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Cinema Politica Screening Sustainability

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Cinema Politica is a media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad. Cinema Politica’s biggest and longest running local was founded at Concordia University, Montreal in 2004 and ever since it attracts between 300 and 600 people to…

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.…

FIFEQ

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The International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec (FIFEQ) is a one week festival that occurs each year in March. While promoting the realm of visual anthropology, the festival is dedicated to the screening of films that celebrate the agency of individuals and collectivities. The goal of FIFEQ Concordia is to involve students in the making of a…

Women in Engineering Wine and Cheese

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This project consists of a Wine and Cheese event taking place on September 21st, 2016. The event will provide students the opportunity to discover paths in sustainability that professionals have taken, how they have gotten to where they are today, and gain valuable insights that will help to guide their career choices. This will help raise…

Food Preservation Project

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The Food Preservation Project aims to promote the year-round consumption of local, organic and seasonal produce through public education and collective food preservation. We provide a hands-on and community-based course on seasonal food preservation to the Concordia student community. The semester long course will bridge theory and practice as well as traditional and modern knowledge.…

Changing Landscapes: A Sculptural Interactive Installation

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‘Changing Landscapes’ is a sculptural interactive installation that educates the general public about the importance of sustainability and the implications of the human footprint on our ecosystem. The goal of this project is to create a realistic looking sculpture of dead bees living in a natural environment that visibly shows the audience the potential deadening…
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