We Are Many Aug 22-24, Diefenbaker Park
what's your impact?
WAM's strategy — Education and Co-operation.
WAM's Impact — Changing the world, One community at a time.
WAM —We Are Many.
Imagine if 20% of a city's population were assembled and together agreed to individually implement at least one environmentally beneficial action. This is the WAM model - pulling together a significant proportion of the city's community and asking them to agree to implement at least one of a list of specific, effective, and locally-relevant actions. Multiplied across the city, each individual action contributes to massive, measurable change - environmental impact we can actually see.
Workshops and symposia at the Festival site will help people gain the skills they need in order to make simple changes to their lifestyles. And did we mention? Performances and guest features by Fred Penner, the Weakerthans, Tom Jackson, Yann Martel, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Theresa Sokyrka, and more!
We are working with the City of Saskatoon to measure post-Festival changes in bus ridership, traffic patterns, landfill usage, energy and water consumption per household, and more. WAM also incorporates many side projects - murals around the city for public education, a Green Lawyers group, and many others. Sign up on the Volunteers page to volunteer with the festival, or join the WAM newsletter by submitting your e-mail address on the sidebar.
On August 22nd-24th, affirm your commitment to Saskatoon's future — a clean, green, self-sufficient Saskatoon.
See you there!
We Are Many
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View the festival site: Diefenbaker Park
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We Are Many Fiction Contest!
We Are Many Festival invites online entries for their fiction competition. The deadline for entries is August 15th.
The entry must relate to the environment, in whichever way the author interprets this to mean. We Are Many Festival is an environmental and arts festival and we look forward to reading your creative interpretations!
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Excitement, Support, and a New Pact!
The Festival is less than two months away and excitement among the WAM group is evident. During last week's all-day planning session we brought together the many festival pieces and learned that we are within striking distance of all of our goals -- environmental, financial, promotional, and otherwise. And a positive phone call from Affinity Credit Union first thing that morning certainly helped -- they decided to donate another $5,000 to the festival!
Thanks to your comments, we've been able to compile a significantly improved (and shorter!) Pact. Check it out at www.wearemanyfestival.com/pact . Look for a final version to be released August 1! Both editions will be reduced to about 25 items so it can be printed on one page, but the full list of ideas will still be available electronically. Continue to offer feedback on our forum and we will incorporate it into the final version (which will have a paper-free component so you can sign the Pact online instead of in hard copy).
Also new to the website: letters of support from Jane Goodall, Stephen Lewis, and Environmental Defence Canada! Go to the Press section to read them.
Thank you to everybody for their support and enthusiasm!
Sincerely,
Mark and the WAM Team