Brave Spaces Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Coquitlam Public Library welcomes you to attend this multi-part speaker series with people from diverse backgrounds sharing their stories. This brave space will:

  • be a supportive place where participants feel comfortable learning, sharing honestly and equally, and growing individually and together.
  • be inclusive of all races, sexes, genders, abilities, immigration statuses, languages, and lived experiences.
  • help encourage dialogue, especially about challenging topics.

Line Up

Date Topic  Additional Notes
Jun. 12 Pride: We have always been here: 2SLGBTQIA+ Histories

Learn about how local and global histories of Queer and Trans ways of living and activism have shaped the communities we exist in today and how they might inform the future world we want to build for ourselves.
Jun. 17 Hope & Healing in the Toxic Drug Crisis Focus on Smokey Devil: The film centers on the life and work of Smokey Devil, an artist known for his murals depicting the toxic drug crisis, memorials, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG2S), and other important social issues. 
Jun. 24 Hope & Healing in the Toxic Drug Crisis

R.O.L.E. (Responding to Overdose in Langley through Education) uses storytelling to humanize the overdose crisis, moving beyond data to highlight personal impact. It aims to reduce stigma by educating the community, including businesses and general public, about the crisis's widespread effects and everyone's role in addressing it.
Jun. 26 Pride: Queer Visions: The limitless potential of art This panel features artists from our local 2SLGBTQIA+ communities sharing how their various art forms are vehicles of self expression, resistance to oppressive structures and norms, and forging broader and deeper connections to community. 

Questions?

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