TO Greenspirational Events - films, water, animals
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Tue Jun 16 10:11:40 EDT 2009
Greenspiration Events
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There are are some amazing eco-flicks playing at mainstream theatres
these days - catch em!
Waterlife is playing at the Carlton.
http://ourwaterlife.com
The Green Chain Gang is playing at the Carlton for one week starting
Friday.
http://www.thegreenchain.com/
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The Parks and Environment Cttee. of the City of Toronto will be
discussing a recent report on
Urban Agricultural Opportunities in the City of Toronto
Tues. June 16, 9:30am, City Hall, Committee Room 1
This is an opportunity to make a deputation to the city on what you
think about urban agriculture. This is a summary of a recent report:
http://www.tcgn.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=Events2009.TUG-CityReport
You can share your own experiences, comment on the things that you
think the report has gotten right, what you think should be
supported, what important things the report missed out on, and where
you think that there needs to be more and different action.
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Cooking Fire Theatre Festival
June 17 - 21
Dufferin Grove Park, just south of Bloor at Dufferin
Dinner will be served 6pm-7pm followed by Part I at 7pm and Part II
at 8:00pm.
We are pleased to announce The Sixth Annual Cooking Fire Theatre
Festival, a week-long performance extravaganza celebrating theatre,
food and public space in Toronto’s Dufferin Grove Park. From June
17-21, local, national and international theatre companies will
present original work that promises to delight, entice, and inspire.
Each evening, returning hosts Le Trouvères will lead the audience
from site to site throughout the park to see performances ranging
from the love story of an old man and a beautiful pigeon to a comic
meditation on going on a journey. Delicious organic meals will be
served to the audience over cooking fires and from Dufferin Grove
Park’s two wood-fired outdoor community bake ovens. Building on the
success of the last five years, this year’s Cooking Fire Theatre
Festival will offer the experience of enchanting and challenging
theatre, wonderful food and the beginning of summer.
e-mail cookingfire at gmail.com
http://www.cookingfire.ca
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WHOSE SECURITY? ADIL CHARKOUI SPEAKS IN TORONTO
Thursday, June 18th, 6:30 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
INFO: canada at cpt.org
Come hear Adil Charkoui speak about Security Certificates and Secret
Trials. Adil will be joined by Barbara Jackman and others. Adil
Charkaoui, a Montreal teacher, father of three children, was held
without charge since May 2003 in Montreal. Released under severe
conditions in February 2005, he has only recently been allowed to
travel outside of Montreal.
Canadian laws that claim to secure communities brutalize migrants,
target marginalized people, use the fear of detention and deportation
to regulate every part of people's lives and justify coercion. These
laws make nobody safe.
Under the guise of national security, Canada has instituted laws that
deny basic human rights, civil liberties and justice to anyone that
it deems worthy of suspicion. Security certificates, secret trials,
extraordinary renditions, confinement without trial, overseas
detention and torture are the dirty underbelly of Canadian
immigration policy.
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Leftist Tide in Latin America
A political discussion presented by the Parkdale-High Park NDP Riding
Association
Thursday - June 18, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Academy
1515 Bloor Street West, Staff Room
(Bloor and Dundas, south-east corner
Just south of the Dundas West Subway)
Speakers: Maria Paez Victor, Alex Grant
Members of the recently merged Hands Off Venezuela/Louis Riel
Bolivarian Circle.
They have direct experience with events over the last decade in
Venezuela and are
familiar with major changes in the rest of Latin America
Fundamental change in the political and economic landscape has
recently taken place
in large portions of Latin America. What are the primary features of
these changes and
what is their relevance for Canada?
E-mail: info at phpndp.ca
with childcare requests and with questions for further information
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Taking Heart in Tough Times - A public talk by Joanna Macy
Opening Ceremony with Six Nations healer and leader Diane Longboat.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:00 pm 9:00 pm -- OISE Auditorium, 252
Bloor Street West, Toronto
Admission: $25, $15 for students and seniors. Tickets available
online at
joannamacy.eventbrite.com
“Economic contraction, climate change, peak oil, social unrest...
There is
no doubt about it—these are challenging and uncertain times. In this
interactive talk eco-philosopher Joanna Macy points the way out of
despair,
helplessness, or denial, and into vision, creativity and empowered
action.
You will come away with a sense of the bigger picture, a context for
hope,
and inspiration for navigating the challenges ahead.
“The most remarkable feature of this historical moment is not that
we are on
the way to destroying our world - we’ve actually been on the way for
quite a
while. It is that we are starting to wake up, as from a millennia-long
sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, ourselves, and each
other.”
Joanna Macy
Author, activist and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy is one of the great
evolutionary leaders of our time. A respected scholar of general systems
theory, deep ecology, and Buddhism, she is also a leading voice in
movements
for peace, justice, and environmental integrity. She has created a
ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as
well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application. To
learn more
about her work, see www.joannamacy.net
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WHAT NEXT FOR IRAQ WAR RESISTERS?
