Release, Reset, Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-03-02 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Online
Attention all SFU undergrad and grad students! SFPIRG is here to support you!
Are you dealing with racism, sexism, or other oppressive/problematic content in the course of your work, organising, or studies? Are you looking for a confidential and supportive space? Are you looking for community with folks who also care about social justice? Come and help us build a sanctuary space for you and your fellow students.
Join SFPIRG for our 2022 Care-based Office Hours series for SFU undergrad and grad students! Release, Reset, and Restore will take place on Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4pm, starting on March 2, 2022. The last session will be on April 6th.
These sessions will be flexible to the needs of those gathered but may include mindfulness activities, sharing circles, artistic practice, collective journalling, or sharing resources for those who need further support and guidance.
Please note that these are group support sessions, and so conversations may take place of a sensitive or challenging nature. In order to support a safer environment for all, we ask participants to be respectful, considerate, and compassionate throughout all sessions. Participants who are harassing, discriminating against, or deliberately harming others will be removed from the room.
We look forward to connecting with you!
How to attend:

RSVP using this form at least 1-hour prior to any session. Please register using the full name and email you will be signing into the Google Meet session with.

Please note: if you register less than 1-hour prior to a session, we cannot guarantee that you will receive the event link for that session.

Participants will be added to the event series within the 1-hour prior to each session. If you do not receive an invitation, please be sure to check your spam folder.

You will receive a Google Calendar invitation, with a Google Meet link included. This link will work for all Social Justice Office Hours sessions!
You will be added to the Google Calendar event series, and will be registered for the full Social Justice Office Hours series of events – drop into any session! You only need to RSVP once.

Questions? You can reach us at education@sfpirg.ca for more information

Full List of Dates:

March 2nd
March 9th
March 16th
March 23rd
March 30th
April 6th

Board Nominations Info Session 2022
2022-03-04 15:30 - 16:30, 2022-03-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Organize with us! Get active in social and environmental justice! Help support a vibrant student organization and make a difference in your communities! Join SFPIRG’s Board of Directors!
Interested? Want to learn more? Come by this information session to learn more about SFPIRG and hear more about the nomination process!
How to Attend
This info session will be done over Zoom, using this link Password: [REDACTED]
If you have any access needs that you require for this session please email engagement@sfpirg.ca
Important dates

Nomination period: February 28th to March 14th at 5pm, 2022

Learn more

Download the info package here
Download the nominations package here
Download the online nominations signatures form here
To download the form for collecting physical signatures, please visit here.

Interested in learning more? Email eo@sfpirg.ca with your questions.
We encourage those from under-represented groups on campus, as well as those with a strong intersectional analysis, to put forth a nomination. We are looking for between 3 and 9 candidates. If we receive more than 9 nominations, we will hold elections.

Release, Reset, Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-03-09 14:30 - 16:00, 2022-03-16 14:30 - 16:00, 2022-03-23 14:30 - 16:00, 2022-03-30 14:30 - 16:00 | 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

Release, Reset Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-04-06 14:30 - 16:00 | 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

More Than a Checkbox : Doing Better Data, How Data Can Be Caring
2022-05-12 08:00 - 17:00 | BC
The SFU Graduate Student Society (GSS) and the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG) are pleased to co-host this series on research ethics for graduate students across BC. During these three events, researchers will share a diverse expertise on how we move beyond institutional research ethics to enacting real forms of consent, accountability, and care in how we do research.
In this event we will be talking about how a large amount of knowledge gathering occurs through surveys and data analysis. There are many ethical considerations that go into data collection through these methods, but how do we do this better? Our guests will talk about their experiences in considering the impacts of race-based data and gender-based violence, asking better questions, and thinking about our analysis in more thoughtful and empowering ways.
Register here: https://forms.gle/NQXukHn6Cd6Sh6DW6
Speakers: Dr. Emily Rosser plus one speaker TBA

