A formal invitation from Tad Hargrave, Jeff Golfman and Beth Martens to be our guest at the 'marketing for hippies'. . .
"If
you're
reading this email then you are a combination of a few things -
One of our favorite people in Winnipeg and/or someone who's doing good work in the community.Join us for an invite only, casually catered party Saturday, October 2nd @ 7:00pm."
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SPACES AVAILABLE:
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Basic Information: WHAT: A
wonderful, informal, community building dinner with some of Winnipeg's
coolest green folks. It's equal parts: Party, feast, shindig,
happening, gathering, mingle-mingle, soiree, get-together, and
hullabaloo. WHEN: Saturday, October 2nd, 7:00pm – 11:30pm. WHO: Yourself and a hand picked cadre of my favorite Winnipeg green entrepreneurs. To see the list of who is already coming – just read below. WHAT WILL HAPPEN: This
will
be a very casual affair, but, at some point – likely around 8:30pm - we will be inviting people to gather and introduce themselves. The introductions will be open by a 15 minute Kirtan with Beth Martens.
| COST: Food is on us. We pay for
food - you pay for your drinks (or bring your own). Please be our guest.
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 | The Menu: Cooked Vegan Dishes: Curry Carrot Dip (with tabbouleh, pita & fresh vegetables) Corn and Avocado Tomato Molletas Raw Vegan Dishes: Raw Dim Sum Cashew Dill Dip (with fresh vegetables) Rainbow Caesar Salad Chocolate Pudding FOOD PREFERENCES: If you have any allergies or concerns please feel free to let us know or bring a dish of your own to contribute.
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The Final Guest List (40):
To see who is
attending this evening please continue reading . . .
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 | Tad Hargrave - Marketing
Coach for Hippies Tad Hargrave is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing. Despite years of activism, he finally had to admit he was a marketing nerd and, in the end, he became a marketing coach for hippies. Maybe it was because he couldn’t stand seeing his hippy friends struggle to promote their amazing, green and holistic projects. Maybe it was because he couldn’t keep a 9-5 job to save his life. Whatever the reason, for almost a decade, he has been touring his marketing workshops around Canada, bringing refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs and green businesses that help them grow their organizations and businesses (without selling their souls). And, over the years, he has become recognized as a leader in the wider movement towards green and local economies. |
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 | Beth Martens - Yoga Teacher & Musician An emotional and spiritual pioneer, Beth
Martens has a knack for offering people the opportunity to explore life
at a deeper level. People who engage with her are taken on a journey of
music, yoga, meditation, and spiritual and emotional awakening.
Offering inspiration through sharing her life story as a two-time cancer
survivor, Beth Martens has been quietly discovered by a niche market
who follow her career with high affinity. Eight
trips to India, now bringing and "eastern" approach to the Western
World, Beth Martens uses soul-driven lyrics, mantra and interactive
ecstatic chant to music to attract an audience into an experience,
rather than just offering an additional song or two to add to one's
iPod. Musician, Yoga Instructor, Singer, Songwriter, and Kirtan Leader
are just a few of the hats worn by Martens, as she continues to offer
new unique breakthrough experiences to those who have discovered her
career.
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 | Jeff Golfman - Eco Entrepreneur An Eco-Entrepreneur for the past 21 years, Jeff is the co-founder and
President of Prairie Pulp & Paper Inc. active in the research and
development of recycling agricultural straw fibres into tree-free
chlorine-free sulfur-free paper. Jeff is 16 years into daily yoga practice and has been a vegetarian for 21 years and 100% raw for last six.
