T.O. Greenspiration Events: Living on Earth
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Nov 18 23:56:57 EST 2012
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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Win prizes. Do the survey. Save on energy bills. Reduce emissions. Create change. - Project Neutral (Toronto-based NGO) invites you to fill out a survey to increase the energy efficiency of your household and save on energy bills. Residents of Wards 13 and 30 who fill out the survey are eligible for prizes, but all Toronto residents are welcome to participate. Find the survey and more details here: http://bit.ly/U8kft7
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The Great Casino Myth - The mayor's excited about Toronto getting up to $200 million a year from casinos. Based on all publicly available information, there's no reason to think that will happen. http://torontoist.com/2012/11/the-great-casino-myth/
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Theatre of the Oppressed Fall Training
Join us for a 5-week workshop series in Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed techniques
Mondays November 19 - Dec. 17, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Fringe Creation Lab, 720 Bathurst (CSI Annex) 4th floor, Neville's Nook Studio
If you've ever been interested in learning to use theatre as a tool for social change and interested in learning Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, join me for my upcoming workshops:
- Engage in theatre games from Augusto Boal's Games for Actors and Non-Actors that can be used as icebreakers, energizers and proactive tools for motivating dialogue around issues of power and oppression
- Learn to create, interpret and use body sculpting (tableaux) as ways to understand layers and cycles of social and political oppression with Image Theatre
- Learn a unique style of theatre that motivates spectators to become 'spect-actors' to take a stand and act out the changes they want to create in the world
- Develop and perform a Forum Theatre play and build your practice of using theatre as a tool for social change
- Rehearse towards Revolution; rehearse towards real change!
To Register and for more info, contact: branchouttheatre at gmail.com or 416-910-4972=
Cost: $195, Students: $140 ~ some sliding scale or work exchange options available ~
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Living On Earth As If We Want to Stay
With Mike Nickerson
Monday, November 19 @ 6:30pm
Friends’ House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway)
Climate disruption, resource depletion, and exceeding the planet’s natural limits. How might we adapt if these were true? Mike will present guidelines by which we can re-integrate our species with the rest of the natural world and secure a long tenure on this awesome planet.
Presented by Ecologos and Unify Toronto.
For more info and to RSVP: info at ecologos.ca
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The Assassinations of U.S. Presidents who fought the private banking cabal from Jackson and Lincoln to Kennedy Sr. and Jr.
with Sydney White, Investigative Journalist, Studies in Propaganda, FREE University of Toronto
Monday, November 19, 6-8pm
40 St. George Street, Room 1160
Free - all welcome
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Transport Futures Governance Summit
New Models for delivering Roads, Parking and Transit
Mon. Nov. 19
Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto.
Government decisions about transport policy, services and infrastructure are fragmented across numerous jurisdictions and departments. Can efficiency, innovation and creativity be enhanced through vertical and horizontal integration? How can good governance decrease public skepticism regarding multi-billion dollar plans and policies, including mobility pricing? Get the answers to these and other challenging questions from our global and local experts:
http://www.transportfutures.ca/gov
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Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force presents:
“Research” Drugs
Monday November 19, 10:30 am. - noon
410 Sherbourne St., 3rd floor (west side between Wellesley/Carlton)
Free. All welcome.
Research drugs are drugs that are created to avoid the provisions of existing drug laws. Common street names include “bath salts” or “plant food.” Thanks to our partnership with the University of Toronto, these timely, informative presentations are provided courtesy of interns who are 3rd and 4th year pharmacology-toxicology students in a harm reduction service learning course. These presentations will be of interest to front line and peer workers, and anyone working with populations where substance use is a concern.
www.TOharmreduction.org TOharmreduction at gmail.com 647.222.4420
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Pensions: What's left for the youth?
Monday, November 19, 7:30 p.m. (doors open 7 p.m.)
Duke of York pub, 39 Prince Arthur Ave.
Free event, registeration: whyshouldicare
Pension coverage is shrinking. It’s an open secret that today’s young people are looking at retirements less prosperous than their parents enjoyed. The have and have-nots of tomorrow will be defined by who does and doesn’t have a pension. The federal government has proposed a new pension scheme: pooled registered pension plans (PRPPs). In a paper published by the C.D. Howe Institute, in August, James Pierlot explained why this scheme will do little for the middle class and in fact could put many Canadians in a worse financial position.
