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UBCClimateAction: Health&Education Support

UBCClimateAction: Health&Education Support

UBCClimateAction: Health&Education Support

UBCClimateAction: Health&Education Support

UBCClimateAction: Health&Education Support

Please find tickets at: ubchec2015.eventbrite.ca

Please find tickets at: ubchec2015.eventbrite.ca

Please find tickets at: ubchec2015.eventbrite.ca

Please find tickets at: ubchec2015.eventbrite.ca

Alireza Ghaseminejad
Alireza Ghaseminejad
Alireza Ghaseminejad
Alireza Ghaseminejad
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Vancouver, Canada
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Health and Education Conference Donations

October 6th 7:30 PM - 11 PM

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Our ticket sales will not cover the costs of our event, even if we sell every ticket. We have minimized ticket costs, therefore we will appreciate the communities support.
Our conference will feature keynote talks from two of the most renowned mental health intellectuals, live music, paintings, and informative workshops.
The student experience is often marked by the struggle for mental health and the battle to escape loneliness. Many have trouble 'finding passion' or feel like they lack purpose, trying to 'find themselves'. Their struggles are often perceived as personal issues, problems they need to seek help for or to band-aid. This widespread isolation and high rates of mental illness ought to make us reflect on the society that produces them in hopes of building communities and organizations that not only prevent these issues but promote participation and health.
Dr. Gabor Maté will speak on 'Illness & Health in a Toxic Society' and address the conditions in which these problems arise in students and citizens. He will talk on resilience in this 'stressed culture' and how we can come together to fight it.
Professor Adele Diamond will speak on the undergraduate education system in universities - what allows for creativity and critical thinking to emerge and how to create socially conscious and responsible citizens and students.


UBC Students for Climate Action

This conference is hosted by UBC Students for Climate Action. Our mission is to create meaningful cultural movements required for the task of climate change. 

We believe that students – especially those privileged enough to live in Vancouver and attend university – have a responsibility to play a major role in cultural change as well as national policy in regards to inequality, current international policies, and most urgently, domestic policies regarding climate change. In light of this, we have organized a coalition of student organizations at UBC. This coalition includes environmental groups, humanitarian groups. and research groups.

We hope to create a movement on the UBC campus that will steer the climate conversation to become more concerned with tactics of addressing the alarming matter while conversing with and informing students about the reality and size of the problem; the reality of climate change should be widely accepted on an academic campus and so should its serious implications. Students and professors should be utilizing their diverse academic disciplines – physics, economics, social theory, behavioral evolution – to argue tactics. We hope to create an environment where political discourse is not limited to the few students that choose to participate, that instead, through joint action, participation is exciting, enjoyable and popular, so that these kinds of topics will become prevalent in the everyday conversation of students.

We believe that this movement can have a meaningful impact on student votes and turnout in the upcoming election; Because of this, and in light of the the UN conference on climate change in Paris, we have organized a pre-election campaign. For the winter semester, we have a series of creative social events that will allow for serious conversation on how to address climate change. For increasing conversation and accessible information we have organized student-to-student seminars and teach-ins. We also plan to utilize the arts through spoken word poetry, live student written music, impromptu choirs, collaborative paintings (with 1300+ contributors), and many more activities intended to bring students together through art while addressing and being active about important issues and problems. At all our events, we are going to promote students to vote and present them with the platforms of the Canadian parties. We  will end with a large theatrical production called ‘Climate Change Game’.


Our Projects:

We need support in providing students with events and speakers that bring the community together and provide the right soil for social action. 
Other than the Health and Education conference, our upcoming events include:
Student Workshops:
  1. Institutions of Extraction 
  2. Education/Doubt/Intuition
  3. History of Vancouver University Movements
  4. Stress
Collaborative Painting Project: brings together 1440 students and Vancouver citizens to create a mural dedicated to climate action in light of current and coming refugee crises
Community Conversation (weekly): we host UBC students to a weekly organized conversation that brings us together through impromptu choirs, dance, and poetry, along with meaningful conversations on inequality and climate action.
War on Nature - Conversation with David Barsamian: an event where the nature of the climate crises will be discussed, its implications, and necessary action that is required in response. 
Climate Change Game Show: this theater production will be fully produced and filmed as a live game show, with live participants. Our goal is to provide an abstract understanding of various important factors that influence the climate change game, with an emphasis on inequality. The ideas of the show are based on social evolutionary theory and economic games. 


Get Involved

visit http://sc-ociety.ca/events/health-education-conference or email info@ubcclimateaction.ca

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