CKUT Garage Sale & Open House w/ QPIRG McGill
Monday, September 16th, 12:00pm until 6:00pm
CKUT Radio, 3647 University Ave.
Come to the CKUT/QPIRG Garage Sale/Open House!!! Swing by the radio station on Monday from 12-6 for cheap and used vinyls, graphic novels, cds & k7s.
Plus - our station doors will be wide open and we'll be giving quick tours of our on-air studio (where the magic happens) and you will also have a chance to meet some of the rad staff, interns and volunteers that keep the engine pumping!
Wondering how to get involved in community organizing in Montreal, learn about struggles for social and environmental justice, and meet local organizers, activists, and campus and community groups? Come upstairs for tours and information about QPIRG, plus snacks and drinks!
Bite Me! A week of workshops & events introducing food politics!
Monday, September 16th at 3:30pm until Friday at 2:00pm
Concordia University, 1455 boul de Maisonneuve O
Join us for a week of workshops and events introducing food politics at Concordia!
Participants include: the People's Potato, Cinema Politica, the Greenhouse (& City Farm School), the Frigo Vert, Justice Alimentaire Montréal (JAM), Mother Hubbard's, Café X, the Hive Cooperative, the Concordia Food Coalition (CFC), students & community members. All workshops are free, and all 5 à 7 events will have some free food available. OPEN TO ALL!
BITE ME! WEEK SCHEDULE:
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16th →
3:30-5pm: ORIENTATION @ the People’s Potato
(7th floor of the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West)
What do anti-capitalism, non-hierarchy and a free lunch have in common? Come find out at the People's Potato first orientation session of the year! We'll show you our space and we'll discuss our history, from guerrilla gruel to by-donation four-course vegan meals five days a week. Come and hear stories about our politics and the reason we do the work we do. We'll tell you how we started, our challenges, the groups we work with and our institutional objectives. We'll also tell you how to get involved in our organization and the communities we're part of. A qui la rue!
5-7pm: EAT & GREET @ the Reggie’s terrace behind the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve W.)
Join us for an informal gathering of food & music on the terrace behind the Hall Building. Meet fellow students and community members involved in the food movement at Concordia and beyond!
7pm: CINEMA POLITICA - GROW THE REVOLUTION: Two films on urban food politics @ the D.B. Clarke Theatre, Concordia University
Join us for a screening of CRACKDOWN! and EDIBLE CITY - with speakers in attendance.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17th →
2-4pm: EDIBLE GEOGRAPHIES OF MONTREAL by Joëlle Rondeau & Lucia Wong @ the 7th floor of the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve O.)
How do you access delicious, nutritious, and affordable food? In this introductory workshop, we will break the city down into bite size portions and share with you some cool food initiatives that have sprouted from past students who were searching for the same answers as you. We’ll look at their organizations and the impacts that their solutions have had on the student body and the greater community and also, how you can still benefit from these organizations today. Whether you want to get involved in the city’s thriving local food movement or just want to get a great meal that is both good for your wallet and the environment--- this workshop will leave you with a taste and a take home map to get you exploring Montreal’s incredible edible landscape.
5-7pm: TOUR, TEA, & TASTINGS SOCIAL @ the Greenhouse, 13th floor of the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve W.)
Whether this is your first time in the greenhouse or not, we welcome you to come and join us for our 5 à 7 Social! Try one our our homegrown teas in our Atrium Tea Kitchen, or taste our veggies from our City Farm School Program. Take a peek at our projects - Aquaponics, houseplant propagation, Microgreens and more! And meet with our greenhouse collective who will be available to answer your questions about our projects!
*Not wheelchair accessible
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18th →
2-4pm: CULTIVATING LOCAL FOOD JUSTICE by Justice Alimentaire Montréal (JAM) @ Café X in the Visual Arts Building (2nd floor, 1395 René Lévesque W.)
JAM aims in getting different players together to match needs, resources, and skills towards new projects, concrete actions and applied research. We want to build relationships, share information and collaborate to bring cohesiveness and gain a louder voice. The food movement in Montréal is truly extraordinary. People from all walks of life are mobilizing to dismantle our current agro-industrial food system. Yet all the ingredients need to be combined to strengthen and multiply our efforts to build viable alternatives. During the jam making workshop, we will discuss the various components of our food system and explore how we can change things together here in Montréal.
