Selkirk College Mir Centre for Peace Celebrates the UN International Day of Peace with Devi Mucina

The Selkirk College Mir Centre for Peace invites you to participate in an evening with Zimbabwe’s Devi Mucina on September 21, in celebration of the UN International Day of Peace.

With a slide show from his recent travels and PhD research in his home country Zimbabwe, Devi Mucina will talk about how in an otherwise isolated colonial society, stories allow us to share the traits that make up the human condition.

“The aim of this presentation is to highlight how we can use stories as tools of healing spiritual injury.” explains Devi, “We share stories with each other because stories allow us to create shared common connections while also allowing us to have amazement about those that have unique experiences. This presentation hopes to show how some stories reach beyond the living realm and go into the spiritual realm. It is in these stories that we can find healing and balance and resolve old conflicts.”

Devi Mucina is a PhD student at the University of Toronto Ontario’s Institute of Studies in Education in the department of Sociology and Equity. His area of study is in the act of using Ubuntu storytelling as a form of resistance, revival, regeneration, giving voice and witness to surviving colonialism as a way of ensuring that colonialism is not repeated again.

Devi will be speaking at the Brilliant Cultural Centre in Castlegar at 6:30 pm on Sept 21, 2008. Tickets are $8.00 and are available at Otter Books in Nelson, Castlegar Library and Selkirk College (Trail, Nelson and Castlegar campuses).

First published on September 05, 2008