Events
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Painting the Colour Back into the World
Time: NOON EST
Adrienne Piggott, McGill University Associate Director, Faculty Procurement and President of the Board of Directors, Teesri Duniya Theatre will speak to us on the ways that colourism and racial exclusion have been present in many ways that people don’t even think about and how this has shaped our view of the world. She will explore how this has affected women in particular and how we can begin to “erase the erasure collectively.” See her Bio and photo attached. You can trim the picture if you think that is a good idea!
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About Our Presentater
Adrienne Piggott
Adrienne Piggott is a first generation Canadian, born to two brilliant, accomplishment parents who immigrated from the Caribbean in the 1960s.
From her earliest days, Adrienne understood that her life would follow an unusual path. Although her health has always been somewhat unpredictable, this didn’t deter her from pursuing a number of amazing adventures. Whether running the New York City marathon, rafting with crocodiles in Costa Rica, exploring caves in Tasmania, skydiving over the 1000 Islands or dropping out of a helicopter to snowboard the Canadian Rockies, she approaches everything in life with fearlessness and passion.
This extends to her professional life as well. After becoming a computer programmer, then a business analyst, then a translator, she switched gears again to work as an Associate Director of Faculty Procurement for McGill University’s Procurement Services department. If it can be learned, she can learn it. Her career has been driven by a willingness to say, “Yes, I can do that!”
This extends to her social justice work as a well. She embraces the sentiment that injustice anywhere is indeed a threat to justice everywhere. This is why Adrienne has worked with underrepresented groups of all stripes. She donated her translation services to an organization that supports the gender non-conforming community. She has worked with community groups that offer homework support to young people from economically disadvantaged environments. Adrienne has been actively engaged with the Black Academic Scholarship Fund for over 20 years, as well as the Quebec Black Medical Association.
In recent years, Adrienne has dedicated her energy, passion and commitment primarily to two endeavours. First, to the McGill Joint Board-Senate Subcommittee for Racialized and Ethnic Persons (REP), and second to the Teesri Duniya Theatre company (an MCW Federate member!). Both organizations seek to improve representation and visibility of underrepresented groups in our local context and in the wider world.
Through REP, Adrienne has worked with a dedicated group of McGill faculty, staff, students and alumni to improve policies and procedures affecting racialized and ethnic McGillians. The subcommittee also seeks to advocate for and educate about issues that affect people of colour, who remain woefully under-supported in higher education.
With Teesri Duniya (an MCW Federate member!), Adrienne supports the artistic vision and mission of the theatre company to foster a climate in which stories of people that rarely get told are shared with a wider audience. Teesri Duniya’s mission of Changing the world, one play at a time, helps to bring us all closer together. Adrienne believes that when we are able to see the humanity in people we once viewed as “other”, we begin to appreciate the many ways in which we are one.