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Title: Teambuilding in the time of COVID-19: A Zoom Play
Description: Abstract This play brings to life the story of a group of professional and para-professional staff at York University Libraries as they build a new team and provide new services during a year-long COVID-19 lockdown. Creative use of technologies help them develop a sense of community and a renewed sense of purpose. Summary In a strange and scary time, exiled from their place of work, a group of (relative) strangers turn a wellbeing exercise into so much more.  Picture this: a threat invisible to the naked eye empties out an entire 60, 000-person campus; the library locks its door with an hour’s notice; and the people who like to help are sent home indefinitely.  How are they, the library people, going to survive, thrive and help the faculty and students now dispersed to the four corners of the world?  This short play will tell you how. The pandemic shut down the old ways of communicating, BUT library services still had to be available. The professional and para-professional staff in the library overcame personal, technical and other challenges to build a new team that would serve its public.  BUT team building requires communication and trust. How was trust in the new team built in an online environment known for its comical awkwardness? The limitations of Zoom were turned into a strength: week by week, turn by turn, everyone got to speak and truly listen to their team members.  The common launching off point was a carefully selected video on skills building, library services, accessibility and diversity.  Video by video, varied insights meant that team members were visible to each other as fellow humans and co-workers! A team was born.  Learn what each player in this team did to make it come alive. Come by and watch: Team-building in the Time of COVID: A Play
Type: video
Date: 6 May 2021
Identifier: 10315/38330
Identifier (PID): yul:1153711

Title: Journal typesetting and galley production workshop (May 18, 2021)
Description: York Digital Journals and the Department of Humanities hosted a workshop on journal typsetting and galley production by Markus Reisenleitner, editor of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies / Revue d'études interculturelles de l'image (http://imaginations.io/). This event took place via Zoom on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET. In this workshop, Markus described the workflow and technologies Imaginations uses to generate article layouts in HTML and PDF formats. There was opportunity for participants to discuss their own workflows and challenges.
Type: Moving image
Date: 18 May 2021
Identifier: ydj2021-05-18
Identifier (PID): yul:1153730

Title: Traditional Folk Dances from the Bahamas
Description: Consists of a portion of a major research project completed through York University's Department of Dance by Roderick T. Johnson, focusing on the history and development of traditional dances in the Bahamas. Video credits include: Music by Kayla Edwards and Ed Moxey Advisors Nina De Shane, mary Jane Warner and Jeffrey Henry Editors Ethan Clarke, Wendell Cleare and Charles Smith Camera operators Roderick Johnson, Wendell Cleare, Charles Knowles and Ethan Clarke Dancers Kelvin Cooper, Vickie Duvalier, Sharon Martin, Ernest H. Peterson, Baronda Dinon, Roderick Johnson, Kathleen Wallace, Ian Smith, Sean Straehan, Graham Thordarson, Tara O'Leary, Leila Leam, Dorothea Whitlock and Dorothy Moss. Video credits include thanks to Mrs. Pauline Glasby, Mr. Winston Saunders, Mrs. Kava Bethel, Mrs. Rogecca Dockins, Mrs. Gelina Wells, Mrs. Beverley Thatcher, Mr. Hartman Muncure, Mrs. Rosemary Johnson, Mr. Iris Muncure, Mrs. Audrey Wright, Dr. Clevin Eneis, Mr. Marshall Pynkoski, Mrs. Ernestine Dean, Mr. Andrea Mitchell, Ms. Racy Thompson, Ms. Constance Hammermeister, as well as The College of the Bahamas and the Dundas Performing Arts.
Type: Videocassettes
Accession / Box: Department of Dance, York University
Date: August 1990
Identifier: ASC41091
Identifier (PID): yul:1120736