5-7pm: MARKETS MIGHT BE MEETING PLACES: A critical history of public markets in Montréal by the Frigo Vert @ QPIRG-Concordia (1500 de Maisonneuve O., suite 204)
Exploring the rich history of public markets in Montréal. The forces that led to their creation and they way in which they provided important gathering points that led to other public initiatives. Specifically linking the privatization of food distribution networks to the broader trend of disappearing commons. We will begin with a presentation and then continue with an open discussion.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19th [day at Loyola] →
2-4pm: BUILDING A STUDENT FOOD MOVEMENT
by the Concordia Food Coalition @ the Hive Cooperative (Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke O.)
Join us for a discussion of student food politics across Canada and current initiatives at Concordia. With Chartwells’ 12-year long contract set to expire in 2015, students have been mobilizing via research, education, and action to meet our needs and extend greater student control over the food systems that dominate our university landscape. Although Concordia’s food-service system is a symptom of the greater injustices of capitalism, we believe that the structures here can be challenged. Come and learn about alternative food systems at other Canadian universities, and how we are moving to action here at Concordia - and how you can participate so we can change this reality together this year.
5pm: CITY FARM HARVEST PARTY @ the Solar House on Loyola Campus (7141 Sherbrooke West)
Join us for the annual harvest party co-hosted by the City Farm School Project and the People’s Potato. We will be having a BBQ / potluck from 5 - 7 with some live mu
sic, and mingling, and then plan to watch a movie under the stars from 7 - 9. (Bring a blanket!!)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!! Come see our garden and meet those who helped grow it.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20th →
12:30pm: SOLIDARITY SERVING @ the People’s Potato (7th floor, 1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Créatoire Katimavik - 100en1jour Montréal
Monday, September 16th, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Santropol Roulant, 111 Rue Roy Est
Katimavik - Éco-stage, en collaboration avec 100en1jour Montréal vous convient à une soirée inspirante le 16 septembre prochain au Santropol Roulant, pour créer ensemble une ville plus durable le temps d'une journée exceptionnelle!
Le 5 octobre prochain, nous poserons ensemble 100 actions pour faire de Montréal la ville de nos rêves!
Katimavik - Éco-stage joint ses forces avec 100en1jour Montréal, et vous invite à venir créer avec nous une ville plus durable, l'espace d'une journée.
Participez au Créatoire Katimavik, et venez réfléchir/créer votre initiative citoyenne pour le 100en1jour Montréal du 5 octobre prochain, seul ou en groupe:
Le 16 septembre
de 17 à 20 h
à Santropol Roulant
(111 Rue Roy Est)
Qu'est-ce que 100en1jour?
Le 5 octobre prochain, des centaines de citoyens de Montréal célébreront le vivre ensemble et réaliseront 100 interventions pour créer un impact positif pour la ville.
L'intention au coeur de ce mouvement est de rassembler 100 actions à travers toute la ville pour réaliser à quel point, ensemble, nous pouvons créer à Montréal la communauté et la ville dont nous rêvons.
Que ce soit en apportant des plantes pour verdir la place des spectacles, en transformant des carrés de terre abandonnés, en organisant une soupe collective à partir d'aliments récupérés ou distribuant des bombes de semences à vos voisins, éphémères ou durables, nous posons tous de petits et grands gestes afin d'améliorer la qualité de vie dans l'espace public.
Pourquoi venir au créatoire du 16 septembre?
Pour parler avec nous de ce qui vous tient à coeur dans la ville, et sur quoi vous voulez faire une différence dans la vie des Montréalais!
Pour identifier une intervention que vous pourrez mettre en oeuvre vous mêmes avec vos collègues, vos voisins, votre famille, vos amis, et qui contribuera à faire de Montréal, l'espace d'une journée, une ville plus durable et conviviale.
Les créatoires sont une plate-forme pour rencontrer de nouvelles personnes formidables, partager nos idées folles, nos rêves, et passer à l'action pour prendre soin de Montréal.
Le 5 octobre, quelle sera votre contribution à 100en1jour? Venez le découvrir au contact d'autres citoyens activés!
EDIBLE CITY & CRACKDOWN! - First screening of the semester
Monday, September 16th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
DB Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Join us for our first screening of the Fall 2013 semester and... our 10 Year Anniversary!! We're presenting two fabulous doc on radical food politics and urban agriculture in collaboration with BITE ME! and the Concordia FoodCoalition. Director Jan Keck (CRACKDOWN!) and special guest speakers will be in attendance, and the event will be launched with a music performance by... Bombolessé!! Hope to see you all there!
*This year screenings will take place in the DB Clarke Theatre.
EDIBLE CITY
Andrew Hasse / US / 2012 / 60 ' / English
Edible City is a fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world.
Documenting a broad spectrum of activists, organizations and inspired citizens, Edible City shows how everyone can get involved in transforming our food system.
