Increase Your Visibility

Activities Night, taking place during the second week of school in September and January, is one of the SSMU’s largest events. At Activities Night, students of all years look to get involved on campus and find new passions and interests. It’s the place where nearly all of the 250+ student groups affiliated with the SSMU, as well as many external groups, gather under one roof!

Activities Night is an excellent opportunity for Service to showcase what they do and engage with students interested in joining their group.

When registration for Activities Night becomes available, the form will be sent out through the Service Listserv with all the logistics of the event. 

For questions about Activities Night, please contact the Vice-President (Student Life) at studentlife@ssmu.ca.

One of the most popular and powerful resources you have at your fingertips is your Service’s social media channels. They are free and can be used to reach current and potential members of your Service. Don’t hesitate to tag the SSMU Student Life Instagram @ssmustudentlife to help share your event!

The SSMU Listserv, sent out on a weekly basis, reaches nearly all undergraduate students at McGill. You can submit an event to be placed on the listserv by visiting the Listserv page.

Share your student group event on the SSMU Campus Calendar! The SSMU Calendar compiles all of the activities on and around campus.

To submit your event, please fill out the following form.

The SSMU website hosts a Services Listing on the SSMU website that includes all currently registered SSMU Services, allowing students interested in getting involved to see what groups are currently active. 

The Service blurb and links to your contact information comes from the information submitted by each Service in the Student Group Information Form, so groups who do not complete this form will not be included in the listing.

If you have already submitted a Student Group Information Form and want to update the content on your listing without resubmitting the entire form, please contact the Communications Coordinator at communications@ssmu.ca with the new blurb and social media links.

It’s important to consider these points when you prepare a promotional campaign for an event:

• Do not poster off campus.
• All posters for a Service event must include both the name of your Service as well as recognition that your Service is “a student group of the Students’ Society of McGill University”. 
• By law, posters cannot advertise alcohol or the prices of alcohol. To advertise for an event that may include a complementary alcoholic drink with the ticket price, you are required to advertise a free “beverage” with the ticket, instead of identifying the free drink as an alcoholic one.

Postering at the University Centre

• You can submit 2 posters to the Front Desk of the SSMU office (3600 McTavish, suite 1200) to have them displayed in the University Centre.
• You cannot hang posters for any commercial group external to McGill in the University Centre, including a commercial group that may be sponsoring your Service.

Postering on McGill Campus

Please note that postering in other buildings is subject to different regulations. Before displaying posters, make sure to check with the relevant staff.

West Side of campus

• University Centre – 3480 McTavish St (Drop your posters at the SSMU Office 3600 McTavish suite 1200)
• Leacock Building – 855 Sherbrooke St West (Get posters approved at the AUS)
• Arts Building – 853 Sherbrooke St W (Posters don’t require approval)
• Armstrong Building – 3420 McTavish St (Billboards located in the basement and 1st floor)
• Islamic Studies Library – 859 Sherbrooke St W (Billboards situated at the entrance)

North Side of campus

• New Chancellor Day Hall – 3644 Peel Street (Billboards located in the staircases, lobby and basement)
• Stewart Biology Building – 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave (Billboards located in the lobby between S1/4 and S1/3 and lobby of the North wing)
• McIntyre Medical Science Building – 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler (Billboards located on the 1st, 2nd and 5th floor.
• Education Building – 3700 McTavish St (Billboards are located near the library, in the EdUS lounge, in the main lobby near the elevators and on the 2nd floor).

South Side Campus

• Sherbrooke 688 – 688 Sherbrooke St W (Billboards located on the 2nd floor lobby)
• Residences: Contact Rez Life office.

Postering outside McGill Campus

Services cannot place flyers or posters on property owned by the City of Montreal, which includes telephone poles and street signs. Postering on city property could result in fines or legal action being taken against your Service!

Tabling at the University Centre

As an SSMU Service, you will receive: 5 hours per week

The tables are located on the first floor, next to the student lounge.Submit Your Request a minimum (7) business days in advance via the Virtual Event Management System (VEMS).

Tabling on McGill Campus

These are some of the buildings offering tables for students. The regulations of each building are different. Please contact the relevant staff to inquire about the reservation process. 

• McConnell Engineering
• AUS McGill (Leacock Lobby)
• McGill Library
• Brown Building
• Science Undergraduate Society (SUS Burnside)
• Residences

Zeffy is a FREE platform for ticketing and fundraising for non-profit organizations. Due to taxation regulations while selling tickets, the SSMU must oversee ticket sales and donations for student groups. This means the SSMU will create Zeffy pages for your events, handle the earnings collection from ticket sales, and deposit the amounts directly into your group’s bank account.

Fill out the SSMU Zeffy Request Form;

For more information about ticketing and instructions, please visit the Organizing Events page of the website.