Upcoming Dates and Challenges!
Hello everyone!
September is starting soon and I bet for a lot of us it is back to school time (even for me - I’ll be moderating online classes even though this is my first year not going back to school since kindergarten!). Even if this is normally a time of excitement for some of us, this year has an extra level of anxiety and uncertainty attached.
I thought I’d try to alleviate that with something to look forward to every month. Between September and December, I will try to release a monthly prompt you can use to create and share works with the IAMP / PC fandom. There is no obligation to participate and no deadline, this is just for fun.
That said, here are a few rules:
1. Please use discretion when dealing with sensitive topics or recent events. As a general rule in the broader Hetalia fandom, if you are not sure about whether something is inappropriate or “too soon”, it probably is and is best left alone.
2. Be kind to each other! Even a small supportive comment could make someone’s day. If a creator asks for critique, please give it! If they do not, try to comment on something you enjoy about their work instead!
3. As always, have fun first: you can follow the prompts without sharing, you can create a piece that is unfinished or silly, you can try to challenge yourself and reach outside of your comfort zone, whatever most pushes you to create!
The prompt for September is... LEAF!
Flowers and trees have leaves of course (while hockey jerseys might have “Leafs” instead), but one might also leaf through papers or a good book, and if leaf in French is “feuille” isn’t a millefeuille cake fair game as well...?
And finally, here’s a short list of some events in Canadian history for us to reflect on. This is by no means an exhaustive timeline, just a few dates of national or provincial importance I thought were interesting!
Birthdays and Events
Sep 1: Alberta and Saskatchewan - the prairie provinces entered confederation on this day in 1905 (which means they have been provinces for 115 years this week!)
Sep 6: On this day in 1952, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio-Canada first launched in Montreal
Sep 11: On this day in 2001, Gander, NL hosted thousands of people whose flights were diverted from the United States. This event would inspire the musical Come From Away.
Sep 14: The Forest Reserve that would become Jasper National Park was established on this day in 1907
Sep 20: Some (but not all) women won the right to vote in Canada in 1917 on this date. Some (but not all) women had won this right provincially years before!
Sep 27: Vancouver’s famous Stanley Park, which later would become a Canadian National Historic Site, was opened on this day in 1888
Sep 28: Canada won a historic victory in hockey during their eighth and final game of the Summit Series against the USSR this day in 1972
Sep 29: Alouette is Canada’s first satellite launched into space, making Canada the third country after the USSR and the United States to do so
That’s all for now, I’ll be back at the end of the month to get ready for October! If these next four months are successful, I’ll consider bringing the challenge into 2021!
Hapo
