Radio Special: Bad Poetry Finale on Radio is Dead!
Tuesday, February 4th, 2:00pm
CKUT 90.3 FM
The Best of the Weirdest: Bad Poetry Finale on Radio is Dead
Tune into Radio is Dead on Monday, February 4th from 2 to 3 pm for the long awaited finals of ckuts Bad Poetry Competition. Hear the best of the embarrassing, the angry and the confusing poetic creations that our listeners dared to share with the world! Get inspired and submit your wok to culture@ckut.ca for the next round a year from now.
General Meeting/Dinner: Organic Campus!
Tuesday, February 4th, 6:00pm until 7:30pm
Midnight Kitchen (3rd Floor of SSMU -3480 Rue McTavish)
Join us for a warm, delicious and vegetarian meal at Organic Campus' first general meeting of the semester!
On the agenda:
-Discussing the future of OC
-Creating a mandate
Working out a new volunteer schedule
The goals and objectives of Organic Campus are currently in transition so now is the perfect time to participate in this process! As of right now, we are exploring the potential for Organic Campus to become a food co-op similar to le Frigo Vert from Concordia (http://www.lefrigovert.com/). OC is looking for a core group of volunteers passionate about local/organic/affordable produce and committed to the realization of this longer term vision. We much appreciate your input as students, staff and faculty, and community members of what you would like OC to look like in the future.
FREE
Screening: PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE - with filmmakers & artists in attendance
Tuesday, February 4th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Concordia University, Room H110
As the wealth divide and environmental crises grip public awareness, the world is finally catching up to the vision and ideas of two artist/activists who make work for social change. Inspired by their playful wit and visual innovations, PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE intimately captures Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge as they create provocative staged photographs about the environment, the rights of workers and the current global financial crisis.
cinemapolitica.org/concordia
ellengallery.concordia.ca
DONATIONS
Yoga: Espace Pop
Tuesday, February 4th, 5:00pm until 6:00pm
Espace POP. 5587 Avenue du Parc
Low key, open to everyone, pay what you can yoga classes Tuesday evenings from 5-6 pm at Espace Pop starting February 5th! Espace Pop is a non-profit community event space in the Mile-End, located at 5587 avenue du Parc. Space is limited, so please arrive a few minutes before 5 pm to get settled in. Please bring your own mat!
Offering an accessible, easy going, community oriented yoga class for everyone. Whether you're trying yoga for the first time, looking to add another class to your schedule or simply looking for a reason to get out, move, breathe and relax.
More information:jordan.nardone@gmail.com
DONATIONS
Community Meal: Golden Square Mile Vegan Adventure!
Tuesday, February 5th, 7pm
Location TBA after tickets are purchased
Dishcrawl is putting its steaks, seafood, and cheese aside for this all-vegan dishcrawl in Montreal's happenin' Golden Square Mile. This is a great sampler for omni-carni-vores seeking to try out new delights, and a wicked smorgasbord for our leaf loving foodies!
It's a guessing game! We’re keeping the names of the restaurants we will be visiting a secret for now, but here and there we’ll give you some hints. Follow us on Twitter @Dishcrawlmtl and be the first to know!
Where to Meet Us: All ticket holders will be notified of meeting location via email, 48 hours prior to the event. Questions?: Contact me! I'm Jenny, your Montreal Dishcrawl Ambassador! My email is jennyk@dishcrawl.com.
About Dishcrawl: Food, Fun, and Exploration! We here at Dishcrawl aim to provide you with a premier culinary social experience by bringing together neighborhood restaurants, local chefs, regional food producers and fellow food enthusiasts. Join us if you'd like to embark on a one-of-a-kind gastronomic adventure!
Panel Discussion: 30 Years of Inequality: Indigenous Peoples & The Charter of Rights & Freedoms
Tuesday, February 5th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Samuel Bronfman Center
In light of the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Concordia will be hosting a panel discussion on the Charter and its impact upon indigenous peoples in Canada.
Throughout its 30 years of existence, the Charter helped navigate the country's position on Aboriginal rights and the Indian Act. In this event, the panelists will discuss the Charter's ineffectivity or effectivity in regards to Aboriginal rights.
Starting at 6:00, there will be presentations, as well as an question period. Refreshments will follow.
FREE
Screening: Cinema Politica McGill presents: Liberty, Equality, Accommodation
Tuesday, February 5th, 6:00pm
Leacock 15, 855 Sherbrooke West
This week we're very excited to present a very special film. "Liberty, Equality, Accommodation" follows the question of 'reasonable accommodation' which took Quebec by storm in February 2007 with the publication of a pamphlet telling immigrants that in Canada, " women were not to be excised, stoned or burned alive." The subsequent Bouchard-Taylor Commission forced Quebec to look long and hard at its policies about immigrants and what it means to be different.
We're very pleased to have two very special guests as well, the film's director, Stefan Nitoslawski, and Professor Norman Cornett. Professor Cornett you may remember came and spoke at our screening last year of the documentary in which he stars (details found here: www.cinemapolitica.org/film/professor-norman-cornett-when-do-we-divorce-right-answer-honest-answer" ) There will be snacks provided.
