Calgary Dollars Harvest Market/Potluck
| September 8, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
HSCA 1320 5th Avenue NW
It’s Garden Harvest Time at Calgary Dollars Market/Potluck
Harvest Market/Potluck – gather your garden treats and community garden friends to attend Calgary Dollars’ annual Harvest Potluck.
If you have extra produce set up a table and we can continue the URBAN farmers market inside! Then you can turnaround spend all the Calgary Dollars you earn with our great Calgary Dollar vendors. Circulating money in the local community.
Bring enough food to share for 6, cutlery and dishes provided. Prize for the biggest zucchini so bring your best!
Volunteers needed to help with set up, greeting, food arrangement and clean up call (403) 270-8002.
Calgary Microcredit Conference
| September 11, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 am | to | 4:15 pm |
Danish Canadian Club (727, 11 Ave SW)
The Calgary Microcredit Conference Committee, together with the Rotarian Action Group for Microcredit (RAGM), the Rotary District 5360 Microcredit Task Force, and the uend:poverty Foundation is pleased to announce this exciting one-day event which will mobilize Calgarians to fulfill their commitment towards creating a sustainable, poverty free world for all.
All profits from the Calgary Microcredit Conference, and any donations will go to the Foundation for Women – Liberia. We will provide income tax receipts for any donations through MEDIC Canada.
Admission fees are $75.00 for adults ($90.00 at the door) and $30.00 for students.
For registration and conference details visit www.calgarymicrocreditconference.com.
Bowness Harvest Fair
| September 11, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
Boys and Girls Club Parking Lot (7930 Bowness Road – it’s a small shopping mall)
Celebrate the harvest with Bowness Community Garden!!!
Bring extra produce from your garden to swap for something you didn’t grow. Any vegetable, fruit and jams welcome.
Enter your best jam, pie or homemade wine in Blue ribbon contests, along with your biggest zucchini and pumpkin.
Kids can enter balloon and egg races & make a mini-greenhouse! Participants will leave with their own mini-greenhouse and seeds to take home.
Best News of all is that the Bowness Railway Community Garden volunteer gardening coach Caroline Giles will be available to chat with you about food gardening at the Community Garden Resource Network table!
For the complete listing and times for workshops visit: http://mybowness.typepad.com/bowness_community_associa/harvest-fair.html
The organizing committee needs more volunteers to make this first annual event successful! Please contact Dana at (403) 288-9218 if you are interested in helping out.
3rd Annual Kimmapii Kids Festival
| September 11, 2010 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Redwood House, Redwood Meadows (near Bragg Creek)
Help educate the world!
Music, Events, and Fundraiser
- Entertainment and Performances All Day
- Peruvian Handicrafts and Art For Sale
- Market Place and Silent Auction
- Free Kids Activities!
Family Pass – $40
Adults – $20
Teens and Seniors – $10
Children Free
Info and tickets: www.kimmapiikids.org
Marda Loop Justice Film Festival – Film Night
War Child
| September 14, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
River Park Church Auditorium (3818 -14A St. SW, Calgary)
War Child (2008, 94 min)
Director and Producer: C. Karim Chrobog
“Left home at the age of seven, one year later I’m carryin’ an Ak-47.” For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. Today, Emmanuel Jal fights a new battle: bringing peace to his beloved Sudan and building schools in Africa. This time, his weapon is a microphone. Audiences from New York to Berlin to London rave about the award-winning film, War Child, and have embraced the hip-hop artist with a terrifying past and a gentle soul. Interspersing original interviews, live concerts, and rare footage of Emmanuel Jal as a seven year-old boy, War Child will make viewers cry, laugh, dance, and celebrate the power of hope. http://www.warchildmovie.com/
Conversation Leader
James Nguen
James Nguen is one of the Lost Boys of Sudan who is living in Calgary and attending the University of Calgary. He is the founder of the Biluany Literacy and Water Project, co-founder of the “Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan Association of Calgary” and a subject of the Award Winning documentary “The Long Journey Home of James Nguen.”
James came to Canada as a refugee on September, 2001, fifteen years after he was forced to leave Sudan at the age of seven. James was orphaned by war and lived alone for twenty years without knowing whether any of his family was alive. In 2005, he learned that his mother was alive and reconnected with her. James works tirelessly helping others by advocating for the Sudanese refugee population in Calgary, and at home.
For an update on the politics of South Sudan consider reading this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/opinion/13eggers.html?_r=2
Sierra Club Chinook Group Outing: Upper Kananaskis Lakes Hike
| September 18, 2010 |
Upper Kananaskis Lakes, Kananaskis Country
It’s been a long time since our last hike so we start with an easy hike along the Upper Kananaskis Lakes. Because of its distance of 16 km the hike is rated moderate. Going around the circumference of the lake the hike is mainly flat; total elevation gain is 60 m. There are numerous views of the lake and the valley beyond. We will go as fast as the slowest hiker in the group or split the group in two.
For more information and a few pictures, please go to: http://hikealberta.com/hike/upper-kananaskis-lake-trail
Who: Open for everybody
What to bring: lots of water, lunch, snacks, sunscreen, maybe bug spray, a camera to capture the spectacular views
Please RSVP to Kristin at kristin@sierraclubchinook.org by September 10, 2010.
Bees ‘n Seeds
| September 19, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
The Light Cellar (6326 Bowness Rd NW) and the Bownesian Urban Permaculture Project
Learn about Bees and Permaculture, then get your feet wet!
This day course goes from 10-11:20, a review of beehive dynamics and bee behavior. Then, 11:30-12:50 a basic intro to Permaculture. We then walk to Bowness park, eat lunch, and then walk to a permaculturally designed food forest, and look at the design, practices, and output. We are also going to open a hive and look at the colonys design and progress on the same site.
You… will be required to bring your own lunch, but snacks, coffee and tea will be offered in the morning.
The cost is $40.00. There is a max capacity of 35.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact A.B.C at eliese@backyardbees.ca.
To REGISTER! Go to www.backyardbees.ca.
Lean and Green:
Sustainable Energy Solutions for Alberta with Hunter Lovins
| September 21, 2010 | ||
| 4:00 pm |
ConocoPhillips Theatre in the Glenbow Museum
CAUSE Presents: Lean and Green: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Alberta with Hunter Lovins
Great Opportunity to Discover:
- Options for meeting our current electricity challenges
- The business case for climate protection
- How Alberta can lead the way in energy solutions
MC – Gary Holden, CEO of Enmax
$20 – Coffee reception to follow
Tickets available at: Sunnyside Market, MEC, online at http://www.cambridgestrategies.com/, and at the door (100% Calgary Dollars accepted at Sunnyside Market in Kensington, and at the door).
Hunter Lovins
- Time Magazine’s Hero of the Planet in 2000
- Renowned 30 year consulting veteran and expert on energy efficiency and renewable power
- Newsweek Magazine’s Green Business Icon in 2009
- President, Natural Capitalism Solutions, and a founding Professor at Presidio Graduate School
- Co-author of 9 books including Natural Capitalism, & the e-book Climate Protection Manual for Cities
