Gathering 2022 is nurturing and strengthening our movements through celebration.
Throughout the last two years, community building efforts have been challenged, pushed to extremes, and change has been happening at a rapid rate. For people working to improve our communities and tackle complex problems, our shared purpose and vision is a source of hope. There is joy in connection, in participating in movements, in mutual care, and in seeing transformation.
Gathering 2022 – Cultivating Joy – is an incredible opportunity to collaborate with community builders to connect, learn, and take action. Happening in-person, on October 21st, 2022, the Gathering 2022 will be a fun and engaging day that will focus on the power of joy – how we use it to connect to each other and strengthen our organizations and movements.
For the 20th year of the Gathering, we invite you to celebrate this event milestone and your collective accomplishments building inclusive, sustainable, and equitable economies and communities. We invite participants to examine how we care for ourselves, each other, the environment, and consider how we can elicit joy to strengthen our communities and our movements.
The learning opportunities of the 20th edition of the Gathering will explore the connection between joy and the work of Community Economic Development:
- What are the ways we can honour joy for everyone as we acknowledge our collective grief?
- By coming together and working across differences, can we create joy and hope for achieving our shared vision?
- How do we make work cultures that promote good health?
- How can we use joy to make movements and transformation irresistible?
Join us in-person at St. John’s High School in Winnipeg for the Gathering 2022 Conference – as we celebrate each other, our work, and the 20th anniversary of the Gathering.
Gathering 2022 Program At-A-Glance
8:30 – 9:00 am Registration, Networking, Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 am Opening
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Workshop Slot #1
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch, Networking, Exhibition Booths
1:30 – 2:30 pm Celebration
2:45 – 4:15 pm Workshop Slot #2
This year’s conference will take place on Friday, October 21 at St. John’s High School in Winnipeg.
The Gathering is an annual pay-what-you-can event where Manitoba’s community builders connect, learn, and celebrate success. It is open to all from staff of community organizations, to students, funders, civil servants, academics, or anyone interested in community development and community economic development.
Come and connect!
It is exciting to welcome participants back to St. John’s High School in person for a day of learning, connecting, and celebrating. The Gathering will offer two plenary events featuring keynote speakers, performers, and networking, multiple workshops covering a wide range of CED topics, and a lunch catered by local social enterprises and cooperatives.
Detailed program
8:30 – 9:00 am | Registration, Networking, Breakfast
Welcome Smudge led by Jolene Wilson
9:00 – 10:30 am | Gathering Opening
Throughout the last two years, community building efforts have been challenged, pushed to extremes, and change has been happening at a rapid rate. For people working to improve our communities and tackle complex problems, our shared purpose and vision is a source of hope. There is joy in connection, in participating in movements, in mutual care, and in seeing transformation.
The Gathering opening will serve as the first time in three years that attendees will be together in person, seeing sector colleagues and friends for the first time since the pandemic. We hope to capture this feeling of reunion, fun, and anticipation and use it to further explore the theme of joy in our work.
Speakers:
Elder Mae Louise Campbell – Clan Mothers Healing Village
Michael Redhead Champagne – Ininew Helper, Host, Speaker, & Author
Karen Sharma – Executive Director, Manitoba Human Rights Commission; Organizer, QPOC Winnipeg; DJ
Katie Daman – Project Manager, Community Futures Manitoba; Co-Founder & Co-Chairperson, Fireweed Food Co-op
Speakers will share reflections and stories of joy in their work and reflection on this year’s theme.
10:45 am – 12:00 pm | Workshop Slot #1
Two timeslots with 10+ choices in each! Workshops will be participatory, featuring smaller group discussion, more direct learning and participation. More Workshop Details here!
Tapping Into Resiliency Through Storytelling: Communities4Families
Buy with Impact to Move from Transaction to Community Transformation Buy Social Canada
The MRA Legacy: Building Up People and Communities: Manitoba Research Alliance
Entrepreneurial workshops and mentorship for newcomer women: Healthy Muslim Families
The joy of claiming and naming value: T. Jonah Pearce
Ideal Communities and CED 101: Brendan Reimer
Presenting Value (Talk about your impact, not your to-do list): Strategy Made Simple
Reporting Matters: Data Visualization and Plain Language: Leading4Impact
Non-Traditional Finance for Non-Profits: Jubilee Fund
Co-ops 101: Manitoba Co-op Association
Nurture Joy at Work Through Mindfulness: Kerri Twigg
12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch
Lunch featuring catering from local social enterprises and cooperatives.
1:30 – 2:30 pm | Gathering Celebration
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Gathering! We want to celebrate this milestone with an after lunch event that combines the feeling of togetherness and fun with a little bit of learning. We continue to explore the theme of joy through art and hands on activities in this hour.
Presenters/Artists:
ArtsJunktion – a community-based organization committed to redistributing reusable materials available take-what-you-need, pay-what-you-can.
The Sunshine Bunch Drag Show – The Sunshine Bunch is a group, made up of drag performers who were/are participants who were are a part of the Sunshine House drop in group “Like That.” The Group is weird, talented, funny and a full on wonderful group. When performing, each entertainer will bring you a darn good show!
2:45 – 4:15 pm | Workshop Slot #2
Two timeslots with 10+ choices in each! Workshops will be participatory, featuring smaller group discussion, more direct learning and participation. More Workshop Details here!
The Right to Mental Health: Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties
Purpose Homes – Building Better Futures: Purpose Construction
The Joy of Conflict: Peacing It Together
Reconciliation is Housing: Spence Neighbourhood Association
At the Heart of the Matter: Digital storytelling as a resource for building safer, more just, and healthier futures Community Works
North End Connect – Internet Connectivity in the North End: Internet Society Manitoba
A Just Transition for Manitoba: Vision, Opportunities, and Actions Josiah Neufeldt & Laura Cameron
Cause Play: Katie Daman & Max Harley
The Joy of Social Innovation: Marianne Cerilli
Understanding the Context of Social Finance & Community Building: CCEDNet & SEED Winnipeg
Building Community through Basketball: Lenard Monkman
We Want a Gathering for All!
