Hear Ren speak about all things beer, diversity and inclusion
Day Bracey, Lindsay Malu Kido, Ren Navarro, Ruvani de Silva, Alison Wisneski
More info coming!
THE BREWDOWN
Settle in on the patio for an unforgettable evening of beer tasting with Chef Andrea Nicholson and beer & drinks expert Ren Navarro. Together, they’ll guide you through our full beer menu—each brew hand-selected to highlight bold flavours, unique styles, and perfect seasonal pairings.
This experience includes a full guided tasting, plus a delicious barbecue meal prepared by Chef Andrea—crafted to complement the beers and elevate your tasting experience.
$75 per person
Stay Tuned!
Cost: $150+hst Limited Release Pricing (Prices up go Monday Feb 17th)
Duration: 3hrs, 2 time slots available. 2-5pm for majority of day trip guests and 4-7pm for overnight guests
Availability: 30 spots, with overnight stays available in ReLive’s cozy cabins.
Contact Milena for Booking (milena@reliveretreat.com) to book directly. Feel free to message or call her cell at 416-456-6831.
Spaces are limited with half of the spots reserved for overnight guests looking to enhance their weekend getaway — reserve your spot today and make it a weekend to remember!
Step into a snow-covered wonderland at ReLive Retreat, where Ontario’s winter beauty, bold flavors, and immersive storytelling come to life. Frost, Fires & Feasts is a winter culinary adventure meandering along looping trails through sparkling forests, leading you to enchanting fireside destinations—each designed to warm your body, captivate your senses, and nourish your spirit.
Begin your journey overlooking the valley, where the scent of freshly baked BeaverTail-inspired creations fills the air. Crafted in collaboration with Pink Velvet Bakery, these nostalgic treats are reimagined with local maple syrup and savory seasonal ingredients. As you continue through the frosty landscape, indulge in open-flame creations from our guest chef, Nick Benninger, whose culinary expertise transforms fire-kissed ingredients into winter’s most comforting bites.
At the heart of the experience is The Frost Bar, a gathering place offering expertly curated drinks by Ren Navarro of Beer. Diversity. Here, enjoy perfectly paired craft beers, ciders, and warming non-alcoholic options to complement each fireside course.
Cozy up at the Forest Fondue, where rich cheeses and broths paired with artisan dippables bring a communal, fireside warmth. Along the way, sip on mulled cider or hot chocolate, roast a marshmallow for a nostalgic treat, and take in the serene beauty of the winter forest. For those seeking a moment of quiet reflection, an optional hike to The Spring offers the chance to refill your bottle with pure spring water—nature’s own refreshment.
Let the crackling fires, glowing lanterns, and soothing live Tong Drum melodies guide you through this unforgettable winter adventure, where every step reveals the magic of the season.
1 hour 30 minutes @ CA$115.00
Join drinks expert Ren Navarro and Chef Andrea Nicholson for an indulgent evening of whiskey and chocolate pairings. Discover how different whiskey styles—Bourbon, Scotch, and Rye—complement the rich flavours of chocolate truffles. Learn the art of pairing, from tasting notes to texture contrasts, as Ren and Andrea guide you through this sensory experience. Whether you're a whiskey connoisseur or a chocolate lover, this event promises an unforgettable exploration of two luxurious indulgences!
Set your business up for success in 2025 with this immersive, full-day retreat designed specifically for creative entrepreneurs seeking clarity and direction for their business.
Through expert-led workshops, hands-on exercises, and grounding wellness practices, you'll leave with a clear, actionable plan to grow your business while staying aligned with your purpose.
What to Expect:
Clarify Your Purpose and Vision – Kick the day off by developing a one-page strategic plan that aligns your business goals with your values and purpose (led by Tamara Jensen, Tamara Jensen Strategy).
Build Your Mini Marketing Strategy – Define how to position your business, identify your ideal customers, and communicate your value effectively (led by Victoria Van Hezewyk, VVH Creative).
Collaborate with Purpose – Learn how to identify meaningful partnerships and create a simple outreach plan to grow your business through authentic collaboration (led by Ren Navarro, B. Diversity Group).
