T.O. Greenspiration Events: tricks of the trade
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Aug 21 23:56:30 EDT 2011
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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Container Gardening
A workshop for balcony and rooftop gardeners featuring sub-irrigation planters
Tues. Aug. 23, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Carrot Green Roof Seminar Room, 2nd floor, Rm. 212, 348 Danforth Ave. (enter via the stairs beside Book City on the Danforth)
Pay what you can.
For registration and more info: Zora 416 463 9031 or artdecos at rogers.com
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Study Series - Egypt 2011
Lessons from Struggle: Popular revolts from Russia to Egypt
Tues, Aug 23, 6pm
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St, Room 3008
Speaker: Melissa Graham
www.socialist.ca
toronto.socialists at gmail.com
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NFB's Free Favourites at Four presents:
Nomad's Land
Wednesday, August 24, 4 p.m.
NFB Mediatheque, 150 John St. (at Richmond St. W)
Free
They're civilians, yet the military runs their lives. By marrying a member of the Armed Forces, these women inherited a lifestyle they hadn't necessarily chosen.
www.nfb.ca/mediatheque
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So Right So Smart
Wed. August 24th, Doors open at 7 pm for Happy Hour, followed by a panel discussion at 8 pm. The screening will begin at 9 pm.
Rooftop of London Tap House, 250 Adelaide Street West (Adelaide & Duncan).
ArchiTEXT presents this film that shows the success of businesses that have begun to take positive steps toward a sustainable future.
The event is free but seating is limited. Register online.
For more information, contact sherry at architextinc.com or click here.
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Council of Canadians Toronto Chapter monthly meeting presents:
Science of Climate Change
Wednesday, August 24, 7 – 9 p.m.
Toronto City Hall, Room 3 (Queen and Bay)
Presentation by Michael Brothers
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14th Annual Social Justice Summer Retreat: Age of Austerity: Separate Struggles, Common Foe
Thursday, August 25th -Sunday, August 28th
Camp Arowhon, AlgonquinPark
Organized by the Centre for Social Justice
Please visit http://www.socialjustice.org/ for more information, bus info and online registration.
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Stop TTC Service Cuts! Movie Night - The Bus Riders Union
Thursday, August 25, 7 pm
OISE (252 Bloor St West), Room 5150
The KPMG consultants have suggested major cuts to existing TTC services, including cutting the heavily used Blue Night Bus network, and privatizing parts of the system. We need to speak out against these cuts, as part of our long-term fight for a free and accessible TTC for all.
To kickstart the discussion, we are organizing a showing of the 2000 film, The Bus Rider’s Union – an award-winning documentary about a unique LA campaign to increase investments in public bus transit, produced by Academy Award winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. That campaign is also part of a larger effort to build a left political movement uniting different components of the working class in that city.
After the film, we'll have a discussion, facilitated by Jessica Bell, about our campaign in Toronto and how to move it forward in the current political climate.
Healthy and tasty snacks will be provided.
Organized by the Free and Accessible Transit Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly.
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242994995740842
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Downtown East March to STOP FORD'S CUTS
Thursday, August 25 · 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Allan Gardens, Sherbourne & Carlton
Join us for a free community meal, followed by a lively tour of Rob Ford's proposed path of destruction in the Downtown East!
Rob Ford’s cuts would devastate our community. Daycares, community centres, public housing, libraries, parks, and shelters for the homeless - this and more is at risk! Join fellow community members and workers as we gather to march through our neighbourhood, stopping at public services to celebrate what is ours and send a clear message to the Mayor and his friends on Bay Street that our community will come together to Stop the Cuts!!
Organized by Stop the Cuts https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176487352422322
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Davenport-Perth Stop the Cuts Public Meeting #2
Thursday, August 25 • 6:15pm - 8:15pm
Dufferin and St. Clair Library , 1625 Dufferin Street - Toronto, Ontario
Info: davenport.stopthecuts at gmail.com
Our first meeting was fantastic - with over 60 people from the west-end coming out to fight the cuts! Many terrific ideas were discussed at the meeting and now we have to put them into action. Come out to our second public meeting. This will be a working meeting where we will develop our plan for the fall and beyond! Childcare will be available.
Facebook event: http://on.fb.me/oZZiuO
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Tahrir, The Canadian Boat to Gaza Report Back
Thursday, 25 August, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Bathurst and Bloor)
Admission is free, donations gratefully accepted. We regret that this venue is not wheelchair accessible.
