Events & Resources
EVENTS
RESOURCES AND VIDEOS
CANADIAN BUSINESS HALL OF FAME
Zita Cobb is inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame (2021)
BEACON LECTURE – TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
Zita Cobb delivers a talk on “What Art has to do with the Price of Fish: Community Economics” (2021)
SERVICE DESIGN GLOBAL CONFERENCE
Zita Cobb: Design in Service of Place: Community Business on Fogo Island (2019)
THE FLORET
An initiative of Shorefast, The Floret is a platform for stories (2019)
EG CONFERENCE
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
Shorefast Community Newsletter Summer 2018 (PDF) (2018)
RETELLING: A CONVERSATION WITH ZITA COBB
Zita Cobb in conversation with Joel R. Burton, a PhD Candidate in English at Western University (2017)
AND NOWHERE ELSE | FOGO ISLAND: FOGO ISLAND SHOP
The Fogo Island shop is an exercise in the preservation of culture through artistry and entrepreneurship (2017)
MCGILL UNIVERSITY HONOURARY DOCTORATE
Zita Cobb honourary doctorate acceptance speech at McGill University, Montreal (2016)
CBC IDEAS WITH PAUL KENNEDY – BACK TO THE FUTURE IN FOGO
CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy takes a tour of Fogo Island with Zita Cobb (2013)
OUTPORT JOURNEY AT UNB POND DESHPANDE
Zita Cobb’s presentation at the Social Enterprise Development Dialogue (2013)
COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
Shorefast Community Newsletter Summer/Fall 2017 (PDF) (2017)
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Zita Cobb presentation at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Vancouver (2017)
HAND. LINE. COD.
National Film Board (NFB) film highlighting Fogo Island Fish, and the connection between the people of Fogo Island and the cod (2016)
PURE LIFE EXPERIENCES CONFERENCE
Zita Cobb presentation at PURE Life Experiences; major hospitality conference in Marrakech, Morocco (2015)
STRANGE & FAMILIAR: ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND
Documentary highlighting Shorefast’s contemporary buildings on Fogo Island, designed by architect Todd Saunders (2014)
CARLETON UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION ADDRESS
Zita Cobb received an honourary doctorate from Carleton University and gave the convocation address (2013)
ZITA COBB KEYNOTE 2013 ADVENTURE TRAVEL WORLD SUMMIT
A featured presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit held by the Adventure Travel Trade Association (2013)
THE WAY FORWARD: FOGO ISLAND SHOREFAST FOUNDATION: ZITA COBB
Zita Cobb delivers a talk at TEDxFortTownshend (2012)
FOGO ISLAND INN – ESCAPE FROM THE NUMBING UNIFORMITY OF MODERN TIMES
Fogo Island Inn is a refuge, on an island, off an island, on one of the four corners of the Earth (2015)
Reading List
Non-Fiction
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman
The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
FICTION
February by Lisa Moore
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Salka Valka by Halldor Laxness
