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Concordia Farmers’ Market

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In order to provide Concordia students with easier access to locally and organically grown food, we are setting up a farmers’ market on the downtown campus in the Concordia Green Space. The purpose of the Concordia Farmers’ Market is to make sustainable eating possible for all students in terms of affordability and convenience. Aside from providing…

Entomo Collective

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The Entomo Collective is an initiative aimed at Concordia students to advocate for entomophagy, the practice of eating insects. We will have a stall at the Concordia farmers market every week where we will share insect snacks, have conversations, and get feedback and ideas with students, staff, and anyone else. We will also hold promotional…

Graduate Department Symposium

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2017-18 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 The Department of Education graduate students will host an annual interdisciplinary symposium. The mission of the Graduate Symposium of the Department of Education (GSDE) is to provide students from Concordia and other universities with the opportunity to present their original research, develop interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration, and support academic endeavors. The…

Concordia Transitions

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Concordia Transitions started as a full day conference (now a multi-day ocnference) on urban agriculture and alternative economics at Concordia University with inspiring food related keynote speakers, local-activists, and student groups that takes place in February or March of every academic year. The conference is put on by the Concordia Food Coalition. Ultimately they want…

Animating the Future

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Animating the Future is a special one-day, one-time only event that comprises a series of community-building activities designed to support and highlight the contributions of students, new scholars, and emerging independent artists who study and create animated media as a critical form of artistic expression. It will take place on June 18, 2018, the day…

Chirps for Thought

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Chirps for Thought is a CFC working group aiming to lay the groundwork for the widespread adoption of edible insects in the Concordia community by challenging perceptual and economic barriers. Its objectives are threefold, namely to: 1) implement a participative insect farm in the basement of the Hall building using food waste as feed and producing both edible insects and organic fertilizer for community plant growers; 2) develop educational activities allowing for people to get…

Food Against Facism

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Food Against Fascism is a collective of approximately 15 students and community members who prepare and distribute a free five-course meal in a non-exclusionary manner to folks in and around the Concordia area. The meals are prepared using recuperated food wherever possible, in an effort to counter consumer culture. We serve outside of the Hall…

Living Soil Symposium

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The Living Soils Symposium Montreal is a 3-day bilingual event happening at Concordia University on October 13-15, 2017. It will bring together 400 participants including scientists, academics, students, food producers, government delegates, NGOs, activists, entrepreneurs, investors and consumers, to discuss the crucial role of soil health in addressing some of the world’s most pressing environmental…

Loyola Farmer’s Market

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The Loyola Summer Farmers Market’s goal is to bring local, sustainable food to the west end of Sherbrooke, where little grocery stores and restaurants exist. This project’s aims is to: create diversity in food, accessibility to healthy and local foods and other goods, enable economic development for low-income surrounding communities including the Student Residences, and…

Campus Potager

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Le Campus Potager (The Rooftop Gardens Project) is a student-based project that aims to improve, educate and promote food security and sovereignty on Concordia University’s downtown campus. Its goal is to engage the Concordia community through urban agricultural initiatives and empower students to produce their own gardens and to share their knowledge and experience with others.…
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