Guided by Daemin Whetung, join Michi Saagig Anishinaabeg at the first of four Annual Mnoominkewin Festivals organized by Patti Shaughnessy. Witness the joy and health that flow from the active practice of Mnoominke – the lifestyle of planting, gathering, and processing Mnoomin into food. Celebrate the return of Mnoomin with singing, drumming, story-telling, and Anishinaabemowin language revival. This sacred plant has sustained Anishinaabeg for millennia and offers a positive and peaceful way through the Environmental and Social crises of today. Practice reconciliation by restoring the health of the waters and all the beings that rely on the waters for life.
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Bridges Peterborough is a series of emerging social innovations being created for broad community engagement, connection, and awareness about poverty. We are ordinary citizens, passionate about challenging the current ways of addressing poverty. We question the way resources are allocated. We question the power and advice of "poverty professionals". We are changing the conversation about poverty by making concrete differences in people's lives. Ask us about our Bridging Teams and Catalysts!
Cambium is a people-oriented multi-service consulting and engineering company located in Peterborough, Kingston, Oshawa, Barrie, and Calgary. Since 2006 we have been providing valuable services in the Peterborough and surrounding area. We focus on meeting local project needs with inventive and practical solutions. We have a team of over 130 skilled professionals providing governments, corporations and community business initiatives with innovative, sustainable answers to everyday issues. Our team offers expertise in Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Quality Verification and Building Sciences to provide solutions grounded in a sound conservation ethic.
Fleming Faculty Union (Local 352) represents faculty at Fleming College. Our activism focuses on quality education, a fair and safe workplace and ending precarious employment. We work with other locals and organizations to advance these social justice issues beyond our workplace.
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For Our Grandchildren’s mission is to engage and mobilize our community to take effective action to combat climate change. In relentless pursuit of this mission, we will advocate/enlist support from our local governments and collaborate effectively with like-minded community organizations.
Friday Morning Group
A group of SBNR (Spiritual but not Religious) activists who support and inspire each other working to make our community better.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
For more than 25 years, GreenUP has been Peterborough region’s leading organization focused on climate action, environmental education, and community resilience. A non-profit charitable organization, our mission is to inspire and empower environmentally healthy and sustainable action. We offer impactful hands-on environmental education programs, lead inspiring projects that showcase the potential for green, healthy, and active neighbourhoods, and coordinate events and campaigns that enable collaborative action and civic participation.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
The Kawartha Land Trust is a non-government organization and registered charity dedicated to conserving the natural environment and enhancing the quality of life in the Kawarthas. KLT achieves this by accepting gifts of ecologically significant lands and/or conservation easements on lands, along with monetary donations to maintain and care for the properties in their natural state.
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kawarthaNOW.com is a locally owned Independent media company providing news, events, promotion, advertising and marketing in the greater Kawarthas region of Peterborough, Northumberland, City of Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Hastings. We have over 75,000 unique readers daily and over 3.5 million pages read monthly. kawarthaNOW.com is a media sponsor of Reframe Film Festival and proudly aligned with their mission, vision and values.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) connects people to global issues and local initiatives that change how we understand the world and foster equitable and sustainable communities. We make positive change through three key program areas: Community Education, Youth & In School Programs and Umbrella Support for small and emerging community projects.
Supporting the environment becomes Rotary's seventh area of focus, which are categories of service activities supported by global grants. It joins peacebuilding and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and community economic development.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
TRACKS (TRent Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge and Science) facilitates dynamic, land-based youth programming that braids multiple scientific approaches by centring Indigenous ways of knowing and being. TRACKS offers youth opportunities to actively engage with a multitude of worldviews to further understand and develop their personal skills, gifts, and tools. A main pillar of this work is to contribute to hands-on InSTEAM (Indigenous Science Technology Engineering Art and Math) learning opportunities for youth of all ages. TRACKS encourages all humans to deepen reciprocal relationships within their environments and embody understandings of their responsibilities to the land.
Support the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, who are actively defending their inherent rights to unceded Indigenous territory against a liquefied natural gas pipeline and RCMP brutality.
The prestigious School of the Environment is a leader in Canada for environmental research and innovation, with unparalleled career and hands-on learning opportunities, world-class laboratories, and premiere campus nature areas. Numerous and varied degree options are taught by renowned faculty, renewable energy, biodiversity and food security.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Youth Leadership in Sustainability (YLS) is a one semester full time high school program for local grade 11 and 12 students. The YLS classroom is at Trent University but our exploration of sustainability challenges and solutions takes us into the forests, farms and streets of our local community. YLS helps youth find their voice and their place in the struggle for a just and secure future on this planet.
- Year2022
- Runtime6 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Anishinaabemowin
- CountryCanada
- DirectorJames Whetung & Michelle Fraser
Guided by Daemin Whetung, join Michi Saagig Anishinaabeg at the first of four Annual Mnoominkewin Festivals organized by Patti Shaughnessy. Witness the joy and health that flow from the active practice of Mnoominke – the lifestyle of planting, gathering, and processing Mnoomin into food. Celebrate the return of Mnoomin with singing, drumming, story-telling, and Anishinaabemowin language revival. This sacred plant has sustained Anishinaabeg for millennia and offers a positive and peaceful way through the Environmental and Social crises of today. Practice reconciliation by restoring the health of the waters and all the beings that rely on the waters for life.
SPONSORED BY:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Bridges Peterborough is a series of emerging social innovations being created for broad community engagement, connection, and awareness about poverty. We are ordinary citizens, passionate about challenging the current ways of addressing poverty. We question the way resources are allocated. We question the power and advice of "poverty professionals". We are changing the conversation about poverty by making concrete differences in people's lives. Ask us about our Bridging Teams and Catalysts!
Cambium is a people-oriented multi-service consulting and engineering company located in Peterborough, Kingston, Oshawa, Barrie, and Calgary. Since 2006 we have been providing valuable services in the Peterborough and surrounding area. We focus on meeting local project needs with inventive and practical solutions. We have a team of over 130 skilled professionals providing governments, corporations and community business initiatives with innovative, sustainable answers to everyday issues. Our team offers expertise in Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Quality Verification and Building Sciences to provide solutions grounded in a sound conservation ethic.
Fleming Faculty Union (Local 352) represents faculty at Fleming College. Our activism focuses on quality education, a fair and safe workplace and ending precarious employment. We work with other locals and organizations to advance these social justice issues beyond our workplace.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
For Our Grandchildren’s mission is to engage and mobilize our community to take effective action to combat climate change. In relentless pursuit of this mission, we will advocate/enlist support from our local governments and collaborate effectively with like-minded community organizations.
Friday Morning Group
A group of SBNR (Spiritual but not Religious) activists who support and inspire each other working to make our community better.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
For more than 25 years, GreenUP has been Peterborough region’s leading organization focused on climate action, environmental education, and community resilience. A non-profit charitable organization, our mission is to inspire and empower environmentally healthy and sustainable action. We offer impactful hands-on environmental education programs, lead inspiring projects that showcase the potential for green, healthy, and active neighbourhoods, and coordinate events and campaigns that enable collaborative action and civic participation.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
The Kawartha Land Trust is a non-government organization and registered charity dedicated to conserving the natural environment and enhancing the quality of life in the Kawarthas. KLT achieves this by accepting gifts of ecologically significant lands and/or conservation easements on lands, along with monetary donations to maintain and care for the properties in their natural state.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
kawarthaNOW.com is a locally owned Independent media company providing news, events, promotion, advertising and marketing in the greater Kawarthas region of Peterborough, Northumberland, City of Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Hastings. We have over 75,000 unique readers daily and over 3.5 million pages read monthly. kawarthaNOW.com is a media sponsor of Reframe Film Festival and proudly aligned with their mission, vision and values.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) connects people to global issues and local initiatives that change how we understand the world and foster equitable and sustainable communities. We make positive change through three key program areas: Community Education, Youth & In School Programs and Umbrella Support for small and emerging community projects.
Supporting the environment becomes Rotary's seventh area of focus, which are categories of service activities supported by global grants. It joins peacebuilding and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and community economic development.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
TRACKS (TRent Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge and Science) facilitates dynamic, land-based youth programming that braids multiple scientific approaches by centring Indigenous ways of knowing and being. TRACKS offers youth opportunities to actively engage with a multitude of worldviews to further understand and develop their personal skills, gifts, and tools. A main pillar of this work is to contribute to hands-on InSTEAM (Indigenous Science Technology Engineering Art and Math) learning opportunities for youth of all ages. TRACKS encourages all humans to deepen reciprocal relationships within their environments and embody understandings of their responsibilities to the land.
Support the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, who are actively defending their inherent rights to unceded Indigenous territory against a liquefied natural gas pipeline and RCMP brutality.
The prestigious School of the Environment is a leader in Canada for environmental research and innovation, with unparalleled career and hands-on learning opportunities, world-class laboratories, and premiere campus nature areas. Numerous and varied degree options are taught by renowned faculty, renewable energy, biodiversity and food security.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Youth Leadership in Sustainability (YLS) is a one semester full time high school program for local grade 11 and 12 students. The YLS classroom is at Trent University but our exploration of sustainability challenges and solutions takes us into the forests, farms and streets of our local community. YLS helps youth find their voice and their place in the struggle for a just and secure future on this planet.
- Year2022
- Runtime6 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Anishinaabemowin
- CountryCanada
- DirectorJames Whetung & Michelle Fraser
