OUR VISION
An interconnected community for all
How can we collaboratively cultivate spaces in which diversities flourish?
Well, we all wish that we were birds. We wish we could fly. Well, I guess we do our flying in the arts... We all fly in our own different ways.
OUR MISSION
Bridging difference through what connects us
At What Connects Us ~ Ce qui nous lie, we believe that a whole world depends on our ability to collaboratively create an interconnected community for all.
The overarching aim of our inter+lab is to collaborate with and in community to understand priority concerns and co-create experiences that matter through shared activities and events.
We use a variety of first-person methodologies, methods and theoretical frameworks to guide our projects and trace the impact of our community-led participatory and research creation projects. It is the experiential knowledge of all our partners and collaborators that lies at the heart of What Connects Us ~ Ce qui nous lie.
OUR OBJECTIVES
By sharing co-designed new or leveraging pre-existing activities and events, our objectives are to:
- Enrich a web of resources and care networks in local communities;
- Enhance the conditions for sustainable intersectoral actions;
- Address stigma with and for persons who are less visible and heard in research.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
We would like to acknowledge that the roots of inter+lab are located on Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), unceded Indigenous lands which have long served as a space to live, meet, gather and exchange for different Indigenous nations. We recognize the Kanien’kehà:ka (Mohawk), St. Laurence Iroquoians, Haudensaunee and Huron-Wendat as the custodians of these lands and waters, which are home to many different Indigenous communities and other diverse populations. What Connects Us ~ Ce qui nous lie respects the weaving of past, present and future relationships in this place where we are situated.