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!
