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• Building leadership among vulnerable youth

  03Oct

  COLLABORATION FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH STARTS OCTOBER 17TH!
  
  On October 17th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, we are launching a collaboration for disadvantaged youth in Guelph-Wellington.
  The focus is to bring together different stakeholders interested in forming a collaboration around engaging disadvantaged youth in social change and entrepreneurship initiatives and opportunities. The initial launch will bring together different stakeholder for a creative brainstorming session.  Two representatives from the Laidlaw Foundation will share insights about regional youth-led projects they have supported and funded, and will be available to answer questions about various funding possibilities for this collaboration.  We would love to see youth come out to this initial launch, as our hope is that this project will be the first step towards building a sustainable platform for youth organizing and leadership within our community.  Connect to share your insights about this project, and stay tuned in for inspirational youth-organized events and workshops by youth and for youth, taking place from Oct-Dec 2011 at 10 Carden.

• Social Change Cafe THIS Saturday 11-1 pm

  26Sep

  10 Carden.  Sat. Oct 1, 11-1 pm. We’ll brew the coffee and make the tea, in the hopes that YOU will join us to engage, meet others, and talk about social change. Totally informal community get-together to connect Guelph social changemakers and spark some interesting conversation. Continue the conversations you’re having within your own organization, and let us know if your organization wants to host these discussions for one or two sessions.

  

• 10 Carden Fall Member Social: Thursday, September 15th at 5pm!

  08Sep

  10 C Members Social: Thursday, September 15th at 5pm

  To kick off the start of fall, 10 Carden is celebrating all of its members with a cheese, local beer and local veggies social. Come to meet other 10 Carden members, network, brainstorm, and just have a fabulous time! We'll have Wellington Brewery leading us through a tasting of 5 beers, taste cheeses with Ouderkirk and Taylor and refresh our taste buds with fresh veggies from Backyard Bounty. Please RSVP below by Monday, September 12th.

  • Name
    FirstLast
  • Organization
  • Phone
  • Email
  • I'm coming and going to participate in:
    • socializing (no beer or cheese)
    • Beer tasting
    • Cheese tasting
    This will help us plan appropriate quantities.

• Sharing volunteers

  31Aug

  Mandy Wettlaufer, our Katimavik volunteer, is about to embark on an interesting volunteer experience.  In the next 5 months, she will be volunteering not only for 10 Carden, but also for some of our member organizations.  All 10 Carden members can ‘apply’ to share Mandy’s time, talent, and energy.  Working for a variety of organizations will expose Mandy to a wide range of social change models, groups, and ideas, while creating a conduit for communication and resource sharing between like-minded groups and businesses.  This model for sharing staff and volunteers allows organizations and social enterprises to collaborate more closely, network more efficiently, share resources, and avoid duplicating their efforts.  Contact us if you want to share Mandy!

• 10 Carden hub for Nuit Blanche!

  31Aug

  10 Carden is Guelph’s hub for Nuit Blanche, taking place Saturday, September 10th all-night long!  Come out for this magical dusk-to-dawn transformation of Guelph’s downtown into a community-wide artistic canvas, with exhibits, shows, and performances taking place in strange places, from rooftops and studios, to churches, parking lots and riverbanks.  10 Carden will be the Nuit Blanche information (and coffee!) hub, also displaying some of the exciting exhibits.  Start your night at 10 Carden with a hot drink and lively conversation before soaking in the rest of the exhibits all around town.  For the Nuit Blanche schedule: http://guelphjazzfestival.com/2011_season/day_by_day_schedule/nuit_blanche

• Summer Collaboration around Sun Protection

  31Aug

  

  Paint the Town Events captured a large crowd of folks interested in getting red streaks for Melanoma month.  Others stumbled into the tent looking for information around melanoma and sun protection.  This collaborative campaign is just one example of how working together makes a difference in people’s lives, and even saves lives.

  More photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.211440905581556.54802.100001469434169&l=609b969246&type=1

• Paint the Town Red!

  03Aug

  How do we change attitudes and behaviours around sun protection?

  10 Carden is helping paint the town red, in collaboration with Streak for Cancer, Wellington-Duffering-Guelph Public Health, Melanoma Network of Canada, Downtown Guelph, and McNeil.

  On August 12th from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM, St. George’s Square is Streaking for Cancer! The public can support the Melanoma Network of Canada and bring awareness to Melanoma and skin damage by getting a red streak for 10$ (proceeds go to Melanoma Network), as well as get their face painted as a sign of support.

  Then, on August 13th from 9:30-11:30 AM, 10 Carden will be hosting the second day of hair streaking with music, coffee & tea, and engaging short video clips to inform folks about skin cancer. Free suncreen will be available, and a representative from Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health will be on-site to answer questions folks may have.

  So come get your hair streaked, learn about Melanoma and skin damage in the process, and take part in a collaborative campaign around the issue!  All ages welcome!

  

• Warm welcome to Mandy Wettlaufer – our Katimavik Volunteer!!!

  27Jul

  Hailing from the tiny suburb of Saint Constant, off the coast of Montreal, Quebec, weighing in at 115 pounds and volunteering in Guelph with Katimavik, we present your new volunteer, Mandy!

  A political junkie from the age of eighteen and a budding environmentalist since childhood, she hopes that in her six months here she will get to see and help 10Carden grow into the community changing space it so deserves to be.

  Mandy is attracted to a myriad of subjects and spends most time filling her brain with as much information as possible on anything of interest, from veganism to psychology. She attended two four-week lecture courses at the Douglas Psychological Institute in Montreal, as well as has volunteered with the Montreal SPCA. Currently she is volunteering with Katimavik, a youth program geared towards engaging people from the ages of seventeen to twenty one in volunteer activities.

  Excited by the concept of 10 Carden, and more than pleased to become a part of the team, she’s just chomping at the bit to see what’s in store!

• What is 10 Carden all about?

  27Jul

  “This drawing is about all the things that 10 Carden is about.  It demonstrates the meanings of 10 Carden. I drew the picture like this because I wanted to show how much 10 Carden means.  The picture is colorful and bright because all the people who work at 10 Carden have a very bright and cheerful heart”
  By Pascale, 9 years old

• Music, melanoma awareness, and collaboration at Hillside Festival!

  21Jul

  What? Workshop on Social Change, Music, and Sun Protection

  Where? Hillside Festival, INTERPLAY TENT

  When? Saturday, July 23rd, 5- 6 PM and Sunday, July 24th, 6-7 PM

  Join us for this exciting workshop to explore how collaborations can bring about social change.  Melanoma is the issue, music is the vehicle, and social change is the goal.  How can we work together to shift attitudes around sun protection, and how can music be one of the tools to achieve this?  Come with your ideas, thoughts, musical instruments, children, and be part of this exciting new sun protection awareness campaign!

  You’ll also get to meet and be inspired by musicians Sandy MacKay, Mike Driscoll, and Doug Larson.  Sandy is from New Brunswick, and is an experiential teacher and busker by trade; Mike Driscoll is a local activist and community economic developer; and Doug Larson is a professor at the University of Guelph, ecologist, researcher, and author of recently released book Storyteller Guitar.

  We hope to see you there!