Summer School on Building Community


June 16 - 27, 2009

Langara College, 100 West 49 Avenue, Vancouver

Join us for an evening, a day, or for several days at the 2009 Summer School on Building Community. This is a true festival of learning: workshops, presentations, tours, dialogues, and films provide an array of opportunities to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the critical social and environmental issues of our day and to inspire you to take action. Activists also need to take care of themselves: check out our sessions on self-care and others that increase your effectiveness in your work and life.


Who Should Attend? Anyone who wants to build healthy, sustainable communities: community members, activists and those involved with nonprofits, unions, youth, aboriginal groups, government and busines

Workshops, Presentations, Tours, Dialogues, Films

Cultivating Food, Cultivating Neighbourhoods

Mad City Chickens: Coming to a Backyard Near You! (Film and discussion led by Heather Havens), Thursday, June 18, 7:30 – 9:30 pm By donation (60784)

Neighbourhood Food Networking (Ross Moster), Sunday, June 21, 1 – 3 pm No charge (60779)

Backyard Chickens 101 (Heather Havens), Monday, June 22, 7:30-9:30 pm By Donation (60785)

How to Create a Village in a City (Ross Moster), Thursday, June 25, 7:30 – 9:30 pm By Donation (60780)

Fork in the Road: Cultivating Food and Community in Local Neighbourhoods (Adam Ward), Friday, June 26, 6:30 – 9:30 pm and Saturday, June 27, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. $50 (60771)

Transition to Sustainability

Green Skins – Green Roofs, Green Facades and Green Streets Research in Vancouver (Daniel Roehr), Wednesday, June 17, 3:30 – 5 pm By Donation (60774)

Training for Transition: from fossil fuel dependence to resilience (Michelle Colussi and Bill Aal), Friday-Saturday, June 19-20, 9 am – 5 pm $195 (60770)

A Virtual Visit of Urban Sustainability in Europe (Emmanuel Prinet), Tuesday, June 23, 7:30 – 9 pm By donation (60782)

Overshoot: Human Enterprise and Natural Law (Rex Wyler) Wednesday, June 24, Noon – 1:30 pm By donation (60791)


The Art of Building Community

Embracing Creativity: How to Rediscover Your Creative DNA (Dolly Hopkins & Lee-Anne Ragan), Thursday, June 18, 10 am – 5 pm. $125 (60757)

Beauty in Destruction: Environmental Art Practice in Stanley Park (Beth Carruthers, Alicia Horner, Stanley Park Ecology Society volunteers) Friday, June 19, 9:30 am – 5 pm Meet at Stanley Park Dining Pavillion, 2nd Floor. Bring your lunch. No charge (60778)

Sacred Circle Dance (led by New England dance teacher, Ashara Stansfield). Friday, June 19, 7:30 – 9:30 pm. Unitarian Centre, 949 West 49 Avenue. By donation (60795)

Facilitating a Creative, Sustainable Community – Art, people and the environment (Carmen Rosen, Sharon Kallis)Tuesday, June 23, 6:30 – 9 pm. Meet at Renfrew Community Centre. No charge (60772)
Social Action

Help Slay the Waste Incinerators! (Presented by Zero Waste Vancouver, Douw Steyn & Monica Kosmak), Wednesday, June 17, 7:30 – 9:30 pm, SPEC House, 2150 Maple Street. No charge (60783)

Effective Social Change through Nonviolent Communication (Raj Gill & Leslie Kemp), Tuesday, June 23, 9 am – 4 pm $100 (60781)

Taking a Stand: A Walking Tour of the Little Mountain Housing Community (Ingrid Steenhuisen), 3 tours (By donation)
Saturday, June 20, 3 – 5 pm (60792)
Sunday, June 21, 3 – 5 pm (60793)
Tuesday, June 23, 3 – 5 pm (60794)

Self-Care

Introduction to Nonviolent Communication (Raj Gill), Tuesday, June 16, 9 am – 4 pm $100 (60775)

Beyond the Bubble Bath: Self Care Beginning with “No” (Shayna Hornstein), Wednesday, June 17, 9 am – 1 pm $75 (60776)

Too Much to Do & Not Enough of You: Strengthening our Boundaries (Shayna Hornstein), Thursday, June 25, 9 am – 1 pm $75 (60777)

Register by phone: 604-323-5322
For further information contact: Leslie Kemp at 604-323-5981

lkemp@langara.bc.ca

www.langara.bc.ca

Co-sponsored by

Langara College Continuing Studies in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Village Vancouver and Zero Waste Vancouver