Mobilizing for change: Lessons from the frontlines
Al Green Theatre
750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Canada, CA
Canada
43.6664930026702
-79.4041090117211
Description
Online ticket sales are done - please come at 7pm and get your tickets at the door! We take cash and card.Poverty. Health. Environment. Human rights. How do we tackle the complex issues that define our time? In the food movement's work to create a healthy and fair food system, what lessons can we learn from fellow activists? Join Community Food Centres Canada for our exciting event to hear how transformative change is happening across different social movements. Leading voices in food security, social justice, environment, youth, and politics will take centre stage for a series of short and impassioned talks. Each of our four presenters will dive into an honest examination of how they are achieving change on the ground. Our questions to them: What sparked change? How did you take action? And what did success look like?We'll follow with a spirited panel discussion led by Nick Saul, CEO of Community Food Centres Canada, where we'll dig into the lessons food and social justice advocates can take back to inspire their work.Featured panelists:Joanna Kerr is the Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada, which captures people’s imaginations and influences decision-makers to protect the environment through non-violent creative confrontation. A lifelong feminist and activist, Joanna previously served as the first female Chief Executive of ActionAid International, a global federation based in South Africa working in 45 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice. There, she led an organization-wide strategy that put climate resilient sustainable agriculture and women’s rights at the core of its work. Beatriz Beckford is the Director of Grassroots Action Network (GAN) at Why Hunger in New York City. Beatriz works with GAN partners to lift up the leadership of historically marginalized communities and to build power and capacity for grassroots groups to organize effectively, developing strategies rooted in the collective wisdom of communities. Celeste Licorish is a single mom with multiple passions – especially making Hamilton a better place for those struggling with poverty. Her diverse background includes public relations, marketing and carpentry but she has found her calling in creating and co-ordinating Speak Now Hamilton Speakers Bureau for the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.Jessica Bolduc is the Executive Director of the 4Rs Youth Movement. 4Rs is a collaboration of fourteen national organizations who are working with youth to create capacities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people to come together. This cultivates understanding and action in support of a type of reconciliation that is relevant to young people. Jessica is an Anishinaabe-French young woman living in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, and is a member of Batchewana First Nation. In her community, Jessica is working with other young leaders to foster arts-based economies, social infrastructure and hub spaces for change makers in Northern Ontario.Moderator:Nick Saul is President and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada, a national organization that builds vibrant, food-focused community centres in low-income neighbourhoods. All of the programs and services at these centres are based on the idea that good food is a powerful force for greater health, equity, and social change. A long-time community organizer, Nick speaks regularly on issues of justice and the Community Food Centre model of food access, health, and community building. This event kicks off CFCC's 2nd annual Food Summit — a two day event for CFCC's partner Community Food Centres and allied Good Food Organizations. While the Food Summit is a closed event, we hope you'll join us for this exciting public panel.
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Start:
2016-04-01T19:30:00-04:00
End:
2016-04-01T21:00:00-04:00
Category
Food & Drink
Tickets
General Admission
11.09
CAD
175
