Join us at 312 Main in Vancouver, BC for food, drinks, music and conversation to jumpstart this summit on global equity!

We’ll hear from Jada-Gabrielle Pape, Artist and Community Organizer of Snuneymuxw and Saanich Nations. Then Anjali Appadurai, director of the Padma Centre for Climate Justice will discuss the need for this summit, our goals and what to expect in the days ahead.

Our esteemed keynote speakers on this night will be Meena Raman of the Third World Network and Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada.

We will also be joined by an incredible musical guest, Kin Balam, a Central American Indigenous artist weaving elements of latin, afro-Cuban, flamenco and Indigenous Mesoamerican music into his virtuosic guitar performance.

We’ll also hear from our summit partners, enjoy a delicious spread from Mazahr Lebanese Kitchen, and taste local organic wines from Minimalist Wines. It promises to be a good time!

Hosted by

Climate Emergency Unit
Padma Centre for Climate Justice
SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi)
Climate Justice Centre at UBC
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Shake Up the Establishment
The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC)

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Jada-Gabrielle Pape
Artist and Community Organizer, Snuneymuxw and Saanich Nations
Jada-Gabrielle Pape is Coast Salish belonging to the Snuneymuxw and Saanich Nations. She has family ties to both Musqueam and Squamish Nations and lives in so-called East Vancouver. Jada is a mixed media artist who creates as a way to find calm in the storms. Jada has recently been called an ‘activist’ and really resents that label, rather describes her daily actions as living out the core values, intentions and teachings of her ancestors. She is unwaveringly in solidarity with Palestine and has a life long commitment to resistance. Her own resistance to colonialism comes in the form of canoeing, drumming and singing, and consistent, hopeful parenting. Jada is a mom, an auntie, a community member and a daughter. Jada is an anti-racism educator, a decolonizing consultant and a grief and trauma counsellor. Her fancy accolades mean less and less to her these days.

Anjali Appadurai
Climate Emergency Unit
Anjali Appadurai is a climate justice organizer and communicator. As a young activist she worked with youth movements from around the world to build a strong civil society voice at the UN Climate Convention and to ensure that social movements' demands were heard in the halls of power. Today, Anjali runs the Padma Centre for Climate Justice, a project that brings together diasporic communities to build power around issues of climate and economic justice, and she works as Campaigns Director at the Climate Emergency Unit.

Meena Raman
Head of Programmes, Third World Network
Meena Raman is the Head of Programmes of Third World Network (TWN) and is based in Malaysia where she practiced public interest law for over 25 years, representing grassroots communities taking on big corporations.. At Third World Network, Meena currently coordinates the climate change program and has been actively involved in the intergovernmental climate negotiations, from Bali to Cancún. She has been monitoring and reporting on the negotiations and providing analysis and support both to developing country governments as well as to civil society participants.

Jamie Kneen
Co-founder, Program Co-lead and Outreach Coordinator, MiningWatch Canada
Jamie Kneen co-founded MiningWatch Canada in 1999. As Outreach Coordinator and National Program Co-Lead, Jamie leads MiningWatch's work on mining policy advocacy and mining activity in western and northern Canada, providing strategic and technical support to communities affected by mineral exploration and mining projects. He also leads the organization's strategic research and communications, as well as research and advocacy in Africa (and previously, Latin America), as well as on mine waste management, mining and Indigenous rights, uranium mining, and environmental assessment policy and practice in Canada.

Kin Balam
Artist from the Indigenous lands of Kuxkatan, Nekepio, El Salvador
“Kin” the “path” (in Lenca Poton), and “Balam”, (in Mayan Yucatec) translates to “The path of the jaguar”.
Kin Balam is a soulful artist weaving his story and the stories of his ancestral lineage with elements of flamenco, afro-Cuban percussion, Latin American music, Indigenous Mesoamerican music, Afro Latin Jazz, and Hip Hop into a "new yet ancient rooted musical style".

Accessibility for 312 Main
Entrance
The entrance (accessible) is off Cordova by the bus stop. The front desk is staffed 24/7 and you will be buzzed in upon arriving.

Bike Parking
Indoor guest bike parking available.

Washrooms
All-gender washrooms are located by the front entrance beside the front desk and at the southeast corner of the ground floor.

Water
Filtered water bottle filling station is in the southeast corner of the ground floor.

Please email us at info@climateemergencyunit.ca if there is anything we can do to make this even more accessible and inclusive for you.