Funded 2021-2022
The Black Pharmacy Students’ Association (BPSA) aims to increase Black representation and engagement in the pharmacy profession, and provide a safe space for Black pharmacy students, empower them, and create a strong and extensive network.
Effect of Racism and Micro-aggressions on Mental and Physical Health: A focus on Black Healthcare Students and Professionals is a virtual talk by Dr. Nnorom who will be dissecting how anti-Black oppression presents itself within many health sciences programs, including pharmacy.
From Funding Recipient(s):
"On behalf of the Black Pharmacy Students' Association (BPSA), University of Alberta, I would like to thank you for sponsoring our webinar, "(in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats, and Micro-aggressions. Through your generous contribution, we raised awareness about the harmful effects of anti-Black racism on Black healthcare students and professionals. The event was very impactful, and we had an excellent discourse on the topic in question, how it relates to other racialized students, and how Faculty and leaders can take concrete steps to support Black, Indigenous, and other students of color.
In addition, BPSA was able to fulfill our goal to advocate for safe spaces for Black pharmacy students, staff, and the community, and this would not have been possible without your support. Your partnership has moved us a step closer to tackling systemic issues and dismantling oppressive systems in academia, specifically pharmacy and medical education, and workplaces in healthcare systems.
We appreciate your support for this event, and we look forward to more opportunities for partnership in the future"
Funded 2021-2022
Ubuntu-Mobilizing Central Alberta is a registered non profit with an engaging youth council that is made up of high school and university students. We focus on equity, justice, solidarity and providing access for Black people and other communities that have been historically marginalized in central Alberta. Our mission statement is to act as a bridge and connect communities through advocacy and community building. We have completed numerous projects which focused on gender equity, queer representation, diversity, community advocacy and community engagement.
In response to food insecurity in central Alberta amongst historically marginalized communities Ubuntu started the All Spoons Project to share skills and resources for participants to learn how to start and maintain a garden.
Visit their website to learn more: https://ubuntualberta.com/
Funded 2021-2022
All Y’All Calendar, an astrology calendar for prairie queers and gender-bending BIPOC cowboys.
Salem (they/them) is a multimedia story-teller, astrologer and an amiskwacîwâskahikan-based prairie boy, Born and barely raised in small-town Alberta, they have loudly declared amiskwacîwâskahikan their soul’s muse. Salem’s vision of the prairies paints it as the backdrop to the stories of flourishing black and indigenous creatives. Their work as an emerging filmmaker and digital media artist works to elevate narratives that centre the stories, aesthetics and values of QTBIPOC and BIPOC artists. Salem’s artistic practice and mission is fueled by astrology, Afrofuturism, and Emergent Strategy practices.
In 2021 Salem launched project the All Y’All Calendar, an astrology calendar for prairie queers and gender-bending BIPOC cowboys.
“The ultimate spirit of this project is to foster a creative space where Black, Indigenous, and creatives of colour of all bodies can access experience on a photoshoot that celebrates decolonizing what it means to be a cowboy. Queer and racialized people aren’t commonly associated with Western wear, cowboy lifestyles, and gritty plains that are so emblematic of Alberta and the Prairies. This project inserts these people and histories into the contemporary narrative of what it means to be an Albertan.”
Funded 2020-2021
E-conference titled "The Black Student Experience in Academia"
https://bgsa2021conference.artsrn.ualberta.ca/
"The University of Alberta’s Black Graduate Students’ Association would like to thank APIRG for its generous support and contribution toward making the BGSA 2021 Conference a huge success. The allotted funding ensured that we compensated our participants appropriately for the time and effort they expended in speaking about anti-Black racism, a topic that often requires vast outlays of emotional labor. Our dealings with you throughout the application and reimbursement process was seamless. Notably, Shima Robinson ensured that we had all the information needed to submit a strong application. Once our application was approved, Meara meticulously educated us on the reimbursement process. Furthermore, APIRG helped amplify our promotional material on Instagram, ensuring that news about the conference was spread to a wide audience. We are especially thankful for this assistance, as it helped increase the BGSA’s visibility across the student community at the University of Alberta, and the province, more generally. "
Funded 2019-2020, 2021-2022
From Event Organizer:
The 2019-2020 Centre for Autism Student Association Annual Conference is a virtual educational conference that will examine the unique challenges that individuals on the spectrum may face when transitioning to different stages of life, the supports that are already available, and what still needs to be addressed.
"The 2019-2020 Centre for Autism Alberta Students’ Association (CFASA) executive team thanks APIRG for their generosity, support and partnership in our 4th annual symposium. The organization contributed to the promotion and facilitation of our event. "
Funded 2021
Play, an experiment in multi-lingual storytelling.
