[KWPeace-groups] Potluck Meeting for Summer 2018: Thu 19 Jul 2018 at 6pm, Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church

[Bob Jonkman]

Hi everyone! A quick reminder and an agenda for tomorrow's KWPeace
Potluck Meeting.  Everyone is welcome!

*What*: KWPeace Potluck Meeting for Summer 2018
*When*: Thursday, 19 July 2018 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
*Where*: Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church
*Location*: 57 Stirling Avenue North, Kitchener, Ontario


== Agenda ==
Please send brief updates and upcoming events to Mo at
mo.markham at kwpeace.ca so we can include them in the minutes of the
meeting. Thanks!

=== Photography At This Meeting ===
>From Scott Cressman: Scott would like to take some photos at the
meeting, if people are okay with this, but he will not photograph anyone
who doesn’t want to be photographed. He is hoping to take some pictures
to post on some of the social media sites, and he will explain more at
the meeting.

=== Updates of Our Groups ===
We’ll each give updates on our groups.

=== Upcoming Events ===
We’ll each share upcoming events.

=== WR Nonviolence Day In The Park ===
The Day In The Park is coming up this Saturday, July 21st, on Roos
Island in Victoria Park, and many of us will be participating. Speak to
Bob Jonkman or Matthew Albrecht if you have questions.

=== Grant Applicant Needed ===
>From Laura Hamilton (KW Peace): We need someone to apply to the city for
an in-kind facilities grant for our October 27 Perspectives On Peace
event. See below regarding the event, and contact Bob Jonkman or Mo
Markham regarding applying for the grant. This is the application is at
https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-services/grants.aspx

=== KW Peace Blog ===
>From Bob (KW Peace): An invitation for all groups to post to the blog.
http://kwpeace.ca/posts/

=== Civic Hub ===
>From Aleksandra Petrovic (Social Development Centre Waterloo Region): We
have a chance to move ahead with the idea of a Civic Hub and I can ask
how important is that civic space to the groups that come to the
potluck. If yes, I would have specific questions for the groups such as:
the need for the space (meetings, work, events, etc.)
the times the space would be mostly used (evenings, weekends… )
other logistics needed in the space for the first while (telephone,
Internet, printing, scanning, storage, etc.)

=== Blanket Workshop ===
from Hannah Enns: Blanket workshop taking place on July 25th at Seven
Shores Community Cafe… Register at
http://www.sevenshores.ca/events-1/2018/7/25/blanket-exercise. Tickets:
$25/settler (non-indigenous); $15/student/low-income/refugee; Free for
Indigenous folks. What does it mean to be a treaty person today in
Kitchener-Waterloo? What is the untold history in Canadian society about
colonization and movements of resistance? How do you push yourself to
unsettle the settler within?

=== Perspectives On Peace ===
Laura Hamilton has arranged for KWPeace to use the Rotunda at City Hall
on Saturday, 27 October 2018 from noon to 2:00pm (setup at 11:00am).
Tamara Lorincz will be the speaker, and I believe Food Not Bombs will
provide snacks. All KWPeace groups are invited to have display or
information tables around the rotunda. …we’re calling the event
“Perspectives on Peace” or “KWPeace Connections”.

=== KW Peace co-sponsor film? ===
>From Tamara Lorincz: She’s wondering if KW Peace would “co-sponsor” a
screening of the film A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path to
Demilitarization that she is hoping to screen at Conrad Grebel with
Project Ploughshares this fall (likely early November) as this year is
the 70th anniversary that Costa Rica abolished its army. The movie is a
very powerful. It wouldn’t cost KW Peace anything to “co-sponsor” just
to add “moral” support. (Tamara can’t be at the meeting on Thursday.)
More info about the film is at http://aboldpeace.com/



On 2018-07-06 12:21 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Hi Everyone! It’s time we held another information sharing and planning
> meeting, and had some wonderful potluck food.
> 
> Every few months the organizers of many different peace, social justice,
> environmental, political, and spiritual organizations from Waterloo
> Region come together to share what they’re doing in the community,
> invite each other to participate, and possibly collaborate on new
> ventures. Everyone is invited! It’s a potluck meeting, so bring some
> food or a beverage to share, and enjoy all the different dishes others
> have brought. The food is mostly vegetarian, some vegan, some gluten-free.
> 
> Many thanks to our hosts at the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church for
> letting us use the Peace and Justice room again!
> 
> *What*: KWPeace Potluck Meeting for Summer 2018
> *When*: Thursday, 19 July 2018 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
> *Where*: Peace and Justice Room, Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church
> *Location*: 57 Stirling Avenue North, Kitchener, Ontario
> *Map*: https://osm.org/go/ZXnwZqzh--?m=
> 
> See you all soon!
> 
> --Bob.
> 
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> Bob Jonkman  bobjonkman at kwpeace.ca
> https://kwpeace.ca/
> KWPeace - Event Schedule for Peace and Social Justice Activists in KW
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