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Start Date & Time
January 22, 2009
All day event.
End Date & Time
January 28, 2009
All day event.
Location
Online.
Event Cost
Mostly Free
RSVP Info
Name: Julie
E-mail: kwic@trentu.ca
Webpage: www.kwic.info
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It's Global Education Week 2009 ~ kicking off this weekend with ReFrame ~ Peterborough International Film Festival, and culminating with the 28th One World Dinner: Food As Energy on Saturday, January 31st. And with a whole lot of great events in between. We hope you will join us!
Global Education Week 2009:
Food Fights! Protecting our Resource Rights!
Friday to Sunday, January 23, 24, 25
ReFrame~Peterborough International Film Festival - Various Times
This festival will feed your spirit with stories of people who are reinventing their social environments and their futures. Films, time, venues & ticket info @ www.quidnovis.com
Tickets: $25 entire festival, $12 Students/Unwaged or Suggested Donation $5/ Film.
Monday, January 26
Food Not Bombs Community Feast
Come cook together at Trinity United Church at 3:30pm.
Join in a community feast at City Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 27
Sustainable Trent Bottled Water Campaign; Mining Campaign with Development & Peace
11 am-2:00 pm Information tables and discussion, just outside of Bata Library (West Bank),
Trent University.
Wednesday, January 28
KWIC Radio Show "Convergence" 7-8:00 pm
Jo Hayward Haines & David Geraldo explore water issues with global and local perspectives from Trent students, CUPE, Council of Canadians and Public Utilities Company.
Local guest singer/songwriter, Jan Laurie, will perform an original song about water. Tune in Trent Radio 92.7 FM. Live & Lively!
"New Season Coming" Free Film Screening 7:00 pm
KWIC Food Issues Working Group & Trent Central Student Association host this engaging short film & discussion about the local food movement in Kingston Ontario. Part of OPIRG Wed. Night Film Series.
Thursday, January 29
Kawartha World Issues Centre: Open House, 11:00 am-2:00 pm
Interested in world issues? Want to make a difference? Drop by for a warm cup of local cider and great conversation. Find out how you can get involved! Hosted in collaboration with Sustainable Trent and Development & Peace. Environmental Sciences Building, Room B101 on East Bank, Trent University.
Indigenous Dinner 5:00 pm
Presentation about maize and seed diversity with Karl Fiander, followed by a light dinner at 5:30 in the Gathering Space, Gzowski College. Hosted by the Seasoned Spoon Café, KWIC and Trent Indigenous-Environmental Studies Department. Only 40 spaces.
RSVP to gew2009@gmail.com or 748-1680.
Chocolatada 8:30 pm
Join Greg & Scotty, and the PCVS African Hand Drumming group for some music and fairly traded chocolate treats in the Sadleir House Dining Hall, 751 George St. N.
Friday, January 30
Food Initiatives in Peterborough 2-4:00 pm
World Affairs Colloquium Panel Discussion in the Lady Eaton College pit at Trent University. Speakers to include Charlotte Kennedy from Just Food program, Laura Jack from Peterborough Health Unit, and others.
Bottle it!! Maude Barlow & Sid Ryan 7:00 pm
Speaking tour on water issues hosted by Council of Canadians at Market Hall. There will be information tables with water display, theatre, taste tests and more.
Hip Hop Night 10:00 pm
Headliner: Shad, with opening acts: Explosive Propaganda, ABD, Justis & Mantis, Louwop, Junior Wisdom, DJ TLO, DJ WHO, DJ Talk is Cheap. Venue: Gordon Best Theatre @9:30pm
$10 in advance, $15 at door
Saturday, January 31
28th Annual One World Dinner ~ 'Food As Energy'~ Doors Open @ 5:30 pm
Peterborough's 28th Vegetarian Community Potluck! Guest speaker: Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi.
Everyone brings a vegetarian food dish with ingredient list to share with 4-6 people and a dish pack (plate, cutlery, cup and serving spoon.) No desserts please. Beverages for sale. All proceeds support global education and outreach in Peterborough area through KWIC, JSH, NCC and TISA. Tickets at the door: Suggested $10/family or pay what you can. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church Hall at Water and Murray Streets.
All events are free unless otherwise noted! Sponsored by the City of Peterborough, Council of Canadians, Development & Peace, Food Not Bombs, Jo Anne's Place, Jamaica Self Help, Kawartha World Issues Centre, KWIC Food Issues Group, New Canadians Centre, Ontario Public Interest Research Group, ReFrame Film Festival ~ Peterborough, Sustainable Trent, Trent University: Indigenous Studies, IDS, TIP, SAID, TISA, ERS, TCSA, World Affairs Colloquium. For more GEW 2009 info: www.kwic.info |
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