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Michelle McNeill - Life Promoting Food & Yoga I am currently starting up my business which includes life~promoting cuisine, bliss~full art, conscious computing and yoga. I have been testing out my life~promoting chocolate delight bars in the community with great success. I am currently finishing up my website and working out the logistics of running a business. I look forward to connecting with community members. I am also the mother of a 10 month old baby girl, Shanti. |
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Cheryl Cohan (and Noah Erenberg) - Grassroots Artist and Therapist Therapist/artist/coordinator of programs, events, therapeutic
recreation and grassroots endeavors - that promote healthy community and
individuals, mentorships, diversity, arts and coopertives. Based
in a rural setting with a focus on management and enhancement of
natural woodland/wetland/prairie habitat - bee, bird and wildlife
sanctuary -organic gardens, horticultural therapy, annual arts and music
festival and fair. Presently developing the rural business further to
include more rural based programming, co-op studio gallery, year round
festival events and fundraisers, etc. |
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nicolewpg (at) shaw (dot) ca | Nicole Choptain - Holistic Nutritionist I’m a holistic nutritionist that believes in eating well and teaching people to LISTEN to their bodies and the great wisdom within to create their best life possible – through FOOD! Crazy I know but it is so much fun and very rewarding when true lifestyle changes are made. I also am a cofounder of a local movement called THE FOOD LABEL MOVEMENT. Look for us online in a month or so. We are organizing a march here in Winnipeg to promote a better food labeling system. Forget burning your bra, we are burning food labels and all the false and misleading information on them! Looking forward to meeting you all! As a Certified Holistic Nutritionist (CHN) through the Alive Academy of Natural Health, I integrate the concepts of mind-body nutrition with current scientific knowledge and literature. I obtained a Bachelor of Science in microbiology and biochemistry. Fuelled by a desire to connect more deeply with people I completed a Master of Science studying the preferences, attitudes and behaviors of environmental travellers. However, upon graduation, the knowledge I gained was so applicable to health care that I worked in health care research for nine years. While this brings a wealth of experience to what I do, my knowledge base is also supported by my own personal health practices and learning to listen to my own body which has brought great healing. They say a fountain has many sources and it is with these holistic, scientific, and personal sources I offer my wisdom to you to help you find your own inner wisdom. Nameste. |
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Claude Forest & Racha Claude is president of Multimedia Risk, Insurance Brokers to the worldwide film industry.
MultiMedia Risk is an International Media Insurance Boutique. |
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Nigel Burns & Shelly Busch - Eco Friendly Screen Printer With my partner, Shelly, we've opened a
water-based eco-friendly commercial screen printing shop here in
Winnipeg, where we print with water-based inks, clean-up using water and
biodegradable chemicals and supply only organic and/or fair trade
garments. |
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Meghan Athavale - Visual and Interactive Artist Meghan is the Artistic Director of PO-MO Inc., a company that
specializes in interactive and large scale projection installations. |
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 | Kate Kelly - Family Law Practitioner
I am a lawyer working in the area of Collaborative Family Law. I help
people navigate the legal system after they have separated from their
partner. When there are children involved, Collaborative Family Law is
an excellent alternative to the traditional way families are assisted in
the legal system. |
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 | Shannon Kohlman - Green Girl Sales & Consulting I am a
busy woman on the go. I love my job as a stay at home mother and filling
my home with the sounds of extra children I care for. Mothering aside,
another passion of mine is business. I spent 3 years in the college of
Commerce, a few years in psychology and another couple of years soul
searching in fine arts. Green Girl brings it all together for me. These
days I like to help others go green and the key is 'for less'. I
offer consultations to those interested in improving their home, health
and environment with green products and solutions. I represent products
like stoneware by Pampered Chef, organic skin care and supplements by
Miessence, microfibre cleaning by Norwex and so much more (for less).
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 | Carolin Vesely - Hippie Journalist
Carolin's first newspaper gig was at a rural Alberta weekly where the reporters shared a typewriter and developed and printed their own photos. In the darkroom, the sink drained into a bucket that had to be emptied into the toilet across the hall. After a few more stints covering bull sales, grasshopper infestations and two-headed calves at other Prairie weeklies, Carolin landed a reporter position at her hometown paper, the Lethbridge Herald. Carolin spent a year backpacking in Australia before continuing along the Thomson newspapers trail, with stints at the Medicine Hat News and Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal. She landed at the Free Press in 2000 following a queasy encounter with some bad pickerel in Kenora. Carolin has worked as a general assignment reporter, editorial writer, copy editor, lifestyle writer, features editor and columnist. She gave up photography after her equipment was stolen during a trip to the Czech Republic and currently explores the lighter side of life as a feature writer in the Free Press's lifestyles/entertainment department. Carolin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Montana, where she earned a William Randolph Hearst Foundation in-depth writing award for an honours project on gambling in Montana's remote Indian reservations. Although she works for The Man, Carolin is a hippie at heart and supports raising the consciousness of all things -- commerce included. In her professional life as a feature writer, she strives to slip as many stories as possible about things holistic, spiritual, community minded and otherwise hippie-ish into the mainstream media. |
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| Dhyana Justl - Yoga Instructor Diana is a humbled and dedicated practitioner and educator. She has been an explorer of inner and outer yoga and theatrical arts for 14 years. The study and practice of many forms of yoga, meditation and theatre has led her around the world. Diana also studies and gives holistic body work in the form of Thai Massage and Reiki with guided visualization and Restorative yoga postures. She has been gifted with the grace of many exceptional yoga teachers in the east and west. She has traveled intensively to India, Nepal, England, The Yukon, New Mexico and California to learn both yoga and mediation from highly regarded teachers. She has acted, directed and lead theatre workshops for kids across Canada and England. She completed her 200 hour registered yoga teacher training in 2008 at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and has completed her advanced teacher training at the Yoga Centre Winnipeg. Diana has been teaching an alignment based flow yoga, interweaving meditation and mindfulness for almost 3 years. She has mainly been influenced and devoted to Lama Lodro, Adyashanti, Sarah Powers, Aadil Palhkivala, Tias Little, Jan Debenham, and Jason Crandell all of whom she has studied with. She holds an Honours Bachelor degree in Theatre and Religious Studies and hopes to study Transpersonal Psychotherapy at a masters level. She has just embarked on The Marriage and Family Therapy Counselling Program at the University of Winnipeg. |
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 | Doug Dickman Most recently I've been teaching methodology and English in South Korea. I am interested in healthier ways of being in all areas: business, the arts, spirituality, community activism, lifestyle. |
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Keith Dyck - Musician This boy’s been making magic and music all of his life. The product of a
musical family, Keith spent most of his childhood playing every
instrument he could put his hands on and learned to play literally at
his fathers knee. Family get together's often turned to hootenannies led
by the strum’n of the banjo.
