Screening: Scarlet Road - with guest Rachel Wotton
Monday, April 8th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Concordia University, Room H110
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabilities. Working in New South Wales—where prostitution is legal— Rachel’s philosophy is that human touch and sexual intimacy can be the most therapeutic aspects to our existence.
Indeed, she is making a dramatic impact on the lives of her customers, many of whom are confined to wheelchairs or cannot speak or move unaided. Through her graduate studies and her nonprofit group Touching Base, Rachel both fights for the rights of sex workers and promotes awareness and access to sexual expression for the disabled through sex work—and brings together these two often marginalized groups.
We follow her from conducting sex and disability workshops to speaking to the World Congress on Sexual Health about her mission to observing her overnight stays with severely disabled clients who blossom under her attention—with one man even gaining back lost movement and sensation thanks to his time spent with her. Rachel has made it her life’s work to end the stigma surrounding these populations; the depth, humor and passion in this positive and pro-active documentary will transform the way we see sex workers and people with disabilities forever.
The screening is by-donation and the venue is wheelchair accessible.
Conversation: Connecting People to Content
Monday, April 8th, 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue
Connecting People to Content: How can libraries adapt to the digital age?
With the advent of e-readers and the proliferation of easy to access web content, the demand for libraries as purveyors of books or as meccas for research has arguably declined, taking their funding with it. In this new reality, can libraries stay relevant? If yes, how, for whom, and at whose expense? What role can libraries and librarians play in helping us navigate the information overload that characterizes twenty-first century living? Is the solution fewer books and more computers? Fewer silent nooks and more spaces to socialize? Or, is it something different altogether? In an age of digital everything, what role might libraries play as centres of neighbourhood life—as places to foster community engagement and creative citizenship? What is the potential for university-library partnerships and community-library alliances in this regard? This public conversation seeks to bring librarians, library users and community stakeholders together to consider the current state of libraries and to re-imagine their future.
Reading: Tomoyuki Hoshino in Translation: Brian Bergstrom presents We, the Children of Cats
Tuesday, April 9th, 7:00pm
Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine West
Join us for an evening of Japanese in translation!
On April 9th, Brian Bergstrom will read from some of his short story and novella translations of Tomoyuki Hoshino’s We, the Children of Cats. A new collection of Hoshino’s early works, the book was recently placed on the longlist of Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award for the work of both Bergstrom and its co-translator Lucy Fraser. The collection itself is a catalogue of allegorical and surreal tales, observing the transformative qualities of subjects such as technological progress or gender definitions. Stylistically comparable to the magical realism of Marquez or Borges with the foreboding of Kafka, it moves with ease despite strangeness of subject.
Market Cooperative: SPRING!
Wednesday, April 10th, 11:00am until 5:00pm
SSMU building, Ballroom, McGill University, rue McTavish
Come join us for some splendid art, music, food and humans at the spring Market Cooperative!!!
We welcome anything from visual art and jewelry to writing, music and cuisine. Additionally, we will be partnering with Borderless World Volunteers, who will be taking donations at the door!
Sign up as a vendor, volunteer or musician at marketcooperative.org!
Book launch: Learning from the Ground Up
Wednesday, April 10th, 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore, 2150 Bishop Street
Join the Co-op Bookstore as it hosts Aziz Choudry, editor of "Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production".
About the Book: The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures and visions of social change have emerged from those spaces. Written by contributors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, it articulates and documents knowledge production, informal learning, and education work that takes place in everyday worlds of social activism.
Articulating the Unspeakable: Confronting Gendered Violence through Storytelling
Wednesday, April 10th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
1500 de Maisonneuve (Suite #404)
The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy & CKUT 90.3FM present: The Dragonroot Radio Project: a workshop series on gendered violence & radio-making
April 10: Articulating the Unspeakable: Confronting Gendered Violence through Storytelling, with Alisha.
Explore taking the writing practice from the introspective to the expressive, the personal to the political, drawing stories from our own lived experiences. Through facilitated exercises, we will aim to confront and navigate the realities of gendered violence in its many forms and disguises.
