Create a Winning LinkedIn Profile
With Jane Iordakieva
January 29th, 2019 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
LinkedIn is a great tool for job searchers and an important one for networking. For many HR departments and recruiters your LinkedIn profile, how you present yourself online professionally, is more important than even your resume. With LinkedIn's growing job search and recruitment functions, you can increase your chances of landing your next job. This workshop is a hands-on interactive course which will take you through all the functions and features of LinkedIn and get you working on your profile. A photographer will be on site to take your photo for your profile picture, and you will leave the workshop with a brand new professional LinkedIn profile. If possible, please bring a laptop or ipad and a copy of your up to date resume!
Jane Iordakieva is a Parkdale resident with nearly a decade of communications experience. She is currently a Director of Communications at Spectrum Health Care. She volunteers with a number of community organizations.
Multiparty Negotiation - Session Two
With John Schaffter
November 6th, 2018 6-7:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
How can we, as a community, negotiate effectively with city departments and officials?
The second session about multiparty negotiation will explore some common techniques for effective interest negotiation including;
-How to use questions to explore underlying interests
-How to reframe entrenched positions so that they can be addressed that can be addressed
-How to assess negotiated options to decide before committing to an agreement.
-Principles for designing a multiple party negotiation table.
-Participants will practise these skills and examples will be used from the Parkdale Bachelorette negotiation.
A short summary of the first session will be included at the start of the session for those who could not attend.
November 6th, 2018 6-7:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
Toronto's Amazing Bird Life
With Emily Rondel
May 22nd, 2019 6-8pm, Milky Way Garden
Did you know that Toronto is home to an amazing variety of birdlife — birdlife that today faces an unprecedented threat of extinction? Join Emily Rondel of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) to learn about some of the Species-At-Risk that share your city, your neighborhood, even your homes! Learn how different types of urban spaces can
attract and support a diversity of bird species, and how you can ensure their survival throughout the year.
Emily Rondel is TRCA's Community Engagement Coordinator, and for the past 7 years has served as Toronto Projects Lead for Bird Studies Canada.
Yoga for Beginners
With Karolina Kisiel and Salma Oomer
January 29th, 2019 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
January 22nd, 2019 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
February 5th, 2019 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
January 15th, 2019 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
This beginner series introduces the fundamental principles of alignment, breath work, yoga philosophy and meditation. The class will flow through a series of postures linked together by the breath. Each class will end in a 5-10min meditation. Clear verbal description and demonstration will be given to establish each student’s understanding and stability within the sequence. Functional movement will be a part of each sequence. All are welcome!
The instructors are Parkdale residents Salma and Karolina. Salma has over 500 hours of YTT and is a certified high school teacher. Karolina has been a curious mover, dancer and yogi for over a decade. She holds over 500 hours of YTT.
A World Beyond War
With Melissa Weale, Tamara Lorincz and LeeAnne McKenna
March 5th 2019 6-8:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
March 19th, 2019 6-8:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
April 2nd, 2019 6-8:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
How can we make the best case for shifting from war to peace? What must we understand and know about the war system if we are to dismantle it? How can we become more effective advocates and activists for ending all wars, pursuing disarmament, and creating systems that maintain peace? These questions and more will be explored as we delve into the course. We’ll debunk the myths that war is inevitable, just, beneficial, or necessary.
The Work: Unpacking Masculinity and Patriarchy
With Ben Losman and Teresa Salazar
October 15th, 2019 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
Western masculinity is in a state of crisis. Even as feminist-inspired movements for social change are making strides in challenging patriarchal authority, conservative and alt-right forces are consolidating their control over how masculinity is debated and understood.
What would a feminist masculinity look like, in 2019? How can we, as a culture of feminist men, women and non-binary people, work to cultivate it? Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous’ 2017 documentary film, "The Work," offers a provocative and fascinating snapshot into an intensive struggle for personal and social change. The film follows an intensive weekend of group work at Folsom State Prison, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated men delve into a world of complex and often explosive emotions together.
Join facilitators Ben Losman and Teresa Salazar for a screening and discussion of the film.
Teresa Salazar is a family therapist with experience working with assaulted women and abusive men and woman.
Evening With The Unknown Philosopher
With David Ross
January 14th, 2020 6:30-8:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
In Canada's most recent federal election, the NDP failed to retake High-Park-Parkdale, Why? Because the party failed to articulate a systematic post-capitalist future. The second straight Liberal Party victory in High-Park Parkdale only emphasizes the failed, sterile character of current NDP thinking.
David Ross, a local writer, activist, offers three-minute extended pieces of writing that contribute to the building of a necessary social movement for a post-capitalist world, with the aim of provoking critical thinking and future action.
February 10th, 2020 6:30-8:30pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
Photo credit: Nick Kozak
Mobilize Liberate and Grow:
A Guide to Decolonizing Urban Farming
With Cheyenne Sundance
March 28th, 2019, 6-8pm, PARC (1499 Queen St W)
Cheyenne Sundance, Urban Farmer and Community Organizer, will have an open discussion about what decolonizing farming looks like and what we can do to start our own successful movements. True liberation will come once we see us in roles of growing food for our community, managing our own green spaces and in positions where we can further our food sovereignty movement with respect and dignity.
We cannot expect people of colour, namely black and indigenous people to join spaces and groups that are predominately white because their journey with growing food will be drastically different. Having your lands colonized, facing land based oppression, genocide, the lasting effects of slavery, enduring environmental racism and more shape one’s relationship on food and land.
Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists
With Cindy Milstein
June 17th, 2021, 6-8pm, Virtual
On Thursday, June 17th, 2021 writer, editor and organizer Cindy Milstein teamed up with the Parkdale Free School and Another Story Bookshop to celebrate the recent publication of There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists (AK Press). They also delved into the meaning of anarchism and, specifically, Jewish anarchism, especially its dynamic reimagining in the twenty-first-century—a reimagining thanks, in large part, to feminist, queer, and trans voices joining the conversation. Milstein also explored how a Jewish Anarchist framework can help to reconceive everything from resistance and resilience, to solidarity and experiments in prefiguring collective freedom for all in the here and now.
