Featured at Grebel:
- Film Screenings with Discussion and Q&A
- Global Climate Strike
- Spiritual Heritage Education Network's Team Annual Reflective Conference
- St. Paul's 16th Annual Pow Wow
- Reconciliation Book Club
- MEDA Women Empowering Women
- 100 Debates on the Environment
Featured at Grebel
PACS Experiential Learning Opportunities Information Session
Where: CGR 1300
Whether you have been thinking about adding experiential learning to your PACS degree, are interested in learning about the different opportunities, or are simply wondering "what is experiential learning?" then this session is for you! PACS advisor Rachel Reist will be hosting an information session on all things experiential learning! She will be covering the EDGE program, PACS 390, PACS 391, PACS 395, and study abroad including past students stories and how to apply!
Events
Film Screenings with Discussion and Q&A: The Mush Hole with R.G. Miller and The Mush Hole: A Shared History
Where: Alumni Hall, St. Paul's University (190 Westmount Rd N.)
Cost: Free
When: September 27th at 10am
Where: UWaterloo Arts Quad (outside Dana Porter Library)
To participate in the Global Climate Strike, the UWaterloo community will meet in the Arts Quad and then proceed to Waterloo Town Square, meeting up with the Laurier community along the way.
Spiritual Heritage Education Network's Team Annual Reflective Conference
Where: Renison University College, University of Waterloo
Student Ticket Price: $49.00
The conference will work to interactively develop the achievable objectives, learn practices to cultivate unity in diversity, discuss social pros and cons, and issues related with the development of public policy, political will and curricula.
When: September 28, 12-5pm
Where: Waterloo Park (near the band shell)
Cost: Free
Where: Words Worth Books in Uptown Waterloo
The Gender and Social Justice Program is partnering with local bookstore, Words Worth Books to host a monthly meet-up of Professor Pam Palmater's Reconciliation book club. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 9 and will be discussing The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline.
When: October 3rd at 7:00pm- 8:30pm
Where: 50 Kent Ave., Kitchener, ON
Cost: By Donation
The Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) is hosting a Women Empowering Women event. This is will include; learning about the issues facing women in developing countries, learning about MEDA's projects that empower women, and engage with their various projects around the world. The event is free and there is food available, they ask that you do please register and give a small donation at the event. To find out more click the Read More button, to RSVP please email Katie West: kwest@meda.org
Where: ML, Theater of the Arts
By organizing over 100 debates across Canada, this project is designed to make the environment an issue that political parties can no longer ignore. The debates will create a forum where voters can hear directly from candidates about their visions for the environment.
Ashinaga Internship Program - Japan
Ashinaga is an NGO which works to provide educational support and emotional care to orphaned students from around the world. There are rolling deadlines for the various available internships throughout the year. The deadline to apply for a winter 2020 internship (January 13 - March 20, 2020) in Japan is due October 1, 2019!
St. Jerome's Beyond Borders program is a 90 day service learning placement at an international nonprofit combined with pre & post departure retreats and course work! This program is open to full time, upper-year undergraduate students in good academic standing. The best part? This program can go towards your PACS 390 credit!
Waterloo Journal of Environmental Studies (WJES)
Supported by Imprint, the Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Enviroment, WJES is a new academic journal at the University of Waterloo, with the potential for peer review, focused on the environment. WJES is looking for submissions for their publication. Submissions can be in the form of personal research papers, lab reports, term papers, or field course reports!