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SUMMARY:The Park People Conference Day 2
DESCRIPTION:September 21-23, 2022, The Park People Conference will bring together park professionals, community park group leaders, non-profit organizations, municipal staff and urban enthusiasts to create an abundant future for city parks.\nDay 2\nSep 22: Abundant Connections\nFostering deep and lasting connections between people and city parks\n6:00 am EDT\nThe Real 311: A Regional Networking Session\nNetworking\nHave you always wondered who to talk to about park issues and ideas in your city? Connect with the other municipal staff, NGOs and community groups in your city at this dynamic regional networking session.\n11:30 am EDT\nKeynote\nAkiima Price\nFamily & Community Engagement Specialist @Akiima Price Consulting ( https://www.apriceconsulting.com/ )\nNature and Engagement in Economically Stressed Communities\nJoin acclaimed thought leader Akiima Price at the intersection of social and environmental work for compelling stories on how community empowerment and healing-centered engagement create healthier parks and people, and learn change-making strategies on trauma-informed partnerships, and creative programming that champions community mental health, physical health, and social well-being.\nEN w/ FR interpretation\n12:45 pm EDT\nGenerating Power by Sharing Power with Communities\nPanel\nIn managing complex situations, city authorities often double down on exerting their decision-making power. In this session, understand the practices that can disempower communities and learn how to adopt transformative practices that recognize community members as experts in their own lives and public spaces.\nZahra EbrahimCEO @Monumental ( https://monumentalprojects.ca/ )\nAkiima PriceFamily & Community Engagement Specialist @Akiima Price Consulting ( https://www.apriceconsulting.com/ )\nAnnisha StewartProject Manager @Mama’s Healing Garden ( https://mamashealinggarden.com/ )\nMercedes Sharpe ZayasPlanning Coordinator @Parkdale People’s Economy ( https://parkdalepeopleseconomy.ca/ )\nArtful Parks: Building Community Art into Parks\nPanel\nCommunity artists are skilled at connecting people through creation and sharing. Learn from community artists from across the country who use public spaces as canvases for connecting people across difference. Understand how art-based approaches cultivate community connection and explore how your municipality can best support and integrate this vital work into park engagement, design and programs.\nIma EsinCommunity Programs Coordinator, @STEPS Public Art ( https://stepspublicart.org/ )\nJoaquin VarelaFacilitator/Co- founder @Roots to Bloom\nSylvie StojanovskiCo-Founder @Roots to Bloom\nCarmen RosenFounding Artistic Director @Still Moon Arts Society ( https://stillmoonarts.ca/ )\nMarie LopesCoordinator, Arts, Culture and Engagement @Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation\n2:00 pm EDT\nBig Opportunities for Large Urban Parks\nPanel\nRepresentatives from established and emerging organizations stewarding some of Canada’s large urban parks, and partners of Park People’s Cornerstone Parks program, will discuss how they’ve weathered the storm of the past two years and what the outlook is for large urban parks.\nStephanie Stanov\nProject Manager @Park People ( https://parkpeople.ca/ )\nA Compassionate Approach to Building Belonging in Parks\nPanel\nCity parks are places where community members often bear witness to the struggles of others. Explore how the public nature of parks creates opportunities to be sites of healing and justice. This panel of park leaders shares their insights for approaching park work with a deep sense of compassion and love of community.\nSarah CommonCo-Director: People, Plants and Pollinators @Hives for Humanity ( https://www.hivesforhumanity.com/ )\nJim McLeodCommunity Engagement Lead @Hives for Humanity ( https://www.hivesforhumanity.com/ )\nAli KennyCommunity Engagement Lead @Hives for Humanity ( https://www.hivesforhumanity.com/ )\nDonnie RosaGeneral Manager @Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation ( https://vancouver.ca/your-government/vancouver-board-of-parks-and-recreation.aspx )\nRyan EppTreasurer @Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest ( https://www.nationalhealingforests.com/winnipeg-gallery )\nZahra EbrahimCEO @Monumental ( https://monumentalprojects.ca/ )\nNicolette FelixDirector of Community Mobilization @MABELLEarts ( https://www.mabellearts.ca/ )\nDeb RadiFounding member and Co-Chair @Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest ( https://www.nationalhealingforests.com/winnipeg-gallery )\nVal VintKnowledge Keeper @Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest ( https://www.nationalhealingforests.com/winnipeg-gallery )\nDignified Design: Health-Equity Design with Unhoused Communities\nWorkshop\nAs cities across Canada grapple with the housing crisis, urbanists have rightfully pointed to the harmful and exclusionary practice of defensive design. In this session we ask, what would the opposite of defensive design look like in urban parks? Catch a glimpse of inspiring examples of inclusive park amenities that create a sense of safety and belonging for unhoused park users.