Grass Routes 2012 / Dive! / Eco Eklectica Soirée

Grass Routes

A Sustainability Festival

Ideas. Skills. Art.

Keynote Address, March 12, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, RCFE Atrium

Come celebrate the festival kickoff with us at the Richardson College for the Environment. We invited the students who won last year’s Eco Grant award to share with you the projects they completed with the money they were awarded. 

March 12 to March 16, 2012

• Green Tours

• Urban Foraging in Winnipeg - Hosted by EcoPIA

• Reusable Pad Making Workshop

• Straight Razor Shave Workshop

• Green Pieces Fashion Show

• Ice Riders Bike Maintenance Workshop

• DIY Personal Care - Hosted by Hollow Reed Holistic

• Grass Routes Solutions 

• Ice Riders Half Pints Bike Relay

• Grass Routes Specials - Ear to the Ground

• Grass Routes’ Waste Art Station

Get your hands dirty and create art using discarded, re-discovered and re-imagined materials to comment on our festival theme of convenience and disposability.

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Cinema Politica Film Screening

March 13, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Eckhardt-Grammaté

Dive! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and garbage receptacles of Los Angeles' supermarkets. They salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food.  A documentary that is equal parts entertainment, guerilla journalism and call to action.

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Ice Riders Half Pints Bike Relay/Grass Routes Wrap Up Party

• Eco Eklectica Soirée

• Friday, March 16, 9:00 pm - 2:00 am

• The Pyramid Cabaret

• Tickets are only $10 and are available at the UWSA Info Booth.

EcoPIA’s annual event raises money to support the Eco Grant, which awards students who are trying to find solutions to climate change at the local level. 

It’s also a great party! 

Lawrence Carota: Crude Sacrifice

UW Aboriginal Student Council, Gallery 1C03, Cinema Politica, and the UWSA 

present a film screening of:

Crude Sacrifice

Lawrence Carota / CA / 2011 / 52 min / English

Tuesday, November 15 · 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg

Crude Sacrifice looks at how one northern community, Fort Chipewyan, 

is affected by the exploitation of Canada's rich Tar Sands development, 

and how Canada is dealing with their concerns. 

The health of the land and the people living near the world's largest construction 

project is discussed by leading scientists and the Aboriginal Peoples. 

Although this town is located near the earth's second largest fresh water delta, 

they can no longer drink the water, or eat the fish and other game food which 

has sustained them for thousands of years. 

UWSA Fall 2011 Student Group Fair!

Wednesday, October 26 · 10:00am - 3:00pm

2nd Floor Duckworth Lounge, 515 Portage Avenue

Get PUMPED! 

If you're interested in joining one of the 80 UW/UWSA student groups, or are interested in starting your own club or group for the 2011-2012 year, this is the fair for you! 

Tasty treats and beverages will be provided free of charge for all attendees, and all students who attend the fair will have a good chance of winning an amazing PRIZE! 

Students will be given a 'passport' to collect at least 5 stickers in order to win a prize. 

A sticker will be given each time he/she engages in conversation with a student group. 

For information about student groups, check out the UWSA's website! 

Contact UWSA for more info or if you'd like to reserve a table.

UWSA Freestyle V: Jeff Chang & Believe the Hype

Wednesday, October 5 · 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

U of W, Eckhardt-Grammaté Hall

UWSA Freestyle V + The Uniter +

the University of Winnipeg Students' Association +

Mouseland Press Speaker Series

present, direct from San Fransisco..

JEFF CHANG: Can't Stop Won't Stop

An in-depth history of the Hip-Hop Generation

FREE ADMISSION

BOOK SIGNING TO FOLLOW

Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than 15 years and has written for Vibe, Spin, The village Voice, URB and Rap Pages. Chang will speak about Can't Stop Won't Stop, his book that shows how hip-hop came to crystallize a multiracial generation's worldview. How does it define the lives of millions around the world? How has it transformed politics and art? And how did it redefine the portrayal of race in popular culture? He draws on economics, social theory and demographics to trace the tumultuous period in which hip-hop came to life – a time when the post-civil rights generation moved from out of the margins and into the mainstream. 

