Alternative Welcome Week at McMaster

A HUGE thank you to our amazing volunteers for helping promote AltWW 2012 by creating stunning posters: Aili Wang and Abir Abdulla! Talented duo!

THANK YOU everyone who came out to all the events during Alternative Welcome Week 2012!! What a fantastic turn out! Great performances, engaging conversations, and some amazing talent! Hope you feel more inclined to be involved with social and environmental justice here at Mac and beyond! Please drop by at the OPIRG office in MUSC 229 http://www.opirg.ca/welcome

We can help you iron out your ideas for changing the world, hook you up with our awesome working groups and provide you with resources you can't find elsewhere! Looking forward to hosting AltWW 2013!!Staaaay tuned!
--Peace and lots of love from OPIRG McMaster!!!

Welcome | Linking Research to Action: Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) at McMaster OPIRG McMaster is a student funded/student directed organization working on issues of human rights, the environment and social justice.

Thank you so much Riaz and Meaghan for facilitating the Gentrification & the Art Crawl workshop! We overcame the couple of kinks in the beginning and it was quite a success! Great discussion--thank you to all the participants! For those of you who decided to go to supercrawl afterwards, hope you went in with an informed perspective of what's going on at James St.N !

*CHANGE OF LOCATION* for today's gentrification & the art crawl talk--Please meet in front of MUSC 229 (OPIRG office) at 6:15pm.

Join us TODAY at 6:15pm for an insightful conversation about the Art Crawl:

Gentrification & the Art Crawl- 6:15-7:15pm (MUSC 220) Before attending Supercrawl, join us for a discussion on the Art Crawl and its effect on James Street North and the nearby Landsdale neighbourhood. Important questions will be raised around who else lives in the downtown core, whose voices are excluded in city planning, and how space can be commercialized to the detriment and displacement of those at the margins

*CHANGE OF INFO* for tonight's supercrawl. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Preeti (coordinator of Altww) is unable to lead participants to supercrawl! However, please feel free to still meet in front of MUSC 229, and go together with other participants. Directions on how to get to supercrawl will be posted in the OPIRG door--it is very easy!! Make sure to bring your bus pass if you have one! Sorry for the inconvenience! HAVE FUN TONIGHT!

Thanks Vilma from HRES for hosting a Positive Space workshop! Always great to engage in discussion in how to make McMaster a more inclusive space!

THIS IS IT! LAST DAY OF ALTWW:

Positive Space Workshop—10-12:30pm (MUSC 318) This workshop aims to increase awareness about the lives and experiences of LGBTQ-identified persons and provide participants with the opportunity to act as allies.

Coldspring Valley/Lot M Restoration HikeColdspring Valley/Lot M Restoration Hike --1-2pm (MUSC 229)

This in-campus history walking-tour includes the founding of McMaster University in Hamilton in 1930, the original six buildings meant to be "indistinguishable from the neighbouring Royal Botanical Garden parkland;" an overview of the importance of the ecology of neighbouring Cootes Paradise; the H&D Railway (1880), Cootes Drive (1936) as one of the first "modern" highways in Canada; and in the west campus, the loss of Royal Botanical Gardens' land in the 1963 as McMaster expanded an ambitious parking plan (1969) into Coldspring Valley Nature Sanctuary (1958-1963)

The hike lasts an hour, comfortable walking shoes and weather appropriate clothing required.

Hike leader: Randy Kay of Restore Cootes. Restore Cootes' seeks ways to enhance and restore natural areas on the periphery of Cootes Paradise that have been degraded or lost to development. Randy is also OPIRG McMaster's Coordinator of Volunteers.

Gentrification & the Art Crawl- 6:15-7:15pm (MUSC 220) Before attending Supercrawl, join us for a discussion on the Art Crawl and its effect on James Street North and the nearby Landsdale neighbourhood. Important questions will be raised around who else lives in the downtown core, whose voices are excluded in city planning, and how space can be commercialized to the detriment and displacement of those at the margins

Super Crawl—Experience a neighbourhood full of musicians, artists, photographers and more! You won’t want to miss it!

Powerful comedy from 'Laughing Like Crazy' --incredible mental health awareness through many, many laughs--Thanks to Emma and all the performers for trekking to McMaster for AltWW!

What a fantastic, engaging discussion about racial politics in comedy--Thanks Meghna George for facilitating this workshop tonight!!

THANKS Andrew, Howard and Alvand for organizing the healthy living survival guide event! Delicious tomato-cucumber salad and apples!!

Want to volunteer around the community? Not sure how to start or where organizations need help? Check out Community Volunteer Action's Volunteer fair today, MUSC 311 @ 5:30-7pm:

http://www.msumcmaster.ca/calendar/30-volunteer-fair-2012-09

MSU McMaster Students Union CVA is a network of weekly volunteering groups that serve the community. As a member of CVA, you can volunteer with other McMaster students at various placements all across Hamilton. Several opportunities to help at-risk children, immigrant populations, those who are homeless, adults living with dis...