KWIC January Community Event Listing & News
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Please find details below for KWIC and community sponsored events
happening this month!
If you’d like to find out more about KWIC activities or volunteer
opportunities, why not come out to the KWIC Open House on January 14th
between 11am to 2pm?
Invitation to Volunteer: During the ReFrame Film Festival Jan 29 to 31,
KWIC is hosting a 10 000 Villages- Zatoun table at the Show Place
Bazaar, as well as a baked good/fair trade coffee table at the Market
Hall. Proceeds from the bake table will support KWIC Youth Engagement
activities.
We are looking for sellers and bakers! If you have some time to share,
please let us know at kw...@trentu.ca and we will put you to good work.
Or just drop by and say hello.
One World Dinner: KWIC is looking also for volunteers to help out at
the 2010 One World Dinner: A Spin on Food - on Saturday, Feb. 6th! This
community potluck dinner is a fundraising activity for KWIC, Jamaica
Self-Help, New Canadians Centre and Trent International Student
Association.
January 22nd or 23rd: Free Popular Theatre Workshop for KWIC volunteers
- Suggested $25/person for others.
Inclusive. Innovative. Fun. Come learn hands-on how to facilitate
popular theatre exercises for group
visioning, peace building and conflict transformation. Gain the tools
to facilitate popular theatre with your community/group/classes.
This participatory 3 hour workshop is for teachers/educators, students,
community workers, health practitioners, counsellors, social service
organizations, youth workers, activists & artists. www.iftheatre.ca
No previous theatre experience required!
Workshop Times: Friday, Jan 22nd: 1:30 pm to 4:30pm or Saturday, Jan
23rd: 10 am to 1 pm
Sadleir House Cost: $25/person (Not to be a barrier to
participation).
For more information visit www.iftheatre.ca or contact Julie to
register at kw...@trentu.ca / 748-1680.
_____________________________________________
January Event Listing Summary:
1. Friday, January 8th: ReFrame Festival Launch Party at the Art
Gallery of Peterborough (AGP) @ 7pm.
2. Tuesday Jan 12th: Convergence ~ KWIC on Trent Radio from 4 to 5pm!
Issues: Water, COP15 and Proroguement of Parliament. Live & Lively!
3. Wednesday Jan 13th: Global Youth Day Organizing Meeting at Ptbo
Public Library (upstairs),
3:30 to 4:30pm. Youth 14 to 24 welcome to help organize local spring
youth conference.
4. Thursday Jan. 14th: KWIC Open House : Interested in world issues?
Want to get involved?
Drop-in between 11am & 2pm for cup of hot cider and conversation.
Everyone welcome.
5. Wednesday Jan. 20th: KWIC Climate Change Working Group Meeting at
KWIC, 12pm Bring a lunch
and a friend to brainstorm for Earth Day and other educational
activities.
6. Thursday Jan. 21st: The Global Warming Crisis: A Copenhagen Post
Mortem with David Martin, Greenpeace Canada's Climate and Energy
Coordinator.
7. Friday/ Saturday Jan. 22nd or 23rd: Popular Theatre Workshop with
In Forma Theatre ~ Register Now!
8. Friday to Sunday, Jan. 29th to 31st: ReFrame - Peterborough’s
International Film Festival: Three days of great independent film,
workshops, galas and more! Passes are on sale now…..
9. Volunteers/Helpers Needed for Elders Gathering
10. Young Decision Makers Network Conference (Toronto)
~Coming UP: Feb. 6th - Annual One World Dinner Community Potluck.
Tickets at the door.
February is Black History Month. Activities begin February 5th at the
Market Hall and wrap-up the weekend of February 28th with the
International Dub Poet Festival right here in Peterborough! Watch for
event details!
Visit www.kwic.info for more event listings and details. If you would
like to post your group’s event on the Community Calendar, or to be
removed from this distribution list, kindly let us know at
kw...@trentu.ca.
January Event Details:
January 8th: Hello ReFrame Supporters and Film Lovers!!
