Throughout the 2014-15 academic year, the Faculty of Applied Health and Community Studies will sponsor ‘The Community Builder Series’, a series of events, speakers and documentary screenings with a focus on building better and healthier communities. Each of the Community Builder events will inspire a call to action, and opportunities to promote community change. Highlights for Fall 2014 include:
Habitat for Humanity Women’s Build – (September 23) As part of a global campaign that brings women together in a shared mission to help families in need, on September 23, seventeen women volunteers from FAHCS will join thousands of women around the world in the fight against poverty housing. Our FAHCS Community Builders will be a part of the mission to break the cycle of poverty for families in need by helping to build 33 simple, decent and affordable homes. Besides bringing their muscle to the build, the Community Builders have committed to raising $5000 to sponsor the project. Watch for ways to contribute to this worthy cause.
Art and Soul Memories Art Exhibition- (September 24) This intimate exhibition documents one woman’s inner journey into Alzheimer’s. Betts Engell, long-time Oakville artist, passionate advocate for social justice and environmental protection and former Sheridan Early Childhood and Social Service faculty, shared her soul in her paintings. In the exhibition we see a vivid transformation in her work over time as memory and words fail and Betts conveys her inner world in her art.
Where
The Gallery, located in AA wing
Trafalgar Campus
When
Wednesday, September 24, 1 – 3 p.m.
Opening remarks at 1:30
Dates of Exhibition
September 19 – October 3, 2014
‘Home Safe’ Documentary Screening – (September 30) On Tuesday, September 30 from 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in the Student Pub at Davis(live) and Trafalgar (telecast), join us and distinguished documentarian, Laura Sky, for a light breakfast and a documentary screening of ‘Home Safe’. This powerful documentary focuses on the children and families who experience poverty and homelessness in one of Canada’s most prosperous cities. Researched and produced with the children and parents who appear in the film, it reflects their experience and thoughts about what it will take to end poverty and homelessness. Watch for details coming soon.