DONATIONS
Theatre: TNC Presents "Hosanna"
Wednesday, February 6 at 8:00pm until February 16 at 11:00pmTuesday Night Cafe Theatre, 3485 McTavish Street
"Who cares what you look like, it's what you feel that counts..."
Hosanna is a drag queen from another era, long before Gender Identity Disorder was removed from the DSM (oh wait...), unsure about her queerness, her place in the demi-monde of Montreal, and the roles she must play with her husband Cuirette. Hosanna's story is that of an individual in a constant state of self-fashioning, fluctuating between poles of existence in an attempt to land on the naked truth of who they "really" are. But it's a love story too, and follows, over the course of a single fateful Halloween evening in 1973, two queers who seem to have the immense power to inspire change in each other.
TICKETS: $6 students/seniors; $10 general, RESERVATIONS: email tnc.foh@gmail.com
Workshop/ Crafternoon: Stamp Making
Thursday, February 7th, 1:00pm
Concordia University Greenhouse
This week we'll be making stamps from string and/or hot glue guns!
As per usual I will be providing all of the materials, but I STRONGLY SUGGEST that you bring an image you want to turn into a stamp. Will come in handy for the following **crafternoon experience**, but also for everyday life!
DONATIONS
Workshop: Mask-Making (A Plan Nord and Panda-monium pre-party)
Thursday, February 7th, 2:00pm until 6:00pm
QPIRG | GRIP McGill, 3647 University Street, 3rd Floor
Come to a QPIRG open house and make masks! Folks will be on hand to answer questions, explain the history and issues surrounding this weekend's Forum on Natural Resources. We can talk about what has been happening to resist the destruction of northern territories and what we can do next. https://www.facebook.com/events/124816917688020/?ref=14
FREE
Art Opening: EXTASE
February 6th to February 28th, Erotic Opening Thursday February 7th 5hPM to11hPM
USINE 106U, 160 Roy E.
USINE 106U is happy to convey you to the opening of the torrid erotic exhibition EXTASE presenting the artwork of 30 visual artists: Mark Prent, Eric Braün, Winky, Jean-Martin (Raven), Mimi Traillette, Gypsy Death, Yves Milet-Desfougères, René Donais, Daniel Erban, Scott Ferry, Xavier Landry, Sébastien Forest, Claude Bolduc, Away, Alexis, Mariève Blais-Richer, Olivier Blot, Cathou Lemire, Martin G. Blanchette, Alexandra Cuellar, Gabrielle Morin, Jean-Francois Labelle, Sylvie Rancourt, Cindy Beuhlah, Toly, Ginette J. Bouchard, Jolanta Sokalska, Layla Folkmann, Lacey Jane and John Lanthier. Hallucinogenic paintings, textiles works, disquieting kinetic sculptures, erotic etchings, original drawings, trash plush toys, surrealist jewelry other fascinating curiosities will massively take over the space. The exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 160 Roy E. from February 6th to February 28th 2013, and the erotic opening will be held on Thursday February 7th from 5hPM to 11hPM. Opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from noon to 6hPM. www.usine106u.com
FREE
Panel Discussion: City Farm School 2013 Launch and Small Scale Intensive Farming
Thursday, February 7th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Concordia University EV building (1515 St. Catherine W.) - Room 1.615
We will present the details for the 2013 CFS curriculm (registration now open), as well as host our friends in a discussion on their farming operations, how and why they have chosen to work at the small scale intensive model.
Panelists: - Curtis Stone - Owner and operator of Green City Acres urban, pedal powered farm in Kelowna BC http://www.greencityacres.com/
- Sam Oslund - Farmer for Santropol Rolants Peri-urban farm, Senneville, Quebechttp://santropolroulant.org/site/what-we-do/urban-agriculture/our-gardens/
- Jean Martin Fortier - Owner and operator of La Grelinette, St.Armand, Quebec http://lagrelinette.com/
More info: https://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/cfs-launch-2013-event/
FREE
Drink and Draw
Thursday, February 7th, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Fabergé, 25 Fairmount Ouest
Come join us February 7th for Fabergé's second Drink and Draw of 2013.
We will be showing old school cartoons to light up your nostalgic creativity. As always bring your sketch pads, pencils, friends, and your lovely selves.
FREE/ Drinks
Manifestation: Demonstrate against the Plan Nord
Friday, February 8, 12:00pm Square Victoria
Coinciding with the: Forum on Natural Resources at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal*
Last April, the capitalists of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce organized a grand exhibition of the destruction of northern territories, the Forum on the Plan Nord. Rather untastefully, they are re-doing it this year, under the slogan "rediscover the Forum on Natural Resources". The pillagers are gathering. Sponsored largely by mining (Osisko) and tar sands (Enbridge), the profiteers are preparing the assimilation of indigenous communities into their industrial framework, and into their large-scale destruction of the wild.We act in solidarity with all communities resisting this development model that is imposed on them, in the North as in the South, and with the indigenous defenders in opposition, from the Innu of Nitassinan, to Cree dissidents, and those from all other nations. Alongside them, and in defense of the earth, we will be in the street to disrupt their forum on February 8th!
