Come join us for a special event this month, celebrating Darwin Day! Tuesday February 12, 6:30 – 8:45pm, Highlands Library Program Room, 6710 118 Ave Edmonton.
Feb 072019
Jun 062018
Here are the shifts and the location of the Pride Booth. We are in booth 604.
Come stop by and see us!
Friday night set up, 7pm – 9pm : Karen
June 9th, Saturday Pride!
10am – 11:00 Randy
10am – 1:00 Tamara
11am – 1:00 Karen
1:00 – 2:00 Martin
1:00 – 2:00 Tom
1:45 – 3:45 Marion
2:00 – 4:00 Gary
2:00 – 3:30 Eric
3:45 – 4:45 Ashley
3:00 – 5:00 Doreen
4:00 – 6:00 Mark
4:30 – teardown Karen
May 312018
Thanks all who made it out to the Food Bank volunteer event! The attendance was fantastic and we really did some good work. These volunteer events are a good way to give back and something we will do again.
-Mark (executive board member)
Apr 232018
Due to some recent facebook privacy issues, events are no longer linking to our page via our widget. We’ve been told they are trying to find a work-around, but in the meanwhile we’ll be looking at other options for our events calendar on our website.
For now, here are the most recent upcoming events:
April 29th, 9:00am – Breakfast at Bonnie Doon Mall Albert’s Family Restaurant
May 1st, 7:oopm – Round Table event, Edmonton Health Clinic Academy, Room 1-121. We will be voting on our bylaws that were amended at the AGM from 7:00 until 7:15pm, and then skyping with Paulogia from Calgary about his vlogcast.
May 1st, 9:15pm – Pub Night at Sherlock Holmes on Campus.
Apr 122018
Thanks to everyone who came out to our Annual General Meeting and helped shape the next year for our Society. We are adding a quarterly volunteer event at the Food Bank, we will be having a 10 year anniversary party/1 year memorial for Michael Vester this year, and look forward to continuing to share events with other local like minded groups, including the Secular Humanists, Secular Ethics group in Stony Plain, and the Unitarian Churches in the city. We also voted to include a low-income membership, on a case by case basis. This will be added to our website soon.
A few bylaw concerns came up during the meeting, which we were too late to vote on that night as members need prior notice, however, we did work on the re-wording and will have an General Meeting prior to the next round table event in May to quickly vote on these so they can be submitted this year with our filing. This would allow us to implement them for next April’s AGM.
Our current bylaws allow us to have one person sit as Treasurer and Secretary, which we wanted to update. You can find the proposed changes in red here: 2018-BYLAWS PROPOSED CHANGES (changes include adding line 34, removing line 37, updating line 43 and adding a word to line 46.)
A big thank you to our previous board members and congratulations to your new 2018-2019 board!
Feb 252018
Unfortunately, we didn’t get our goal of 20 committed SEA members signed up for marching in the parade by the deadline, however, we did get enough to man the booth for the day. So, if you volunteered to help with the booth we’ll be in touch once our application is approved with more news on shifts you can sign up for.
If you will really miss marching, the Unitarian Church has extended an invitation to march alongside with them (they have an atheist community within their congregation). Just let us know and we’ll pass on your info to them for their waiver forms.
Feb 232018
TUESDAY, April 10, 2018 will be this year’s SEA Annual General Meeting (AGM), formally starting at 7:00 pm, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy at the U of A, Room ECHA 1-498. We will be there from 6:30pm onwards for anyone that requires a membership or needs to renew. Please note this is the SECOND Tuesday of the month, one week later than we usually meet.
Anyone interested is invited to attend; however, only paying members will be permitted to vote in the general election or on any other business.
- Agenda: AGM AGENDA 2018
- Last year’s AGM minutes: SEA AGM Minutes April 2017
If you are at all interested in running for the Board, please take a look at our explanation of the roles and responsibilities for each position, as well as some FAQs about joining the Board. This year all Executive positions and four Director positions will be voted on. Please bear in mind in order to run for President you have to have served on the board for at least one year (throughout the history of the group), so if you intend on running for this position in the future it is worth thinking about joining the board. In order to run for Treasurer you must have been a member in good standing for at least a year. You can email us to let us know that you’d like to run for a Board position (even if you will not be present at the meeting), ask another member to nominate you at the appropriate point during the meeting, or you may also self-nominate at the meeting.
If you would like to run for any of the board positions we also encourage you to send in your ”campaign”…including goals for the group and what skills you feel you will bring to the table. We will feature them on the website and facebook page prior to the AGM so people can make informed decisions regarding who they want to vote for.
If you would like to see 2017 BYLAWS, they can be found on the website, under “About”.
If you would like to propose changes for consideration at the AGM, they must be sent to the Board for distribution to the rest of the membership in advance of the meeting. Please try to have those into us before April 2nd, one week before the meeting.
We hope to have a large turnout as we will also be discussing the direction of the SEA, what types of events you are interested in and fundraising ideas. As per usual we will head to the pub afterwards for sustenance. See you there!
Karen
President, SEA
Sep 042017
Hey gang!
Tonight we have our regular round table event, and the room has just been confirmed as room 1-125.
We’ll be taking a special donation towards the kickstarter for Not My Father’s Child, which only has a few days left of fundraising. If you can’t make it to our event, feel free to click the link and donate.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1317569247/not-my-fathers-child
See you tonight (Tuesday) at 7pm!
Aug 152017
Don’t forget about this great event happening tomorrow evening at the University! Meet and Greet afterwards for current members of the SEA (if you didn’t get an email with the location please let us know)
Jul 192017
Unfortunately, life has kept me ridiculously busy for the past month (kids home from school, family moving, renovations etc) and preparations for tonight’s counter-apolgetics aren’t up to scratch. I’ve been trying to catch up today but time has run away with me and I don’t feel it would be worth anyone’s time to come for the small amount I’ve managed to get prepared.
Tonight’s meeting is going to be postponed until after the summer, apologies to those of you who have to change plans.
I know that the Greater Edmonton Skeptics Society have a pub night this evening, perhaps drop by to say hello to them. You have to be part of their facebook group to see the event. https://www.facebook.com/events/132242654031660/
