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~Edmonton's NextGen is an initiative of the City of Edmonton that seeks unique ways to encourage the next gen demographic to volunteer and give back to their community, explores ideas that connect people to their city and each other and are catalyzers of ideas and connections!~
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Are you new or new(ish) to YEG? Want to connect with others in Edmonton that are 18 to 40 years old?
Join Edmonton’s NextGen at the Grindstone for a FREE evening full of networking, speakers, story sharing and more! We are excited to host another networking event for new residents to Edmonton to connect other YEG newbies and hear from some stellar speakers.
When: TONIGHT - Thursday, May 16
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Where: Grindstone Theatre (10019 81 Avenue NW)
This is a FREE event. We have a few tickets left so RSVP soon!
Event Schedule for the night:
6-7pm | Networking activities and mingling in the bistro areas. Enjoy some complimentary appetizers.
7-8pm | Hear from local YEG speakers about their stories. More information coming soon! Or check out the show at the Grindstone Theatre called "Coyote Comedy Presents: Word" for $12. You can buy tickets online or at the door.
8-8:30pm | Continue networking and making connections with other YEG newbies!
NextGen City Jam at Sonic Field Day
We've partnered with SONiC 102.9 and SONiC Field Day on September 7 & 8 at Hawrelak Park for NextGen City Jam.
City Jam is about encouraging people to volunteer in our city and celebrate volunteerism in Edmonton. Volunteer and get your name on the guest list! Thanks to those who have volunteered and signed up!
How City Jam works:
1. Volunteer 10 hrs at an Edmonton charity or nonprofit starting May 1st, 2019 until September 4, 2019.
2. Once you have 10 volunteer hours, sign up here to get your name on the guest list to attend one of the days of Sonic Field Day!
You might even have an opportunity to meet & greet one of the bands - hint July Talk, Glorious Sons, Sam Roberts Band. Meet & greet spots are limited to 20 people!
3. We will contact your reference to confirm your volunteer hours. Once we receive confirmation, you'll receive an email from us that your name is on the guest list for one of the days at Sonic Field Day!
Guest list spots are limited so make sure you have your volunteer shift and hours lined up soon.
Need more info? Read the FAQs for volunteers: http://bit.ly/FAQsvolunteers
Special thanks to Volunteer Alberta and Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations for supporting NextGen City Jam!
We chatted with Lauren Hunter and Sonic 102.9 about NextGen City Jam at SONIC Field Day!
Click on the image above to watch the video.
Tickets on sale for Timeraiser
Timeraiser supports emerging Canadian artists and nonprofit organizations. In a nutshell, Timeraiser is a silent art auction where attendees bid volunteer time, not dollars, for original art.
In addition to supporting emerging artists, Timeraiser helps to foster and celebrate volunteerism nationally and in local communities.
When: Saturday, June 1 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, 8426 Gateway Blvd
Tickets: $20
Bid on artwork from local artists including these paintings by Mandy Stephen and Alayne Spafford.
Pecha Kucha Night 34
PKN 34 will feature ten presentations on local ideas, projects and musings in the 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide format made popular worldwide by Klein Dytham Architecture.
Where: Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre
When: Thursday, June 13, Doors open at 6:00pm, Presentations at 7:00pm
Purchase your tickets soon - 2 for $30 until May 20
Our PKN 34 presenters:
1. Troy Pavlek, Don't Run for Public Office
2. Brent Collingwood, A Tale of a Trail: The last 30 km to One Connected River Valley
3. Angela Ostafichuk, Future Seniors
4. Katie Hayes, Resilience and my Rescue Dog
5. Paige Campbell,, Matthew Goebel, Kaelin Koufogiannakis, Infiltration: The Infill Housing Design Dilemma
6. Alexis Marie Chute, Who Controls Your Joy?
7. Avani Ladhar, Why You Should be Talking to Strangers
8. Claire Laing, Leadership Without Words - Partnering With a Horse
9. Andrea Eriksson, Hemp: Marijuana's Cooler Cousin
10. Monica Lewicki, Negotiating Like a Boss: Lessons from an 8-year-old & an FBI Agent
Polar Park's Start-Up TNT: Ignite Your Life
Calling all innovators, entrepreneurs, and fun-makers: Stop networking and start living. We are Edmonton-based entrepreneurs and we want to get to know you better. Our goal is to help build that entrepreneur-led community we’ve all been talking about. But most of all, we just want to have fun on Thursday nights. So entrepreneurs, let’s get together, let’s get to know each other, and let’s have some fun as a community.
When: TONIGHT - Thursday, May 16
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Polar Park Brewing Co. LTD, 10416 80 Ave NW
Tickers $5
Are you ready to start planning and testing solutions to improve urban wellness of the 6 core neighbourhoods, Boyle Street, McCauley, Central McDougall, Strathcona, Queen Mary Park and Downtown?
Recover is hosting a series of four co-design workshops, each focused on different opportunity areas. The workshops will build off the starting points for action generated by research. Using social innovation, grounded in human-centred design the workshop will narrow down to a set of potential prototypes.
What, when and where: In-home Restarts: TONIGHT - Thursday, May 16, 5:30 - 8:30 pm at MacEwan Roundhouse, 11110 104 Avenue
Anyone interested to get involved is invited to RSVP to any of the sessions that they are interested in exploring further.
Attend the 3rd annual International Museum Day Lecture featuring Geoff Green, Executive Director of Students on Ice, and expedition leader of the Canada C3 Expedition, and Dr. Mark Edwards, RAM Curator of Mammalogy.