Workshop: LOVE YOU MAKE SÉRIE
FRIDAY VENDREDI, Feb 8th 5-8pm at Le Milieu, 1251 Rue Robin AND
SUNDAY DIMANCHE, Feb 10th 11-2pm at Boutique Poeme, 5687 boul Saint-Laurent
Delve deep into the art of felt-making in this workshop open to students of all skill levels. Create love-inspired keepsakes from natural wool fibres, essential oils, embroidery floss & ribbons by needle felting. Suggested donation $5-10. Please note that additional fibres, needles and kits will be available for purchase at the end of the workshop. Contact your hostess, fiberalley, for more information at astrialli[at]yahoo.ca
Plonger en profondeur dans l’art du feutrage dans cet atelier ouvert aux étudiants de tous niveaux. Créer des souvenirs d’amour-inspiré de fibres de laine naturelle, huiles essentielles & rubans par aiguille à feutrer. Don suggéré de 5 -10$. Veuillez noter que les kits, aiguilles et fibres supplémentaires serons disponibles à l’achat à la fin de l’atelier. Communiquer avec votre hôtesse, fiberalley, pour plus d’informations, astrialli[at]yahoo.ca
Seed Fair: Seedy Weekend 2013
Saturday and Sunday, February 9 at 10:00am until February 10 at 4:00pmMontreal Botanical Garden, 4101, rue Sherbooke Est
Heritage seed sale and exchange festival.
FREE
Workshop: SPIN Farming with Curtis Stone
Saturday, February 9, 10:00am until 5:00pm
Concordia University MB Building (1450 Guy) Room S2.285
Learn how the SPIN-Farming system, which is now being practiced by a growing corps of farmers across Canada and the U.S., can be used to create a high-income producing farm or improve your current operation. SPIN is the first organic-based production system for land bases under an acre in size, and it can be implemented by aspiring and practising backyard, front lawn and neighbourhood lot farmers everywhere. All you need is to equip yourself with the right gear and a radically new understanding of what it means to be a farmer.
Cost: $50, or $40 current and former CFS students. You MUST REGISTER to attend.
RSVP to concordiagreenhouse@gmail.com
More info: http://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/spin-farming-workshop/
$50
Free School: FREESKOOL FEVRIER + Sarah Jackson
Saturday, February 9, 10:00am until 10:00pm
Coop Sur Genereux 4518 ave Papineau
Coop sur Genereux presents Freeskool fevrier followed by a musical performance by Sarah Jackson!
Freeskool is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy or the institutional environment of formal schooling. By acknowledging that we are all learners, and rejecting the notion of infallible experts and authorities, we wish to create a learning environment in which all participants learn from each other. In addition, we encourage participants and attendees to propose their own future sessions to present at Freeskool. Regardless if you have extensive experience in your field of interest or just wish to open a dialogue on a particular topic, we are willing to work with and help you develop workshops that foster egalitarian and empowering learning spaces and relationships.
10.30h-12h - Workshop 1 Sexism and Action: combating sexism and homophobia through feminist/queer theory perspectives.
12h-13h - Dîner/Lunch
13h-14.30h - Workshop 2 - Theatre of the Oppressed: games and exercises to help put anti-oppression theory into practice.
14.45h-16:15h - Workshop 3- Physics 101: Energy and nuclear reactors (fission and fusion), impacts of radioactivity on the environment and technocratic manipulations.
16.30h-18h - Workshop 4 - Basics of Fermentation: the benefits and methods of creating living, healthy foods in your home.
20h-22h - Sarah Jackson and her accordion, musical set
All workshops will be conducted in English and French with whisper translation. Home-made lunch from dumpster-dived food will be provided.
FREE
Live Drawing: Endless avec/with Desdemona von Minx, M.E.L. & Safa
Saturday, February 9, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
MainLine Theatre, 3997 St-Laurent Blvd.
Session #67 - Endless
Dr. Sketchy Montreal invites you to its next event: Endless. This year will mark the 25th anniversary of The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman and we wanted to mark the occasion with a session inspired by The Endless. We invite you to come draw three of the Endless, incarnated by Desdemona von Minx, M.E.L. and Safa. The schedule will be adjusted to accommodate multiple models. Furthermore, you will have the chance to win an entrance to the exclusive Art Workshop "Colors & Composition" with Nathan Fowkes being held March 2, courtesy of our sponsor Rhino & Peacock.
Don’t forget your sketchbook.
$10
Solidarity Across Borders: Winter Feast Community Dinner
Saturday, February 9, 6:00pm until 10:00pm, Dinner starts at 6:30pm (sharp!)
Café L’Artère, 7000 avenue du Parc
Solidarity Across Borders is a migrant justice network in Montreal resisting deportations and detentions. Join us for an evening of tasty food, good company and shared struggles for justice and dignity. Learn more about current outreach and mobilization efforts demanding Status for All and building networks of mutual aid and support for a “Solidarity City”.
Childcare and kids activities on-site. Bring your children. Food and drinks (both meat and vegetarian dishes). If you can bring food to share, please get in touch! DJs, music, speakers and more!