Title: A Collection and Re-Creation of Bahamian Traditional Dances
Description: Consists of a portion of a major research project completed through York University's Department of Dance by Roderick T. Johnson, focusing on the history and development of traditional dances in the Bahamas, including quadrille, heel and toe polka, calypso waltz, sculling dance, ring play dances (brown girl in the ring, bellaby, jump-in-dance, knock the conch style), and festival dances (junkango dance, goombay dance, fire dance). Video credits include: Artistic director/producer: Roderick T. Johnson Videoproducer/director: Peter Freele Videographer: Kouladjie Kambiz Costume designer: Roderick T. Johnson Narrator: Hal Sullivan Script Editor: Rebecca Brosseau, Mary Jane Warner Dance Segment Production: Video Department, York University Studio and post-production facilities: Division of Instructional Development, University of Windsor. Committee Members: Mary Jane Warner, Nina De Shane, Jeff Henry Dancers: Marion Eva Waldamann, Gregor Breedy, Patrick Parson, Rebecca Brosseau, Roderick Johnson, Urie P. Thomas Special Thanks: Dr. Mary Jane Warner, York University Dance Department, Marshall Pynkoski, Jeannette Zingg, Rebecca Brosseau, Constance Hammermaister, Millicent Johnson, John Wilson, Dr. Walter Zingg, Dr. Gail Saunders, Clement Bethel, Keva Bethel, Cris Leelan, Bill Galligan, Beverly Johnson, Victor Johnson. Music: "Bone Fish Medley" by Kayla Edwards and the Research Group, Heel and Toe Polka by the American Folkway Society, "Bellamena" arranged by Clement Bethel, Produced by Kayla and the Research Group, 1990; "Brown Skin Gal" by Joseph Spence, "Junckango Dance" by Bahamian Junkanoo Band, "Goonbay Dance" by Bahamian Goombay Band, and "Fire Dance" recorded by Marshall Stern (American Folkway Society).
Type: Videocassettes
Accession / Box: Department of Dance, York University
Date: November 1992
Identifier: ASC41092
Identifier (PID): yul:1120738

Title: Building pan-African repertoires to disrupt anti-Black racism in music education
Description: Recording consits of a panel discussion titled "Building Pan-African Repertoires to Disrupt Anti-Black Racism in Music Education," sponsored by the Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts and featuring Brandyn Lewis, Wendy Jones, Darren Hamilton, and Karen Cyrus.
Type: video file
Date: 10 March 2021
Identifier: https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/38132
Identifier (PID): yul:1153692

Title: Planning the Project - Student Guide to Group Work
Description: This video forms part of an eLearning Module, The Student Guide to Group Work (https://learningcommons.yorku.ca/groupwork/) created by the Learning Commons at York University in Fall 2020. The Learning Commons unites learning and academic support units on campus to bolster student success. This guide sets out to help students understand the key benefits of effective group work and introduces them to the fundamentals of a successful group work process. This video is one of four, and provides tips for effective group project planning to help groups stay on track and meet deadlines. This includes identifying and negotiating roles, learning about tools and approaches that can help groups plan effectively, as well as highlighting resources to help groups with key academic skills, like research and writing, which are commonly integral to the group project planning process.
Type: video
Date: 8 January 2021
Identifier: 10315/38078
Identifier (PID): yul:1153680

Title: Communicating Effectively - Student Guide to Group Work
Description: This video forms part of an eLearning Module, The Student Guide to Group Work (https://learningcommons.yorku.ca/groupwork/) created by the Learning Commons at York University in Fall 2020. The Learning Commons unites learning and academic support units on campus to bolster student success. This guide sets out to help students understand the key benefits of effective group work and introduces them to the fundamentals of a successful group work process. This video is one of four, and explores why effective communication is key to group success and shares communication strategies and techniques to foster constructive, respectful communication in general and specific contexts like group meetings or dealing with difficult conversations.
Type: video
Date: 8 January 2021
Identifier: 10315/38077
Identifier (PID): yul:1153679

Title: Understanding the Team - Student Guide to Group Work
Description: This video forms part of an eLearning Module, The Student Guide to Group Work (https://learningcommons.yorku.ca/groupwork/) created by the Learning Commons at York University in Fall 2020. The Learning Commons unites learning and academic support units on campus to bolster student success. This guide sets out to help students understand the key benefits of effective group work and introduces them to the fundamentals of a successful group work process. This video is one of four, and focuses provides tips for fostering a strong team dynamic early on in the course of a group project with the goal of building a solid foundation for all the work and stages that follow. Students learn to appreciate typical stages a group will go through and how to navigate these stages in ways that produce a successful outcome.
Type: video
Date: 2020
Identifier: 10315/38076
Identifier (PID): yul:1153678

Title: Introduction to Group Work - Student Guide to Group Work
Description: This video forms part of an eLearning Module, The Student Guide to Group Work (https://learningcommons.yorku.ca/groupwork/) created by the Learning Commons at York University in Fall 2020. The Learning Commons unites learning and academic support units on campus to bolster student success. This guide sets out to help students understand the key benefits of effective group work and introduces them to the fundamentals of a successful group work process. This introductory video is one of four, and provides an introduction to the benefits of group work in a university setting, and to the component elements of the Student Guide to Group Work.
Type: video
Date: 2020
Identifier: 10315/38075
Identifier (PID): yul:1153677

Title: An Introduction to Climate Justice Activism in Toronto
Description: As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we meet Christopher Lortie, an ecologist and professor at York University, and Malory Owen, an ecologist and climate justice activist who will be facilitating the future conversations in this series.
Type: video file
Date: 18 November 2020
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13256162.v2
Identifier (PID): yul:1153673

