Funded Projects, Events, & Training
RPIRG has funding dollars budgeted in every academic year to fund projects and events that fit the RPIRG mandate. In the past, RPIRG has funded many successful projects and events that have made positive changes at the U of R and in the community of Regina. Please see below for examples of Projects and Events funded through RPIRG.
Do you or your organization have an idea for a project or event? If so, please Download Projects/Event/Training Application Form. If you would like help filling out your application, our staff would be happy to assist you. Just stop by the office during office hours or email info@rpirg.org for more information!
Projects
Education Students’ Society- Project Connect(Funded October 2011)
The program will be organized as a series of day camps that run over the course of a few Saturdays in the winter semester of this year, each of which will be hosted by a different community school in Regina. Each day camp will have a specific theme associated with it. These themes may include Sports day, Science day, Art day etc.The day camps will include a morning of fun activities that work on important social skills like listening, teamwork, respect, and communication
Occupy Regina (Funded October 2011)
Occupy Regina is a protest standing in solidarity with the Occupy Together movement. It is also standing in solidarity with movements launching across Canada and across the globe. The movement stands against the current economic structure and distribution of wealth, and is also concerned with relevant issues to the working class in Regina.
Briarpatch Creative Writing Contest (Funded July 2011)
Briarpatch is a Regina-based contemporary issues magazine that covers a broad range of social, political and environmental stories from a grassroots, radical perspective. Now in its 38th year of publication, Briarpatch has become a leading voice in the progressive landscape of Saskatchewan and beyond, and a vital forum for exchanging ideas and developing radical consciousness
The primary goals of this project are as follows: first, to showcase the talent of new writers of political fiction and creative non-fiction and foster the development of this important and often undervalued means of building radical consciousness. Further, we would like to connect with young writers and readers in the University of Regina community to establish lasting and mutually supportive relationships around the creation and dissemination of creative writing.
TRANSforming Lives Advocacy Project (Funded November 2010)
The TRANSforming Lives Advocacy Project aims to promote awareness and attention to transgender issues, bring the LGBTQI community and its allies together to create social change, address the importance of including ‘gender identity’ and/or ‘gender expression’ into the Saskatchewan Human Rights Act and to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.
Events
The Travelling World Community Film Festival(Funded November 2011)
The mandate of this group is to encourage people from the community to learn about different social justice/ environmental issues by viewing a variety of films that are usually not on the commercial circuit. In the long-term we hope that learning will encourage taking actions towards creating a more environmentally and socially just world.
CUQSC (Funded November 2011)
The Canadian Queer University Services Conference’s mandate is to provide critical knowledge and networking to the individuals who run Canadian Queer Services, as well as the local community where the conference is being held. Bringing together people from around the Country to come together and discuss the issues that are seen every day in the queer community, CUQSC promotes positive and informed discussion and progress on prominent issues. Combining workshop style lectures with caucus style discussions, CUQSC emphasizes national and local issues, combating them with strong, activist discussion. CUQSC also attracts a lot of visibly queer and strong academic individuals, as delegates, presenters, collaborators and speakers, creating a collective hub of diverse activists.
African Students’ Union- Walk for Hunger (Funded October 2011)
This fundraiser is aimed at creating awareness about the hunger in the horn of Africa and also about the African Students’ Union and UNICEF group on campus through a walk, having a bake sale, and selling t-shirts and wristbands.
Todd Gordon Lecture (Funded November 2010)
The respected professor and author, Todd Gordon, will be giving a presentation on Canada’s role internationally, titled: “Is Canada Imperialist?”
Oxfam: Men Against Violence (Funded November 2010)
Oxfam is organizing two, free-to-the- public lectures in Regina featuring a group from Nicaragua, called Men’s Association Against Violence (AHCV). The intention of these lectures is discuss positive and empowering methods to reconstruct the gender roles that enable and promote violence against women.
Women’s Political Empowerment (Funded November 2010)
The objective was to provide women with information, so that they have the tools needed to reflect on their own lives, their aspirations, and the means they may have to achieve a greater measure of autonomy, success and citizenship. The event also addressed how to engage women of all ages and backgrounds to start thinking, discussing and analyzing how politics shape their lives.
Eyewitness Report: Israel’s Assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (Funded November 2010)
The event featured a film screening of footage from the attack of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla by the Israeli army in May of 2010, in which nine activists were killed and dozens more injured, followed by a discussion period with Mr. Neish. Mr. Neish also discussed ongoing campaigns to break the illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, and the Canadian Boat to Gaza project.
Training
Engineers WithoutBorders – National Conference (Funded November 2011)
EWB is a national organization with over 30 professional and student chapters across Canada. We believe that the next generations of rural Africans should have the same opportunities to improve their lives that we do here in Canada.
EWB Regina will be sending 16 delegates. Each delegate will participate in three and a half days of workshops, panels and key note speeches that focus on international development and engineer’s role in it. The overall group goal this year is to network with other chapters, bring back development knowledge to the chapter and prepare for chapter transition as many members are graduating in May 2012.
WUSC Annual General Assembly (Funded November 2010)
The goal of sending three members to the WUSC Annual General Assembly is to create a strong committee so that they will be able to conduct their internal SRP duties with greatly capability, but also so that they will be able to better engage their fellow students with the many issues that WUSC advocates for, and bring back the knowledge the three attendees have gained back to the rest of the group.
Awakening Ecological Action (Funded November 2010)
The Awakening Ecologilca Action conference is intended to kick start a year-long Canadian Catholic Student’s Association program of ecological awareness and activism. The conference will facilitate a religious experience of creation, will educate on motivations within Christian tradition and science, and inspire environmental campus actions.
