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Glasswork Coop is one of the many groups that use Harmony Centre regularly for events and gatherings. This week they kindly posted a thank you to Harmony Centre. We so appreciate hearing when we succeed in filling a community need.
Glassworks posted:
We’re so grateful for the support from the Harmony Centre Owen Sound! They’re always there when we need a space for our larger in person events and they’ve always shown us lots of support and solidarity! And they’re a truly amazing hub for community initiatives, organizing and gathering!
Shawna Banville Art Therapy is among the many creative residents who call Harmony Centre home. Later this month, Shawna will be hosting a unique creative experience called The Art of Seeing. Running from 10:00 to 3:00 on November 29, this Expressive Art Retreat will guide you on a journey of mindful self-exploratio
Cost: $150
Get out of your head and step into a day of presence, creativity, and mindful self exploration. Nurture your body, mind, and spirit through art, sound, and movement.
Explore and play in a safe, supportive and confidential space and leave with practices and insight to integrate connection and awareness into your everyday life.
Shawna Banville, BA, RP, Registered Art Psychotherapist,
nature lover, mother, artist, dancer, private practice owner, and
guide in creative mindful self discovery.
Mike Merrit, MSW, Clinical Logo therapist, Ex Naval officer,
2nd degree black belt in Karate, dabbler in the arts, and
mindfulness practitioner.
Contact Shawna to Reserve
1-519-374-9850
shawnabanville@gmail.com
Lori Pyne will be addressing Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference on the topic of Reframing Community Relationships. Lori has worked as a socially responsible leader, convenor, and community builder.
She currently is the Executive Director at Squamish Helping Hands Society, having worked for over a decade at Whistler Community Services Society. She has managed multiple projects, while maintaining passion and integrity for the impact that she has on her surroundings.
Lori enjoys creating strategic perspectives while generating positive opportunities and outcomes for her staff, clients, and family. She currently collaborates on community housing solutions around the Squamish Community Housing Society board table with a lens for accountability, balance and commitment. Her term on the Vantage Point Board of Directors, Transforming BC’s Non Profits, is where she learned the importance of diverse relationship building and the importance of transparent governance.
Gwen Patrick will be sharing her experience in holistic economic development at Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions conference with her presentation: Economic Nutrition for the Place We Live. Gwen is the Financial Innovation Lead at the Shorefast Institute on Fogo Island, overseeing program execution and financial and economic toolset development.
Like Harmony Centre, the Shorefast Institute is a social enterprise, in fact one of Canada’s largest, working to build economic and cultural resilience on Fogo Island, a 400 year-old outport fishing community critically impacted by the decline of the cod fishery and the related moratorium established in 1992.
She grew up on Salt Spring Island, BC, where she founded the Foundation of Youth, a youth advisory committee of the Salt Spring Island Foundation. While earning her Bachelor of Commerce at Queen’s University, she received the Kehoe Fellowship, enabling her to intern with Shorefast on Fogo Island. After graduation, she obtained her CPA designation and worked in public accounting at a Big Four firm before returning to Shorefast.
For more information on the Small Communities Solutions Conference, click here.
The Small Communities Solutions Conference being held at Harmony Centre on March 29 will learn of a pilot project undertaken by the Grey Bruce Public Health Unit. Heidi Lucas will outline the project which uses Drug Test Strips as an aid in Harm Reduction. Harm Reduction is part of a spectrum of services that supports people to achieve optimal health and wellbeing as they navigate their journey with substance use.
Heidi is a public health nurse on the GBPH Harm Reduction Team and has experience in harm reduction in urban and rural settings and enjoys opportunities to work directly with clients, as well as on population-level initiatives.
For more information on Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference click here.
Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference will hear from Craig Ambrose, Chief of Owen Sound Police Services, on the role of policing in solutions for small communities. His experience will inform his talk entitled “What we have tried isn’t working… so how do we try to balance our approach”
Craig Ambrose grew up, worked, and raised his family in rural Waterloo Region before moving to Grey County and being appointed Chief of Police in January 2019. He started his policing career over 35 years ago with the Waterloo Regional Police Service. He held progressively more responsible duties throughout Waterloo Region including assignments in general patrol, undercover work, drug enforcement, homicide, Professional Standards, public order, incident command and criminal intelligence. He gained valuable supervisory experience in all of those areas and culminated in running patrol operations for the city of Waterloo and the supervision of all investigative units as the Inspector and Acting Superintendent of the Investigative Services Division.
