NEWS and EVENTS

[SteveG]

Please use this forum to post any news and events that are relevant to our members.

[SteveG]

January 30th 7 pm at City Cyclery (Lincoln/Wyandotte) 553 Lincoln Road: 

We'll be watching A Fierce Green Fire, sharing a beer, coffee, or tea- and discussing sustainable living. Doors open at 700 PM. Documentary starts at 730 PM.

[SteveG]

Averil Parent has informed me that EARTH DAY will be APRIL 27th. I will post more details when I know them.

[Steve Green]

I will be speaking at this event. There are three separate event times you can attend over 2 days. This Sunday Jan 26 2-4 pm, Monday 1-3 pm, 7-9 pm. #DrShivChopra #FoodSafety #Hormones #Antibiotics #GMOs #Pesticides #Herbicides #CanadianFoodSupply #MuzzledScientists 

[SteveG]

MARCH 1 2014 - DEVONSHIRE MALL INFO DAY

0830 SET UP

0930 - 1800

Love to have some people share the shifts with me!

1.       Location within Devonshire Mall

Our booth location is between Sports Check and The Bay.

 

2.       Set-up and take-down

We must have the booth set up before the mall opens at 9:30 a.m., so I plan to arrive at 8:30 a.m..

 

When you arrive in the morning, we all must enter through the promo/delivery doors which are located in between Sports Check and H&M (conveniently close to our booth).

I’ve attached a map of the mall to give you a clear picture.

 

We cannot pack up until the Mall’s closing announcement at around 6 p.m..

 

3.       Staff at the booth

There will be a minimum of 4 people at the booth all day long (2 dietitians, 1 health inspector and you).

 

In the past the dietitians have rotated on a 2 – 3 hour schedule, as are fortunate to call upon dietitians across the community to volunteer their time for this event.

 

I’m not sure if you were planning to be there all day, or if you have some others who will be joining you to give you breaks and what not. I suggest you determine a shift schedule for yourself and some others, if possible. However I will also ask that there not be too many individuals from the Garden Collective present at the same time, as the booth will get crowded.

 

I will be there for the first shift, and likely be back to clean up at the end.

 

4.       Garden Collective space

You will have 1 table for the items you’d like to display.

[Robert Ross]

"There will be a minimum of 4 people at the booth all day long (2 dietitians, 1 health inspector and you)."

I would love to take a shift or two; but am unsure about what I would be responsible to do or to know. Would members of the WECCGC be there to advocate or disseminate information only?

[SteveG]

Future Commons: Planning Our Sustainable Communities

http://weccommunitygardens.blogspot.ca/p/future-commons-planning-our-sustainable.html

Future Commons: 

Planning Our Sustainable Communities

February 27th, 2014

830 AM to 330 PM

GUEST SPEAKERS 

Dan Pitera, FAIA, ACD

Executive Director: Detroit Collaborative Design Center

University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture

& Detroit Future City

WHAT THEY DO

Dan Pitera is a political and social activist masquerading as an architect. He is presently the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. He views the design profession as an essential force in establishing human relationships and engagement.

The DCDC works with community-based development organizations, local governments, residents and stakeholders, private developers, students, and local design professionals to enhance local leadership capacity and to promote quality design. Utilizing broad-based community participation in conjunction with design technologies, the DCDC produces projects that respond to locally defined concerns while empowering residents and stakeholders to facilitate their own process of community planning, development, and building design. The DCDC uses its nationally recognized Neighborhood Engagement Workshop (NEW) process which empowers stakeholders to renew their communities through collaboration and coalition building.

The DCDC is dedicated to fostering university and community partnerships that create inspired and sustainable neighborhoods and spaces for all people. Mr. Pitera holds the position that the sustainability and regeneration of any neighborhood lies in the hands of its residents. Currently, Dan is co-leading the Civic Engagement process for the Detroit Works Long Term Planning initiated by Mayor Bing in 2010. 

Sunday Harrison, Program Director

Green Thumbs, Growing Kids (Toronto)

Environmental Education in Schools

WHAT THEY DO

Starting with the idea of connecting children to their food, we give them the tools to grow, harvest and enjoy food through hands-on learning programs on public school and park lands. Food produced in the school garden during the school year goes into lunch or snack programs - into students' mouths. Summer produce is equally distributed among volunteers and families who participate in the garden work.

School-based programs that engage children in their class time are linked to Ontario curriculum, especially the science strands, but also math, language, art, social studies, and obviously healthy eating and healthy physical activity. Our programs are run in each school's garden, or if the weather is not agreeable, in the classroom. Teachers book us for the workshops through an email exchange, and we support the garden learning in our workshops in much the same way as a physical education teacher supports health curriculum or a librarian supports literacy, across the grades.

Other school-based programs take place on the school grounds but are not part of formal learning in class time. They may be after school, or during the lunch recess. This supervised recreational programming is also greatly important for students, to allow for free play and exploration.

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…And Local Special Guest Speakers

Registered Full Day guests will receive a full lunch provided by Carrots N Dates

This is a FREE EVENT!