Keith's experience and accolades speak for themselves, but what raises
him above the crowd is a deep understanding of the inspiring, and
healing effects of music. His energy, willingness, and vibe, if you
will, extends far beyond the stage and enriches any event of which he is
part. |
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 | rebecca mccormack - clothing designer When Rebecca McCormack opened the doors to her Exchange District boutique over six years ago she never imagined where the ride would take her. Rebecca’s hard work, business savvy and fashion sense have brought her opportunities that most girls only dream about, like owning one of “the” fashion boutiques in Winnipeg and designing her own line of dresses. This past August, Rebecca moved her successful boutique from its original location on Albert to a brighter, bigger location down the road on McDermot Avenue. The new location’s soaring 20-foot ceilings, bright 12-foot windows and historic feel are the perfect backdrop for her dress collection. One look at the dresses Rebecca designs and it’s easy to see why bride’s and bridesmaid’s can’t get enough of them. Cake dresses come in all the right colours, they’re fashion forward, comfortable and most importantly versatile! They’re the kind of dresses that you can actually wear again and again and again. Not only are the dresses versatile, but also very well priced. All of this hasn’t gone unnoticed as Cake dresses are sold in 40 stores across Canada and making their way into the US. The Spring line of Cake dresses is now available, check-out her dresses in person or online at cakeclothing.com. |
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Karina Cardona - Community Organizer I currently work on numerous community projects that seek to engage marginalized groups of older adults and youth through dialogue, art-making and access to transportation. I conduct research for the Institute of Urban Studies, create collaborative murals with youth and have an educational background in Environmental Studies and Geography. I am ever-broadening my concepts of sustainability through dimensions of social engagement. So I am in the 'business' of taking in opinions, repackaging issues and selling seeds for solutions through ideas. Mostly, this means developing creative consultation and communication techniques, network development and collaboration with community coalitions. Building confidence in individuals that capacitates them to take action in their lives, homes and communities is my goal. |
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Amanda Grant - Raw Foods Caterer Amanda is a university graduate and owner of Orange Lily Raw
Foods & Catering (due for official launch within the next couple of months).
She began Orange Lily to share her passion of delicious and nutritious eating
with Winnipeggers and will be offering classes, products, catering, and
presentations. Amanda wants everyone to feel empowered about their health, know
their choices, and to realize their potential. Besides her budding inner entrepreneur, Amanda is a local activist who involves herself in issues such as social and human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues. She also volunteers within the community and believes that it is community, the sharing of knowledge, and the respect for oneself, each other and the environment that are pertinent to the wellbeing of everyone. |
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Stacy Klassen - Body Piercer and Fire Dancer This woman is as diverse as they come! Stacy is a body piercer at a
tattoo shop by day and moonlights as a firedance performance artist. Her
troupe WildFire has performed at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg
Fringe Festival,the Manitoba Goddess Festival, Camp Manitowabi as well
as private parties and corporate events. Stacy is a fusionary artist,
combining the cross cultural exploration of the ritual use of dance with
FIRE. Elements of capoiera, belly dance, pow wow, tango and more can be
seen in her performances. |
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Dominique Smith - Curio Shop Owner Hello! I am the proprietor of Elemental Book and Curiosity Shop which is
soon to be opening on Langside in late October. This shop has been in
the works since 2004 with its original incarnation as a home based
business call Cloaked Realm ~ Pagan Emporium. Transforming into a brick
and mortar shop will allow the business to expand its product and
service offerings beyond the Wiccan/Pagan niche market that Cloaked
Realm was originally targeted to. I envision a not so common
"newage/metaphysical" bookstore that serves a diverse demographic while
still holding true to our roots. I look forward to serving the community
and building strong relationships. |
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Paul Chorney I've been community organizing for the past 30 years-helping to start
organic and natural food coops and working in inner city revitalization
in West Broadway in Winnipeg |
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 | Tanya Pillay - Hypnotherapist I'm a motivational hypnotist helping people change, achieve, and enhance
whatever they want. I keep my business as green as possible (resuable
water cups for clients, double sided client forms, minimal printed
promotional materials). |
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Phoebe Mann - Drummer, Paper Maker, Healer
I was born in Hong Kong, and have been living in Canada since 1974. A
single parent of two grown-up children, I am a professional taiko
(traditional Japanese drumming) performer and instructor, a singer and
dancer. In addition, I am also a (botanical) papermaker, and a
sweatlodge assistant. |
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Janet Whitley & Lee Malcolmson - Publishers of 'The Aquarian' Janet is the publisher of The Aquarian, and her husband Don is the accountant and computer guru that has been invaluable in the production of the newspaper.
