The Hope Festival is coming up fast (THIS SATURDAY!) and we have some great artists lined up to entertain and inspire you. Grab a free ice cream and jump into the festivities! Saturday July 26, 12:30PM-4:30PM, at Millennium Park

Will we see you at the Hope Festival this saturday? You'll enjoy FREE interactive activities provided by our featured groups! Saturday July 26, 12:30PM-4:30PM, at Millennium Park

Basic Income Peterborough Network is hosting its first Hope Festival in Millennium Park #ptbo on July 26 2025 from 12:30PM - 4:30PM! Join us for participatory art, interactive activities, and FREE ice cream!

Join me at Artspace next week!

BIPN needs volunteers for our Hope Festival coming up on Saturday July 26 in Millennium Park! Want to get involved? Email [email protected] Learn more about the Hope Festival on our website: basicincomepeterborough.ca

PETERBOROUGH READER SPOTLIGHT: Elisha Rubacha @elishamay.bsky.social We're honoured that local legend Elisha will be a reader at our Peterborough ZZOO launch!

June 18 7pm PETERBOROUGH reading with special guests Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social, Murgatroyd Monaghan & Elisha Rubacha @elishamay.bsky.social at Take Cover Books (59 Hunter St E) www.facebook.com/events/99677...

Finalists announced for the #Ptbo Arts Awards. The Electric City Culture Council will announce the winners during a June 12 reception at the Canadian Canoe Museum. kawarthanow.com/2025/06/03/f...

I'll be reading some #BruceTrail poems at MA|DE's #ptbo launch of ZZOO! Wednesday June 18, 7PM Take Cover Books

Artists, there's still time to get your applications in for the Hope Festival! We've extended the deadline to Saturday June 8 at 11:59PM. We encourage applications in ALL art forms. Find the application guidelines on our website: basicincomepeterborough.ca

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY, #PTBO!

Two more weeks to get those applications in! Please share widely #ptbo.

#ptbo artist pals, check out this hopeful opportunity with @basicincomeptbo.bsky.social !

Who are the 5 writers that made you? Kurt Vonnegut JD Salinger Charles Bukowski Ernest Hemingway Ursula Pflug [And also Justin Million ❤️]

TODAY!

Join Basic Income Peterborough Network for another workshop in our Hope Series, this time in partnership with One City! Explore the importance of love in social change work through dialogue, art, and thinkers throughout history. Trinity Community Centre (360 Reid Street) Wed March 19, 2PM-4PM

None of the "Caprock Poems" manuscript would exist without public funding for the arts. Thank you to @ontarioarts.bsky.social for supporting my continued work on this project, and thanks to Brick Books for recommending me for funding. #OAC #RecommenderGrants #BruceTrail #CanLit #Poetry

Happened to catch this one amazing moment of the Oscars by chance last night. Haven't seen the documentary, but the words shared were powerful. #FreePalestine

I couldn't stop thinking about this photograph, so I spent my afternoon and evening sitting with it. #StandWithUkraine

Get yourself down to Bijoux Bar right NOW for LIVE poetry and broadsides by Justin Million and @jacksoncreek.bsky.social. #KEYBOARDS

BREAKING: Ontario has lost the 2025 provincial election

So its economic blackout day... but if you can afford to, can you please just ALWAYS shop local and avoid voting for billionaires with your dollars? No shade on people struggling to survive going for the lowest possible prices. I get it. But if you are thriving, please do not support the ultra-rich.

TONIGHT! 7PM at Dreams of Beans.

Check out the Put Food Banks Out of Business campaign, and send us a DM if you'd like to pick up a postcard to mail to your MP! www.putfoodbanksoutofbusiness.com

While I don't approve of "land barons" in the real world, I am pretty pumped to have built all three possible homesteads in #Skyrim. I have been so hyperfocused on completing this that I still haven't even chosen a side in the civil war yet. 😂 #SkyrimAchievements

Strategic voters in #ptbo, we now have an even vote split between left and right. Please just vote for whichever candidate/party you REALLY believe in!

I'd say this is a slippery slope but it's happening in the middle of an avalanche.

Provincial All Candidates Meeting on Housing and Homelessness in #PTBO TONIGHT at 7PM at All Saints, or watch on the livestream here: www.youtube.com/@allsaintspe...