Edible City introduces a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system. The movie digs deep into their unique perspectives and transformative work– from edible education to grassroots activism to building local economies— finding hopeful solutions to monumental problems.
Inspirational, down-to-earth and a little bit quirky, Edible City captures the spirit of a movement that’s making real change and doing something truly revolutionary: growing the model for a healthy, sustainable local food system that’s socially just, environmentally sound, and economically resilient.
CRACKDOWN!
Jan Keck / CA / 2012 / 21 ' / English
In the wake of the 100-mile diet and the public’s increasing desire for local and organic food, Crackdown! tells the story of Canada’s urban chicken keepers, a smart, savvy and rapidly-growing band of mavericks who just want access to fresh eggs at home for their families -“Pets with benefits,” if you will.
An innovative hybrid of documentary and mockumentary, Crackdown! is a short, creative video project that aims to introduce viewers to some of Toronto’s renegade urban keepers, and the fowl that they love.
Brought to you by Red Gecko Productions and comedy team Plum Thunder, the creative minds behind viral video sensation Girls Without Boys (which received an astounding 35,000 YouTube hits in just a few days in February 2012 and was featured on reddit.com, BlogTO, Canada.com, The Onion’s AV Club, and CityTV), Crackdown! takes a satirical look at what it means to raise chickens in your backyard – and become a criminal for doing so.
Crackdown! will explain the history of urban chicken keeping in Canada and the municipal bylaws that forced this movement underground, and blow away some of the myths associated with having feathered friends as neighbours. It also tells the fictional story of Matthew and Dale – two bylaw enforcement officers who will stop at nothing to rid their city of the supposed chicken menace.
http://www.cinemapolitica.org/concordia
Liberté, Diversité, Casserole
Monday, September 16th, 7:00pm until 8:00pm
La Khaima/Al Boutik: Restaurant, Cafe and Epicerie, 148 Fairmount Street
Oyé Oyé! Joignez-vous à nous ce soir AVEC VOTRE CASSEROLE et tout ce qui peu faire du bruit!
Portez ce que vous pensez vous représente dans vos croyances/amour/spiritualité/sacré personnels.
Rendez-vous à 19h coin Waverly et Fairmount (148 Fairmount)
Ouvert à TOUS!
Hear ye hear ye hark and spread the word:
Meet at 7pm at 148 Fairmount (at Waverly) in front of Restaurant La Khaima.
bring your pots, pans and signs. Bring items of clothing that reflect your identity!
For ideas of what to wear, see here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTz6Th3CUAEgJ3z.png
or be creative!
Show your love for all religions and all peoples!
We will not be silenced and we will not hide who we are.
It's time for a new cassarole.
Edible Geography of Montreal
Tuesday, September 17th, 2:00pm until 4:00pm
Concordia University SGW Hall Building 7th floor (1455 de Maisonneuve O)
Edible Geography of Montreal – in collaboration with Concordia Food Coalition (CFC)
How do you access delicious, nutritious, and affordable food? In this introductory workshop, we will break the city down into bite size portions and share with you some cool food initiatives that have sprouted from past Concordia students who were searching for the same answers as you. We’ll look at the organizations and the impacts that their solutions have had on the student body and the greater community and also, how you can benefit from these organizations today. Whether you want to get involved in the city’s thriving local food movement or just want to get a great meal that is both good for your wallet and the environment— this workshop will give you a taste of what’s out there and a take home map to get you exploring Montreal’s incredible edible landscape.
This workshop is a part of CFC's BITE ME! festival, for more info check out https://www.facebook.com/events/122886911214994/?fref=ts
For more info on other workshops in the CFS Free Workshop Series, check out our blog https://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/free-workshops/
Cultivating Culinary Herbs - Indoors!
Wednesday, September 18th, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Concordia Greenhouse (1455 de Maisonneuve O. – 13th floor Hall building)
101 style introduction on how to grow herbs – indoors! This workshop is focuses on indoorherbseasy-to-grow indoor herbs. Its for anyone who wants to add that “just-picked” taste to their meals, even when snow is drifting up against the kitchen window. We will cover what are the best herbs for growing on windowsills and some smart techniques you need to keep them happy and healthy. Plus some transformations tips and cooking recipes.
For more info on other workshops in the CFS Free Workshop Series, check out our blog https://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/free-workshops/
Market Cooperative: September Edition!
Thursday, September 19, 10:00am
Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU), 3480 Rue McTavish
Come join us for some splendid art, music, food and great times at the September
Market Cooperative!!!
Bringing together over 30 local artists, selling everything from clothing and artwork to soap and hand-made jewellery, the Market Cooperative is your one-stop-shop for all things awesome! So come on down, listen to some live music, check out our vendors, and join the community!
