30th Mar
NEWS

Weekly Email 28/3/23

"Hey everyone,  Sorry for the late email this week! I hope everyone is doing great :) Just a recap on our events this week: Tuesday: Our collab with Games Soc on "GAYMES Night" will continue in JHT2 from 6:30-9:30. Wednesday:  -  10am-12pm: Our Coffee Morning will take place in the MSU Info Centre. Please bring a reusable coffee cup if you have one :) -  8pm+: Our commuter friendly Online GAYMES will take place on Discord! (Link Below) Thursday: our Queer Book club will start again at 6.30pm in JHL6. We're currently reading "Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel" by Julian K. Jarboe.     Purple Training Tickets Purple Training Tickets are now for sale! Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/purple-training-2023-tickets-580958882657.  “Purple Training” is an event Maynooth Pride Society run annually for other college students throughout the country to attend. It is an informative weekend on trans and nonbinary topics, such as wellbeing, information around transitioning and general awareness, and other topics that impact the trans community. This years Purple Training will take place on Maynooth University's campus from the 14th of April to the 16th, and will feature speakers from Small Trans Library, TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland), and CATU (Community Action Tenants Union) and more! General admission tickets are 5 euro, and general admission plus accommodation costs 25 euro. Note that accommodation is in the South Campus Accommodation, and will be a shared twin room. This is going to be an amazing weekend long event and we absolutely cannot wait to see everyone there. Drag your friends into coming and buy your tickets ASAP before they're gone!!   Trans Day of Visibility  Trans Day of Visibility is this Friday! Although we're not organising anything ourselves, Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin have organised a demonstration outside the Dáil at 6:00pm on Friday. There will be committee members attending, so don't be afraid to reach out and see if someone will meet you there. I'm sure there'll be a discussion in the WhatsApp group of members who are going, so keep an eye on that.  That's all for now, have a good week! "

20th Mar
NEWS

Weekly Email (20/3)

"Hey! Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a great reading week. Events are back on this week which are as follows: Tuesday: Our collab with Games Soc on "GAYMES Night" will continue in JHT2 from 6:30-9:30. Wednesday:  -  10am-12pm: Our Coffee Morning will take place in the MSU Info Centre. Please bring a reusable coffee cup if you have one :) -  8pm+: Our commuter friendly Online GAYMES will take place on Discord! (Link Below) Thursday: our Queer Book club will start again at 6.30pm in JHL6. We'll beng "Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel" by Julian K. Jarboe. Here is a paragraph detailing the book from goodreads: In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable." Purple Training Tickets Purple Training Tickets are now for sale! Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/purple-training-2023-tickets-580958882657.  “Purple Training” is an event Maynooth Pride Society run annually for other college students throughout the country to attend. It is an informative weekend on trans and nonbinary topics, such as wellbeing, information around transitioning and general awareness, and other topics that impact the trans community. This years Purple Training will take place on Maynooth University's campus from the 14th of April to the 16th, and will feature speakers from Small Trans Library, TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland), and CATU (Community Action Tenants Union) and more! General admission tickets are 5 euro, and general admission plus accommodation costs 25 euro. Note that accommodation is in the South Campus Accommodation, and will be a shared twin room. This is going to be an amazing weekend long event and we absolutely cannot wait to see everyone there. Drag your friends into coming and buy your tickets ASAP before they're gone!!   LGBT Advisory Panel The second sitting of the SU's LGBT advisory panel is taking place on Wednesday at 2pm. This is an open forum for all students, and I'd highly recommend attending. Alternatively, I've attached a google forms link to leave any suggestions, and a committee member will bring them up on your behalf.  Link: https://forms.gle/G9nsZEbrgYxM9M6K6  That's all for this week, hope you all have a great week and we'll see you around!  Bye <3"

13th Feb
NEWS

Community Win Alert!!

" Maynooth African Society started off semester 2 with a bang! We threw a SOLD OUT Valentines day themed event (Love at first chat) and sold nearly 400 tickets! If you're following us on Instagram and Tiktok, you would agree that the turn out was incredible!!!How did we pull this off?1. We used event and project management strategies. We defined our goals very early on, understood the risks involved and implemented strategies accordingly. We created strategic and effective teams with a clear outline of the roles and responsibilities of each team whilst giving them the creative freedom to express themselves through their role(We have so much talent!). We used WBS techniques to breakdown the project into small bites, we communicated regularly, we set realistic expectations and stayed adaptable!2. Strategic social media marketing! Our TikTok promotional videos have just under 20k views and over 6K Likes. Our social media manager Deborah Oriade achieved this by being the creative genius that she is and by leveraging Tiktok trends! Understand your target audience and leverage trends accordingly! (Follow us on Tiktok @muafrosoc1)3. Community! The Black-Irish community in Maynooth University is such a large community (we make up 8% of Maynooth university) however, we stick together! Know your community well and they’ll act as brand ambassadors by sharing about your event through word of mouth! 4. Fundraising! This year our society is self-funded and we decided to see this as an opportunity for growth instead of seeing it as a setback! We fundraised ALOT in first semester so we would be able to put on an event this big!We started the year off with high goals and realistic expectations and we are unlocking our potential by working towards these goals. We have so much planned for the semester ahead but its safe to say wed it off with a BANG! Love at first chat, over and out! "

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