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Food Justice / Eating For a Better Tomorrow (Live Webinar)
Oct 4, 2020 (11:00) - (GMT -5:00) Eastern Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Eating today carries the weight of a myriad of environmental and social issues, and in doing so raises many questions about what it means to be a conscious and conscientious consumer, and the degree to which this is possible. This panel examines how we as eaters and cooks are complicit in these issues but also have the potential to help create change through our food choices. Examining...
Sisters In Spirit with Dan & Mary Lou Smoke and IHWP
Oct 4, 2020 (2pm - 4pm) - (GMT -5:00) Eastern Time
Hosted by: Jazzmin Foster
Awareness Storytelling: Sisters in Spirit honours the memory of the more than 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls & Two Spirits in Canada. Every October 4, events are held across the country in support of family members and loved ones.
Everyone is welcome to join Dan & Mary Lou Smoke the IHWP for this vigil.
Job Deadline: Marketing Coordinator
Oct 6, 2020
Hosted by: Khayla Almonte-Davila
Marketing Coordinator
Sankara is an online platform startup which allows local cultural food, craft and grocery vendors to showcase and sell their products to the community. We are looking to hire a Marketing Coordinator to join our team to raise awareness of Sankara’s products and services to potential customers within our service areas. Ultimately, the ideal...
Ocean Vuong Reading
Oct 6, 2020 (18:30 - 19:30) - (GMT -6:00) Central Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Join us live for a virtual book reading by writer Ocean Vuong followed by an audience Q&A.Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95928342270...
Passcode: SAICVAP (closed captions available)
Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel...
Environmental Racism: There's Something in the Water
Oct 7, 2020 (20:00 - 21:30) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Environmental devastation is most often felt by marginalized people. In Canada that means Indigenous, Blacks and other people of colour. The pattern has - and continues - to repeat itself.
It is environmental racism. It's blatant and systemic.
One of the most egregious cases in the country is on the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia. Here, a pulp and paper mill dumped...
Day of Rage in K’jipuktuk
Oct 11, 2020 - Hollis Street & Barrington Street
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Dawn to Dusk in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki on 10/11 starting at the Peace & Friendship Park on Hollis, South & Barrington Street.
Stay tuned while our actions & schedule are organized throughout K’jipuktuk.
6:56 am: Dawn in the Land of the Dawn with Dawn
7-11 am: Vegan/Vegetarian Brrrrrreakfast with Halifax Food Not Bombs K’jipuktuk
Do you have...
NOCTURNE - Halifax
Oct 12, 2020
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Nocturne: Art at Night is a fall festival that brings art and energy to the streets of K'jipuktuk/Halifax between 6 p.m. and midnight the week after the October long weekend. The completely free annual event showcases and celebrates the visual arts scene in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
Nocturne, designed and planned largely by volunteers, is an opportunity for everyone to experience the...
Indigenous Peoples' Day | Youth in Action
Oct 12, 2020 (13:00) - (GMT -5:00) Eastern Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Youth in Action: Conversations about Our Future
Mascots, Monuments, and Memorialization
https://nmai.brand.live/c/indigenouspeoplesday
How do our memories of the past inform and influence the current racial and social landscape? As part of the museum's new...
Food Justice 101
Oct 13, 2020 (18:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Leading in Colour & Dignity for All are hosting a 6-part web series focused on examining the impact of poverty on racialized communities.
Part 3: Food Security
Dignity for All recommends that Canada:
- Develop, in collaboration with all levels of government, food producers, community stakeholders, and food insecure people, a National Right to Food...
Solutions to Farm Food Loss
Oct 14, 2020 (18:00) - (GMT -5:00) Eastern Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
This school year, join FRN as we dive into issues that intersect food waste and food insecurity in our country, through the lens of life in a pandemic. Each month, a panel of experts will present on a topic, answer questions from attendees, and provide action steps we all can take toward solutions to these issues. This webinar series is tailored to benefit FRN students within the food...
Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collabs on Environmental Racism
Oct 14, 2020 (19:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Nocturne Art at Night and Visual Arts News presents Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaborations on Environmental Racism With Ingrid Waldron
This event is an online event centering Black and Indigenous solidarity through cross-cultural exchanges on environmental racism in Mi'kma'ki. We will bring together speakers and performers to share stories and experiences of...
Arab Environment Day
Oct 15, 2020
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
https://www.youth4nature.org/blog/arab-environment-day-
Dance Echoes presented by Mocean Dance
Oct 16, 2020 (19:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Drawing inspiration from Nocturne’s theme of ‘Echolocation’ Mocean Dance presents Dance Echoes: a short film created by 40 dance artists from across Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia. This collaborative film explores the shared echoes of our experience in the world and highlights the interconnectedness of people and places through our shared medium of the human body.
Join us on October 16th for...
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Oct 17, 2020
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
This international day, held annually on 17 October, presents an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognize that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty.
