Are you, your group or your organization working to create connections in the urban environment? Apply to secure one of the free spaces at one of the SFU Surrey, Burnaby or Vancouver campuses. $500 to be spend on the event, available for each successful applicant!
Where it all begins! Featuring some of Canada's innovative minds discussing how we can create more connected communities. With special appearances by Bend Sinister and Shane Koyczan.
Designed for youth, by youth, explore issues related to isolation and disconnection while helping develop solutions at this interactive daylong conference.
Enjoy poetry in a relaxed, casual atmosphere. Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Bowering and Cecily Nicholson will share their poetic ideas with an engaged audience.
Community spirit to thrives at libraries – virtual, cooperative, academic and public! Join us to hear the top ten ideas submitted by community members, on how libraries can contribute to building stronger and more meaningful connections.
Metro Vancouver's business leaders discuss the role that the business community plays in building urban connections.
This popular downtown Vancouver brown-bag conversation series will discuss isolation in Vancouver, drivers of change in the community and potential solutions leading to greater connectedness, featuring Vancouver Foundations’ Catherine Clement.
Come out and enjoy CBC Debaters’ Charlie Demers and Richard Side , as they host a unique and eclectic night of comedy, music, arts and poetry.
This facilitated dialogue will discuss municipal strategies for various issues related to urban isolation with a focus on building more vibrant and resilient communities.
An evening of storytelling and music, this event features extra – ordinary community folks sharing personal reflections on how they have brought their neighborhoods and communities together.
Films from across the globe, exploring the issue of isolation in the urban environment, will be screened at the Westminster Savings Credit Union SFU Surrey Theater for the Alone Together Film Festival.