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In the morning: How to get and stay in the business of making music with a social message.
In the afternoon: participants will use spoken word/hip-hop and theatre to explore the themes in an interactive workshop.

Facilitator MASIA ONE is a Singapore-born, Canadian female hip hop artist who uses socially conscious hip hop to engage youth on important issues and create a dialogue between cultures. She has recently toured schools with Plan Canada’s Because I am a Girl campaign.
MASIA will be joined by local spoken word/hip hop artist

In this workshop, we'll explore how bikes can be used for profound personal and social change. Learn hands-on bike mechanic skills, and see how these skills can be used to transform your relationship with your community.

Facilitator Clifford McCarten is behind most of the wacky stuff happening at B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop. Four years ago he couldn't have strung a sentence together about transportation politics if his life depended on it. He now sees bicycles as beautiful machines at the intersection of social change, art, the environment, and community development.

In this workshop, participants will take a critical look at mainstream media while working together to produce a thematic zine.

Facilitator: Ki Alleyne is a community organizer, writer/artist, originally from the Greater Toronto Area. Ki has been active in Peterborough’s anti-racist and anti-oppression communities since 2006. Ki is currently the education coordinator at the Centre for Gender and Social Justice and the Advocacy Assistant with the Community Race Relations Committee of Peterborough.

Participants will create a simple vegetarian dish in this tasty, hands-on workshop that demonstrates basic planning and preparation of an affordable, nutritious meal with low impact on the earth’s resources – all while exploring the role food plays in political action!

Facilitator: Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer, world-wide grassroots movement dedicated to non-violent social change through the sharing of free vegetarian food with hungry people while protesting war and poverty.

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…because if you do not represent your interests, no one will. This skill share focuses on shared experiences organizing movements. We will discuss techniques for effectively working in groups (sometimes it ain't easy), accomplishing tasks (getting your actions done) and strategic brainstorming (counter intelligence). You will walk away from this workshop understanding that it's really very easy to take over the world. You just have to want to do it!

Facilitator: Amanda is a student who gives a darn. Come to her workshop if you give one too.

Facilitator: Lily Dart is a local student activist making a global difference to children’s education rights. Lily is the founder of “Kids for All Kids,” an organization that through local youth mobilization, raised enough funds to build and supply a school in Kenya. She is also the 2009 recipient of Free the Children’s “Me to We” award.

Sport is not just play – it’s also a place of resistance and community building! This workshop will highlight how “lessons on the court”, field, or ice diamond, can directly apply to lessons for how to live in our communities. It will also draw from personal experiences of challenges “on the field”, and how conquering these challenges can be applied to the challenges we face in society at large.

Facilitator: Redge grew up playing a number of sports both in leagues and on the street, and can now be found coaching a grade 5 and 6 co-ed basketball team in Toronto for “UPWARD Basketball League.” She still plays both basketball and baseball, and is an advocate for positive self-expression and youth/community connections through sport and “art.”

Facilitator: Jeremy Brink was born in Toronto, adopted in Northern Ontario and raised in the Hamilton/Burlington area. He has been involved in the sport of football for 27 years as a player and a coach, going to National finals twice and winning in 2006. Jeremy is active in working with youth in the system, and has come to share his story of survival through sports.

What is Indigenous Youth Activism? Where did it start? How are indigenous youth using their voices? Lynzii will share her experience founding a youth-led environmental awareness project in her community of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island. Participants will be engaged in interactive activities in which they will identify how they can use their voice and create an action plan/project of their own.

Facilitator: Lynzii Taibossigai, Caribou Clan, is an Anishnaabe-Kwe from M’Chigeeng First Nation and Manitoulin Island. She is the founder of the LOVE Shkakmi-Kwe (Mother Earth) Project & Youth Action Team in her community, which aims to increase the awareness of environmental issues and opportunities at a grass roots level. Lynzii was a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and is now a member of the Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council where she holds the Environment Portfolio.