November 25, 2013 – 3:16 pm
Hub Halifax members Uganda Venture have launched a fundraising campaign to bring electricity to the village of Tabiro, Uganda. The campaign launched on Friday and is called Lights for Light (lightsforlight.ca). The organization is seeking 3000 generous individuals to donate $10 each, in order to raise the necessary $30 000 required to complete the project. That amount will be added to the contribution from the Ugandan government, who have committed to paying 70% of the cost with the condition that the village of Tabiro provides the remaining 30%. The managing director of Uganda Venture (who works out of the Hub) is Fadi Al Qassar and he explains that the organization is very excited by the prospect of bringing electricity to the village: “When we first started working in Tabiro the community flagged electricity as a crucial need. We encouraged them to apply to get access to electricity; our job in this process […]
November 7, 2013 – 2:48 pm
Screening at The Hub Halifax! This independent documentary was released in 2012 in Argentina. The film documents diverse alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain. It has been screened in more than 30 countries and now, for the first time in Canada, The Forbidden Education will be screened at The Hub Halifax. Education has always been an area of discussion all around the world and in this moment we are in a stage of finding alternative ways of changing the world, of making it a better place for all. For achieving these goals we as human beings need to be creating, to face challenges, to develop skills, but is education in schools helping us to do this? Are we being asked how do we feel? What do we think? What do we want to do? and also… What about peace? As one of the interviewed teachers […]
October 1, 2013 – 3:20 pm
This is a feature on Carolyn Hocquard of Farmpunk.ca. Carolyn is a host at the Hub Halifax and also a guest speaker at the Hub’s upcoming Harvesting event on Friday, October 4th. For more information on this event, please click here! (Photo credit: Ria Sajan Thomas) Carolyn Hocquard graduated with a degree in architecture. Then she started a blog about food. It’s a bit of a twist, but as she explained to me during our Skype call last week, it happened quite simply. “Really, my degree is in architecture, but for my thesis I did a theoretical project that was an educational kitchen and restaurant where tourists could take a tour of the whole food cycle within the restaurant. So they would see, for example, different growing and preservation methods. It gave me the chance to research all kinds of food issues, and then after my degree I realized I was much […]