Shared Roadmap for Action – Wrap up the day by committing to three prioritized actions to move your business forward and leave with a shared sense of accountability.
The retreat begins with a guided sound bath meditation with Eve Atoms, grounding you in focus and creativity. It concludes with Yoga Nidra led by Jenna Marino, allowing you to integrate the day’s insights and leave refreshed and recharged.
Dry January Non-Alcoholic Mixology with Drinks Expert Ren Navarro
Join Drinks Expert Ren Navarro for a hands-on mocktail class. Learn to craft delicious, alcohol-free drinks using fresh ingredients, perfect for Dry January or anyone looking to enjoy flavourful beverages without booze. Includes tastings, snacks, and recipes
ICS CANADA | 70 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by RahrBSG
Tickets: $12/PWYW
A collection of artful short docs on being, longing, and belonging.
Post-Film: Talkback with Cathy van Ingen (director), Erin Brandson, and Ren Navarro from What Ales Us?
https://guelphfilmfestival.ca/2024filmcalendar/2024-short-series-short-series-be/longing
October 23, 2024 6:30 PM
Filmmakers from Canada share their stories in short format Wednesday October 23rd, 6:30pm, $12, 107min
What Ales Us? / 22m / Cathy van Ingen
Two women reckon with a broken beer industry in Canada and start a movement to change it.
What Ale’s Us? is about two women (Ren Navarro and Erin Brandson) who reckon with a broken beer industry in Canada and start a movement to change it.
A conversation with Erin Brandson, Ren Navarro, and documentary director Cathy van Ingen will follow the screening of the 22-minute mini documentary.
In order to build a strong team and a welcoming workplace, you need the right team – but how do you determine who those people are, and how do you help them find your company? Join us on September 12th for an impactful webinar session with diversity champion Ren Navarro, focusing on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This session’s topic is Hiring and Retention! Through this session, we’ll look into the details of hiring and retention and answer your questions about how DEI concepts can (and should) impact your hiring processes. Register now to make a difference through informed action and conversation!
July 29-31, 2024
Wyndham Orlando Resort & Conference Center
3011 Maingate Lane, Kissimmee, FL 34747
This edition of Doc Now gathers eight gazes that converge in a space where they interrogate ways of storytelling, and emmanate in different directions towards the peripheral to find paths that consider and care for the protagonists and participants of the stories. By gazing towards the intimate, the communal, the imaginary, and the real, we respond to a narrative practice that aims to alter affects, and rethink stories that incite a change in the real world. As storytellers, narrators, and creators of images, sounds and texts, we’re interweaved by a responsibility towards the ways we represent our realities and those of others, and the creative potential to find other ways of conceiving what’s real.
What Ales Us? by Cathy van Ingen
Two women reckon with a broken beer industry in Canada and start a movement to change it.
Director's Note: As I watched the #MeToo-style reckoning unfolding in the craft beer industry, I was drawn to the stories of women, like Brienne Allen, Erin Brandson, and Ren Navarro, who began sharing experiences of sexual harassment, assault, homophobia, and racism. The stories included accusations against some of the beer world’s most acclaimed breweries. As I dug deeper into beer history, I learned that women used to dominate beer making – and I wanted to know what changed. This film explores the battle brewing in the industry and what happens to the women who speak out.
Empowering Diversity Webinar Series with Ren Navarro
Join us for an impactful webinar series with diversity champion Ren Navarro, focusing on the importance of diversity and inclusion and how it benefits everyone.
Series content:
Defining Diversity: A quick refresher on terms introduced in the previous webinar: Looking at basic definitions of EDI terms (including EDI – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion)
Setting goals and realistic timelines when creating ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) and EDI committees
What to focus on and present to the organization/company
How to measure deliverables from the group/committee
How to keep committees running for the long term
WHO is joining the committee?