INFO: campaigns@centre2110.org, 514-937-2110
For a full list of the gendered violence workshops in this series, visit: http://www.centre2110.org/events/the-dragonroot-project-a-workshop-series-on-gendered-violence/
Textiles, Fabrics and Knitting Pro-Choice
Thursday, April 11th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Centre 2110 (1500 de maisonneuve Ouest, suite 404)
Being pro-choice means supporting the right of women to have full autonomy over their bodies and reproduction. It means trusting women and reminding each other that despite social pressures and stereotypes they alone can decide what is best for their bodies. It is a daily battle however we all win when tackling it collectively.
This is why the FQPN would like to extend an invitation for you to participate in Textiles, fabrics and knitting pro-choice: a textile art project where we try to knit the social bond that unites us to one another and to create a pro-choice culture. Art engages the sensitive and vulnerable parts of our being while allowing us to work in a context of social change.
No need to be an artist! In addition to promoting the sharing of skills and knowledge of traditionally female crafts, this project welcomes both those who feel most at ease with artistic projects as well as those who believe they have no creative fiber in their body.
This event is bilingual (French-English). The 2110 Centre is wheelchair accessible.
Childcare can be provided with 48 hours notice (please contact the FQPN).
For more information contact tissutricotprochoix@fqpn.qc.ca
People of Colour Dinner/Discussion Night
Friday, April 12, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
The Midnight Kitchen. 3480 rue McTavish 3rd Floor
The Midnight Kitchen would like to invite all self-identified people of colour, indigenous, or non-white people to join us for an evening of free food and refreshments, discussions, and short films. We would like to create a space where we can hangout, meet other POC, network, talk about issues of race and racism, how politics fits with our identities as POC, community building, healing, creating spaces for ourselves, representation etc. Though there will be a strong discussion aspect to this hangout, this can also be a low-key time to get to know each other, enjoy food and plan other events for the future if we’d like. So, please do not feel intimidated by the discussion aspect, we encourage people who are new to race/radical politics to come as well.
Food will be provided by the Midnight Kitchen, but everyone is welcome to bring a vegan dish or snack to share if they’d like.
We’ll also bring zines to share.
This is a space for self-identified people of colour, indigenous people, and non-white people ONLY. We are asking white allies not to come, but to help us spread the word amongst their friends and networks.
FREQUINOX 2013 - Spring Equinox Costume Celebration !
Friday, April 12, 8:30pm until 3:00am
Theatre Ste. Catherine - 264 Ste. Catherine Est
DOOR: 5$ (with costume) - 8$ (without)
A Collective Variety Show featuring LIVE Music, Painting, Dance, Costumes, Activities and Kiosks
LIVE PERFORMANCE ACTS
-Adam Callaghan - Live Painting
- CriCri Bellerose - Dada Burlesque
- Antonio Bavaro - Drag
- Cat Syra - Belly Dance
-Dai Naa + Melo - Circus Performances
- Gigi Marks - Burlesque
INTERACTIVE PROJECTIONS T.B.A.
- Photo Booth !
Live Drawing: The Dark Side with Seska Lee
Saturday, April 13, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
MainLine Theatre, 3997 St-Laurent Blvd
Session #69 - The Dark Side
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
It is a dark time for artists. Luckily, Dr. Sketchy Montreal invites them to its next event, where the enticing Seska Lee will pose as one of the most famous characters from Star Wars and invite you to join the dark side.
The cover will be $10 and don’t forget your sketchbook.
Screening: Queen of the Sun:What are the Bees Telling Us screening
Sunday, April 14, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
Cinéma du Parc, 3575 av. du Parc
Bees have been disappearing in huge numbers with serious and potentially catastrophic consequences. QUEEN OF THE SUN explores this phenomenon, called Colony Collapse Disorder, and weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world to understand and fight this crisis. Through a pilgrimage around the world, 10,000 years of beekeeping is unveiled, highlighting how our historic and sacred relationship with bees has been lost due to highly mechanized industrial practices. Inspiring, humbling, thought provoking, entertaining, and beautifully shot, QUEEN OF THE SUN is an irresistible romance about the essential role that our oldest domesticated animal, the honey bee plays in maintaining earth’s fragile ecosystem. Featuring Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Join us for a post-screening discussion about beekeeping, sustainability and climate change with local Urban Beekeeper Cameron Stiff, who keeps his bees in the Mile End Meadow.
