Save The Date for ACIC and the Coady Institute's International Development Week keynote address by Reema Nanavaty, Executive Director, SEWA. Explore women's empowerment, and the strength of realizing the central and holistic role women can play in an economy. SEWA, formed in 1972, is today 2.1 million women strong. They represent the single largest women worker's Central trade union in India. The SEWA approach is to address the needs of the worker as a laborer, as well as a women, forming an integrated and holistic view of workers that has given birth to new and innovative ways to fight poverty and vulnerability.

Join us for film screenings, talks from panelists who will shed light on the importance and intersections of race, and international cooperation, and network with development sector enthusiasts and professionals. In Race Is A Four Letter Word, a personal documentary by director Sobaz Benjamin, heintroduces us to an interesting group of people: a black woman who wants to be considered iconically Canadian, a white man who is culturally and psychologically black, and a black woman who decides to leave “Canada’s racial cold war.” A Chocolate Farmer takes us to an unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cacao farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. The film captures a year in the life of the Pop family as they struggle to preserve their values in a world that is dramatically changing around them.

Join us at the Halifax Brewery Farmers Market and the Saint John’s Farmers Market to learn more about global food insecurity, and about the importance of SDG Goal 2 Zero Hunger in the lives of local and global communities. Join our food security quiz on the market’s social media channels for a chance to win a $50 voucher to the market.

Do you think the sustainable development goals can only be included in careers related to international cooperation and development? Let this panel led by youth help you explore how your career can benefit from thinking ‘The SDG Way.’ Panelists will guide all attendees in rethinking how careers can be approached and development with sustainability, global health and equality in mind. Learn how to incorporate the SDGs in your chosen career, and learn why it is now important more than ever for us to think as a global community. Register here.

In partnership with the Youth Art Connection, ACIC will be hosting an afternoon celebrating art and its expressions in cultures, and the role it plays in connecting us across communities and boundaries. Join us at the Paul O’Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library to listen to African Nova Scotian musicians and explore photography as we connect with each other through some international cooperation- and sustainable development goals-themed networking. Register here.

Join us at Upstreet to discuss how Prince Edward Island residents have been affected by Hurricane Fiona, lead by ACIC’s PEI Provincial Coordinator Choyce Chappell. Choyce has recently finished her thesis, which in part focused on how people on PEI prepared for, responded to, and recovered from natural disasters. Hurricane Fiona challenged and changed what many of us knew to be true on PEI during storms. From the worst situations being trees down in their yards, Fiona left PEI residents with damaged countless homes, and a damaged PEI infrastructure. The “worst case scenario” became a reality to many islanders. We’ll discuss

• What are some of the lessons we have learned?

• How can we support ourselves and our
  communities when natural disasters threaten our individual and social well-being?