Community Board
UPCOMING EVENTS
PATIENT & FAMILY LEARNING SPACE (PFLS)
INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL REALITY WORKSHOP: HOW TO RESPOND TO AN OPIOID OVERDOSE
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
Tue, Nov 12, 2024 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST
1025 Queen St. West
Join this interactive opioid overdose simulation workshop, using virtual reality headsets. The goal is to walk through the steps for recognizing and responding to an opioid overdose and administering naloxone to someone who is unconscious in time to revive them. The training walks participants through each step, including how to support the person after they wake up. Before entering into the headsets we will review together the signs of an opioid overdose, and steps to respond. There will be time to debrief and ask questions at the end.
About the instructor:
Tucker is an educator at the Simulation Centre. He facilitated the co-creation of this course.
To learn more and register, click here.
ART WORKSHOP WITH TARYN LEE
Tuesday October 22nd | 12pm
1025 Queen St. West
Join artist and educator, Taryn Lee, for an afternoon of art making.
About the facilitator:
Taryn Lee is a neurodivergent artist and educator with lived experience from Oakville, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Design from Toronto Metropolitan University in Fashion Communication. Her own art practice focuses on colourful, representational figurative works, portraits and stylized fashion sketches using mixed medias. She’s had experience teaching art to youth in a classroom setting and teaching online art courses with Workman Arts. She is a Fellow of the CAMH Yale Let(s) Lead program and a longtime Workman Arts member. She’s completed CAMHs Collaborative Learning College peer support and facilitation training courses and peer support training with the Mood Disorders Society of Canada. She is an Active Listener for Workman Arts online and in person events. She believes the act of creating art in safe and encouraging community spaces builds connections, encourages mindfulness, and ignites ideas that lead towards transformations.
To learn more and register, click here.
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART
Toronto, Canada (August 21, 2024) — Precarious Joys, the third edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (the Biennial/TBA), features 55+ exhibition and programming artists from diverse geographies and generations, working across various disciplines. From September 21 to December 1, 2024, TBA offers 10 weeks of free contemporary art at 11 unique locations across Toronto.
The exhibition, Precarious Joys, explores the emotional climate of our times, acknowledging vulnerability and grief while emphasizing the importance of passion and beauty in driving social change. In making this exhibition, co-curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López, have been engaged in conversations and active listening traversing national and international landscapes and numerous artists’ studios. The exhibited works address the various layers that define life in Toronto while reflecting broader social and political structures. Organized around open dialogues and poetic connections, these works together create sparks that ignite a fire amidst the fragility of existence.
In addition to curated artworks, there is an expansive selection of free arts events and learning programs. Created for participants of all ages, TBA programs include performances, moments for exchange and conversation, hands-on workshops, and learning experiences. The 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art Public and Learning programs have been developed by Jenn Goodwin, Public Programs Curator, and Mary Kim, Senior Manager of Learning and Mediation.
TALKING WITH YOUR DOCTOR
Friday September 6th | 2pm-3:30pm PDT
Tuesday November 12th | 7pm-8:30 PDT
Virtual
Peer facilitators lead this 1.5 hour interactive workshop to empower patients to be active participants in their health care. An active patient asks questions, voices concerns and has opinions about their care which they share with their doctor(s) and other healthcare professionals. Using the PACE framework, we explore common challenges with doctor-patient interactions and learn techniques on how to improve them.
Learn how to:
- state your concerns clearly and honestly
- ask questions about your condition and its treatment
- express problems with prescribed treatments
Click here to learn more and register.