Says Janet, "I have a Fine Arts degree and started a graphic arts company Adventure
Publications 25 years ago. I purchased the paper when it had stopped
publishing over 14 years ago when I realized that the holistic field
would become mainstream. My goals of getting the paper to the rural area, hospitals and beyond
has been met with good success, paying our writers fairly and
maintaining a certain standard of journalistic integrity. Lee is a board member, writer, and marketing advisor. |
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 | Anneen du Plessis & Tomas Sohlberg - Boon Burger |
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Carson Hill - Chill Acu Pressure Provider Carson is one part traveler, one part artist, one part Buddhist, one part Daoist, one part environmentalist, one part salvager, one part writer, one part meditator, one part therapist, many parts a mystery… And in all parts a seeker of truth and purpose and simplicity. His current focus is around his practice as a Jin Shin Do® Acupressurist, working to help others become all that they can be in body, mind and spirit. He offers periodic workshops in acupressure, and is offering introductory meditation and qigong classes. His formal training includes studying with creator of Jin Shin Do® Body-mind Acupressure, Iona Marsaa Teegaurden, in Southern California, and with a number of senior Jin Shin Do® teachers in British Columbia.
To his new work as an acupressurist, he brings his creative,
sensitive nature as an artist, a love of working with his hands, a
wealth of insight from his many travels and experiences, and an
intuitive grounding from his explorations in meditation. Before Jin Shin Do, he worked as an independent artist for 5 or 6
years, making jewelery and art from recycled and salvaged materials,
under the business name Salvaged Earth Designs, a name which was the
derivative of a one-to-one business marketing storm with Tad. |
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 | Amber van den Broek - Green Realtor
Amber has been a yoga practitioner for almost 8 years and a few years
ago finished her teacher training in India. She shares and runs a yoga
class with family and friends once a week in a downtown location. She
also has the pleasure of sharing her love for dance, hula hooping, and
fire as a performer with Avani Soul and Bohemian Fire Fusion. |
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 | darlene drewniak - vibrational therapy & artist |
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 | Louise May - Farmer Louise is founder of the St. Norbert Art Center and is currently running for city elections in St. Norbert. |
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 | Daniel Gerson - Photographer
Sometimes I photograph nature and sell the pictures to restaurants in
Winnipeg. Sometimes I shoot photographs for myself. I also make films
when I get grants.
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 | Carol Radway - Spiritual Counselor I've been in private practice as a spiritual counselor here in Winnipeg for 23 years. I started with simple channeling of my client's spirit guides, and
gradually could read auras, see past lives, and lead many of my clients
into experiencing their relevant past lives. |
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Sarah Hirayama - Hoop Dancer, Singer & Yoga Teacher I am an explorer. I shift and change and grow and evolve all the time. ...and I looOOve it. The activity that feels a bit gross, but pays me the most money is accounting. The activities that bring me the most joy are playing guitar, singing, hoop dancing, making and selling hula hoops in Winnipeg and on my website www.hoopinfinite.com, practicing yoga, teaching yoga, and enjoying the company of others...and my dog. I have spent a lot of time in Peru in the last couple years and am very interested in plant medicines and shamanic rituals. I have recently been introduced to sound/vibrational healing/energetic therapies to create harmony and balance in one's self. Raising my own vibration along with the collective. Yay. :)
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Bev Swanson - Life Coach |
Susan Harris - Seamstress My background is rather diverse and it seems that I've been involved
with many things over the years ... sales ... offices ... sound
technician ... seamstress ... mother ... caregiver. And I'm thinking
that I may be a bit of a marketing nerd myself. I find marketing
concepts fascinating |
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