As part of the month-long Maori Artist Residency, you and our students are invited to the screening of the New Zealand documentary Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen Wednesday, September 18 at 5:30 pm in the Alumni Auditorium Watch trailer here Followed by Q&A on Zoom with the Director, Hepi Meta, joining us from New Zealand. Also joining […]
Continue readingChamplain has been connected and partnering with Outright Vermont in one way or another for many years now, and today it’s with great enthusiasm that I am reaching out to see if we can get a Champlain team on Church Street pulling a fire truck! Outright turns 30 this year, and we are growing this […]
Continue readingGlean and Garden With Us! We believe that all Vermonters should have access to—and be able to afford and enjoy—fresh, locally-grown food. Intervale Gleaning and Food Rescue develops sustainable solutions to improve food access in Vermont. Utilizing primarily volunteer labor, the program gleans and rescues fresh food from Intervale farms during the growing season and […]
Continue readingMonday, September 23, 7:30–9:00pm @ The Silver Maple Ballroom, UVM Davis Center All Welcome — Free to Attend RESERVE YOUR SEAT As people gather for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, get inspired and motivated locally by stories of successful action against climate change and for human health. Panelists will share stories of how they’re fighting to protect human […]
Continue readingHello all, Please see the news releases for upcoming and exciting multicultural events happening at the Clemmons Family Farm in partnership with the Division of Communication and Creative Media and Champlain College! Clemmons Family Farm Artists in Residency To Sing of Common Things Press Release — Dr. Roz Whitaker-Heck, APR (STUDENTS: Preferred reference is Dr. […]
Continue readingView this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Teen pregnancy and nighttime driving Vermont is the only state that doesn’t have mandatory nighttime-driving curfews and this may increase teen pregnancies, a new study finds. According to the research, states with stricter laws controlling new drivers have decreased fertility by 3–4% among mothers between the ages […]
Continue readingI’m excited to share that AASHE has released the 2019 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI), a publication that recognizes top-performing colleges and universities in 17 sustainability impact areas and overall by institution type, as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). The report also highlights innovative and high-impact initiatives from institutions that submitted STARS reports […]
Continue readingPULL AGAINST POVERTY, championed by Switchback, is a tug-of-war event that started in 2017 to raise funds for CVOEO’s programs to fight poverty. Get a team together and help your neighbors… Our goal this year is to raise $20,000 to support the Good Food Truckwhich serves thousands of free nutritious meals in the summer to children in neighborhoods […]
Continue readingWe see more clearly than ever the ways that racial capitalism, militarism, and climate chaos feed off of and depend on each other. There are ways for everyone to be involved in this movement of movements. Click here for the quarterly Peace & Justice Newsletter. In This Issue PJC Marketing Volunteer Sign the petition: no wall […]
Continue readingThere are Many Ways to Help Out! Volunteer to staff the Pride Festival at Battery Park – especially if you’re a great stage manager, an expert tent raiser, a greeter extraordinaire, or a pro cleanup crew. Volunteer to guide the Pride Parade up Church Street. Parade volunteers get to watch the parade in action close-up, […]
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