\nAdri Stark\nSenior Project Manager @Park People ( https://parkpeople.ca/ )\nMatthew Huxley\nLived Experience Caucus Member @Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness ( https://taeh.ca/people-with-lived-experience )\nNurturing with Nature: Nature Programming Inclusive of People with Disabilities\nPanel\nLearn directly from people who have lived experience with disabilities/chronic illness about the creative and effective ways they have fostered community capacity and individual wellbeing through inclusive nature programming. The impacts of their Accessible Nature Wellbeing Programs will be illustrated through photo collages and participant survey responses. EcoWisdom’s accessible training program for Nature and Forest Therapy Guides will also be described, and graduates will share their stories of offering mindful nature connection programs that are inclusive of people of all abilities.\nKari KroghCo-Founder @EcoWisdom ( https://ecowisdom.ca/ )\nPaul GauthierExecutive Director @ Individualized Funding Resource Centre (IFRC) Society\nMahnoor KhanResearch Coordinator @EcoWisdom ( https://ecowisdom.ca/ )\nLinda McGowanNature and Forest Therapy Guide @EcoWisdom ( https://ecowisdom.ca/ )\nKaren Van BiesenNature and Forest Therapy Guide @EcoWisdom ( https://ecowisdom.ca/ )\nKirsten McEwanAssociate Professor of Health and Wellbeing @University of Derby\nKim EggerCo-founder/Co-leader @South Fraser Active Living Group\n3:15 pm EDT\nA Playbook to Embrace The Power of Play\nPanel\nPlay brings joy, wonder, and movement to our public spaces. Because of this, play helps us reimagine how we engage in public spaces and with each other. Join this dynamic group of play-based programmers, researchers, and thought leaders to delve deep into the rejuvenating powers of play in parks.\nAnnie VandenbergCo-Founder @Recreate Place ( https://recreateplace.ca/ )\nDavid CareyCo-Executive Director @The Bentway ( https://www.thebentway.ca/ )\nStephanie WattCo-founder @Metalude\nMargaret FraserCo-founder @ Metalude\nKelsey SnookSenior Creative @Daily tous les jours ( https://www.dailytouslesjours.com/en )\nMarieve BlanchetProfessor @UQAM / Chercheure\nAmanda O’RourkeExecutive Director @8 80 Cities ( https://www.880cities.org/ )\nHeidi CampbellSenior Program Manager @Evergreen ( https://www.evergreen.ca/ )\nMelissa MongiatCo-Founder @Daily tous les jours ( https://www.dailytouslesjours.com/en )\nPaula GalloCo-Founder @Recreate Place ( https://recreateplace.ca/ )\nPeacemaking in Placemaking: Conflict Resolution in Parks\nWorkshop\nJoin two municipal leaders as they share first hand lessons in conflict resolution. Emily Dunlop shares what she learned managing the controversial pedestrianization of Stanley Park and Niall Lobley draws lessons from responding to calls to decolonize Kitchener’s parks. Joined by a community-based conflict resolution specialist, learn productive ways to address, manage and reframe conflict in parks.\nNiall Lobley\nDirector of Parks & Cemeteries @City of Kitchener ( https://www.kitchener.ca/en/parks-and-trails/parks.aspx )\nEmily Dunlop\nSenior Planner @Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation ( https://vancouver.ca/your-government/vancouver-board-of-parks-and-recreation.aspx )\nEngagement Like You Care\nPanel\nEven with the best of intentions, community consultations can undercut community and individual agency and turn local changemakers into cynics. Join creative and leading edge community engagement experts to cultivate new tools and tactics that give communities joyful ways to share their visions for public spaces and build place-based connections that can be sustained long after the ribbon is cut.\nMasheed Salehomoum\nVancouver Project Manager @Park People ( https://parkpeople.ca/ )\nSara Udow\nPrincipal and Co-Founder @PROCESS ( https://weareprocess.ca/ )\nSue Holdsworth\nProject Manager @RECOVER Urban Wellbeing, City of Edmonton ( https://www.urbanwellnessedmonton.com/ )\n5:00 pm EDT\nCanada’s New National Urban Parks Network\nPanel\nCo-hosted by Park People and Parks Canada, this session will give you an inside look at Parks Canada’s new program for the creation of a network of national urban parks to expand nature access and protection in urban spaces. Park People will share nine key takeaways from their engagement sessions to inform an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming national urban park network. This is an opportunity to learn how park-aligned organizations that have not traditionally been engaged envision the future of large urban parks and how this exciting network or national urban parks is taking shape.\nSue Arndt\nProgram Manager @Park People ( https://parkpeople.ca/conference/Program%20Manager )\nPascale Salah\nNational Urban Park Project Manager @Parks Canada ( https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pun-nup )\n
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