Welcome to our Community Billboard featuring news about upcoming events and topics of interest from our non-profit member organizations.
If your organization has news you'd like to share with ACU members, please send your submission to communitybillboard@assiniboine.mb.ca and we'll post your information here. If you want to post news about an upcoming event, please be sure to send your submission at least two weeks prior to the event date. Please also note that we reserve to right to accept or reject submissions and to edit them if necessary. ACU is pleased to support the following upcoming events . . .
• Drive FORE the Stars Golf Tournament Fundraiser (Sep 2)• Sherbrook Street Festival (Sep 11)• Green Lifestyle and Organic Living Show (Sep 11-12)• Ciclovia (Sep 12)• Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival (Sep 19-26)• LITE "Shop Outside the Box" Ethical Purchasing Expo (Sep 24)• Community Legal Education Assn 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner (Sep 24)• FemFest 2010 (Sep 25 - Oct 2)• Excellence in Aboriginal Business Leadership Award Dinner (Oct 7)• LITE's 14th Annual Wild Blueberry Pancake Breakfast (Nov 26)• Management of Cooperatives course at U of Winnipeg (Jan-Apr, 2011)
Drive FORE the Stars Golf Tournament FundraiserThursday, September 2, 2010
Location: Larter's in St. Andrews
In support of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Junior Achievement of Manitoba, the 3rd Annual Drive FORE the Stars Golf Tournament takes place Thursday, September 2nd at Larter’s in St. Andrews.
For more information and registering your team, check the registration form and contact Lisa Cefali at (1.204) 956.6082.
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Sherbrook Street FestivalSaturday, September 11, 2010
Location: Sherbrook St between Wolseley and Westminster
Come celebrate the West Broadway Community at this free event. The festival closes Sherbrook between Wolseley and Westminster, and each year the festival sets up a main stage and a kid's stage with all day and evening entertainment, plus tons of activities, vendors, bouncy castle, artisans and live music.
Green Lifestyle and Organic Living ShowSeptember 11-12, 2010
Location: Winnipeg Convention Centre, 375 York Ave
Living Green simply means being informed about what you eat, wear, drive and buy and how those choices affect the earth and your health. Enjoy this fun, fashionable and family oriented event and discover information, products, services and resources from a local and national experts ready to help you live a healthy, delicious and eco friendly lifestyle.
Tickets: Adults $10. Seniors and kids 12 and under get in free. Admission includes 2 days of yoga & fitness classes. Tickets available at the door or through Ticketmaster by calling (1.204) 780.3333, or visit www.ticketmaster.ca.
For more information, visit the Green Lifestyle and Organic Living website or phone (1.204) 415.3976.
CicloviaSunday, September 12, 2010
Location: Broadway between Main and Osborne
Ciclovia is a free event celebrating active transportation. The event will feature street closures for people to walk, cycle, or run down car-free streets with extensive programming, concerts, vendors and more. The entire north side of Broadway will be closed to motorized vehicles from Main to Osborne connecting Assiniboine Park to The Forks with car-free streets. Natural Cycle has announced they will build a Ciclovia custom cruiser bike to be given away to one lucky Ciclovia fan at Ciclovia 2010.
For more information, see the Ciclovia pages on the Downtown Winnipeg Biz website.
Ciclovia, meaning “bike way,” began in Bogotá, Colombia, where every Sunday major roads are blocked off and millions of people fill them running, walking, biking while enjoying free outdoor fitness classes like yoga and aerobics. The inaugural event for Winnipeg was held in 2009 - the first of its kind in Canada.
Thin Air: The Winnipeg International Writers FestivalSeptember 19 to 26, 2010
In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.
Programming spills over into the off-season as well, showcasing special writers and performances at Winnipeg venues throughout the year.
Thin Air, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, is a registered charitable, not-for-profit organization. Since 1997 it has hosted over 700 critically-acclaimed local, national and international authors.
For more (and upcoming) information, go to http://www.thinairwinnipeg.ca/
LITE "Shop Outside the Box" Ethical Purchasing ExpoFriday, September 24, 2010
Time: 8am - 3pmLocation: Manitoba Hydro Building Lobby, 371 Portage Ave
LITE (Local Investment Toward Employment) is hosting "Shop Outside the Box", an ethical purchasing expo bringing together a variety of retailers and service providers who support worker and community ownership, fair trade principles, environmental sustainability, local employment, organic products and locally produced goods.
These retailers and service providers will display, sell and have samples of their products. Stop by to browse, sample, shop and learn how you can make a difference with your dollar!
For more information, see the LITE website at www.lite.mb.ca
Local Investment Toward Employment (LITE) is a non-profit granting organization that supports community economic development (CED) initiatives that build capacity and provide jobs in Winnipeg's inner city.
Community Legal Education Assn 25th Anniversary Gala DinnerFriday, September 24, 2010
Location: Ramada Marlborough, 331 Smith StTime: 6:30pm
The Community Legal Education Association will be holding a special 25th year anniversary dinner in support of the work of the association. You are invited to join in the celebration. Julian N. Falconer will be the keynote speaker at the dinner. Julian is a well-known Toronto lawyer, a large component of whose work involves advocacy in human rights and public interest litigation - for example his representation of Maher Arar.
