Submit Your Workshop Proposal for Bring Food Home 2013
Posted: February 6, 2013
Categories: Food in the News
Sustain Ontario is now accepting proposals for workshops, panels, lectures, webinars, and strategic planning sessions for Bring Food Home 2013: Building Bridges Together, to be held on November 17-19, at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor, Ontario.
The deadline for proposals is March 8th, 2013. If you are interested in presenting a workshop at Bring Food Home 2013, visit our Request for Proposals page on the Bring Food Home 2013 website, where you can also access the application form to submit your proposal, for more information.
Bring Food Home 2013 will be our third province-wide sustainable food system conference. It will build upon the 2011 conference held in Peterborough – “Preparing the Ground for a Sustainable Food System.” The Bring Food Home conference offers a forum for food innovators, farmers, policy-makers, distributors, educators and more to share experience and expertise, build the capacity and cohesiveness of the network, and plan and coordinate actions that will direct us in building better food systems in our province and beyond.
Bring Food Home is organized by a diverse committee comprised of food and farming organizations from across the Ontario. Sustain Ontario has the honour of acting as the lead organization for Bring Food Home 2013: Building Bridges Together. Read more about Bring Food Home’s partners and sponsors. Together we are working toward a food system that is healthy, ecological, equitable, and financially viable.
The conference program will be organized into seven streams detailed below, all connected by an overarching theme of building stronger partnerships and laying the groundwork for more innovative work around Ontario’s food system. If you have an idea for a workshop that fits into any of the streams below, please see the application to submit your idea. More details about these streams are also available on the Request for Proposals page.
Bridging geographies and cultures: Proposals should highlight connections being made between places, such as urban and rural areas, or regional and local linkages. Sessions may appeal to international issues (e.g. trade, migrant labour), food accessibility, place-making, and culture.
Bridging across sectors: This stream will spotlight innovative partnerships that create dialogue across sectors, including non-traditional partnerships and organizational silo-busting.
Bridging past, present, and future: This stream will highlight new ideas and innovations as well as new applications for old tried-and-true ideas.
Bridging ideas and scales to build capacity: Proposals should illustrate how organizations and businesses have scaled up ideas and/or integrated successful strategies from other sectors into the food movement (e.g. smaller farmers who have scaled up successfully; building networks to scale out community programming; creating virtual learning forums and community hubs).
Bridging movements: Proposals should focus on opening up opportunities for synergies between the food sector and other change-seeking movements, such as Indigenous, labour, and environmental movements.
Bridging food and education: This stream will provide a place to discuss the fostering of youth-centered initiatives such as community activities and curriculum reform that serve to ensure the well-being of future generations while also cultivating responsive and robust food systems.
Bridging farmer-to-farmer skills: For this stream, we invite farmers to submit proposals for technical workshops and informational sessions that will enable others to acquire new skills and knowledge of innovative strategies and approaches for succeeding in this domain.
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