Raise the Hammer

DemoCamp is an event format that involves a keynote speaker, about 5 software demos which each consist of 5 minutes of actually demoing the software and 5 minutes of Q&A, followed by general socializing with the good company in attendance.

Keynote: Dale Mugford, Co-Founder of BraveNewCode

Dale Mugford is President of Design & Product Experience for BraveNewCode’s products and services. He also provides direction for company communications. For over 15 years, he previously designed websites independently, notably working on cutting-edge web experiences for Canadian recording artists, authors, and businesses before co-founding BraveNewCode with Duane.

In his spare time Dale enjoys meeting up with other creatives, doing a little fishing, & spending time with his fiancée and her son.

We'll have great demos from FluidMedia, Factor[e], and others from the Hamilton community!

Behind every attempt to seek refuge, there is a story. Hear from refugees and their experiences as they build their lives in Canada.

Highlights:

• Human library: Refugees will act as human libraries and will be sharing their experiences to visiting community members

• Film screening: "Everybody’s Children," a compelling story of two African youth seeking asylum in Canada

• Book reading: "Being Scared," chronicling the author’s escape from Iraq as a refugee

• Portrait sketching

• Live music by youth refugees from Congo

Join us as we honour the courage and resiliency of refugees from around the world.

This event is hosted by the Immigrant Women's Centre and made possible with support from Wesley Urban Ministries and Hamilton Public Library.

Free admission.

Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing Incorporated's Fundraising Gala and Celebration of 25 Years of Service in the Hamilton community

Join us for Traditional Drumming & Singing, Key Note Speakers, Silent Auction and DJ/Dance.

Tickets are $35.00 or Reserve a table of 8 for $280.00.

Includes Dinner and Late Night Snack.

Cash Bar.

Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing has been quietly and carefully providing affordable housing in Hamilton, Ontario for the past 25 years.

We are proud of the service we have been able to provide to date. Our work specifically helps the Aboriginal women and children, who have been safely and comfortably housed though important and transitional years of their lives.

Sacajawea also provides culturally based supports that are critical for the lasting success of our residents while they are with us and long after they move on.

Like any community based non-profit in these uncertain times, we are working hard to ensure a secure future so that we can continue to be able to provide safe housing and supports to the woman and children we serve.

We know that these supports have lasting effects on the lives of our tenants for generations to come. Our silent auction will help make a real and lasting support.

We are asking you for a donation. Sacajawea has charitable status and we are we are happy to provide a Tax Receipt for donations valued over $25.00. Please ensure your give us your FULL mailing address at time of donation.

Financial donations are also gratefully accepted and can be made out to Sacajawea Non Profit Housing Inc. 19 Albert St. Hamilton. L8M 2Y1.

Open Streets Hamilton is back on Sunday, June 23 2013! James Street North 10am-5pm

We hope you’re coming to Open Streets Hamilton: James Street North!

Apply now for your spot and tell us what you are bringing to the street!

WHO – Open Streets Hamilton is a community-based partnership dedicated to promoting active, healthy and inclusive lifestyles by temporarily transforming streets into a shared space for everyone to experience. Our motto is “Make the Streets Your Playground”. Sunday, June 23rd, 2013, will mark our 7th car-free Sunday in Hamilton since June 2010!

WHAT – Open Streets Hamilton is part of a network of events taking place all over the world to re-purpose streets for fun, active, and creative activities! Open Streets Hamilton is looking for local programming for our June event related to:

Active Transportation (Walking, Cycling, Rollerblading, Skateboarding, etc…)
Healthy Communities (Nutrition, Active Living, Health & Wellness, Sports & Recreation, etc…)
Sustainable Economy (Local Sustainable Businesses & Organizations:  Food, Services, Arts, Local Products)
Any combination of the above!

WHERE – We will be hosting our event again on James Street North, in Hamilton, Ontario (final route details TBA)

WHEN – Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 (10am* to 5pm – *road closure starts at 9am, set up is between 9am and 10am)

WHY – By connecting communities through active transportation, you open up opportunities for collaboration, support, sharing, and communication that we sometimes miss when we drive through in our car. Taking a day to come out into the street together to celebrate the health of your community builds connections that last all year long! Click here to read some of the things people have told us about why they come to Open Streets Hamilton every year!

HOW – By closing the road to motorized vehicles, Open Streets Hamilton “opens” the street to pedestrians, cyclists and all forms of active transportation (including wheelchairs) to walk, ride or roll down James Street North! Along the route, we work with local organizations to provide fun, active, healthy, family-based activities to engage passers-by as they travel down the middle of the street!

JOIN US! Visit our website to join our June 23rd, 2013 event! A team of volunteers will review your application and confirm your registration upon approval. See “WHAT” above for more information about the kind of programming Open Streets Hamilton is accepting.

SUPPORT US! Open Streets Hamilton is a public-private partnership, with funding and sponsorships coming from municipal and provincial government, as well as local businesses, institutions and community organizations. Open Streets Hamilton offers recognition to all supporting partners making contributions of $100 or more.

Email events@openstreetshamilton.ca for more information on our rates.

DONATE! Open Streets Hamilton Community Organization is a volunteer-run, registered non-profit organization and accepts donations year-round towards our events and programming. Your support and donations are what keep us going! Donate via paypal at www.openstreetshamilton.ca/donate or send any donation cheques* to:

Open Streets Hamilton 22 Wilson Street, Suite 4 Hamilton, ON L8R 1C5 (this address is our mailing address only) *cheques can be made out to “Open Streets Hamilton”, please no cash (NB: Open Streets Hamilton is not a charity)

Thank you for your time and consideration! We hope you will be able to join us on June 23rd! If you have more questions or would like to arrange a meeting to discuss your programming, please contact Sunil at sunil@openstreetshamilton.ca or call 905-481-0809.

