Dickens Day

by Dustin Allen
Concordia Lions Club- Dickens Day
At exactly 3 p.m. on the sixth of February, a twenty-four hour read-a-thon of the works of Charles Dickens began; a tribute to celebrate the life and works of the master of prose to ring in what would have been his two-hundredth birthday. This event was streamed live using U-Stream on www.dickensday.ca and, using social media, caught the attention of hundreds of viewers, including Canadian literary giant Margaret Atwood, who re-tweeted the link to the stream to her 300,000 twitter followers. This specific re-tweet was pitched and planned by Concordia Lions Club President Jacob Bos as the club recruited students, faculty, and administrative employees to join the cause and devote fifteen minutes of their day to read a passage of a Dickens novel.
The recruitment process was challenging and required an aggressive approach, as the idea was often initially met with skepticism, but with the enthusiasm and vision of "artful dodger" (as described by Edmonton Journal writer Paula Simons) Jacob Bos' over one-hundred people volunteered their time. On February seventh at 4 a.m. close to twenty students still remained and more were on the way, bringing fresh faces, voices, and coffee. At 3 p.m. after twenty-four continuous hours of Dickens including the entire Tale of Two Cities novel, a celebration commenced in the schools library, as hundreds of students, faculty members, and local news reporters gathered and spoke of the events success: giving due credit to the Lions Club for their efforts.
Teaming up with the Make Your Mark foundation, led by the Concordia Alumni Association, an amount of nearly two thousand dollars was raised for Concordia scholarships during the event, and donations are still periodically coming in now, as the site is still active.
Our Lions Club here at Concordia is small, but has already proven to be creative, productive, and effective. Because of the huge student involvement, the money raised, the complete lack of money spent, and the scale of the event, we at the Concordia Lions Club safely consider Dickens Day 2012 a success. Whether it was recording promotional videos starring students, communicating with legends of Canadian literature, or connecting with local journalists (who eventually devoted an entire page spread to our event), social media proved instrumental in every step of our budget-less conquest.
The greatest lesson learned from the Dickens Day experiment is that a few good men, a camera, and the power of social media is all that's needed to defeat apathetic mentalities, get people involved, promote culture, and create community.

Connect

here is a link to a Video!
we all gotta watch! WATCH THe VP Academic is telling us to check this out!!!


Mr.Tkachyk not sure where you're going?..... Focusing on the community is priority number one! Who's this Beiber Kid, is he relevant? Cool.

We are having our first monthly meeting with the with our district Lions, All members should keep talking. It's gonna be the holidays soon, so let focus on that kind of stuff.
Families Rule! lol
Rock on this week readers.

Random thought

just a short post, completely random and stupid, but is it true if you hang out with someone enough you will sound like them. Because that is true for accents, say I was to move to Australia for a year or whatever; I would end up coming home with an accent. Anyways I'm posting this cause I saw a Macy's commercial for Black Friday with Justin Bieber in it and he sounds really deep voiced, and well frankly like he's black. Maybe he was just trying to cover-up his puberty voice for the camera I dunno, just thought I'd say. I don't mind his new hair either.

Our Mandate!

Concordia Lions Club is an on campus organization that exists to promote and support both Concordia and the greater community. Using relational service events such as activities on campus and in the surrounding community, we strive to encourage peace and promote a universal understanding of humanitarian needs. Through these tangible actions we aim to strengthen student bonding and ultimately expand our influence from Concordia's campus out into the global community. Our volunteers have a mandate to bring about change through the formation of personal relationships and provide assistance for those in need.

Administrative Structure
President:
- Organize the time and agenda for weekly meetings.
- Prepare goals for each meeting and delegate responsibilities to the members.
- Serve as the primary coordinator and point of contact!
Vice President:
- Assist President
- Take charge of a select number of activities.
- Act as stand-in for president.
- Oversee responsibilities delegated to others, assists, and supports as required.
Treasurer:
- Deposit finances appropriately.
- Record, process, and maintain accurate financial records.
- Keeps monthly and semi annual reports to be submitted to the international office and to the board of directors of the club.
Secretary:
- Record the minutes of all general meetings.
- Forward the minutes to all through the web site.
- Maintain communication with external institution.


4. Process of Administrative Election:
Administrators will be elected for service every fall semester by vote. Every member present at the election meeting will be able to vote. Administrators will be elected after obtaining a majority vote in his or her favor.

5. Protocol for Constitutional Amendments:
An amendment to the constitution will be made only in a 2/3rds majority vote in favor of the amendment during the general meeting.

Hey COncordians do you know this guy? http://www.harapnuik.org

Here is something we re posted from this Blog...harapnuik.org It's important that we all know our faculty! Check him out if you haven't already!He's an important person on our campus

http://ernstin.tumblr.com/ GO! It's a good way to see who he is!

This was offered up to us by a local super blogger, and he can do some decent tricks on a Snowboard! No Biggie! He goes to Concordia, he's a Lion check him out!
Ernstin



HEY Ernstin, is there anyway you can give us an understanding about how you feel about your surroundings, it's understood you live in the community around our school?

Just past The Starting point! I'm happy you're on the bus!

You guys, this is the starting point, there is really so much potential in our institution, my name is Jacob and I'm the President of a Club that's going to really help all of us grow. I can't wait to work with you and I want you all to know that I believe in this.....

Pelbo - Join Their Game from André Chocron on Vimeo.

oh and here is what we look like!

"For the secret of man is not to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had an abundance of bread."

- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Just a thought

What is fear?

Fear is ice.
Freezing every vein, artery, muscle
Turning life inanimate
to that of a statue.

We have been blessed with amazing technological progress - the spread of ideas, thoughts, values, has been made incredibly easy by the development of international post, television, radio and, even more so, Internet. Through social networking sites, business sites, etc, we have the full capability to express ourselves and influence humankind near and far.

So how come our relationships are taking a hit? Should we not be making progress in outreach with all these new-fangled tools at our fingertips?

The answer is fear. We are afraid to expose ourselves, to admit to the public that we, as individuals and collectives, have entirely different opinions on how to run things than our authorities, our parents, our educators. We are afraid to connect with each other. We are afraid to commit to change, to progress with knowledge.

If I know something is morally incorrect and have the ability to influence the reverse of what is taking place - who am I to ignore that which is corrupt? What kind of human being knows the suffering of others, watches the suffering of others, and does nothing? We have the capability to make a stand, to incorporate the knowledge we have gained and the resources placed before us to encourage a stronger standing community - local and global.

Change can be made so simple just be taking advantage of technology. We know what is wrong, so let's shout it out! Let's spread awareness, but not only that, let's take assertive action!

 - Yet fear holds us back. Crippling, confining fear.
How do we disable the dis-abler?

The renown "just do it" tactic is a must. We need to take risks to take a stand. Once we shove fear aside, we can reach out to our brethren. Then love, Perfect Love, God's Love, is free to work in our lives. His Love is so necessary to defeat fear. Only through God - God through us - can we find the root of terror, sever it, and jump-start society to get in gear and match the progress of technology.

But first, take the risk.

I am.


- Elysia M.

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends"
                                                                                                           John 15:13 NIV

Mission statment

Concordia Lions Club is an on campus organization that exists to promote and support both Concordia and the international community. Using relational service events such as activities on campus and in the surrounding community, we strive to encourage peace and promote a universal understanding of humanitarian needs. Through these tangible actions we aim to strengthen student bonding and ultimately expand our influence from Concordia's campus out into the global community. Our volunteers have a mandate to bring about change through the formation of personal relationships and provide assistance for those in need.