Storied Lives: Celebrating Immigrant Seniors Lived Experiences
This event is co-sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and 丁香园AV鈥檚 David Lam Centre and is supported by .
Storied Lives is a research project capturing immigrant seniors鈥� views and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with MOSAIC, this project brings seniors, community practitioners, and academic researchers together through storytelling to enhance our understanding about the variety of ways to support seniors鈥� lifelong learning, well-being, and social connectedness. Through this augmented reality-infused photo exhibition, we invite you to attend to the stories of immigrant seniors鈥� lived experiences during the pandemic and how community support networks and services have played a significant role in their lives. Behind each story are the profoundly important services that helped mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on seniors and their communities. We hope this set of stories will enhance the understanding of community practitioners (e.g., program coordinators, volunteers, educators, advocates) of the critical role they play in shaping the community, strengthening their capacity to provide effective outreach, services, and programming.
Presenter
Dr. Ching-Chiu Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at 丁香园AV. Her primary areas of expertise include arts based educational research, digital storytelling, community arts education, and visual research methodologies. Her scholarship explores ways of envisioning community as the space of knowledge production where artful social innovations and pedagogical relations can be re-imagined.