Join us for our Community Development in Action Roundtable!
On Tuesday, March 28 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. we’ll be hosting a roundtable showcasing Community Development in Action for our March Meet Up! In addition to hearing stories for our wonderful Roundtable (see descriptions below), we’ll also hear from two MRU students who have been working behind the scenes this semester to help address a gap in community grants awareness!
You can register for the gathering here. The Zoom link will be sent to everyone who has registered through Eventbrite on the day of the event.
Roundtable Members Include:
Bethel Afework, The Alcove Centre for the Arts
Bethel is an educator, poet, entrepreneur, and nature-lover who is passionate about making cities more enjoyable. Passionate about making Calgary a more welcoming city for all, Bethel founded Raw Voices in 2016. Currently, Bethel is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Alcove Centre for the Arts. The Alcove is a non-profit recreational art space with the mission to make arts more accessible by creating welcoming spaces where everyone can foster their creativity.
@bethelo2 @alcoveartscentre
Kim Fisher, Community Cruisers
Kim is a volunteer with the Community Cruisers! Their mission is to promote bicycle use for transportation as a means to improve health, sustainability, and equity in the Bow Valley. Blending her professional experience, formerly an Active Transportation Education Planner with The City of Calgary, with her lived experience of traveling year-round by bike and as a parent of a small bike enthusiast, Kim firmly believes in safe and connected cycling infrastructure that welcomes folks of all ages and abilities. Find Kim riding her long-tail cargo bike around Banff, bike-packing with her family, or testing her new mountain bike skills on the Tunnel Mountain trails.
https://communitycruisers.ca IG: @communitycruisers
Peter Tshienda, S.O.S. Congo
Peter has been helping out within the S.O.S. Congo community for as long as he can remember. For Peter, community is something big and something that people can come out to share ideas and not be ashamed of what people think about their ideas and rather have a positive mindset and a goal that they can achieve not only by themselves but with others that are also apart of that community. He believes that youth mentorship in community not only guides our generation but also helps us along the way because having a mentor or someone that has already been through the journey we face really gives us another way of seeing life and challenges.
Vincent Bahati, S.O.S. Congo
Vincent had the opportunity to play basketball growing up, and that has always been a part of who he is. He has been able to create a program to embody youth and allow them to have a space to put differences aside and enjoy basketball.
@soscongo
Note that due to a scheduling conflict, the Radical Community Building East Calgary team is no longer able to join us for this conversation. We’ll try and hear from them sometime in the future!
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