Bring Your Boomers # 3: Power and Energy Connecting the Dots

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Bring Your Boomers # 3: Power and Energy - Connecting the Dots
Disclaimer: we warmly welcome people of all ages!!Â
DATE: December 11th, 2012 | 7pm (doors at 6:30)Â Venue: The Rio Theatre - 1660 East Broadway (and Commercial Drive)
RSVP (on Facebook):Â http://ow.ly/eTFL1Â
EVENT DETAILSÂ
As part of Gen Why Media's ongoing intergenerational dialogue series, Bring Your Boomers combines intelligent conversation with music, film, visual art, storytelling and dance to provide a culturally-driven entry… Show more point to discuss social transformation. In collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Leadnow.ca, "Power and Energy: Connecting the Dots" explores BC’s emerging carbon corridor and the provincial policies needed to change course towards a green economy, justÂ
society and a healthy new era.
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OPENING Performance: Luciterra Fusion Belly Dance quartet
Storytelling: CCPA’s senior economist, Marc Lee, tells the utopian story of BC’s energy policy 50 years in the future, alongside visuals created b y Ben Z Cooper and Vincent van Haaff.Â
DIALOGUE: On-stage "living room conversationsâ€* with participants from different generations, reflecting on BC’s industrial web of fracking, pipelines, LNG plants, tankers, mines, dams and the Tar Sands. Speakers include: Damien Gillis (Y'er), Ben Parfitt (X'er) and Karen Cooling (boomer).Â
CLOSING Performance : Brasstronaut
Come enjoy a theatre full of exceptional individuals, entertainment, education.... and prizes!
SPONSORS:
Vancity, Ccpa, Leadnow.ca, The Tyee, Common Sense Canadian, Bcgeu
Media SPONSORS:
The Tyee - http://thetyee.ca/
rabble.ca - http://rabble.ca/
SCENE In The Dark - http://www.sceneinthedark.com/
THe Source - http://thelasource.com/en/
Megaphone Magazine - http://megaphonemagazine.com/
Ricepaper - http://ricepapermagazine.ca/
Tyee article and video from our last two events here :Â http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/01/23/Intergenerational-Problem-Solving/

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