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Posted October 7th, 2011 by Tonya Lailey
”harvest of the hills dinner”
a convivial evening shared in the spirit of slow food
WHEN: Saturday October 22nd, 2011
Cocktails: 5:30 pm Dinner to follow
WHERE:: Taste of Heaven Café, Claresholm
148 – 49th Avenue West
Come experience and savour the “terroir” of the hills in a five-course meal created and presented by a “heavenly” gang.
Toast the harvest season with three complementary wine tastings from Birds & Bees Organic Winery in Brosseau, AB.
COST: $39.95 per person
TICKETS: Available at Taste of Heaven Café
403-625-5488
For further information call Jackie @ 403-625 -5270
Posted October 3rd, 2011 by Tonya Lailey
Thank you to Rouge Restaurant, participating chefs, beverage producers, volunteers and guests who gathered to celebrate the diversity and richness of our local food and food culture at Slow Food Calgary’s 11th Annual Feast of Fields!
Posted October 3rd, 2011 by Tonya Lailey
Meet us at the Calgary Zoo
Sunday October 30, 2011
10:00-2:30
Our Annual General Meeting is in Calgary this year! Come out and meet our board of directors, staff, and local members.
At 10:00 visit the Atrium in the Karsten Discovery Centre, to view tables set up by local gardening groups and seed companies. Bring seeds to put in the seed exchange! At 10:30 Jeffrey Casey, from Casey’s Heirloom Tomatoes, will lead you in a Seed Saving Workshop. Then you can visit the exhibits, return to the seed exchange to pick up seeds, and enjoy lunch at the Kitamba Café.
At 1:00 see speaker Bob Wildfong, executive director of Seeds of Diversity, mix science and storytelling to reveal the secret lives of seeds, plants, and pollinators in the garden. Our annual AGM follows at 2-2:30 pm. All lectures take place in the Esso Auditorium of the Karsten Centre.
Everyone is welcome, members and non-members alike. Current members receive free admission for the lecture and entrance to the Zoo. Members pay only $5 for the morning workshop (pay at the zoo gate). All others are invited to attend the workshop, exhibits, and lecture – including entrance to the Zoo and Botanical Gardens – for only $25. So if you join us as a member before Oct. 23, you can get free admission to the zoo. Pay $40 at http://www.seeds.ca/mbr/member.php, put a note to us that you want to attend the AGM so that we have your name at the zoo gate, and you’ll only pay $5 for the workshop!
Email office@seeds.ca or call 1-866-509-7333 to register, before Oct. 23 or fill out membership form as above.
Directions: The Karsten Discovery Center is at the north end of the Zoo, the first building on the right hand side as you exit the tunnel. To get to the café (Kitamba) walk across the bridge, then turn right, and Kitamba is the first building on the right hand side. The café has Starbucks coffee, cold lunches (sandwiches, salads), hot lunches (burgers, hotdogs, fish and chips, soup, and lunch specials), snacks, and desserts.
Posted September 27th, 2011 by Tonya Lailey
WHEN: Thursday, October 13th, 2011 - Doors open 6:45 pm; Session begins at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Westside Community Church, 480 McMaster Blvd. West, Lethbridge
Admission: Healthy “tapas”/snack to share
Beverages will be provided
All are welcome!
What is Slow Food?
In a nutshell, Slow Food is a worldwide volunteer driven/not for profit organization that seeks to promote good, clean and fair food production systems. It also seeks to position food, culinary traditions and mealtime as important features of any culture’s identity. Slow Food views dinner with family and friends as a time for communicating and sharing important values as well as enjoying conviviality, the sensory pleasure that can be derived from great tasting food, and the appreciation of a food’s production. The movement began in Italy and quickly spread throughout the world.
The following is from the official Slow Food International website:
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment. A non-profit member-supported association, Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 100,000 members joined in 1,300 convivia – our local chapters – worldwide, as well as a network of 2,000 food communities who practice small-scale and sustainable production of quality foods. For more information visit www.slowfood.com
When You Support Slow Food Southern Alberta, You Are:
Sharing the message about our good, clean, fair local food and helping people discover and savour the flavour of our local bounty and terroir; Advocating for the sharing of food production know-how, culinary knowledge and the benefits of local products throughout our region and beyond; Supporting international and Canadian projects aimed at the protection of food biodiversity (i.e. heirloom varieties); Encouraging public debate and discussion of environmental themes, particularly as they relate to the production of food; Ensuring the preservation of local culinary traditions; Advocating for a food production system, which has exceptional taste, quality, fair pricing, and sustainable farming practices as top priorities.
How To Join?
Membership can be applied for through Slow Food Southern Alberta Convivium or the head office in Italy. When you join, you will receive regular emails from Slow Food International and other information from Slow Food Southern Alberta about events and happenings in the region and discounts on Slow Food events. Be part of a growing group of like-minded folks and use the power of networking to get the message out about the importance of supporting good, clean, fair local food. Membership in any Slow Food Convivium entitles members to attend Slow Food events held anywhere in the world! However, by joining your local Convivium, you ensure most of your membership money stays in our community.
Jacqueline L. Chalmers Harvest of the Hills, October 22nd, 2011 in Claresholm New Oxley Garlic Naturally! www.claresholm.openroads.ca/new-oxley
Box 3226, Claresholm, Ab. T0L 0T0 403.625.5270
Slow Food Southern Alberta Convivium, President
Slow Food Delegate,Terra Madre 2010,Turin, Italy
Posted September 20th, 2011 by Tonya Lailey
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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