Community Greening Projects Community Greening Volunteer - Evergreen Brick Works

Get your hands dirty and help green Evergreen Brick Works! Come out to any of Evergreen's planting and stewardship events at Evergreen Brick Works on weekends this fall. Bring your friends and family and get your hands in the soil as we plant wildflowers to transform the community centre in the heart of the Don Valley. Refreshments, tools, gloves and training will all be provided - all you need is vigor and your work clothes! If you love fun and being outdoors and want to give back to nature, this is the opportunity for you. Families and students are welcome.

To find out more, visit our online calendar of events at http://www.evergreen.ca/en/get-involved/events.sn , and RSVP to the event that suits you. Contact Stuart McPherson at smcpehrson@evergreen.ca for more details.

posted 25-Aug-2010 4:34:24 PM | updated 8 days ago at 9:35 AM | 0 responses

Grand Opening Celebrations - Sep. 25 & 26 Event Assistant: Grand Opening Celebrations - Evergreen Brick Works (Sep. 25 - 26)

Come help Evergreen celebrate the launch of our new home at Evergreen Brick Works! Event assistants will ensure that these momentous celebrations are a great success.

Saturday September 25: noon - 4pm
Set-up & Take-Down, Station Hosts, Food Assistants, Greeters & Wayfinders, Transportation Assistants

Sunday September 26, Community Day Festival: 11 am - 4 pm
Set-up & Take-Down, Station Hosts, Greeters & Wayfinders, Activity Assistants, Transportation Assistants, Floaters and Translators (Urdu, Hindi, Mandarin, Dari, Filipino, Vietnamese)

What you bring: You are motivated, eager to help and like meeting new people.

When and where: Volunteers commit for a minimum three-hour shift on Saturday or Sunday (shifts between 10:30 am to 6 pm). Training and event happen at Evergreen Brick Works.

How we'll support you: Orientation session on Tuesday September 22, 6:30-8:30pm where you will learn about Evergreen Brick Works, the Grand Opening celebrations, your role(s) and have a site tour. Orientation materials will also be distributed by e-mail prior to the event. During the event all volunteers will report to the volunteer lead(s) and team leads.

Perks: Being a part of an exciting and momentous celebration. Spend your weekend interacting with nature and great people. Refreshments will also be provided.

Good to know: You can get to Evergreen Brick Works by walking or cycling or by taking the shuttle from Broadview station on event days - parking at the site is limited. Let us know if you need to make other transportation arrangements. The Evergreen Brick Works Farmers' Market will run on Saturday morning as usual. Event will be outside so volunteers should come prepared with comfortable shoes.

If this sounds like you: Contact cmartin@evergreen.ca and provide your availability and areas of interest. Please send along a current copy of your resume (if you have one) and if you have not completed an Evergreen Volunteer Application before, please download it from our Volunteering page and submit it as well.

posted 25-Aug-2010 4:31:23 PM | updated 8 days ago at 9:35 AM | 0 responses

Tour Training Week in Fredericton! Bikes, Sustainability, Food!

Do you dream of a world where everyone gets around on bikes, gets excited about composting and thinks about how their everyday choices impact the greater world? If so, this fall come help The Otesha Project continue to make this dream a reality.

The Otesha Project is a youth-led organization that brings people together for cycling/performing tours which empower communities to make more environmentally and socially responsible decisions in their daily lives. This fall, from Sept 7th to Sept 13th a new crop of sustainability advocates is descending upon Fredericton to prepare for the Highlands and Islands tour. This cycling and performing tour will have them pedalling through New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia to spread their messages of social justice and environmental sustainability with The Otesha Project's play, Reason to Dream. First, the group must come together to prepare for this journey at the jam packed training week in Fredericton.

For the training week, The Otesha Project is looking for enthusiastic, energized individuals to help make sure that training week runs as smoothly as a well greased bike chain. Volunteer activities include cooking delicious, organic food and help setting up the training site and activities. No previous experience is required. The best part: you will be surrounded by like-minded individuals who love to share energy and enthusiasm.

Could this be you?

Bike Wizard: They've got lots of bike fixing knowledge and will lead or help lead a bike maintenance workshop!

Cook Masterminds: Getting creative with donated and bulk foods, we'll be cooking vegan-style all week long. The team doesn't have time to cook as their training is rather intensive, so they really need your help.

Donation Questers: Seeking food that could other wise be thrown away, or donations that stores can provide!
Please contact Katrina@otesha.ca for more information, or call (613) 237 6065.

posted 24-Aug-2010 2:34:15 PM | updated 8 days ago at 9:33 AM | 0 responses

Setting up volunteer sketch comedy troupe In need of performers, a director, free rehearsal space

I write sketch comedy routines and in need of performers, a director, a free space to rehearse. (I have run my own troupes in the past) Groups and/or individuals are welcome.

But more importantly, I need people willing to commit to building a quality community (volunteer) sketch comedy troupe.

Since in creativity, we are always evolving, I encourage members to help "punch up" the material. The star of the troupe is the troupe itself.

I do not wish to act or direct. I'm more interested in behind the scenes - writing, producing and fundraising.

The material is not offensive, no profanity, staying away from controversial issues and topics. We don't want to offend our audiences.

I have about 35 routines, averaging 3-5 pages each. (One routine is about 30 pages.)

We will entertain in hospitals, nursing homes, drop in centers, etc. with script in hand like the old radio plays back in the 1940's and 1950's.

If we want to become a non profit, charitable community threatre that, too, is an option.

posted 23-Aug-2010 4:19:33 PM | updated yesterday at 10:17 PM | 2 responses

Variety Village's Walk Roll Run- Volunteers and fundraisers needed! Help us help people with special needs and their families
Sunday, September the 19th 2010
From 7:45am-1:30pm

Enthusiastic Volunteers are needed to help Marshal the Walk Roll Run Route, encouraging participants, assisting participants with special needs, handing out water, Setting up and taking down and so much more!

Why volunteer at Variety Village:
Variety boasts six acres of accessible indoor facilities, and remains the largest sport training and fitness complex for individuals with special needs in North America. It continues to be a world leader in promoting integrated active living, and features innovative programming for children and adults of all abilities. It has been recognized as the innovator in providing inclusive and integrated sports and recreational programming to children, youth, and adults of all abilities.

Walk Roll Run is Variety's main fundraising event of the year. By contributing as a volunteer, fundraiser or both, you ensure that the people who benefit from Variety's many programs continue to learn, grow and achieve new heights and new possibilities.

If you feel you are a suitable candidate please contact Zoë Middleton at
Zmiddleton@varietyvillage.on.ca

posted 18-Aug-2010 4:09:52 PM | updated 20-Aug-2010 11:36:18 AM | 0 responses