Release, Reset, Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-09-29 13:30 - 15:00, 2022-10-13 13:30 - 15:00, 2022-10-27 13:30 - 15:00 | online – Zoom, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Attention all SFU undergrad and grad students! SFPIRG is here to support you!
Are you dealing with racism, sexism, or other oppressive/problematic content in the course of your work, organising, or studies? Are you looking for a confidential and supportive space? Are you looking for community with folks who also care about social justice? Come and help us build a sanctuary space for you and your fellow students.
Join SFPIRG for our 2022 Care-based Office Hours series for SFU undergrad and grad students! Release, Reset, and Restore will take place on Thursday from 1:30 to 3pm, starting on September 29, 2022. The last session will be on November 24. Sessions will alternate between in-person and on-line sessions to meet the needs of our community members.
Content of these sessions will be flexible to the needs of those gathered that day but may include mindfulness activities, sharing circles, artistic practice, collective journaling, or sharing resources for those who need further support and guidance.
Please note that these are group support sessions, and so conversations may take place of a sensitive or challenging nature. In order to support a safer environment for all, we ask participants to be respectful, considerate, and compassionate throughout all sessions. Participants who are harassing, discriminating against, or deliberately harming others will be removed from the room.
We look forward to connecting with you!
How to attend:

RSVP using this form at least 1-hour prior to any session. Please register using the full name and email you will be signing into the Zoom session with (when events are digital). All in person events will take place in the SFPIRG Lounge located on the first floor of the SUB, room 1410.

Please note: if you register less than 1-hour prior to a session, we cannot guarantee that you will receive the event link for that session.

Participants will be added to the event series within the 1-hour prior to each session. If you do not receive an invitation, please be sure to check your spam folder.

You will receive a Google Calendar invitation, with a Zoom link included for the sessions occurring digitally. This link will work for all sessions!
You will be added to the Google Calendar event series, and will be registered for the full series of events – drop into any session! You only need to RSVP once.

Questions? You can reach us at engagament@sfpirg.ca for more information

Full List of Dates:

September 29 (on Zoom)
October 6 (in SFPIRG lounge)
October 13 (on Zoom)
October 20 (in SFPIRG Lounge)
October 27 (on Zoom)
November 3 (in SFPIRG Lounge)
November 10 (on Zoom)
November 17 (in SFPIRG Lounge)
November 24 (on Zoom)

Release, Reset, Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-10-06 13:30 - 15:00, 2022-10-20 13:30 - 15:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

SFPIRG 2023 Annual General Meeting
2023-02-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Join SFPIRG for our Annual General Meeting!
Every year we gather together as an organisation to think about where we have been and where we are going. This is an opportunity to recognise amazing community work we have supported and led, talk about finances and funding of a non-profit organisation, and recognise the work we have ahead.
Register here!
As a student-funded organisation, we love opening up our doors to share the work we have done together as a community! Every year at our AGM we review what we have done in the past year, reflect on what works, what doesn’t, and think through how we use student funds to fuel change in the world – and in students! This year, we ware excited to be joined by sχɬemtəna:t St’agid Jaad Audrey Siegl of Musqueam Nation to welcome us to the territory and discuss how we move from territorial acknowledgements to LandBack and Indigenous sovereignty.
Once again, we will be hosting this event online for the safety of the communities we work with. We will not have ASL available for this event, but will have closed captioning available. We are also committed to making spaces emotionally accessible for folks, which includes supporting generative conversations (even/especially when its difficult) and providing trigger warnings. If you have other accessibility needs we can work to meet, please let us know by emailing Chantelle at engagement@sfpirg.ca
We will be updating the meeting documents as we get them prepared:

the SFPIRG AGM Agenda, which includes the review of our annual report and budget, as well as an opening from Audrey Siegl.
the meeting minutes from our 2022 AGM
the 2023 Annual Report of our activities and relationships
Financial reports for the reporting period as well as the auditor’s recommendations