How to train, educate, and engage with “allies” and equity deserving groups
How to create safer spaces for open and honest conversations
How to continue education and ensuring access to information
How to keep training and education accessible for all
Beer history books are often filled with robust accounts of hard-working monks, feisty people pleasing publicans, and boisterous 19th century German beer barons. And rarely do they include the underrepresented voices that were, indeed, very present.
In honor of National Beer Day (April 7th), we invite you to join us for a special evening with Ren Navarro of B. Diversity. Group who will discuss the lesser known - and least talked about - bits of global beer history.
5:00pm-5:30pm: Welcome beers and light appetizers.
5:30pm – 6:30pm: Program
6:30pm-8pm: More beers! Plus bottle share (please bring something!) and tours of Siebel.
This program is presented in partnership with the Siebel Institute of Technology and Lallemand Brewing. Ticket includes beer, light appetizers, access to Siebel, and a darn good time. We encourage you to bring beer for the bottle share!
Proceeds from this event benefit the Beer Culture Center, the world’s first non-profit dedicated to sharing stories of how beer has shaped humanity, past and present.
Empowering Diversity Webinar Series with Ren Navarro
Join us for an impactful webinar series with diversity champion Ren Navarro, focusing on the importance of diversity and inclusion and how it benefits everyone.
Series content:
Defining Diversity: A clear understanding of diversity in a broader context, moving beyond the basics to encompass a wide range of experiences and identities.
Looking at basic definitions of EDI terms (including EDI – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion)
Appreciating Intersectionality: Insights into the complex layers of intersectionality, emphasizing the importance of supporting diverse groups across all aspects of business and community.
Providing examples and definitions of intersectionality and how it could look in your day-to-day experiences.
Setting Goals for Inclusion: Practical advice on creating an inclusive environment that supports all customers, employees, and vendors.
Creating realistic timelines and how to measure changes.
Looking at immediate actions, 3/6/12 month actions
Understanding the needs of the communities
Internal community
External community
Potential community
Starting Conversations: Strategies for initiating and maintaining positive, productive discussions on diversity and inclusion in your own sphere.
Understanding what to do if you get things wrong
The ability to listen and understanding when to speak
This series is perfect for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of diversity and inclusion, equip themselves with practical tools for change, and foster a more welcoming and supportive environment in any sector.
Register now to make a difference through informed action and conversation.
Save the date of March 8th, 2024 for our annual International Women's Day Breakfast!
We invite you to join us for an event that celebrates women's excellence and achievements with a morning filled with great food and conversations.
This year's event is even more special because it will be held on the official International Women's Day!
The 2024 theme is #InspireInclusion, and the event will be hosted by community leader Karen Redman, Regional Chair, Region of Waterloo.
We’re thrilled to announce that Ren Navarro, Owner/Operator of B Diversity Group will be joining us for a moderated conversation this year!
This Cheese and Wine Pairing Event is a delightful and educational experience designed to tantalize the taste buds of participants while imparting knowledge about the art of pairing fine cheeses with exquisite wines. This class combines the sensory pleasures of wine and cheese with the expertise of a Ren Navarro, Drinks Expert and Food Network Chef Andrea Nicholson, to create an unforgettable evening of gastronomic exploration. Taste 5 Bubbly Wines & Paired Cheeses for around the world!
Breweries are often located with unavoidable public health and safety crises on their doorsteps. While governments struggle to find the answers to toxic unregulated drug supplies and housing precarity, small business communities are learning how to build mutual safety with people at risk of drug poisoning or experiencing houselessness. Meanwhile, people with other marginalized identities are increasingly being targeted by hate. Against this backdrop, how can breweries help ensure the safety of their neighbours, customers, operations, and staff?
Key Takeaways
The goal of this presentation is to allow brewers and those who are adjacent to the brewing industry to learn how we can work together to make safer spaces for those who are affected by the drug crisis. It will also help by giving tips, definitions, and things we can do as a community to help those we work with, interact with, and live around. Removing the stigma is the first step in being able to assist, learn and grow. Together.
co-presented with Euan Thomson
Beer and Brewing History
Join beer expert and diversity advocate, Ren Navarro of Beer. Diversity. for a trip through the ages of beer. She will be presenting the history of beer and brewing through a diverse lens, highlighting those who history forgot throughout the eras.
