Sunday, March 25, 2012 @ 2:30 PM - Ellice Theatre

Free Event

Please join the University of Manitoba Social Work Student Association on March 25th at 2:30pm at the Ellice Theatre for a viewing of the Documentary, Third World Canada.
This documentary follows the lives of a group of children living in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, a reserve in North Ontario. Following the suicide of their parents, the children struggle to survive in third world conditions and the community steps up to look after them.

Following the film, there will be a panel discussing major issues led by Deborah G. Young. The Panel will include members from the community as well.

This is an open event, so all are welcome.
http://www.thirdworldcanada.ca/

Public Consultation: Arts based development for the Millennium Centre (389 Main Street)

You are invited to attend a public meeting to discuss the development of the Millennium Centre at 389 Main Street in Winnipeg as an Arts Centre.

We are interested in your ideas for the potential arts related uses for this historic structure.
Please join one of two public meetings:  

Dates
February 9thh 2012. Tour from 10:00 am to 10:45 am followed by a discussion.
February 16th 2012. Tour from 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm followed by a discussion.
Please note the tour requires climbing stairs.

RSVP
Please indicate your intention to attend either meeting by email at gm@art-space.ca
Artspace, on behalf of the 389 Main Street Heritage Corporation will facilitate the meetings.
 

www.millenniumcentre.mb.ca

www.art-space.ca

(Source: onemancommittee.com)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 from 11 AM - 2 PM @ Rainbow Resource Centre

Free Event

Rainbow Resource Centre, 170 Scott Street 
January 25, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm  

Have you ever been yelled at, whistled at, or groped in the the street, at the mall, in the hallways at school? How do you respond? Do you respond at all? Do you wish you knew what to do?  

This workshop’s for you!!  

This is PART TWO of this workshop series on street harassment. It will be led by Jodie, who started up the Winnipeg chapter of Hollaback!   

FEEL FREE TO COME TO PART TWO even if you didn’t attend part one. Come participate in this discussion! The more voices, the better!!!  

“…Hollaback! is a movement dedicated to ending street harassment. Comments to groping, flashing and assault are a daily, global reality for women and LGBTTQ individuals.  But it is rarely reported and culturally accepted as ‘the price you pay’ for being a woman or for being gay.   

We believe that everyone has a right to feel safe and confident without being objectified. Sexual harassment is a gateway crime that creates a cultural environment that makes gender-based violence OK.   

Hollaback! breaks the silence that has perpetuated sexual violence internationally…”  

Jodie, founder and director of Winnipeg Hollaback!  

Screening: Intentional Communities

Friday, October 14, 2011 @ The Cyrk

I hear many people talk about alternatives to the wasteful and isolated ways most people live in this culture of ours. The term intentional communities is a broad umbrella used to describe various atempts to return to a more communal and often earth-bound way of living. The question for this CYRK Salon is - How to make an intentioanl community work well? Imagine you and your friends want to start an alternative community - What sorts of things do you need to consider and do to succeed? Guests include folks that have created and live in such communities.CYRK U later … Drek 

The CYRK Salon - Act IV         
“INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES: How to make it work”
    with guests  - Gerhard Dekker & Dawn Buchanen  
    moderated by Drek Daa

Film Screening: “The New We: Ecological communities and ecovillages in Europe.” (10 communities)
Friday, October 14, 2011
   @ The CYRK (254 Young Street)     * http://theCYRK.ca
   Door 7:30
   Film screening 8:00   Discussion 9:30
   Free event
   BYOB (we don’t sell alcohol)
   No reservations
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      About the CYRK             * http://theCYRK.ca

Founded in July 2006, the CYRK is a private arts house in the
Winnipeg’s West Broadway area. The CYRK poetry,
music, film, or dance gatherings are among the city’s most unique
underground attractions. You won’t suspect what
you are in for, until you walk in, through the back door.

Thursday, March 3, 2011 from 6-9 PM @ Convocation Hall, Wesley College, University of Winnipeg

Free event

The Global College Student Advisory Council and The UWSA would like to invite students, and young, active community members to join us for an evening deconstructing recent social uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and an exposition and dialogue on their regional and global impacts. 

Our panel of experts will include former Egyptian prosecutor and current Vice Rector for the University for Peace, Dr. Amr Abdalla. Also joining us is Karim Bardeesy, Online Editor for The Globe and Mail, as well as Dr. David Camfield of the University of Manitoba, and Dr. Ezzat Ibrahim.

Our panel will provide expert insights and on the ground information regarding the revolutions currently taking place, as well as providing some discussion on the politics of revolution, and popular uprisings.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 from 7-8 PM @ Eckhardt-Gramattée Hall, The University of Winnipeg

The UWSA Foodbank will be showing the documentary “The Garden.” Come check out this Academy Award nominated film and stay for a follow up discussion. 

Admission is free, non-perishable food donations encouraged. 

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.

But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers:

Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public?