Through resolution...
Living in Between Cultures: a free virtual writing workshop
Oct 17, 2020 (11:00 - 13:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Living in Between Cultures is a free writing workshop made for BIPOC, immigrant, & refugee youth of all writing levels.
About this Event
Are you a young Black, Indigenous, and/or Person of Colour (BIPOC), immigrant, or refugee? Are you an aspiring writer or someone who’s curious to explore the world of words? Do you want to share your story of living in...
Shifting in Place: a free virtual visual poetic workshop
Oct 17, 2020 (13:30 - 15:30) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Shifting in Place is a free visual poetic workshop made for BIPOC, immigrant, & refugee youth of all writing levels.
About this Event
This workshop is a place to explore the translation spaces between drawing to writing and writing to drawing. You will be encouraged through a fun journey of curiosity and reflection with me!
We will talk about process...
Finding Our Voices: a free virtual writing workshop
Oct 17, 2020 (16:00 - 18:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Finding Our Voices is a free writing workshop made for BIPOC, immigrant, & refugee youth of all writing levels.
About this Event
What stories speak most to you? What stories do you want to tell? Join me for a creative writing workshop targeted towards developing your voice and honing in on the stories that matter to you.
We will be exploring themes of...
Storytelling Night: Open Mic for BIPOC, immigrant & refugee youth
Oct 17, 2020 (20:00 - 22:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
A Storytelling Night open mic open to BIPOC, immigrant, & refugee youth of all writing levels.
Presenters receive a FREE meal.
The event is part of a full day of storytelling and creative writing:
Telling Your Story is a full-day series of creative programming open to all Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC), immigrant, & refugee youth. Join us for...
Job Deadline: Outreach and Development Officer
Oct 18, 2020
Hosted by: Khayla Almonte-Davila
Outreach and Development Officer
- Application deadline: October 18th, 2020
- Beginning of term: End of October/Beginning of November, 2020
- Employment type: indefinite term
- Work schedule: full time — 35 hours per...
Our Climate Future: Introductory Workshop on Shaping Climate Policy // Notre Avenir Climatique: Atelier d'introduction a l'elabo
Oct 18, 2020 (14:00 - 15:35) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Determining youth climate policy priorities and visioning the future.
About this Event
This is a free event hosted by the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices youth engagement team with the intention of introducing...
In Solidarity with the Mi'kmaw nation and fishers
Oct 18, 2020 (14:00 - 16:00) - (GMT -4:00) Atlantic Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Sunday October 18th from 2-4 pm
Action in solidarity with Mi’kmaq Fisher folks.
We are all Treaty people and it is our duty to uphold Mi’kmaq treaty rights.
Demands:
That the DFO uphold the 1752 treaty of peace and friendship and the Marshal decision to support the Mi’kmaq right to a moderate...
Wetlands and Climate Action - Youth Dialogue
Oct 19, 2020 (14:00 - 16:00) - (GMT +2:00)
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Wetlands hold some of the largest storages of carbon on the planet which makes their protection, conservation and restoration key nature-based solutions for both climate mitigation and adaptation.
Wetlands International and Youth Engaged in Wetlands are partnering to raise awareness among youth of the role of wetlands in countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions...
Job Deadline: Digital Marketing & Communications
Oct 20, 2020
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Are you into digital media? Are you passionate about community and climate justice?
Be Community Forests International's next Digital Community Engagement Coordinator!
Key Interests:
community, branding, social media, marketing, climate justice, creativity
Why might you want to apply?
- You want to connect your passion...
Weaving Solidarity by Honouring Stolen Sisters with Wet'suwet'en Nation Leadership
Oct 20, 2020 (17:00) - (GMT -8:00) Pacific Time
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
A webinar with leadership from Wet'suwet'en Nation, who will be sharing evidence, stories and impressions fresh from their B.C. Supreme Court hearings this October.
Hear first-hand about the strategic approach hereditary leaders and legal counsel are taking to ensure the safety of Indigenous women and girls in the face of man-camps being built in Wet'suwet'en territory. Find out how...
Once Upon a Planet - True Stories of Women, Gender and Climate
Oct 22, 2020 (19:30) - (GMT +11:00) Magadan, Solomon Islands, New
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
Join us for an (online) evening of entrancing storytelling.
Meet us at the intersections of gender and environment, rise above the noise and distraction, and be transported by the magic of story. Cut through the confusion and divisiveness of statistics, politics, vested interests and media coverage and listen - to first person accounts of climate impacts, beautifully told. Come with us...
Job Deadline: Project Designer, Participatory City Wije'winen
Oct 29, 2020
Hosted by: Siobhan Takala
The Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Center in Halifax, NS is hiring!
Title: Project Designer, Participatory City Wije'winen
Details: 1 year contract, full time, $23-25/hr
"We are seeking a Project Designer who will play a...