Colonialism in Québec: Myths, Misgivings & Nationalism (Double Book Launch)
Wednesday, September 18th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
School of Community & Public Affairs Students' Association, 2149 Mackay Street
A panel discussion with
-Darryl Leroux, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, co-editor of Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada (Fernwood, 2013).
-Délice Mugabo, black feminist activist.
-David Austin, Author of Fear of a Black nation: Race, sex and security in sixties Montréal (Between the Lines, 2013).
The three panelists will examine the historical and national narratives that continue to situate the descendants of 17th and 18th century French settlers in present-day Québec as a colonized population. What are the effects of this national narrative on today’s racialized landscape? Is it possible to build solidarity with the struggles of indigenous and racialized peoples while relying on a narrative that positions the French-Canadian Québécois as a colonized population? The panelists will explore these and other questions through a discussion of the historical treatment of slavery in Québec, the logic of the Québec feminist movement, and some recent scholarly work that insists that the Québécois inherited current racialized practices through British colonialism.
Harvest Party!
Thursday, September 19, 5:00pm until 9:00pm
Concordia University, Loyola Campus
Third Annual Harvest Party co-hosted by the City Farm School Project and the People’s Potato.
Where: Loyola Farm - at the Solar House on Loyola Campus - 7141 Sherbrooke O - We are located just behind Hingston Hall, northernmost part of the campus.
We will be having a BBQ / potluck from 5 - 7 with some live music, and mingling, and then plan to watch a movie under the stars from 7 - 9. (Bring a blanket!!)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!! Come see our garden and meet those who helped grow it.
Equinox Cothing Swap
Thursday, September 19, 5:00pm until 7:00pm
Le Milieu, 1251 rue Robin
New season, new wardrobe!
Free, earth-friendly and guilt-free!
For all genders, ages and sizes!
Bring once loved (clean and not damaged) clothing items, shoes and accessories to be loved again by someone new!
Anarchism and Hope
Thursday, September 19, 6:00pm until 9:00pm
Bar Populaire, 6584 St-Laurent
The Howl Arts Collective presents Zine launch: Anarchism and Hope by Aaron Lakoff
Free event. Copies of the zine will be on sale at the event for $5.
Featuring presentations by:
* Aaron Lakoff. Aaron is the author of the zine "Anarchism and Hope". He is a radio journalist, DJ and community organizer living in Montreal, trying to map the constellations between reggae, soul and a liberated world. His writings, radio reports, and other musings are on his blog at aaron.resist.ca
* Mostafa Henaway. Mostafa is a long-time radical organizer for migrant justice, anti-poverty, and Middle-East solidarity movements. While living in Toronto, he worked with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), where he organized taxi drivers to fight for better working conditions. He is currently a community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre of Montreal, and a member of Tadamon.
* Nora Butler Burke. Nora is a coordinator at ASTT(e)Q, a trans health project in Montreal supporting low-income and sex working trans people. She has spent the past decade involved in migrant justice, prison abolition, feminist and anti-colonial movements.
About the zine
Anarchism and Hope” is a zine which asks us why we get up in the morning, and why we fight for a better world. In an attempt to map a distinctly anarchist vision of hope, the text does not try to draw any definitive conclusions, but rather serve as a springboard for people to discuss their hopes, dreams, and desires. Drawing on interviews with community organizers, anarchist literature, and his own life experience, Lakoff argues for a vision of hope bound up in our day to day realities – the realities of cold bureaucracies, abusive relationships, borders, racist cops, and ecological devastation. Our hope needs to be grounded in our opposition to these grim realities. These realities should fill us with rage, and that rage should in turn fuel our hope.
McGill University Divestment 101 Workshop
Thursday, September 19, 7:00pm
TBA, SSMU building or McLennan
Amidst runaway climate change and unchallenged power of the fossil fuel industry, a new movement has emerged in North America. The Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign has sprouted in over three hundred campuses, and Divest McGill is proud to be one of the first to spark momentum over the past year!
From gaining over one thousand signatures from the entire campus community, creative stunts and actions, support from all three major student unions, and a final presentation at the Board of Governors last May, the campaign has made some serious tracks. And when the Committee to Advise on matters of Social Responsibility declined to bring forward a recommendation for divestment last May, our resolve became stronger than ever. This year, Divest McGill is ready for some serious organizing.
We're kicking off the year with an introductory workshop and conversation to go through the logic of divestment, where McGill is at, and where we're headed in the future. Come by and meet new people already battling climate change at the university, and join the campaign!
www.divestmcgill.com
Concordia Sustainability Orientation: Free EcoVillage Tour to Largest EcoVillage in Quebec!
