Images from Culture & Identity 2024
The Culture & Identity learning circle started on Thursday, Oct 24 and runs until Oct 30. Students from various parts of Canada are gathered in Winnipeg to explore the nature of culture, how culture influences identity, how our multiple identities inform each other, and how to navigate intercultural spaces in a good way. CCS Program Staff members Alcris Limongi, Janet Ross, Scott Douglas, and Marcie Gibson are facilitating exercises and discussions designed to take students into deeper reflection on their own cultural identities and ways to make authentic connections across cultural and identity differences. Our chaplain in this circle is Bill Millar who is offering pastoral support to students as well as wisdom from his experience with and passion for intercultural ministry.
On the first day of the circle, Bill and Janet swam around the room like fish, because culture is the water we breathe and move through and is so ubiquitous that we can sometimes forget “What is water??”
On the second day, Alcris had students reflecting on the identity markers that define them and when they first became aware of their ethnicity, gender, orientation, class, ability, and spirituality. Janet asked what is the culture of the Bible, and what cultural lenses do we apply to biblical interpretation.
On Saturday we will explore communication and culture, as well as what monsters have to teach us about what our culture fears and who/what it “others”.
(More pictures and stories will be added next week, once the circle is done.)
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