A dinner-fundraiser for the War Resisters Support Campaign
Join us for a political and legal update on the situation facing U.S.
Iraq War resisters who have sought refuge in Canada.
Friday, June 19
Steelworkers Union Hall
25 Cecil Street
•Doors open 5:30 pm
•Dinner at 6:00 pm
•Updates at 7:00 pm, with lawyer Alyssa Manning, campaign
representatives and Iraq War resisters.
Tickets $20. Please RSVP so we can plan food! Dinner includes
vegetarian option.
Tickets available at the door. For more information call 416.598.1222
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CAPA Endorses Vigil-Memorial for Esmin Green in New York
and announces a Support Vigil in Toronto
Fri. June 19, 8 pm
in front of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, a branch of the
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), on the northeast
corner of Spadina Ave. and College St.
Everybody is welcome.
The Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA) officially and
wholeheartedly endorses WE THE PEOPLE’S Vigil for Esmin Green in New
York City on June 19, 2009. The first Vigil was held last year in New
York and Toronto. Ms. Green’s very tragic death in the emergency
ward of King's Country Hospital Center in the Bronx on June 19, 2008
was totally preventable and outrageous and cries out for
international protest and justice now. It’s important to remember
that the death of this poor black woman was a direct result of race-
and-class driven indifference and neglect by members of the
hospital’s psychiatric, medical and nursing staff. Almost equally
outrageous and unjust, the deaths of thousands of other brothers and
sisters in American, Canadian and European psychoprisons have not
been reported by mainstream media or covered up. Ms. Green’s death,
including her sudden collapse, in King’s County Hospital could not
be covered up because it was caught on the hospital’s own video
cameras and widely posted on YouTube. Although Ms. Green’s family
recently won a court-ordered judgment of $2 million, a city report of
the investigation into her death at King’s County Hospital is pending.
CAPA is also proud to announce it is organizing and coordinating a
support vigil-memorial on June 19, the same day of WE THE PEOPLE’s
Vigil in New York. The CAPA Vigil-Memorial is being held in front of
the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, a branch of the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), on the northeast corner of
Spadina Ave. and College St., at 8pm. ‘The Clark’ houses CAMH’s
admission department and its notorious ‘ECT’ unit where thousands
of people, mostly women, have been electroshocked, frequently without
informed consent or against their will. During our vigil, we are
paying respect not only to the memory of Esmin Green but to many
other sisters and brothers and friends who have died from medical
neglect and psychiatric tortures such as forced drugging and
electroshock in psychoprisons across Canada. The deaths of Esmin
Green and many others must never be forgotten!
Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault – http://capa.oise.utoronto.ca
Contact person: Don Weitz, Toronto, 416-545-0796; Lauren Tenney, New
York, 516-319-4295
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LIVE H2O WEEKEND FOR WATER HEALING
When: Friday, June 19, 7-11pm at Great Central Sun Naturopathic
Healing Arts
Saturday, June 20, 11am-11pm at Great Central Sun Naturopathic
Healing Arts
Sunday June 21, 1-10pm at Ashbridges Bay, Toronto Beaches
An unprecedented global “Concert for the Living Water” to give
thanks and express LOVE for H2O has been scheduled by a coalition of
humanitarian and spiritual organizations for June 19-21st. The 3-day
event features experts, artisans, and recording artists honouring
water for its sustaining, supporting, healing and purifying presence.
Celebrities, authors, film-makers, recording artists, spiritual
teachers, religious leaders, and regular people from all cultures
will grace nine main stages internationally at venues adjacent to
important bodies of water. Toronto is one of the international venues
and will be linked via the internet with a worldwide participating
audience.
For more information: danielle at greatcentralsun.com
http://www.greatcentralsun.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=92541371769
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Help Stop Years of Suffering in One Afternoon
Toronto Humane Society Society Protest
Sat. June 21, 2 p.m.
11 River St.
Toronto Humane Society policies leave animals neglected, suffering
and dying in their cages.
Join the protest - help make the shelter the place the animals need.
http://helpths.wordpress.com/
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Alright ChocoSolistas!
We're gearing up to celebrate an amazing and special Summer Solstice
this year!
Sunday June 21st
from noon to 7pm on St.Joseph Street, just west of Yonge, south of Bloor
We're Shutting down the streets because Streets are for people! So
come by and enjoy the pedestrian only space!
Come meet some of our new kitchen crew and enjoy AMAZING hand-made-
from-scratch traditional corn and amaranth tortillas (topped with
local hemp butter)
Slow food Toronto is also collaborating with us on this one so check
out our Facebook Event for full listings!
Expect some asparagus tasting workshops and some strawberry ice-cream
served on red-fife waffle cones!
Check out this Amazing Slow Food Lineup!
Strawberry Ice Cream Tasting!
Celebrate Summer and Local Strawberries!
