OPIRG BROCK WEEKLY EVENT NEWSLETTER
We have an amazing line up for Alternative Orientation Week, starting Monday! Please find details below and in the attachment. We encourage you to circulate it far and wide. Hope to see you at some of the fantastic events!
Events!
Monday September 6th
Outdoor Self Defence Workshop: 10-11am & 5-6pm, meet under the Brock Library Tower
Learn from an experienced Brock wrestler how to defend yourself!
Learn from an experienced Brock wrestler how to defend yourself!
Campus Eco-Hike: 12-2pm, meet at the OPIRG Office, 1st floor, Student Alumni Centre
Learn about the green spaces right in your Brock backyard with a student lead hike.
Learn about the green spaces right in your Brock backyard with a student lead hike.
Tuesday September 7th
Vendor Fair: 10-4pm, in front of the Brock Library Tower
OPIRG Campus Open House: 5-7:30pm, OPIRG Office, 1st floor, Student Alumni Centre
Come and get to know OPIRG Brock’s working groups and staff, and learn about what you can do. Sexy Action Kit to be handed out!
OPIRG Campus Open House: 5-7:30pm, OPIRG Office, 1st floor, Student Alumni Centre
Come and get to know OPIRG Brock’s working groups and staff, and learn about what you can do. Sexy Action Kit to be handed out!
Documentary Screening "The End of Suburbia”: 8-10pm, OPIRG Community InfoShop, 10 Summer Street (right behind the Pizza Pizza on St. Paul Street)
Come and get your dose of counter-culture film, with free popcorn and refreshments to boot.
Come and get your dose of counter-culture film, with free popcorn and refreshments to boot.
Wednesday September 8th
Vendor Fair: 10-4pm, in front of the Brock Library Tower
If you couldn’t stop by on Tuesday, now is your opportunity to get to visit our OPIRG booth and collect your Sexy Action Kit.
If you couldn’t stop by on Tuesday, now is your opportunity to get to visit our OPIRG booth and collect your Sexy Action Kit.
A Night at the InfoShop: 8-10pm, OPIRG Community InfoShop, 10 Summer Street (right behind the Pizza Pizza on St. Paul Street)
Come on down to the get to know your OPIRG community, with FOOD served by Food Not Bombs, and LIVE MUSIC by local musicians. It will be a night to remember! Cost: $5 or pay what you can
Featuring: Ramona (for fans of Sublime), The Beautiful Women of Belmez (Gypsy Punk), Jives Time & Space Tonic (Hip Hop Duo)
Come on down to the get to know your OPIRG community, with FOOD served by Food Not Bombs, and LIVE MUSIC by local musicians. It will be a night to remember! Cost: $5 or pay what you can
Featuring: Ramona (for fans of Sublime), The Beautiful Women of Belmez (Gypsy Punk), Jives Time & Space Tonic (Hip Hop Duo)
Thursday September 9th
Know Your Downtown Hike: 11-1pm, OPIRG Community InfoShop, 10 Summer Street (right behind the Pizza Pizza on St. Paul Street)
Interested in discovering downtown locations for environmentally and socially conscious consumers? Come for a walk with us through the downtown core so that we can help you find the places to go.
Interested in discovering downtown locations for environmentally and socially conscious consumers? Come for a walk with us through the downtown core so that we can help you find the places to go.
Tower Plant Sale: 1-3pm, Brock Library Tower
Come and outfit your new digs with green growing plants - an affordable way to improve air quality for just $2 a plant.
Come and outfit your new digs with green growing plants - an affordable way to improve air quality for just $2 a plant.
A Night of Improv at the InfoShop: 7-9pm, OPIRG Community InfoShop, 10 Summer Street (right behind the Pizza Pizza on St. Paul Street)
Brock Improv will be visiting the InfoShop; hilarity is sure to ensue.
Brock Improv will be visiting the InfoShop; hilarity is sure to ensue.
Friday September 10th
Volunteer Fest: 10-3pm, Jubilee Court
Come and talk to staff about all the fantastic volunteer opportunities that we can facilitate through OPIRG Brock.
Come and talk to staff about all the fantastic volunteer opportunities that we can facilitate through OPIRG Brock.
Saturday September 11th
Board Games in Montebello Park and Vegan Potluck Picnic: 12-3pm, Montebello Park
Top off Alternative Orientation Week with board games in the park and delicious vegan food. Please bring a dish to share.
Top off Alternative Orientation Week with board games in the park and delicious vegan food. Please bring a dish to share.
Volunteer Opportunities!
InfoShop Volunteers:
The InfoShop is a resource for information about social and environmental activism, a local community assistance outlet for information, and a space for volunteer organization and workshops. It houses a zine library, has working group information and is a resource for activist art.
The InfoShop is a great place to meet folks interested in social justice and environmental issues - and to connect with your local community. If you are a returning volunteer or would like to take a little of your time each week to help us run the InfoShop it would be great!
Please contact Lisa at opirgbu@gmail.com
Please contact Lisa at opirgbu@gmail.com
FreeSkool Educators:
The OPIRG Freeskool is a project that is designed to challenge the hierarchical and institutional way learning is primarily conducted in our community. We reject the notion that only some kinds of knowledges are valuable, or that only certain people are 'accredited' enough to share information. We embrace radical accessibility, critical consciousness, and student-centered learning. We are looking for folks interested in hosting a class, be it on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis at the InfoShop. If you’ve got a passion for sharing what you’ve learned send us word.
Please contact Lisa at opirgbu@gmail.com
Please contact Lisa at opirgbu@gmail.com
Spanish Speakers for Migrant Workers
Ola! OPIRG Brock’s partner the Agricultural Workers Alliance is looking for Spanish speaking volunteers. The Agricultural Workers Alliance is based out of Virgil and is a central resource for Migrant workers doing everything from basic translation services to learning how to claim CPP. More updates soon on the donation bike drive for migrant workers that OPIRG started over the summer! Interested Volunteers please contact janeicetaylorl@hotmail.com
Contribute to Gender Research:
Ola! OPIRG Brock’s partner the Agricultural Workers Alliance is looking for Spanish speaking volunteers. The Agricultural Workers Alliance is based out of Virgil and is a central resource for Migrant workers doing everything from basic translation services to learning how to claim CPP. More updates soon on the donation bike drive for migrant workers that OPIRG started over the summer! Interested Volunteers please contact janeicetaylorl@hotmail.com
Contribute to Gender Research:
Research Call
A PhD candidate from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. is researching gender. Contact information is at the end of this message if you'd like to participate or offer feedback. Following is a description of her intentions:
I am looking for 25 people in the southwestern Ontario area (from Toronto to Windsor) interested in participating in an interview with me at a location and time chosen by the participant (keeping in mind safety, privacy, and scheduling). I am willing to travel anywhere in the area
interviews will take about an hour, maybe as long as an hour and a half.
Interviews will be audio recorded (digital format, not tapes), with the participant's permission.
My main interest is gender – I am interested in people's experiences of gender, especially how these experiences are shaped or influenced by accessing gender services.
What counts as a "gender service" is up to the participant – some examples are: dressing workshops, movement workshops, vocal therapies, diagnosis, assessment, support groups, hair removal techniques, hormone therapies, surgeries…Whatever the participant has decided to do in order to address gender
I am not looking for people with a particular identity or who identify a certain way; however, I feel identity is important and I am respectful of people's identity
I would like to know how you understand gender, what your experiences are with gender, what services you've accessed, why you chose to access those services, and your impressions of services (what's important to you, how services are offered, what's helpful or not from your perspective)
interviews will take about an hour, maybe as long as an hour and a half.
Interviews will be audio recorded (digital format, not tapes), with the participant's permission.
