PAST EVENT
OUR MODERATOR
Lisa Helps became the 52nd Mayor of Victoria when she was elected on November 15, 2014, and was sworn into office for her second term on November 1, 2018. Mayor Helps works hard at City Hall and in the community to ensure that the city is prosperous, affordable, sustainable, and ready for the future. Taking a long-term, big-picture perspective, she looks both around the city and around the world for innovative solutions to the pressing challenges facing us including climate change, lack of affordable housing, and growing social isolation and loneliness, especially among youth and seniors. She’s honoured to have been elected as Mayor of Victoria and to serve her community in this capacity.
This event will take place at Sunset Labs in downtown Victoria BC Canada, which sits on the traditional, ancestral, unceded homelands of the Lekwungen people, now also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
We endeavour to honour this land and its treaties by strengthening our relationship and responsibilities to them, and we acknowledge and thank the Lekwungen people, on whose land we live, work, create, dance and play.
Hope you enjoyed the stream, take a look at what we have from the event!
Access The Replay
In a time of social, political, economic and environmental meltdowns, we need to regenerate ecosystems on a large scale — including and in particular the ecosystems of our cities! The urban environment is part of nature, both impacted by the landscape around it and with profound effects on surrounding lands and waters, as well as on the lives of their inhabitants. How can we regenerate our cities, our human ecosytems, economies, social interactions, and human nature?
With 68% of global population projected to be living in urban centres by 2050, our cities are the global engines of culture, creativity and economic innovation, yet they are also often cold, alienating and unsustainable. Can we bring the warmth and deep relatedness of the village to the urban streets, and still keep the excitement and magic of urban living, all while bringing our world back into balance with the nature that surrounds us?
Join us IN PERSON or ONLINE for this panel presentation and community dialogue featuring an array of the west coast’s leading changemakers!
STARHAWK | www.starhawk.org
Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.
MARK LAKEMAN | www.cityrepair.org
Mark always gets out of bed in the morning excited to take down the patriarchy by repairing cities. He sees placemaking as restorative work, reacquainting people with how many complex dimensions of urban life can rejoin and then become simple together. Mark loves watching people create together and enact ecological and community repair as a way of finding their power. Mark loves building, designing, drawing, helping, using his hands in a zillion creative ways. He also loves being a son, brother, dad, husband, a friend, and an old growth activist.
BRANDY GALLAGHER | www.ourecovillage.org
Brandy has worked in Community Development circles for the past 24 years with a focus of ‘recreating the commons’ and having alternative economy as a basis within trade/barter, gift economy and service to the common good. Her work includes mobilizing tens of thousands of peoples to work together towards a seemingly impossible vision to rebecoming villagers, urban or rural, in a way that regenerates land and attempts to protect our collective future for generations to come.
The LIVE event is being held at Sunset Labs in downtown Victoria, BC
Details and registration for the IN PERSON event can be found here!
https://sunsetlabs.ca/event/birthing-the-urban-village/
JOIN US ONLINE FOR THE WHOLE CONVERSATION!
We’re very excited to share that this event is being made available LIVE online so that you can join us from wherever you may be! These days most of us have big full lives, and are dealing with various commitments around family, time, money and work. Digitally, you’ll have the speakers, conversation & community – all from the comfort of your own home.
LISTEN. ANSWER. ASK. CONNECT!
You’re not watching – you’re PARTICIPATING! Through our easy online webinar system, you can engage with other viewers, participate in polls & discussions, and even ask questions during question periods. You certainly CAN choose to just sit back and watch & listen, if you like – your active participation isn’t an expectation, but it IS an opportunity.
30 DAYS TO REVIEW AS NEEDED!
No need to stress – you’ll have 30 days to review the whole broadcast – go over parts you missed, look closer at slides or materials, hear that big mind-bomb again and again… and have every opportunity to deepen the integration of this offering.
NO FANCY TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED
There’s nothing to install, nothing to download, nothing to figure out. Here’s what you need to participate and have a great viewing experience!
> a modern internet browser (we recommend Chrome or Firefox)
> a reliable internet connection (hardwired is better than wifi)
> earbuds, headphones or good computer speakers
Sunset Labs is an intimate waterfront multi-purpose venue located downtown Victoria, Canada. This beautiful, high-tech venue hosts live broadcasts, meetings & workshops, dance nights, film screenings, live rock shows, fashion events, book fairs and everything else the community comes up with. For more information, please visit our website.
