[van-announce] Community Events Digest

Fri Jul 16 14:29:41 PDT 2010

COMMUNITY EVENTS DIGEST 

== Social justice events happening on and off campus == 

*** Events at SFU Burnaby *** 

1) Composting Demonstration (Jul 21) 

2) Container Gardening Workshop (Jul 21) 

*** Events Off Campus *** 

3) ART SHOW: Faith, Fencing & Fate (July-Aug) 

4) Heart Of The Youth Festival : Our Year Our Voice (Jul 17) 

5) Live Performance: Chris Chandler & Paul Benoit (Jul 22) 

6) People’s March Against Jason Kenney (Jul 24) 

7) Organizing Centre Fundraising Garage Sale (Jul 25) 

8) Queer Film Festival East Van Ticket Sales Day (Jul 25) 

9) Volunteer with the JCCA at the annual Powell Street Festival (Jul 29) 

10) United States Social Forum Report-Back (Jul 29) 

11) Bi The Way, It’S Our Cabaret 3 (Jul 30) 

*** Other Announcements *** 

12) Call For Queer Media: Get on the Radio! 

13) Support women's health in Uganda 

14) Seeking Facilitators For Immigrant And Refugee Health Series 

**compiled by SFPIRG, SFU's student-based social justice resource centre.http://www.sfpirg.ca. To have your event included in the next digest, send a text-based email announcement to sfpirg (at) sfu.ca.** 

*** Events at SFU Burnaby *** 

1 ) 

COMPOSTING DEMONSTRATION 

Wednesday, July 21 2010, 12:00 - 2:00pm 
Live at the SFU Pocket Farmers Market, Cornerstone Town Square (near the upper bus loop), 

Burnaby campus, SFU. 
By donation 

Hosted by the SFU Local Food Project and the Environmental Youth Alliance 

Waste = food! Composting is an easy and effective way to reduce household waste while producing rich organic fertilizer that can be used in your home or community garden. 

This interactive workshop will include what to compost, what not to compost, different kinds of composts and how to get started, different stages of composting, and tips/tricks! Have questions about how to get started or want help troubleshooting? Bring your burning questions and curiosities to this workshop and ask away! 

More info: http://sfulocalfood.ca/urban-agricultural-skills-training-program 

2) 

CONTAINER GARDENING WORKSHOP 

Wednesday, July 21 2010 , 3:00 - 5:00pm 
MBC 2290, SFU Burnaby Campus 
By donation 

Want to learn how to grow your own food? Not sure where to start? Looking for tips on how to grow fabulous fruits, veggies, and herbs in small spaces on a budget? Container gardening is great for folks who live in apartments, rental suites, or don’t have a backyard garden to plant in. This session is sure to inspire you to get growing! 

Topics will include: where to get cheap planters (and what size they should be), where to find the best soil for growing food in containers, what to plant and how to care for it, getting the most out of tiny and small spaces, growing food year round, and where to go for help. Participants should bring a willingness to get their hands dirty. Container Gardening Guide and your own plant to take home with you is included! 

More info: http://sfulocalfood.ca/urban-agricultural-skills-training-program 

*** Events Off Campus *** 

3 ) 

ART SHOW: Faith, Fencing & Fate: New Cultural Landscapes of Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 

Art of the Walls of the Rhizome Cafe, starting July 6th 

317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories 

Website: www.rhizomecafe.ca 

Crossing the southern border of the United States without authorization is now a life-threatening journey. As undocumented migrants travel north, they interact with and transform the landscape in small, yet significant ways through the things they leave behind, from shelters and shrines to quotidian objects. This collaborative project by Juanita Sundberg, a human geographer at UBC and Michael Hyatt, a social documentary photographer, records and represents these new cultural landscapes of migration in Arizona’s Altar Valley. Whether ephemeral or enduring, the landscapes left behind invite compelling questions about the sensory dimensions of migration, the ways geopolitics, bodies, and desert landscapes meet. 

