Crossing Class Lines: Building Community in Divided Times [PARTS 1&2]

Join a team of facilitators from Bedford House (Bridges Out of Poverty) who invite you to share a meal and explore a collective definition of "class" and what it means to those living in PTBO/NOGO today. This two-part workshop will be co-facilitated by folks with different class experiences, and is designed to engage participants with differing access to resources and wealth. In divisive times, where people are increasingly polarized, this workshop aims to respond with an invitation to sit at the table together, learn and unlearn, listen and be heard, and work at naming and understanding divides that we so often pretend don't exist.

Together you will wonder through questions that have been raised by the text "On Class" by Deborah Dundas. This text asks us to consider how we talk about class; who tells the stories and who doesn't, which ones tend to be repeated most often, and why…