Friday, September 20, 9:00am until 6:00pm
Ham Nord, Quebec
The Sustainability Action Fund brings you an immersive experience that's not to be missed! As part of our commitment to promoting sustainable lifestyles, we are sponsoring a free trip from Montreal to a beautiful ecovillage - La Cité Écologique de Ham-Nord. Participants will get first-hand experience with a model sustainable community, and the inspiration to help further its goals right here at home!
This event includes free:
- Transportation
- Guided tour of the eco-village (beautiful gardens, Sustainable Business Enterprises, etc.)
- Harvesting session (tentative) and
- Lunch!
Spaces on this trip are very limited: only twenty members of the general Concordia community will have the chance to be a part of it! To reserve your spot, come on down to the SAF office at 2090 Mackay St., Office 305z, before September 18, 2013. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis, so don't wait!
*The Fine Print*
Participants will be asked to deposit $5 to confirm their space. Refunds will be made as soon as the bus leaves Montreal. Only Concordia students are allowed. Please bring in your ID when you reserve your ticket.
BOOK SWAP - ECHANGE DE LIVRES
Saturday, September 21, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke Ouest / West
Bring up to twenty (20) well cared for books* that you’ve already enjoyed & are willing to part with. Tables will be set up so everything can be sorted into categories. Any leftovers remaining by the end of the afternoon will be donated to the Westmount library's shelves.
We will also be swapping books on CD, music CDs, & DVDs.
First Fall Geek OUT!
Saturday, September 21, 2pm-8pm with afterparty at 8pm
Burritoville, 2055 Bishop Street
Geek OUT!s are a fun, free celebration of the things that make us geeks. For an afternoon, you get to play board games, hear presentations of local projects, do arts and crafts, eat snacks and laugh in the company of other geeks.
The next Geek OUT! is happening on Saturday, September 21st at Burritoville, 2055-B Bishop Street, Montreal (between Sherbrooke and De Maisonneuve) and will go from 2:00pm onwards. then at 8:00 PM we'll all head down to Brutopia for a few drinks and some more board games!
***Workshops! TBA
***Arts & Crafts! button-making, fridge-magnet-making, felting, collaging, knitting, crochet
***Board games galore! Settlers of Catan, Scrabble, Clue, Hero Quest, Last Night on Earth, Illuminati, Battleship, Zombies, RISK, etc, etc. Join in on an already begun game, bring your own, watch and learn, make friends!
Brought to you by the Geek Montreal love brigade. http://www.geekmontreal.com/
EQUINOX POTLUCK & Co-Op Info Session
Saturday, September 21, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Le Milieu, 1251 rue Robin
Bring a vegetarian dish made from local produce if you can, and come find out more about Coop Le Milieu!
You want to volunteer this fall, have been thinking for a while of becoming a member, have a collaboration idea in mind, or simply would like to find out more about how our collective operates? This evening will be the perfect time to ask all your questions, meet current members and share ideas, dreams and passions!
EVERYONE, absolutely everyone, is invited to this free event and to become a Co-op member!
www.lemilieu.ca
Monday, September 16th, 12:00pm until 6:00pm
CKUT Radio, 3647 University Ave.
Come to the CKUT/QPIRG Garage Sale/Open House!!! Swing by the radio station on Monday from 12-6 for cheap and used vinyls, graphic novels, cds & k7s.
Plus - our station doors will be wide open and we'll be giving quick tours of our on-air studio (where the magic happens) and you will also have a chance to meet some of the rad staff, interns and volunteers that keep the engine pumping!
Wondering how to get involved in community organizing in Montreal, learn about struggles for social and environmental justice, and meet local organizers, activists, and campus and community groups? Come upstairs for tours and information about QPIRG, plus snacks and drinks!
Bite Me! A week of workshops & events introducing food politics!
Monday, September 16th at 3:30pm until Friday at 2:00pm
Concordia University, 1455 boul de Maisonneuve O
Join us for a week of workshops and events introducing food politics at Concordia!
Participants include: the People's Potato, Cinema Politica, the Greenhouse (& City Farm School), the Frigo Vert, Justice Alimentaire Montréal (JAM), Mother Hubbard's, Café X, the Hive Cooperative, the Concordia Food Coalition (CFC), students & community members. All workshops are free, and all 5 à 7 events will have some free food available. OPEN TO ALL!
