It was a full house at Burnaby Central Secondary for the Social Justice Conference keynote, You Can Play. Students from around the district patiently waited in line to enter the one year-old theatre venue from which the quarterback from BC Lion’s football team would moderate the engaging panel on equality and discrimination in sports. Workshops…
Month: April 2014
One Life. Forever Justice.
For one hour, 100 Burnaby students in Byrne Creek Secondary’s Centre for Dialogue were transported back in time via videoconference, living life through the eyes of Mr. Chris Lubbe (pronounced Lub-bee). Mr. Lubbe grew up in South Africa during apartheid, experiencing the humiliating and unjust effects of legislated, systemic racism. He later worked as the…
Remembering When South Africa Touched the World…in Burnaby
It wasn’t really that long ago that news projected images of the new South African President Nelson Mandela, winner of an election which would see him as the first black head of state in South African history. A little reading will uncover a fascinating chronology for those who were born in that year of 1994….
Making sense of an interconnected world. Together. 