Live from the Toronto Youth Priority Symposium!

We are live from the Hart House at the University of Toronto.  Feel free to participate in our live streaming coverage of tonight’s Mayoral Debate. You can also tweet about the event using the hashtag #typs.  Thank you for participating!

Click Here for the Live Stream (Will open in a new window)

58 seats left!

Last day to register for the event if you haven’t done so. We look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow!

5 Top Priorities for the Symposium

After receiving your responses via email and blog posts, these are the 5 themes that the questions will be centred around for the discussion portion of the symposium (7:00pm-8:30pm). We will be asking general questions pertaining to the following 5 themes and allowing audience responses after the candidates answer.

For questions that do not fall under these 5 themes, this does not mean they are not important! Please bring all your questions and ideas as the mayoral candidates will be available to meet and greet all of you between 5:30pm-7:00pm during the marketplace.

Themes:

1) Community Safety and Investing in Priority Neighbourhoods

2) Affordable Housing

3) Youth unemployment and Job Skills Support

4) Diversity in Leadership

5) Transportation and the Complete Streets Policy

There are only 76 tickets left and 21 hours left to register. We look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday!

Creative Visioning at the Symposium!

The TYPS team is excited to have a videographer, graphic recorder, and photographer at the event this Thursday! Come and see the work of the talented young persons right here in our city!

Reilly Dow, the graphic recorder will be supporting YOU in expressing your vision for your city by illustrating your thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Please visit the graphics table during the first half of the event (5:30pm-7:00pm) to be part of the vision. As a graphic recorder, Reilly’s work with groups and organizations helps them share complex ideas more easily and reach new levels of understanding. She uses visuals to weave concepts together as she listens in on important conversations. See examples of her work at www.pinkfish.ca.

Michael Lehan is a freelance multimedia journalist whose work has appeared on CBC.ca and on VisionTV. Michael will be supporting us in facilitating your vision for the city on camera! Through a ‘Speakers Corner’ style format, your ideas and recommendations for the new mayor of Toronto will be compiled into a short video to showcase youth priorities. Please visit his booth for an opportunity to shape the youth vision for your city! For a look at Michael’s talents and services, please go to www.lehan.ca.

Tali Spivak will be our photographer for the event. She will be documenting the whole event from the marketplace to the debate. If you would like photos from the event, please contact the TYPS team at typsinfo@gmail.com in order to connect with the photographer. Don’t forget to smile!

The marketplace component starts at 5:30pm and you will have a more intimate opportunity to approach the mayoral candidates. The discussion/debate will start at 7:00pm and end at 8:30pm. There is only 1 day and 19 hours left to register for the symposium. Please click here if you have not yet registered. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Registration is Open!

The Toronto Youth Priority Symposium will be held on Thursday, September 2nd, from 5:30pm-8:30pm, at the University of Toronto’s Hart House in the Great Hall. 

Space is limited, so please register here to reserve a seat take part in the Toronto Youth Priority Symposium.