts of police and prison systems as well as possibilities for everyday abolitionism. Taken together, these aesthetics and affective stories highlight what Disability Justice scholar Liat Ben-Moshe names the “Carceral Archipelago."
How do carceral logics flow across and connect our institutions?
How is vulnerability and criminality manufactured against diverse marginalized communities?
How does disposability manifest in our movements, communities, and within ourselves?
How can art make visible the vast pipelines of the prison industrial complex (PIC), imbue the affective impacts on criminalized peoples, and/or enliven our visions of future-worlds where prisons are obsolete?
Image by N.Tremblay & N.Kakar

Transformative Justice Film Screening (Online) Thursday, May 14th, 6:30pm - 9pm ET (ONLINE)

A Re•Vision Centre Work of Stories in the World Project

Transformative Justice Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Thursday May 14, 2026, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST ONLINE

Registration deadline: May 1st

Register Here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy6CazdG8HlSjnx1Ae22xbR8Pxx9ZyHz-lCvinNy3WI3q6yw/viewform

You’re invited to join Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice for a screening of short films centred on Transformative Justice (TJ).

TJ is a movement committed to finding alternatives to punitive justice systems. TJ Artist-Facilitators Naty Tremblay and Nealob Kakar will co-host a virtual evening of short films that illustrate the impacts of police and prison systems as well as possibilities for everyday abolitionism. Taken together, these aesthetics and affective stories highlight what Disability Justice scholar Liat Ben-Moshe names the “Carceral Archipelago."

How do carceral logics flow across and connect our institutions?

How is vulnerability and criminality manufactured against diverse marginalized communities?

How does disposability manifest in our movements, communities, and within ourselves?

How can art make visible the vast pipelines of the prison industrial complex (PIC), imbue the affective impacts on criminalized peoples, and/or enliven our visions of future-worlds where prisons are obsolete?

The screening will be followed by a panel and Q&A with some of the filmmakers and storytellers to discuss the works and liberatory concepts they explore.

Audience participation is encouraged!

Image by N.Tremblay & N.Kakar

The Telling Our Stories Project is Hiring!

We are seeking an experienced photovoice facilitator to join the Telling Our Stories team.

Telling Our Stories is a photovoice research project focused on autistic youth thriving and co-design with youth and community partners in and around Sault Ste Marie.

We are looking for a facilitator to join our dynamic team and support photography and visual elements.

Required:
• Experience in photovoice or other storytelling facilitation
• Ready to offer photography tutorials to autistic youth
• A team player
• Experience working with autistic or other marginalized youth (12-25)
• Experience working with diverse communities

Strongly preferred experience and training:
• Training in culturally affirming, decolonizing, disability arts, accessible media and/or social justice approaches
• Experience working on an exciting research team
• Experience working in Northern Ontario

The successful candidate must be available to work in person in Sault Ste Marie, ON, April 2, April 23, May 7, May 21 and June 4, 2026 (if located elsewhere in Ontario, you must be able to travel) and be available for team sessions.

Rate of pay starts at $37/hour and is dependent on experience. Travel will be covered by the project. Some evening or weekend hours are required. Virtual participation is available for team meetings. Hours will vary (anticipated 5-10 average) depending on the needs of the project.

Please contact Project Director Dr. Patty Douglas with a cover letter and CV or resume by March 20, 2026: [email protected].

This project is funded by SSHRC and is a partnership between Queen’s University, Algoma Family Services, Autism Alliance Canada, Autism Ontario, Finding Our Power Together and The Re•Storying Autism Collective.

TRANSFORMATION CAFE EVENT- Trans Women and Other Difficult Subjects: Considering Mad Approaches to Communication
February 25th, 11:30am- 1:00pm
featuring Dr. Drew McEwen, a mad trans woman, scholar, poet and Assistant Professor with TMU’s School of Disability Studies.

What does it mean to be “difficult”? What qualities are being assumed by this term and who are these qualities most often applied to? As both a negative social descriptor (the difficult patient or person) and an artistic aesthetic (the difficult poem or film), difficulty allows us to view and consider intersectional experiences of madness.

In this Transformation Cafe, Dr. McEwen will lead us in an exploration of “difficulty” as a category imposed on marginalized subjects. In this time of rising global facism and violence, Dr. McEwen’s research on how the cultural and politically rendered “difficult trans woman” can justify the marginalization, political and social abandonment, and reduction of rights for all q***r and trans persons is a crucial perspective.

Working with “mad studies” as a critical framework, Dr. McEwen will guide us through a discussion about the term “difficulty” and its impact on everyday lives. We will then explore these ideas from our own experiences through an artistic activity.

This on campus lunch time event is free and open to the public. Lunch and ASL interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask when not eating. Surgical masks will be available.

When: Wednesday, February 25th, 11:30am-1:00pm with the event beginning at 12 noon.

