Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau used Kay tout moune (pronounced KAI TOOT MOON) to describe a world without walls that embraces movement, difference, and change. I use it here as a speculative effect of looking at today's societies from a postmigrant perspective, one "that presents and highlights the voice of migration.” Postmigration is a conceptual intervention in current discourses on migration and will frame our activities for that week.

Join us for poetry night with Laureate Lilia Allen, Gabriel Osson, and a dozen francophone poets, attend the day of knowledge sharing online, hear Bonel Auguste speak directly from Haïti to the world, attend the opening reception of the photography exhibition, or come cook and eat tchaka with our international guest artist, Coutechève Lavoie Aupont.

Historically, significant migratory waves follow the type of world turmoil that we are currently experiencing. How do we shift our understanding of migration from crisis to normalcy? What are such a shift's social, political, and aesthetic implications? These are the very basic questions we hope to explore. 

All events are free.  Registration required.

(The unconference is supported by an OCADU SEED grant, The Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora, the International Office, the Faculty of ART, and the Faculty of Arts and Science at OCADU. The official image of the Conference Self Inventory is by graduating OCADU student Deanna Greene, photo credit. Delali Cofie)