Save the date for a talk by Juanita Sundberg: Thursday, August 12 at 7:00pm 

4 ) 

HEART OF THE YOUTH FESTIVAL : OUR YEAR OUR VOICE 

Sat 17 July 2010 , 1pm - 5pm 

at the Chinese Cultural Centre , 50 East Pender St, Vancouver 
Free event 

Join us as we celebrate the international year of youth. The International Year is about advancing the full and effective participation of youth in all aspects of society. We encourage all sectors of society to work in partnership with youth and youth organizations to better understand their needs and concerns and to recognize the contributions that they can make to society. 

Perfomances by: 
Deanna Rankin 
Sunee 
Fatou Wurie 
Sylvia Oakley 
Rick Buckman Coe 
Speeches Beyond 
Ndidi Cascade and Deanna Teeple 
Sacha Levin 
Sunksrip 
Dj Jefferies mau mau. 

Organized by Youth Initiative Canada 
http://youthinitiativecanada.webs.com/ 

5 ) 

LIVE PERFORMANCE: CHRIS CHANDLER & PAUL BENOIT 

Thursday, July 22, 7:00pm 

Rhizome Cafe 

317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories 

Website: www.rhizomecafe.ca 

Radical poet and storyteller Chris Chandler has joined forces with Seattle blues guitar virtuoso Paul Benoit. Delivering vignettes about politics and modern culture with the fire of a Baptist Preacher, the music is rooted in roots, coloured with blues, and based in Americana. This performance, presented by the IWW (International Workers of the World) Vancouver, is becoming a Rhizome summer tradition. Come hear some serious truths about the power of the working class! 

$2-$20, no one turned away 

http://vancouver.iww.ca/ 

6) 

PEOPLE’S MARCH AGAINST JASON KENNEY 

Saturday , July 24th at 2 pm , 2010 
Central Park, right outside Patterson Skytrain Station, Burnaby 
E mail : noii-van at resist.ca 
Website : http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=2034 
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128201047199876 

“I plead guilty. I am a racist” - Jason Kenney, Montreal 2009. 

Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney is known as the Minister of Censorship and Deportation because of his record as one of the most repressive immigration ministers in Canadian history. Deportations have increased, while the number of people accepted as refugees and sponsored family members have drastically dropped. Instead, Kenney has increased the number of temporary workers who are constantly exploited for their labour. His new refugee bill creates a racist two tier system based on nationality, and he has called a wide range of migrants -from Mexicans to the War Resisters “bogus”. Under his regime, an Eritrean refugee committed suicide from fear of a pending deportation, and a young woman was murdered upon her deportation to Mexico. 

Kenney is also a staunch supporter of imperialism, stifling anti war voices such as George Galloway and the Canadian Arab Federation. Kenney’s neoconservative values are obvious in his comments and actions: pulling Canada out of the Durban World Conference Against Racism; introducing a citizenship guide that omits the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) communities; defending Quebec Bill C-94 that discriminates against women who wear the niqab; and stating that immigrants are not integrating well into (colonial) Canada. 

Join the People's March Against Jason Kenney on July 24th to demand an END to censorship of dissenting voices. An END to detentions and deportations. An END to the exploitation of temporary migrant workers. An END to military occupations from Afghanistan to Palestine. An END to discrimination against women, LGBTQ communities, immigrants, and racialized people. 

We are rising out of schools, neighbourhoods, and workplaces to reject Kenney's agenda; join this grassroots movement and rise up with us! 

* TAKE ACTION! 

1) Participate in the People’s March Against Kenney by organizing a marchn in your city on July 24 and always confront Kenney if he rolls into yourn town. 
2) Download leaflets and multilingual pamphlets from http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=2034 and spread the word. 
3) Plan a community forum to raise awareness about the escalating attacks by Jason Kenney. 
4) Comment on online news stories, send a letter to the Editor, or write your local MP regarding Kenney. Keep it short: “Minister Kenney is a racist, anti-immigrant, war-mongering Conservative. The Minister of Censorship and Deportation has got to go!” 
5) Write Kenney at kennej at parl.gc.ca and bmq at cic.gc.ca and tell him what you think! 

