6:30 PM| Acton Rotary Park, 24 Elizabeth Drive
5:00 PM| 205 – 6660 Kennedy Road Mississauga
Fall EKCEP is our fall program and will commence in 2022. It will run for 9 weeks, starting September 13th, 2022 and ending November 12th, 2022. Registration is open for the Fall program.
Are you looking for an impactful activity for your youths for this summer? Check out EKCEP! Our EnvironFocus Knowledge and Culture Exchange Program (EKCEP) is a transformative youth educational program that provides an avenue for teachers and children from developed and developing countries to work together to solve sustainability issues affecting continents. Summer EKCEP is our summer program for high school students aged 14-18. It will run for five weeks, starting September 13 and ending August 12th, 2022. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 No Poverty will be the topic of this year’s fall program. Students will work together to create a project that targets an issue within their community that works towards eradicating poverty within SDG 1 so that it can be achieved!
The cost to participate per high school student is $450 CAD. Payment will be required to reserve a spot click here to reserve your spot today! Deadline to make payment is September 9th, 2022.
Students residing in Nigeria in need of assistance send an email to either projects@scan.org or ekcep@environfocus.com
Contact us at 1 (833) 939-8435 or send an email to programs@environfocus.com.
6:30 PM| Acton Rotary Park, 24 Elizabeth Drive
6:30 PM| Acton Rotary Park, 24 Elizabeth Drive
7:00 PM| Glen Williams Town Hall, 1 Prince St, Georgetown ON, L7G 2X1
Creating Our Happiness - Drop-in Meditation
with Kadampa Buddhist nun,
Gen Kelsang Kunden
Where does happiness come from? How can we create more happiness for ourselves and others? Buddha teaches that happiness comes from our positive thoughts and actions and unhappiness comes from negative thoughts and actions. When we deeply understand the law of karma, from non-virtue comes suffering and from virtue comes happiness, we can confidently create our own happiness and help others do the sameInstead of blaming our other people, our circumstances, we can learn respond with a positive mind to all challenges and difficulties and generate our own happiness.In September, we will contemplate the following topics and through meditation, deepen our wisdom and understanding and learn how to practically apply these teachings to solve our daily problems and difficulties.
Each class consists of guided meditations and teachings that we can contemplate and practice throughout the week. Each contemplation has a practical application to solve our daily problems. Through attending classes and putting effort into applying these teachings to our daily lives, we can make great progress increasing our own inner peace. Through engaging in meditation practice we can develop and maintain a peaceful mind all the time. If we have a peaceful mind all the time we will be happy all the time, regardless of whether our conditions are good or bad. Now is the time to train in inner peace and happiness by putting Buddha’s teachings into practice.
There is no need to pre-register. Just come along.
$12. $40 for 4 classes.
9:30 AM| 9 Church St, Halton Hills, ON
oin Halton Hills Public Library to celebrate Indigenous heritage and culture, while creating a visual reminder to recognize and honour the past. The Moccasin Identifier advances Treaty and Indigenous awareness by helping you develop a greater understanding of Treaties and Indigenous relationships to the land. Using a Moccasin Identifier Education Kit participants will use stencils based on drawings of historical moccasins of the Anishanaabe, Huron-Wendat, Seneca and Cree to create temporary or permanent paintings of the moccasin designs grounding their learning through an art-based activity.
This drop-in program is for all ages. Please come prepared to paint.
2:00 PM
The Lessons of Sky Woman - How the Haudenosaunee Creation Story Leads Us Into Resilience and Abundance.
This event examines themes of resilience and abundance as we explore the Haudenosaunee creation story of Sky Woman. Filmmaker and podcaster Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore of The Aunties Dandelion media arts collective will screen her latest animated film THE CLAY SHE IS MADE OF and clips from her podcast episode titled SKY WOMAN WAS PUSHED while participants take part in a guided art activity.
6:30 PM| Acton Rotary Park, 24 Elizabeth Drive
3:30 PM| Acton
Meet up with Acton's Artist in Residence Ingrid Mayerhofer at the weekly Farmers' Market, and stay up to date with her community arts project - to be revealed in Prospect Park this October! Ingrid's work has previously been on display through the Public Art Program with her 'After Nature' banner series, displayed throughout the town in 2020 and 2021. This program is presented by the Acton BIA in partnership with the Town of Halton Hills.
4:00 PM| Outside the Acton Town Hall
The Town of Halton Hills has partnered with the Downtown Acton BIA to bring you 'Art Around Acton'. Residents and visitors can experience a variety of temporary and permanent public art activations and cultural events in Downtown Acton until the end of 2022. As part of Art Around Acton and Culture Days, don't miss Ingrid Mayrhofer as the artist in residency at the Acton Farmer's Market this fall and the weekly music series!
Don't miss Ingrid Mayrhofer, visual artist, curator, educator and community arts pracitioner during an 8-week artist residency at the Acton Farmer’s Market every Thursday until October 6. During this residency, Mayrhofer will work with a “Tree of Life” motif, creating clay tiles that will be mounted to form a mural. Visitors can contribute sketches or clay pieces or chose to take a self-curing clay piece home. The final mural will be presented during Culture Days this fall. Residents in Halton Hills may recognize her printmaking works from the After Nature public art banners that were displayed in multiple locations in Town in 2020 and 2021.
7:00 PM| Glen Williams Town Hall, 1 Prince St, Georgetown ON, L7G 2X1
Creating Our Happiness - Drop-in Meditation
with Kadampa Buddhist nun,
Gen Kelsang Kunden
Where does happiness come from? How can we create more happiness for ourselves and others? Buddha teaches that happiness comes from our positive thoughts and actions and unhappiness comes from negative thoughts and actions. When we deeply understand the law of karma, from non-virtue comes suffering and from virtue comes happiness, we can confidently create our own happiness and help others do the sameInstead of blaming our other people, our circumstances, we can learn respond with a positive mind to all challenges and difficulties and generate our own happiness.In September, we will contemplate the following topics and through meditation, deepen our wisdom and understanding and learn how to practically apply these teachings to solve our daily problems and difficulties.
Each class consists of guided meditations and teachings that we can contemplate and practice throughout the week. Each contemplation has a practical application to solve our daily problems. Through attending classes and putting effort into applying these teachings to our daily lives, we can make great progress increasing our own inner peace. Through engaging in meditation practice we can develop and maintain a peaceful mind all the time. If we have a peaceful mind all the time we will be happy all the time, regardless of whether our conditions are good or bad. Now is the time to train in inner peace and happiness by putting Buddha’s teachings into practice.
There is no need to pre-register. Just come along.
$12. $40 for 4 classes.
10:00 AM| 509 Main Street, Glen Williams
Join the Town of Halton Hills in Glen Williams for the unveiling of a new moccasin crosswalk, vinyl wrapped box, and other activities to recognize the contributions and experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada; programming details tbc.