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UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us for an unforgettable day of excitement and exploration at our highly anticipated orientation event! Embark on an exhilarating scavenger hunt, navigating through various campus locations, solving riddles, and unlocking clues that will unveil hidden treasures. Immerse your taste buds in a vibrant culinary journey, as we bring you a delectable array of multicultural food, representing the diverse flavours of our community. And that's not all! Stand a chance to win exciting prizes throughout the event, adding an extra element of thrill to the festivities. Mark your calendars and get ready for an immersive experience filled with adventure, delicious delights, and fabulous rewards!

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We had the opportunity to collaborate with our University's Career, Co-Op & Student Success Centre to host "LIR Career Night" to discover the various routes our LIR degree can take us! The conversations we had with our guest speakers, Sachi Kikuchi and Dr. Nancy Adossi, were both valuable and insightful for us to see our course theories being put into practice in a professional setting 💼 🌎	❄️Winter Welcome & Fridge Donations ❄️ event happened on Thursday, January 19th from 5 to 8 PM at the Arts Lounge (POD 394). All students enjoyed snacks & refreshments provided by the LIRCU😊 For fridge donations, all attendees were encouraged to bring at least two items* to later be donated to Community Fridges Toronto (Instagram: @cf___to).	Part II of our Grad Workshop pt. II with Dr. Dana Osborne was joined by a special guest, TMU Professor at the department of Creative Industries, Dr. Lorena Escandón! She shared her personal experience pursuing her post-graduate studies in Lunds Universitet (Sweden 🇸🇪)! Her unique perspective helped guide students' journey to grad school from an international perspective 🌍
The "LIRCU Chit-Chat: About Grad School with Dr. Dana Osborne." is our first Grad School Workshop of the semester! We were joined by our own LLC Department professor, Dr. Dana Osborne along with recent TMU alumni, Sze Yan!	French For All x LIRCU's: Paint the World 🌎🎨 was a collaboration between the LIR Course Union and French For All to meet fellow students & show off their creativity! 🧑🏼‍🎨	The LLC department held an event in collaboration with Zygg E-bikes, who offered 4 prizes of a 2-week free subscription to their E-bike rental service 🚴
Thank you to everyone that attended our 1st session of "How RAD is GRAD?" with Dr. Osborne! Keep an eye out for future sessions on our social media pages 👀	It was super fun meeting all of familiar and new faces at our Borderless Buddies event! We hope to see you in our other events in this upcoming year 🤩	Thank you so much for joining us today at our first mixer — filled with lots of fun and passion! We hope you were able to meet new people, practice your Spanish/English, and have a great time! We look forward to seeing you at our future mixers! 😉
	🌃🌃Thank you for joining our Foreign Short Film night!💡💡 🎭📽This hour was packed with short films curated by our very own LIR students, from many different countries, cultural contexts, and languages📽🎭 Challenge the media that you are accustomed to and break into the entertainment worlds of places different from your own!	THIRD EPISODE OF OUR LANGUAGE EXCHANGE SERIES 🌍 We are so glad many of you enjoyed it so don’t worry — we will host another one again! We would love to have you and learn more about your cultures and languages. With love, the LIRCU Team ❤️ ✨
We will be regularly uploading videos to our Youtube channel that will provide you with some guidance on how to get by! We already have five videos up, so don’t forget to go check them out! And also let us know if they were helpful!	February is Black History Month and the LIRCU is excited to celebrate! Every Sunday we made and posted content praising Black excellence from across all boards! 🤎🤎🤎	SECOND EPISODE OF OUR LANGUAGE EXCHANGE SERIES 🌍 Hopefully you had as much fun as we did 🥳 Thank you so much once again and надеемся увидеть вас в следующий раз! ! With lots of love, the LIRCU team!
Exam season is coming up quicker than we know it, and so, we compiled all the resources from Cite Nite that you'll need for three different styles (APA, Chicago, and MLA) Click to find access to these resources and let us know if they were helpful!	FIRST EPISODE OF OUR LANGUAGE EXCHANGE SERIES 🌍 🇰🇷 We are so grateful that so many of you came, especially to our folks joining live from South Korea when it’s Lunar New Year there! Thank you so much to all of you for joining and 새해 복 많이 받으세요! With lots of love, the LIRCU team!	In the spirit of Valentine’s day, the LIR Course Union was excited to present the Intercultural Dating Simulation! This was such an excellent opportunity to learn more about interculturalism and the intricacies of it when navigating it in your personal, romantic lives. Thank you everyone who joined us with Dr. Gerd Hauck at the Intercultural Dating Simulation!
We put together a panel featuring three professors and a graduating student to speak about their field of work, the concentrations, and anything LIR-program related. Concentrating on Concentrations FAQ is a Q&A styled event that was held live on Monday, November 30th from 6-8pm. Special thanks to Dr. Osborne, Dr. Pelkey, Dr. Zafra and graduating student, Nikita Sankreacha for offering their time to help us out!	The LIRCU presents its first social night, Game Night at Howl’s! A movie and games night where participants along with the LIRCU team watched Howl's Moving Castle, a favourite of the Studio Ghibli films. The film is produced in Japanese and was viewed with English subtitles. Thank you to everyone that came!

UPCOMING EVENTS

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The "LIRCU Chit-Chat: About Grad School with Dr. Dana Osborne." is our first Grad School Workshop of the semester! We were joined by our own LLC Department professor, Dr. Dana Osborne along with recent TMU alumni, Sze Yan!

French For All x LIRCU's: Paint the World 🌎🎨 was a collaboration between the LIR Course Union and French For All to meet fellow students & show off their creativity! 🧑🏼‍🎨

The LLC department held an event in collaboration with Zygg E-bikes, who offered 4 prizes of a 2-week free subscription to their E-bike rental service 🚴

Thank you to everyone that attended our 1st session of "How RAD is GRAD?" with Dr. Osborne! Keep an eye out for future sessions on our social media pages 👀

It was super fun meeting all of familiar and new faces at our Borderless Buddies event! We hope to see you in our other events in this upcoming year 🤩

Thank you so much for joining us today at our first mixer — filled with lots of fun and passion! We hope you were able to meet new people, practice your Spanish/English, and have a great time! We look forward to seeing you at our future mixers! 😉

THIRD EPISODE OF OUR LANGUAGE EXCHANGE SERIES 🌍 We are so glad many of you enjoyed it so don’t worry — we will host another one again! We would love to have you and learn more about your cultures and languages. With love, the LIRCU Team ❤️ ✨

We will be regularly uploading videos to our Youtube channel that will provide you with some guidance on how to get by! We already have five videos up, so don’t forget to go check them out! And also let us know if they were helpful!

February is Black History Month and the LIRCU is excited to celebrate! Every Sunday we made and posted content praising Black excellence from across all boards! 🤎🤎🤎

SECOND EPISODE OF OUR LANGUAGE EXCHANGE SERIES 🌍 Hopefully you had as much fun as we did 🥳 Thank you so much once again and надеемся увидеть вас в следующий раз! ! With lots of love, the LIRCU team!

Exam season is coming up quicker than we know it, and so, we compiled all the resources from Cite Nite that you'll need for three different styles (APA, Chicago, and MLA) Click to find access to these resources and let us know if they were helpful!

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