Earth Hour at York U!
By admin | March 10th, 2010 | Events, Feature, IRIS News
Earth Hour at York U
Please join us at York U as we celebrate Earth Hour 2010 at York U! IRIS and ECO are launching the first annual Earth Hour Symposium March 24th.
Event Schedule – March 24th
305 York Lanes
| Noon-1 pm | Environmental Discounting: James MacLellan |
| 1-2 pm | Post-COP15 Debrief: Ellie Perkins & Jacqueline Medalye |
519 York Research Tower (same as new Archives building)
| 3-4 pm | Climate Change & Sustainability at York U: IRIS Waste Survey Results & YorkWISE: Energy Projects |
| 4-5:30 pm | Brainstorm on Campus Sustainability: ALL STUDENTS & FACULTY WELCOME! |
| 5:30-6:30 pm | Lantern Making |
| 6:30-8 pm | De-Lighting Ceremony & Parade |
Registration
No registration required, however, we’d love to know you are coming, and you can RSVP on our Earth Hour at York U Facebook event page.
Poster
Growing Art: Rooted in Communities (March 6)
By granaz | March 5th, 2010 | Events
Please join us on Saturday, 11 – 3, at the Wychwood Barns for a wonderful array of food and art activities – being organized by my community arts class in collaboration with The Stop Community Food Centre and arts organizations at the Barns. See attached poster.
Art and Food Take Root at Wychwood Barns
Market to Host Artistic Interventions for Food and Social Justice
Toronto, March 2010 – On March 6, the Saturday market at Wychwood Barns will be bustling even more than usual. York University students are teaming up with local groups to host community-building, artistic activities for a neighborhood that brims with creative energy.
As part of York University’s 16th annual Eco Art and Media Festival, the planned agenda community event includes: drumming, story-telling, dance performance, music, art making, seed exchange, and recipe swaps. W and with participating groups such as the York’s Community Arts Practice program, , Eco Arts and Media Festival, The Stop Community Food Centre, Association for Native Development in Performing and Visual Arts, and the Latin American Canadian Arts Project, the event is sure to appeal to a variety of tastes and interests.
City Seminar “From Urban Social Polarization to Civic Succession?” (March 5)
By granaz | March 1st, 2010 | Events
The City Institute at York University (CITY) presents:
The City Seminar
An interdisciplinary series of presentations and discussions on urban landscapes, past and present.
Alan Walks
Department of Geography, Program in Planning
University of Toronto
“From Urban Social Polarization to Civic Succession?
Gated Communities, Discourses of Privatism, and the Ascendance of Neoliberalism”
Alan Walks is associate professor of urban geography and planning at the University of Toronto. His research is primarily
concerned with understanding the causes and consequences of urban social and political polarization, and the importance of
place in the construction and reproduction of ideology and inequality. He has published research on the relationship between
urban economic restructuring and socio-spatial inequality; neighbourhood/place effects on electoral behaviour and social and
political attitudes; gentrification and social mix; and the social and political implications of the privatization of space and
gated communities. His new research projects explore the politics of automobility in Canada and the implications for citizenship, and the implications of the current recession and of government responses for growing urban socio-spatial inequality.
