[Sust-mar] 9 UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS IN HALIFAX & WOLFVILLE - SEPT. 16 TO NOV.2

[Tamara Lorincz]

9 UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS IN HALIFAX & WOLFVILLE – SEPT. 16 TO NOV.2

* Raffi * Child Honouring * Sustainability * Ocean Clean-Up * Eco-Action
Soiree * World Food Day *Media * Rachel Carson's A Sense of Wonder Play *

Mark your calendars and please spread the word.

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GREAT CANADIAN SHORELINE CLEAN UP
September 16-24, 2006
It's not just an Ocean Playground! Help keep Nova Scotia's beaches
litter-free. Join thousands of volunteer to help clean Canada's shorelines
during the Great Canadian Shoreline Clean up. WWF-Canada is teaming up with
the Ecology Action Centre's Coastal Issues Committee and the Coastal Access
Committee (a group of community-minded surfers) to clean up Silver Sands
Beach on September 23rd. Meet at the parking lot near the big Moose at 11:00
am. 

For more information contact Jen Smith at jsmith at wwf.canada.org Go to
www.vanqua.org/cleanup to register for this or one of the many other
cleanups happening around Nova Scotia. September 16th - Herring Cove - Clean
Nova Scotia September 17th - Crystal Crescent - Clean up Clam Harbour
September 23rd - N orth West Arm - Halifax Rowing Club September 23rd -
Silver Sands.

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RAFFI SPEAKS ON HIS NEW BOOK CHILD HONORING: HOW TO TURN THIS WORLD AROUND
Public Lecture and Music Presentation (Intended for an Adult Audience) by
well-known children’s entertainer RAFFI
Thursday, September 21, 2006 (UN International Peace Day)
7:30-9:30 PM, Potter Auditorium, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building,
Dalhousie University
6100 University Avenue, Halifax
Saturday, September 23, 2006, 7:30-9:30 PM, Acadia Cinema Coop, 450 Main
Street, Wolfville
As a long-time environmentalist and peace activist, Raffi shares his vision
for Child Honouring, the philosophy he 
founded, to promote sustainability, social justice, harmony and peace in our
world. 
Advance tickets prices: $15 Regular $10 Student/Low-Income At the Door: $20

SUSTAINABILITY: THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
PUBLIC LECTURE BY DR. KARL-HENRIK ROBÈRT, FOUNDER OF THE NATURAL STEP,
SWEDEN
Dr. Robert is the leading Poineer on Sustainability Thinking. 
Lecture and Lunch, Friday, September 22, 2006 from 12:00-2:00 PM
Commonwealth Ballroom A, Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, 1181 Hollis St., Halifax
Advance tickets prices: $45 Regular $35 Student/Low-Income At the Door: $50

Advance tickets available for purchase for both events above at Just Us!
FairTrade Shop & Coffee Bar 1678 Barrington St., P’lovers The Environmental
Store 5657 Spring Garden St., and Outside the Lines: Books for Critical
Minds Bookstore 6297 Quinpool Road in Halifax. 

For more information about Raffi or Dr. Robert presentations or to order
tickets by phone, please contact: Clare Levin, Genuine Progress Index
Atlantic Phone: (902) 489-2524 Fax: (902) 405-1221 Email:
clevin at gpiatlantic.org Organized by Genuine Progress Index Atlantic
(www.gpiatlantic.org) and the Nova Scotia Environmental Network
(www.nsen.ca) 

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Friday, September 22, 2006 at 8:00 pm John E. Fernández, Architect and
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT "Dreams of Green: A
Crisis of Context"

Ondaatje Hall, Marion McCain Arts & Social Sciences Building, 6135
University Ave. 
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 
Free admission and open to the public 
*John Fernandez will be on CBC Maritime Noon on Friday Sept 22 AM 90.5. Tune
in! 

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"THE ROARING TWENTIES RECYCLED”
You are invited to the EAC’s 35th Birthday Soirée on September 29!
 The EAC invites you to join us for an upscale swingin’ party - this
birthday party is going to be the bee’s knees! The cat's meow! That’s right,
this year we are celebrating 35 years of environmental action in Nova
Scotia.

Tickets are $55 each, $440 for 8.** The Garrison Brewery, 1149 Marginal Rd,
accross from Pier 21 
Great raffle prizes. Prohibition Silent Liquor Auction. Live music from John
Theodore, Atlantic Standard Time and Gypsophilia. Canapés by Jane’s on the
Commons. How about it? Join us for a fabulous and clandestine evening you
don’t want to miss, and let your friends know. RSVP to 442-0202 for your
tickets by September 15th, 2006, or email events* **A portion of the ticket
is tax deductible. 

