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Community, Events, Global, Local, Political Action, Slow Food Calgary
CALGARY EATS! Help to create a sustainable and resilient food system for the Calgary region…
The Calgary Food Committee is developing a Food System Assessment for Calgary that will examine the range of food issues and assets and identify actions to help move us forward to a more sustainable food system….and we want you to be involved!
We are holding a public event on Saturday January 28th at the Ant Hill Building in Kensington. This event will showcase the many businesses, organizations and individuals who are working in, or connected to, the food system in the Calgary region. This will provide an incredible opportunity to connect with one another and share in the opportunities and actions that people are taking to build a more resilient and sustainable food system for our city. Oh, and we all get to eat some great food!
WHEN: Saturday January 28th from 10 am to 4 pm
WHERE: The Ant Hill Building in Kensington: 148-10th St. NW
GET INVOLVED. Follow these links for event details and to download a vendor application form:
POSTER Open House Jan 28th 2012
Vendor Application Form
Global, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Calling all Cooks…
Calling all cooks – the City Palate Culinary Travel Grant helps cooks get where they want to go, i.e. go to Terra Madre in Oct 2012. For info and how to apply: click here
Events, Global, Political Action
JOEL SALATIN “The Most Influential Farmer in America” IS COMING TO TOWN
Calgary, AB – December 19, 2011 ~ Joel Salatin, the man that TIME magazine called ”the world’s most innovative farmer” is coming to Calgary and the Kingsland Farmers’ Market on March 21 & 22, 2012. Salatin is known and respected worldwide for his family’s innovative and effective farming techniques that allow them to produce ‘beyond organic’ produce effectively, in a way which regenerates their farmland while making them a profitable livelihood.
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Kingsland Farmers’ Market is hosting Joel Salatin’s workshop on how to make your small farm more ethical, profitable, and deeply integrated with your local community. This workshop is an important one for anyone involved in local food, sustainability or agriculture to attend. A second, shorter workshop will be offered the following day.
Joel Salatin is a third generation organic farmer and author whose family owns and operates Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces what Joel calls ‘salad bar beef’, ‘pigaerator pork’, pastured poultry and forage-based rabbits. The Polyface farm operated by the Salatin family direct markets to 4,000 families, 40 restaurants, and 10 retail outlets.
A prolific author, Salatin’s eight books to date include both how-to and big picture themes. The farm features prominently in Michael Pollan’s New York Times best-seller The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the award-winning documentary Food, Inc.
Tickets for these events go on sale January 14, 2012 and are available by calling 403-255-3276 or @: www.kingslandfarmersmarket.com
Community, Global, Local, Slow Food Calgary
The fastest, most condensed elucidation of Slow Food you’ll ever get…
Calgary Arts Development hosted a Pecha Kucha night on November 23rd and invited Slow Food Calgary to participate.
What’s Pecha Kucha? [from Wikipedia: Pecha Kucha (Japanese for chit chat) events consist of around a dozen presentations, each presenter having 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds on a timer. Thus, each presenter has just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explain their ideas before the next takes the stage. Conceived as a venue through which young designers could meet, show their work, exchange ideas, and network, the format keeps presentations concise and fast-paced. ]
Slow Food Calgary President Kris Vester stepped up to the plate to speak for Slow Food.
He swung hard – and fast.
See video of Kris’ presentation - Slow Food, Pecha Kucha style!
Community, Events, Global, Local, Political Action, Slow Food Calgary
Slow Food Calgary and Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association invite YOU to Celebrate Terra Madre Day on December 10th
What: “The Pleasure and Politics of Food”. – a potluck-fueled evening of good, clean and fair local food and dialogue to mark international Terre Madre day and to engage the public on matters of local food systems…
When: Saturday, December 10th. 5:00 – 9:00 PM. (dinner at 6:00)
Where: The Hearthroom at Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Centre, 1320, 5th Ave. N.W.
Why: To eat and discuss in solidarity with thousands of other eaters and producers around the world who are holding similar events on international Terre Madre Day. To further the cause of good, clean and fair food within the local context by engaging in facilitated discussions on the subject of food in general.
Who: Slow Food Calgary (SFC )and Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association (HSCA) are sponsoring partners in this event. All interested members of the public are welcome to participate and there is no cost to attend. Attendees are asked to bring prepared food, using as much local content as possible, sufficient to feed themselves plus one. Registration is encouraged, as there is limited space in the venue. Only those who register will be guaranteed a seat at a table. We are inviting cash donations at this event and all funds collected will be used to support the Calgary Food Bank. Suggested donation is $10 per person.
Community, Events, Global, Local, Slow Food Calgary
December 10th is Terra Madre Day…How will you celebrate?
Local food is our future, and celebrating these foods and their producers – in daily life and through special events – is the best way to protect them.
This is the spirit in which the global Slow Food network approaches Terra Madre Day on December 10 each year – a day to promote food that is good, clean and fair and to acknowledge the importance of the regions, cultures and communities working to protect and promote such food.
Everyone is invited – Slow Food convivia, the Terra Madre network and supporting organizations and friends – to celebrate with an event in your community. If you can, please also use this day to raise support for Slow Food’s biggest project in 2011, A Thousand Gardens in Africa .
Last year Terra Madre Day traveled across 120 countries, from a wild food festival in the green forests of Java, Indonesia to traditional cooking workshops in Palestinian villages, to a solar-cooker banquet in central Costa Rica and an Eat-In at Kings Cross, London. But the best place to be on December 10 will be with your own community, participating in an event as simple or complex, as big or small as you wish.