We would like to invite you to our festival launch party at the Art
Gallery of Peterborough (AGP) this Friday, January 8 at 7 pm. ReFrame
Peterborough International Film Festival--your go to guide to the
latest provocative films--will take place January 29-31. We will begin
at the AGP with an art exhibition of photo-based work exploring the
theme of representation, distortion and the body by students, working
with Micky Renders, at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School. Micky was
the creative spirit behind last year's Tents for Darfur. The
Body: IMAGES exhibition is part of Still ReFrame, our visual arts
programming. It is also part of the AGP's current programming along
with the opening of the main exhibition Ladies Sasquatch: Allyson
Mitchell.
If you feel inspired by the opening please feel free to take a
workshop with Micky as part of ReFrame's art experiences programming.
You can explore photo-based representation with Micky on Saturday
January 30 from 1-5 pm at the AGP. To register email Wanda at
wnan...@gmail.com
On top of photography and fun fur, this Friday you can get the first
view of ReFrame Festival's new trailer made by Peterborough's own
genius with a camera, Lester Alfonso.
Come celebrate with ReFrame and the AGP this Friday!
January 21st: The Global Warming Crisis: A Copenhagen Post Mortem
with Dave Martin, Greenpeace Canada's Climate and Energy Coordinator
Where: The Great Hall, Champlain College, Trent University
Time: Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 7p.m.
Free, public lecture. Limited seating available.
RSVP to Joanne Sokolowski at (705) 748-1011 x6162
or joanne...@trentu.ca
Presented by Trent University's Politics Department. Cosponsored by
Canadian Studies, the Centre of Knowledge in the Environment, Champlain
College, The Environmental & Resource Studies Program, the Frost Centre
for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, International Development
Studies, Kawartha World Issues Centre, OPIRG, Trent University Politics
Society
Friday, January 29th to Sunday, January 31st:
ReFrame - Peterborough International Film Festival
Now in its sixth year, this successful, locally organized community
festival presents three days of outstanding documentary films that
celebrate life and human dignity. Over 60 films from local, Canadian
and international film-makers will explore issues dealing with
diversity,
environment and international issues. From uranium mining in
Haliburton, mental
health crisis work in Toronto, Inuit relocation in the Arctic to the
first female soccer
match in the history of Iran, ReFrame offers opportunities to explore
the world. Passes are $30 for adults, $15 for students/underwaged
(but students can see a single film for a donation).
For the full program listing, go to www.reframefilmfestival.ca.
Passes and programs are available in Millbrook at Bear Essentials, in
Lindsay at Common Grounds, in Lakefield at Happenstance Books and
Yarn, and in Peterborough at Have You Seen, Kawartha World Issues
Centre (KWIC), and Titles Bookstore.
For more information please contact Wanda Nanibush at 705 741 2957 or
wnan...@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you at the festival,
Volunteers/Helpers Needed for Elders Gathering
TO ASSIST WITH THE ELDERS’ GATHERING ( Feb. 12, 13, 14 )
Planning meetings are scheduled for:
Wednesday, Jan. 13 @ noon and
Thursday, Jan. 14 @ noon
LOCATION: FPHL 329
(Or see me in the tipi any Tuesday or Thursday)
WE NEED: OSHKABEWIS
OGI-GCHI-DAAKWEG
SHAKOTIIENAWA:SE
VOLUNTEERS
There will be a Traditional foods dinner on Fri., Feb, 12 for the
student helpers, the Elders and Traditional teachers. If you are not
able to attend and want to help, contact Vern Douglas at
vdou...@trentu.ca or call ext. 7072 or visit FPHL 329 .
