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Work-It Circuit

Join us for a quick 30-minute work-it circuit each Tuesday from 3 – 3:30 p.m. in the Gym, Pembroke Campus.
Free to all students.

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Discounted Ski Lift Tickets – On Sale Now!

Algonquin College, Pembroke Campus, Calabogie lift tickets
  • $15 ski lift cost
  • 1 per student
  • Sales go on sale on Friday, February 7th at 8 am in the SA office
  • Must provide Student ID
  • Ticket is good for any day this ski season.
  • Only 20 are available
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Super Smash Bros Tournament

Come one, come all for a head-to-head Super Smash Bros tournament. Starts at 5 p.m. in the Landing, Pembroke Campus. Free for all students. Free pizza provided.

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Drive-In Movie Night

Join us for a special FREE Algonquin College movie night to remember at Pembroke’s own Skylight Drive-in!

Our feature presentation is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (film) - Wikipedia

  • Wednesday, September 16
  • Gates will open at 6:30 p.m., with the movie will start around 7:15 p.m. or so.
  • Students must provide their own transportation
  • All AC students and employees are welcome
  • Your Students’ Association is providing snacks, so please let us know your coming!
Algonquin College, Pembroke Campus

New to the area? Here is how you get to Skylight Drive-in.

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Inclusion Infusions Live Presents: Beyond inclusion – Black liberation otherwise

Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017). The book is a CBC national bestseller, currently in its third printing, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times, listed in The Walrus’s best books of 2018,″ shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction, and the winner of the 2017 Annual Errol Morris Book Prize, later published in French with Mémoire d’encrier, titled NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d’Étatau Canada. Her writing on race, gender, and discrimination is taught widely in universities across Canada and the United States and she has spoken before Parliamentary subcommittees, the Human Rights Committee of the Senate, and the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.

Maynard has a long history of involvement in community activism and advocacy. She been a part of grassroots movements against racial profiling, police violence, detention and deportation for over a decade. She is currently a PhD student and Vanier scholar at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

For anyone not able to attend in person this event will be live-streamed OR you can stop by Room 123 where the presentation is being watched as a group.

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Angelique Francis

Angelique Francis is a versatile and exceptionally gifted musician. This multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, multi-genre singer-songwriter and composer has wowed audiences across the globe with her electrifying performances, instrumental abilities and powerful textured vocals. She is known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including Blues, Soul, Folk, Jazz, Gospel and Rock. Angelique has shared the stage/opened for a large roster of well-known musicians such as Gary Clark Jr, Beth Hart, Tom Cochran, Burton Cummings, and Sugar Ray. Her passion and love of music can be heard in all of her original compositions. Angelique will be performing with a 4-piece band on campus.

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Box Circle Exercise

  • Wednesday, January 22, 2 to 4 p.m., in the Gym

Box Circle is a teaching tool to share the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. Participants step into the role of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people and experience what it must have felt like to live in these communities during colonization, residential schools, the sixties’ scoop and now.

If you are interested in the session, we do ask that you commit to the entire two-hour window.

This session is open to all students and employees. No experience necessary. All materials provided.

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This activity is part of the First Moon, First Person Celebration in partnership with the Circle of Turtle Lodge.

This session speaks to the following Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action:

14. We call upon the federal government to enact an Aboriginal Languages Act that incorporates the following principles:

iv. The preservation, revitalization, and strengthening of Aboriginal languages and cultures are best managed by Aboriginal people and communities.

63. We call upon the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada to maintain an annual commitment to Aboriginal education issues, including:

iii. Building student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy, and mutual respect

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