To help cook up your own fun celebration, visit the Terra Madre Day website and download the Information for Organizers guide. Remember to check the online Organizers’ Kit where you will find the logo and other graphics that you can use in your local promotions. Register your event on the Slow Food International website prior to November 10 and we will send you a Terra Madre Day flag.
Community, Events, Global, Political Action
VANDANA SHIVA presents “THE FUTURE OF FOOD” on Sept 23
The 2011 Calgary Peace Prize recipient, Dr Vandana Shiva will be presenting an exhilarating talk on “The Future of Food” at the River Cafe on Princes Island Park, Calgary on Friday September 23rd, 6:30pm. This event is a Meet & Greet reception over food & drinks for passionate Calgarians interested to meet & exchange ideas with Dr Shiva on food policy, peace activism, international development & environment. During this event Oxfam Canada will be also be presenting their new campaign called GROW, which focuses on food justice and women’s rights. Vandana Shiva books will be on sale at this event. For details and tickets ($60) to this event, click here .
VANDANA SHIVA receives 2011 CALGARY PEACE PRIZE & presents “MAKING PEACE WITH THE EARTH” on Sept 24
Please join on us Saturday, September 24th 2011 at the Red & White Club as Alderman Gian-Carlo Carra & Chancellor Emeritus Joanne Cuthbertson present the 2011 Calgary Peace Prize to Dr Vandana Shiva, philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author of several books. Her acceptance speech is titled “Making Peace with the Earth”. During this event, organizations and businesses that are involved in peace, social justice, environment, development, women’s issues, food policy advocacy and natural health will be presenting and selling their products. Vandana Shiva books will be on sale at this event. Tickets are $12. This is a public event – all welcome. For tickets, click here .
If you would like to be a sponsor/ have a booth in this event or share a booth with other organizations, please click here. Consortium for Peace Studies would like to thank the following organizations and people for supporting/ sponsoring the Calgary Peace Prize 2011:
Oxfam Canada, Calgary Food Policy, Alberta Food Policy, Slow Food Calgary, Calgary Seedy Saturday, Hugo Bonjean – Author, Community Natural Foods, Planet Organic, Ten Thousand Villages, The Zeitgeist Society of Calgary, The Arusha Centre, River Café, Project Ploughshares, Initiatives of Change, Bullfrog Energy, Sheldon Chumir Foundation, David Swann (Liberal Party), Vogel and Company (lawyers), EPCOR Centre, Green Calgary, Indian Canada Association of Calgary, Shastri Indo Canada Institute, Judy MacLauchlan of UC Senate, Faculty of Social Work at UC, Faculty of Environmental Design at UC, Faculty of Nursing at UC, Social Work Student Association at UC, Political Science Students at UC, Eco Club at UC, U of C Student Union
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Global, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Imagine…Fresh fish at your door…
Belonging to a CSF – Community Supported Fishery – can give you a direct line to Wild BC Salmon. The net benefits are good, clean, fair and delicious. And, there’s a CSF open to us city folk in Calgary.
Community, Events, Global
Think Global, Act Rural…the documentary
A documentary by Coline Serreau that explores, “the very concrete local solutions to the global ecological mess”.
WHEN: Wednesday April 20th @ 7:30
WHERE: Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Road NW, Calgary
(403) 283-3636
Click here for information about the film
Proceeds to WATERCAN- A Leading Canada Water Charity for Clean Water Projects
Community, Events, Global, Slow Food Calgary
An Evening with Vandana Shiva
Dr. Vandana Shiva, the world-renowned environmental activist, philosopher, author and winner of the 2011 Calgary Peace Prize (and the woman who gave the opening speech at Slow Food’s 2008 Terra Madre congress) is coming to town. Dr. Shiva is being honoured by the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary, for her commitment to social justice, the empowerment of women in developing countries, her advocacy of the human rights of small farming communities and her scientific analysis of environmental sustainability.
Dr. Shiva will talk about democracy, the global food crisis, gender justice and the environment.
WHEN: March 9th, 7 to 8:30 pm
WHERE: Murray Fraser Hall 162, The University of Calgary
TICKETS: $12 on line, $15 at the door – Advance tickets OR call: 403-220-2136
DETAILS: The lecture will open with classical Indian music (bamboo flute and tabla) played by University of Calgary Electrical Engineering Professor Dr. Raj Rangayyan.
Samosas and chai lattes will be available for purchase during the event.
There will be information booths set up by the event sponsors.
On March 10th, Mayor Naheed Nenshi will present Dr. Vandana Shiva with The Calgary Peace Prize (see Feb. 6 blog posting). The presentation will be a part of a gala dinner at The Calgary Golf and Country Club.
About Vandana Shiva:
Time Magazine called Dr. Shiva an environmental hero in 2003 and Asia Week called her one of the five most powerful communicators in Asia. Dr. Shiva pioneered the organic movement in India and established Navdanya, the country’s biggest network of seed keepers and organic producers. She is the author of: Soil Not Oil, Earth Democracy, Stolen Harvest, Staying Alive, Water Wars and Biopiracy.
Dr. Shiva’s work has earned these distinctions: The Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, 1993), Order of the Golden Ark, Global 500 Award of UN and Earth Day International Award, Lennon ONO grant for peace award by Yoko Ono, Yo Dona Award by Yo Dona Magazine, Spain and Sydney Peace Prize 2010.