Listed here are all events open to the public hosted or co-hosted by the RAVEN project. For all the events RAVEN is participating in (including those we are not hosting ourselves), click on the Updates tab above.
2021 – Future events
Stay tuned for Fall events! We are planning the launch of our RAVEN book in October, published by Chapel Street Editiona: Letters from the Future: How New Brunswickers Confronted Climate Change and Redefined Progress
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Past events
Videos of many of our past events with partner the NB Media Co-op are on the Co-op’s video page.
2021
September 28, 11am: Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report, with RAVEN as co-host, info here.
September 24, noon: Rally for Climate Justice at the New Brunswick Legislature, info here.
June 19, daytime: RAVEN Field Trip, Invitation to the Farm, info here.
June 9, 7:30pm: Webinar, Winning the Race to the Bottom: New Brunswick Forestry in Historical Perspective, info here.
28 April – Tertulia: Leslie Kern on Feminist City.
April 26 and April 29 – Webinars, The Bay of Fundy: Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site? Info here
April 14, Webinar, Tertulia – Jason MacLean on Greta Thunberg and #FridaysforFuture
April 7 – Webinar, Composting – (Grower’s Guild Winter 2021 series)
March 24 – Webinar, Water Management (Grower’s Guild Winter 2021 series)
February 23 – Webinar presentation by Chris Rouse: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy in New Brunswick. The video of the presentation is here.
February 17 – Webinar presentation by Jess Morehouse: A Fresh Food Tax Credit and Food Security in New Brunswick. The video of the presentation is here.
Jan. 14 – Webinar, online workshop: Calculating the risks and benefits of Small Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) in New Brunswick. RAVEN is co-hosting this event with the New Brunswick Environmental Network. The video of Susan O’Donnell’s presentation is here.
2020
Dec. 2 –Webinar: Ira Reinhart-Smith and Jason MacLean on the legal and political activism being taken to stop climate change.
Nov. 20 – Webinar, Valerie Lannon, climate activist and co-author of Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism, and David Bush, York Ph.D. student, labour organizer and editor of Rank and File and Spring, on the Green New Deal and the socialist case against the carbon tax.
Nov. 19 – Webinar, David Bedford, former Professor of Political Science, University of New Brunswick, on the Marshall Decision, two decades later.
Nov. 6 – Webinar, Daniel Tubb, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, on his new book, Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia.
Oct. 23 – Webinar, Bob Bancroft, Nova Scotia wildlife biologist and CBC radio personality, on the Acadian forest and what is lost in the conversion of forests to plantations.
Oct. 21 – Webinar, Debunking the myths around small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). RAVEN is a member of CRED-NB, the co-host of this international event.
Oct. 9 – Webinar, Sabine LeBel, Professor of Culture and Media Studies, University of New Brunswick, on queering art education for the environment.
September 25 – Webinar: Mark McLaughlin on the Rise of the Eco-Comics: How the Maritime Governments Helped Shape Environmental Education.
September 23 – Online Tertulia: Tom Beckley on Wendall Berry
August 31, open to all New Brunswick, deadline for entries to the Cell Phone Music Video Contest
April 1, Webinar, Let’s beat this ‘demic! by Jane Jenkins
March 13, Webinar, Gordon Edwards: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: not small, not green, not clean, not affordable
March 12, Hanwell, collaborator on the Sustainability Education Alliance Conference, Narrative Change: The Power of Storytelling.
March 12, Saint John, Gordon Edwards: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: not small, not green, not clean, not affordable
February 29, Pointe-Verte, collaborator on the Espace Maritime Spaces event
February 4, Fredericton, Miles Howe on Snake Oil & Project Sitka
January 7, Fredericton, Bombardier Abroad: Patterns of Dispossession.
2019
October 24, Fredericton, Unearthing Justice: How To Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
October 23, Sackville, Unearthing Justice: How To Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
October 23, Saint John, Unearthing Justice: How To Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
September 20-27: complete list of the Voices for the Environment Week events
September 27, Fredericton, The Women Resisting Extractivism
September 26, Keswick Ridge, RAVEN’s first birthday party!
September 25, Fredericton, Teach-in on citizen responses to the climate crisis
September 24, Fredericton, UNB and STU students for fossil fuel divestment
September 21-22, Fredericton, Spoken word workshop with El Jones on poetry for the climate crisis
September 20, Fredericton, Poetry for the Climate Crisis
August 6, Fredericton, Meme workshop
July 26, Sussex, Photovoice workshop
June 25, Hampton, Tell your rural story
June 18, Fredericton, Green New Deal community meeting
June 18, Pointe-Verte, Belledune Community meeting
April 27, Saint John, March for Tomorrow’s Jobs
April 26, Saint John, book launch and public discussion
April 25, online, presentation and public discussion
April 25, Fredericton, RAVEN research panel
April 24, Fredericton, book launch, play reading, public discussion
April 24, online, music video contest winners
April 23, Edmundston, public discussion and book launch
April 2: Deadline for RAVEN’s cell phone music video contest. Full details here.
March 30: Digital Storytelling workshop in Knowlesville. Details here.
March 16: Digital Storytelling workshop in Sussex. Click here for details.
2018
September 13: RAVEN project launch! For full details, click here.