Monday, April 8th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Concordia University, Room H110
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabilities. Working in New South Wales—where prostitution is legal— Rachel’s philosophy is that human touch and sexual intimacy can be the most therapeutic aspects to our existence.
Indeed, she is making a dramatic impact on the lives of her customers, many of whom are confined to wheelchairs or cannot speak or move unaided. Through her graduate studies and her nonprofit group Touching Base, Rachel both fights for the rights of sex workers and promotes awareness and access to sexual expression for the disabled through sex work—and brings together these two often marginalized groups.
We follow her from conducting sex and disability workshops to speaking to the World Congress on Sexual Health about her mission to observing her overnight stays with severely disabled clients who blossom under her attention—with one man even gaining back lost movement and sensation thanks to his time spent with her. Rachel has made it her life’s work to end the stigma surrounding these populations; the depth, humor and passion in this positive and pro-active documentary will transform the way we see sex workers and people with disabilities forever.
The screening is by-donation and the venue is wheelchair accessible.
Conversation: Connecting People to Content
Monday, April 8th, 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue
Connecting People to Content: How can libraries adapt to the digital age?
With the advent of e-readers and the proliferation of easy to access web content, the demand for libraries as purveyors of books or as meccas for research has arguably declined, taking their funding with it. In this new reality, can libraries stay relevant? If yes, how, for whom, and at whose expense? What role can libraries and librarians play in helping us navigate the information overload that characterizes twenty-first century living? Is the solution fewer books and more computers? Fewer silent nooks and more spaces to socialize? Or, is it something different altogether? In an age of digital everything, what role might libraries play as centres of neighbourhood life—as places to foster community engagement and creative citizenship? What is the potential for university-library partnerships and community-library alliances in this regard? This public conversation seeks to bring librarians, library users and community stakeholders together to consider the current state of libraries and to re-imagine their future.
Reading: Tomoyuki Hoshino in Translation: Brian Bergstrom presents We, the Children of Cats
Tuesday, April 9th, 7:00pm
Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine West
Join us for an evening of Japanese in translation!
On April 9th, Brian Bergstrom will read from some of his short story and novella translations of Tomoyuki Hoshino’s We, the Children of Cats. A new collection of Hoshino’s early works, the book was recently placed on the longlist of Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award for the work of both Bergstrom and its co-translator Lucy Fraser. The collection itself is a catalogue of allegorical and surreal tales, observing the transformative qualities of subjects such as technological progress or gender definitions. Stylistically comparable to the magical realism of Marquez or Borges with the foreboding of Kafka, it moves with ease despite strangeness of subject.
Market Cooperative: SPRING!
Wednesday, April 10th, 11:00am until 5:00pm
SSMU building, Ballroom, McGill University, rue McTavish
Come join us for some splendid art, music, food and humans at the spring Market Cooperative!!!
We welcome anything from visual art and jewelry to writing, music and cuisine. Additionally, we will be partnering with Borderless World Volunteers, who will be taking donations at the door!
Sign up as a vendor, volunteer or musician at marketcooperative.org!
Book launch: Learning from the Ground Up
Wednesday, April 10th, 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore, 2150 Bishop Street
Join the Co-op Bookstore as it hosts Aziz Choudry, editor of "Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production".
About the Book: The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures and visions of social change have emerged from those spaces. Written by contributors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, it articulates and documents knowledge production, informal learning, and education work that takes place in everyday worlds of social activism.
Articulating the Unspeakable: Confronting Gendered Violence through Storytelling
Wednesday, April 10th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
1500 de Maisonneuve (Suite #404)
The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy & CKUT 90.3FM present: The Dragonroot Radio Project: a workshop series on gendered violence & radio-making
April 10: Articulating the Unspeakable: Confronting Gendered Violence through Storytelling, with Alisha.
Explore taking the writing practice from the introspective to the expressive, the personal to the political, drawing stories from our own lived experiences. Through facilitated exercises, we will aim to confront and navigate the realities of gendered violence in its many forms and disguises.