BITE ME! WEEK SCHEDULE:
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16th →
3:30-5pm: ORIENTATION @ the People’s Potato
(7th floor of the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West)
What do anti-capitalism, non-hierarchy and a free lunch have in common? Come find out at the People's Potato first orientation session of the year! We'll show you our space and we'll discuss our history, from guerrilla gruel to by-donation four-course vegan meals five days a week. Come and hear stories about our politics and the reason we do the work we do. We'll tell you how we started, our challenges, the groups we work with and our institutional objectives. We'll also tell you how to get involved in our organization and the communities we're part of. A qui la rue!
5-7pm: EAT & GREET @ the Reggie’s terrace behind the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve W.)
Join us for an informal gathering of food & music on the terrace behind the Hall Building. Meet fellow students and community members involved in the food movement at Concordia and beyond!
7pm: CINEMA POLITICA - GROW THE REVOLUTION: Two films on urban food politics @ the D.B. Clarke Theatre, Concordia University
Join us for a screening of CRACKDOWN! and EDIBLE CITY - with speakers in attendance.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17th →
2-4pm: EDIBLE GEOGRAPHIES OF MONTREAL by Joëlle Rondeau & Lucia Wong @ the 7th floor of the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve O.)
How do you access delicious, nutritious, and affordable food? In this introductory workshop, we will break the city down into bite size portions and share with you some cool food initiatives that have sprouted from past students who were searching for the same answers as you. We’ll look at their organizations and the impacts that their solutions have had on the student body and the greater community and also, how you can still benefit from these organizations today. Whether you want to get involved in the city’s thriving local food movement or just want to get a great meal that is both good for your wallet and the environment--- this workshop will leave you with a taste and a take home map to get you exploring Montreal’s incredible edible landscape.
5-7pm: TOUR, TEA, & TASTINGS SOCIAL @ the Greenhouse, 13th floor of the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve W.)
Whether this is your first time in the greenhouse or not, we welcome you to come and join us for our 5 à 7 Social! Try one our our homegrown teas in our Atrium Tea Kitchen, or taste our veggies from our City Farm School Program. Take a peek at our projects - Aquaponics, houseplant propagation, Microgreens and more! And meet with our greenhouse collective who will be available to answer your questions about our projects!
*Not wheelchair accessible
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18th →
2-4pm: CULTIVATING LOCAL FOOD JUSTICE by Justice Alimentaire Montréal (JAM) @ Café X in the Visual Arts Building (2nd floor, 1395 René Lévesque W.)
JAM aims in getting different players together to match needs, resources, and skills towards new projects, concrete actions and applied research. We want to build relationships, share information and collaborate to bring cohesiveness and gain a louder voice. The food movement in Montréal is truly extraordinary. People from all walks of life are mobilizing to dismantle our current agro-industrial food system. Yet all the ingredients need to be combined to strengthen and multiply our efforts to build viable alternatives. During the jam making workshop, we will discuss the various components of our food system and explore how we can change things together here in Montréal.
5-7pm: MARKETS MIGHT BE MEETING PLACES: A critical history of public markets in Montréal by the Frigo Vert @ QPIRG-Concordia (1500 de Maisonneuve O., suite 204)
Exploring the rich history of public markets in Montréal. The forces that led to their creation and they way in which they provided important gathering points that led to other public initiatives. Specifically linking the privatization of food distribution networks to the broader trend of disappearing commons. We will begin with a presentation and then continue with an open discussion.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19th [day at Loyola] →
2-4pm: BUILDING A STUDENT FOOD MOVEMENT
by the Concordia Food Coalition @ the Hive Cooperative (Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke O.)
Join us for a discussion of student food politics across Canada and current initiatives at Concordia. With Chartwells’ 12-year long contract set to expire in 2015, students have been mobilizing via research, education, and action to meet our needs and extend greater student control over the food systems that dominate our university landscape. Although Concordia’s food-service system is a symptom of the greater injustices of capitalism, we believe that the structures here can be challenged. Come and learn about alternative food systems at other Canadian universities, and how we are moving to action here at Concordia - and how you can participate so we can change this reality together this year.
5pm: CITY FARM HARVEST PARTY @ the Solar House on Loyola Campus (7141 Sherbrooke West)
Join us for the annual harvest party co-hosted by the City Farm School Project and the People’s Potato. We will be having a BBQ / potluck from 5 - 7 with some live mu
sic, and mingling, and then plan to watch a movie under the stars from 7 - 9. (Bring a blanket!!)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!! Come see our garden and meet those who helped grow it.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20th →
12:30pm: SOLIDARITY SERVING @ the People’s Potato (7th floor, 1455 de Maisonneuve West)
Créatoire Katimavik - 100en1jour Montréal
Monday, September 16th, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Santropol Roulant, 111 Rue Roy Est
Katimavik - Éco-stage, en collaboration avec 100en1jour Montréal vous convient à une soirée inspirante le 16 septembre prochain au Santropol Roulant, pour créer ensemble une ville plus durable le temps d'une journée exceptionnelle!