With the current pension system failing youth, the middle class and lower-income workers, and the government's new PRPP scheme all but dead, since the public scrutiny of the scheme. What can these people expect when it comes time for them to retire? What can be done? As WSIC's latest guest speaker, Pierlot will discuss his ideas for new retirement vehicles - vehicles that will benefit today’s workforce, tomorrow. Joining James is MPP Michael Prue, a member of Ontario’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.
More info: whyshouldicare.ca or on Facebook
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General strike against austerity -- Europe in revolt
Tuesday November 20, 6 pm
OISE, 252 BLoor St W, rm 2289 (St. George subway)
On November 14 there were general strikes across Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece, along with solidarity demonstrations in other European countries. This internationalism and working class resistance is essential to fight both the economic crisis and the fascist threat it is breeding. Come hear an eyewitness account of this movement from Nikos Loudos, an activist from the Socialist Workers Party (SEK) and the Coalition of the Greek Anti-capitalist Left (Antarsya) via Skype. Also speaking, Carolyn Egan, trade unionist and member of the Toronto International Socialists
Organized by the International Socialists
www.socialist.ca * torontosocialists at gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/events/304145489699063/
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Animals in Art: Celebrating and Reflecting on Non-human Animals in Art
Tues. Nov. 20, 7 - 9:30 pm
Multi-faith Centre, 2nd floor, 569 Spadina Crescent, U of T
Lectures, musical performance, art display. Free vegan refreshments.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/455149701190612/?fref=ts
Email to utiestudio at gmail.com
University of Toronto International Environmental Studio
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Rob Ford - Time to Resign!
Tues. Nov. 20, noon
Toronto City Hall, Queen and Bay
Are you fed up with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? Are you outraged by his incompetence, the ongoing conflicts of interest, his continuing hostility to Toronto residents? Are you tired of just complaining about him? Well come out and PUBLICLY show your displeasure with the Chief Magistrate of the city. Demand that Rob Ford step down!
https://www.facebook.com/events/172621696211412/
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The Just Beautiful Eco-Beauty Market
Wednesday, November 21, 11 am - 7 pm
Central YMCA, Auditorium, 20 Grosvenor St.
Come sample and shop skincare, cosmetics, and hair care products. Bring your old toxic products for safe disposal. Get tips and tricks from hair and make up artists. Learn from green beauty experts. And maybe even win some great (green) prizes. A portion of proceeds from all purchases made at the Eco Beauty Market will be donated to Environmental Defence in support of the Just Beautiful campaign. You can be green and have your red lipstick too!
Hosted by Environmental Defence http://environmentaldefence.ca/issues/just-beautiful/events
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Meet your Maker – Urban Farming Presentation
Wed. Nov. 21, 5 p.m.
West End Food Co-op, 1229 Queen Street (West at Dufferin)
Come for a presentation by City Seed Farmers Erica Lemieux and Nicci Iaizzo to learn about how they got started in their urban agricultural business, farming backyards in Toronto and selling at Farmers' Markets and events throughout the city. Learn about what it's like to start up your own agri-business, how to grow food in various locations in Toronto, and some of the challenges that arise along the way.
City Seed Farms is a vendor at our Sorauren Farmers' Market. For more information about their farming operation, visithttp://cityseedfarms.com/.
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Re/imagining Feminist Popular Education
A Conversation and Book Launch
Wednesday, November 21, 5 - 7 pm
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St., Toronto
Join a conversation with practitioner-authors Jenny Horsman, Barbara Williams, Carol-Lynn D’Arcangelis and Audrey Huntley and help us launch Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates: Building Pedagogies of Possibility, edited by Linzi Manicom and Shirley Walters (Palgrave, 2012).
macmillan.com
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Green Drinks
Wed. Nov. 21, 3:30 - 9 p.m. (and the 3rd Wed. of every month)
Grace O'Malley's, 14 Duncan (just north of King)
We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, students, government and business . Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always... a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity.
https://www.facebook.com/events/166920036783848/
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Biochar and Food Security: Dealing with the Droughts
With Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist, Biochar Consultant.