* Read more about the People v. Jason Kenney Campaign: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=1027 

7 ) 

ORGANIZING CENTRE FUNDRAISING GARAGE SALE 

Sunday, July 25th, 10am - 3pm 
1145 Commercial Drive (outside the REACH Clinic) 
Phone: 604-255-4745 

Email: jen.efting at gmail.com 

The Organizing Centre is holding a fundraising garage sale! We're looking for donations of household items, books, clothes, and what have you. 

Also, please come by and get some great deals. We're going to have great vintage housewares, decorative stuff, great books, awesome clothes and more! 

*How can you donate stuff?* 
Please call us to arrange dropping items off at the Organizing Centre (672 East Broadway) sometime before Sunday, July 25th. 

You can also come by the garage sale anytime between 9am and noon and we will gladly accept your donations at that time as well. 

We can also pickup your items from your home. Give me a call at 604-255-4745 or email me ( jen.efting at gmail.com ) to arrange pickup. 

*Where will the money go?* 
Half the funds raised will go to support the local organizing work of the Organizing Centre (organizing for people's health, fighting for low-wage workers, training social justice organizers). 

Half of the funds will go to the Free the Morong 43 campaign (visit http://aphvan.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/free-the-morong-43/ for more information about this important campaign) 

*To get more information or to volunteer * 
Please email jen.efting at gmail.com or call 604-215-2775 or 604-255-4745(cel) 

8 ) 

QUEER FILM FESTIVAL EAST VAN TICKET SALES DAY 

Sunday, July 25, 3:00-8:00pm 

Rhizome Cafe 

317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories 

Website: www.rhizomecafe.ca 

Drop in and join the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for a campy, musical ticket sales day! From 3:00 to 8:00 the Film Festival team will be hosting advanced box office ticket sales (cash only please) and screening back-to-back musical films, including CABARET, THE WIZ, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Come shop for tickets and/or hang out and sing along! 

Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Aug 12-22nd. 

http://www.queerfilmfestival.ca/ 

9 ) 

VOLUNTEER WITH THE JCCA AT THE ANNUAL POWELL STREET FESTIVAL! 

July 29, July 31 and August 1st 

Volunteer with the Japanese Canadian Citizens Association at the Powell St Festival! 

Thurs July 29th, 5:30-9pm, help with 
-Filleting salmon in the Delta area (must have own transportation) 

Saturday July 31 st and August 1st during the festival to help with: 
-Transporting supplies to the festival 
- Set up 
-BBQ /cooking 
- Preparing food 
- Serving 
- Cashiers 
- Clean up 
- Transporting supplies back to the office 

Why: 
- Be a part of a 2 day event, the longest running community arts event in the lower mainland 
-Meet our community 
-Make new friends 
-Enjoy the outdoors 
- Eat a delicious salmon lunch 

Interested? 

Contact Ammana Haleem, 
Event Coordinator, Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association 

Phone: 604-777-5222 Email: gvjcca at shaw.ca 

10 ) 

UNITED STATES SOCIAL FORUM REPORT-BACK 

Thursday, July 29, 7:00pm 

Rhizome Cafe 

317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories 

Website: www.rhizomecafe.ca 

Come hear from folks who travelled from Vancouver to participate in the United States Social Forum, held in Detroit from June 22 through the 26th . They will share their reflections on the state of social justice movements in the U.S., with a focus on organizing for migrant justice, the rights of workers excluded from existing labour protections, intersectional analysis, arts-based resistance, multigenerational organizing, housing rights and more--and will relate their learning to organizing in the Canadian context. 

By donation, no one turned away, proceeds to benefit local social justice organizing efforts 

11 ) 

BI THE WAY, IT’S OUR CABARET 3 

Friday, July 30, 7:00pm 

Rhizome Cafe 

317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories 

Website: www.rhizomecafe.ca 

Celebrate Pride with the Qmunities Bisexual Support Group, at a night of fun and music for bisexuals and their allies. 

By donation, no one turned away for lack of funds 

*** Other Announcements *** 

12 ) 

CALL FOR QUEER MEDIA 

Want to Make Media? 

Calling queers, trans folks and allies from the campus and the community! The annual Pride festival is coming up August 2nd. Want to help out with a one-time special day of programming at CJSF Rado? 

