November 2013 Calendar of Events


November 2013 Calendar of Events

VILLAGE VANCOUVER CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Village Vancouver and members of the Village Vancouver  community organize dozens of events, including workshops, potlucks, discussion circles, film screenings, work parties and more every month! Find out what’s happening in your neighbourhood – take a look at our complete Events Calendar online. Or why not organize an event of your own? Be it a simple social gathering in your neighbourhood or a workshop in which you share your knowledge and skills with others, Transition is driven by people taking the initiative to do something.

VILLAGE VANCOUVER EVENTS


November 7, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm – St. Mark's


Village Vancouver, the Drop in Spaghetti Night Team and Kitsilano Neighbourhood House are collaborating to bring you a celebration of the wildly delicious DISNs!

This month's Kits House Potluck celebrates a series of several locally-sourced and locally prepared neighbourhood dinners hosted by Kits Villagers and supported by a Vancouver Foundation Neighbourhood Small Grant. Each of these meals has brought or will bring neighbours together to share a meal cooked on one stove, reducing transportation and energy consumption, with one of the goals being to introduce neighbours to one another.

Hosts have been encouraged to prepare their meals using locally-sourced ingredients (e.g., 100-Mile Diet) - for example from the Kits Village Collaborative Garden and the Westside Community Food Market and to track the origin of all of their ingredients.  We will be reporting on the results of these Drop-In 'Spaghetti' Nights and encourage all who hosted or participated in a DISN to share their experiences as well.

We invite you to bring a dish featuring local ingredients to share at this month's potluck.  Local chef Russell Cameron will once again be providing his fabulous soup and bread.



Please RSVP here or to Ross at ross@villagevancouver.ca.

Upcoming "Spaghetti" nights:Monday Nov 4 near York and Cornwall, hosted by Robyn and Nick
Saturday Nov 16 near 13th and Cypress, hosted by Bina and John
Friday Nov 22 near Cornwall and Laburnum, hosted by Ross and Laura Lee
Monday Nov 25 near 2nd and Larch, hosted by TivaNov Date TBD  False Creek South, hosted by Jerry...others TBA


Basic Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness


Cultivating resiliency will help us respond more effectively during and after a disaster and provides a path to build a sense of neighbourhood. Village Vancouver has been at the forefront of building community through emergency preparedness. Come and explore some of the tools and approaches they are spearheading.

VV Fall 2013 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series


November 7, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm – Strathcona Community Centre

 Please join us for a series of seven workshops at Strathcona Community Centre. Unless noted, all workshops run from 7-9 pm. Subsidies are available. (Details below)

Thur, Sept 12  Seed Saving and Basic Plant Breeding with Grant Watson. $30
Tues, Sept 24  Balcony and Container Gardening with Grant Watson. $30
Thur, Oct 10  Backyard Chickens 101 with Duncan Martin. $15 or $25/household
Mon, Oct  21  Canning and Preserving  (6:30-9:30 pm) with Caitlin Dorward. $30 (includes supplies)  
Thur, Nov 7  Basic Emergency Preparedness with Ann Pacey. FREE
Tues, Nov 19  Extreme Thrift with Joy Jolie. $10.
Tues, Dec 3  Disconnecting from the Matrix with Joy Jolie. 

 $10Registration/Information: 604.713.1838 or in person at Strahcona Community Centre. Please pre-register in advance.50% Subsidies are available to low income residents of Vancouver with a Leisure Access Card. For details on how to apply, please contact Strathcona CC or visit http://vancouver.ca/parks/rec/lac/index.htm. More details to follow.

Food Scrap Drop Spots



Food Scrap Drop Spots





 Transition Fireside


November 9, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm – Carl's House
We will sing songs and share readings of action, change and resolve. This is a chance to connect and “charge our batteries.” Bring an instrument, song or reading to share or just come to watch and listen! For information and location details please contact David at: (604) 502-8661 or davidanderin@dalley.ca


Kits Village Collaborative Garden Holiday Work Party


November 10, 2013 from 2pm to 5pm – Kits
Join us in harvesting, continuing to put (most of) the garden to bed for the winter and making the grounds look nice for Remembrance Day. New volunteers of all gardening skill levels welcome. Please contact Ross at ross@villagvancouver.ca if you're interested in participating.KV monthly potluck and film night follows at 5:30. Everyone welcome.

Kits Village November Potluck and Film Night


November 10, 2013 from 5:30pm to 9pm – Kits, near beach Bring something yummy to share! Earlier start time this month. (Follows garden work party.) Potluck 5:30-7ish. Film (TBD) follows.