Title: Wrapping Up on Climate Justice in Toronto
Description: As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we chat with Christopher Lortie, an ecologist and professor at York University, and Malory Owen, an ecologist and climate justice activist who interviewed climate justice activists in the previous segments. We'll touch on similarities and differences between all the interviewees as well as how we can take what we've learned into our daily lives.
Type: video file
Date: 18 November 2020
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13256243.v2
Identifier (PID): yul:1153674

Title: Art and Artists in Climate Justice
Description: As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we interview Kenza Vandenbroeck (Instagram: @moon__beam) and Kendall Mar (Instagram: @kandykaym), two grassroots organizers whose art is an extension of their activism. We'll talk about the different ways art can influence our world, how to make effective art for social change, and what it's like to be an artist in a world of environmental challenges. You can watch the live-recorded Zoom video interviews or read the transcripts recorded in Summer 2020.
Type: video file
Date: 27 October 2020
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13146746.v2
Identifier (PID): yul:1153670

Title: Youth Perspectives on Climate Justice
Description: As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we interview youth organizers and students Allie Rougeot (Instagram: @alienor.r) and Savi Gellatly-Ladd (Instagram: @yellowpeach.es). We'll discuss what youth activism is, what it's like to be a young person in the age of climate change, and how to get involved in climate justice where you are. You can watch the live-recorded Zoom video interviews or read the transcripts recorded in Summer 2020.
Type: video file
Date: 27 October 2020
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13146740.v1
Identifier (PID): yul:1153669

Title: Digital Activism and Climate Justice
Description: As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we interview digital educators Lindura Sappong and Toni Sappong, two sisters who run the environmental justice Instagram blog @PlasticFreeTO. We'll discuss what it's like to be a digital activist, the efficacy of social media as a tool for social change, and the pitfalls of living virtually. You can watch the live-recorded video interviews or read the transcripts recorded in Summer 2020.
Type: video file
Date: 27 October 2020
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38023
Identifier (PID): yul:1153664

Title: Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Justice
Description: As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we interview land defenders and organizers Cricket Guest (Instagram: @cricket.guest) and Sam Wong (Instagram: @luvthemutt). We'll discuss the importance of recognizing colonial violence, traditional knowledge, land stewardship, and Indigenous leadership for effective climate justice and action. You can watch the live-recorded Zoom video interviews or read the transcripts recorded in Summer 2020.
Type: video file
Date: 2 November 2020
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13146716.v2
Identifier (PID): yul:1153665

Title: Border People (2018)
Type: Video Recording
Date: 2018
Identifier: jnp-3-3-2017
Identifier (PID): yul:1128001

Title: Khan family videos : Family wedding in Canada
Description: Item consists of a Pakistani-Canadian family's home movie featuring a family barbeque, children playing at a park, and a wedding reception. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "At four years old, Noor is in Canada visiting her family to attend a relative’s wedding. After seeing the clip, she noticed her cousins are only speaking to her in Urdu. When she asked them why they weren’t speaking in English, she was told they thought she couldn’t speak English. Noor attended an International English primary school in Saudi Arabia with children from English speaking countries. The footage cuts to a night time gathering. Noor is dressed up with her family attending a relatives wedding. Children and adults can be seen mingling and dancing around."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-036/001(02)
Date: [1998 or 1999]
Identifier: 2019-036/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153242

Title: Khan family videos : Ontario Place and sunset
Description: Item consists of a Pakistani-Canadian family's home movie featuring the family taking the subway, riding attractions at Ontario Place, and includes views of the CN tower and a sunset over Lake Ontario. Home movie also includes footage a baby smiling , giggling, and interacting with other children while sitting on a couch. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Travelling via Subway on the Bloor Line, a family is visiting Ontario Place during the summer of 1995. Less than a year old, Noor resides in Saudi Arabia with her mother, while one of her older brothers attends a boarding high school in Ontario. Her father is with his wife’s extended family and spends the majority of the time behind the camera. Scene of the water park and the children playing is captured along with the skyline of Toronto."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-036/001(01)
Date: 1-3 Aug. 1995
Identifier: 2019-036/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153205

Title: Khan family videos : Breakfast and a tour of Ridley College
Description: Item consists of a Pakistani-Canadian family's home movie and includes footage of Ridley College and Port Elgin. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Footage of a family eating breakfast cuts to a teenager standing by an old building. Noor’s oldest brother, Fahad is giving their father a tour of his boarding school. This is the first time her father is seeing Ridley College. He relied on extended family in Canada to help settle Fahad in his school. Dressed like any other boy from the 90’s, Fahad leads his father on a grand tour. "Being Pakistani in Saudi Arabia was difficult" Noor mentions as she talks about being separated from her brother as he went to school in Canada. To Noor "it feels like filling in the blank watching these videos…" since she was still a child when her family moved. Shot over a few days, the home movie ends on a barbeque in Noor’s aunt home. Her aunt can be seen making fresh kebabs. "We still have those barbeques… they’re much different now, but we still make kebabs from scratch", Noor recounts."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-036/001(03)
Date: [1998 or 1999]
Identifier: 2019-036/001(03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153195

