Archive for month: September, 2016

Media Advisory – September 26, 2016

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UVic students set to host counsellor, educator, and artist Farrah Khan as a part of Sexualized Violence Awareness Month

Victoria – This Wednesday, the UVic Students’ Society (UVSS), Anti-Violence Project (AVP), and UVic will be co-hosting “We Begin By Listening” – a keynote presentation by Farrah Khan. Khan is nationally recognized counsellor, educator and artist with over 16 years of experience addressing gender-based violence.

Who:    Farrah Khan, Ann-Bernice Thomas, and Jeremy Loveday

What:   “We Begin By Listening” keynote presentation on sexualized violence

When:  Wednesday September 28, 2016. 6:30pm.

Where: UVic Farquhar Auditorium

This keynote presentation is a part of Sexualized Violence Awareness Month and the Let’s Get Consensualcampaign. Join us as we work towards making our campus free of harm and shifting our culture to one of consent.

More info:

Web:
https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/svaw/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/690871104412689/
https://www.facebook.com/getconsent

The University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS) was established in 1964 and represents the 17,000 undergraduate students at the University of Victoria. Let’s Get Consensual is a campaign against the prevalence of rape culture and sexualized violence on campuses organized by AVP, UVSS, UVic, and partner organizations across British Columbia.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:

Maxwell Nicholson
UVSS Director of Campaigns & Community Relations
campaigns@uvss.ca, 250-721-8366

Campaigns Update – September 20, 2016

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Hey everyone,

We are super excited right now coming off the launch of our campaigns during Campus Kick Off 2016!

During CKO 2016 we launched #TextbookBroke (textbook affordability), ReThink Mental Health (mental health awareness) and we continued work on the Let’s Get Consensual campaign (sexualized violence awareness).

Our #TextbookBroke social media contest to win $300 towards textbooks got over 2000 likes and 400 shares! Our contest ended last Friday and we’ll announce the winner this week.

Over the past few weeks, CBC, CFAX, CTV, The Times Colonist and other media outlets have interviewed us about textbook affordability, bus pass-ups, and affordable housing which put student issues out to a wider public audience.

Every year the UVSS makes an effort to partner with other student societies and work in coalitions to better represent your interests. This year we are working with the Simon Fraser Student Society and UBC AMS (Student Society of UBC Vancouver) on affordable housing and textbook affordability as they are already doing some great work in these areas.

This week we’ve been super busy on the Let’s Get Consensual (LGC) campaign launching Sexualized Violence Awareness Month. LGC is a campaign against the prevalence of rape culture and sexualized violence on campuses organized by UVic, UVSS, and AVP. Together we are trying to end rape culture, support survivors, and create a culture of consent on campus and beyond.

Stay tuned for more updates on upcoming campaign events!

Maxwell Nicholson
UVSS Director of Campaigns and Community Relations
campaigns@uvss.ca

Volunteer:
Email comm3@uvic.ca

More Info:
https://uvss.ca/campaigns/