T.O. Greenspiration Events: Reaching for Hope

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Mon Mar 28 00:57:37 EDT 2016 

 
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Keep Fracking Out Of Ontario
Sign the petition to Premier Wynne
chn.ge/22GcPCo 

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Bloor Loves Bikes Campaign Pledge
We, the undersigned, therefore support a pilot bicycle lane on Bloor St for implementation by early 2016 and the inclusion of bicycle lanes on Bloor in the City’s 10-year cycling plan.
https://www.cycleto.ca/bloor-loves-bikes-campaign-pledge 

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Planet Earth
Beautiful 4 min. video points out that animal agriculture and meat consumption is the number one cause of environmental destruction, species extinction and ocean “dead zones.” The agricultural industry has consumed one-third of all fresh water and has destroyed 91 percent of the Amazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dwyPhaUne8 
 
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Conquer My Environment Disabilities
Activism needed to acquire ODSP in time to cancel a pending eviction order
https://www.gofundme.com/ConquerEnviroDisability 
  
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Chi-Raq
Directed by Spike Lee
Till Thur. March 31, various times
TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre, King and John
The bold, imaginative and incendiary new film from Spike Lee relocates the ancient Greek drama Lysistrata to the gangland wars of modern-day Chicago. Brilliant critique of racism and gun culture in the US.
http://tiff.net/programming/new-releases/chi-raq 
 
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Life Off Grid 
Till Thur. March 31
Bloor Hot Docs (Bloor and Bathurst)
Meet the pioneers creating a new model for sustainability. Industrious, dedicated and creative people across Canada are living “off grid”— without any connection to the electrical or natural gas infrastructures that criss-cross our nation.
http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=49720~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0 

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Thinking Big in a Time of Climate Crisis: A Town Hall on the Leap Manifesto
Tues. March 29, 7 pm
Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton Aud., 1515 Bloor St. W. (at Dundas West)
With Avi Lewis, Peter Tabuns, Cheri DiNovo and more. Free.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/thinking-big-in-a-time-of-climate-crisis-a-town-hall-on-the-leap-manifesto-tickets-22585039461?aff=eac2 
 
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Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Farm Workers Awareness Week 
Marking the 50th anniversary of the seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Canada
Tuesday March 29, 6 - 9 p.m.
IMA 307, Image Arts Building, Ryerson U, 122 Bond Street
Two Featured Films:
- 'In the Shadow of Borders’
- ‘Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers’
http://nourishingontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/final-flyer-5-1-1.jpg  

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Sprawl Brawl Round 3: Smart Growth vs. Sprawl 
Tues. March 29, 7 p.m.
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex St. George and Harbord)
How Can The Growth Plan Create A More Livable GTHA? Journalist and author Shawn Micallef referees a debate with panelists Dianne Saxe, John van Nostrand, David Donnelly, Susan Lloyd Swail on how we can build smarter, climate friendly communities. Free.
http://environmentaldefence.ca/sprawl-brawl-round-3-how-can-growth-plan-create-more-livable-gtha-smart-growth-vs-sprawl 

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Baristas, Clerks & Geeks: Own Your Own Job - The Co-op Model
Tues. March 29, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
CSI Spadina, 215 Spadina, 4th floor
Baristas, telemarketers and clerks with university degrees, student loan debt, minimum wage jobs and precarious employment. Sound familiar? Many people have the knowledge, skills and drive to run their own businesses, and have friends and colleagues with similar interests. If you’d like to start a business with others, employee-owned co-ops may be the answer. Participants will learn the steps for creating a successful employee-owned co-op and how these shared ownership enterprises have succeeded in creating jobs while contributing to community and environmental solutions.
http://socialinnovation.ca/coopworkshops

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The Healthy Cities – Diabetes Prevention Project: New Insights on the Built Environment and Obesity-Related Diseases
Wed. March 30, 4:10 pm
Room ES 149 (basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building, U of T
With Gillian Booth, Clinician Scientist, St. Micheal’s Hospital
http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx  

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Making Parliament Work for You
Wed. March 30, 6:30 - 9 p.m.
Ryerson University, Room 105, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street
Fair Vote Canada and Leadnow are partnering to offer this workshop designed to help community organizers and advocates better understand how to locate power, lobby effectively and make the progressive changes our communities want. 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/make-parliament-work-for-you-tickets-22753392008

