Civic Threads - Getting organized for this Crisis and the Next
About this Event
We're pulling threads of civic and community organizing in partnership with Communitywise Resource Centre, a place where Calgarians have come together for decades to organize! This gathering will focus on identifying advocacy efforts to create the change our communities need. Between an October Referendum to Municipal budgets to increasing austerity how we get organized is increasingly important. Will you join us, on September 15th?
Come prepared to gather over food, share what matters to you and identify how to build a campaign, learn from community experts and deepen a community of care practice.
Civic Threads is for anyone who needs a place to talk about the structural and political landscape we find ourselves in, find solidarity and looking to find allies to challenge the status quo.
Logistics / Agenda
Food and connection from 5:30pm - 6:15pm
6:15pm - Welcoming and Grounding
Weaving for Advoacy starting at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Thread #1 Living Library
- Meet with community advoactes who have experience, who know the ins - and outs of municipal politics, ask your questions about processes, support and avenues to advocate.
- Purpose: To hear from an ‘insiders’ and 'outsiders' about the processes and sensemaking about what influence and change can look like. What worked or what they see working to make change within City Hall and broadly.
- Outcome: Providing insight and knowledge to participants about City Hall.
Thread #2 - Creating a Campaign
- For participants to understand basic community organizing principles, along with how to develop a a community organizing campaign. We’ll go through frameworks like ‘evil genie’, artivism and ABCD to help embed and strengthen a campaign.
- Purpose: Provide participants with intentional ways for activism.
- Outcome: Share ideas on how to community organize.
- Process: Learn about a campaign structure, goals, objective, strategy and tactics. We'll work though your ideas though the evil genie framework. We'll learn how to be creative with your campaign and involve community.
Thread #3
- How can we provide a deeper meaning of care towards each other and the people in systems while we advocate? What stories can be shared to find a few critical ingredients to communities of care. Source examples from participants and examples that help provide clarity to the care.
- Purpose: Discussion based where participants share examples of how they can take care of each other while doing activism and still build community for the next crisis. What tools can be utilized to do this.
- Outcome: Understand how to engage with community care ideas to work towards the 2026 budget.P
- Process: Provide examples and then have them discussed, a creative map, drawing, writing, art.
8:00pm - 8:30pm
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