UBC gets some Body and Soul
Loïc Wacquant
Wow! Don't miss it!
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Multipurpose Room
Thursday, November 1, 2012
4:00-6:00 PM
It's Homeless Action Week 2012, October 7-13
October 10, 6-9pm, St. Andrews-Wesley United Church, 1022 Nelson Street
Bud Osborn, Poet Laureate, will be there!
To|From
BC Electric Railway: 100 Years
Exhibit at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2 West Hastings Street
September 15 to November 10, 2012
The Struggle for Housing in Vancouver:
Shorts on Little Mountain
Tuesday, October 2
Watch if you have time, but, as the legal disclaimers always say, Do Not Attempt!
I remember reading stories in the Times about the old unused City Hall Station -- about ten years ago. It's amazing to see someone film what we might call "guerrilla urban geography" in this place, this underside of a busy city.
Thanks to Niels Feddersen for the recommendation!
The Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics
invites all UBC students and faculty to attend the open doors event of the Andrew Wade Visual Analytics Challenge Program on Monday, October 1st, 12:00pm in the Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Center.
The Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA) is a joint SFU/UBC initiative to promote Visual Analytics (“the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces”). VA is a multidisciplinary field intended to help people interactively explore and synthesize information in order to derive insights from massive, dynamic, and often ambiguous and conflicting data. VA draws on research from areas such as information visualization, human-computer interaction, machine learning, statistics, decision making and problem solving, communication, and the cognitive and social sciences. VA can prepare you for internships leading to high-demand positions of data scientists and analysts.
VIVA offers students an opportunity to participate in VA research projects and work with cutting edge VA tools, using real-world data, in collaboration with domain subject matter experts.
You will learn:
o how you can get involved in VA through the Andrew Wade Visual Analytics Challenge program
o about the new Graduate Certificate in Visual Analytics at SFU
Pizza and soft drinks will be provided.
Registration is free at: http://awva.eventbrite.com (limit 60)
Location : University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus, Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Center
Date : Monday, October 1st, 2012
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
For more information: challenge@viva-viva.ca
SIXTH ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH
Sat. Sep 15 @ 1:30 pm
Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
* Homes for People, not Profit for Real Estate!
* No Slumlords, No Evictions and No Gentrification!
* Rent Control not Social Control!
* Homes not Jails!
* Homes not Pipelines!
* Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for All!
FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/368896053180255/
Download posters: http://www.dewc.ca
Videos and photos from last year: http://is.gd/DQ5j8h
On Saturday Sep 15 at 1:30 pm, join the Downtown Eastside Women Centre
Power of Women Group in the 6th Annual March for Women’s Housing and March
Against Poverty.
This year we continue to march for housing, childcare, and healthcare for
all low-income residents in the DTES. We want no more evictions, no more
displacement, and no more gentrification in our neighourhood. We know that
the growing number of cops and condos in the DTES is part of a larger
pattern to destroy and privatize neighourboods, communities, and the land.
We want to live free: free from BC Housing controls, free from violence
against women, and free from this system that is hurting and killing us.
We invite groups to bring their banners and anything else for our festive
march. All genders are welcome and celebrated. Please bring your drums and
regalia. This march is child-friendly and there will be a rest-vehicle for
elders. Spread the word!
Email: project@dewc.ca or Phone: 778 885 0040
The DTES Power of Women Group is a group of women (we are an inclusive
group) from all walks of life who are either on social assistance, working
poor, or homeless; but we are all living in extreme poverty in and around
the DTES. Our aim is to empower ourselves through our experiences and to
raise awareness from our own perspectives about the social issues
affecting the neighbourhood. Many of us are single mothers or have had our
children apprehended due to poverty; most of us have chronic physical or
mental health issues for example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or
alcohol addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual
violence and mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse. For
indigenous women, we are affected by a legacy of the effects of
residential schools and a history of colonization and racism.
Save Social Housing Coalition Meeting
Wednesday September 12
From Ivan Drury and Jean Swanson:
"Hello dear friend in the struggle for housing justice,
We're writing to invite you to join a new social housing coalition
that the Carnegie Community Action Project is initiating.
Save Social Housing Coalition BC first meeting
Wednesday September 12
7pm
Carnegie Centre Theatre
(401 Main St, first floor)
Tea and an evening snack will be provided.
We are inviting a broad cross section of organizations and people from
throughout the Lower Mainland representing communities and people
throughout BC including groups representing low-income, Indigenous,
migrant, racialized, disabled, LGBTI2Q, senior and young people as
well as labour and student unions and academics.
We hope that this coalition can be a coming together of communities
united by our common struggle for housing justice and security as a
right of all people and a social responsibility. We are calling this
meeting for a coalition that can work for two demands focusing on
making housing *the* issue of the coming 2013 BC-provincial election:
1. SOCIAL HOUSING: For a powerful provincial social housing program to
build over 2,000 units of social housing in Vancouver and an
additional 1,000 units province wide a year every year, and;
2. RENT CONTROL: For municipal and provincial rent controls that will
protect low-income affordable privately owned rental housing by
protecting the rents of housing units and not just tenancies.
[...for more details see
http://savesocialhousing.wordpress.com/
Jean Swanson and Ivan Drury
for the Carnegie Community Action Project
Contact Ivan: 604-781-7346 ivandrury@gmail.com"