Food Scrap Drop Spots


November 12, 2013 from 6pm to 7:30pm – Gordon Neighbourhood House


November plastic recycling in Kits

November 14, 2013 from 6pm to 7pm – The location will be sent out to those who RSVP
The November plastics recycling collection will take place on Thursday November 14 from 6:00-7:00pm. Please come by and drop off your styrofoam, soft plastics, hard plastics and containers. The address to the drop off spot will be sent out to those who RSVP.

Food Scrap Drop Spots



Food Scrap Drop Spots





VV Seed Library Box Building Day


November 16, 2013 from 10am to 12:30pm – McBride Park Fieldhouse, Kits Join members of Kits, Main Street, and other Village Seed Saving Projects in building and painting several new seed library boxes. 8-10 volunteers needed. No experience necessary - we'll show you how…
RSVP here or to seedprojects@villagevancouver.ca.


Food Scrap Drop Spots





Village Surrey Transition Cabaret


The Village Surrey Transition Initiative presents a “Transition Cabaret” on November 20, 6:00-8:30pm at the Surrey City Centre Library, 10350 University Drive, in the Dr. Ambedkar Room, 4th Floor. The “Transition Cabaret” will celebrate local efforts to move towards a more sustainable, just, healthy, localized and resilient society. The event will feature live music, poetry, and readings from local community members, as well as short video clips that will highlight inspirational projects and ideas from other communities around the world. Light refreshments will be served. Come and get inspired to make change in our community of Surrey! If you have a talent or reading you would like to share at this event, please contact David Dalley as soon as possible at: davidanderin@dalley.ca or (604) 502-8661 . This event is organized by the Village Surrey Transition Initiative and co-sponsored by Surrey Libraries and the Surrey Urban Farmers Market.

Applied Ecological Economics 1001 - 3rd Class


We are back! By popular demand after over 25 people attended our lectures in our inaugural Ecological Economics class in the spring of 2013, Michael Barkusky, Jordan Bober, and Randy Chatterjee are again teaching from Herman Daly's unparalleled textbook. We are starting in September 2013 and running every third Wednesday night from 7 to 9 PM at a downtown Vancouver location, and continuing for "as long as it takes" to spread the teachings of an enlightened economics, where assumptions such as unlimited growth, pollution as a mitigable externality, and free trade face fair and unbiassed scrutiny. More important than critiquing a field that has likely done more damage to the world than any other academic discipline, we will be constructing new economics models for promoting real wealth, positive yields, just distribution, healthy societies, sustainable resource extraction, stable banking and monetary regulation, and truly fair trade. Join us, and change the world. All of it. We encourage all to join at any time, even if an earlier class was missed. Please contact Randy Chatterjee by email to pick up the reading ahead of time so that you will be able to follow the class more effectively. All readings can be emailed.

Seedy Thursday: Workshop & Info Session

November 21, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8pm – Kensington Library

The Cedar Cottage Food Network and the Kensington branch of the Vancouver Public Library are working together to start a community Seed Sharing Library next spring and we need your help!

On November 21st from 6:30-8pm, join us at the Kensington branch (1428 Cedar Cottage Mews) for a seed-saving workshop and public dialogue about the operation of this miniature library. Because this Seed Sharing Library is for you, the community members, your input is important to us! Learn why seed-saving is so vital to our local food systems and how this venture into sharing seeds can diversify our food production. This is also an opportunity to increase literacy in our community, as we all learn together how we can collectively make changes to our food systems. The event is free and open to everyone but registration is required. Do so online (kccseedlibrary.eventbrite.ca) or in person at the library. See you there!

Extreme Thrift


Do you want to downscale your lifestyle, help the environment or save significant amounts of money? Are you looking for ideas and inspiration to become healthier, more resilient and more resourceful? We cover household thrift ideas as well as food, transportation, energy, and entertainment. We invite everyone to bring their own ideas, too!

VV Fall 2013 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series



Food Scrap Drop Spots



Food Scrap Drop Spots


November 23, 2013 from 10am to 12pm – Gordon Neighbourhood House


Kits Village Dinner Group

November 24, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm – Kits
Monthly gathering. This dinner group is full, but if you're interested in participating in a new group in Kits or elsewhere, please contact Ross at ross@villagevancouver.ca.