INFO: campaigns@centre2110.org, 514-937-2110
For a full list of the gendered violence workshops in this series, visit: http://www.centre2110.org/events/the-dragonroot-project-a-workshop-series-on-gendered-violence/
Textiles, Fabrics and Knitting Pro-Choice
Thursday, April 11th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Centre 2110 (1500 de maisonneuve Ouest, suite 404)
Being pro-choice means supporting the right of women to have full autonomy over their bodies and reproduction. It means trusting women and reminding each other that despite social pressures and stereotypes they alone can decide what is best for their bodies. It is a daily battle however we all win when tackling it collectively.
This is why the FQPN would like to extend an invitation for you to participate in Textiles, fabrics and knitting pro-choice: a textile art project where we try to knit the social bond that unites us to one another and to create a pro-choice culture. Art engages the sensitive and vulnerable parts of our being while allowing us to work in a context of social change.
No need to be an artist! In addition to promoting the sharing of skills and knowledge of traditionally female crafts, this project welcomes both those who feel most at ease with artistic projects as well as those who believe they have no creative fiber in their body.
This event is bilingual (French-English). The 2110 Centre is wheelchair accessible.
Childcare can be provided with 48 hours notice (please contact the FQPN).
For more information contact tissutricotprochoix@fqpn.qc.ca
People of Colour Dinner/Discussion Night
Friday, April 12, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
The Midnight Kitchen. 3480 rue McTavish 3rd Floor
The Midnight Kitchen would like to invite all self-identified people of colour, indigenous, or non-white people to join us for an evening of free food and refreshments, discussions, and short films. We would like to create a space where we can hangout, meet other POC, network, talk about issues of race and racism, how politics fits with our identities as POC, community building, healing, creating spaces for ourselves, representation etc. Though there will be a strong discussion aspect to this hangout, this can also be a low-key time to get to know each other, enjoy food and plan other events for the future if we’d like. So, please do not feel intimidated by the discussion aspect, we encourage people who are new to race/radical politics to come as well.
Food will be provided by the Midnight Kitchen, but everyone is welcome to bring a vegan dish or snack to share if they’d like.
We’ll also bring zines to share.
This is a space for self-identified people of colour, indigenous people, and non-white people ONLY. We are asking white allies not to come, but to help us spread the word amongst their friends and networks.
FREQUINOX 2013 - Spring Equinox Costume Celebration !
Friday, April 12, 8:30pm until 3:00am
Theatre Ste. Catherine - 264 Ste. Catherine Est
DOOR: 5$ (with costume) - 8$ (without)
A Collective Variety Show featuring LIVE Music, Painting, Dance, Costumes, Activities and Kiosks
LIVE PERFORMANCE ACTS
-Adam Callaghan - Live Painting
- CriCri Bellerose - Dada Burlesque
- Antonio Bavaro - Drag
- Cat Syra - Belly Dance
-Dai Naa + Melo - Circus Performances
- Gigi Marks - Burlesque
INTERACTIVE PROJECTIONS T.B.A.
- Photo Booth !
Live Drawing: The Dark Side with Seska Lee
Saturday, April 13, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
MainLine Theatre, 3997 St-Laurent Blvd
Session #69 - The Dark Side
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
It is a dark time for artists. Luckily, Dr. Sketchy Montreal invites them to its next event, where the enticing Seska Lee will pose as one of the most famous characters from Star Wars and invite you to join the dark side.
The cover will be $10 and don’t forget your sketchbook.
Screening: Queen of the Sun:What are the Bees Telling Us screening
Sunday, April 14, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
Cinéma du Parc, 3575 av. du Parc
Bees have been disappearing in huge numbers with serious and potentially catastrophic consequences. QUEEN OF THE SUN explores this phenomenon, called Colony Collapse Disorder, and weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world to understand and fight this crisis. Through a pilgrimage around the world, 10,000 years of beekeeping is unveiled, highlighting how our historic and sacred relationship with bees has been lost due to highly mechanized industrial practices. Inspiring, humbling, thought provoking, entertaining, and beautifully shot, QUEEN OF THE SUN is an irresistible romance about the essential role that our oldest domesticated animal, the honey bee plays in maintaining earth’s fragile ecosystem. Featuring Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Join us for a post-screening discussion about beekeeping, sustainability and climate change with local Urban Beekeeper Cameron Stiff, who keeps his bees in the Mile End Meadow.
