Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Up and Coming Events

We're keeping busy here at the Centre and we are packing our calendar full of stuff for you to do and see. Some upcoming events/activities/plans are (and remember - unless otherwise noted, everything is free):

Thursday, Jan. 22:
Writing Centre Workshop: tips on professional writing, so that you can write the best possible letters for grants, applications, scholarships. Grad and professional school applications are soon due...this might help make your letter that much better! The workshop will be held here in the Centre (5th floor of the Student Centre).

Tuesday, Jan. 27:
Books Beyond Bars Book Drive: we'll be collecting books at a table in the Loyola building all day. Books are donated to the women's section of the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside. The program aims to help the women through literacy by making books and journals available to them. Books the program could really use are:
  • Self-help (healthy relationships, abuse recovery),
  • Addiction/harm reduction,
  • Books by prisoners/ex-prisoners,
  • True Crime,
  • Popular fiction authors (paperback),
  • Adult literacy workbooks and readers,
Other donations the program could use:
  • Blank journals (no spiral ring binding)
  • Money / postage stamps
We will also be selling the book Words Without Walls ($10), which is an anthology of writing and art by the women who are incarcerated. You can read more about the program on NovaNewsNet.

What else is happening at the Centre?

In February, we have the following planned (more details about these events will be posted soon):
Excited? I know we are.

And, as always, we could use volunteers. We definitely need volunteers to help with the Vagina Monologues. If you're interested, send an email to smu.womenscentre [at] gmail.com


No comments: