Join us at the Environmental Roundtable
The University of Victoria Sustainability Project’s (UVSP) Environmental Roundtable has been around for more than 10 years and was created to foster community around student-led change and environmental action, nurture connections between nonprofit organizations, sustainable businesses, and the student community, and support student vision for a more sustainable campus community.
The Environmental Roundtable is back once again! The Roundtable will be taking place on March 28th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm in the Michéle Pujol Room in the Student Union Building (SUB) at UVic.
Throughout the day students—but also UVic faculty and staff, and members of the community of Greater Victoria—will be welcome to join the UVSP at the Environmental Roundtable for a series of speakers, workshops, and participatory discussion circles and roundtables. During the first half of the event, event-goers will also have the opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses who offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students in terms of sustainability, accessibility, and community. There will also be raffles at this event and participants can enter to win sustainable prizes created by local businesses and artisans. A partially dumpster dived meal will also be provided for participants (including some vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free food options). Food will primarily be served between 5:15 and 5:40pm.
The Environmental Roundtable is back once again! The Roundtable will be taking place on March 28th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm in the Michéle Pujol Room in the Student Union Building (SUB) at UVic.
Throughout the day students—but also UVic faculty and staff, and members of the community of Greater Victoria—will be welcome to join the UVSP at the Environmental Roundtable for a series of speakers, workshops, and participatory discussion circles and roundtables. During the first half of the event, event-goers will also have the opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses who offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students in terms of sustainability, accessibility, and community. There will also be raffles at this event and participants can enter to win sustainable prizes created by local businesses and artisans. A partially dumpster dived meal will also be provided for participants (including some vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free food options). Food will primarily be served between 5:15 and 5:40pm.
Speakers
Join us from 5:30 to 6:30pm for two incredible and thought-provoking talks from Dr. Tommy Happynook and Drs. Yasmine Kandil & Sasha Kovacs.
Dr. Tommy Happynook—from UVic's Anthropology Department—will be doing a presentation titled “Being in relationship: Moving from Management to Relationship”. In his talk, he will discuss Nuu-chah-nulth understandings of relationship as a path towards activating intersectional sustainability in a changing world.
Dr. Yasmine Kandil and Dr. Sasha Kovacs—from UVic's Theatre Department—will be doing a presentation called "Anti-racism & Decolonization through Sustainable Community Connections: The Staging Equality Project”. This presentation will discuss the Staging Equality Project and why theatrical projects that focus on anti-racism, decolonization, and disrupting and decentering whiteness are critical to challenging Theatre as a predominantly a very Eurocentric medium. Through community connections with Indigenous and BPoC artists and allies, the team created performances on themes about Indigenous nationhood, genocide, water extraction, discrimination, white supremacy, and celebration of Black & People of Color identities.
Dr. Tommy Happynook—from UVic's Anthropology Department—will be doing a presentation titled “Being in relationship: Moving from Management to Relationship”. In his talk, he will discuss Nuu-chah-nulth understandings of relationship as a path towards activating intersectional sustainability in a changing world.
Dr. Yasmine Kandil and Dr. Sasha Kovacs—from UVic's Theatre Department—will be doing a presentation called "Anti-racism & Decolonization through Sustainable Community Connections: The Staging Equality Project”. This presentation will discuss the Staging Equality Project and why theatrical projects that focus on anti-racism, decolonization, and disrupting and decentering whiteness are critical to challenging Theatre as a predominantly a very Eurocentric medium. Through community connections with Indigenous and BPoC artists and allies, the team created performances on themes about Indigenous nationhood, genocide, water extraction, discrimination, white supremacy, and celebration of Black & People of Color identities.
Roundtable
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For the roundtable portion of the event (taking place between 6:30pm and 7:30pm), students, community members, faculty and staff will have a chance to contribute to collective visioning and discussion loosely framed around what activating intersectional sustainability means and what participants—particularly student participants—envision for creating a sustainable campus and campus-community at UVic. The outcomes of the roundtables will help to shape the work undertaken by the UVSP at UVic in the next year!
This year, the UVSP is thrilled to be joined by four facilitators who are all graduate students at UVic! Together, Bonnie Gao, Mary Stuart, Emma Street, and Adam Regier, have experience in and knowledge of equitable energy transitions, energy justice, degrowth, climate justice, ethics and protocols in working with traditional ecological knowledge, permafrost, and so much more! |
Participants will seat themselves at one of four smaller roundtables arranged in the middle of the room. Each of these tables will have a facilitator that will support conversation at the table and a notetaker that will record what is discussed. The purpose of the roundtables is to support student and community vision for what activating intersectional sustainability means, at UVic and beyond. At the end of the evening, before the raffle draws, the key ideas and outcomes of the roundtable will be shared with the group.
Tablers
We are excited announce that a number of campus groups, local businesses, and community organizations will be joining the UVSP at the Environmental Roundtable to share programs, resources, job and volunteer opportunities, and more! From 4:30-5:30pm, come connect with: the UVic Sustainability Project, Capital Bike, the UVic Environmental Studies Students' Association, the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, the UVic Society for Geography Students, the UVic Campus Community Garden, the Nūlla Project, the UVic Students for Sustainable Urban Development Club, and the UVic Office of Campus Planning and Sustainability!
Raffle
The Environmental Roundtable raffle has been made possible by generous donations from a number of local businesses. Including: Joni, Big Wheel Burger, Level Ground Coffee, Uncouth Chocolate, Little June Cafe and Bakery, Xocolat, Mile Zero Coffee, Merridale Cidery, Goldilocks, Habit Coffee, and Boulderhouse. Prizes include: a free week of climbing at Boulderhouse, a tour and tasting with Merridale Cidery, sustainable menstrual supplies from Joni, and $60-worth of free drinks at the Little June Cafe and Bakery—you won't want to miss our! Tickets will be sold for only $5! Cash, credit, and e-transfer will be accepted.