Connecting the Dots with Local Government Wednesday March 20th 7PM 89 Dunlop St. East Lower Level (behind Casa Cappuccino) Since its inception in 2006 Transition Towns have popping up all over the globe. Each one unique. But how successful have they been at connecting with their local municipal government? This month we will look at [...]

Green Screen Cinema launches our 2013 season with a special free showing of SWITCH. Partnering with the City of Barrie, we wil be screening SWITCH at Barrie’s Uptown Theatre at 55 Dunlop St. West in ‘Screen One’. This once only showing will be Saturday January 26th at 12:00PM noon. This award winning production takes you [...]

The consensus decision-making process is a way of reaching decisions that allows all members of a group to participate, ensuring that all those affected by a decision have the chance to be involved in making it. The input of all members is gathered and a final decision acceptable to everyone is reached. Many mainstream decision-making [...]

Do you need free clothing or do you know someone that does?  Visit “Off the Rack” and Barrie Free Clothing Store located downtown Barrie at Toronto and Dunlop.  You enter the parking lot behind Meineke Automotive and it’s the first store at the back of the building directly behind Meineke.  It’s across the road from [...]

Once again, Transition Barrie will be hosting Harvestfest at Chappell Farms just north of Barrie.  We wish to invite anyone who is interested in any of our Transition activities to attend and to bring your friends and family.  It is a great opportunity to meet like minded people and to enjoy a beautiful day on [...]

The “Barrie Reel Stories” film festival will present “Surviving Progress on Saturday at 1pm. Several Transition members will be attending and will meet outside the theatre at 12:30. Cost is $9.00. All are welcome. Surviving Progress is a stunning new feature documentary that connects the financial collapse, growing inequity, and the Wall Street oligarchy, with [...]

Our First Backyard Bounty class was held on July 18th 2011.  It was a follow up from our gardening class. Several people got together to examine what to do with all of the “stuff we had grown in our gardens.” The focus of the classes were to prepare simple, real food that comes from our [...]

Co- sponsored by The Huronia Unitarians and Transition Barrie A guided discussion group that will challenge the prevailing worldview presented to us by media, our power elites and financial interests. The goal is to change consciousness which will enable more of us to begin the work that has been called the great turning or the [...]

  PRESERVING THE HARVEST  Back by Popular Demand A Canning Workshop with Chef Emerie Brine from Bernardin canning supplies company This year Emerie will demonstrate Pressure Canning.  The workshop will be held at Grace united church on Grove near Cook street at 7PM on September 5th.  The cost will be $10.00 or pay what you [...]

August 17th from 7pm till 9pm City Hall 2nd floor Huronia Room   PRESERVING THE HARVEST   So you planted a garden! Watered, weeded, nurtured and harvested. Now what! Our August Meet-up will be a discussion of various methods of saving the fruits of your labour. Canning, freezing, dehydrating, pickling etc. We plan to host [...]