Accessibility: The main space of Café L’Artère is wheelchair accessible with a ramp for entry. However, washrooms are not fully accessible (assistance will be required).
Please get in touch for accessibility needs (solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com or 438-933-7654)
www.solidarityacrossborders.org
FREE
Anticapitalist Assembly and Brunch (10 février, 23 mars, 13 avril)
Sunday, February 10, 11:00am until 5:00pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, 7th floor
The Assembly is called by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and open to all anti-capitalists. The assembly will create a space free of the constraints imposed by the capitalist system, allowing new possibilities to emerge!
-NEWCOMERS: if you are new to the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), you are encouraged to arrive no later than 12:30pm, for an introduction before the start of the assembly.
-BRUNCH & POTLUCK: you are encouraged to bring food to share for the brunch at 11am
-INFO-TABLES: anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian groups, projects and initiatives are strongly encouraged to bring their information materials to the assembly where we will be setting up several info-tables; if you can’t attend, you can leave your materials at QPIRG Concordia (1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204. Please confirm via info@clac-montreal.net if you're going to be bringing info for our info-tables.
WELCOME TO:
- students who see the capitalist system in its entirety, including the imposition of austerity measures, as the root of the current crises;
- members of neighborhood assemblies who share an anti-capitalist analysis and autonomous practice in their struggles against gentrification;
- workers who fight against the erosion of labour rights as part of a broader class war;
- Indigenous peoples fighting for self-determination and identify with the anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movement ;
- immigrants who refuse to be commodities traded across borders and disposed of when no longer needed;
- all who see through the false promises of capitalism, who don't believe in a 'democracy' that takes place once every four years, all who resist austerity
- Whisper translation available (French to English) during the assembly.
- The assembly location is accessible to wheelchairs.
- If you need on-site childcare, contact us at least 48 hours in advance
INFO: www.clac-montreal.net info@clac-montreal.net
FREE
Workshop: Urban sustainability skills and systems design
Saturday February 9th, from 10 to 3 (bring a lunch)
The Ceilidh (Centennial Centre, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue)
Interested in urban sustainability skills and systems design? Come to an all-day workshop with Scott Kellogg
of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center: community-based sustainable solutions. Scott is an experienced teacher, activist, ecological designer, and father. He is currently earning a Masters in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Topics will include:
* Aquaponics
* Microlivestock
* Rainwater harvesting, greywater filtration, and urban hydrology
* Low-intensity bioremediation using plants, fungi and bacteria
* Beekeeping and silkworms
* Microgreens production, raised bed gardening, and perennial food systems
* Bioshelters, greenhouses, and season extension techniques
* Kitchen culture: apartment-scale sustainability
* Reconciliation ecology: promoting biodiversity in the city
* Vertical and rooftop farming
* Autonomous energy: veggie oil vehicles, methane digesters, and bicycle electric generators
* Ecological micro-economies
* mushroom inoculation: take home a bag of edible oyster mushrooms to grow!
Free!
For more information on the Radix center and Scott, visit http://radixcenter.org/
Montreal Mandal and Sacred Geometry Art Workshop at NHC
Saturday, February 9, 10:00am
The NHC Institute 370 St-Viateur West, #3
Led by Shannon Brown, Eastern Townships’ artist and educator, this 3-part series of workshops will engage our imagination using expressive arts, visualization, dreams and story. These workshops will introduce you to techniques you can use in your daily life to awaken your innate creativity, nurture your healing potential and foster personal and global transformation. No previous experience necessary. This weekends workshop is by donation! Materials included.
Saturday February 9th - MANDALAS AND SACRED GEOMETRY
~The very nature of creating a mandala is therapeutic and symbolic. We start this session with a discussion on the history, imagery and application of mandalas and sacred geometry, then we will create of our own piece of mandala art.
Saturday March 2nd-VISUAL STORYTELLING
Visual Story Telling is a creative process used to enhance and acknowledge the life of our stories by creating images and artworks inspired by them. Working with the ideas of Carl Jung and his theory of Active Imagination we are able to understand the narrative in new ways and in turn understand more about ourselves.
Saturday April 13th-THE ART OF DREAMING
~By paying creative attention to them, our dreams can be a treasure trove of imagery, patterns and healing possibilities. Through the use of visualization we will enter into our dream worlds and learn to deepen our experience and playfully engage the messages we find.
**Saturdays, 10 AM - 3 PM, By Donation (materials included) Max 8 participants
http://nhcinstitute.com/programs/workshops/visionary-arts/
www.shannonbrownstudio.com
Vegan Soup Potluck and Documentary Screening
Sunday, February 10, 4:45pm until 10:30pm
5495 rue Saint Urbain
Bring any soup or stew, dessert or drinks and your appetite and join us for an evening of amazing vegan food and fellowship. Come show off your vegan culinary skills and enjoy everybody else's delicious contribution, but please make sure that everything you bring is vegan (that also means things should be free of honey).
16:45 - Doors open
17:15 - Movie Begins
19:15ish - Dinner begins
Documentary will be announced soon. Come for the movie, come for the potluck, or come for both.
You're welcome to use our kitchen to prepare your contribution :)
Be sure to come early so you don't miss out on any of the great dishes!
FREE (bring a dish)
Tuesday, February 4th, 2:00pm
CKUT 90.3 FM
The Best of the Weirdest: Bad Poetry Finale on Radio is Dead
Tune into Radio is Dead on Monday, February 4th from 2 to 3 pm for the long awaited finals of ckuts Bad Poetry Competition. Hear the best of the embarrassing, the angry and the confusing poetic creations that our listeners dared to share with the world! Get inspired and submit your wok to culture@ckut.ca for the next round a year from now.
General Meeting/Dinner: Organic Campus!
Tuesday, February 4th, 6:00pm until 7:30pm
Midnight Kitchen (3rd Floor of SSMU -3480 Rue McTavish)
Join us for a warm, delicious and vegetarian meal at Organic Campus' first general meeting of the semester!
On the agenda:
-Discussing the future of OC
-Creating a mandate
Working out a new volunteer schedule
The goals and objectives of Organic Campus are currently in transition so now is the perfect time to participate in this process! As of right now, we are exploring the potential for Organic Campus to become a food co-op similar to le Frigo Vert from Concordia (http://www.lefrigovert.com/). OC is looking for a core group of volunteers passionate about local/organic/affordable produce and committed to the realization of this longer term vision. We much appreciate your input as students, staff and faculty, and community members of what you would like OC to look like in the future.
FREE
Screening: PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE - with filmmakers & artists in attendance
Tuesday, February 4th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Concordia University, Room H110
As the wealth divide and environmental crises grip public awareness, the world is finally catching up to the vision and ideas of two artist/activists who make work for social change. Inspired by their playful wit and visual innovations, PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE intimately captures Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge as they create provocative staged photographs about the environment, the rights of workers and the current global financial crisis.
cinemapolitica.org/concordia
ellengallery.concordia.ca
DONATIONS
Yoga: Espace Pop
Tuesday, February 4th, 5:00pm until 6:00pm
Espace POP. 5587 Avenue du Parc
Low key, open to everyone, pay what you can yoga classes Tuesday evenings from 5-6 pm at Espace Pop starting February 5th! Espace Pop is a non-profit community event space in the Mile-End, located at 5587 avenue du Parc. Space is limited, so please arrive a few minutes before 5 pm to get settled in. Please bring your own mat!
Offering an accessible, easy going, community oriented yoga class for everyone. Whether you're trying yoga for the first time, looking to add another class to your schedule or simply looking for a reason to get out, move, breathe and relax.
More information:jordan.nardone@gmail.com
DONATIONS
Community Meal: Golden Square Mile Vegan Adventure!
Tuesday, February 5th, 7pm
Location TBA after tickets are purchased
Dishcrawl is putting its steaks, seafood, and cheese aside for this all-vegan dishcrawl in Montreal's happenin' Golden Square Mile. This is a great sampler for omni-carni-vores seeking to try out new delights, and a wicked smorgasbord for our leaf loving foodies!
It's a guessing game! We’re keeping the names of the restaurants we will be visiting a secret for now, but here and there we’ll give you some hints. Follow us on Twitter @Dishcrawlmtl and be the first to know!
Where to Meet Us: All ticket holders will be notified of meeting location via email, 48 hours prior to the event. Questions?: Contact me! I'm Jenny, your Montreal Dishcrawl Ambassador! My email is jennyk@dishcrawl.com.
About Dishcrawl: Food, Fun, and Exploration! We here at Dishcrawl aim to provide you with a premier culinary social experience by bringing together neighborhood restaurants, local chefs, regional food producers and fellow food enthusiasts. Join us if you'd like to embark on a one-of-a-kind gastronomic adventure!
$60
Panel Discussion: 30 Years of Inequality: Indigenous Peoples & The Charter of Rights & Freedoms
Tuesday, February 5th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Samuel Bronfman Center
In light of the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Concordia will be hosting a panel discussion on the Charter and its impact upon indigenous peoples in Canada.
Throughout its 30 years of existence, the Charter helped navigate the country's position on Aboriginal rights and the Indian Act. In this event, the panelists will discuss the Charter's ineffectivity or effectivity in regards to Aboriginal rights.
Starting at 6:00, there will be presentations, as well as an question period. Refreshments will follow.
FREE
Screening: Cinema Politica McGill presents: Liberty, Equality, Accommodation
Tuesday, February 5th, 6:00pm
Leacock 15, 855 Sherbrooke West
This week we're very excited to present a very special film. "Liberty, Equality, Accommodation" follows the question of 'reasonable accommodation' which took Quebec by storm in February 2007 with the publication of a pamphlet telling immigrants that in Canada, " women were not to be excised, stoned or burned alive." The subsequent Bouchard-Taylor Commission forced Quebec to look long and hard at its policies about immigrants and what it means to be different.
We're very pleased to have two very special guests as well, the film's director, Stefan Nitoslawski, and Professor Norman Cornett. Professor Cornett you may remember came and spoke at our screening last year of the documentary in which he stars (details found here: www.cinemapolitica.org/film/professor-norman-cornett-when-do-we-divorce-right-answer-honest-answer" ) There will be snacks provided.
