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Welfare Food Challenge Ends – Eat on the Welfare Rate for One Week – only $26 for Food in Vancouver
Welfare Food Challenge Ends Today
Hear from some of the 100 Challenge takers about their experiences and hunger and what they have learned about a poverty hunger diet.
After a week of eating a poverty diet, only spending the $26 that a single person on welfare has for food, the people who took the Welfare Food Challenge can return to their usual life. Most feel changed and now they have a much better understanding of life in poverty and an appreciation of food and its costs. But for the 177,000 people on welfare, the 137,000 children in poverty and the over 500,000 people in poverty in BC they have a poverty diet every week.
Speakers were:
· Bill Hopwood (Raise the Rates organizer) Chair
· Constance Barnes (Commissioner, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation) who took the Challenge
· Fraser Stuart (Raise the Rates activist) who is living on welfare
· Gerry Kasten (Registered Dietitian) who took the Challenge
· Ted Bruce (Executive Director of Population Health with Vancouver Coastal Health) who took the Challenge
· Victoria Bull, (Parents and Grandparents in Poverty) a grandparent raising her grandchild on welfare
· Jean Swanson (Chair of Raise the Rates)
· Karen Barnaby (Chef) who prepared a week’s worth of food with $26
Famous chef and food columnist, Karen Barnaby, will also present her food for a week, costing $26.
Contacts:
· Bill Hopwood: 604 738-1653, 778 686-5293 (cell) bill50@vcn.bc.ca
· Jean Swanson: 604 729-2380, jean.swanson@gmail.com
· Welfare Food Challenge Website: http://welfarefoodchallenge.org/
26 Years since Emery Barnes – Where are We Now?
Justice not Charity
Also hear also from people who live in poverty every day.
Raise the Rates: Welfare Food Challenge
Eat on the Welfare Rate for One Week – only $26 for Food
An Invitation to the People of BC
Poverty in BC
BC has the worst poverty in Canada. This has been true for nearly a decade.
The Facts:
- · BC has had the worst or second worst child poverty; 137,000 children in poverty.
- · BC has the worst overall rate of poverty; over 500,000 people
- · BC has the biggest inequality between the richest and poorest 20% of the population
Do you think poverty in BC is a scandal?
Do you want to do something to change BC’s poverty record? The poorest people in BC are those on welfare. A single person on welfare gets only $610 a month for everything shelter, food, hygiene, clothes, etc.
If we can get welfare raised this will help people on welfare and also everyone in poverty by pushing up standards.
We Invite you to take the Welfare Food Challenge
Raise the Rates has launched the Welfare Food Challenge. The challenge is to live for a week on the food that a single, able-bodied person on welfare would have – spending only $26!
The challenge will start on October 16, World Food Day, and will finish on OctRaise the Rates has launched a new challenge, the Welfare Food Challenge. The
challenge is to live for a week on the food that a single, able-bodied person on welfare would have – spending only $26!
hygiene only $109 remains for food – less than $26 for a week. There is nothing for clothes, haircuts, or any social life.
Raise the Rates invites people from across BC in all walks of life to take the Welfare Food Challenge and share with friends, the media and policy makers their experiences of a week of poverty eating.
Raise the Rates recognizes that one week is not the same as what people on welfare experience, as they have to survive for months on welfare and often lack proper cooking facilities.
You can do it for one week to help make a difference!
We hope you are interested in taking the Challenge and help end poverty in BC. Find out more:
- · go to the website: http://welfarefoodchallenge.org/
Please encourage friends and colleagues to take the Challenge too.
PRESERVE THIS: Stories, Food, Culture, Community Dinner for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Monday Oct 22, 2012
Community
PRESERVE THIS: Stories, Food, Culture, Community Dinner
Monday October 22, 6pm – 9pm
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings
Mini Fall Fair 3pm – 6pm
Woodward’s Atrium
In many ways, stories, food and culture go together. Through the stories we share over preparing and eating food we not only preserve the food, we preserve our culture and our histories. As part of W2’s Community Dinner Dialogue series Preserve This: Stories, Food, Culture is an evening of fall markets, food, friends and storytelling. Come early to explore the mini fall fair with fun demos and jam competitions in the Atrium. After we will listen to stories from special guests over a healthy local dinner made by Chef Karen McAthy of W2 Media Café. Proceeds
go toward W2 Media Café’s community education programs on healthy eating and local food security.
Dinner tickets $15 at W2 Media Café or www.w2mediacafe.org.
This event was on a Pre-Festival Day of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
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SINGING HISTORY for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Wednesday October 24, 2012
Music
SINGING HISTORY
Wednesday October 24, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main
Singing History: An evening of songs to celebrate the history of the Downtown Eastside community and its fight for human rights. Hear the uplifting voices and harmonies of Songtree, Quatro, The Diggers, the Barvinok Choir, Gathering Place Choir, Solidarity Notes Labour Choir and special guests Bill Costin, Michelle Richard and Mike Richter. Led by Musical Director Earle Peach. A newly-written song for the community will premiere this evening with lyrics from Telling Stories a poem by Sandy Cameron and music by Earle Peach. A spectacular concert of voices raised in song. Join in the chorus! Free
This event was on Day 1 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA
AHA Media YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
AHA Media Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/AHAMEDIA/sets
Mini Fall Fair for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Monday Oct 22, 2012
Community
PRESERVE THIS: Stories, Food, Culture, Community Dinner
Monday October 22, 6pm – 9pm
W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings
Mini Fall Fair 3pm – 6pm
Woodward’s Atrium
In many ways, stories, food and culture go together. Through the stories we share over preparing and eating food we not only preserve the food, we preserve our culture and our histories. As part of W2’s Community Dinner Dialogue series Preserve This: Stories, Food, Culture is an evening of fall markets, food, friends and storytelling. Come early to explore the mini fall fair with fun demos and jam competitions in the Atrium. After we will listen to stories from special guests over a healthy local dinner made by Chef Karen McAthy of W2 Media Café. Proceeds
go toward W2 Media Café’s community education programs on healthy eating and local food security.
Dinner tickets $15 at W2 Media Café or www.w2mediacafe.org.
This event was on a Pre-Festival Day of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
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AHA Media YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
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PAPER LANTERN MAKING for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Monday Oct 22, 2012
Workshop
PAPER LANTERN MAKING with Carrie Campbell
Monday October 22 2pm – 4pm
First United Church, 320 E. Hastings
Join well-known community artist and lantern maker specialist Carrie Campbell in this afternoon lantern-making workshop. Socialize with friends and neighbours, make your own special lantern, take it home, and bring along to the Procession of Light on Friday November 2 at 6pm. (please see Friday Nov 2 for complete procession details). A great way to light your way and the community’s spirit during these dark days of fall. All levels. No experience required. Free
This event was on a Pre-Festival Day of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA
AHA Media YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
AHA Media Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/AHAMEDIA/sets
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