You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That's why we're asking you to put on a pair of high heels and join YWCA Hamilton to Walk A Mile in Her Shoes. On Sunday June 23rd, 2013 we're all going to help end violence against women and girls, one step at a time.

Please take a position and sign up for the walk. Gender based violence is not just a women's issue. Gender based violence does not just affect women. It affects the men who care about them, their families, their friends, their coworkers, and their communities.

Unveiling of the 2012/2013 Sustainable Hamilton Business Report Presentations of the first-ever Business Sustainability Awards First-hand accounts from featured companies

http://www.sustainablehamilton.ca/ please register at http://shfirsteveningofrecognition.eventbrite.com/#

Special Presentation: Moving Corporate Sustainability Forward

Dr. Blair Feltmate Professor and Director, Sustainability Practice, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, and Chair, Climate Change Adaptation Project: Canada

There is no cost to attend but registration is required.

Innovation Factory (iF), Hamilton's Regional Innovation Centre, is hosting the second seminar in their LiFT program on June 25, 2013. LiFT has been designed to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) focus on innovation-based growth strategies.

This seminar, titled Bigger Perspectives, Bigger Results, explores the need for companies to engage business advisors to help prepare them to face the challenges of growing a business, especially in times of economic and global change. Many CEOs and business leaders are unsure of what path they need to take to help their company be competitive. Accessing expert advice enables companies to position themselves to make these important decisions.

Keynote speaker Kevin Kimsa, Special Advisor to OMERS Ventures, is responsible for advising portfolio companies on operational management and strategic direction, and he will speak to the importance of advisors for owners, executives, and leadership teams.

The keynote will be followed by a panel of accomplished business owners and advisors who will discuss their experiences leveraging expert resources to help grow their companies. The panel will be moderated by Sean Stanleigh, editor of The Globe and Mail's Report on Small Business, and will feature Shirley Speakman, Investment Accelerator Fund; Peter Smith, Innovation Factory; John Holland, Plutus Consulting Group; and Julie Ellis, Mabel's Labels.

"It is clear that small and medium enterprises in Hamilton are looking for assistance in growing their businesses," said Ron Neumann, Executive Director of Innovation Factory. "As a strategic resource for these companies, we will continue to host events and activities to help inspire and educate those who want to drive innovation and growth."

iF has already been helping several Hamilton-based SMEs including CareGo, factor[e] design initiative and Mabel's Labels.

"As a company we're always looking for new ways to grow and be innovative," said Brianne Moar, Marketing Director at Edson Packaging Machinery Ltd. "Innovation Factory's events are a great resource for us. The presenters have faced many of the same challenges as we have in our business, and provide first hand advice on how to be innovative, creative and inventive with solutions and strategies for growth."

As a not-for-profit resource, iF offers objective, management-level business advice and support for little or no cost to SMEs. Through a network of strategic business resources, iF can offer expertise in all sectors of industry, including CleanTech, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Advanced Manufacturing, and Life and Health Sciences.

CoderCamp is an unconference in the same spirit as BarCamp. CoderCamp is for local software developers to learn techniques and technologies from one another in a casual setting. We meet to talk about coding, to learn from each other, and get better at what we do in the process. We have a projector and screen setup for people to give talks. You don't have to give a talk to attend, but we welcome you to come, talk and share what you know as well.

Do you want safer and more enjoyable streets in Hamilton? Do you want to help develop and promote a policy that could make long term changes to how our streets are designed?

Then please join us and come to hear about the status of a city-wide Complete Streets policy, and the role you can play to make it happen.

Childcare provided if you register in advance by June 25.

This event is Hosted by the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton. More info about this event to be published in the coming days.

Strut Your Stuff aims to create a space for folks across the LGBTTI2SQQAA spectrum to share their artistic talents. If you fall somewhere along the queer spectrum and like to perform solo or with a group, we’d like to have you! Professional performance experience is not necessary and all art forms (drag, poetry, music, etc.) are welcome.

If you are interested in participating, please go to http://www.qychamilton.ca/ or call 289-700-0213, Monday to Friday between 7:30pm to 8:00pm.

VISION: To promote Hamilton, and more specifically the artistic and cultural sector primarily located in the James Street North area, as a destination for those living within Hamilton as well as to those outside of the city’s borders.

MISSION: To annually hold a festival on James Street North, Hamilton showcasing the intrinsic charm and cultural character of the street and to host music, art, dance and theatre from Hamilton and around the world.

HISTORY: Supercrawl is heading into its 5th year in 2013 with the hopes to continue to grow into Hamilton’s premier annual event.

VISION: To promote Hamilton, and more specifically the artistic and cultural sector primarily located in the James Street North area, as a destination for those living within Hamilton as well as to those outside of the city’s borders.

MISSION: To annually hold a festival on James Street North, Hamilton showcasing the intrinsic charm and cultural character of the street and to host music, art, dance and theatre from Hamilton and around the world.

HISTORY: Supercrawl is heading into its 5th year in 2013 with the hopes to continue to grow into Hamilton’s premier annual event.

Toronto RV Expo The Biggest RV Show is coming your way serving the largest market in Canada! Join us January 16-19, 2014 at the Toronto Congress Centre. Show hours are: Thursday 11-7, Friday 10-8, Saturday 10-7, Sunday 11-5 http://www.torontorvexpo.com/