Where: 288 Church Street, (DCC building), room 707/709

Access: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask when not eating and we will have surgical masks available. For questions about access please email [email protected]

Registration: This event is free and open to the public. To register, please visit:

Trans Women and Other Difficult Subjects The Office of Social Innovation launched our new event series titled Transformation Cafes in 2024.

NEW DATE FOR THIS EVENT: Building Practices of Community Care on Campus
Transformation Café on March 5th at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.
Featuring disability justice scholar and care collective organizer, Dr. Loree Erickson, and collective care artist–researcher and TMU ComCult alum, L. Morris, this conversation and workshop will take up how we care for one another in university.

This session will animate Loree’s long-standing and revolutionary work with care collectives and L’s practices of collective care, mutual aid, and harm reduction. We will open with a conversation between Loree and L on collective care, mutual aid, and abolition. We will then have small group discussions and maker circles where participants will reflect on their own care practices and networks, consider tensions between state-supported care and community-led care, and imagine concrete ways to build and sustain care on campus. We will engage these topics through conversation and collage.

This on-campus lunchtime event is free and open to the public. Lunch and ASL interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask when not eating. Surgical masks will be available.



When: Thursday, March 5th

Time: 12PM - 1:30 PM - Doors and lunch at 11:30 AM

Where: 288 Church Street, (DCC building), room 707/709

Access: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask when not eating and we will have surgical masks available. Folks will be available to support collage making. For questions about access please email [email protected]

Registration: This event is free and open to the public. To register for in-person or online attendance, please visit:

Building a Culture and Practice of Community Care on Campus - New Date The Office of Social Innovation launched our new event series titled Transformation Cafes in 2024.

https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/program/oughtism

Oughtism
Feb 05, 2026 – Feb 07, 2026
A multimodal seminar series on neurodivergent ways of living in the world
More information and Register here:
https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/program/oughtism

Please join the Office of Social Innovation for our first Transformation Café of the year: Building a Culture and Practice of Community Care on Campus.

This event features disability justice scholar and care collective organizer, Dr. Loree Erickson, and collective care artist–researcher and TMU ComCult alum, L. Morris, this conversation and workshop will take up how we care for one another in universities that are not fully accessible and increasingly shaped by policing, surveillance, and austerity.

This session will animate Loree’s long-standing and revolutionary work with care collectives and L’s practices of collective care, mutual aid, and harm reduction. We will open with a conversation between Loree and L on collective care, mutual aid, and abolition. We will then have small group discussions and maker circles where participants will reflect on their own care practices and networks, consider tensions between state-supported care and community-led care, and imagine concrete ways to build and sustain care on campus. We will engage these topics through conversation and collage.

This on campus lunch time event is free and open to the public. Lunch and ASL interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask when not eating. Surgical masks will be available.

WHEN: Thursday, January 29th, 11:30am-1:30pm with the event beginning at 12 noon.

WHERE: 288 Church Street, Room 707/709, Toronto Metropolitan University

ACCESS: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask when not eating and we will have surgical masks available. Folks will be available to support collage making. For questions about access please email [email protected]

REGISTRATION: This event is free and open to the public. To register for this in-person event, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/building-a-culture-and-practice-of-community-care-on-campus-tickets-1980670128673

If you would like to bring your class to the event, please email [email protected].

Building a Culture and Practice of Community Care on Campus The Office of Social Innovation launched our new event series titled Transformation Cafes in 2024.

Have you seen our van?😍🚐

Thanks very much to the Office of Research for posting this article about our REDLAB in Motion project!

REDLAB in Motion Opens New Pathways to Community Storytelling | Office of Research Posted on Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 By Cate Willis A first-of-its-kind, fully accessible mobile media lab at the University of Guelph is removing long-standing barriers to digital storytelling by bringing tools, technology and training directly to communities that have historically lacked access.....

Reminder! This Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
288 Church Street, Room 707/709, Toronto Metropolitan University

Please join the Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University as we mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities with a free public screening of Bodies in Crisis, a feature-length documentary by Maria Teresa Larrain.

About the film
In the midst of a profound social conflict, Maria Teresa Larrain, a blind activist and filmmaker based in Canada, returns to her native Chile to document five activists who embark on a transformative process to dignify their lives. Bodies in Crisis follows these activists through the constitutional process that took place in Chile between 2020 and 2021. The film powerfully traces the intersections of gender, disability, and Indigeneity in ongoing struggles for disability rights and justice.

Bodies in Crisis was recognized with two laurels at the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival: Best Diaspora Film Award and Nomination for Best Canadian Film Award.

Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Length: 108 minutes

Following the screening, we’ll host a panel discussion on local and global disability rights and justice movements with disability studies scholars and activists Dr. Flávia Luciana Magalhães Novais and Dr. Akihito Kato.

Filmmaker Maria Teresa Larrain will be in attendance and available for Q + A.

Access:

- ASL interpretation

- This will be a masked event. Surgical masks will be available at the door

This event is free and open to the public. To get your tickets, please register here:

Bodies in Crisis screening & panel for IDPD Please join the Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University as we mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities.