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The Verse City Workshop: A Career in Journalism?

This summer, in partnership with the East Metro Youth Services, the Verse City Workshop at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism will present a five-day intensive multimedia journalism camp. The Verse City Journalism Project at Ryerson University is designed to encourage youth from Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods to consider a career in journalism.

Archive of November, 2009

Plans for the Future

Hey everyone!

For the past few weeks we’ve been focusing heavily on the Aviva grant and gathering new supporters to vote for our cause. It was a great experience and we actually got a lot of great publicity on and off Ryerson’s campus. Thanks to everyone who voted and helped out!

But here at Verse City we love to multi-task. So while we’ve been working frantically on the Aviva project, we’ve been organizing fundraisers, workshops and brainstorming other innovative ways to make Verse City bigger and better.

Fundraisers

We’ve held two successful fundraisers so far, selling a grand total of 900 samosas over the course of just five hours! We’re planning on holding another fundraiser soon, and we promise it’ll be just as mouth-watering as the first two.

Mingle

We’re also planning to hold a mixer for the students at our journalism school. We want our students to be more involved in this community project and since a lot of you don’t know too much about what we do, we’d love for you to join us for a little party so you can involve yourselves in this fantastic project. Updates on that soon!

Workshops

Verse City, in addition to the five-day summer camp, holds a series of workshops throughout the year. Saturday Nov. 21 is our next one, which will focus on fashion journalism. We have Rea McNamara, a style columnist for Eye Weekly magazine and Dwayne Evans, a very innovative fashion photographer coming in to guest host the seminars.

We also have a series of workshops coming up in the new year so stay tuned for those.

Future

If you’ve been following our Aviva grant you’ll know we want to bring our journalism workshops to on-reserve aboriginal youth. We’re actively looking for funding and grants and are really serious about making this happen. Take a look at the Aviva page if you haven’t already.

We’ve even started planning our summer workshop!

That’s we’re up to. Thanks for reading and keep supporting Verse City!

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Round two: Keep voting, keep supporting

Verse City Vote Update

It has been a hectic week of mass promotion - Facebook, Twitter, mass emails and even a samosa sale. And now we’re about to do it again.

Verse City ended the first round with a whopping 1449 votes in under a week - Amazing!
Unfortunately, we did not make the semi-finals in this round.

But if at first you don’t succeed - try, try, try again.

In fact, we have 12 days to try again. And with your support, Verse City will advance to the semi-finals and remain eligible for the grant we need to further our cause and continue to support our youth.

Vote Verse City at: http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf1597

In other news:

September 22, 2009

Verse City held its first fundraiser of the year, selling 300 samosas. The sale, scheduled to run for four hours sold out in its first hour and a half.

September 29, 2009

In light of the success of our first samosa sale, Verse City held a second sale the following week. With double the samosas and an email sign-up sheet, the second sale raised funds and awareness for the Verse City project.

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