Thank You!
Thank you and well done to Ninfa Castellanos for an excellent presentation at the Alberta Federation of Labour/Parkland Institute conference on working in Alberta on September 29. Ninfa brought clear and helpful information about the greater vulnerability of immigrants in Alberta's strong economy that made the issues we work with more understandable to the people attending.
Hour of Music
CKUA will be hosting an hour of music on October 7 from 4:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. dedicated to the Trinity Manor Women's group.
Fundraiser to Support African Youth in Need
Welcome Centre for Immigrants – October Newsletter
Community Supper & Speakers Series.
Thursday, October 4 - Supper: 5:45 p.m. - Program 7:00 p.m. / $7.00 for supper-- program only, no cost
Guest Speaker: Rev. Rick Chapman, Chaplain, Inner City Pastoral Ministry.
About Rev. Chapman: he's is a great storyteller & this time he will speak about the stories of real on-the-street work of his ministry, the church's presence in the inner city, emerging issues are and how we are making a difference!
Note: Reservations required for supper.
For information, contact Dolores at 428-1818.
McDougall United Church
"A Spiritual Community in the Heart of the City"
The Pathways Centre: A Forum for Theological Inquiry.
10209 - 123 Street, Edmonton, AB T5N 1N3 / T: (780) 428-6299
For further details about our programs: www.pathways-centre.org
Pathways Centre Presents: Wed. Oct., 17, 24 & Nov., 7, 2007 (7:00 p.m.)
"Lay Women in Dialogue" Muslim (17), Christian (24) and Jewish (7).
Context: Have you wondered why it is that despite our shared inheritance through Abraham & Sarah, Christians, Jews and Muslims are so often at odds with each other? Have you felt frustrated that the most conservative version of each tradition is perceived as the only interpretation? Do you dream of a time when we can learn to work together for peace?
On Oct. 17, 24 & November 7, women from each of the Jewish, Muslim & Christian communities will facilitate a series of presentations exploring these questions. The Series is at Garneau United Church, 11148 - 84 Ave. at 7:00 p.m.
Note: The series will conclude on Wed. November 14, 2007 with a panel discussion including all presenters. Tix for the series are $15 for each evening or $50 for the 4 evening package. Students are $10 for each evening or $35 for the package.
Pathways Centre Presents: Thurs., Nov. 29, 2007 > Bill Phipps "Humanity at the Crossroads." We're delighted to welcome Bill Phipps for a presentation about his latest book "Cause for Hope: Humanity at the Crossroads", available in the fall of 2007.
Tix $15 or $10 for students. Location: Robertson Wesley United Church. Contact Lynn for reservations/tickets: 428-6299. www.pathways-centre.org
Resistance and Revolution
Che Guevara 40 Year Commemoration
October 11 – 13, 2007
This October marks 40 years since the capture and execution of Che Guevara in Bolivia. The Che Guevara 40 Year Commemoration will bring people together to celebrate and commemorate the contributions of Che Guevara.
Thursday October 11
Che's Legacy: Revolutions and resistance today
7 pm
U of A Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, Room 1-017
http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1§or=1&feature=11
Dr. Ali Abdi, Dept. of Educational Policy Studies
Dr. Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez, Faculty of Native Studies and Dept. of Political Science
Ramon Antipan, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Moderator – Vlad Gomez – The People’s Poets
40 years have passed since the death of Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia. Panelists will discuss Che’s legacy and impact as well as the relevance of revolutions and resistance movements today.
Friday October 12
Free Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
7:30 pm
U of A Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, Room 1-017
http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1§or=1&feature=11
Saturday October 13
Celebrating Che with
SoulJah Fyah, The People’s Poets, DJ Dice and Cenzi Stilos
Doors @ 9 pm, Show @ 10 pm
Tickets $6 advance - $10 door
City Arts Centre
10943 – 84 Ave.
