Tomorrow: All Candidates Debate!

All four local candidates will join us at Lambton College tomorrow, September 24, at 11:30. This is a student-led debate. The questions will be real, and we hope the answers will be too. Please join us in N105! 

Another Awesome Win!

A hardworking team of people from Lambton College had the chance to pitch an idea to Sarnia's Awesome Foundation last week. Though they'd had only a few days' notice before presentation day, they'd been working on their idea for weeks. The team put together a creative and impressive proposal, and . . . . they won!

The pitch: help ensure the success of the second annual Global Citizenship Summit, to be held at the Lambton Event Centre on November 18, 2015. You may have read about last year's summit--the night, which featured interesting speakers, wonderful food, and the chance to learn about many different cultures, was a huge success, and this year will be great again. You can read more about the goals of this year's Global Citizenship Summit here. 

The winning team accepts the Awesome Foundation funds,
which will be used to support this year's Global Citizenship Summit.
Thanks to Alisia Esene for the photograph.

Thank you to the wonderful and dedicated team--Kari Roos, Katie Horvath, Suhail Babwani, Amy Weiler, Zackery Roos,  Bonnie Szeto, Tunji Ibidunni, Emily Fortney Blunt, Rebecca Marshall, Ruth Geurts, and more--who worked so hard to make this happen in such a short amount of time. 

Thanks also to the generous folks behind Sarnia's Awesome Foundation. You may have read about the Awesome Foundation on this blog before, since Lambton College's Aboriginal Student Council won Awesome Foundation funding to host the Round Dance last January. 

Stay tuned for more information on the Global Citizenship Summit! 

Rain cheque

We missed out on hearing from Gilad this week. The huge Monday-night storm shut down power at the college for Tuesday, and we unfortunately had to call Gilad to cancel.

I heard from a lot of disappointed folks, but I have good news: Gilad may be back to Sarnia in the fall! I'll keep you up to date on our plans and progress.

More soon...

Jayu: Using Art to Change the World

Please join us tomorrow to hear again from Gilad Cohen, founder and executive director of Jayu.

Jayu is a human-rights organization based in Toronto, founded with the belief that art can encourage conversation and spark change. Gilad's presentation tomorrow will focus on the communication across cultures that art can make possible.

We will meet in P111 from 1-2. We hope to see you there!

Jayu returns...

The word is out: Gilad Cohen will make a return visit to Lambton College on Tuesday, June 23 at 1pm. Stay tuned for details...

Lambton College students visit Haiti

Every year, Ruth Geurts leads two groups of Lambton College students to Haiti. Nursing students and students enrolled in the International Community Development course visit Haiti for two different purposes--the first to listen and learn, the second to serve. 

If you'd like to learn more about what happens in Haiti--how the students prepare, what they do while they're there, what they take away with them--please consider joining us on Monday, June 8. We'll hear from students about their experiences, and we'll have the chance to ask questions. We will meet in L208 at 10:30 am. 

Feel free to email me (erica.kelly@lambtoncollege.ca) if you'd like to know more!

We're in the news!

Last week, the Sarnia Journal profiled our college's new student-led social justice club, Vocalize.

Kari Roos, Erica Kelly, and Katie Horvath pose for a picture.

You can read the full story here. Thanks to Susan Roberts at the Sarnia Journal for her interest in what we've been up to!

Sarnia Justice Film Festival: Last film of the season!

This Saturday (April 25), the Sarnia Justice Film Festival will screen Divide in Concord: A Tale of Banning Bottled Water. The film will be shown upstairs at the Sarnia Library at 7 pm. All are welcome, and there is no charge to attend.

Jean Hill, who leads the fight against bottled water in her town.
(photo credit to The Toronto Film Scene)

Divide in Concord follows the story of Jean Hill, an 84-year-old woman working to ban the sale of bottled water in Concord, Massachusetts. 

After the film, attendees will be invited to participate in a dialogue about the state of Canadian water, and experts will be on hand to answer questions. 

You can read more about the film and the debate it's generated here: http://divideinconcord.com/

For more information about the Justice Film Festival, email justicefilm@sympatico.ca or visit

www.facebook.com/SarniaJusticeFilmFestival.