Month: January 2025

Singing Back the Buffalo: a film screening and storytelling with Tasha Hubbard

The Dr. John Archer Library & Archives is co-hosting a free film screening of a new documentary titled Singing Back the Buffalo.  Afterwards, join director Tasha Hubbard as she discusses her journey to being a director and Indigenous storyteller. This event is part of Indigenous Storytelling Month across libraries in Saskatchewan in February.  The public film screening and storytelling is also in recognition of the 150th Anniversary signing of Treaty No. 4.  Details and registration are at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/singing-back-the-buffalo-film-screening-conversation-with-tasha-hubbard-tickets-1107634497599.

Love Data Event: The Indigenous Peoples Survey from Statistics Canada at Archer Library and Archives

Join us at Archer Library and Archives on Thursday, February 13 at 11am for a presentation on the Indigenous Peoples Survey 2022 from Statistics Canada’s Helen Tootoosis. The Indigenous Peoples Survey endeavours to provide key statistics to inform policy and programming activities aimed at improving the well-being of Indigenous peoples. Attendees will have the opportunity to better understand the most recent key findings from the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey and the 2021 Census focusing on Indigenous children and families and other social and economic characteristics. 

Register here: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3859227

Black History Month: A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits the Regina Campus in 1969

The Dr. John Archer Library & Archives invites you to a special Black History Month hybrid presentation, “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits the Regina Campus in 1969” with Dr. Dawn Flood.

Dawn Rae Flood is an Associate Professor of History at Campion College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth and the Courts (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012, 2018) and “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits Saskatchewan, 1969,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 8 no. 2 (Fall 2014): 21-49. Her research focuses on race and gender relations in a modern, urban setting and radical activist movements in support of social justice. Her research on Fred Hampton’s visit to the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan is currently being developed as a dramatic play and limited-run television series.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 1:30 – 3:00 pm. LY 107.32 & 107.33 (Regina & Wascana Rooms), Archer Library main floor, University of Regina.

This is an in-person and online event. Registration is required. Click here for more details: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3862243

Featured Resources For Winter

If you go to our website (https://library.uregina.ca/homepage) and scroll down just a wee bit, you’ll find the “Featured At Archer” section where we regularly curate a small selection of resources from our vast online collection. Currently featured are winter-themed content like “Winter Classics” from the Naxos Music Library, a collection of works by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninov (among others), and Timothy Steele’s celebrated poetry collection “Towards the Winter Solstice.” Both are accessible to university faculty, staff and students with an active username and password.