DONATIONS
Theatre: TNC Presents "Hosanna"
Wednesday, February 6 at 8:00pm until February 16 at 11:00pmTuesday Night Cafe Theatre, 3485 McTavish Street
"Who cares what you look like, it's what you feel that counts..."
Hosanna is a drag queen from another era, long before Gender Identity Disorder was removed from the DSM (oh wait...), unsure about her queerness, her place in the demi-monde of Montreal, and the roles she must play with her husband Cuirette. Hosanna's story is that of an individual in a constant state of self-fashioning, fluctuating between poles of existence in an attempt to land on the naked truth of who they "really" are. But it's a love story too, and follows, over the course of a single fateful Halloween evening in 1973, two queers who seem to have the immense power to inspire change in each other.
TICKETS: $6 students/seniors; $10 general, RESERVATIONS: email tnc.foh@gmail.com
Workshop/ Crafternoon: Stamp Making
Thursday, February 7th, 1:00pm
Concordia University Greenhouse
This week we'll be making stamps from string and/or hot glue guns!
As per usual I will be providing all of the materials, but I STRONGLY SUGGEST that you bring an image you want to turn into a stamp. Will come in handy for the following **crafternoon experience**, but also for everyday life!
DONATIONS
Workshop: Mask-Making (A Plan Nord and Panda-monium pre-party)
Thursday, February 7th, 2:00pm until 6:00pm
QPIRG | GRIP McGill, 3647 University Street, 3rd Floor
Come to a QPIRG open house and make masks! Folks will be on hand to answer questions, explain the history and issues surrounding this weekend's Forum on Natural Resources. We can talk about what has been happening to resist the destruction of northern territories and what we can do next. https://www.facebook.com/events/124816917688020/?ref=14
FREE
Art Opening: EXTASE
February 6th to February 28th, Erotic Opening Thursday February 7th 5hPM to11hPM
USINE 106U, 160 Roy E.
USINE 106U is happy to convey you to the opening of the torrid erotic exhibition EXTASE presenting the artwork of 30 visual artists: Mark Prent, Eric Braün, Winky, Jean-Martin (Raven), Mimi Traillette, Gypsy Death, Yves Milet-Desfougères, René Donais, Daniel Erban, Scott Ferry, Xavier Landry, Sébastien Forest, Claude Bolduc, Away, Alexis, Mariève Blais-Richer, Olivier Blot, Cathou Lemire, Martin G. Blanchette, Alexandra Cuellar, Gabrielle Morin, Jean-Francois Labelle, Sylvie Rancourt, Cindy Beuhlah, Toly, Ginette J. Bouchard, Jolanta Sokalska, Layla Folkmann, Lacey Jane and John Lanthier. Hallucinogenic paintings, textiles works, disquieting kinetic sculptures, erotic etchings, original drawings, trash plush toys, surrealist jewelry other fascinating curiosities will massively take over the space. The exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 160 Roy E. from February 6th to February 28th 2013, and the erotic opening will be held on Thursday February 7th from 5hPM to 11hPM. Opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from noon to 6hPM. www.usine106u.com
FREE
Panel Discussion: City Farm School 2013 Launch and Small Scale Intensive Farming
Thursday, February 7th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Concordia University EV building (1515 St. Catherine W.) - Room 1.615
We will present the details for the 2013 CFS curriculm (registration now open), as well as host our friends in a discussion on their farming operations, how and why they have chosen to work at the small scale intensive model.
Panelists: - Curtis Stone - Owner and operator of Green City Acres urban, pedal powered farm in Kelowna BC http://www.greencityacres.com/
- Sam Oslund - Farmer for Santropol Rolants Peri-urban farm, Senneville, Quebechttp://santropolroulant.org/site/what-we-do/urban-agriculture/our-gardens/
- Jean Martin Fortier - Owner and operator of La Grelinette, St.Armand, Quebec http://lagrelinette.com/
More info: https://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/cfs-launch-2013-event/
FREE
Drink and Draw
Thursday, February 7th, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Fabergé, 25 Fairmount Ouest
Come join us February 7th for Fabergé's second Drink and Draw of 2013.
We will be showing old school cartoons to light up your nostalgic creativity. As always bring your sketch pads, pencils, friends, and your lovely selves.
FREE/ Drinks
Manifestation: Demonstrate against the Plan Nord
Friday, February 8, 12:00pm Square Victoria
Coinciding with the: Forum on Natural Resources at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal*
Last April, the capitalists of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce organized a grand exhibition of the destruction of northern territories, the Forum on the Plan Nord. Rather untastefully, they are re-doing it this year, under the slogan "rediscover the Forum on Natural Resources". The pillagers are gathering. Sponsored largely by mining (Osisko) and tar sands (Enbridge), the profiteers are preparing the assimilation of indigenous communities into their industrial framework, and into their large-scale destruction of the wild.We act in solidarity with all communities resisting this development model that is imposed on them, in the North as in the South, and with the indigenous defenders in opposition, from the Innu of Nitassinan, to Cree dissidents, and those from all other nations. Alongside them, and in defense of the earth, we will be in the street to disrupt their forum on February 8th!