Thur. Nov. 22, 7 – 9 p.m.
University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of Toronto, Rm. 144
All welcome. No charge.
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace.
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Torture as Public Truth: The Case of Omar Khadr
Thur. November 22, 6:30pm
80 St. George St. (Lash Miller) Rm 162
Free
In this lecture, focusing on the torture of Omar Khadr, Sherene Razack will explore how torture comes to be a public truth in democratic regimes. How is torture written on the social body? How does a practice that is so extreme come to be seen as a necessary part of our everyday world, a world in which even the spanking of children is regarded as grievous harm? She suggests that torture as practiced today by liberal democratic states in the West (often aided by elites in the East) unites the West against the East, turning the globe into a militarized zone. Torture is thus a racial practice that gives birth to white identities, identities experienced as simultaneously racial and national. As the story of the torture of Muslims circulates in the West, energizing some citizens and providing them with a heightened sense of their own racial superiority, it performs a psychic violence on those of us too easily racially identified with the tortured, reminding us of our own precarious status in political community.
E-Mail: uoft.essu at gmail.com http://www.uoftessu.com/tortureaspublictruth/
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LCO & Mathare Radio's 2012 Toronto Indie Media Exchange
A discussion on independent media in Mathare, East Africa's second-largest slum
Thur. Nov. 22, 7 p.m.
OISE, Rm. 5250 (252 Bloor W.)
Independent media in the heart of East Africa's second-largest slum? Talk of an under-reported story! Yet for the approximately 300,000 residents of the Mathare estate in Nairobi Kenya, where most are young and live on less than $1 a day, community-controlled media is a key platform for articulating social struggles and building collective solutions to pressing problems. Together, the people of Mathare have established their own independent media groups to share issues and generate conversations relevant to their lives. Workers from two Mathare-based collectives, Liberation Cooperative Organization (LCO) and Mathare Radio, are pleased to welcome you to a presentation and group discussion on the role of independent media in our Nairobi and Toronto communities.
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Democracy Salon
Thur. Nov. 22th, 6 – 7:30 pm
The 519 Community Centre, 519 Church St.
Admission: Free - Bring a snack to share
1. Updates re Liberal connection: Letter to Dion and Trudeau - how to get PR and electoral alliance for 2015 into leadership campaign
2. Updates re NDP: possible meeting with Craig Scott, MP (Democractic Reform critic)
3. Outreach Group - creating a road show by compiling literature and video clips
4. Next town hall meeting
CanadianElectoralAlliance: a multi party organization for an alliance in the 2015 federal election
Email: contact at electoralalliance.ca Website:http://www.electoralalliance.ca/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Electoral-Alliance/254642757981876#!/events/334619216635450/
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Diabetes in the Real World – City Design Should MOVE Us!
Thur. Nov. 22, 5 – 7 p.m.
955 Queen St. East, South Riverdale Community Health Centre
Is the design of your neighbourhood stopping you from being active? Open to all who live with or care about someone living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Come join the discussion about how where we live influences our health. We’ll hear from researches, local health promoters, and geographers about the local health impact of neighbourhood design on choices in healthy living.
Questions? Contact Fiona 416 461 – 9043 x 377
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Hormone Balancing for Women, from nutrition to natural contraception
Friday, November 23, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Anarres Natural Health, 792A Dovercourt Road
http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/1630
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Black Friday Eaton Centre Flashmob Meditation
Fri. Nov. 23, 6 p.m.
Eaton Centre
Come out on the busiest shopping day of the year to break the spectacle of consumerism and help raise the vibration of this city!
https://www.facebook.com/events/495212660513613/
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Derailed: A Fundraising Dance Party for Cycle Toronto
Fri. Nov 23, 8 p.m. onward
Handlebar, 159 Augusta
Dust off your dancing shoes and join Cycle Toronto (formally Toronto Cyclists' Union) for a dance party fundraiser! We'll have a silent auction with some fantastic gifts from our partners and supporters, like a home cooked dinner at Mike Layton's house and a bicycle donated by Bateman's! Free entry for members. $5 cover for non-members. Join or renew at the door and we'll waive cover and throw in a free drink! Capacity is limited, so arrive early!
https://www.facebook.com/events/390729244335643/
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Faithful Citizens: Making a Difference for the Common Good
Sat. Nov. 24, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
St. Johns York Mills Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr.
