ARTcrawl is BACK!

This year's theme?

*PARADE*

Definition?

To walk or march in public in a formal procession or in an ostentatious or attention-seeking way...

...Let's seek some attention, all you art lovers ;)

Featuring openings at ARTspace and the Thames Art Gallery, and downtown businesses animated by local art, artists, and artful experiences, join us July 26th as the downtown comes alive and we parade ART around our charming and historic Chatham.

The details:
Who: ARTspace, Thames Art Gallery, any participating business, and lots of your favourite local artists
What: A FREE evening of Art and Culture spread throughout the downtown core
Where: Downtown Chatham - event map coming soon!
When: July 26th, 5-10pm

How to participate:

1. Pick out an amazing, colourful, and Parade worthy outfit!
2. Clear your schedule July 26th, grab some friends, and crawl to downtown Chatham
3. Choose your own ARTventure! Pick up a mapped guide at ARTspace, the Thames Art Gallery, or any participating business and wander your way through the evening.
4. The Crawl is free, so you can save your pennies and shop our downtown businesses, some of whom will be staying open until 8pm!
5. Did we say dress up in a parade worthy outfit?!

Stay close to us here, and follow us (ARTspace Thames Art Gallery The Cultural Centre Chatham Capitol Theatre) online as we continue to drop more details about this fun, festive, summertime, and smalltown art experience.

Let's connect ART and PEOPLE in CHATHAM-KENT this July 26th, and beyond!

See you soon ;)

The 3rd market of 2019! Our stand alone August date (no other events in town).
Come stock up on the variety of healthy food and beautiful artisan goods! Downtown Wallaceburg, Parking Lot D

The Downtown Dresden Night Market Team is coming back with its 2nd annual Summer Night Market!

Join us for some great shopping from local Dresden businesses, makers and artisans from across the region, live music, food, drinks, entertainment, and more!

We'll be in downtown Dresden at the intersection of St. George and Main all evening on Saturday, August 17, 2019.

Admission is free!

Do you waste your time comparing yourself to others? We can help! Join us at Chatham Branch on Wednesday, August 7 at 6:30 pm as Jackie Lefebvre, of Enchanted Harmony, discusses the effects comparison has on your mental and emotional states. Learn 4 easy tips to use to stop comparing yourself to others! Drop in!
Transform you Life with Positive Thinking Seminar Series will occur the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 pm. Drop in to one or all!

The Erie St. Clair LHIN Self-Management program is now offering health care providers, including physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and other members of the inter-professional team an opportunity to become a Faculty Member with the Institute for Healthcare Communication's Choices & Changes program. 

Benefits of becoming a faculty member: 

• Facilitate workshops providing clinicians with conceptual models for effective clinician-patient communication and facilitation of patient health behavior change for optimal self-management
• Course facilitated by highly trained IHC certified faculty staff 
• Honorariums available for those who qualify 

Upcoming training, October 21-24. Application deadline, July 31 *only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview* For info call 1-855-259-3605. 

Diabetes, Healthy Feet & You is a 2.5 hour self-management program that is empowering people who are living with diabetes to adopt self-management behaviours helping them prevent diabetes related foot complications. If you are a person living with diabetes or you have experienced a diabetic foot sore or neuropathy, we are looking for you to become a DHFY Peer Leader. 

What is the Peer Leader Role?

You lived it! You are well-informed when it comes to living with Diabetes. So, why not share your knowledge with your community? Becoming a Peer Leader is simple, we are here to train you and support you. You won't be doing this all alone. A health-care professional will co-facilitate 2.5 hour workshops with you. 

For more info on becoming a Peer Leader contact 1-855-259-3605 or call ESCSM@wechc.org

A 4-day structured program designed to prepare you to co-facilitate workshops to assist participants to: 

• Set goals, action plans and problem solve
• Improve their coping skills and manage their difficult emotions
• Become more active and eat healthier 
• Cope with pain and fatigue
• Engage in positive thinking and visualizations 
• Work with their healthcare teams and make decisions about treatments

For more information contact 1-855-259-3605 or ESCSM@wechc.org

Mayor Hilda Macdonald will be welcoming guests and providing details about the program that has been developed to support local small business, spur economic development, and help revitalize Leamington’s Uptown.

Join us to check out the space and learn more about the competition.

Friday, July 19, 10am at 23 Erie Street South, Leamington – Future Home of Reinvent This Space

MS Community of Windsor Essex County/Optimist is having a fundraiser at Church of Atonement, 2940 Forest Glade Dr. on August 25, 2-4pm. An afternoon of games and prizes, sandwiches and refreshments. Cost $35 entry fee. Proceeds stay in Windsor Essex County to help those with MS. For more info email mscwec@gmail.com or call 226-506-2544

Westbound EC Row Expressway will be reduced to one lane at the Mark Avenue pedestrian bridge (west of Dominion Blvd) to allow for bridge repairs.  As part of this work, the westbound on-ramp at Dominion Boulevard will be closed to traffic.Thursday, July 18 from 9am to 3pm (weather permitting).

For more information on construction and detours Call 311, or see the City of Windsor Database and Map at citywindsor.ca.