"Mūkonzi Mūsyoki’s great script brought to life by such truly fantastic acting sees this up there with the best of this year’s festival." - Edmonton Journal
Funded 2021-2022
The Creative Writing Club is a student group whose mission is to provide a social space for students interested in writing at the University of Alberta to network, learn, and practice their craft in a supportive environment.
The Creative Writing Club Anthology is a publication of student- and/or alumni written and edited fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and flash fiction. The Anthology aims to provide the university community with a creative publishing opportunity that is accessible to all kinds of writing, regardless of style, topic or past publishing experience. Additionally, this project seeks to include voices that are underrepresented in the Canadian literary world, including those of women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+2S, neurodiverse, and disabled writers.
Keep in touch with the Creative Writing Club on facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheCrWUofA/
Funded 2020-2021
From Funding Recipient:
"Medical Herstory would like to extend a sincere thank you to APIRG for providing us with the grant which allowed us to purchase equipment, software, and promotional materials to create this interview series about medical gender bias!"
Funded 2021-2022
The Everyday Harm Reduction Online Zine is an online semi-instructional zine about what harm reduction is and how one can incorporate harm reduction principles. They aim to fight stigmas associated with the current and ongoing opioid crisis which disproportionately affects QTBIPOC+ folks, with different groups of people needing to cope with differential traumas inflicted by intersecting sources of oppression.
The zine will incorporate research on addiction and harm reduction practices and illustrations and writings from local artists.
This project is led by Alexa Bender. https://www.instagram.com/penance_art/
Funded 2020-2021
By Medical Herstory.
"Thank you APIRG for funding Medical Herstory's second annual Feminist Health Research Conference. At this conference we pushed boundaries of what counts as research, whose voices are heard, and what the future of health(care) could look like from a feminist lens. The event brought together leading researchers, advocates, and practitioners from all around the world. We offered hands on workshops, lived experience panels, healthcare professionals perspectives, and headliners who are changing the future of gender health equity. We can't wait to continue this work and thank you APIRG for supporting Medical Herstory's mission to eliminate sexism, shame, and stigma from health experiences. "
Funded 2020-2021
By STEM Fellowship UAlberta.
"Thank you APIRG for helping STEM Fellowship reach our goals of making STEM research accessible to everyone. We appreciate all of your help in organizing our event and look forward to working together in the future again!"
Funded 2020-2021
From Funding Recipient:
"Thanks APIRG for the help in funding our radio broadcast software! Your commitment to local art and community is part of what makes Edmonton's art community so vibrant."
Funded 2021-2022
How To Get A Thigh Gap is a multimedia project by Nisha Patel (she/her) and Bree Meiklejohn (she/her). Nisha Patel is an artist specializing in poetry and spoken word was the 2019-2021 City of Edmonton Poet Laureate. Nisha’s work explores themes including disability and ableims, illness, identity and race, and her life as a queer South Asian woman. Bree is a University of Alberta student studying English and Creative Writing who writes to themes of marginalization, including fatphobia and sexism, mental illness and disability, and works towards using her artistic work to explore social justice and the role of the arts in achieving it.
The multimedia photo/poetry series, How to Get A Thigh Gap, will articulate systemic fatphobia through creatively rewriting the WikiHow Article “How to Get a Thigh Gap” (writing and illustration laden with fatphobia), and replacing the illustrations with self-taken photos exploring fat joy in a fat body.
Funded 2020-2021, 2021-2022
From Organizer(s):
"Thank you for your support, APIRG! It made it possible for us to test out an idea, and develop the pilot issue of Hungry Zine! We were able to work with 16 contributors, a designer, and pay for printing, thanks to your support!"
Funded 2021-2022
La Connexional’s Adult Swimming Program is an individualized and accessible swimming program designed to help adults learn how to be safe in the water and how to swim. It is primarily designed to create an accessible and safe space for BIPOC folks to acquire swimming skills.
https://laconnexional.com/lasp/
La Connexional is a community focused social enterprise expanded to a creative consulting agency led by UAlberta alumni and current UAlberta students.
Funded 2020-2021
Laconnexional https://twitter.com/laconnexional used the funding to support their development of a digital app to support African diaspora & Latinx communities.
From Funding Recipient(s):
"La Connexional is eternally grateful for the support that APIRG provides to fund initiatives that build stronger, more resilient communities. We are able to continue to do our work in part thanks to the financial and professional support that APIRG provides and we hope that this partnership can continue into the future with more fruitful collaborations and events that bring people together while building capacity in underrepresented communities.
Looking forward to our next project together!"
