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On Sunday, April 21st we’re piloting a playful interactive audio experience to help kids learn about and feel empowered to help pollinators and ecosystems! Drop in between 2 and 4 PM to try the audio experience (an intergenerational, interactive guided play experience that will take ~15 minutes) and learn about pollinator-friendly practices from the city of Toronto’s PollinateTO team. Or just come to relax, meet other families, have free snacks, and hang out in the coziest community spot, the Reset Living Room in Little Jamaica! The event is geared towards families and the audio experience is especially catered towards kids 6 to 10, but kids of all ages are welcome with a guardian.
The audio experience draws from social science highlighting the importance of building kids’ sense of action and agency to help foster their resilience in the face of growing climate anxiety. We’d love your help piloting the experience!
WHAT TO EXPECT
Date and Time: Sunday, April 21st 2 PM to 4 PM.
Location: Reset's Living Room, located at 634 Vaughan Road in Little Jamaica (the coziest community space!)
Free snacks! Coloring! Pollinator games and fun facts!
Kids are so very welcome! *Please indicate how many children are attending by reserving them free children’s tickets.*
To keep the space cozy & clean, Reset asks folks to remove shoes at the door (although of course exceptions can be made for access needs).
The experience will be happening on the main floor of the space, which is physically accessible. The lower level is unfortunately not physically accessible.
Drop in anytime! (We’ll run the audio experience around 2:30 PM and 3:30 PM).
The Youth Climate Action Toronto project is grateful to our partners for this event, the City of Toronto and the University of Toronto Climate Positive Energy Initiative.
This event is part of a series of in-person and online events that the Impact Lab at the University of Toronto is organizing as a part of the Youth Climate Action in Toronto project (or YCAT), funded by the City of Toronto and the University of Toronto Climate Positive Energy Initiative. We’re running a series of engagements and consultations to develop a Youth Climate Action Engagement Strategy that will be adopted by the City of Toronto. Each event invites participants to share their thoughts and ideas around their visions of and needs for a climate just future in the city of Toronto. These insights will be used to inform research and policy by the Impact Lab, the City of Toronto, and other program stakeholders.
Feel free to reach out to us at youthclimateactionintoronto@gmail.com or on Instagram @youthclimateactiontoronto if you have any questions!
We look forward to seeing you there!
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Tkaronto is on the land and waters of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Nations, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkaronto is covered by the Dish with One Spoon wampum belt treaty between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee nations, an agreement open to all for the peaceful sharing and stewarding of these lands. Tkaronto is also covered by Treaty 13, established in 1805 between the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Government of Canada. This land acknowledgement is important not only to acknowledge the peoples on whose land the City of Toronto is located but also because climate change intrinsically connects to the settler-Indigenous Peoples relationship. Working towards climate justice means righting relations between settlers and Indigenous Peoples and transforming relationships between humans and the land, waters, and the more-than-human world.