Sponsored by The People’s Poets, University of Alberta International’s Global Education Program, Earth’s General Store and Solidaritees
A Joint Reading by Rob Mclennan, Writer-in-Residence, University of Alberta and Jalal Barzangi, Writer-in-Exile, City of Edmonton
Wednesday, October 3, 3:30 pm, HC L-3
Born in Ottawa, Rob Mclennan is the author of over 13 trade poetry collections in Canada and England, most recently The Ottawa City Project. He has published poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews and columns in over two hundred publications in fourteen countries and in four languages, and done reading tours in five countries on two continents. The editor/publisher of above/ground press and the long poem magazine, and the online critical journal http://www.poetics.ca, he edits the ongoing Cauldron Books series through Broken Jaw Press, has edited several anthologies, and runs the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair. Rob often posts reviews, essays, rants at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com.
An ethnic Kurd from Iraq, Jalal Barzangi is a recognized poet and journalist who had a long literary career before he was forced to leave that country in 1998. He was imprisoned from 1986 to 1989 because of his writings. In Iraq, Barzangi edited several magazines and worked at many cultural organizations. He has published hundreds of articles and poems about human, cultural and women’s rights. Barzangi served on the board of the Iraqi Kurdish Writers’ Union and was executive director of the Culture Department of the Culture Ministry in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Since coming to Canada, Barzangi has continued to write and has published several volumes of poetry in Kurdish.
Thanks to The Canada Council for the Arts (both WIR and WIE) and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, as well as the local WIE Program hosts/partners: Writers Guild of Alberta, PEN Canada, Faculty of Arts, Edmonton Community Foundation, Edmonton Arts Council, Athabasca University, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton Journal and Edmonton LitFest.
A reception will follow the reading.
INTI-ILLIMANI in Concert!
Sunday, October 14, 2007 / 7: 30 p.m.
@ The Arden Theatre, St. Albert. / Info: 463-4915
INTI-ILLIMANI, a world music ensemble from Chile, kicks off its Canadian tour! If you missed their recent visit to Canada, catch their 2007 visit to Edmonton, marking their 40th anniversary!
The Band: Inti was founded in the 1960s by students at Stgo. Technical University. They wanted to explore the music of the indigenous cultures of Latin América and they did it!. 40 years later, new members have replaced most of the original ones, but their captivating music/repertoire continues to expand & attract a worldwide audience.
Join us for an enchanting evening of Inti's trademark mix of Latin American, Afro-Latino, and Italian sounds. Don't miss it!
Presented by:
Edmonton Folk Music Festival, FolkwaysAlive! & The Arden Theatre
Sponsored by: For the Love of Latin Music Society, Edmonton, AB
Tix through Arden Box Office, 459-1542
http://www.ardentheatre.com/tickets.php
Or Ticketmaster: 451-8000 / www.ticketmaster.ca
TakeBackYourCity.ca
Please note the change in time for the Ward 1 forum and the new information for the Ward 3 forum.
Students to host forums in all 6 wards in Edmonton
Edmonton Ward 3 Candidates’ Debate
When: Thursday, October 4, Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Concordia Highlands Campus, 7128 Ada Boulevard, Hole Academic Centre, Room HA 017
Edmonton Ward 4 Candidates’ Debate
When: Thursday, Oct. 04, 2007, Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Myer Horowitz Theatre, Students' Union Building, University of Alberta
Edmonton Ward 2 Candidates’ Debate
When: Tuesday, Oct. 09, 2007, Time: 12:30 pm
Where: NAIT, Main Campus, Shaw Theatre (in the South Learning Centre)
Edmonton Ward 5 Candidates’ Debate
When: Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, Time: 7:00 pm
Where: NAIT, Souch Campus, Main Cafeteria
7110 Gateway Boulevard
Take Back Your City is a non-partisan campaign to get young people engaged in the municipal and school board election campaigns throughout Alberta. It is coordinated by Public Interest Alberta in connection with student unions and associations throughout the province, with the assistance of several provincial organizations, unions and advocacy groups.
This year, ensure your municipal government is making decisions for you. Democracy is more than voting - you need to choose candidates who work in your interest and who will address the issues in a way that is important to you.
Go to www.takebackyourcity.ca to
- Tell us where you stand on key issues by filling out our public survey.
- Discover what the candidates are saying on a series of critical public interest issues.
- Find out what where the school board candidates stand on key education issues.
- Find forums to attend where you can ask the candidates directly about the issues. .
- Contact the candidates to ask them questions or provide support to their campaigns.
