Event Ideas

All fired up about an issue? Ready to rally your peers to learn more or take action? This is the fun part! BElow are some ideas to get you started…

• Start a conversation: Organize a guest speaker to foster conversation around a current issue. You probably have lots of fascinating and engaging speakers already on your campus – from other students to professors to community members.
• Screen a film: Movies and documentaries are great tools for inspiring dialogue and action. Borrow a film from the AIDemocracy film library and sponsor a screening as part of a class or event.
• Share a meal: Bring together people from different backgrounds to share food and drink! This is a great way to build relationships in your community, which is key for taking action later on.
• Help others: Organize a day of service to help others in your community in their time of need, highlighting our inherent interconnectedness.
• Organize a conference: Bring your peers together to talk about key issues through panels and workshops over the course of a day or a weekend. Your university will probably love (and sponsor) the idea. We can help you think about format and speakers.
• Make a scene: Raise awareness around an issue you care about in a loud and fun way. Organize a flash mob. Get everyone to sing a song in class. Do something engaging and visible, and people will notice.
• Get fancy: Organize a fundraising dinner or mocktail party to bring people together to discuss an important issue. People like to dress up and have fun, and it will be easy to grab their attention for 10 or 15 minutes to talk about why everyone has come together. This is a great way to build support for other actions down the road.
• Get artsy: Invite an artist or musician to share his/her works on campus. The arts are a powerful way to dissect issues you care about.
• Organize an advocacy day: Want more funding for foreign assistance? Want your local government to start a recycling program in your community? Get a bunch of people together to go talk to the people that have the power to give you what you want!
• Other ideas: pajama party, training workshop, benefit concert, activity fair, sporting event, theater, poetry night, talent show…
• (Insert Idea Here): Got an idea for an event that’s not listed here? Great! We’d love to hear it and we’re ready to help you make it happen! And we’ll add it to this list. Email us at opportunities@aidemocracy.org