Le 5 octobre prochain, nous poserons ensemble 100 actions pour faire de Montréal la ville de nos rêves!
Katimavik - Éco-stage joint ses forces avec 100en1jour Montréal, et vous invite à venir créer avec nous une ville plus durable, l'espace d'une journée.
Participez au Créatoire Katimavik, et venez réfléchir/créer votre initiative citoyenne pour le 100en1jour Montréal du 5 octobre prochain, seul ou en groupe:
Le 16 septembre
de 17 à 20 h
à Santropol Roulant
(111 Rue Roy Est)
Qu'est-ce que 100en1jour?
Le 5 octobre prochain, des centaines de citoyens de Montréal célébreront le vivre ensemble et réaliseront 100 interventions pour créer un impact positif pour la ville.
L'intention au coeur de ce mouvement est de rassembler 100 actions à travers toute la ville pour réaliser à quel point, ensemble, nous pouvons créer à Montréal la communauté et la ville dont nous rêvons.
Que ce soit en apportant des plantes pour verdir la place des spectacles, en transformant des carrés de terre abandonnés, en organisant une soupe collective à partir d'aliments récupérés ou distribuant des bombes de semences à vos voisins, éphémères ou durables, nous posons tous de petits et grands gestes afin d'améliorer la qualité de vie dans l'espace public.
Pourquoi venir au créatoire du 16 septembre?
Pour parler avec nous de ce qui vous tient à coeur dans la ville, et sur quoi vous voulez faire une différence dans la vie des Montréalais!
Pour identifier une intervention que vous pourrez mettre en oeuvre vous mêmes avec vos collègues, vos voisins, votre famille, vos amis, et qui contribuera à faire de Montréal, l'espace d'une journée, une ville plus durable et conviviale.
Les créatoires sont une plate-forme pour rencontrer de nouvelles personnes formidables, partager nos idées folles, nos rêves, et passer à l'action pour prendre soin de Montréal.
Le 5 octobre, quelle sera votre contribution à 100en1jour? Venez le découvrir au contact d'autres citoyens activés!
EDIBLE CITY & CRACKDOWN! - First screening of the semester
Monday, September 16th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
DB Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Join us for our first screening of the Fall 2013 semester and... our 10 Year Anniversary!! We're presenting two fabulous doc on radical food politics and urban agriculture in collaboration with BITE ME! and the Concordia FoodCoalition. Director Jan Keck (CRACKDOWN!) and special guest speakers will be in attendance, and the event will be launched with a music performance by... Bombolessé!! Hope to see you all there!
*This year screenings will take place in the DB Clarke Theatre.
EDIBLE CITY
Andrew Hasse / US / 2012 / 60 ' / English
Edible City is a fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world.
Documenting a broad spectrum of activists, organizations and inspired citizens, Edible City shows how everyone can get involved in transforming our food system.
Edible City introduces a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system. The movie digs deep into their unique perspectives and transformative work– from edible education to grassroots activism to building local economies— finding hopeful solutions to monumental problems.
Inspirational, down-to-earth and a little bit quirky, Edible City captures the spirit of a movement that’s making real change and doing something truly revolutionary: growing the model for a healthy, sustainable local food system that’s socially just, environmentally sound, and economically resilient.
CRACKDOWN!
Jan Keck / CA / 2012 / 21 ' / English
In the wake of the 100-mile diet and the public’s increasing desire for local and organic food, Crackdown! tells the story of Canada’s urban chicken keepers, a smart, savvy and rapidly-growing band of mavericks who just want access to fresh eggs at home for their families -“Pets with benefits,” if you will.
An innovative hybrid of documentary and mockumentary, Crackdown! is a short, creative video project that aims to introduce viewers to some of Toronto’s renegade urban keepers, and the fowl that they love.
Brought to you by Red Gecko Productions and comedy team Plum Thunder, the creative minds behind viral video sensation Girls Without Boys (which received an astounding 35,000 YouTube hits in just a few days in February 2012 and was featured on reddit.com, BlogTO, Canada.com, The Onion’s AV Club, and CityTV), Crackdown! takes a satirical look at what it means to raise chickens in your backyard – and become a criminal for doing so.