My main interest is gender – I am interested in people's experiences of gender, especially how these experiences are shaped or influenced by accessing gender services.
What counts as a "gender service" is up to the participant – some examples are: dressing workshops, movement workshops, vocal therapies, diagnosis, assessment, support groups, hair removal techniques, hormone therapies, surgeries…Whatever the participant has decided to do in order to address gender
I am not looking for people with a particular identity or who identify a certain way; however, I feel identity is important and I am respectful of people's identity
I would like to know how you understand gender, what your experiences are with gender, what services you've accessed, why you chose to access those services, and your impressions of services (what's important to you, how services are offered, what's helpful or not from your perspective)
Why I want to know:
I want to contribute to the general understanding of "gender" – in academics, gender is thought of in different ways. The understanding of gender is incomplete. Knowledge gained from people through research helps in achieving better understanding. Knowledge from trans perspectives is necessary to improve the understanding of gender, especially since these perspectives haven't been as included or given as much weight as they should.
I would like to raise awareness about what services are available and what it's like to use these services, as well as how services might be improved from your perspective, as someone who uses services.
I want to contribute to the general understanding of "gender" – in academics, gender is thought of in different ways. The understanding of gender is incomplete. Knowledge gained from people through research helps in achieving better understanding. Knowledge from trans perspectives is necessary to improve the understanding of gender, especially since these perspectives haven't been as included or given as much weight as they should.
I would like to raise awareness about what services are available and what it's like to use these services, as well as how services might be improved from your perspective, as someone who uses services.
What I will do (and not do) with the information:
Information provided by participants will be used to write my doctoral dissertation; the most significant points that come out of the research may also be the subject of academic journal articles and conference presentations.
It is my intention that sharing information in the ways mentioned above will increase knowledge and awareness that may translate into better research and teaching (concerning marginalized groups and gender.)
Information (interview transcripts) will be secured in my possession and will only be seen and accessed by me.
No (real) names will be used, and information will only be given in written materials in a way that does not allow readers to figure out who participated.
The fact that someone participated will not be shared with anyone, including other participants.
I will provide to participants as much of the written materials as they would like (their own interview transcript, the analysis of the information, the results) and will welcome feedback on my analysis and results (it is important to me to be accurate and relevant); information will be delivered in whatever manner the participant chooses, so as to ensure confidentiality.
I will ensure that information collected through this research does not negatively impact the trans community – my goal is to help and absolutely not to harm.
Information provided by participants will be used to write my doctoral dissertation; the most significant points that come out of the research may also be the subject of academic journal articles and conference presentations.
It is my intention that sharing information in the ways mentioned above will increase knowledge and awareness that may translate into better research and teaching (concerning marginalized groups and gender.)
Information (interview transcripts) will be secured in my possession and will only be seen and accessed by me.
No (real) names will be used, and information will only be given in written materials in a way that does not allow readers to figure out who participated.
The fact that someone participated will not be shared with anyone, including other participants.
I will provide to participants as much of the written materials as they would like (their own interview transcript, the analysis of the information, the results) and will welcome feedback on my analysis and results (it is important to me to be accurate and relevant); information will be delivered in whatever manner the participant chooses, so as to ensure confidentiality.
I will ensure that information collected through this research does not negatively impact the trans community – my goal is to help and absolutely not to harm.
Who I would like to interview:
Anyone over the age of 18 who has accessed any gender service or services sometime between 2007 and now in the southwestern Ontario area
Anyone over the age of 18 who has accessed any gender service or services sometime between 2007 and now in the southwestern Ontario area
What to do if you're interested:
If you're interested in participating or if you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please email me atdrechsc@mcmaster.ca or call me at 905-547-1772
If you know of any individuals or groups of individuals in southwestern Ontario who may be interested, please pass along this informat
If you're interested in participating or if you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please email me atdrechsc@mcmaster.ca or call me at 905-547-1772
If you know of any individuals or groups of individuals in southwestern Ontario who may be interested, please pass along this informat
