Assiniboine College Students Association

Service Canada in the North Hill Campus
2024-09-16 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Winnipeg)

SAC Elections - All Candidates Meeting
2024-09-16 17:00 - 18:30 | Students’ Association Boardroom
The All Candidates Meeting for the Students’ Association Council Elections is mandatory for all students to attend and to be eligible to run in the Students’ Association Council Elections.

Mid Autumm Festival - Chinese Celebration
2024-09-17 11:30 - 13:00

Tai chi
2024-09-17 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-09-19 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-09-24 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-09-26 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-01 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-03 12:00 - 12:30 | outside the K doors on the first floor (between the 100s and 600s rooms) or, if weather does not permit, meet in “Sunshine Hallway” (between doors I & J)
If weather permits, join Herb Mahood outside the K doors on the first floor (between the 100s and 600s rooms) or, if weather does not permit, meet in “Sunshine Hallway” (between doors I & J).
Tai Chi is a moving medication practice. Herb Mahood makes it accessible to anyone, regardless of experience level by introducing static movements one at a time and then introducing more movement and sequencing. Every session opens and closes with an eight brocades, a gentle Qigong practice that involves intentional movement coordinated with breathing.

Paraphrasing Blitz - Minute to Win It! - Fall 2024
2024-09-23 - 2024-09-28
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SAC Elections Voting Period
2024-09-23 08:30 - 2024-09-24 16:30
The Voting Period for the Students’ Association Council Elections during which the student body gets to place their votes for who they would like to see on the Students’ Association Council.

SAC Election Results
2024-09-25 - 2024-09-26
This is the date that all students and staff of Assiniboine College get to learn of the new representatives of the Students’ Association Council.

Coffee Break with the ACSA
2024-09-25 08:00 - 09:00 | Victoria Avenue East Campus
Coffee and snacks available.

Assiniboine/BU Medical Walk-in Clinic
2024-09-25 12:00 - 14:30, 2024-10-09 12:00 - 14:30 | room 234, 2nd floor, Victoria Ave E campus
Confidential Services Offered (but not limited to):

Medical prescriptions
Birth control, pap tests, prenatal care, pregnancy tests,
Confidential LGBT and trans health services
Partnership with accessibility services
STI testing, chlamydia and gonorrhea treatments
Referrals

With Nurse Practitioner Berly Belsar-Lawrence

Healthy Sexuality & Harm Reduction Medical Drop-In Clinic
2024-09-25 14:30 - 16:00 | room 234, 2nd floor, Victoria Ave E campus
Free and confidential services!
Drop in visit Public Health Nurse, Michelle Osudar, and a Community Health Nurse from 7th Street Health Access Centre
Get tested:

Condoms
Birth Control
Emergency Contraception
Sexual Health Education
Sexually Transmitted Blood Borne Infections (STBBI) Urine & Blood Testing
Safer Injection Supplies
Safer Smoking Supplies
Naloxone Kits

Truth and Reconciliation Day Button Making
2024-09-26 11:30 - 13:30
🧡 Join us foJoin us for Truth and Reconciliation Day Button Making! 🧡
📅 Victoria Campus: Sept 26, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
📅 North Hill Campus (Len Evans): Sept 27, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Come together to reflect, create, and honor the importance of Truth and Reconciliation. Let’s remember that Every Child Matters.

Truth and Reconciliation Day Button Making
2024-09-27 11:30 - 13:30

Reconciliation Run
2024-09-28 09:00 - 20:00
Interested in the in-person 21.1 km on September 28 from Birtle Residential School (9:00 a.m.) to Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation followed by a community gathering/feast? Although it’s a marathon, you can choose to run, jog, walk or a combination of all three.
Other options include a satellite run of 21.1 km on September 30 in Winnipeg or a virtual participation any distance, anywhere between September 20 – 30.
Registration is $40.00. We currently have sponsorship for the first 25 students who request it.
If you would like to participate and want it paid or if you plan on registering and want to be included in the Assiniboine team, please contact saurettem@assiniboine.net, subject line: Reconciliation Run.

Nigeria Independence Day
2024-10-01 11:30 - 12:30

ACSA Clubs Tradeshow
2024-10-02 11:30 - 13:30 | Victoria Avenue East campus Crossroads.
A tradeshow event featuring all of the Student Clubs through the ACSA.

WIS Services in North Hill
2024-10-03 12:00 - 14:00

Tai chi (a Fill Your Cup event)
2024-10-08 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-10 12:00 - 12:30 | outside the K doors on the first floor (between the 100s and 600s rooms) or, if weather does not permit, meet in “Sunshine Hallway” (between doors I & J)

Healthy Sexuality & Harm Reduction Medical Drop-in Clinic
2024-10-09 14:30 - 16:00 | room 234, 2nd floor, Victoria Ave E campus
Free and confidential services!
Drop in visit Public Health Nurse, Jordan Sophasath, and a Community Health Nurse from 7th Street Health Access Centre
Get tested:

Condoms
Birth Control
Emergency Contraception
Sexual Health Education
Sexually Transmitted Blood Borne Infections (STBBI) Urine & Blood Testing
Safer Injection Supplies
Safer Smoking Supplies
Naloxone Kits

World Mental Health Day Trivia
2024-10-10 11:30 - 13:00

World Mental Health Day Wellness Fair
2024-10-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Crossroads at the Victoria Avenue East campus.
The Fall Wellness Fair brings representatives from different community organizations and internal departments that provide student support together in the Students’ Association Crossroads area. Various organizations will gather to share wellness related resources with students, staff and each other.

From Surviving to Thriving - Vic Ave E campus
2024-10-15 11:30 - 12:30
Workshop to build resilience and develop a plan for managing stress facilitated by Mireille Saurette. Participants will be able to: recognize their responses to stress, apply healthier responses, recognize and explore stressors, apply 4 As for dealing with stressors.
For more information or to register, email saurettem@assiniboine.net

Tools for Life - Harm Reduction
2024-10-16 11:30 - 12:10 | Len Evans Centre, 1035 1st Street N, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Join Alyssa Desrochers, Student Success Advisor, School of Trades, and Mireille Saurette, Wellness Advisor, and representatives from Sexual Education Resource Centre (SERC) for the first Tools for Life event at the Len Evans Centre for Trades and Technology on the North Hill campus between 11:30 am and 12:10 pm. Location to be determined. This session will focus on promoting healthy sexuality, safer sex and harm reduction.
To learn more about safer sex and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs), visit SERC’s Sexual Health Info page.
Do you know about the BU/ACC medical clinic in Brandon? Services include birth control, pregnancy tests, LGBT and trans health services, STI testing, chlamydia, and gonorrhea treatments.
Campuses and sites across Manitoba interested in promoting sexual health and harm reduction can order safer sex supplies online through SERC.

Trick or Treat for Hunger and Heat!
2024-10-21 - 2024-11-01
The ACSA’s Trick or Treat for Hunger & Heat Drive is coming up on October 21st! In collaboration with Samaritan House, Co-Op, and Smitten, the ACSA will be accepting food donations as well as hats & mitts to help students in the colder months How you can donate: Smitten Premium Adult Boutique- 658 18th Street, Unit 1 will be collecting food donations for the Samaritan House for the month of October. The Co-Op on Richmond will be making hunger bags available for purchase from October 24th to October 31st. These hunger bags will then be donated to Samaritan House. The Assiniboine College Students’ Asssociation (ACSA) will have a box set up to accept donations. Let’s help donate to those in hunger and provide warmth during the colder winter months to those who need it.