Traditional Teachings will be held most Wednesdays, 7-9 pm
in the Benedict Gathering Space at Trent University: FPHL - Room 103
Jan. 13…. Plants (Edna Manitowabi)
Jan. 20…. Bmaadiziwin is a Choice (Merritt Taylor)
Jan. 27…. Women’s Medicinal Bundles (Shirley Williams)
Feb. 3..… Minjikaning-The Fish Fence (Mark Douglas)
Feb. 10….. Anishinabekwe Tradition (Jacqui Lavalley)
Feb. 24…. Storytelling (Doug Williams)
March 3…. Culture in the Modern World (Dorothy Taylot)
March 10… Anishinabe Teaching (Mark Phillips)
March 17….Turtle Island Conservation Initiative (Kim Wheatley)
March 24….. The Pow Wow ( Armour Hill Singers)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Regional Youth Conference: The Young Decision Makers (YDM) Network
would like
to invite you to their national meeting this upcoming February! This
four day event is being put
together by a group of youth, young adults and adult allies from across
Canada working together
to ensure that we, as a nation, are moving towards developing truly
inclusive and accountable
youth decision-making opportunities.
Since the fall, we've been meeting on Monday nights through conference
calls
and emails, and have identified the following objectives for this
conference. We want:
-> more Canadians to learn about the YDM model and how to use it in
their
communities, organizations and projects
-> to walk through the model several times by working through youth
issues
as identified by you and other participants.
-> to create space for individuals and organizations to share their
experiences, expertise and ideas!
-> to have “open spaces” for you, the participant, to host your own
workshop
and share your knowledge and skills with us.
To register online, please visit http://ydm.engagementcentre.ca or
directly
at http://www.tgmag.ca/ydm/register2010.php now!
Alternatively, you can call The Students Commission's Toronto office
at
(416) 597-8297 and ask for Romil Dharia or Pytor Hodgson or shoot us
an
email at rom...@tgmag.ca or py...@cogeco.ca.
Dear KWIC members and friends,
Please find details below for KWIC and community sponsored events
happening this month!
If you’d like to find out more about KWIC activities or volunteer
opportunities, why not come out to the KWIC Open House on January 14th
between 11am to 2pm?
Invitation to Volunteer: During the ReFrame Film Festival Jan 29 to 31,
KWIC is hosting a 10 000 Villages- Zatoun table at the Show Place
Bazaar, as well as a baked good/fair trade coffee table at the Market
Hall. Proceeds from the bake table will support KWIC Youth Engagement
activities.
We are looking for sellers and bakers! If you have some time to share,
please let us know at kw...@trentu.ca and we will put you to good work.
Or just drop by and say hello.
One World Dinner: KWIC is looking also for volunteers to help out at
the 2010 One World Dinner: A Spin on Food - on Feb. 6th! This community
potluck dinner is a fundraising activity for KWIC, Jamaica Self-Help and
New Canadians Centre.
January 22nd or 23rd: Free Popular Theatre Workshop for KWIC volunteers
- Suggested $25/person for others.
Inclusive. Innovative. Fun. Come learn hands-on how to facilitate
popular theatre exercises for group
visioning, peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Gain the tools to
facilitate popular theatre with your community/group/classes.
This participatory 3 hour workshop is for teachers/educators, students,
community workers, health practitioners, counsellors, social service
organizations, youth workers, activists & artists. www.iftheatre.ca
No previous theatre experience required!
Workshop Times: Friday, Jan 22nd: 1:30 pm to 4:30pm or Saturday, Jan
23rd: 10 am to 1 pm
Sadleir House Cost: $25/person (Not to be a barrier to
participation).
For more information visit www.iftheatre.ca or contact Julie to
register at kw...@trentu.ca / 748-1680.
_____________________________________________
January Event Listing Summary:
1. Friday, January 8th: ReFrame Festival Launch Party at the Art
Gallery of Peterborough (AGP) @ 7pm.
2. Tuesday Jan 12th: Convergence ~ KWIC on Trent Radio from 4 to 5pm!
Join Sheila Howlett, John Etches and Roy
Brady as they discuss water justice from local and global perspectives
and analyze the impact of
3. Wednesday Jan 13th: Global Youth Day Organizing Meeting at Ptbo
Public Library (upstairs), 3:30 to 4:30pm
4. Thursday Jan. 14th: KWIC Open House : Drop-in between 11am & 2pm for
cup of hot cider and conversation. Find out how you get involved!
5. Wednesday Jan. 20th: KWIC Climate Change Working Group Meeting at
KWIC, 12pm Bring a lunch and a friend!