Kits Village Drop-in "Spaghetti" Night near Cornwall and Larch

November 25, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Kits, near 13th and Maple
Share a free meal with neighbours, prepared by a neighbour. Last year, almost 200 people participated in over a dozen spaghetti nights and at the community-wide celebration.
Our next DISN is on November 25. Open to all, this drop-in  hosted by Tiva is aimed at neighbours living within 2-3 blocks of Cornwall and Larch.
There's room for 12 people. The 9th in a series of 12 plus neighbourhood Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights hosted by different Kits Villagers and other VVers around Kits and the Westside over the next few months, plus the community-wide celebration at St. Marks on November 7th. Hosts will provide the meal and track where the ingredients come from, and we'll collate how local our eating habits are and how spaghetti night are helping connect neighbours at the community gathering.
Much of the food will be grown and sourced locally, including from the Kits Village Collaborative Garden and (previously) from the Thursday Westside Community Food Market. Hosts who want to "grow their own DISN dinner" can obtain free seeds from the KV Seed library, and then can recycle any plastic containers at the monthly Kits Village Plastic Recycling Depots, and compost the food scraps at the KV garden or take them to one of our weekly food scrap drops spots.
By the way, they’re called Drop-in “Spaghetti” nights, because many of the ones we've held in the past have involved serving spaghetti, but they can really involve any foods - for instance, Drop-in Rutabaga Night.
If you live on the Westside and would like to participate or host a DISN, please RSVP here or send your name and cross-streets to Ross at ross@villagevancouver.ca.
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Supported by a Green Neighbourhood Small Grant from the Vancouver Foundation and the City of Vancouver, administered by Kits Neighbourhood House.

Village Vancouver/West End Neighbourhood Food Network Community Potluck

November 26, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – West End Community Centre
Share some good food and conversation with neighbours. Bring something yummy to share and a cup, bowl, spoon, etc. if you're able to, and find out the latest with Village and with the WE Neighbourhood Food Network. Free. Everyone welcome! (You don't have to live in the West End!)
FREE.
For further info: foodwestend@gmail.com or foodwestend.wordpress.com.



Food Scrap Drop Spots





Applied Ecological Economics 2001 - 3rd Class


Anyone who participated in AEE 1001 earlier this year and is interested in deepening their understanding of ecological economics, is welcome to participate in AEE 2001. This will be offered with same once-a-month class meeting format on the fourth Wednesday of the month. We will not be rigid about requiring participation in AEE 1001 as a pre-requisite for participating in AEE 2001, but please note that we will assume participants in AEE 2001 are familiar with the ideas in Daly & Farley's Ecological Economics. A participant with a bit of spare time on his or her hands, could conceivably undertake AEE 1001 and AEE 2001 concurrently, but it would involve a lot of reading. A participant who at some point did at least a year of post-secondary mathematics and at least two years of mainstream economics, and still remembers a bit of what they did in those courses, might be able to participate effectively in AEE 2001 without first participating in AEE 1001. Anyone who wants to jump straight in to AEE 2001 on the basis of having the math and econ background, but who did not do any post-secondary study in any one of physics, chemistry, biology or ecology, would be well-advised, though, to read Parts I and II of Daly & Farley (the first 7 chapters in the first edition) by the time of the November class meeting. To the extent that we have a core text for AEE 2001, it is The Economics of Natural Resource Use, by John Hartwick and Nancy Olewiler. This is a textbook written more in the idiom of (neo-classical) environmental economics than that of ecological economics. It makes greater use of mathematics than Daly & Farley, primarily in the interests of precision and logical rigour, but it is not mathematically formidable at all. It also has a faint EE sensibility. Our course objective will be to develop a commentary and critique of the book, addressing its shortcomings from an EE perspective. Our work on this can then facilitate future more advanced courses in EE, since an obvious EE textbook with which to go on to the next level of depth after Daly & Farley, does not, to my knowledge, exist yet. There will be a number of other references provided, but one in particular, seems worth mentioning immediately. It is Supply Shock, by Brian Czech. Brian earned his Ph.D in Renewable Natural Resource Studies and has worked primarily in the area Conservation Biology, but he demonstrates in Supply Shock a remarkable grasp of economics in general, and of the history of economic thought as it relates to the mysterious disappearance of concern for natural capital in neo-classical microeconomics and mainstream macroeconomics, in particular. Brian is a keynote speaker, by the way at the CANSEE conference in Toronto, in early November. We are hoping to prepare a resource kit of material for AEE 2001 so no one reluctant to buy the Hartwick & Olewiler text out of concern for costs, should feel at a disadvantage. We are also planning to devote the first class to a review of the math we will use (no proofs and no great emphasis on skill in solving mathematically formulated problems - just an outline of the common symbols and constructs, their meaning, and their use in economics), and the second to reviewing conventional microeconomics, and the critique and extensions of it, central to the EE approach. Please contact Michael Barkusky by email if you wish to take this class, and especially if you would like to attend a session without coming to the first or any earlier meeting.