We’ll look at early days of fermentation in China and Mesopotamia, move into medieval times, sneak into prohibition, and look at the development of the global beer industry, asking the important question, why do we even call it craft?
This special event will ask you to think differently about how we define beer, those who brew it, and those who love it.
$99 - includes lunch
We will conclude with a beer share social. You may bring and share or simply enjoy.
The Craft Brewers Conference® delivers concentrated, affordable brewing education and idea sharing to improve brewery quality and performance. Attendees can choose from eight educational tracks led by the top minds in the beer and business worlds.
Beyond ADA Compliance: Creating and Fostering Inclusive Spaces for Patrons and Employees with Disabilities
Thrive
Speakers:
Jon Hyman
Ren Navarro
Date: 5/7/2023
Time: 2:55 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
Room: Davidson Ballroom A
Can You See Clearly? Creating Mission and Value Statements with Your Team
Business & Leadership
Speaker:
Ren Navarro
Date: 5/9/2023
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room: Davidson Ballroom C
This Fat Sparrow Block event, co-hosted by Ren Navarro of Beer Diversity, is designed to take your tastebuds on an adventure! Experience the flavours craft beer has to offer with your expert guide.
Join us at our communal harvest table for Fat Sparrow's own Chef Nick & Loreena's thoughtfully prepared food pairings, breads, fruits, and accoutrements.
Beer Diversity is more than just a company that educates, it’s a resource built from the passion and love of the industry to do better and be better. With nearly a decade of experience in the alcohol industry, a passion for encouraging personal and professional growth, and her trademark wit, Ren Navarro is here to educate, enlighten, and engage. Cultivating diversity in beer, and beyond.
Join us on April 5 for an afternoon with DEIA expert Ren Navarro from @beer_diversity. Ren will be sharing her insights on how to make breweries more inclusive, and accessible, as well as answering your questions about doing DEIA work within your business. The speaker portion of the event will be followed by an industry happy hour sponsored by the Alberta Small Brewers’ Association.
March 4th at Guelph Farmer's Market from 5-9pm
Calling all Prom Royalty! March 4th from 5-9pm we are hosting an epic beer bash at the Guelph Farmer's Market followed by an after party at the ANAF.
Let's look back on nearly a decade of laughter, learning, good times, friendships, fun- and most importantly- falling in LOVE....with beer! Prom-themed attire is completely optional, but of course, there will be a few special prizes for you costume-savvy folks. Your ticket includes:
- 6x4oz samples of craft beer or NA beers and/or mocktails
-Queen of Craft collector's glass
-Non-alcoholic cocktail and beer bar with a wide selection of offerings
-Awesome selection of Ontario Craft Beers to choose from
-Access to dynamic talks by dynamic women in the industry including Ren Navarro, Kat Rogers-Hern and Wilma Zondag
-Game and education booths
-Cheesy prom-themed photo booth
-Slide show of the past decade of events- send us pics at karyn@wellingtonbrewery.ca and we'll include them!
-QoC Artists' Table
-DJ Chillhaze spinning the tunes from all your prom genres
-Tasty food vendors (vegetarian/vegan and meat offerings)
-Tarot Booth
-A safe space to be yourself, with a code of conduct that holds respect for all above all else
-New merch drops....and more surprises!
If you've got the beer school spirit to keep the party going, we will be heading over to the ANAF at 9pm (right beside the Farmer's Market) for a night of boogeying down- PROM STYLE! The prom dress code is optional of course, but we're encouraging you to dress in the style of your own prom (or how you wish you'd dressed!), be it satin & hairspray or ruffled dress shirt & powder blue! Prizes for best dressed will be awarded.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
POSTPONED TO SPRING 2023
Join Ren of Beer. Diversity. for an evening of conversations, laughs and questions around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Bring your questions and comments and get ready for a welcoming chat! Ren Navarro is the Kitchener-based founder of Beer Diversity, where she aims to bring diversity and inclusion to the craft beer business.
