Margins Magazine - Volume 3 Issue 1
2020 has been a year of immense change and upheaval thus far, with our idea around what is normal challenged in the midst of a pandemic. In this midst of these volatile times, our team at Margins Magazine has come together to create Volume 3 Issue 1 of our publication, revolving around the theme of CHANGE. In this issue, our writers have worked hard to bring you pieces that critically discuss the realities of the current moment from advocacy effort across different fields to issues such as domestic violence and colourist. At #UTSC, we connect with Radio FWD and UTERN at UTSC to learn how campus groups are affected during the pandemic and how they are evolving their programming while staying connected with students. We’ve received amazing creative submissions from members of our local community and around the world that have allowed us to curate this issue with stories that truly represent the heart, soul, and pulse of the current times. Bringing together all these voices in Margins has been a true labour of love. We truly hope that the stories, words, and art within Margins resonate with you. Follow us on Instagram @wtcmargins & LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/margins-magazine!
2020 has been a year of immense change and upheaval thus far, with our idea around what is normal challenged in the midst of a pandemic. In this midst of these volatile times, our team at Margins Magazine has come together to create Volume 3 Issue 1 of our publication, revolving around the theme of CHANGE.
In this issue, our writers have worked hard to bring you pieces that critically discuss the realities of the current moment from advocacy effort across different fields to issues such as domestic violence and colourist. At #UTSC, we connect with Radio FWD and UTERN at UTSC to learn how campus groups are affected during the pandemic and how they are evolving their programming while staying connected with students.
We’ve received amazing creative submissions from members of our local community and around the world that have allowed us to curate this issue with stories that truly represent the heart, soul, and pulse of the current times.
Bringing together all these voices in Margins has been a true labour of love. We truly hope that the stories, words, and art within Margins resonate with you.
Follow us on Instagram @wtcmargins & LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/margins-magazine!
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RT: Especially if you're a UTSC student, once you're opted into our fees, you have a lot of free<br />
resources. You get a free hour in the studio and you can get training on broadcasting. You can [also]<br />
use our podcast room...there's a lot of things you have access to as a member. For non members, we<br />
do have a small fee but as a not-for-profit organization, we try to make sure that our fees are very<br />
low. Some of our audio production associates may operate on a sliding scale, so we try to make sure<br />
that communication is clear. We might have some job postings coming up and the job might even be<br />
remote because there's a lot of coordination going on still, so keep an eye out for that!<br />
Another great way to get involved is through our annual elections. As our own organization, we have<br />
a board of directors, students can apply and get votes to be elected as part of our board of directors.<br />
We have a president, vice president, treasurer, two student directors and a DJ representative. Board<br />
of Directors help make some executive decisions and plan for things. We have meetings on a regular<br />
basis to keep up to date on what we're working on and if there are proposals for new things. For<br />
example, the short film that we’re sponsoring came to us through someone reaching out to the board,<br />
which is great!<br />
voting platform. We are going to be launching artist scholarships so keep an eye out for that. We're<br />
going to be hosting radio host, content creator and music workshops. We hosted a workshop with DJ<br />
Sky Scream who showed beginners how to start DJing and provided helpful resources to attendees.<br />
We've also talked about bringing in a well known radio show host to speak to our radio show<br />
hosts about hosting shows and [sharing] their experience on it. We're trying to do more music and<br />
entertainment journalism on our website, we already have been doing things like artist profiles and<br />
we're still updating that and adding more as frequently as we can.<br />
We are asking writers to submit pitches and we have all the information available on our website.<br />
Anyone that's interested in writing, there is an email that you can send a pitch to. Varsha Ramdihol,<br />
our executive director, is a graduate in journalism so she helps with editing and revising pitches.<br />
She’s the person you would contact with regards to writing for Radio FWD. We have a writing<br />
program that we hope to establish media accreditation with so we can send our writers to big name<br />
events like an MMVA, Digital Dreams, VELD... A bunch of other music festivals and stuff that<br />
happen in the city. I know I've sent a writer to VELD. She got up close [and] got really up-close shots<br />
of Migos. She told me that it was such a great experience because once you have that media badge,<br />
you get to go right to the front of the line at music festivals. You don't have to be behind the fence<br />
like everyone else, you're in front of the fence with security and you get to take your pictures. But<br />
yeah, it [was] great training writers to do that before we rebranded and [I’m] really happy to do that<br />
all over again [with] new writers and teach them how to go to these events and get coverage on them.<br />
There's a lot that we support, even community efforts. We recommend everyone check out our<br />
website. If anyone has a project idea, event idea, a multi-media project that they feel could use<br />
some help with our equipment or could use a hand because [they’re] doing this by [themselves]<br />
or [they] could use some promotion or a platform to share [something]... we are more than open<br />
to collaborating with anyone in our community, especially students. All the information is on our<br />
website, radioFWD.com.<br />
ZH: Thank you so much for your time, Ramisa. Thank you so much for the insight you’ve given us<br />
[on] all the great things Radio FWD is working on and looking forward to. I'm very excited to hear<br />
about them and I'm sure the students coming in this new year will be as well, so thank you. Thank<br />
you so much for your time.<br />
RT: Thank you again for having me, I'm really glad.<br />
There you have it! It is great to see all the amazing things Radio FWD either has in the works or<br />
is working towards in the coming months! Make sure you check out their website and social media<br />
handles in order to stay in the loop and be a part of this great campus resource!<br />
Follow Radio FWD here:<br />
Follow Ramisa Tasfia here:<br />
ZH: It’s great to hear that so many things are in the works! How can interested students get<br />
involved with Radio FWD in the coming year? You've already mentioned some ways that they<br />
can but...<br />
radio_FWD<br />
radioFWD.com<br />
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