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Urban Carnival: YU For Your City 
Wed. March 30, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Great Hall, 1087 Queen W.
Project YU is celebrating its launch with an Urban Carnival themed party. Live music and spoken word performances, food and interactive stations that explore urban issues like transportation, city budgets and the public realm. Free. Project YU’s objective is to provide a platform to support youth civic engagement in public issues, and spread understanding about city issues which affect us all. 
http://www.projectyu.ca

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Show Me Your ID: Reflections on the Movement to End Carding in Toronto
Wed. March 30, 6:30 - 8:30
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex (St. George and Harbord)
Panel discussion of the collective action which has taken place to address discriminatory policing practices, with Akio Maroon, Knia Singh, Caitlyn Kasper and Alok Mukherjee. The panelists will share how their work mobilizing communities has been informed by their experiences with anti-blackness, racial injustice, Indigeneity, gender and their intersectional identities. Free.
studentlife.utoronto.ca/ccp/carding-discussion

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Mediators in the Design of Peace Agreements: The Case of Sudan
Wed. March 30, 7 p.m.
University College 15 King's College Circle, Rm 144, U of T
Science for Peace presents this lecture by Khalid Ahmed. Free.
http://scienceforpeace.ca

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Human Rights Watch Toronto Film Festival
March 30 - April 7
TIFF Bell Lightbox, King and John
8 feature films and documentaries from around the globe.
http://tiff.net/spring2016-series/human-rights-watch-2016
 
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Setting up and Improving Your Group's Structure
Thursday, March 31, 6 - 8 p.m.
OISE 252 Bloor St West, U of T
Who is part of your group and who isn't? How do you make decisions? Is it working for you? This workshop explores how small groups can establish and improve systems to integrate people into the group and effectively make decisions.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/setting-up-and-improving-your-organizatons-structure-tickets-19978878363?ref=ecal
 
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The BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique
Book launch and public forum. 
Thursday March 31, 7 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St.
The relative economic decline of the United States, Europe and Japan is often linked to the rise of an ‘emerging’ bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa demanding ‘a seat at the table’. Yet as many of the world’s leading left thinkers demonstrate in this important new book, the BRICS seem to be not so much overturning the tables of global capitalism, but as collaborating in holding them up. The book's co-editors Patrick Bond from South Africa and Ana Garcia from Brazil will be joined by the two Toronto authors of chapters in the book in discussing how to understand where the BRICS fit on the most crucial global issues ranging from world finance to climate change.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/the-brics-an-anti-capitalist-critique/

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The Jack Layton Speakers Series Presents:
Reconciliation: The Children’s Version
Thur. March 31, 7 - 9 pm
LIB072, 350 Victoria street, Ryerson U
Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada will address why the Canadian government had to be taken to court to treat First Nations children fairly. Closing remarks by Olivia Chow, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ryerson University.
https://rupsych.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/jlc-blackstock-mar31.jpg

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Reparations, Reconciliation and the Politics of Memory
Thursday March 31, 7 - 9 p.m.: Film Screening & Discussion: Human Traffic: Past and Present
Friday April 1: Keynote Address & Reception, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor St W
The Department of Social Justice Education (SJE), OISE, presents a two-day colloquium.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1756653891233901/

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Turn On Brain Health
Thur. March 31, 7 p.m.
The Big Carrot, 348 Danforth, Rm 212
Learn how adopting a mind-body lifestyle improves energy, mood, memory, learning and more with David Wang. Free.
https://thebigcarrot.ca/home/

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Food Justice in Toronto
Thur. 31, 7 - 8 p.m.
Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane
Presentation and discussion with FoodShare's Tara Ramkhelawan. Free.