- Participate in our online discussion forum to express your opinion on key issues.
Bill Moore-Kilgannon
Executive Director
Public Interest Alberta
Press release
Temporary leave of Mr. Georges Bahaya, Director of Centre d’accueil et d’établissement for a humanitarian mission to Chad.
Edmonton, October 1st 2007. — The Centre d’accueil et d’établissement (CAÉ) of Edmonton would like to inform its partners and the public that the Centre’s director, Georges Bahaya, will be leaving to work with refugees in Chad for an undetermined period.
After serving the French-speaking Community of Edmonton for four years, Mr. Georges Bahaya has been given a leave of absence by the CAÉ Board of directors to permit him to gain experience in working as a resettlement officer with the High Commission for Refugees (HCR) in Chad.
The members of the Board of directors are proud that M. Bahaya has been invited by the United Nations agency to take on new responsibilities overseas. We believe that this humanitarian mission will be of great benefit to the Edmonton community because M. Bahaya will be acquiring new skills and knowledge in the field of the resettlement of refugees.
The CAÉ Board of directors has appointed Mr. René-Vincent Tshibula, the integration project coordinator, director during Mr. Georges Bahaya’s absence.
Source:
Alain Nogue
Chair of the Board of directors
Centre d’accueil et d’établissement
Telephone: (780) 669-9004
Immigrant Women’s Career Development Opportunity
Working Youth – We want to tell your story
The Reel World Film Series
The University of Alberta’s Global Education Program invites you to the second Welcome to the Reel World film series.
The Reel World series seeks to raise awareness about global issues both on campus and in the larger Edmonton community. By pairing award winning documentaries with academics, experienced NGO partners and remarkable individuals with firsthand international experience, the series provides a platform for open dialogue on the most pressing issues confronting us today. These screenings are free of charge and everyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesdays at 5pm in CEB 325.
Film: Disarm
Wednesday, October 3rd at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building, next to CAB)
Disarm presents a contemporary and provocative view of the forces challenging the achievement of a mine-free world. Disarm spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of antipersonnel mines continue to claim victims daily in more than eighty countries. Disarm juxtaposes government and public opinion, that of diplomats, mine victims, deminers, soldiers and aid workers to explore the issues that both hinder and further the case against antipersonnel mines. (53 Minutes, 2005)
Film: The Take
Wednesday, October 10th at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
The Take follows 30 unemployed Argentinian workers who stage a protest against their bosses, their government, and economic globalization by occupying their closed factory; there they take back their jobs, their dignity, and refuse to leave. (87 minutes, 2004)
Film: Mohawk Girls
Wednesday, October 17th at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
A glimpse into the lives of three Mohawk teenagers as they tackle issues of identity, culture and family, the film looks at modern Aboriginal youth culture and the complexities of growing up Native at the beginning of the 21st century. (62 minutes, 2005)
Film: China Blue
Wednesday, October 24th at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the US consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female sweatshop workers, providing a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation into a free market society. (88 Minutes, 2005)
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
Wednesday, October 31st at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
The truth about what Al Gore calls our "planetary emergency" is told through bracing facts and future predictions about the dangerous consequences of climate change, arguing that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is among the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization. (96 Minutes, 2006)
Film: Enemies of Happiness
Wednesday, November 7th at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
This film follows Malalai Joya, a 28 year old woman from Afghanistan, on her dangerous parliamentary campaign to her election as a delegate in the National Assembly, giving a unique insight into the conditions the people of Afghanistan must live in a society destroyed by war and run by a tradition. (59 Minutes, 2005)
Film: Dam/age
Wednesday, November 14th at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
Dam/age traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India, which will displace up to a million people. It weaves together a number of issues that lie at the heart of politics today: from the consequences of development and globalization to the urgent need for state accountability and the freedom of speech. (50 Minutes, 2003)
Film: The Children of Leningradsky
Wednesday, November 21st at 5pm
CEB 325 (Civil Engineering Building , next to CAB)
The Children of Leningradsky follows a dozen children living in a Moscow train station, documenting the police brutality, substance abuse and panhandling that is part of their daily lives. (35 Minutes, 2004)