Period Costume or Creative Black Tie. Parking spaces are plentiful. 
The loot from the evening is going towards our very own home: Nova Scotia’s
first working demonstration of a green office renovation!

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THE NEW JOURNALISM: MAKING FACTS DANCE
Saturday, September 30, 2006
University of King's College, Alumni Hall
10 am-1 pm
Keynote Address by Peter C. Newman

A legendary Canadian journalist and bestselling author of more than 20 books
including his most recent, The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions
of a Prime Minister
A panel discussion follows with: Sharon Burnside, Public Editor, The Toronto
Star and Scott White, Editor-In-Chief, Canadian Press. A public screening of
the documentary, The Secret Mulroney Tapes will be held on Friday, September
29, University of King's College, Alumni Hall, 7-9:30 pm
 Both events are open to the public. No charge for either event. For more
information please contact Kim Kierans, (902) 422-1271 ex 164.

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PREMIERE SCREENING OF HOODWINKED: THE MYTH OF FREE TRADE
Wednesday, October 4
Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, King's College (off Lord Dalhousie
Drive) 
7:30-9:30pm. 
$8 tickets (or pay what you can)
Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade is a feature-length documentary analysing
the past, present and future of Canadian trade relations and economic
sovereignty. It was made by Ottawa filmmakers, Bill Dunn and Linda West. The
film raises some important questions. Organized by the Trading Options
Coalition 443-2423.

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10TH ANNUAL HUNGER BANQUET TO CELEBRATE WORLD FOOD DAY 
October 15th on Sunday, October 15th from 6-9 pm at St. Matthew's United
Church Hall, Barrington Street, Halifax Speaker Patty Williams, Principle
Investigator, NS Food Security Projects will address the theme "Causing
Hunger - Local and Global solutions". Raging Grannies, musical
entertainment, food and food for thought.
Tickets $8 and $5.

Contact Brian O'Neil briano at oxfam.ca or (902)425-7877 If you can't join us
in person, consider holding a Hunger Banquet or Hungry for Change event in
your area to mark World Food Day (October 16) A free complete planning kit
can be downloaded from http://www.oxfam.ca/hungryforchange/index.htm

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The Arthur Irving Academy for the Environment  
is very proud to present to you this special  ACADEMY PERFORMANCE... 

"A SENSE OF WONDER"
A Play Based on the Life and Works of Rachel Carson 
Performed by Kaiulani Lee 
October 18, 2006    7:30 pm
Atlantic Theatre Festival
(Tickets - $5/students, $15/adults 
on sale at the Arena Box Office and the ATF Box Office)

Rachel Carson has been called the "Patron Saint of the Environmental
Movement"!  She was a marine biologist and zoologist best know for her book
Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of chemical pesticides
and launched our modern environmental movement.  Also, through her poetry of
the natural world she brought alive the beauty and the mystery of the seas
and its creatures.

Kaiulani brings to the writing and acting of "A Sense of Wonder" over thirty
years of experience in theater, film and television.  She has starred in
more than a dozen plays on and off Broadway.  She has been nominated for the
Drama Desk Award on Broadway and has won the OBIE Award for outstanding
achievement off Broadway.  Ms. Lee has guest starred on numerous TV series
from The Waltons to Law and Order.  She starred as Martha Ballard in the
critically acclaimed PBS film A Midwife's Tale.

"Rachel Carson shook the world of journalism and changed the shape of
environmental politics.  There are few, if any, comparable figures in either
field.  Kaiulani Lee's performance gave me the opportunity to feel I had met
this remarkable woman and experienced the quiet courage of Rachel
Carson."... Peter Dykstra, CNN.

"Kaiulani Lee's performance was superb, one of the most moving evenings of
theatre which I have experienced.  It was a transforming experience."...Jack
Coogan, Professor of Communication Arts, Claremont School of Theology

Don't Miss this Special 
Academy Performance!

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SUSTAINABILITY TALK BY DR. EHRENFELD

Dr . John Ehrenfeld will be lecturing on “Flourishing: A Radical Framework
for Sustainability” on November 2, 2006. The lecture will be held between
11:30 am— 1:00 pm at the Potter Family Auditorium in the Kenneth C. Rowe
Management Building. Dr. Ehrenfeld currently serves as Executive Director of
the International Society for Industrial Ecology. He retired in 2000 as the
Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business, and Environment. He
continues to teach, do research, and write. His current projects focus on
sustainability and industrial ecology. The HSBC Bank Canada Lecture Series
attracts high profile and knowledgeable speakers from the business world,
academia and other influential organizations to Dalhousie and Halifax. The
series provides opportunities to engage the business community in a shift
toward environmental and financial performance thorough stronger linkages
with the university.

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