This ticket price covers the costs of the forum, including venue, food & beverage offerings, materials and enables us to offer high-quality experiences. This option enables the Forum to offer free and low-cost services to people most directly targeted by oppression and colonization. We encourage tenured academics, government officials, and established private-sector participants and anyone with institutional or organizational support to pay this level.

REDUCED PRICING: Please use coupon code "REDUCED2026" for those with less institutional/organizational support or who will incur higher than average costs of travel to the conference.

SOLIDARITY PRICING: Please use coupon code "SOLIDARITY2026" for students and others with insufficient institutional support, as well as members of groups or organizations focused on social and/or economic justice, owned or governed by historically marginalized groups. This rate might also be for you if you yourself are Indigenous, Black, racialized, a newcomer, an individual challenged with visible or non-visible disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+, or an individual with low income.

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This ticket price covers the costs of the forum, including venue, food & beverage offerings, materials and enables us to offer high-quality experiences. This option enables the Forum to offer free and low-cost services to people most directly targeted by oppression and colonization. We encourage tenured academics, government officials, and established private-sector participants and anyone with institutional or organizational support to pay this level.

REDUCED PRICING: Please use coupon code "reduced2026" for those with less institutional/organizational support or who will incur higher than average costs of travel to the conference.

SOLIDARITY PRICING: Please use coupon code "solidarity2026" for students and others with insufficient institutional support, as well as members of groups or organizations focused on social and/or economic justice, owned or governed by historically marginalized groups. This rate might also be for you if you yourself are Indigenous, Black, racialized, a newcomer, an individual challenged with visible or non-visible disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+, or an individual with low income.

This ticket is required for anyone interested in attending:

Learning Experience: Behind the scenes at The Sharing Place Food Centre
95 Dufferin St
Orillia, ON L3V 5S9, Canada

Join us for a behind-the-scenes site tour and discussion at The Sharing Place Food Centre in Orillia (sharingplaceorillia.org), a community-based organization working to meet immediate food needs while strengthening the regional food system for the future.

This guided tour introduces participants to The Sharing Place’s integrated approach, which combines emergency food support with food recovery, school nutrition, advocacy, and food system planning. Participants will explore how programs are designed to support people today while also contributing to longer-term systems change.

The tour will highlight core food access programs, including:

• Food Bank: Providing a seven-day emergency supply of nutritious food in a non-judgmental environment;
• Food Recovery: Recovering surplus food from local grocery stores, suppliers, and farmers to support the Food Bank, Meals 4 Change, and community partners;
• Meals 4 Change: Preparing nutritious, ready-to-heat meals for agencies supporting people who are experiencing food insecurity;
• School Fuel: Supporting access to nutritious school food by covering 50% of costs and providing free delivery to local schools;
• Participants will also learn how The Sharing Place works to transform tomorrow through:
• • Food System Planning: Assessing the regional food system and advancing community-driven planning and coordination, with a growing focus on connecting academic food systems research with community knowledge and experience.
  • Advocacy: Applying policy-informed advocacy to poverty reduction, school nutrition, and food system design.

This session includes time for questions and dialogue and will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, students, policymakers, and people working in food security, food systems, and equity-focused community action. 

This ticket is required for anyone interested in attending:

Learning Experience: Rama Community Farm
4195 Airport Rd
Orillia, ON L3V 0K6

Come visit the greenhouse, new farm building, and fields to see how fresh produce supports food security in the community.

Our community-based farm (https://www.ramacommunityfarm.com/) is owned and operated by the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, a proud and progressive community committed to nourishing its members and neighbours across Lake Country.

The visit will include a talk about the history of agriculture in Rama, covering pre-colonial and colonial periods and its significance today. Please note that this is a working farm. Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy, appropriate footwear, as you may be invited to take part in light activities such as weeding.

Seating is limited; visitors who require seating for accessibility reasons are encouraged to indicate this on the registration form.

The session will include time for questions. It is open to practitioners, researchers, students, policymakers, and others interested in food security, food systems, and community equity.