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The University of Winnipeg Students' Association + Graffiti Gallery

present

BELIEVE THE HYPE: All Styles Battle

Saturday, October 8 · 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Graffiti Gallery

Admission: 

$5 Donation to the Gallery

FREE for UofW Students

FREE for Participating Youth in Freestyle V

UWSA Freestyle V / Exit Through The Gift Shop

The University of Winnipeg Students' Association

presents

UWSA Freestyle V

October 3 to October 8 

FREE YOUTH WORKSHOPS (held daily from 6 - 8 pm) highlighting the 4 elements of 

hip-hop, rap, DJ skills, b-boy / b-girl dancing and graffiti art, throughout the week. 

It culminates in a concert where participants perform their original works. 

Our facilitators engage participants through skills built over years of working with youth 

in developing positive, creative expressions of their experience and emotions.

FREE ADULT EVENTS include a seminar by hip-hop journalist, historian and author Jeff Chang, who will speak in Eckhardt-Grammaté Hall on Wednesday, October 5, at 7:30 pm.

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October 6 · 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

University of Winnipeg

Room 2M70

the University of Winnipeg Students' Association +

Cinema Politica +

Gallery 1C03

present a screening of

Exit Through The Gift Shop: A Banksy Film

This Academy Award nominated documentary/mock-documentary delves into the world of contemporary street art and its recent financial and seminal surge within high-art circles.

The film features world-class artists such as Banksy, Sheppard Fairy and Ron English, and portrays the normalizing effect on subgenres by dominant culture while questioning the characteristic authenticity of urban art when it is stripped from the street and represented as a for-profit business.

FREE EVENT

EVERYONE WELCOME

Panel discussion on Winnipeg street art to follow.

Dr. Jon Gerrard & Gord Mackintosh & Hugh McFadyen Debate

Downtown BIZ presents 

a Provincial Candidates Forum on the Downtown

Dr. Jon Gerrard

Gord Mackintosh

Hugh McFadyen

Monday, September 19 · 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portage Place Shopping Centre, Edmonton Court (393 Portage Avenue)

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

*FREE COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS*

For more info, visit Downtown BIZ  

Come hear the Candidates discuss their positions on a variety of downtown issues.

Moderated and facilitated by:

Richard Cloutier (CJOB) and Dan Lett (The Free Press)

Topics include:

*Planning cool downtown districts

*Show us the money for affordable supportive housing for the homeless

*Strategies for an environmentally sustainable downtown

*More people living downtown means a better downtown: How do we get there?

*Talk to us about inner city renewal

Presented by: Downtown Winnipeg BIZ

Produced by: CJOB and The Free Press

Partners: The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, Winnipeg Realtors, Exchange District BIZ, University of Winnipeg Institute of Urban Studies, and the University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA).

Are YOU an Election Issue?

We NEED your feedback!

What's going to make you vote in Manitoba on October 4?

Are you tired of people telling you what the issues are?

Do you feel that the priorities highlighted by political parties do not reflect your priorities?

Do you wish you could have a chance to ask about an issue that is important to you?

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!

The University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA) and the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies (IWGS) want to give you a chance to have your questions answered. 

Step 1: Post your smart, witty, and engaging questions.

Step 2: If someone posts a question that you like, "like" it!

Step 3: The UWSA will submit the questions that are asked/liked the most to political parties in Manitoba.

Step 4: The questions and answers will be published for all to see!

We'll be submitting questions to the parties on August 29!

Finding Dawn

Finding Dawn illustrates the factors that contribute to violence against Native women. 

The ultimate message: stopping the violence is everyone’s responsibility.

Everyone is welcome to this free event on Tuesday, March 8, from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, third Floor in the University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue. 

Childcare, bus tickets, tea and snacks will be provided. 

More info:

Kim at 786-9921 

Advocate, Activist & Winnipeg Women's Memorial March committee chair Lisa Michell will be facilitating a discussion following the film.

Any donations will go to the Women’s Memorial march and Cinema Politica. 

Special thanks to our partners: the Aboriginal Women Reclaiming Our Power program at Ka Ni Kanichihk; Canadian Heritage and Status of Women Canada; the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at UW, the Womyn's Centre, Gallery 1C03, The UWSA, and Cinema Poitica.