Let's put the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Two-spirit and Queer stories we find important on the airwaves. Highlight GLBTTQ artists, musicians, performers, thinkers, activists or interesting members from the community. Contribute to the discussions surrounding homophobia, transphobia, queer history, social movements, and reflections on Pride today. It's our media as we want to hear it! 

We are looking for submissions and contributions in all shapes or forms. Help and training available. 

For more info, drop by CJSF in the campus Rotunda (above the central bus loop) or contact Peter at pdriftmier at hotmail.com 

13 ) 

SUPPORT WOMEN'S HEALTH IN UGANDA! 

The Shanti Uganda Society, a registered non-profit organization based in Vancouver, seeks to improve the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of communities impacted by war, poverty and HIV /AIDS in Uganda. 

WE'RE HIRING 
We’re Hiring! For additional information about our Executive Director - Temporary Maternity Leave Position see the Shanti Uganda blog. 
http://www.shantiuganda.org/blogs/shanti-uganda 

SUMMER VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE 
Sign up for the summer volunteer challenge or make a commitment to find other volunteers to take on this fundraising challenge. Prizes will be given out at the October 2010 Volunteer Meeting and include yoga books, Shanti Uganda handbags and a 3 month unlimited yoga pass to Semperviva Yoga. Email natalie at shantiuganda.org to join our volunteer team in reducing maternal mortality in Uganda. 

1 - Bring 5 new volunteers to the next volunteer meeting. 

2 - Group Fundraising Challenge 
Create a group of 5 people and sign on to make a commitment to raise $500 as a group (that's only $100 each person). If 5 groups raise $500 we'll raise $2500 towards improving maternal health in Uganda by Sept 30th. 

3 - Individual Fundraising Challenge 
Take on the fundraising challenge on your own and help reduce maternal mortality in Uganda. 

AUGUST VOLUNTEER MEETING 
Tuesday August 3rd 7pm 
RSVP to info at shantiuganda.org 

VOLUNTEER IN UGANDA! 
We are currently looking for volunteer midwives, doulas, teachers, youth/social workers, development practitioners, yoga teachers, gardeners, film makers, herbalist/naturopaths, students, health practitioners and anyone who is passionate about service, social justice and community-based development. (Especially a few midwives to assist with the midwifery training program for new staff at the Birth House.) For additional information, or to apply contact kristen at shantiuganda.org 

14 ) 

SEEKING FACILITATORS FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE HEALTH SERIES 

This summer, the Alliance for People’s Health is actively recruiting and training facilitators for the fall Immigrant and Refugee Health Series , as well as for our ‘Smile With Dignity’ Dental Campaign . 

Join us as we take action for ‘Health for All!’ 

1. Popular Education Training 

July 24 ~ 9:00 – 5:00 

A day-long workshop designed to provide you with the understanding and the tools to apply the theory and practice (praxis) of Popular Education to workshops, in organizing in the community, and in making a contribution to movement building! 

Registration is required! Send us an email & let us know who you are and why you are interested. There are required pre-readings for this workshop. There is no cost and lunch will be provided. 

2. Participatory Planning and Ongoing Organizer Mentorship 

Participants of the July 24 Popular Education Training will be invited to join the Alliance for People’s Health for ongoing participatory planning of APH activities, including the Fall Immigrant and Refugee Health Series. You will be partnered with seasoned organizers and guided through the process of planning and implementing workshops and organizational activities. 

The first meeting of the Immigrant and Refugee Health Series Facilitation and Organizer Team will be August 5 th ~ 6:30 – 8:30 . 

3. Commitment to Social Justice and ‘Health for All!’ 

In exchange for training and mentor-ship, the Alliance for People’s Health asks for a commitment to help us with promotion, direct-contact organizing, and facilitation of either a People’s Health Series, starting with the Immigrant and Refugee Health Series, or ‘Smile With Dignity’ Dental Campaign activities. A realistic minimum commitment is 10 hours per month; we understand that we all lead busy lives, so talk to us about how much you can contribute! Contact us at the e-mail / phone number below if you are interested & to register for the Popular Education Workshop. 

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