Catering provided by


A PROJECT OF...
Windsor Essex County Community Garden Network

SPONSORED BY...
Healthy Communities Fund - WE Health Unit 

POST EVENT TOUR

The Art Gallery of Windsor announces the opening of its winter season with

Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour)
Yousuf Karsh: The Ford Motor Company of Canada Gift to the AGW
Ford City/Working the Line




Yousuf Karsh, Self-Portrait (not dated); silver halide emulsion on paper; 100.6 x 75.2 cm; Gift of the Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited, 2013
Sam Durant; Strike (index) 2003; graphite on paper; Collection of Nicholas Baume, NYC, Courtesy of the artist and Blume & Poe, Los Angeles
C.A.M.P. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2012-13); video still

Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour)
Curated by Srimoyee Mitra
January 25 – April 13, 2014
Participating artists: C.A.M.P. (India), Sam Durant (USA), Philip Hoffman and Marian McMahon (Canada), Marisa Jahn (USA), Reena Katz aka Radiodress (Canada), Margareta Kern (UK), Kero and Annie Hall (Canada),Vince Kogut (Canada), Min Sook Lee and Deborah Barndt (Canada), Ken Lum (Canada), Dylan Miner (Métis), Precarious Workers Brigade (UK), Martha Rosler (USA), Andrea Slavik (Canada), David Taylor (USA)

Following the launch of the multi-year Border Cultures series of exhibitions with the award-winning Part One (homes, land) in 2013, the AGW continues its research and discussion around the geographic, political and socio-economic context of the Windsor-Detroit region with its second edition. Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour) examines the changing labour market in our globalized economies and the in-between space of the borderlands where free-flowing capital and the uneasy movements of the stratified work force encounter one another. While outsourcing North American jobs has adversely impacted its working and middle-classes, there is an ongoing dependence on migrant workers in the agricultural, domestic and service sectors that are invisible in the public realm.

Part Two draws inspiration from the history of social struggles in the Windsor-Detroit region, such as the Underground Railroad, the anti-segregation protests in the auto factories, and generations of migrant workers who contributed to the regional economy. The artists examine these histories that have crossed boundaries and brought people together, highlighting the strategies used by them to survive and thrive. By expressing solidarity through DIY kits to humorous and provocative posters that riff on pop culture and street art, the artists look back through official labour archives and respond with personal histories. For Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour), the gallery will transform into a performance space, a place for discussion and community gathering to pay homage to the labour of artists, organizers and everyday folk whose work obscure the confines of national boundaries.

The AGW welcomes TD Bank Group as the new, multi-year sponsor for the Border Cultures 2013-15 exhibition series.Yousuf Karsh: The Ford Motor Company of Canada Gift to the AGW
Co-curated by Catharine Mastin and Cassandra Getty
January 25 – April 6, 2014
In 2013, the Ford Motor Company of Canada donated 39 works to the AGW by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh. This exhibition is a selection from this gift, focusing on Karsh's large-format prints. This collection is an important body of work from his 1951 Ford commission to interpret the daily life of workers at the Windsor plants.

The donation marks the culmination of a long-standing relationship between the AGW and Ford, which began during the course of research for Ford City/Windsor (1994). Interest in the collection continued with Cassandra Getty, former AGW Historical Curator and Collections Manager. Her research led to the Gallery developing Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images, a major touring exhibition and book during 2004-10, which emphasized his contribution to 20th century portrait photography and the significance of this body of work to Windsor's labour history.

An e-publication authored by Cassandra Getty and contributions by Jerry Fielder, Estrellita Karsh and Catharine Mastin accompanies the exhibition at www.agw.ca.
Ford City/Working the Line
Co-curated by Catharine Mastin and Rosemary Donegan
January 25 – April 6, 2014
Ford City/Working the Line is a film installation documenting the assembly line process at the Ford Motor Company's Windsor plant in 1938. Researched and produced by independent curator, Rosemary Donegan, it was a central element in the 1994 multi-media exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor, at the Devonshire Mall, entitled Ford City/Windsor. It was assembled from archival footage from the 1938 film The Song the Map Sings, produced by Director Gordon Sparlind and Cinematographer Alfred Jacquemin. The film was originally commissioned by Ford Motor Company as an educational and promotional vehicle to illustrate the wonders of mechanical assembly line production and the scale of Ford operations in Canada.

[SteveG]

The Windsor-Essex County Community Garden Network Coordinator would like to invite Windsor-Essex Food Banks to a TABLE TALK about
fresh produce donations.

Come help our Community Gardens plant and grow the right food for your food banks!

Tell us what fresh produce that people using food banks like !
Tell us what fresh produce that people using the food banks don’t like and why! 
Tell us what vegetables always get too much of! 
Tell us everything that will help gardens decide what is best to grow to donate!

Where: Essex Civic Centre—Room C 
Date: Tuesday March 4, 2014
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 
Register at Eventbrite.ca
Refreshments provided 
For more information call Steve Green at 519-258-3033 ext. 1148