Taste a wide variety of delicious strawberry ice creams prepared by:
Chef Chris McDonald, CAVA
Chef Karen Viva Haynes, Viva-Tastings
Pastry Chef Chrystal Porter, Palais Royale
John Maxwell, Allen’s
Chef Fabio Bondi and Michael Sangregorio, Local Kitchen and Winebar
Paul DeCampo, Slow Food Toronto
Served on Pastry Chef Leslie Steh, of Far Niente’s, Red Fife Wheat
Sweet Treats
Producers and Partners:
Strawberries from Barrie Hill Farms
Distributed by 100Km Foods
Red Fife Wheat from CIPM Farm
Asparagus Tasting!
Explore Varieties of Delicious Local Asparagus
Directed Tasting led by Partnering Producers
Producers and Partners:
Cookstown Greens
Kawartha Ecological Growers
Brooks Farms
Zephyr Organic Farm
We'll be bringing out our new Solar Roaster as well courtesy of Lorin
Symington the mad scientist boy genius from Ottawa!
Don't miss out on our first local mint chocolate of the season either!
There will lots of fun and games for all so bring the kid, there will
be a Capoeira and Karate demonstrations, salsa lessons, badminton,
street scrabble, open mic and lots more!
We will flow into the evening, harmonizing with the world rhythms of
the one only DJ Carambola!
And we have a special musical guest coming all the way from Chile
(although currently residing in Mexico) A dear friend of Michael's,
we are happy to introduce Moyenei to our friends here in Toronto! She
will light up your souls and inspire with an explosive presence and
uplifting dance hall reggae-mon!
For more information come see us at the Farmer's Markets!
Monday Sorauren Park 3-7pm
Tuesday Riverdale Farm 3-7pm
Thursday Dufferin Grove 3-7pm
Thursday Apple Tree (Young and Eglinton) 3-7pm
Saturday Wychwood Barns 8am-1pm
Saturday Brickworks 8am-1pm
http://www.chocosoltraders.com/
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Beach Solar Systems & Green Roof Workshops
Sat. June 27: two separate sessions between 10a.m.–3p.m.
at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St (Main & Swanwick).
Hosted by Live Green Toronto. Learn about costs, benefits, and
requirements and see some examples.
Session 1: 10a.m.–12p.m. Solar & Solar Hot Water systems; Speaker
Ken Traynor, of Toronto Renewable Energy Cooperative;
Session 2: 1 – 3p.m. Residential & commercial Green Roofs; Speaker
(s) to be determined.
Admission FREE; light refreshments in the morning. Lunch provided for
attendees of BOTH sessions only.
Pre-registration required by June 25.
Contact: Martina Rowley, Community Animator, mrowley at toronto.ca,
647-208-1810.
More info at www.livegreentoronto.ca and www.toronto.ca/livegreen/
inspired_comm_south.html
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Ride for Renewables!
No more nuclear bailouts!
On Sunday June 28th, hundreds of cyclists will ride with a message –
we want a 100% renewable energy grid.
Starting at the wind turbine at the Exhibition Grounds in Toronto,
and ending at federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s office in
Whitby, cyclists will bring their message to the public, the media
and politicians.
Join us for all or part of this 60 km journey along the shores of
Lake ON.
For more info and to register, go to: http://
www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/rfr.php

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Special topics in Adult Education AEC1131H S1
Community Education for Environmental and Social Justice
GREEN WORK, WEALTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
http://www.greeneconomics.net/GreenWork&WealthCourse;.htm
3 credit graduate course
6 weeks: 36 hours over 12 classes
Tuesday & Thursday 5:30 to 8:30 pm
July 7 to August 13, 2009
taught by Brian Milani, author of Designing the Green Economy
A deepening crisis of capitalism's global "Casino Economy," the
intensifying impacts of climate change, and the rise of positive new
integrated movements for social and environmental change have
spurred calls for a Green New Deal—a restructuring of economic
life to directly meet social and environmental need. Not since the
Great Depression has there been such wide-ranging discourse on
the nature of economic growth, markets, manufacturing, regulation
and economic democracy. At the core of this discourse are issues
about the nature of work. A new movement for "green collar jobs"
has grown strongly in the last few years, taking the movement for
environmental justice to a new more positive and holistic level,
putting both disenfranchised minorities and the labour movement
at the leading edge of an emerging vision of green development.
At the same time, evolving forces of green and community-based
enterprise have begun to challenge the hegemony of exploitative
corporate capitalism with new visions of "mindful markets," political
participation and local living economies.
This course is intended to weave together theory and practice—
looking at both the nature of the intensifying crisis of capitalism
while
surveying some of the most dynamic new movements for economic
change—through the prism of work and the role of education (broadly
defined) in implementing a Green New Deal in the North American
context.
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Why should you be concerned?
Metrolinx and the Province of Ontario plan to run over 400 diesel
trains a day through our neighbourhoods. Diesel exhaust is a known
threat to human health, especially the health of children and
seniors, and is linked to cancer and respiratory diseases. Diesel
trains will spew fumes, create noise and divide our neighbourhoods.
This plan will seriously impact our quality of life.
Find out more here:
http://www.cleantrain.ca/
http://railroadedbymetrolinx.blogspot.com/
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