Uptown Climate Futures: Session 3

Come unpack and reimagine the theme of (RE)INDIGENIZATION over a warm meal with new friends!

Are you worried about Climate Change? Curious about getting involved in sustainability locally?

Join us for Uptown Climate Futures, a friendly, conversational workshop series designed to convene community, create a cohort feel, and amplify the voices of people in Uptown Toronto, with a focus on BIPOC youth (ages 15-35) . Through deep discussions, storytelling, creative exploration, and interactive activities, we’ll explore themes of social and environmental sustainability—culminating in a published anthology featuring participants' writing and artwork.

Session 3: (Re)Indigenizing

📅 Date: July 10th

⏰ Time: 6:00–8:30 PM (Doors open at 5:30, with food ready)

📍 Location: Hinder Area at Earl Bales Park

🔥 How can our ancestral lineages inform our responsibilities to Truth and Reconciliation?

Continuing the thread of Session 2’s focus on our connections to ancestral indigenous lands, we’ll center this week’s conversation on our relationships and responsibilities to the lands and peoples of Turtle Island, where we call home today. With Indigenous-led knowledge sharing and facilitation, we’ll explore what it means to respectfully foster belonging on these lands while serving as allies to Indigenous sovereignty in what is currently Canada.

Our closing collective visioning activity will seek to imagine new possibilities for Land Back, Truth and Reconciliation, and our relationship to land amidst a climate crisis.

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Each session will focus on a different aspect of climate justice, creating space for personal reflection, collective visioning, and action.

Expect rich conversations, a fully catered, warm meal, hands-on activities, and, cozy salon vibes in a local coffee shop or other small business in Uptown Toronto.

Whether you attend one or all, you’ll be part of a growing community of changemakers shaping the future.

ALL PROGRAM SESSIONS:

• Session 1: March 6th, Climate Emotions
• Session 2: May 8th, Diaspora & (Im)Migration
• Session 3: July 10th, (Re)Indigenizing
• Session 4: September 18th, Climate Crisis Response
• Session 5: October 16th, Governance & Democracy
• Session 6: November 20th, Climate Change-making

✨ Your Voice in Print: At the end of the series, participants will be invited to contribute writing or artwork to the Uptown Climate Futures Anthology, set for publication in early 2026.

Come be part of this transformative community of changemakers, storytellers, and visionaries. Space is limited—secure your spot today!

Note: We highly encourage interested participants to sign up at least a week before each workshop (So for this workshop, that would be July 3rd!) so we can make sure your dietary needs are reflected in the catering. If you sign up less than a week before the workshop, we cannot guarantee there will be food that meets your dietary needs.

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About Uptown Climate Conversations:

Hi, our names are Maggie, Victoria, and MJ, and we are the leaders of Uptown Climate Conversations. It’s lovely to meet you!

We are three BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) twenty-something post-secondary graduates who are passionate about social and environmental sustainability. Once we left our school campuses, we noticed that it was difficult to get involved with causes we cared about. We found very little opportunity for us to talk about our experiences and find our community. Additionally, the groups that did exist were often heavily concentrated in the downtown core, which was less accessible to people like us, who were living in the uptown area of Toronto. These downtown groups didn’t always represent the experiences of people living uptown, either, and it was something we craved.

So, we built Uptown Climate Conversations (UCC), a BIPOC-forward sustainability oriented community centered in North York to better serve the community in “Uptown” Toronto. If this resonates with you, please take a seat at the table, we’d love for you to join us!

About The Climateverse:

The Climateverse is a transformation lab and multimedia studio focused on radically imagining and co-creating climate just futures.

We believe that in practicing radical imagination, we make better futures possible.

The Climateverse is also a space for scanning signals, trends and drivers of change to understand and prepare for how these are shaping all the possible futures already on their way.

We offer services in strategic visioning, from workshops to strategic foresight and creative advisory.

And we also produce creative productions, like our landmark Dispatch from Other Dimensions: a newscast reporting live from parallel dimensions where humanity is actually taking more transformative action on climate and social justice.