Workshop: LOVE YOU MAKE SÉRIE
FRIDAY VENDREDI, Feb 8th 5-8pm at Le Milieu, 1251 Rue Robin AND
SUNDAY DIMANCHE, Feb 10th 11-2pm at Boutique Poeme, 5687 boul Saint-Laurent
Delve deep into the art of felt-making in this workshop open to students of all skill levels. Create love-inspired keepsakes from natural wool fibres, essential oils, embroidery floss & ribbons by needle felting. Suggested donation $5-10. Please note that additional fibres, needles and kits will be available for purchase at the end of the workshop. Contact your hostess, fiberalley, for more information at astrialli[at]yahoo.ca
Plonger en profondeur dans l’art du feutrage dans cet atelier ouvert aux étudiants de tous niveaux. Créer des souvenirs d’amour-inspiré de fibres de laine naturelle, huiles essentielles & rubans par aiguille à feutrer. Don suggéré de 5 -10$. Veuillez noter que les kits, aiguilles et fibres supplémentaires serons disponibles à l’achat à la fin de l’atelier. Communiquer avec votre hôtesse, fiberalley, pour plus d’informations, astrialli[at]yahoo.ca
Seed Fair: Seedy Weekend 2013
Saturday and Sunday, February 9 at 10:00am until February 10 at 4:00pmMontreal Botanical Garden, 4101, rue Sherbooke Est
Heritage seed sale and exchange festival.
FREE
Workshop: SPIN Farming with Curtis Stone
Saturday, February 9, 10:00am until 5:00pm
Concordia University MB Building (1450 Guy) Room S2.285
Learn how the SPIN-Farming system, which is now being practiced by a growing corps of farmers across Canada and the U.S., can be used to create a high-income producing farm or improve your current operation. SPIN is the first organic-based production system for land bases under an acre in size, and it can be implemented by aspiring and practising backyard, front lawn and neighbourhood lot farmers everywhere. All you need is to equip yourself with the right gear and a radically new understanding of what it means to be a farmer.
Cost: $50, or $40 current and former CFS students. You MUST REGISTER to attend.
RSVP to concordiagreenhouse@gmail.com
More info: http://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/spin-farming-workshop/
$50
Free School: FREESKOOL FEVRIER + Sarah Jackson
Saturday, February 9, 10:00am until 10:00pm
Coop Sur Genereux 4518 ave Papineau
Coop sur Genereux presents Freeskool fevrier followed by a musical performance by Sarah Jackson!
Freeskool is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy or the institutional environment of formal schooling. By acknowledging that we are all learners, and rejecting the notion of infallible experts and authorities, we wish to create a learning environment in which all participants learn from each other. In addition, we encourage participants and attendees to propose their own future sessions to present at Freeskool. Regardless if you have extensive experience in your field of interest or just wish to open a dialogue on a particular topic, we are willing to work with and help you develop workshops that foster egalitarian and empowering learning spaces and relationships.
10.30h-12h - Workshop 1 Sexism and Action: combating sexism and homophobia through feminist/queer theory perspectives.
12h-13h - Dîner/Lunch
13h-14.30h - Workshop 2 - Theatre of the Oppressed: games and exercises to help put anti-oppression theory into practice.
14.45h-16:15h - Workshop 3- Physics 101: Energy and nuclear reactors (fission and fusion), impacts of radioactivity on the environment and technocratic manipulations.
16.30h-18h - Workshop 4 - Basics of Fermentation: the benefits and methods of creating living, healthy foods in your home.
20h-22h - Sarah Jackson and her accordion, musical set
All workshops will be conducted in English and French with whisper translation. Home-made lunch from dumpster-dived food will be provided.
FREE
Live Drawing: Endless avec/with Desdemona von Minx, M.E.L. & Safa
Saturday, February 9, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
MainLine Theatre, 3997 St-Laurent Blvd.
Session #67 - Endless
Dr. Sketchy Montreal invites you to its next event: Endless. This year will mark the 25th anniversary of The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman and we wanted to mark the occasion with a session inspired by The Endless. We invite you to come draw three of the Endless, incarnated by Desdemona von Minx, M.E.L. and Safa. The schedule will be adjusted to accommodate multiple models. Furthermore, you will have the chance to win an entrance to the exclusive Art Workshop "Colors & Composition" with Nathan Fowkes being held March 2, courtesy of our sponsor Rhino & Peacock.
Don’t forget your sketchbook.
$10
Solidarity Across Borders: Winter Feast Community Dinner
Saturday, February 9, 6:00pm until 10:00pm, Dinner starts at 6:30pm (sharp!)
Café L’Artère, 7000 avenue du Parc
Solidarity Across Borders is a migrant justice network in Montreal resisting deportations and detentions. Join us for an evening of tasty food, good company and shared struggles for justice and dignity. Learn more about current outreach and mobilization efforts demanding Status for All and building networks of mutual aid and support for a “Solidarity City”.
Childcare and kids activities on-site. Bring your children. Food and drinks (both meat and vegetarian dishes). If you can bring food to share, please get in touch! DJs, music, speakers and more!
Accessibility: The main space of Café L’Artère is wheelchair accessible with a ramp for entry. However, washrooms are not fully accessible (assistance will be required).