Title: Zaidi family videos : Singing folk songs and playing the dhol
Description: Item consists of a home movie from a Indian-Canadian family featuring a trip to Delhi to attend a family member's wedding. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "On one of her trips to Delhi, Mariam attends her mom's cousin's second wedding. Cousins, aunts, and extended family are gathered on the floor and sofas. Women are dressed in bright yellow and orange saris and joy radiates through song as the bright sunlight washes the shot. The family is singing folk songs and playing the dhol, a South Asian drum, in a town dialect that would only be recognizable to someone from the state of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) and perhaps Delhi. The songs are familiar to Mariam, but she doesn’t understand what is being said. They are part of an oral tradition, sung in celebration and passed down from generations. The folk songs cannot be found online and aren’t "officially" preserved. Mariam remembers that holding the camera was very enjoyable, and she documented hours of what she calls mundane footage of family eating lunch and going about everyday activities, mostly on her yearly trips to India to visit extended family. She is a filmmaker, and plans to create short films with selected clips from her home movies. Mariam’s transition to Canada is complex and layered: ‘Having grown up in Dubai, I carry a sense of knowing what it feels like not being from where you grew up [...] I didn’t process how difficult it was [to move to Canada] because [at first] I was excited to be [in Montreal], and put my heart into classes and the university experience.’"
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-070/001(01)
Date: 1999
Identifier: 2019-070/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152856

Title: Jabbar family videos : America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 2 of 4
Description: Video recording consists of footage a a family travelling to the Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Sometime between 1987 and 1988, its summertime and the Jabbar family welcomes uncles and aunts and cousins over for a visit to Canada, staying at their apartment in Scarborough ON. Family was always welcome at the Jabbar household and they are happy and willing to stay for weeks at a time despite the small space. In this clip, it’s the family’s first visit to Canada so the Jabbars take them to tourist sites. Seen here, the family is entering their vehicle on their way to a day excursion. S’s father is getting into a large vehicle from the late eighties. The car accommodates hand-breaks, since her father could not use his legs due to his disability. Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired. The footage shows how multigenerational the gatherings are, which included S's grandmother who recently came to live with the family."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-032 / 001 (02)
Date: 1989
Identifier: 2019-032 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152053

Title: Jabbar family videos : America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 3 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Sometime between 1987 and 1988, its summertime and the Jabbar family welcomes uncles and aunts and cousins over for a visit to Canada, staying at their apartment in Scarborough ON. Family was always welcome at the Jabbar household and they are happy and willing willing to stay for weeks at a time despite the small space. As their first visit to Canada, they take them to tourist sites. Seen here, the family is enjoying a picnic at the Toronto Zoo. Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired. The footage shows how multigenerational the gatherings are, which included S's grandmother who had recently came to live with the family."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-032 / 001 (03)
Date: 1989
Identifier: 2019-032 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152054

Title: Jabbar family videos : America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 1 of 4
Description: Video recordings consists of footage a family travelling to the Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Sometime between 1987 and 1988, it's the summer season and the Jabbar family welcomes uncles and aunts over for a visit to Canada, staying at their apartment in Scarborough, ON. Family was always welcome at the Jabbar household and they are happy and willing to stay for weeks at a time despite the small space. The clip shows a view of the landscape outside of the family’s highrise window. Seen are full, lush green trees, and in the distance is the Lake Ontario water line. The footage frames the wide six laned Kingston Rd. looking East. The view overlooks a sea of red rooftops, a suburban residential landscape of apartment towers in the distance and detached single family homes."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-032 / 001 (01)
Date: 1989
Identifier: 2019-032 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152052

Title: Jabbar family videos : America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 4 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Sometime between 1987 and 1988, its summertime and the Jabbar family welcomes uncles and aunts and cousins over for a visit to Canada, staying at their apartment in Scarborough ON. Family was always welcome at the Jabbar household and they are happy and willing to stay for weeks at a time despite the small space. As their first visit to Canada, they take them to tourist sites. Pictured here are views of rides at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). S’s father, who is the eldest sibling of their generation, attracted a lot of family to visit because it is customary for people to always visit the eldest. Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired. The footage shows how multigenerational the gatherings are, which included S's grandmother who had recently came to live with the family."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-032 / 001 (04)
Date: 1989
Identifier: 2019-032 / 001 (04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152055