Past Events

  • When:
    February 24, 2021 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Where:
Online / Microsoft Teams
Two chickadees face each other on a bird feeder

Join staff from the Humber Arboretum for a casual virtual conversation about all things nature. Drop in to hear members of the Arboretum's Nature Interpretation team share stories and answer your questions about the wild plants and animals of the GTA. You are welcome to join the conversation or just listen in.

The theme for this Nature Exchange is Invasive Species Awareness Week! 

This is a free, drop-in event open to all. 

No registration is required; just join the Microsoft Teams meeting during the scheduled event time. Visit the new Nature Exchange page on the Humber Arboretum website to recieve the link and see other upcoming event dates:

humber.ca/arboretum/learn/virtual/nature-exchange.html 

Please note that this event will be recorded and may be shared online after-the-fact.

 

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  • When:
    February 24, 2021 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Where:
Virtual
Contact:
Kavelle Maharaj
Event Details for the Principal's Wellness Wednesdays - Nutrition and Wellness

The Principal's Office at Humber Lakeshore Campus, in partnership with the Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness Team, is excited for the Principal's Office Employee Wellness Series for all Humber staff. For February 2021, the session will be about Nutrition and Wellness, in partnership with Humber Indigenous Education and Engagement and The Wholesome Conscious. It is being led by Alexandria Bipathnath.

Sign up here: humberwellnesswednesdays.eventbrite.ca

Join us to learn how to make a healthy and nutritious lunch together within a budget! Spots limited.

  • Topic: Nutrition and Wellness
  • Date: February 24, 2021
  • Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
  • Facilitator: Alexandria Bipathnath
  • Microsoft Teams - Session open to Humber employees only. Materials will be needed for this session.
  • After registering, the relevant session link will be sent

Workshop Structure

The session will begin at 12:05 p.m. with an interactive presentation and interactive activities.

Facilitator Bio

Alexandria is a graduate from the Institute of Holistic Nutrition and is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist (CNP), as well as a graduate from Fitness and Health Promotion at Seneca College. She is a Holistic Health & Wellness Practitioner as well as a caterer, who utilizes her First Nations ancestry to create awareness through conscious living for future sustainability.

Alexandria is the founder of The Wholesome Conscious where she both educates and advocates on holistic health and wellness from an Indigenous perspective. She facilitates her various workshops on Indigenous knowledge through traditional teachings, culture, history, nourishing plant-based nutrition, and physical activity.

Alexandria entered the holistic community to re-connect and deepen her roots with the mind, body, and spirit connection which coincide with Indigenous ways of healing. She also provides wholesome workshops on healthy eating, conscious living, and Indigenous foods within her catering company.

Alexandria caters events both within and outside the GTA at various events such as private gatherings, business meetings, conferences and Pow Wows!

Alexandria has been on Seneca College’s Indigenous Student Panel, Indigenous Youth Voices in Post-Secondary Schools Panel, Peel Regions Indigenous Day Mini-Pow Wow, a caterer at Scugog First Nations, a Fancy Shawl dancer at weddings, a vendor at UOIT’s Mini-Pow Wow, a guest speaker at the Indigenous Student Conference held at U of T Mississauga Campus hosted by Peel Region School Board and an apprentice at Gracious Living Oasis in Nicaragua.

  • When:
    February 23, 2021 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Contact:
Aaron Brown
Poster with panelist members and event description

“We’re all in this together” is a refrain synonymous with the global experience of COVID-19, but we know that this is a half-truth. In reality, this pandemic has disproportionately impacted many communities based on various intersectional identities. Join us for this fourth edition of Love in the Time of Corona, where guest speaker and disability justice advocate, Melissa Simas joins our diverse group of panelists from both Humber College and Centennial College to discuss the impact of disability on navigating relationships. Panelists highlight intersectional, multi-faith, and multi-community approaches to exploring how disability, accessibility and entrenched legacies of ableism impact connection with ourselves and others during the global pandemic.

Register online through Eventbrite

Guest Speaker & Panelist: Melissa Simas, Scarborough Women's Centre

Melissa Simas is a graduate of the Master of Social Work Program at Ryerson University. She is an advocate for promoting women’s rights and the social inclusion of people with disabilities. This is evidenced by her work as a volunteer with the Strengths-Based Parenting Initiative (SPIN) as well as the Sexability and Women with Disabilities Action Awareness Group at Vibrant Healthcare Alliance. For the past nine years, Melissa has held the position of Program Coordinator with the Expanding the Reach: Outreach to Women with Disabilities program at Scarborough Women’s Centre.

Panelists:

  • Seán Kinsella, Director, the Eight Fire - Student Life Enhancement (Centennial College)
  • Dr. Silvia D'Addario, Manager, Global Citizenship, Equity and Inclusion - Centre for Global Citizenship, Education and Inclusion (Centennial College)
  • Dr. Rick Ezekiel, Director, Equitable Learning, Health, and Wellness - The Centre for Accessible Learning and Counselling Services (Centennial College)
  • Aaron Brown, Coordinator, Sexual Violence Prevention & Education - Student Success & Engagement (Humber College)

Moderator: Amita Singh, Counsellor - The Centre for Accessible Learning and Counselling Services (Centennial College)

  • When:
    February 23, 2021 10:00am
  • When:
    March 16, 2021 10:00am
  • When:
    March 30, 2021 10:00am
  • When:
    April 13, 2021 10:00am

Counselling Services is excited to announce that they will be running a four-part Mindfulness Workshop Series for students. These workshops will occur on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in February, March and April.

Below are the dates and corresponding topics:

Tuesday February 23, 2021 Living in Autopilot
Tuesday March 16, 2021 Living in our Heads
Tuesday March 30, 2021 Thoughts are not Facts
Tuesday April 13, 2021 Allowing and Letting Go

Important information to know:

  • This workshop will involve psycho-education and experiential portions. There will also be lots of opportunities for interaction between participants
  • The Zoom link will be provided once the student confirms their registration by emailing rose.anthony@humber.ca
  • No participants will be permitted into the event after 10:15 a.m.

 How can you help?

  • Advertise this workshop to students who you think may benefit
  • Send students the attached poster
  • Let them know they need to pre-register to get the link
  • When:
    February 23, 2021 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where:
MS Teams
Contact:
Zareena Khan
Tel:
x4825
Strategies-for-Challenging-Anti-Black-Racism - Part II

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
10 a.m.- 12 p.m. Eastern Time 
*This webinar will not be recorded*

Facilitators: Adam Benn, Manager Education & Training, and Sacha Ally, Specialist, Humber's Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity.

Anti-Black racism is prejudice, attitudes, beliefs, stereotyping and/or discrimination that is directed at people of African descent and is rooted in their unique history and experience of enslavement and colonization (Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unity, City of Toronto).

Continuing the conversations from the first session, this follow-up workshop will use scenarios and case studies to go deeper into the impact of anti-Black racial microaggressions in the virtual environment and what anti-Black racism looks like in higher education.

This session will also continue exploring strategies used to challenge anti-Black racism.

Register at hrs.humber.ca/register or email zareena.khan@humber.ca.

  • When:
    February 22, 2021 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Where:
Online
Contact:
Kevin Vose-Landivar
Join us for our Indigenous Movie Cafe, we will be sharing the link for Smoke Signals and we are hosting a post-film discussion. Register by emailing kevin.vose-landivar@humber.ca

For this month's Indigenous Movie Cafe, we wanted to feature a film that is uplifting and fun to watch to help brighten your day during both these wintery days and with the impacts of the lockdown. We are sharing the link for Smoke Signals which will be followed by a film discussion on Monday, February 22 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

As for the new film, Smoke Signals, the synopsis is as follows:

Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family. Uneasy rivals and friends, Thomas and Victor spend their days killing time on a Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho and arguing about their cultural identities. When Arnold dies, the duo set out on a cross-country journey to Phoenix to retrieve Arnold's ashes.

Register here

  • When:
    February 22, 2021 5:00pm
Where:
Online
Contact:
Lori Short-Zamudio

Sit Together, Eat Together

In this workshop, learn how to modify meals to cater to the vegan and meat lover in the family as well as everyone in between. 

The workshop will be led by Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion students with support from a registered dietitian. 

Join us virtually for this interactive workshop to help take the stress out of making meals for various types of eaters in your home. 

Register now

  • When:
    February 22, 2021 1:00pm
Where:
Online
Contact:
Amanda Koski
Tel:
x4253

Join us for a talk by Dalyce Newby (one of Humber's own International Student Advisors) as she discusses the Underground Railroad, a secret network of sympathizers who aided Freedom Seekers (fugitive slaves) to freedom. The presentation will focus on various sites where the Freedom Seekers settled in Southwestern Ontario. 

Locations discussed will include: Sandwich First Baptist Church, North Buxton Historic Site & Museum, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Black Mecca Museum, and the Amherstburg Freedom Museum.

Attend online at: https://bit.ly/railroadwebinar 

(No pre-registration required)

  • When:
    February 1, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    February 8, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    February 22, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    March 1, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    March 8, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    March 15, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    March 22, 2021 12:00pm
  • When:
    March 29, 2021 12:00pm
Session Calendar

After the positive employee feedback from 2020 with the Wellness Wednesday series, the Principal’s Office is excited to launch a new series called Mindful Mondays in an effort to have more engagement and promote health and wellness activities. This concept is an eight week virtual one-hour series from February 1 to March 29, 2021 (excluding family day), where every Monday, a workshop will be hosted from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. These sessions will be on mindfulness, yoga, and meditation only.

This series will be open to all employees and students.

Register for the sessions here

Sessions include:

  1. February 1, 2021 - Mindfulness Sessions - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  2. February 8, 2021 - Yoga - Desk Relief Flow - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  3. February 22, 2021 - Yoga Nidra Meditation - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  4. March 1, 2021 - Mindfulness Body Scan - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  5. March 8, 2021 - Yoga - Afternoon Energy Flow - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  6. March 15, 2021 - Loving-Kindness Meditation - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  7. March 22, 2021 - Mindful Eating - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
  8. March 29, 2021 - Yoga - Feel Good Flow - 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.

Please see attached document for all the sessions explained and facilitator bios.

  • When:
    February 20, 2021 10:00am to 11:00am
Where:
Online
A praying mantis on a gloved hand

Join the Etobicoke Master Gardeners and the Humber Arboretum for a free Zoom workshop on Good Bugs – Bad Bugs. Learn about the good bugs (beneficials) and bad bugs (pests) in your garden, how to identify them, and pest prevention methods.

When: Saturday, February 20 at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. - 60 minutes (45 min. plus Q&A)

How: This event is free but pre-registration is required. Register now through Eventbrite.

You will receive the Zoom link to join the event in an email prior to the event.

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