So you’ve signed a petition, maybe even written a letter to your MP. You want to do more, but don’t know where, what or how? “Faithful Citizens,” a multi-faith event, is designed to help you step up to a more active role in your ministry of advocacy, a cornerstone of everyone’s faith. Drawing from experiences of faith leaders, politicians and NGOs, we will learn how to better advocate for change, whatever your area of concern from housing or poverty reduction to climate change. Workshops offer hands-on skills that you and your faith community can use to make a difference.
Faithful Citizens” is co-sponsored by the Green Awakening Network, ISARC, the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, the Mennonite Church Canada, KAIROS, The Pembina Institute, Greening Sacred Spaces, Citizens for Public Justice, The Social Justice Project of Toronto Southeast Presbytery and The Social Justice Project of South West Presbytery.
https://www.facebook.com/events/372764052809592/
http://faithfulcitizens.eventbrite.com/
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Vegan Potluck and Screening of "Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home"
Sat. Nov. 24, 5:30pm
St. Thomas's Anglican Church Hall, 383 Huron Street
A riveting story of transformation and healing, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME explores the awakening conscience of several people who grew up in traditional farming culture and who have now come to question the basic assumptions of their way of life.
https://www.facebook.com/events/553622911321019/
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Lacan Palestine
Toronto Premiere - Mike Hoolboom's new feature length essay - Mike Hoolboom attending
Saturday, Nov 24 @ 7 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
Mike Hoolboom crafts an essay film that collages newsreels, documentary interviews and Hollywood fabulations. Palestine is often described as a place that defies description, and for all the endless footage, a place that cannot be seen. Palestine lies between the imaginary and the real hence "imaging Palestine" becomes perhaps one of the greatest cinematic and political challenges. Who better to take up this challenge than Toronto's master experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom? The fragments that comprise Lacan Palestine are both the public and private languages that interpolate the symbolic sphere that constitute the history of Palestine and therefore the history of the Israel into being. Hoolboom takes us through these myths, dreams and canonical cinematic placeholders, presenting us Palestine in fragments_perhaps the only way to tell the story of what may be Palestine. Proceeds from the screening generously donated to "Sustain Beit Zatoun Fund."
http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-11-24/Film_Lacan_Palestine.aspx
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Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Saturday, Nov 24 from 2 to 5 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
An open house and networking opportunity for amateur archivists, keepers of the radical past, and friends and supporters of grassroots archives, independent libraries, and people's history. Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Are you drowning in social justice publications and documents in your basement or storage locker? Are you looking for a solution? Bring your stories, ideas, and examples of grassroots and radical history. You are not alone - all welcome.
http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-11-24/Is_that_an_archive_in_your_basement.aspx
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Occupy, strike, resist! How Greek workers are organizing to stop factory closures
Saturday, November 24, 6pm
Rustic Owl Cafe, 993 Bloor St West
Join a public forum–including a 30 minute documentary on factory occupations–to discuss how Greek workers are resisting the economic crisis through rank-and-file organizing, and how we can learn from them.
Suggested donation: $10.00 or pay what you can. All proceeds go to the 2012 Socialist Worker Fighting Fund.
Organized by the Toronto-west International Socialists, torontowest.is at gmail.com
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Blue Walk, Sunday,
Help Evergreen envision our Don Valley as an ongoing story that we tell each other at the water’s edge. The Blue Walk takes you from Riverdale Park to the Distillery Historic District .
Sun. Nov. 25, 1–3pm
Meeting place: Northwest corner of Broadview Ave and Gerrard St, in front of the library
Distance: Approximately 5km
Terrain: Stairs, paved park pathways and city sidewalks
Be part of the first conversations for the new Lower Don Greenway project, and discover how we can transform the Lower Don Valley into an innovative green space like no other—showcasing Toronto's distinctive ravine system through arresting gateways, new and improved access points and amenities and enhanced pedestrian trails and bridges. Share with us your favourite stories and places in the Lower Don and we'll share with you why we love it too. Remember, wear good walking shoes and dress for the weather!
If you have questions about the walk contact John Wilson at johnwilson338 at gmail.com."
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