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 Tuesday, March 24th from 3:30pm to 8:00pm in the Vertigo room in the Student Union Building (SUB) at UVic. Previously, we've hosted the Roundtable in the Michèle Pujol Room in the SUB—the Upper Lounge is just across the hall!
The theme of this year’s Environmental Roundtable is ‘Fostering Community Resilience'. And we are beyond excited to invite folks from the campus community and beyond to join us for a fun-filled and inspiring evening of speakers, community roundtables, exciting raffle prizes, info and activity tables, and a free & dumpster-dived community meal!
The event will begin at 3:30 pm with an opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses that offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students because of how they relate to sustainability, accessibility, and community. Starting at 5 pm, we will hear from three special speakers, then dig into a reclaimed dinner (including some vegetarian and gluten-free options) with our community, and begin our roundtables! The roundtable portion of the event will be an opportunity for students and community members to voice their thoughts and feelings about how our campus community can nurture our relationships to strengthen and ground the communities and solidarities that are a part of taking action for sustainability. At the end of the event, we will do our raffle draw!
The Environmental Roundtable is back once again! The Roundtable will be taking place on Tuesday, March 24th from 3:30pm to 8:00pm in the Vertigo room in the Student Union Building (SUB) at UVic. Previously, we've hosted the Roundtable in the Michèle Pujol Room in the SUB—the Upper Lounge is just across the hall!
The theme of this year’s Environmental Roundtable is ‘Fostering Community Resilience'. And we are beyond excited to invite folks from the campus community and beyond to join us for a fun-filled and inspiring evening of speakers, community roundtables, exciting raffle prizes, info and activity tables, and a free & dumpster-dived community meal!
The event will begin at 3:30 pm with an opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses that offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students because of how they relate to sustainability, accessibility, and community. Starting at 5 pm, we will hear from three special speakers, then dig into a reclaimed dinner (including some vegetarian and gluten-free options) with our community, and begin our roundtables! The roundtable portion of the event will be an opportunity for students and community members to voice their thoughts and feelings about how our campus community can nurture our relationships to strengthen and ground the communities and solidarities that are a part of taking action for sustainability. At the end of the event, we will do our raffle draw!
Speakers
We are honoured to have Chaw-win-is, Gerry Ambers , and Micheal Demakiling as our speakers this year!
Roundtable discussions
For the roundtable portion of the event (taking place between 6:50pm and 7:45pm), students, community members, faculty and staff will have a chance to contribute to collective visioning and facilitated discussions framed around what nurturing relationships and inspiring action mean to sustainable movements.
Facilitators will be announced soon!
During the roundtables, participants will seat themselves at a table with one of our facilitators to discuss nurturing relationships and inspiring action for sustainability here at UVic. These discussions are meant to be generative and connective for participants, inviting members of the campus community to engage in meaningful dialogue with one another, feel connectedness and kinship through shared passions, hopes, and worries, and help the UVSP to better understand how our work on-campus can help to meet the needs and realize the visions of students.
Facilitators will be announced soon!
During the roundtables, participants will seat themselves at a table with one of our facilitators to discuss nurturing relationships and inspiring action for sustainability here at UVic. These discussions are meant to be generative and connective for participants, inviting members of the campus community to engage in meaningful dialogue with one another, feel connectedness and kinship through shared passions, hopes, and worries, and help the UVSP to better understand how our work on-campus can help to meet the needs and realize the visions of students.
Tablers
We are excited to 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! More details about who's tabling will be coming soon.
Door prizes
The door prizes at the Environmental Roundtable have been made possible by generous donations from a number of local businesses. Businesses include joni, Market Collective, Saltspring Soapworks, The Soap Exchange, Country Grocer, Habit Cofffee, Little June, Sea Cider, Quest Reality Games, Satinflower Nurseries, Boulder House, the Grove, Vintage After Death, and more! A huge thank you to our door prize donors to making this event extra special.