Chief Ambrose sits on both the OACP Community Safety and Crime Prevention and CACP Information Communication and Technology committees. Aside from the daily activities of running a police service, the Chief also oversees the Owen Sound Emergency Communications Centre, a service that provides dispatch communications and IT support to over 60 police and fire services throughout Ontario.
More on Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference click here.
Stuart Reid is confirmed as a speaker for Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference coming up on March 29. His talk will be: Helping Youth in Transition: Rent Supplements Keep Youths Housed.
This program addresses the needs of youth, 16 to 24 years of age, facing homelessness in Grey Bruce, through a rent supplement along with counselling and mentoring to ensure best outcomes.
Over the past year, the project has offered a monthly rent supplement to the first cohort of 12 youth from the By-Names list. By-Name Lists allow communities to know every person experiencing homelessness by name and facilitate efficient decisions around how best to refer housing resources.
YMCA Housing Services delivers the supplement as well as wrap around services, mentoring, and transitional supports that have the potential to significantly change the life trajectory of participants. The rent supplement adds to the supports available from the associated County, meaning that youth will have more money in their pockets, and sovereignty over their situation and finances.
The project aims to lend dignity and autonomy to youth in transition. Our model will track the impact of this supplement and will reflect the changes in life trajectory of the 12+ individuals engaged in the effort.
The program received originating support from the Laidlaw family and the Laidlaw Foundation, the Joseph & Marilyn Hunt Fund, and the Next25 Fund, Project partners include CFGB, United Way of Bruce Grey, Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force, YMCA of Owen Sound Bruce Grey, private donors, and other foundations.
Stuart Reid joined the community philanthropy movement in 2016 as Executive Director of Community Foundation Grey Bruce. A graduate of York University in Toronto, he has over 30 years of leadership experience in Canadian art museums and the non-profit sector. As a passionate advocate for community wellbeing, he is an active volunteer and a board member for the Canadian Crafts Federation. Stuart is an award-winning writer, a certified yoga instructor, and loves living near the shores of Georgian Bay in Annan, Ontario.
More on Harmony Centre’s Small Communities Solutions Conference click here.
Harmony Centre is organizing a gathering of minds intended be a launchpad for workable solutions to some of the most difficult issues facing small towns today.
Who Should Attend Harmony Centre’s Small Town Solutions Conference:
Get your ticket by February 15 and receive 20 per cent off the $50 registration fee!
Click here to register today!
Harmony Centre is pleased to host another Pay-What-You-Can family concert.
Once again in December we are bringing back a performance of the much-loved music from A Charlie Brown Christmas with Tyler Wagler, Adam Bowman and Thomas Hammerton. Deanne Hallman’s Children’s Choir will add to the holiday fun.
A Charlie Brown Christmas is an Emmy Award-winning holiday tradition enjoyed by children everywhere. Equally magical is the soundtrack created by Vince Guaraldi. Tyler and friends evoke all the memories and attachments people have surrounding the music and the annual animated special. Who doesn’t know the popular Christmas Time is Here?
Join us for milk and cookies following the performance. (All will be nut-free. Gluten-free options available, as well as non-dairy milk.)
Get tickets in advance here or pay what you can at the door.
Singer-songwriter Kevin Moyse sets to song compelling historical highlights of the golden age of Georgian Bay steamships for a special Harmony Centre fundraising event on November 9 at 7:00 pm.
“Songs of Georgian Bay” combines descriptive lyrics with evocative music, rare photographs, and newspaper clippings collected from museums and archives throughout the region.
“Songs of Georgian Bay,” tells true and sometimes mysterious stories of life, triumph, loss, and tragedy. It paints a vivid picture of the severe and unpredictable waters of Georgian Bay, which brought both riches and regret to those who sailed it. Set to song, these stories come to life with a poignant and unforgettable sensitivity that sends shivers up the spine.
Admission is pay-what-you-can at the door, or pay in advance here. Proceeds go to the Greaves Auditorium Improvement Plan.
This event is made possible by Harmony Centre’s community event sponsor: VanDolder’s Home Team.
Harmony Centre Owen Sound is a Canada Revenue Agency Registered Charity. Your donations really make a difference in preserving this place for our community. You can support us through CanadaHelps or directly by e-transfer or in person.
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890 4th Ave East
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(Entrance on 9th St East)
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