6. Thursday Jan. 21st: The Global Warming Crisis: A Copenhagen Post
Mortem with David Martin, Greenpeace Canada's Climate and Energy
Coordinator.
7. Friday/ Saturday Jan. 22nd or 23rd: Popular Theatre Workshop with
In Forma Theatre ~ Register Now!
8. Friday to Sunday, Jan. 29th to 31st: ReFrame - Peterborough’s
International Film Festival: Three days of great independent film,
workshops, galas and more! Passes are on sale now…..
9. Volunteers/Helpers Needed for Elders Gathering
10. Young Decision Makers Network Conference (Toronto)
11. Native and non Native Volunteers Needed for Indigenous House
Building Project (Operation Beaver)
~Coming UP: Feb. 6th - Annual One World Dinner Community Potluck.
Tickets at the door.
February is Black History Month. Activities begin February 5th at the
Market Hall and wrap-up the weekend of February 28th with the
International Dub Poet Festival right here in Peterborough! Watch for
event details!
Visit www.kwic.info for more event listings and details. If you would
like to post your group’s event on the Community Calendar, or to be
removed from this distribution list, kindly let us know at
kw...@trentu.ca.
January Event Details:
January 8th: Hello ReFrame Supporters and Film Lovers!!
We would like to invite you to our festival launch party at the Art
Gallery of Peterborough (AGP) this Friday, January 8 at 7 pm. ReFrame
Peterborough International Film Festival--your go to guide to the
latest provocative films--will take place January 29-31. We will begin
at the AGP with an art exhibition of photo-based work exploring the
theme of representation, distortion and the body by students, working
with Micky Renders, at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School. Micky was
the creative spirit behind last year's Tents for Darfur. The
Body: IMAGES exhibition is part of Still ReFrame, our visual arts
programming. It is also part of the AGP's current programming along
with the opening of the main exhibition Ladies Sasquatch: Allyson
Mitchell.
If you feel inspired by the opening please feel free to take a
workshop with Micky as part of ReFrame's art experiences programming.
You can explore photo-based representation with Micky on Saturday
January 30 from 1-5 pm at the AGP. To register email Wanda at
wnan...@gmail.com
On top of photography and fun fur, this Friday you can get the first
view of ReFrame Festival's new trailer made by Peterborough's own
genius with a camera, Lester Alfonso.
Come celebrate with ReFrame and the AGP this Friday!
January 21st: The Global Warming Crisis: A Copenhagen Post Mortem
with Dave Martin, Greenpeace Canada's Climate and Energy Coordinator
Where: The Great Hall, Champlain College, Trent University
Time: Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 7p.m.
Free, public lecture. Limited seating available.
RSVP to Joanne Sokolowski at (705) 748-1011 x6162
or joanne...@trentu.ca
Presented by Trent University's Politics Department. Cosponsored by
Canadian Studies, the Centre of Knowledge in the Environment, Champlain
College, The Environmental & Resource Studies Program, the Frost Centre
for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, International Development
Studies, Kawartha World Issues Centre, OPIRG, Trent University Politics
Society
Friday, January 29th to Sunday, January 31st:
ReFrame - Peterborough International Film Festival
Now in its sixth year, this successful, locally organized community
festival presents three days of outstanding documentary films that
celebrate life and human dignity. Over 60 films from local, Canadian
and international film-makers will explore issues dealing with
diversity,
environment and international issues. From uranium mining in
Haliburton, mental
health crisis work in Toronto, Inuit relocation in the Arctic to the
first female soccer
match in the history of Iran, ReFrame offers opportunities to explore
the world. Passes are $30 for adults, $15 for students/underwaged
(but students can see a single film for a donation).
For the full program listing, go to www.reframefilmfestival.ca.
Passes and programs are available in Millbrook at Bear Essentials, in
Lindsay at Common Grounds, in Lakefield at Happenstance Books and
Yarn, and in Peterborough at Have You Seen, Kawartha World Issues
Centre (KWIC), and Titles Bookstore.
