Monday, 26 November 2012
EXHIBITION: MEMORIES OF RESISTANCE at BEIT ZATOUN
Only two more days to visit the display of social justice materials from the Connexions Archive at Beit Zatoun House:
Connexions is a documentation project founded in 1975, known for its extensive online library of social justice documents at www.connexions.org. Toronto-based Connexions also maintains the Connexions Archive, a working archive powered by a team of volunteers who work on cataloguing its extensive and growing collection of social-justice-related books, periodicals, documents, and other materials from grassroots activist groups.
Connexions is a documentation project founded in 1975, known for its extensive online library of social justice documents at www.connexions.org. Toronto-based Connexions also maintains the Connexions Archive, a working archive powered by a team of volunteers who work on cataloguing its extensive and growing collection of social-justice-related books, periodicals, documents, and other materials from grassroots activist groups.
Labels: Beit Zatoun House
Friday, 20 January 2012
Learng from FoodShare and Occupy Debrief at Beit Zatoun
Some events of note from the latest Centre for the Study of Education and Work list of announcements:
FoodShare Toronto will be the topic this week at OISE's Lunchbox Speakers' Series...
A GOOD FOOD SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: LEARNINGS FROM FOODSHARE
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012; Noon - 1:30 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, (St. George Subway Station) Room 3-104
Zahra Parvinian, Director of Social Enterprise Programs, Alvin Rebick,
Senior Manager of Kitchen and Focus on Food, and Meredith Hayes, Senior
Manager of School Programs will introduce FoodShare Toronto's social
enterprise programs and discuss: the organization's different enterprise
program models, as well as the challenges, sustainability issues, and other
aspects related to running a food social enterprise.
*No registration required. Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee, tea,
and fresh-baked snacks from Lemon & Allspice will be provided.
Presented by the Social Economy Centre (OISE/UT) & Toronto Enterprise Fund.
This event will be webcast live on the Internet. For detailed instructions,
please see our website at http://socialeconomycentre.ca/webcast-instructions.
Also, Beit Zatoun will be hosting the following event:
GREATER TORONTO WORKERS’ ASSEMBLY (GTWA) COFFEEHOUSE: OCCUPY DEBRIEF
January 27, 2012; 7pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto
2011 - maybe it wasn't quite 1968 but it was a year of great social
upheaval. With 2011 behind us, the GTWA is holding the first in what will be
a new series of Coffeehouses to discuss where we are as a movement, with
this particular one featuring two local activists who were very involved in
Occupy Toronto, and in particular building links between the Occupy movement
and the labour movement. Is this the beginning of a new community/labour
coalition that we've been waiting for? Will the Occupy movement be able to
sustain itself and help awaken a dormant labour movement? How did the Occupy
Toronto experience measure up with other Occupations? These and other issues
will be topics of comradely discussion.
Speakers include two activists with the Occupy movement - Brendan Bruce and
Lana Goldberg.
This Coffeehouse is organized by the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
Internal Education and Political Development Committee (IEPD).
FoodShare Toronto will be the topic this week at OISE's Lunchbox Speakers' Series...
A GOOD FOOD SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: LEARNINGS FROM FOODSHARE
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012; Noon - 1:30 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, (St. George Subway Station) Room 3-104
Zahra Parvinian, Director of Social Enterprise Programs, Alvin Rebick,
Senior Manager of Kitchen and Focus on Food, and Meredith Hayes, Senior
Manager of School Programs will introduce FoodShare Toronto's social
enterprise programs and discuss: the organization's different enterprise
program models, as well as the challenges, sustainability issues, and other
aspects related to running a food social enterprise.
*No registration required. Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee, tea,
and fresh-baked snacks from Lemon & Allspice will be provided.
Presented by the Social Economy Centre (OISE/UT) & Toronto Enterprise Fund.
This event will be webcast live on the Internet. For detailed instructions,
please see our website at http://socialeconomycentre.ca/webcast-instructions.
Also, Beit Zatoun will be hosting the following event:
GREATER TORONTO WORKERS’ ASSEMBLY (GTWA) COFFEEHOUSE: OCCUPY DEBRIEF
January 27, 2012; 7pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto
2011 - maybe it wasn't quite 1968 but it was a year of great social
upheaval. With 2011 behind us, the GTWA is holding the first in what will be
a new series of Coffeehouses to discuss where we are as a movement, with
this particular one featuring two local activists who were very involved in
Occupy Toronto, and in particular building links between the Occupy movement
and the labour movement. Is this the beginning of a new community/labour
coalition that we've been waiting for? Will the Occupy movement be able to
sustain itself and help awaken a dormant labour movement? How did the Occupy
Toronto experience measure up with other Occupations? These and other issues
will be topics of comradely discussion.
Speakers include two activists with the Occupy movement - Brendan Bruce and
Lana Goldberg.
This Coffeehouse is organized by the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
Internal Education and Political Development Committee (IEPD).
