Landings: Anti-Racist Futures in Stories

On December 17, 2023 (Sunday) at the University of Calgary’s Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, YARI—Collective presented a series of interactive re-imaginations of anti-racist futures through stories co-designed by the YARI—Collective’s newcomer youth of color. Freeing us from prescribed definitions of anti-racism, they offered hope by revealing the complex emotions of pain, loss, solidarity and hope that underlie forced migration and are systemically silenced by the procedurality of immigration.

Working with a transdisciplinary team of researchers, the YARI youth have co-designed cinema, computer simulations of river-crossings and friendships, storywork through community gardens, podcasts about melodies, photographic montages and a mural throughout the Taylor Institute ground floor.

Playbill for the event