TRIP is looking for some fine, creative individuals interested in promoting safer partying to Toronto’s electronic music communities. If you’re interested in sex, drugs, partying, community, culture, beatz, activism, sharing knowledge and providing information, or if you simply want to HELP OUT, get on the list for our Fall Volunteer Training Sessions (Hurry! They start this September!).

Volunteers will receive FREE training in:

Harm Reduction Philosophy

Dance Drugs 101

HIV Awareness & Sexual Health

Sexual Diversity

Cultural Diversity

Basic Counseling/Crisis Intervention

How to Handle Drug-Related Emergencies

CPR

PLUS, get to provide information at parties and be involved in exclusive TRIP activities!

To get on the list for the upcoming training sessions,
simply email [email protected] or call 416-504-6131

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The TRIP! Project is a grassroots, community health initiative that provides safer drug use and safer sex information and supplies to Toronto’s diverse electronic music communities. For more info on the project and the services TRIP! provides, go to: www.torontoraverinfoproject.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

i'd like to check this out if i didn't have school ..

TRIP you guys have done a fine job over the years .. it's too bad that there's no iDance 2003 this year , i was really looking forward to being able to party it up with the TO massive again with your support..

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Palm Trees > Pine Trees , Sand > Snow

In an unrelated story (but somewhat related):

The guy who ran the Edmonton version of this type of charity was arrested to possession of a substance with intent to traffic (or some similarily worded charge) a few years back. Foolio....

On a related subject:

TRiP is a good group - but they just not enough financial support from the community. Harm Reduction is the way to go. TRiP should hand out flyers like I've seen the DanceSafe people do at parties in No-Cali or offer pill testing at the raves like the DanceSafe people do in No-Cali (who knows the legal ramifications of this in Canada).

Perhaps next TA event (whatever it may be) someone should setup a donation box - so when you're done spending your $3 on coat check you can drop your toonie into a box for TRiP. Any fundraising that could be done for them is good in my books.

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- rabbit.joker [funny¿rabbit] | www.rabbitjoker.com |www.ddtt.org

Dark Dirty Tech Tribal. | Hands in air (trance) and feet on the floor (house).

Last edited by rabbitjoker on Aug-26-2003 at 01:56

hey thanks for the support...

TRIP works really hard to serve the community, but with the scene so large and fragmented, it is hard for us to be everywhere and do everything. We totally need and rely on support from the community to keep us going, this includes financially. While we do receive money from the City to keep going, it is really only enough to hire a few staff at minimal hours to organize and coordinate the outreach that we do at parties. We would LOVE to be able to print fancy flyers like dancesafe, but we havent anything in our budget that would allow us to do so. If there were some community fundraising going on, we could totally do it....there is a place in Burlington that prints 5000 postcards for $275, which is a steal...and we already have the info written so it is a matter of covering printing costs. Let us know if you have any ideas!

Re: pill testing, we currently cannot provide this service at parties because our funders (City of Toronto Public Health) do not support it. And with good reason, the tests do not provide substantial information on the substance, such as purity and potency. They will only tell you what the main ingredient is in the pill, and only if it is one of the 3 or so that it can accurately identify. The city also has to consider what the general public would say about users testing their drugs, and generally speaking, they do not like to tread in such hot water. So, for now, we have brought testing kits to NUMB where they are being sold, and not through our project, although we helped to bring them into toronto. They are $25 a pop, so go pick one up!

Thanks for all your support!
Erin, TRIP! Coordinator
[email protected]
416-703-8482x125

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Originally posted by TRIP there is a place in Burlington that prints 5000 postcards for $275, which is a steal...and we already have the info written so it is a matter of covering printing costs. Let us know if you have any ideas!

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Lets say it's $300 taxes included.

I'd think the TAs could round up $300 to help out TRiP. After 1 or 2 events of people dropping their coat change into a box, or even a straight donation system - TRiP would have enough to get some cards printed.

So people: how do you think we could get some cards printed out for these guys???

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- rabbit.joker [funny¿rabbit] | www.rabbitjoker.com |www.ddtt.org

Dark Dirty Tech Tribal. | Hands in air (trance) and feet on the floor (house).

setup a box
ill donate 5 bucks even...

get a kegger going they always bring in some nice money...u can make it a community kegger just leave the kegs on my front porch ..no but honestly u should throw a party or something to make some money...it doesnt have to be a great huge party it could be something smalll like even a small carnival charge admission and then have stands and stuff make a lil coin then print ur flyers and flyer away

BIG UP TRIP!


Glad to see you guys around still! All I gotta say is "Back in dayz ..."