Reflections on the CDLI Big Meet Up Big Anniversary event on November 18th and re-imagined Vision and Mission
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A Summer of Community Placemaking!
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Join CDLI for our Meet Up on Practicing Sustainability taking place on Thursday, April 27, 2023 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association (1320 5 Avenue NW).
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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! Find out more about our Roundtable guests here.
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This year marks 10 years since the Community Development Learning Initiative came into existence here in Calgary! We're collecting your stories about your experiences with CDLI to help re-ground ourselves in our purpose.
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On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 CDLI hosted a Meet Up around the question of “Exploring the Value of Community-Led Economies”. Access the recording and see some reflections from Amanda in this post.
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Check out the harvest from the August ABCD Learning and Action Team gathering! We share some ideas and some reflections on what it means to connect with our communities.
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On June 8th 2022 we hosted our second Community Development Practitioner Mini Summit! We spent a morning learning together and from one another - check out the full post for details and harvests.
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A recap and learnings of our May community conversation on how we can build safe(r) communities.
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Watching Your Neighbour vs. Watching Out For Your Neighbour
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This year, the CDLI team organized a Jane’s Walk that happened in Martindale on Saturday, May 7th and got a chance to learn about the Genesis Centre, the Dashmesh Culture Centre, and the Martindale Community Association. Here is Sukhman’s experience on the walk.
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This year we’ve been holding space for an hour of reflection on the last Friday of the month over the lunch hour. To date, we’ve hosted three sessions where community members have been able to pair up to go deep on what changes they’ve noticed in their communities over the past month.
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For our February Community Gathering we brought together some inspiring Calgarians to speak about community projects they’ve undertaken in recent months. See the recording and more here.
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On Monday, January 31st the Anti-Racism and Decolonization Learning and Action Team organized CDLI’s first Meet Up of the year! To explore what mutual aid is looking like in Calgary these days, we brought on three knowledgeable and experienced guests who participate in and support mutual aid in a variety of ways in our cities.
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On Saturday, December 4, 2021 we hosted our end-of-year gathering on the theme of ‘What’s Possible!?’. Find out what we talked about, and see a recording of the Roundtable conversation, here!
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On Monday, May 3, 2021 we hosted a Meet Up on “Engaging Community Through Our Strengths: Asset Mapping in COVID”. This Meet Up was inspired both by the development of a new asset mapping tool, as well as the upcoming Jane’s Walk happening May 7-9 in Calgary and around the world!
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For many of us, one way to find a mental break during a global pandemic is to walk around our neighbourhood. Fourteen months later, walking has (sometimes begrudgingly) become the one way to connect with my neighbourhood.
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For our March 2021 Meet Up, we explored creative ways of (re)claiming outdoor spaces for community building efforts! Find out more and see the recording here.
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