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Jan. 26 and Jan. 27:
Site C Summit: Accountability & Action1 pm, Friday, January 26 and 9 am, Saturday, Jan 27.First Met Victoria, 932 Balmoral Road, Victoria, V8T 1A8
On December 11, 2017, Premier Horgan announced his decision to continue the Site C hydro-electric dam project on the Peace River.Because of this decision, viewed by many thoughtful people as a major mistake impacting future generations of British Columbians, the Peace Valley Solidarity Initiative came together to organize the Site C Summit. This is a non-partisan, grass-roots initiative.
The Site C Summit will review the rationale and the consultation/decision-making processes that led to the decision.This will be followed by community action planning which will point us in new directions, in solidarity with First Nations.
All who oppose the Site C dam project are welcome... to attend. Pre-registration is required to attend the Site C Summit. To register: http://www.sitecsummit.ca/ If a registration fee is a barrier to attending, please contact us.
The Site C Summit will take place on the traditional territories of the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. All our relations!The event will be live streamed on YouTube.An accessible entrance is available off Balmoral Road. There are wheelchair accessible washrooms. If you're as disappointed as we are about Site C, join us! #SiteCSummit
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"Guaraní Baroque Music: From Village Performances to the International Stage"
Monday, January 29, 2:30 pm, MacLaurin D111
and
"Indigenous Influences on Baroque Music from the Former Jesuit Reductions in Bolivia"
Wednesday, January 31, 3:00 pm, First Peoples House, Ceremonial Hall
Piotr Nawrot (Adam Mickiewicz University) is an internationally renowned musicologist specializing in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century compositions from the Jesuit missions of what is now Paraguay and Bolivia. For over twenty years he studied, reconstructed, and published thousands of scores that were composed in the missions by European musicians such as Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) as well as by Indigenous musicians, many of who have remained anonymous. This corpus, a musical treasure mostly unknown beyond the communities in which it was composed, is key to understanding how the Chiquitano and Moxos peoples appropriated and accommodated European culture, creating enduring community identity markers. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish empire in 1767, local communities preserved the scores and continued to this day the musical traditions jointly developed by the missionaries and Indigenous composers and interpreters. Nawrot has contributed as historian, musical director, and/or conductor to a number of multi-volume recordings that have made this music accessible to a larger public. These recordings include Florilegium’s Bolivian Baroque, the series Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana: Misiones de Chiquitos, and Baroque Music from the Bolivian Rainforest.
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Dr. Virginia Marshall
Overturning Agua Nullus in Australia: Honouring our Belonging to the land and waters
7 pmCeremonial Hall, First Peoples House
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February 5:
The UVIc Academic Women’s Caucus Presents: The African American Cooperative Movement, Economic Justice & the Role of Black Women
By Jessica Gordon-Nembhard
Author
of Collective Courage. Political Economist and Professor of Community
Justice and Social Economic Development. Department of Africana Studies
City University of NY
February 5, 2018 University of Victoria @ 4:30 CORNETT B135
Cooperative ownership contributes to anti-poverty strategies and community building strategies. A strategy of development for marginal, disadvantaged, under served, and oppressed groups is to use economic cooperation combined with group solidarity to start and maintain businesses that will provide meaningful work and income,greater participation, voice and control over decision making for women and low-income people of color. Gordon-Nembhard chronicles the African American cooperative movement since the 18th century by examining the ways it developed alternative group-based economic strategies and promoted racial economic justice. She tells the story by emphasizing the strong role of Black women in the African American co-op movement.
Sponsored by the School of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Community Meetings for Poverty Reduction StrategyBC has the highest poverty rate in Canada and no plan to tackle it directly.
Community Meetings are going to be scheduled across the province to consult with British Columbian residents about what should be included in the Poverty Reduction Strategy. We will share more details about these community meetings as soon as we have them. You can also visit the government’s site for updates on what they’re doing.
Community meetings for British Columbia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy kicked off in Victoria on November 27th 2017. More community meetings will be held throughout the province in the coming months.
The government is offering supports to help you participate, including transportation, child care, disability and health supports, as well as secure storage for belongings. If you need supports to participate, you can contact contact Lara Therrien Boulos by phone at 604 718-8504 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For more info: http://bcpovertyreduction.caWhile some times and locations are still being finalized, the confirmed details for upcoming meetings are:
Port Alberni:
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018
Location: Athletic Hall, 3727 Rogers St. (2nd floor)
Time: Doors will open at 5 p.m. The community meeting will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Notes: Refreshments will be served.
Campbell River:
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018
Location: We Wai Kai Nation – Band Hall, 690 Headstart Cres.
Time: Doors will open at 5 p.m. The community meeting will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Notes: Refreshments will be served.
Nanaimo: Monday, Jan. 22
Port Alberni: Tuesday, Jan. 23
Campbell River: Wednesday, Jan. 24
Richmond: Thursday, Jan. 25
New West/Burnaby: Monday, Jan. 29
Duncan: Tuesday, Jan. 30
Surrey: Thursday, Feb. 1
Williams Lake: Friday, Feb. 2
Quesnel: Saturday, Feb. 3
Cranbrook: Thursday, Feb. 8
Nelson: Friday, Feb. 9
Prince George: Saturday, Feb. 17
North Vancouver: Saturday, Mar. 3
Vancouver – One: Saturday, Mar. 10
Vancouver – Two: Tuesday, Mar. 20
Coquitlam: Saturday, Mar. 17
Fort Nelson: Thursday, Mar 22
Fort St. John: Friday, Mar. 23
Maple Ridge: Monday, Mar 26
Langley: Tuesday, Mar 27
Abbotsford: Wednesday, Mar 28
Chilliwack: Thursday, Mar 29
There are several other ways you can share your thoughts with the government:
Government Feedback Form
You can also use the government’s feedback form here: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/bcpovertyreduction/submit-your-feedback/
By Phone:
Call Enquiry BC and ask for ‘BC Poverty Reduction’
Calls can be made Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time
Victoria 250-387-6121
Vancouver 604-660-2421
Elsewhere in B.C. 1-800-663-7867
Outside B.C. 1-604-660-2421
Via Telephone Device for the Deaf (TDD):
Vancouver 604-775-0303
Elsewhere in B.C. 1-800-661-8773
By Fax: 250-387-5775
By Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
By Mail:
ATTN: BC Poverty Reduction
PO BOX 9929 STN PROV GOVT
Victoria, BC V8W 9R2
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