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Links and Materials<\/h1>\r\nLink to Workshop Outline<\/a>\r\n\r\nLink to Slideshow<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n

Workshop: Working with Access Texts<\/h1>\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nSlide reads: Working with access texts, November 10th 2025\r\n\r\n \r\n

Free School Events<\/h2>\r\n

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\r\n\r\nSlide Description: Event poster with a black background and white and red text, a QR code in the top right corner, and the logos of TMU Office of Social Innovation, Tangled Art + Disability, Stitched, and torontomu.ca\/Freeschool2025 along the bottom. The poster includes the information written out below, as well as a description of the Free School: \"What is a Free School? Inspired by the Free School movement of the 1960s, this series is rooted in learning outside the classroom, through community, activism, and collective inquiry. In a time of rising fascism and censorship, this year's theme, \"Access to Education in Unfree Times,\" invites us to learn with and from truth-tellers that refuse to be silent and continue to fight for liberation. This year's OSI Free School Series is hosted in collaboration with Tangled Art + Disability.\" And a longer list of details: \"This event is FREE to attend; hybrid and open to the public (attend in public or online); Palestinian food, ASL interpretation, and active listening will be provided; We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask. Surgical masks will be available.\"\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

First Event<\/h3>\r\nYou are invited to Unsettling Journalism: A conversation about Living with Drones, the first event of the Free School Series presented by the Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University and co-presented by Tangled Art + Disability.\r\n\r\nOur first 2025 Free School event is a presentation from stitched!, a live journalism studio at Toronto Metropolitan University. Their recent show, Living with Drones, is an interactive, multi-sensorial performance about the use of drones, and their traumatic impact on the besieged Gaza strip. During this hybrid event, the stitched! team will share excerpts, discuss the creation process and international reception of the show in precarious, geopolitical times, and share how their \u201cstory work\u201d disrupts traditional journalistic practices.\r\n\r\nWhen: Thursday, November 13th, 7-9pm\r\n\r\nWhere: Urbanspace Gallery, ground floor of the 401 Richmond Building, 401 Richmond Street and on Zoom\r\n\r\nAccess: ASL interpretation and an active listener. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask and we will have surgical masks available\r\n\r\nThis event is free and open to the public. To register for in-person or online attendance, please visit:\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/unsettling-journalism-a-conversation-about-living-with-drones-tickets-1866928095189?aff=oddtdtcreator<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n

Second Event<\/h3>\r\nPlease join TMU\u2019s Office of Social Innovation for our second Free School event \u201cFrom Turtle Island To Palestine: Cross Movement Solidarity in Action\u201d is a conversation with two pairs of activists working together within and across labour and Indigenous solidarity movements towards liberation in the face of genocide.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAnishinaabe artist, activist, and educator Quill Christie-Peters and Maysam Ghani, a Palestinian educator, poet, and organizer, have a rich history of collaboration, building deep practices of joint struggle and responsibility between Anishinaabe and Palestinian communities. Palestinian Canadian social justice activist and professor Ala\u2019 Qadi and Elizabeth Ha, a Chinese-Canadian labour and community activist are Vice-Chairs of OPSEU\u2019s Coalition of Racialized Workers, organizing within the labour movement to dismantle systemic racism and highlight the Palestinian struggle. With facilitation by Dr. Lamya Amleh of Faculty for Palestine, this discussion will explore the power of collective resistance to restore hope and build resilience in the face of increased surveillance and state violence. Panelists and attendees are invited to reflect on the idea that landback and labour are both local and global movements.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis event is free, hybrid, and open to the public. Attendees can participate in person or through Zoom. Food, ASL and interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask. Surgical masks will be available.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhat is a Free School?\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nInspired by the Free School movement of the 1960s, this series is rooted in learning outside the classroom, through community, activism, and collective inquiry. In a time of rising facism and censorship, this year\u2019s theme, \"Access to Education in Unfree Times,\u201d invites us to learn with and from truth- tellers that refuse to be silent and continue to fight for liberation.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis year\u2019s OSI\u2019s Free School series is hosted in collaboration with Tangled Art + Disability.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen: Thursday, November 20th, 7-9pm with doors at 6:30pm\r\n\r\nWhere: Urbanspace Gallery, ground floor of the 401 Richmond Building, 401 Richmond Street and on Zoom\r\n\r\nAccess: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask and we will have surgical masks available\r\n\r\nThis event is free and open to the public. To register for in-person or online attendance, please visit: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/from-turtle-island-to-palestine-cross-movement-solidarity-tickets-1965572351816?aff=oddtdtcreator<\/a>\r\n

Group Updates<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n\r\nHow's it going?\r\n\r\nHas your focus changed?\r\n\r\nHow have your meetings with your organizations gone?\r\n\r\nLessons from your mentors to share?\r\n\r\nDo you need anything from us?\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nFeel free to answer any questions or reach out for support on the discord!\r\n

Disability Justice and Cultural Accessibility<\/a><\/h2>\r\n
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