Gaiacraft : Low-cost, flexible Permaculture Design Course

GE Foods and Human Health: speaking tour

November 19, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm – Canadian Memorial United Church



Fizz at the Farm: Fermenting the Harvest


November 20, 2013 from 5:30pm to 8pm – UBC Farm




The 15th Annual Art Studios Winter Sale & Silent Auction


November 21, 2013 from 12pm to 8pm – Heritage Hall




GE Foods and Human Health: speaking tour


November 21, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm – Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, UBC




West Coast Christmas Show


November 22, 2013 at 10am to November 24, 2013 at 5pm – Tradex, Abbotsford




free intro to permaculture activation day


November 23, 2013 from 11am to 5:30pm – Heart Gardens, Roberts Creek, BC




GE Foods and Human Health: speaking tour


November 23, 2013 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm – Unitarian Church of Vancouver




free intro to permaculture activation day

November 24, 2013 from 11am to 5:30pm – Heart Gardens, Roberts Creek, BC




Other Upcoming Events

Disconnecting from the Matrix

December 3, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm – Strathcona Community Centre 

Is the TV the first thing you turn on when you arrive home? Are you checking your email, voicemail and cell phone constantly throughout the day? Are you looking to improve your relationships with family and friends and don't know where to start? We're going to give you some fun, compelling and empowering ideas to disconnect from the matrix of technology and reclaim your life.

VV Fall 2013 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series

December 3, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm – Strathcona Community Centre Please join us for a series of seven workshops at Strathcona Community Centre.Unless noted, all workshops run from 7-9 pm. Subsidies are available. (Details below.)
Thur, Sept 12  Seed Saving and Basic Plant Breeding with Grant Watson. $30
Tues, Sept 24  Balcony and Container Gardening with Grant Watson. $30
Thur, Oct 10  Backyard Chickens 101 with Duncan Martin. $15 or $25/household
Mon, Oct  21  Canning and Preserving  (6:30-9:30 pm) with Caitlin Dorward. $30 (includes supplies)  
Thur, Nov 7  Basic Emergency Preparedness with Ann Pacey. FREETues, 
Nov 19  Extreme Thrift with Joy Jolie. $10.Tues, 
Dec 3  Disconnecting from the Matrix with Joy Jolie. $10
Registration/Information: 604.713.1838 or in person at Strathcona Community Centre. Please pre-register in advance.50% Subsidies are available to low income residents of Vancouver with a Leisure Access Card. For details on how to apply, please contact Strathcona CC or visit http://vancouver.ca/parks/rec/lac/index.htm.More details to follow.

Village Vancouver Main St. December Workshop - Green Gifts

Our next monthly potluck and workshop isDecember 2nd! Join us at Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (3981 Main St.) from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
We'll kick-off the evening with a potluck, followed by a demonstration of personal goods making, specifically lip balm, at 7:00 p.m.  Our guest presenter and leader of this lip-balm-making workshop is from The Soap Dispensary at 3623 Main Street (btw 20th and 21st Aves, and open 10-6 daily except Tuesday).  
Visit out Facebook Page for updates leading up to the event.

5th Slow Food, Slow Everything Day with Village (celebrating Terra Madre Day)

CelebrateTerra Madre Day and the holidays in a relaxing way! Join us in an oasis of calm amidst a sea of holiday frenzy for our 5th slow food, slow everything day, hosted by Kits Village.
Drop by anytime. Potluck lunch around noon or maybe one, potluck dinner at 6ish, movie later on - or something to this effect...
Any food, especially local, you wish to bring for the potlucks or for other times of the day is most welcome; "slow food" is especially encouraged -- making pizza is always fun!
In between, hang out, go for a walk at the beach, enjoy a conversation, read a book, take a nap, visit the Kits Village Collaborative Garden, or relax and do nothing. And maybe board games, knitting, seed swapping, soup 'n share???...suggestions welcome or surprise us!
11 am until late.


Applied Ecological Economics 1001 - 4th Class

December 18, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm – Trees Coffee, as a meeting point b4 going to seminar room
We are back! By popular demand after over 25 people attended our lectures in our inaugural Ecological Economics class in the spring of 2013, Michael Barkusky, Jordan Bober, and Randy Chatterjee are again teaching from Herman Daly's unparalleled textbook.
We are starting in September 2013 and running every third Wednesday night from 7 to 9 PM at a downtown Vancouver location, and continuing for "as long as it takes" to spread the teachings of an enlightened economics, where assumptions such as unlimited growth, pollution as a mitigable externality, and free trade face fair and unbiassed scrutiny.
More important than critiquing a field that has likely done more damage to the world than any other academic discipline, we will be constructing new economics models for promoting real wealth, positive yields, just distribution, healthy societies, sustainable resource extraction, stable banking and monetary regulation, and truly fair trade.
Join us, and change the world. All of it.
We encourage all to join at any time, even if an earlier class was missed. Please contact Randy Chatterjee by email to pick up the reading ahead of time so that you will be able to follow the class more effectively. All readings can be emailed.



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