An evening of discussion and information with delegates from the Tahrir and members of the Canadian Boat to Gaza Steering Committee. Follow the journey of the activists over the last year as they took an idea and turned it into a high seas adventure.
With: John Greyson's film "Gaza Island", Sandra Ruch , David Heap , Bob Lovelace , Wendy Goldsmith
http://www.tahrir.ca/content/tahrir-canadian-boat-gaza-report-back-toronto
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Critical Mass
Fri. Aug. 26, 6 p.m. (and the last Friday of every month)
Gather at Spadina/Bloor parkette
Cycle en masse through Toronto streets in safety and sheer joy! Join the global movement for cyclists' right to safe space on city streets.
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Ingredients - The Local Food Movement Takes Root
Show times:
Fri. Aug. 26 - 7 p.m. - screening plus panel
Sat. Aug. 27 - 4:30 - screening plus panel
Sun. Aug. 28 - 4:30 - screening plus panel
Mon. Aug. 29 - 7 p.m. - screening only
at The Projection Booth, 1035 Gerrard St. E. http://www.projectionbooth.ca
North American food is in a state of crisis. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise, food costs are skyrocketing, family farms are in decline, and our agricultural environment is in jeopardy. Ingredients explores a thriving local food movement as our world becomes a more flavourless, disconnected and dangerous place to eat. Discovering better flavour and nutrition, Ingredients is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.
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Toronto People’s Assembly Fair
Saturday August 27th, Dufferin Grove Park (Dufferin, South of Bloor), noon – 5 p.m.
This People’s Assembly Fair is intended to be a fun and family-friendly event to revitalize ourselves as a community and engage the public with interactive and creative activities. By allowing a safe space to demonstrate alternative means for education, entertainment, and sustainability, the aim of the Fair is to become its own image of a movement we would all like to see.
http://torontopeoplesassembly.wordpress.com/
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Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market - Streets are for people!
Sun. Aug. 28, noon - 7 p.m.
Enjoy the best of Toronto, on the car-free streets.
http://www.pskensington.ca/
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Urgency of Countering Global Warming: A Scientific View
Sunday, August 28, 2 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West (at St. George Subway), Rm 5280
Michael Brothers of Council of Canadians-Toronto will present to a non-scientific audience how our climate is changing and why. He will primarily use the work of Dr Hansen which answers those who believe that climate change is not a major concern and shows why action is now urgent
For more information: www.Boliviaclimatechange at gmail.com
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Tricks of the Trade Workshops - Liz Marshall on making a community documentary
Sunday Aug. 28, noon – 3 p.m.
Fort York
A group workshop… To film one video, working together, in 3 hours. The emphasis will be on working together, quickly, to conceptualize and then film an artfully crafted mini documentary, which explores & unearths the concerns of the surrounding community. The goal for the video: a tool for community outreach at the political level, to send it to local politicians and community leaders – to spark a new dialogue about the slaughterhouse; to bring to light the issues from the community. In doing so, the video should also expose the cold hard facts about slaughter: the number of pigs slaughtered each day, the conditions...
The Tricks of the Trade workshop series is presented by Toronto Pig Save www.torontopigsave.wordpress.com and Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals. Media sponsor is rabble.ca
http://rabble.ca/whatsup/tricks-trade-workshops-liz-marshall-making-community-documentary
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Fighting austerity...in Parliament and on the streets
A one-day conference organized by the U of T International Socialists Club
Sunday, August 28 Registration opens: 10:30am Conference begins: 11:00am
Galbraith Building, room 404, 35 St. George Street, University of Toronto
TTC: Queen's Park (go west on College to St. George; go north on St. George to #35)
This event takes place in an accessible space.
The U of T International Socialists club invites you to join us for this one-day conference about fighting the austerity agenda, from Rob Ford in Toronto to Stephen Harper in Ottawa. The conference will discuss how to build a fight-back in the streets - and in Parliament - and will cover the rise of the NDP in the last federal election, the new federal politics, the nature of social democracy, Quebec and the national question, and the role of socialists in building a movement against neoliberalism - in the workplace, on campus, and in our neighbourhoods. The conference will also connect the local fight-backs against austerity to the global fight-back against austerity in Egypt, Greece, London, and beyond.
The conference is open to everyone. Subsidies are available. To register and/or request a subsidy, please email: international.socialists at utoronto.ca
Suggested donation: $10 or pay what you can (no one will be turned away).
www.socialist.ca toronto.socialists at gmail.com
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