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Basic income: how are economic stability, health and well-being connected?


Date & time
Thursday, December 1, 2016
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Contact

Alex Megelas
xt 4893

Where

Coop Le Milieu
1251 Rue Robin

Our University of the Streets Café public conversations are much like any you’d have with friends or family around a dinner table, except with more people, more points of view, and slightly more structure. Conversations are hosted by a volunteer moderator who is there to welcome everyone and keep things on track. To get things started, there’s a guest, or sometimes two, who get the ball rolling by sharing their ideas, experiences and questions. After that, it's all up to the participants.

How would a guaranteed income promote the wellbeing of all members of society, and allow citizens to live more creative lives?

Art Hives’ Science Shop presents UrbanBodies : an exploration of what matters in our everyday lives and neighborhoods. This series of public art making conversational labs, held in collaboration with the University of the Streets Café program at Concordia University, will explore the theme of the body as it lives and dies, grows and ages, struggles and thrives in the urban environment.University of the Streets Café organizes bilingual, public conversations in cafés and community spaces across Montreal.

Guests:
Satoshi Ikeda is a repentant former economist who gave up on economics and became a sociologist. He believes that social economy that is motivated to give, share, and exchange reciprocally could promote the economy that is egalitarian, socially just, and ecologically sustainable. His dream is to set ourselves free from the existing norms and basic income could play a key role.

Jamie Klinger conducted and publicized a personal basic income experiment after living on $11,000 and documenting his expenses over the course of 2014. He is an advocate for alternative economic education and systems, including JoatU--the Jack of All Trades Universe--which he founded in late 2012.

Moderator:
Rachel Chainey

Accessibility info: Coop Le Milieu is on the first floor but it is not wheelchair accessible. Two steps must be climbed to enter the space. The washroom is in the back, behind the counter and cannot be reached by wheelchair.


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