Tickets: $75. For more information or to purchase tickets please contact the Community Legal Education Association at (1.204) 943.2382, or email info@communitylegal.mb.ca
The Community Legal Education Association (CLEA) of Manitoba is a not-for-profit organization that provides public legal education and information programs to Manitobans. The association believes that legal knowledge is a prerequisite to full and equal participation in our society. The purpose of CLEA is to educate the general public with respect to the legal system, with the betterment of Manitobans as its ultimate goal, and to increase the ability of individuals (primarily those perceived to have the greatest need) to deal competently with legal issues.
FemFest 2010: On the EdgeSeptember 25 to October 2, 2010
Location: Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film, 400 Colony St. (U of Wpg)
FemFest is a national festival celebrating women theatre artists. Sarasvàti Productions and FemFest have at their core ‘transformative theatre’ and are often viewed by the community as socially conscious theatre. Theatre is used as a medium to initiate discourse on issues of relevance to the community, in particular disenfranchised sectors of the community.
Brochure with schedule of plays and events.
Tickets: Single shows $10, Platinum Pass (3 shows) $25, Festival Pass $50, Skill Development Workshops $5-15. For tickets and information, call 204.586.2236 or check the website at www.femfest.ca.
Sarasvàti Productions is a Winnipeg-based independent theatre company dedicated to using theatre to promote human understanding. They produce FemFest, as well as a wide range of plays, community tours, workshops of new creations, and projects that support emerging artists. FemFest started as a small, grassroots festival to showcase women playwrights and quickly grew into a 10-day festival featuring female theatre artists from Winnipeg, Canada and the world. It has been running since 2003.
Excellence in Aboriginal Business Leadership Award DinnerThursday, Octber 7, 2010
Location: Hotel Fort Garry, 222 BroadwayTime: 6-9pm
Support students in the Asper Aboriginal Business Education Partners program by attending this gala dinner that also announces this year's awards for excellence in Aboriginal business.
The award was established by the Aboriginal Business Education Partners (ABEP) at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business in 2005 to honour an individual that has exemplified leadership within the context of Aboriginal Business. Nominees are named each year with the winner announced at the dinner.
The Excellence in Aboriginal Business Leadership Award dinner is one of Manitoba’s most prestigious events for honouring excellence in Aboriginal business leadership. Since establishing the award, over 20 nominees and 4 winners have been recognized and honoured. To date, almost $100,000 has been raised with proceeds going to support students in the Asper Aboriginal Business Education Partners program. The program now boasts over 50 graduates! The stories behind the success of these community business leaders motivate and inspire the students to pursue work within many sectors or even establish their own businesses. Graduates are employed in many capacities, such as finance, human resources, marketing and business development. Their contribution to the communities where they live is immense.
Tickets: $150 or corporate tables for $2,000. For more information or to purchase individual tickets or corporate tables, check the website.
LITE's 14th Annual Wild Blueberry Pancake BreakfastFriday, November 26, 2010
Time: 7am to 10am (come and go) Location: Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, 45 Robinson St. (at Dufferin)
Come out for LITE’s annual Wild Blueberry Pancake breakfast! You won’t want to miss the biggest celebration of community work in Manitoba!
The Breakfast will feature delicious, healthy pancakes and muffins catered by LITE’s inner city partners, a local craft sale, and entertainment.
The community partner-catered breakfast is a celebration of Community Economic Development in Winnipeg’s inner city, and is a highlight of the LITE campaign.
Local musicians, artists, and craftspeople (Arts & Crafts Sale) all earn income through the breakfast along with our caterer partners. A local Aboriginal worker’s co-op, Neechi Foods, is the grocer for the breakfast.
The Breakfast is also a fundraiser for LITE’s Alternative Christmas Hamper Campaign, which promotes long-term solutions to poverty by buying Christmas hampers from inner city grocery and catering businesses neglected by the usual hamper campaigns. LITE Hampers are “The gift that gives twice!”
Apart from raising funds for LITE's fall campaign, this event brings together supporters and newcomers to LITE, while promoting and demonstrating CED in action. The Breakfast attracts up to 1000 people, including community members, business leaders, civil servants, students, community workers, MLAs and the Premier – all in support of LITE.
Tickets: $12, $5 for low-income, children under 12 free. Available at all ACU branches starting November 1, the LITE office at 571 Selkirk Avenue (942.8578), and at the door at the Breakfast. For more information, go to www.lite.mb.ca.
To volunteer: Please call LITE at (1.204) 942.8578 or contact them by e-mail.
Management of Cooperatives course at U of WinnipegWinter Session, 2011
Location: University of WinnipegTimes: Mondays, 6 to 9pm
The Manitoba Cooperatives Association (MCA) has been working with the University of Winnipeg to help develop a new course for the faculty of business and administration. The course, beginning in January, 2011, is called Management of Cooperatives. This is the first and only course of its kind in Canada - an undergrad course that teaches students about the unique challenges involved in managing a co-op business (rather than a privately/investor owned business). Both MCA and U of W are hoping that the course will appeal not only to students within the university, but to people from the co-op community who want to improve their management skills. The course will be taught by Monica Adeler.
Check the brochure for more information about the content and format of the course.
People who are not currently attending the university can register for only this course as mature students, or can apply to audit the course. Anyone who is interested should contact U of W Admissions at 204.786.9159, or check the U of W Admissions page.
