OPIRG Brock Weekly Events Newsletter
OPIRG BROCK
WEEKLY EVENTS NEWSLETTER
October 4-10
WEEKLY EVENTS NEWSLETTER
October 4-10
Volunteer Opportunities!
Food Not Bombs Meeting
Monday October 4, 8:30 pm, OPIRG Brock InfoShop, 10 Summer St.
Attend the Food Not Bombs working group meeting on Monday to learn more about how you can help provide much needed food to community members.
Bike Fixer-Uppers Wanted
Thursdays, 1:00-6:00 pm, OPIRG Brock InfoShop, 10 Summer St.
Bikes donated for Migrant Workers need to be fixed up on a regular basis. We are lucky to have an existing volunteer with the know-how and willingness to donate their time doing just this very thing. Now we are looking for folks interested in learning how to fix bikes, and willing to help our existing volunteer do so on Thursdays at the InfoShop between 1:00-6:00 pm on Thursdays. Stop by if you are interested!
Call for Poets and Spoken Word Artists
Don’t be shy – we are still looking for poets and spoken word artists to come out and share their insights and talents at a voice night that is in the works. Please contact ♫
ka08tu@brocku.ca to get involved.
Tea Donations
Locations: OPIRG Brock University Office, Room 204 in the Student Alumni Centre at Brock University and OPIRG Brock InfoShop, 10 Summer St.
We are looking to cozy up the OPIRG Office and InfoShop and to do a little fundraising at the same time. We are looking for donations of tea (ideally fair trade and organic) to serve in both locations – with the option that those drinking the tea might donate some funds to sustain the InfoShop. If you have boxes of tea overflowing in your kitchen cupboards please stop by either location to drop off a box or two.
Niagara Walk for Farm Animals
October 9, 11am registration, 12pm walk, Public Library, 54 Church Street, St. Catharines
The Niagara Walk for Farm Animals is an event to raise money for the Farm Sanctuary. The walk takes place in downtown St. Catharines and is one of over 70 walks that will be taking place this fall in North America. (For more information on the Walk for Farm Animals see http://www.walkforfarmanimals.org/, and for more information on the Farm Sanctuary, see http://www.farmsanctuary.org/)
The Niagara Walk for Farm Animals will take place on Saturday October 9th (rain or shine!) - the route is just shy of 5k and winds through downtown St. Catharines. The walk starts and ends in front of the Public Library (54 Church Street, St. Catharines) - registration is at 11am, and the walk starts at noon. The registration fee is $15 in advance, or $20 on the day of the walk. All walkers who register get a free t-shirt. Please contactst.catharines@walkforfarmanimals.org.
Food Not Bombs at Montebello Park
Sunday October 10, 2-4, Montebello Park
Volunteers from Food Not Bombs serve home-made vegan food on Sundays in Montebello Park from 2-4pm. All are welcome. To get involved please email foodnotbombs-niagara@hotmail.com.
Events!
Shaw Company/Amnesty International Benefit Concert, Festival for Freedom
Monday, October 4, 8 pm, Royal George Theatre, Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake
The 22nd Shaw Company/Amnesty International benefit concert, the Festival for Freedom, will take place on Monday, October 4, at 8:00 pm in the Royal George Theatre, Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Tickets are $25 each and can be obtained in Bernard’s – the gift shop in the Festival Theatre, or by calling or e-mailing Martha at 904-468-0481, cisneros@sympatico.ca. Kathy Price will be the introductory speaker. The program includes an eclectic mixture of song, humour, poetry and skits presented by artists, production and stage crews and other members of the Shaw Company.
Free! Documentary Screening: Refugees of the Blue Planet
Tuesday October 5, 8 pm, OPIRG Brock InfoShop, 10 Summer St.
Come down to the InfoShop for riveting film and delicious popcorn and refreshments. Film to be followed Film night
This National Film Board of Canada presentation looks at the issue of environmental refugees. Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From the Maldives to Brazil, and even closer to home, here in Canada, the disturbing accounts of people who have been uprooted are amazingly similar. The enormous pressure placed on rural populations as a result of the degradation of their life-supporting environment is driving them increasingly further from their way of life.Environmental refugees are constantly growing in number and often have no legal status, even though their right to a clean and sustainable environment has been violated.
Free! Documentary Screening: Skin Trade
Thursday October 7, 7-9:30 pm, Brock University, Plaza 410
The Brock Animal Rights Club will be screening the documentary Skin Trade and providing free vegan snacks. Skin Trade is an investigative documentary that goes behind the scenes and exposes the cruelty of the fur industry.