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Green Line Fundraiser and Celebration
Thur. March 31, 7 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Geary Lane, 360 Geary
Live music featuring Coral King and Girls Rock Camp, a silent auction, prizes, art and more. $10 (benefits Park People, a charity that supports bringing more green spaces to the city). The Green Line is a vision to create a 5 km linear park in Toronto’s Dupont hydro corridor.
https://greenlinetoronto.wordpress.com

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Yoga Conference and Show
March 31 – April 3
Metro Convention Centre
https://www.theyogaconference.com/toronto/
 
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The Price We Pay
Friday, April 1, 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor W, Rm 5-260
The Price We Pay blows the lid off the dirty world of corporate malfeasance with this incendiary documentary about the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harboring profits in offshore havens. Tax havens, originally created by London bankers in the 50s, today put over half the world’s stock of money beyond reach of public treasuries.
http://socialistaction.ca/tag/rebel-films/
 
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Mobilizing for Change: Powerful Lessons from the Frontlines
Fri. April 1, 7:30 pm.
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina
Community Food Centres Canada presents short, impassioned talks by leading voices in food security, social justice, environment, youth issues and politics. $10.
http://cfccanada.ca/news/mobilizing-change-powerful-lessons-frontlines

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Munk Debate on the Global Refugee Crisis
Fri. April 1, 7 p.m.
Roy Thompson Hall, 60 Simcoe
Louise Arbour and Simon Schama debate Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn on how developed nations should respond to human suffering in Syria. $30-$95.
http://munkdebates.com

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Beyond Fear and Loss, Reaching for Hope
Fri. Apr 1 from 4-9 pm, Sat. Apr 2 from 10 am-5 pm. 
Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway)
Refugee Rights Week group art show featuring works by artists who have found refuge in Canada. Music by Michal Hasek and poetry by Jacqueline Valencia. Some works will be for sale, all proceeds to the artist. Free. Presented by the Quaker Committee for Refugees and the Salvadoran Canadian Association of Toronto (ASALCA).

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TTCriders Training Day
Sat. April 2, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
720 Bathurst St. 
Want to get more involved in advocating for public transit? Want to meet other TTCriders members and transit advocates. We're hosting a training day for our members and friends.  
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ttcriders-training-day-tickets-22707925015

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Scarborough Seedy Saturday and Green Fair
Sat. April 2, 11 - 4 pm
Blessed Cardinal Newman High School, 100 Brimley Rd South (south of Kingston Road)
Annual seed exchange, heirloom seed vendors, gardening booths and advice, environmental organizations, green living ideas and great workshops on growing and living sustainably.  Over 50 exhibitors and many workshops. For more info contact: scarboroseedysaturday at gmail.com  
https://www.facebook.com/SSSGFair

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The Nexus of Road and Ecology: The Effect of Transportation Planning on Wildlife
Sat. April 2, 2 - 3 pm. 
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge, auditorium
Lecture by U of T professor Namrata Shrestha. Free. 

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Organizing Rallies and Marches
Sun.  April 3, 1 - 5 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor St W.
This workshop will cover the basic steps to organizing a rally or march and show examples of creative innovation in rally design. The workshop will also offer tips on planning routes, roles, marshalling, escalation and de-escalation, promotion, and visuals. Trainers: Syed Hussan is an organizer and writer in Toronto working with undocumented and migrant peoples, in defense of Indigenous sovereignty, and against counter intuitive programs like war and capitalism.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/organizing-rallies-and-marches-tickets-20862698894?ref=ecal
 
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Animal Welfare and the Environmental Stewardship in Islam
A workshop on factory farming
Sunday April 3, 1 - 2:15 pm
Lower social room, Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford Drive, Noor Cultural Centre
Noor Cultural Centre and the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition are co-hosting this children's workshop on the culture of animal welfare and environmental stewardship in Islam and the ways in which factory farming violates these principles. Come out and learn about the impacts of industrial animal agriculture on the environment and farmed animals. Free.
www.noorculturalcentre.ca
 
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Toronto Vegan Flea
Sun. April 3, 10 am - 4 pm. 
3030 Dundas W.
Vegan food, crafts, gifts and info on the vegan lifestyle plus info on vegan businesses, animal outreach and charitable organizations. $5 (benefits Ruby Ranch Pig and Farm Animal Sanctuary).
http://www.torontoveganflea.com

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Shape My City Events
http://shapemycity.ca/events.php
 
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Beit Zatoun Events
http://beitzatoun.org/events/
 
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Hot Docs
Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
http://bloorcinema.com/
 
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/
 
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