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Your Words Matter To Us


Inception: The Writing and Open Mic Event began in June 2019 and has been continuing since. The bi-monthly booklet started in December 2019



Your Words Matter To Us


Who are we:
Your words Matter To Us is a student-led program that supports people of all various ages in their
professional and personal development.
We offer monthly writing, and open mic events, and create a bi-monthly magazine
called Words Touch Souls.


Goal:
We wish to foster a community where people can be their most authentic selves.
They will able to shed light on their endeavours, topics of passions, political events and global issues.
They will be able to promote themselves and their organizations as well.
We hope to provide people with:
-Education
-Self-expression
-Community
-Recognition
-Inspiration
-Awareness 


Our support


-South Surrey Recreation Center
-Crescent Choir
-Simple generosity
-Federation of Bc Writers
-Pandora’s Collective


How to get involved
1.Attend our events and submit your work to our magazine. 
2. You can gain updates about our events by joining our mailing list, and our social media group chats.
3.Under the “current event section” you can find zoom links to our upcoming events, and under
“recent events” you can gain insight to what we are about.
4.Please also see our sponsorship package in this link
Please check out this link for all this information and more:


Contact/link:
Instagram: yourwordsmattertous
Facebook:yourwordsmattertous


Writing:


Description:
Bring some writing work to share, and receive friendly suggestions and constructive feedback.
You will have 10 minutes to share something, and later will be provided feedback.
You will also have the opportunity to do the same for others and gain inspiration from their work.


Who:
People of all ages, and all skill levels are welcome


This event occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, at the South Surrey Recreation Center (14601 20 Ave, Surrey, BC V4A 9P5) in room mp6 

Open mic:


Description:
You will have the opportunity to shed light on your passions, hobbies, political events and global
issues.You can sing, dance, crack jokes, share your artwork, advocate on a topic of interest
or promote yourself.
Each person will have ten minutes to do this.


Who:
People of all ages and all skill levels are welcome. We also welcome people to just watch and enjoy
the show!

This event occurs on the 4th Wednesday of the month, at the South Surrey Recreation Center (14601 20 Ave, Surrey, BC V4A 9P5) in room mp6 

Words Touch Souls


Description:
Words Touch Souls is a platform for people to promote their work, receive recognition and get
published. You can promote yourself, your organizations, your endeavours, and shed light on
topics of interest such as political and global events. We accept up to 3 poems and 1000
word articles/stories, and artwork.
We are also happy to interview people for our magazine
Please submit all work to skarthik.study@gmail.com in the form of a pdf, and have the subject as
“Submissions”. Once our magazine is created you will be contacted and have the opportunity to share
your work on our IGTV as well


Who:
People of all ages, and passions can submit their work



How can you support us?
As a sponsor, you could assist us with some of the following:
-Marketing through social media platforms/website and word of mouth/posters about the program
-Posting and informing customers of the Writing and Open Mic Event dates, as well as the submission deadline for “Words Touch Souls”
-Posting pictures/Info from the event

*All information will be provided, and simply requires organizations to post/advertise to support these events
Optional:  Any grants provided, will go towards the advertising/marketing and printing costs for the event and its booklets respectively.

Benefits
  • Advertise your organization to all its attendees every meeting
  • Share posters and other marketing material for your organization around the community and at the event
  • Encourage / support attendees to sign up for your organization's membership and events



Please fill out this form if you are interested:
https://forms.gle/LTUoyeoS5ZxkBf3WA
Please email: skarthik.study@gmail.com in case of any inquiries or suggestions.



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