I once tried to crowdsource a vote record in advance of a municipal election and BOY was it hard to dig them up from various articles and social posts. Big thanks to @ptbocurrents.bsky.social for putting in the work! - I hope it's something that can be maintained beyond the budget process. 🤞🏻

Have you ever wondered what a co-operative is or how the co-op model works? Join Basic Income Peterborough Network for another workshop in our Hope Series! Find us at Dreams of Beans (141 Charlotte Street, #ptbo) on February 26, 7PM - 8:30PM

Just started wading into this document @troutinplaid.bsky.social shared with me but can already tell it's brilliant! "Ministry of Imagination: An imagination-based manifesto for times that need one." Smash this link to get the PDF 👇🏼 www.robhopkins.net/wp-content/u...

It was one of those mornings where it was extremely difficult to haul myself out of bed and to the gym. - But I got there and did the thing! Showing up is truly WAY harder than working out, at least for me at this point. Early mornings in the dark suck, but I love putting the work in. #fitnesssky

While billionaire wealth surges, communities worldwide are speaking up for economic alternatives. It’s time to build something better. Let’s #FightInequality #TaxTheRich, #CancelTheDebt & create an economy that works for everyone. https://buff.ly/4hgOvjn #TakersNotMakers

Loooove that we get to keep @twpiggott.bsky.social in this role! We're so lucky to have him. I *am* ever so slightly annoyed that I have to start calling the health unit by another name (again). 😂 HKNP Health Unit is a bit of a mouthful.

We need fairer taxation. #TaxTheRich [Stats borrowed from @oxfaminternational.bsky.social Source: www.oxfam.org/en/research/... ]

Thinking more about forests this morning and found myself looking at various maps, including the tree cover map pictured below. I was struck by my immediate recognition of the line of the Bruce Trail crossing from Hamilton, through Grimsby, all the way to St. Catharines. "A ribbon of wilderness."

Just finished watching the ReFrame film, "Logging Algonquin" and then found this blog post by one of the people featured. "...it looks like if we increased the protected area of the park from 35% to around 41%, we could protect the... most valuable old growth forest that still lacks protection."

Saw this on insta, and glad someone has already moved it over to the bluesky platform. #ICanTell trans people have always existed and will always exist. #ICanTell they belong. #ICanTell they are loved. But also, #ICanTell #transrights are at risk, and allyship is critical. 🏳️‍⚧️ Raise your voice!

As the #ptbo Point-in-Time Count coordinator for 2024, I'm now in the middle of data-entry for the homelessness surveys, and it's a deeply affecting process to say the least. I really appreciate the compassionate coverage from @ptbocurrents.bsky.social on the realities people are facing right now.

A #ptbo story in the @nytimes.com featuring @alexbierk.bsky.social. [Gift article link]

I really appreciate the arts coverage, but what this [pay-walled] article misses is that artists need *multiple sources of funding* to apply in some grant streams. Having funding available at the municipal level can open doors to other opportunities that we may not be able to access otherwise.

Throwback to the May 1 2019 #ptbo #generalstrike march. That's me in the purple raincoat with the sign that says THE ONTARIO BUDGET IS MORALLY BANKRUPT. The Ford government wasn't working for us then, and it has no interest in prioritizing our needs now. Are you raising class consciousness today?

Throw back to this 2019 clip from TVO, "Could #ptbo hold the key to the federal election?" We were in bad shape then, and we're in worse shape now. Maybe we should try a different strategy in the coming elections? @ndp.ca @ondp.bsky.social

Democracy needs opportunities for the people to *truly participate and shape the decision-making*, and that also means *getting people together socially* as well. The donation emails & volunteers making calls can't be it. @ndp.ca @ondp.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca @maritstilesndp.bsky.social

Check out @teenvogue.bsky.social telling it like it is! BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST. #banbillionaires #basicincome

Can't seem to find my copy of this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social book at the moment, but it's my recommended read for the times we are living in. People are quite good at coming together in moments of need. Order it through your local book seller, and have your faith in humanity restored.

Some photos of Rookie, our pug-spaniel puppy, to break up all the politics I've been dropping in your feed. 🐾

Seeing a lot of chat on here about disappointment in political parties, but without much willingness to stand up and SHAPE those parties. Indeed, no one is coming to save us. Let's do it ourselves.

From issue 26 www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1... coupon code BLUESKY gets ya 20% off everything

Ban billionaires. #maximumwage #poetry #poem @thesedayszine.bsky.social