Please get in touch for accessibility needs (solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com or 438-933-7654)
www.solidarityacrossborders.org
FREE
Anticapitalist Assembly and Brunch (10 février, 23 mars, 13 avril)
Sunday, February 10, 11:00am until 5:00pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, 7th floor
The Assembly is called by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and open to all anti-capitalists. The assembly will create a space free of the constraints imposed by the capitalist system, allowing new possibilities to emerge!
-NEWCOMERS: if you are new to the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), you are encouraged to arrive no later than 12:30pm, for an introduction before the start of the assembly.
-BRUNCH & POTLUCK: you are encouraged to bring food to share for the brunch at 11am
-INFO-TABLES: anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian groups, projects and initiatives are strongly encouraged to bring their information materials to the assembly where we will be setting up several info-tables; if you can’t attend, you can leave your materials at QPIRG Concordia (1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204. Please confirm via info@clac-montreal.net if you're going to be bringing info for our info-tables.
WELCOME TO:
- students who see the capitalist system in its entirety, including the imposition of austerity measures, as the root of the current crises;
- members of neighborhood assemblies who share an anti-capitalist analysis and autonomous practice in their struggles against gentrification;
- workers who fight against the erosion of labour rights as part of a broader class war;
- Indigenous peoples fighting for self-determination and identify with the anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movement ;
- immigrants who refuse to be commodities traded across borders and disposed of when no longer needed;
- all who see through the false promises of capitalism, who don't believe in a 'democracy' that takes place once every four years, all who resist austerity
- Whisper translation available (French to English) during the assembly.
- The assembly location is accessible to wheelchairs.
- If you need on-site childcare, contact us at least 48 hours in advance
INFO: www.clac-montreal.net info@clac-montreal.net
FREE
Workshop: Urban sustainability skills and systems design
Saturday February 9th, from 10 to 3 (bring a lunch)
The Ceilidh (Centennial Centre, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue)
Interested in urban sustainability skills and systems design? Come to an all-day workshop with Scott Kellogg
of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center: community-based sustainable solutions. Scott is an experienced teacher, activist, ecological designer, and father. He is currently earning a Masters in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Topics will include:
* Aquaponics
* Microlivestock
* Rainwater harvesting, greywater filtration, and urban hydrology
* Low-intensity bioremediation using plants, fungi and bacteria
* Beekeeping and silkworms
* Microgreens production, raised bed gardening, and perennial food systems
* Bioshelters, greenhouses, and season extension techniques
* Kitchen culture: apartment-scale sustainability
* Reconciliation ecology: promoting biodiversity in the city
* Vertical and rooftop farming
* Autonomous energy: veggie oil vehicles, methane digesters, and bicycle electric generators
* Ecological micro-economies
* mushroom inoculation: take home a bag of edible oyster mushrooms to grow!
Free!
For more information on the Radix center and Scott, visit http://radixcenter.org/
Montreal Mandal and Sacred Geometry Art Workshop at NHC
Saturday, February 9, 10:00am
The NHC Institute 370 St-Viateur West, #3
Led by Shannon Brown, Eastern Townships’ artist and educator, this 3-part series of workshops will engage our imagination using expressive arts, visualization, dreams and story. These workshops will introduce you to techniques you can use in your daily life to awaken your innate creativity, nurture your healing potential and foster personal and global transformation. No previous experience necessary. This weekends workshop is by donation! Materials included.
Saturday February 9th - MANDALAS AND SACRED GEOMETRY
~The very nature of creating a mandala is therapeutic and symbolic. We start this session with a discussion on the history, imagery and application of mandalas and sacred geometry, then we will create of our own piece of mandala art.
Saturday March 2nd-VISUAL STORYTELLING
Visual Story Telling is a creative process used to enhance and acknowledge the life of our stories by creating images and artworks inspired by them. Working with the ideas of Carl Jung and his theory of Active Imagination we are able to understand the narrative in new ways and in turn understand more about ourselves.
Saturday April 13th-THE ART OF DREAMING
~By paying creative attention to them, our dreams can be a treasure trove of imagery, patterns and healing possibilities. Through the use of visualization we will enter into our dream worlds and learn to deepen our experience and playfully engage the messages we find.
**Saturdays, 10 AM - 3 PM, By Donation (materials included) Max 8 participants
http://nhcinstitute.com/programs/workshops/visionary-arts/
www.shannonbrownstudio.com
Vegan Soup Potluck and Documentary Screening
Sunday, February 10, 4:45pm until 10:30pm
5495 rue Saint Urbain
Bring any soup or stew, dessert or drinks and your appetite and join us for an evening of amazing vegan food and fellowship. Come show off your vegan culinary skills and enjoy everybody else's delicious contribution, but please make sure that everything you bring is vegan (that also means things should be free of honey).
16:45 - Doors open
17:15 - Movie Begins
19:15ish - Dinner begins
Documentary will be announced soon. Come for the movie, come for the potluck, or come for both.
You're welcome to use our kitchen to prepare your contribution :)
Be sure to come early so you don't miss out on any of the great dishes!
FREE (bring a dish)