Labels: Beit Zatoun House, FoodShare, Lemon and Allspice Cookery
Monday, 20 June 2011
Container Gardening Workshop at Beit Zatoun
Beit Zatoun House is having a seasonal and topical event this Saturday afternoon...From Container to Plate is a workshop on container gardening:
"Never too Late (in the season) or too Small (a space) to...
Grow herbs, tomatoes, other edibles - on your balcony, window-sill, anywhere!
No gardening experience necessary. All are welcome
Learn the "how to's" of container gardening; bring home a new edible garden.
Materials provided: potting soil, seeds, seedlings
To bring:
- Small container for planting and take home (e.g. yogurt or take-out container)
- admission "Olive Tree" to be planted in Palestine.
- Each $5 donation buys a 3-year-old seedling to be planted by the Trees for Life Palestine program. All proceeds will be donated."
"Never too Late (in the season) or too Small (a space) to...
Grow herbs, tomatoes, other edibles - on your balcony, window-sill, anywhere!
No gardening experience necessary. All are welcome
Learn the "how to's" of container gardening; bring home a new edible garden.
Materials provided: potting soil, seeds, seedlings
To bring:
- Small container for planting and take home (e.g. yogurt or take-out container)
- admission "Olive Tree" to be planted in Palestine.
- Each $5 donation buys a 3-year-old seedling to be planted by the Trees for Life Palestine program. All proceeds will be donated."
Labels: Beit Zatoun House
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Wheelchair Access @Beit Zatoun
I recently received a Facebook message from Beit Zatoun House which I think deserves some wider distribution:
"...Having wheelchair access has been an important feature missing at Beit Zatoun. We are very pleased to announce that we have purchased a portable ramp which can be used on an as-needed basis. Unfortunately, the washrooms downstairs remain inaccessible..."
"...Having wheelchair access has been an important feature missing at Beit Zatoun. We are very pleased to announce that we have purchased a portable ramp which can be used on an as-needed basis. Unfortunately, the washrooms downstairs remain inaccessible..."
Labels: Beit Zatoun House
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Canada/Honduras Free Trade Agreement-March 11, 7 PM @ Beit Zatoun House
Beit Zatoun House is hosting Human Rights Violations and the pursuit of Profit...
Friday March 11, 7:00pm
Beit Zatoun House - 612 Markham Street (at Bathurst Subway Station), Toronto, ON
INFO: 647-984-6525
Public forum on the role of the Canadian Government in undermining human and civil rights through its free trade agenda.
Featuring special guest speakers:
BERTHA OLIVA
An award winning Honduran human rights defender whose life was forever changed with the kidnapping and forced disappearance of her husband Tomas Nativí in June 1981. Ms. Oliva was a founding member, and is currently General Coordinator, of the Honduran Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared, COFADEH based in Tegucigalpa. She is the recipient of several international awards including the IPS Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, and the Human Rights Tulip in the Netherlands.
PEDRO LANDA
Coordinator of the Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development (CEHPRODEC) and a member of the Honduran Agrarian Platform. An historian, philosopher and social analyst, Mr. Landa served as Deputy Director of Caritas Tegucigalpa between 1991 and June 2010, where he developed programs aimed at combating poverty and corruption, and promoting and defending the rights of vulnerable sectors of the population. His work also includes documenting the environmental impacts of the San Martin Mine a project operated by Canadian mining giant Goldcorp in Honduras’ Siria Valley.
Opening Remarks by Todd Gordon: Professor of Political Science - York University, author of "Imperialist Canada"
ORGANIZED BY: Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network-Honduras Working Group
SPONSORS: Americas Policy Group, Common Frontiers, CUPE Ontario-International Solidarity Committee, Development and Peace-Toronto Archdiocesan Council, Latin American Trade Unionist Coalition-LATUC, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation-OSSTF, Ontario Public Service Employees Union-OPSEU, Toronto and York Region Labour Council, Workers Assembly-International Solidarirty Committee.
Friday March 11, 7:00pm
Beit Zatoun House - 612 Markham Street (at Bathurst Subway Station), Toronto, ON
INFO: 647-984-6525
Public forum on the role of the Canadian Government in undermining human and civil rights through its free trade agenda.
Featuring special guest speakers:
BERTHA OLIVA
An award winning Honduran human rights defender whose life was forever changed with the kidnapping and forced disappearance of her husband Tomas Nativí in June 1981. Ms. Oliva was a founding member, and is currently General Coordinator, of the Honduran Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared, COFADEH based in Tegucigalpa. She is the recipient of several international awards including the IPS Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, and the Human Rights Tulip in the Netherlands.
PEDRO LANDA
Coordinator of the Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development (CEHPRODEC) and a member of the Honduran Agrarian Platform. An historian, philosopher and social analyst, Mr. Landa served as Deputy Director of Caritas Tegucigalpa between 1991 and June 2010, where he developed programs aimed at combating poverty and corruption, and promoting and defending the rights of vulnerable sectors of the population. His work also includes documenting the environmental impacts of the San Martin Mine a project operated by Canadian mining giant Goldcorp in Honduras’ Siria Valley.
