Diane Burke, along with her daughter Jenna Burke (who is an Aboriginal Student Mentor with Mawi'omi and in her fourth year at UPEI) will give a talk on the Residential School System and its impact on families & relationships. Diane's mom, Jenna's grandmother, attended the Shubenacadie Residential school. This promises to be a very meaningful and important conversation. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Full Mental Health Week Schedule

Come out to your campus pub, The Wave, and enjoy some mental health-based trivia! Questions are a mix of pop culture and clinically based. It's going to be a great time! Full Mental Health Week Schedule

What determines a healthy relationship? Have you ever worried that you are in an unhealthy relationship? What are the warning signs to look for? Can you make a long distance relationship work? Join Marion Clorey from Student Affairs and Richelle Greathouse from the International Relations Office for a brown bag lunch and chat on this important topic. Full Mental Health Week Schedule

Our minds and bodies need rest and recovery breaks to allow us to relax and reduce the effects of stress. This seminar will show participants how to make time to calm down and reduce stress, using both proactive and reactive relaxation technique. Space is limited so please sign up before March 9. If you would like to attend the session, please pre-register by contacting Glenda Burgoyne by email at gburgoyne@upei.ca or telephone 902-566-0605. Full Mental Health Week Schedule  

The UPEI Mental Health Week Committee presents 2015 Juno Award winner, singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan who will share her stories and songs as we come together to celebrate mental health and the relationships that matter in our lives. FREE TICKETS can be picked up at Student Affairs from March 3 - 10, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm (while they last; initially limited to two per person, unlimited after Wednesday, March 9). Goodwill offering at the door to support UPEI Mental Health Week. This event is sponsored by the UPEI Alumni Association. Full Mental Health Week Schedule

The event will feature a safe-listening and non-judgemental environment where various students, staff and faculty members will share their stories and encounters with mental illness. These stories will provide us with an opportunity to learn, care, and be inspired to help ourselves and those around us living with mental illnesses, and remind us all, that relationships matter. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome to attend! Full Mental Health Week Schedule

AVC students, Pre-Vets, and UPEI students, faculty, and staff are invited to a board game night - complete with snacks! Bring your own games, or play one of ours. Brought to you by the Society of Atlantic Veterinary Students (SAVS).

The School of Nursing would like to invite the University community to a research presentation which will be given by Prof. Patrice Drake, BSc, RN, MN, candidate for a tenure track position in Nursing. Prof. Patrice Drake will present "Coming together:  Discovering the narrative of nurses providing care of women experiencing miscarriage". The presentation will take place on Friday, March 11 from 1:40-2:20 p.m. in room 213, SDU Main Building.

UPEI Global Village and Gala brings together students from various ethno-cultural groups in an effort to build a more comprehensive working model of the area's cultural mosaic. The event will be an opportunity to bring together domestic and international students to collaborate, promote, explore and learn about each other's cultural backgrounds in an interactive and engaging way. The Global Village and Gala will also be an opportunity to celebrate and have fun. Activities include: talent show, cultural presentations, games, raffle prizes, fashion show, musical performances and dance.

The Island Studies Lecture Series continues Tuesday, March 22, with a lecture by Jim Randall entitled "Learning About Islands: Writing an Undergraduate Textbook in Island Studies." The talk gets under way at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus. Islands have been incredibly important in how we understand the world around us. From our knowledge of evolution, biodiversity, the impacts of climate change, world music, and how adventure novels have influenced our tourist destination choices, islands and islanders have been front and centre. This talk is about one mainlander’s journey to discover the importance of islands, and his attempt in the form of a new textbook to convey his new-found love of our world of islands to others.  Dr. Jim Randall is the Coordinator of the MA Island Studies program at UPEI and the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Island Studies. His background is as a geographer, a field like island studies where it is important to have a passion for place and interdisciplinarity. Although he has had the pleasure of calling an island his home for only a few years, he looks forward to reaching the age of 106 so he can celebrate having lived on islands longer than on the mainland. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend.