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Making up Methadone: International perspectives on inequality, social justice and methadone maintenance therapy
This event was part of a workshop which brings an international group of researchers to Vancouver to discuss the social and cultural dimensions of methadone maintenance therapy for opioid dependency.
An evening of presentations and dialogue focused on key dilemmas connected to this longstanding but often still controversial treatment. Lived experience, inequality and social justice are themes considered from the vantage point of different global contexts.
Second Annual ROCKER FOR STREET SOCCER in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Vancouver’s street soccer teams are practicing hard and excitedly gearing up to compete in this year’s Homeless World Cup in Paris, France and we need your help to get them there!!!
Come meet the first and only homeless women’s team in Canada or chat with last years Team Canada players about their trip to the Homeless World Cup in Brazil
Mayhem and fun will include:
LifeSkills Centre folks from Vancouver Downtown Eastside at UBC Farm
Busloads of happy LifeSkills Centre folks from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside went to the beautiful UBC Farm to enjoy a day of friendship and feasting!
From the UBC Farm website:
“The UBC Farm is a 24 hectare learning and research farm located on the University of British Columbia’s Campus in Vancouver, Canada. The farm is student-driven and integrated with the wider community. As the only working farmland within the city of Vancouver, the UBC Farm is an urban agrarian gem, featuring a landscape of unique beauty.”
Read more here
7 Right to Food Mobile Murals at SOLEfood Urban Farms in Vancouver
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) Right to Food philosophy upholds the Human Right of Downtown Eastside residents to abundant, local, fresh and nutritious food that is available across the neighbourhood and delivered in a dignified manner. That’s why we serve fresh, nutritious, local produce in our programming centre.
The Food Murals were created during the HomeGround festival at Oppenheimer Park this year. Each mural represents a Food Solution developed by the DTES Kitchen Table Project, a Community Led Food Action Plan to bring more healthy and tasty food to Downtown Eastside residents.
DTES Kitchen Tables 7 Food Solutions
1. Standards = fresh protein, fruit & vegetables
2. Creative Recipes = quality, tasty and nutritious meals
3. Collective buying from local farmers
4. Jobs for our neighbours
5. Dignifying Food = more food at more places with no lineups
6. Partnerships with creative chefs
7. Greening DTES Kitchens
The DTES Neighbourhood House acknowledges and honours the fact that our community lies within the traditional territory of the Coast Salish people.
Video by Sid Tan
Hacks/Hackers Vancouver Launch Party + MoJo Jam!
Welcome, journalists, techies, media mongers and miscellaneous friends!
June 1 will be the inaugural event for Hacks/Hackers Vancouver. We’ll briefly introduce HH and buckle down to brainstorm ideas for the mojo challenge (see below.)
The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves “hacks,” someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code.
Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together — those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It’s for hackers exploring technologies to filter and visualize information, and for journalists who use technology to find and tell stories.
In the age of information overload, all their work has become even more crucial. This group aims to help members find inspiration and think in new directions, bringing together potential collaborators for projects and new ventures. Please also check out our blog at http://hackshackers.com Help us build the future of media!
There will be extremely free beer, (courtesy Mozilla Vancouver) mostly awesome people and tons of fun.
– Miraj & Farida. Co-organizers, Hacks/Hackers YVR
==Agenda==
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. :: mingling & mutual admiration.
7.15pm-7.30 pm. :: Introducing Hacks/Hackers, Q/A
Thanks to Mozilla Vancouver for sponsoring space for the event, and providing beer!
Who’s hosting? Farida Hussain, Miraj Khaled
7.30pm :: Napkin-sketchathon (plus more beer.)
Sketch out your brainstorm ideas for the ‘MoJo Challenge #3’ : Create open web news apps. We’ll have napkins and pencils on hand!
8.15pm-8.45pm :: showcase and submit ideas :: prize for the best concept.
==Mojo Jam==
Knight-Mozilla News Challenge [MoJo]
Are you a web developer with ideas about how news should work on the web? Or a news junkie with a hankering to hack?
Especially for students and young hackers: enter the Knight Mozilla News Innovation Challenge at the meetup, gives you a chance at a paid app development fellowship at the Guardian, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Boston Globe and Zeit Online.
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