Opening Remarks by Todd Gordon: Professor of Political Science - York University, author of "Imperialist Canada"
ORGANIZED BY: Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network-Honduras Working Group
SPONSORS: Americas Policy Group, Common Frontiers, CUPE Ontario-International Solidarity Committee, Development and Peace-Toronto Archdiocesan Council, Latin American Trade Unionist Coalition-LATUC, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation-OSSTF, Ontario Public Service Employees Union-OPSEU, Toronto and York Region Labour Council, Workers Assembly-International Solidarirty Committee.
Labels: Beit Zatoun House
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
International Women's Day 2011 at Beit Zatoun & Toronto Women's Bookstore
Two TorontoTheBetter members are celebrating International Women's Day 2011 with music...
Beit Zatoun House is having a:
CELEBRATION OF WOMEN - AN EVENING OF INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AND FOOD
Wednesday, March 9; 7-9 PM
Beit Zatoun - 612 Markham Street, Toronto
Celebrate International Women's Day with Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.
A fun evening of delicious treats and music.
Hear the beautiful sounds of jazz duo Brenda Lewis and Margaret Stowe, an
acclaimed Canadian folk singer-songwriter Marianne Girard, soulful sounds of
Nadia Edward, Oriental/Egyptian dance with Kara Culp, and African dance with
Agha Norba.
Suggested donation $10-$20 or pay what you can.
And the Toronto Women's Bookstore is having an:
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MUSIC NIGHT
Thursday, March 3: 7-10 PM
Toronto Women's Bookstore - 73 Harbord Street, Toronto
Mark your calendars! Join us as we kick off this year’s International Women’s Day 100 Year Anniversary celebrations with our LIVE MUSIC NIGHT HOSTED BY RENOWNED COMEDIAN MARTHA CHAVES!
Admission: $5.00 in support of the participating artists
* Fee can also be credited toward any book purchase at the store that evening.
Our Cafe music night concept is about community, music and performance, where the TWB provides the opportunity for emerging and established artists to share the stage. Material submission to events@womensbookstore.com
Beit Zatoun House is having a:
CELEBRATION OF WOMEN - AN EVENING OF INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AND FOOD
Wednesday, March 9; 7-9 PM
Beit Zatoun - 612 Markham Street, Toronto
Celebrate International Women's Day with Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.
A fun evening of delicious treats and music.
Hear the beautiful sounds of jazz duo Brenda Lewis and Margaret Stowe, an
acclaimed Canadian folk singer-songwriter Marianne Girard, soulful sounds of
Nadia Edward, Oriental/Egyptian dance with Kara Culp, and African dance with
Agha Norba.
Suggested donation $10-$20 or pay what you can.
And the Toronto Women's Bookstore is having an:
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MUSIC NIGHT
Thursday, March 3: 7-10 PM
Toronto Women's Bookstore - 73 Harbord Street, Toronto
Mark your calendars! Join us as we kick off this year’s International Women’s Day 100 Year Anniversary celebrations with our LIVE MUSIC NIGHT HOSTED BY RENOWNED COMEDIAN MARTHA CHAVES!
Admission: $5.00 in support of the participating artists
* Fee can also be credited toward any book purchase at the store that evening.
Our Cafe music night concept is about community, music and performance, where the TWB provides the opportunity for emerging and established artists to share the stage. Material submission to events@womensbookstore.com
Labels: Beit Zatoun House, Toronto Women's Bookstore
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Beit Zatoun Activist Workshop discount for TorontoTheBetter members
Beit Zatoun House the newest member to join TorontoTheBetter (listing coming soon here is offering 20% discount to fellow TorontoTheBetter for their workshop regarding Canadian law for charities and non-profits...
Workshop: Activist Groups and the Law
When: Saturday, May 15, 2010; 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Where: Beit Zatoun; 612 Markham St., Toronto
What: A full-day workshop for individuals and formal or informal groups seeking expert information and guidance about Canadian law relating to Non-Profit Organizations ((NPO) and Charities. Presented by legal expert and area specialist, Richard Bridge, this workshop is a must for activists, directors, officers, board members, staff and administrators, etc.
For full details, see their event listing here
Workshop: Activist Groups and the Law
When: Saturday, May 15, 2010; 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Where: Beit Zatoun; 612 Markham St., Toronto
What: A full-day workshop for individuals and formal or informal groups seeking expert information and guidance about Canadian law relating to Non-Profit Organizations ((NPO) and Charities. Presented by legal expert and area specialist, Richard Bridge, this workshop is a must for activists, directors, officers, board members, staff and administrators, etc.
For full details, see their event listing here
Labels: Beit Zatoun House, TorontoTheBetter.net