For more information please contact Wanda Nanibush at 705 741 2957 or
wnan...@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you at the festival,
Volunteers/Helpers Needed for Elders Gathering
TO ASSIST WITH THE ELDERS’ GATHERING ( Feb. 12, 13, 14 )
Planning meetings are scheduled for:
Wednesday, Jan. 13 @ noon and
Thursday, Jan. 14 @ noon
LOCATION: FPHL 329
(Or see me in the tipi any Tuesday or Thursday)
WE NEED: OSHKABEWIS
OGI-GCHI-DAAKWEG
SHAKOTIIENAWA:SE
VOLUNTEERS
There will be a Traditional foods dinner on Fri., Feb, 12 for the
student helpers, the Elders and Traditional teachers. If you are not
able to attend and want to help, contact Vern Douglas at
vdou...@trentu.ca or call ext. 7072 or visit FPHL 329 .
Traditional Teachings will be held most Wednesdays, 7-9 pm
in the Benedict Gathering Space at Trent University: FPHL - Room 103
Jan. 13…. Plants (Edna Manitowabi)
Jan. 20…. Bmaadiziwin is a Choice (Merritt Taylor)
Jan. 27…. Women’s Medicinal Bundles (Shirley Williams)
Feb. 3..… Minjikaning-The Fish Fence (Mark Douglas)
Feb. 10….. Anishinabekwe Tradition (Jacqui Lavalley)
Feb. 24…. Storytelling (Doug Williams)
March 3…. Culture in the Modern World (Dorothy Taylot)
March 10… Anishinabe Teaching (Mark Phillips)
March 17….Turtle Island Conservation Initiative (Kim Wheatley)
March 24….. The Pow Wow ( Armour Hill Singers)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Regional Youth Conference: The Young Decision Makers (YDM) Network
would like
to invite you to their national meeting this upcoming February! This
four day event is being put
together by a group of youth, young adults and adult allies from across
Canada working together
to ensure that we, as a nation, are moving towards developing truly
inclusive and accountable
youth decision-making opportunities.
Since the fall, we've been meeting on Monday nights through conference
calls
and emails, and have identified the following objectives for this
conference. We want:
-> more Canadians to learn about the YDM model and how to use it in
their
communities, organizations and projects
-> to walk through the model several times by working through youth
issues
as identified by you and other participants.
-> to create space for individuals and organizations to share their
experiences, expertise and ideas!
-> to have “open spaces” for you, the participant, to host your own
workshop
and share your knowledge and skills with us.
To register online, please visit http://ydm.engagementcentre.ca or
directly
at http://www.tgmag.ca/ydm/register2010.php now!
Alternatively, you can call The Students Commission's Toronto office
at
(416) 597-8297 and ask for Romil Dharia or Pytor Hodgson or shoot us
an
email at rom...@tgmag.ca or py...@cogeco.ca.
NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR OPERATION BEAVER PROGRAM
Frontiers Foundation is looking for people willing to help
build/renovate,
safe, warm homes in partnership with northern Quebec, Ontario and
Manitoba
mainly aboriginal families. If you have construction experience, share
it
with those who want to train on site. All travel, accommodation and
food
expenses plus volunteer allowances are provided. Meaningful volunteer
work
producing enduring good news for and with our fellow Canadians. Three
month
commitment preferable, but negotiable.
Contact: (416) 690-3930 or 1 (800) 668-4130 Fax (416) 690-3934
Address: 419 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4L 3B9
E-Mail: frontiers...@on.aibn.com
Website: www.frontiersfoundation.ca
<http://www.frontiersfoundation.ca/>
Donations will be as faithfully applied as they are gratefully
received.
Frontiers Foundation is a federally registered Aboriginal voluntary
service and community advancement charity.
------------------------------------
Julie Cosgrove, Coordinator Kawartha World Issues Centre
Phone: 705-748-1680
Email: kw...@trentu.ca
Website & Community Calendar: www.kwic.info
Celebrating 20 years of global understanding and local action.
The Kawartha World Issues Centre is a charitable global education and
resource centre which promotes understanding and dialogue of world
issues to enable people to engage in positive social and environmental
change.