Happy Birthday, Natalia! With love from all of us here at The Public, and, of course, the man at Little India.
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It’s time for a fair Ontario!
We teamed up with our new friends at the Equal Pay Coalition to produce this infographic for equal pay day, which took place this year on April 9th. Equal Pay Day marks how far into the next year a woman must work to earn the same amount a mad made in the previous year. Through a series of actions leading up to and on the day, we hope to build a movement to help close the gap.
The graphic also ran in the Toronto Star article about the fight to closer the gender pay gap.
Happy 50th, Canadian Dimension!
In honour of 50 years of critical and progressive publishing, we were thrilled to team up with our friends at Canadian Dimension to produce this timeline poster series drawing from the themes and artwork from past issues. A set of posters was given as a retirement gift to Cy Gonick, CD’s founding editor, at his roast on March 23rd. We wish we could have been there!
Open Access allows free online access to publicly funded scholarly research and allows researchers to make their own work available for free. It’s a way of connecting our communities with valuable research. For the 2012/2013 Open Access week, we partnered with the Canadian Federation of Students to create on-campus posters that explain the issue and direct students to more information.
Lifetime of opportunity? Lifetime of debt.
We teamed up with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — Ontario Office, to develop this flyer with detachable bookmark that highlights disturbing trends in the cost of post-secondary education across the province. The piece is being used as a tool for discussion in a series of town halls in colleges and universities in Ontario.
As always, we’re thrilled to work with our pals at the CCPA on projects such as this that help spark discussion and hopefully call for change.
The new issue of Sex, Etc. is on the press! This issue, Boys will be boys, explores and challenges and myths and stereotypes about what it means to be a guy, and includes features that unpack masculinity, homophobia and double standards. As always, we are proud to be a part of this exciting publication, by teens, for teens.
Join our (rad) team!
Are you meticulous, organized, and passionate about bookkeeping? The Public is looking for a bookkeeper to keep us on track!
Company Description
The Public is an activist communications studio specializing in changing the world. We help organizations create social justice and public education campaigns that are appropriate to the communities they work within and that inspire meaningful change.
Bookkeeping Responsibilities
- Manage all bookeeping operations
- Keep all financial systems up-to-date
- Prepare, manage and execute monthly financial tasks outside of the office (eg. bank deposits)
- Create and track invoices
- Track payables and receivables
- Prepare and report monthly financial projections
- Oversee money-flow in a dedicated and efficient manner
Studio Level Responsibilities
- Manage mailing lists and CRM software
Required Skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Knowledge of Canada Revenue Agency’s monthly deductions
- Eye for detail
- Strong teamwork, communications, and interpersonal skills
- Anti-oppression analysis
- Proficient in Word and Excel
- Basic knowledge of database management systerms
Required Education/Experience
- Bookkeeping experience, and desire to learn more about finances and bookkeeping within the design industry
- Demonstrated experience managing numbers and budgets in a timely fashion
- Demonstrated experience working diligently on your own
- Demonstrated experience managing databases
Additional Assets
- Ability to read and/or speak second language
- Proficiency in InDesign and other Adobe software
- Knowledge in database systems Studiometry and FileMaker’s Bento
- Knowledge of MoneyWorks
Details
Job type: Part-time contract, March-August, 2013 with possibility of renewal
Experience: Entry level
Functions: Bookkeeping, Database
Industry: Advertising & Design
Compensation: $100/wk based on 5h/wk (paid training)
The Public is committed to anti-oppressive values, and preference will be given to applicants who self identify as experiencing oppression in terms of race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ability.
Please send questions, CVs and cover letters to work@thepublicstudio.ca. Deadline for applications is noon on February 27, 2013. Interviews will take place on March 1st, and we are looking for someone to start on March 4th.
The Public studio is celebrating Coco’s birthday!
Yesterday marked the anniversary of birth of our studio magical extraordinaire Coco Riot. We sneaked out to surprise this being with a colourful cake.
Happy birthday Coco, from your fam at The Public!
We launched a campaign today! Think Big/Start Small is a civic engagement campaign we spearheaded for YWCA Canada for young women 16-29, addressing issues around sexual and reproductive health, violence against women, economic equality, Indigenous solidarity, race and racism and environmental justice. If you are a young woman, or work with young women, I encourage you to join the site, download the toolkit, and organize an action for the Day of Big Change, happening March 1st, 2013 (one week before International Women’s Day).
Join the site, download the toolkit, take the quiz and organize an action! Think big. Start small. Change the world. Have fun doing it.
(Pictured above: English toolkit)
Big thanks to: Derek Hogue, Pam Kapoor, Maria Piñeros, Meg Pirie, Jessie Hale, Michelle Braid, Mari Sveen, Derek Aubichon and Malex.
“Tomorrow should be ours”
This past Friday, Sheila joined the crew at Oasis Skateboard Factory for the opening of their pop-up shop/show at the Baitshop. In addition to celebrating a year’s worth of work (custom skateboards, recycled everything, t-shirts, fingerboards), she was also thrilled to be there for the delivery of the new issue of Concrete Wave magazine, which features a sixteen-page insert by OSF.
Sheila guest-edited and designed the section, which was also turned into a zine (Slo_skate). Pick up a copy while you can and be sure to visit the Baitshop while the show is still on (Jan 25–Feb 7).
