Join us for refreshments and discussion on Food & Community Wellbeing at Britannia
Date/Time: Jun 4 2017, 12:00 am to 2:00 pm
Vancouver, Britannia Community Services CentreCost: Free
FOOD & COMMUNITY WELLBEING
with Nick Saul, Community Food Centres Canada
How can the Britannia Renewal project incorporate leading edge thinking about food in supporting resilient inclusive and healthy communities?
Sunday June 4th, 2017
12:00pm Refreshments served
12:30pm Talk and discussion
Speaker:
Nick Saul, Community Food Centres Canada
Nick Saul is President and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada, a national organization that builds and supports vibrant, food-focused centres in low-income neighbourhoods that bring people together to grow, cook, share, and advocate for good food for all. A long-time community organizer for income equality, food justice and health, he is a recipient of the prestigious Jane Jacobs Prize, as well as the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. His bestselling book, The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, written with his wife, Andrea Curtis, was nominated for the Toronto Book Award and won several other awards.
“Food is the ultimate connector. We all eat. We all celebrate around food. [But] food divides us as well.” Nick Saul
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