Interested in taking action to improve your campus and community?

Join the Office of Community Engagement for the Evergreen McMaster 100in1Day workshop. This workshop will bring together McMaster staff, students, and faculty interested in developing a small community action or project for 100in1Day taking place on Saturday June 2, 2018.

When: Tuesday April 10, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Where: MacPherson Institute Classroom, Mills Library, Floor 5R, McMaster University

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An Opportunity to Open Campus to the Community: 2018 will be Canada’s largest 100in1Day yet, giving Hamilton an excellent opportunity to showcase our community both nationally and internationally. Building on a number of existing McMaster-Evergreen partnerships, a McMaster Hub will serve as an opportunity to open the McMaster campus to visitors in a creative and exciting way!

The workshop will include:

• An overview of 100in1Day from Evergreen’s Jay Carter
• Ideation space to develop ideas for your intervention
• Resources for how to move forward with your idea

About 100in1Day

100in1Day Hamilton is part of a growing global movement that is changing how people interact with their cities. Originating in Bogotá, Colombia in 2012, 100in1Day has encouraged hundreds of community-based interventions in the streets, sidewalks, parks, alleyways, public squares, waterfronts, front lawns, porches and common spaces of cities around the world. The initiative draws participation from a wide variety of groups including residents, neighbourhood associations, arts and environmental organizations, anchor institutions, local governments, small businesses and Business Improvement Areas (BIAs). It provides residents with a platform to showcase their ideas aimed to spark change in their communities. It is led by Evergreen (www.evergreen.ca) and powered by Future Cities Canada.

Interventions are simple, often low-cost community projects or actions that are free, open to anyone, and designed to create positive change, like pop-up parking space parties, plant swaps and seed giveaways, alleyway concerts, community art creation and neighbourhood potlucks. Interventions like these take place all on one day, in a series of city-wide 100in1Day celebrations that demonstrate the collective power of small actions.

Click here to get inspired by past 100in1Day Interventions.