Verse City
Just a quick update while I have a few minutes alone:
Today I volunteered at school with something called the Verse City Project, which was organized by Vinita Srivastava, who is one of the profs at Ryerson whom I've had a few times over the past few years. It's basically an outreach project to encourage young people, specifically "visible minorities," to get into journalism and introduce them to Ryerson's School of Journalism. Sixteen kids were registered but only four actually showed up -- that actually turned out to be a good thing, though, because there were four of us to help them out with interviewing and writing. (Technically way more than four including co-ordinators and faculty, actually.)
It was a lot of fun and I'm really glad I spent the time there. I met a bunch of new J-Skool kids I had never met before and got to help some high school kids accomplish something they're interested in but maybe wouldn't know how to do on their own. Plus I got a bunch of free stuff! Movie passes, a festival pass for next year's ReelWorld Film Festival, about six different kinds of lipstick/lipgloss, nailpolish, conditioner, jewelry, etc.
I think they're still working on the website, but you can see parts of what we worked on at VerseCity.com.
Today I volunteered at school with something called the Verse City Project, which was organized by Vinita Srivastava, who is one of the profs at Ryerson whom I've had a few times over the past few years. It's basically an outreach project to encourage young people, specifically "visible minorities," to get into journalism and introduce them to Ryerson's School of Journalism. Sixteen kids were registered but only four actually showed up -- that actually turned out to be a good thing, though, because there were four of us to help them out with interviewing and writing. (Technically way more than four including co-ordinators and faculty, actually.)
It was a lot of fun and I'm really glad I spent the time there. I met a bunch of new J-Skool kids I had never met before and got to help some high school kids accomplish something they're interested in but maybe wouldn't know how to do on their own. Plus I got a bunch of free stuff! Movie passes, a festival pass for next year's ReelWorld Film Festival, about six different kinds of lipstick/lipgloss, nailpolish, conditioner, jewelry, etc.
I think they're still working on the website, but you can see parts of what we worked on at VerseCity.com.