BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:72@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190618T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190618T173000 DTSTAMP:20190613T184248Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/growing-sharing-histories-f utures-urban-agriculture/ SUMMARY:Growing Where We Are: Sharing Histories & Futures of Urban Agricult ure DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Tuesday 18 JUNE\nCulinaria Research Centre (UTSC) &am p\; New College\nNOTE: This event is currently almost full\, but please st ill email us if you wish to attend (and have not RSVP-ed already) and we w ill add your name to a waitlist. Please specify if you wish to attend for the morning\, the afternoon\, or the whole day. If you did RSVP before 29 May and find yourself unable to attend on 18 June\, please email the organ izer Dr Jo Sharma (sharma@utsc.utoronto.ca) and we will allot your place t o the next person in line.\n\nThis one-day event provides an opportunity f or individuals and communities interested in urban farming and agriculture to hear from leading practitioners in Toronto\, share stories\, build net works\, and see UTSC’s rooftop garden\, urban farm\, and the Culinaria k itchen lab. With speakers and facilitators drawn from Toronto’s Indigeno us\, settler and newcomer communities\, as well as contributions from univ ersity faculty and students\, this event is a forum for cross- cultural sh aring and an opportunity to highlight food security and social justice ini tiatives of importance to the city’s academic and non-academic communiti es alike.\n\nREVISED SCHEDULE\n9:30 am–12 pm: MORNING\, NEW COLLEGE LIBR ARY (20 Willcocks Street)\n9:30 am: Coffee &\; Light Snacks\, New Colle ge Welcome &\; Workshop Introduction:\nSharing Histories of Urban Garde ning: Dr Jo Sharma (Culinaria) &\; New College Staff\n10 am–11 am: Ro undtable: Indigenous &\; Newcomer growers share practical knowledge of gardening for food security: Mr Issac Crosby (Evergreen)\, Mr/Mrs Mustafa (Bangladeshi Agriculturists) &\; Ms Ashrafi Ahmad (Regent Park Communit y Food Centre)\nFacilitated by Ms Sarah Elton (UofT) and Discussant Profes sor Donna Gabaccia\n11–11:25 am: Ms Rhonda Teitel-Payne: Toronto Urban G rowers &\; grower-to-grower initiatives\n11:25–12 noon: Introductions &\; Discussions.\n12 pm–1 pm: Lunch from Syrian newcomer caterers Be roea Kitchen\n1 pm–2 pm: All-day participants travel by pre-arranged cha rtered bus to UTSC\n\n2 pm–5:30 pm: AFTERNOON\, CULINARIA RESEARCH CENTR E &\; UTSC EDIBLE CAMPUS\n2–3:30 pm: UTSC farm &\; garden tours wi th Dr Beatrice Lego\, rice grower Ms Jewel Gomes &\; informal group con versations\n3:30–4:30 pm: Sharing community growing stories from the Dan forth\, Parkdale\, Scarborough and elsewhere: Access Alliance &\; Green est City community gardeners from Caribbean\, Bengali\, Tamil\, Tibetan ba ckgrounds (names tbc)\; Refreshments from community caterers\n4:30 pm: His tories &\; Futures of the GTA’s Urban Agriculture: Keynote Session wi th Ms Cheyenne Sundance and Ms Lorraine Johnson\n5:30 pm: Workshop ends an d people take TTC express buses from UTSC to Kennedy subway (Note: There i s plenty of paid visitors’ parking at UTSC that people are welcome to ac cess on their own – see the university website - but TTC is the easiest &\; quickest mode of transport in the evening if returning downtown\, t herefore no other arrangements are being made).\n\nASSOCIATES &\; SPONS ORS: Access Alliance Danforth\; Culinaria Research Centre\; Evergreen Bric kworks\; Greenest City\; Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies\; Intellectual Com munity Fund UofT Department of History\; Milky Way Community Garden\, Park dale\; New College\; Toronto Urban Growers\; UTSC Campus Farm &\; Edibl e Campus Initiative\; UTSC Partnerships Office\n\nWe wish to acknowledge t his land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of yea rs it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat\, the Seneca\, and most recently\, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today\, this meetin g place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Isl and and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live\, study\, work\, a nd grow on this land. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2019/06/Gardens-e1560451303251.jpg CATEGORIES:Ho Centre Supported Event,Workshop LOCATION:New College Library\, 20 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, Canada X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=20 Willcocks Street\, Toron to\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=New College Library:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR