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Farming and Food Security: Learning from Live It Earth

In our meeting, we shared ideas about creating some curriculum and got to check out their awesome Food: Farming and Food Security program. In addition to educational videos, the program provides challenges, opportunities to learn more about food security, and other resources.

This month members of @1860 Winnipeg Arts have been consulting and engaging with projects and organization to identify models and approaches that could work as we help the Niriqatiginnga program get started. It’s been a big project.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2023 the team met with our long time mentor and collaborator Maeva Gauthier, a PhD candidate with the University of Victoria Community Based Research Lab and a research assistant with the UNESCO Chair for Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. Maeva is also the co-founder and Chief Development Officer for Live It Earth and we’ve learned a lot from her and everyone at the CBRL Lab working on projects like Inclusion in Northern Research (2020-2021) and Recreating Environments of Inclusion (2021-2022) with LembasWorks. We also met Live It Earth’s Communications Coordinator, Kristien Geerdens.

Many of us have wondered what a Knowledge for Change (K4C) Hub in Winnipeg could look like. This week’s meeting featured a group discussion about the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education Mentor Training Program (MTP).

In our meeting, we exchanged ideas about what farming and food security curriculum could look like. We got to check out their awesome Food: Farming and Food Security program. In addition to educational videos, the program provides challenges and opportunities to learn more about food security, and other resources.

We’re really thankful to Maeva and Kristien for taking time to meet with us. For our project, it was a really good opportunity for relationship development and engagement to explore future project research opportunities.

We welcome everyone who is interested to contact us on how to join these enlightening conversations. Our project is open to all, and each week we have a special theme.

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As a community program, nurturing the skills, knowledge, and networks of our future leaders, this unique, pilot program contributes beyond the success of its participants. Niriqatiginnga also lays the foundation for sustainable and impactful business and entrepreneurship programming across the Kivalliq Region and Northern Manitoba.

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SDG 1: We're using the arts to end poverty in all its forms. Learn more about our Winnipeg digital arts, entrepreneurship and food security programming.

Our program began with a pilot program aimed at building organizational capacity for digital arts administration, skills development and training. It is supported by the non-profit organization Niriqatiginnga.

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