The third-year physical education student is excited to help build upon the momentum PERKS has been building over the last few years.

“We want to provide more professional development opportunities, maintain and upgrade student spaces, and continue to be a voice for FKRM students,” says Thomson.

Thomson will take over the PERKS presidential reins from Courtney Gabrielle, whose term as president ends in May.

Here’s a complete list of re-elected and new members of the PERKS Council for 2018-19:

President – Cayden Thomson
VP Physical Education – Matt Trudeau
VP Kinesiology – Kailegh Tod
VP Athletic Therapy – Ryan Singh
Secretary – Katya Mackling
Treasurer – Shannon Kleysen
Event Coordinator – Jared Gabrielle
Physical Education Rep – Braden Zborowsky
Kinesiology Rep – Kaitlyn Tymko
Athletic Therapy Rep – Shanlyn Parkhil
Recreation Rep – Madison WIlford
UMSU/Senate Rep – Amanada Slagerman
Fundraising Chair – Evan Krocker
Professional Development – Laura Lynn Brinkman
Recreation Rep – Janelle Bohunicky
VP Recreation Rep- Jenny Unrau

Tod, 20, is coordinating a screening of Embrace, a 2016 Australian documentary film that, according to its Netflix description, “is a crusade to shed negative body images and body shaming to create a new way of perceiving our bodies.”

She’s paying the $300 licensing fee out of her own pocket to have the documentary play at Park Theatre (698 Osborne St.) Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m.

Kaileigh Tod

The third-year Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management student has a passion for spreading positive body image messaging, often sharing her thoughts on the topic via her social media feeds.

She says she’s received plenty of positive feedback from others—often from people she doesn’t know—about the body image messages she’s sharing.  

“I get DMs from girls telling me how much my messages and thoughts help them. That’s very encouraging for me,” says Tod.

She’s taking things a step further by hosting the Embrace screening, a film she finds “inspiring and empowering.” Tod hopes the documentary will help continue the conversation around body image, and spark connections amongst people identifying with the topic.

“Every one of us, men and women, live with a body image issue of some sort, including myself,” she adds.  

The event is free and doors open at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Tod will also be accepting donations for Willow Place, a Winnipeg women and children’s emergency shelter.

There will be 30 minutes after the show where people can chat and discuss the film, topic, and connect with like-minded people.

The Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management provides a Supervised Fieldwork Experience as an opportunity to enhance our students’ education and professional growth. Fieldwork is a professionally supervised placement during the fall university term of full-time (35 hours per week) experiential learning within a recreation, fitness, health or sport-related organization/agency. Fieldwork provides eligible students with an opportunity to apply knowledge gained in academic courses and exposure to new concepts of professional practice in Kinesiology and Recreation Management.

Since September, Courtney has been the Volunteer Services and Special Events Intern at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. She did an exceptional job during her Instagram takeover.

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-Who’s there?

-FKRM graduation!

Want to hear better jokes than that? You won’t want to miss New York City comic Eliot Chang perform his stand-up show Wednesday, Dec. 6 at Rumor’s Restaurant and Comedy Club.

The Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation’s student council, PERKS, are selling tickets to this highly anticipated show to raise money for the class of 2018’s graduation gala affair.

Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at the PERKS council lounge or by contacting student council president, Courtney Gabrielle [ gabrielc@myumanitoba.ca ]. You can also send PERKS a message on Instagram or Twitter [ @perkscouncil ].

Deadline to buy your tickets is Wednesday, Nov. 29.