Canada C3 was a signature project for Canada's 150th Anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The epic 150-day sailing journey from Toronto to Victoria traversed the Northwest Passage exploring the environment, meeting coastal communities, and connecting Canadians from coast, to coast, to coast.
You're invited to this event and listen to a discussion on the voyage and how its focal themes of diversity and inclusion, reconciliation, youth engagement, and the environment connect to how we discuss Canada's natural and human histories.
The evening will also be the Alberta premier of the documentary capturing the C3 Expedition!
When: TONIGHT - Thursday, May 16
Time: 6:00pm, doors open - light reception, silent auction, cash bar, 7:00pm, lecture starts
Where: Royal Alberta Museum 9810 103A Avenue
Tickets: $25
Edmonton Downtown Farmers Market
The Downtown Farmers Market is thrilled to now be open all weekend long!
Outdoors all summer long, free parking and dog friendly!
Find the new market location on 103 ave and 96 street on Saturday from 9:00am-3:00pm and Sunday from 11:00am-3:00pm.
Hello Amii! in Edmonton by Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
Hello Amii! is your introduction to the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and their Applied Machine Learning team.
Learn how our experts can guide your teams and processes to help propel your business to the next level using machine intelligence. We want to take you beyond small-scale AI projects that will have a local impact in your company and jumpstart your thinking around the ways artificial intelligence and machine learning can help drive the next stage of growth for your business.
When: Thursday, May 30 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: Amii HQ, #1101, 10065 Jasper Ave
This is a FREE event
Attend Hello Amii! and discover how their team of expert Machine Learning Advisors can help you gain the knowledge, skills and abilities you need to create a transformational shift in the way your teams think about data and decision making.
Youth @ the Table
Volunteer Alberta is thrilled to announce their new youth engagement initiative: Youth @ the Table! Supported by Leaders Today, this project aims to engage young people ages 18 to 30 in Alberta’s nonprofit sector. Let's bring youth perspectives to our decision-making tables! 💪
Supported by Canada Service Corps, Youth @ the Table is a province-wide initiative seeking to engage youth ages 18-30 in shaping their communities.
Participants will spend at least six months from September 2019 until March 2020 collaborating with a nonprofit organization to explore and impact a social issue they care about. Volunteer Alberta will match youth participants with a nonprofit where they will be engaged at the governance level on a board, committee, or council.
Applications for nonprofit organizations are open now until May 30. Stay tuned for youth applications!
Rise Program
Apathy is Boring is a national, youth-led organization that works to empower and support young people to get involved in their communities and cities.
Their RISE program is designed for young people with little or no previous experience in volunteering. Over the course of 20 weeks, the RISE Ambassadors will build skills and collaborate with others to build a community project in their city.
The RISE program will run for 20 weeks from August 5th, 2019 to December 15th, 2019. Youth ambassadors have to commit 6 hours a week. There is also a mandatory 4 day retreat to attend between September 5th and September 8th, 2019. All expenses are paid.
Ambassadors from across Canada will come together in Quebec to meet each other, build skills and get inspiration for their projects.
Explore some of Edmonton’s accessible homes. Accessible Home Tours Open House
When: Saturday, June 1st
Where: The home address will be shared closer to the event date for security purposes. The neighbourhood is Starling.
This is FREE event!
You will have the opportunity to explore the home and all the features that make it accessible. The aim is to bring together city officials, builders, and citizens to explore what currently exists in accessible housing and to imagine how some of these features could be incorporated into standard building practice.
The world’s first green carnival is returning to Edmonton
Sustainival is a "green" festival that features exhilarating games, attractions, a marketplace, community booths, and rides - all powered by renewable energy!
When: Sustainival in Edmonton runs June 6 - 9
Where: Kingsway Mall, North West parking lot
This unique annual festival provides an experiential public education platform that celebrates energy literacy, sustainability, and clean-technologies.
There will be a full-scale green powered midway, local healthy food trucks, community vendors and of course lots of free educational eco-related activities for all ages!
Sustainival is an ungated event with no admission charge over the 4 days. Attendees who want to go engage beyond the free components are welcome to ride the green midway by purchasing tickets in advance.
The Edmonton and Area Land Trust (EALT) is seeking new Directors to join its board
EALT is a non- profit organisation dedicated to conserving local and regional natural areas. Such areas support a range of values, including: health, child & family development, economic, cultural, scenic, and environmental.
In the last 10 years, EALT has secured and stewards 12 conservation lands in Edmonton and 8 surrounding municipalities.
EALT welcomes applications no later than Friday, June 14, 2019.
The first EALT Board meeting to which successful candidates will be invited will be on Tuesday 16th July, the AGM, and candidates will be informed before the end of June.
For more information about EALT and its Board of Directors email info@ealt.ca.
Missed a recent Pecha Kucha Night?
Take a moment and watch some of Edmonton's most inspiring people chit chat (Japanese: ぺちゃくちゃ, IPA: [petɕa kɯ̥tɕa], chit-chat ) in 6 mins and 40 seconds! The presentations from PKN 30-33 are on our YouTube channel.
Council Roundup
Each week Taproot Edmonton brings together the latest discussions, reports, decisions, and other updates on municipal politics and City Council in Edmonton. Read the Council Roundup to stay informed on the decisions City Council is making that affect your day-to-day.
The Council Roundup is curated and written by Mack Male. Taproot Members and subscribers get it first each Friday morning, with social media followers getting the update later.
