CT Research and Communications Team
We are excited to introduce our Research Stewards for the Conflict Transformation in the Arts and Beyond project, Sania Khan and Alan Chen. Join us at our Transformation Convergence on August 23 and 24 to share and learn together in person.
Sania and Alan are exploring existing conflict transformation models in the arts and adjacent sectors in Canada and identifying the lived experiences, gaps, and needs of organizations facing conflict. Expanding our capacity for knowledge sharing on conflict as a regenerative force is at the heart of this project, and this brilliant team is key to this work
Alan is a second generation diasporic settler, working in service of equity and liberation for himself and others. Raised on Coast Salish Territories (Metro Vancouver) by immigrant parents and educated in Tiohtià:ke, Kanien’kehá:ka territories (Montreal), he embodies a gentle masculinity and an anti-oppressive approach in his facilitation.
Alan currently volunteers as a facilitator for North Shore Restorative Justice Society and works for the Vancouver Park Board in Reconciliation and Decolonization. He draws from various intertwined communities of diaspora, decolonization, and social change movements for wisdom and guidance.
Sania Khan (b. 1994, Pakistan) is a queer filmmaker, researcher, creative technologist and trauma-informed somatic facilitator. Sania's art-alchemy practice engages the technologies of story, soma, and spirit to forge liberated futures where we live in right relationship with(in) ourselves, each other, the natural worlds, and unseen worlds.
Sania's praxis infuses a decade-long career in human rights advocacy with a parallel journey of solo world travel, rooted in an ethos of animism, healing justice and enchantment.
Alan and Sania will be sharing their research at our Convergence on August 23rd. Join us by registering here