Crackdown! will explain the history of urban chicken keeping in Canada and the municipal bylaws that forced this movement underground, and blow away some of the myths associated with having feathered friends as neighbours. It also tells the fictional story of Matthew and Dale – two bylaw enforcement officers who will stop at nothing to rid their city of the supposed chicken menace.
http://www.cinemapolitica.org/concordia
Liberté, Diversité, Casserole
Monday, September 16th, 7:00pm until 8:00pm
La Khaima/Al Boutik: Restaurant, Cafe and Epicerie, 148 Fairmount Street
Oyé Oyé! Joignez-vous à nous ce soir AVEC VOTRE CASSEROLE et tout ce qui peu faire du bruit!
Portez ce que vous pensez vous représente dans vos croyances/amour/spiritualité/sacré personnels.
Rendez-vous à 19h coin Waverly et Fairmount (148 Fairmount)
Ouvert à TOUS!
Hear ye hear ye hark and spread the word:
Meet at 7pm at 148 Fairmount (at Waverly) in front of Restaurant La Khaima.
bring your pots, pans and signs. Bring items of clothing that reflect your identity!
For ideas of what to wear, see here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTz6Th3CUAEgJ3z.png
or be creative!
Show your love for all religions and all peoples!
We will not be silenced and we will not hide who we are.
It's time for a new cassarole.
Edible Geography of Montreal
Tuesday, September 17th, 2:00pm until 4:00pm
Concordia University SGW Hall Building 7th floor (1455 de Maisonneuve O)
Edible Geography of Montreal – in collaboration with Concordia Food Coalition (CFC)
How do you access delicious, nutritious, and affordable food? In this introductory workshop, we will break the city down into bite size portions and share with you some cool food initiatives that have sprouted from past Concordia students who were searching for the same answers as you. We’ll look at the organizations and the impacts that their solutions have had on the student body and the greater community and also, how you can benefit from these organizations today. Whether you want to get involved in the city’s thriving local food movement or just want to get a great meal that is both good for your wallet and the environment— this workshop will give you a taste of what’s out there and a take home map to get you exploring Montreal’s incredible edible landscape.
This workshop is a part of CFC's BITE ME! festival, for more info check out https://www.facebook.com/events/122886911214994/?fref=ts
For more info on other workshops in the CFS Free Workshop Series, check out our blog https://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/free-workshops/
Cultivating Culinary Herbs - Indoors!
Wednesday, September 18th, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Concordia Greenhouse (1455 de Maisonneuve O. – 13th floor Hall building)
101 style introduction on how to grow herbs – indoors! This workshop is focuses on indoorherbseasy-to-grow indoor herbs. Its for anyone who wants to add that “just-picked” taste to their meals, even when snow is drifting up against the kitchen window. We will cover what are the best herbs for growing on windowsills and some smart techniques you need to keep them happy and healthy. Plus some transformations tips and cooking recipes.
For more info on other workshops in the CFS Free Workshop Series, check out our blog https://concordialoyolacityfarm.wordpress.com/free-workshops/
Market Cooperative: September Edition!
Thursday, September 19, 10:00am
Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU), 3480 Rue McTavish
Come join us for some splendid art, music, food and great times at the September
Market Cooperative!!!
Bringing together over 30 local artists, selling everything from clothing and artwork to soap and hand-made jewellery, the Market Cooperative is your one-stop-shop for all things awesome! So come on down, listen to some live music, check out our vendors, and join the community!
Colonialism in Québec: Myths, Misgivings & Nationalism (Double Book Launch)
Wednesday, September 18th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
School of Community & Public Affairs Students' Association, 2149 Mackay Street
A panel discussion with
-Darryl Leroux, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, co-editor of Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada (Fernwood, 2013).
-Délice Mugabo, black feminist activist.
-David Austin, Author of Fear of a Black nation: Race, sex and security in sixties Montréal (Between the Lines, 2013).
The three panelists will examine the historical and national narratives that continue to situate the descendants of 17th and 18th century French settlers in present-day Québec as a colonized population. What are the effects of this national narrative on today’s racialized landscape? Is it possible to build solidarity with the struggles of indigenous and racialized peoples while relying on a narrative that positions the French-Canadian Québécois as a colonized population? The panelists will explore these and other questions through a discussion of the historical treatment of slavery in Québec, the logic of the Québec feminist movement, and some recent scholarly work that insists that the Québécois inherited current racialized practices through British colonialism.
Harvest Party!
Thursday, September 19, 5:00pm until 9:00pm
Concordia University, Loyola Campus
Third Annual Harvest Party co-hosted by the City Farm School Project and the People’s Potato.
Where: Loyola Farm - at the Solar House on Loyola Campus - 7141 Sherbrooke O - We are located just behind Hingston Hall, northernmost part of the campus.
We will be having a BBQ / potluck from 5 - 7 with some live music, and mingling, and then plan to watch a movie under the stars from 7 - 9. (Bring a blanket!!)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!! Come see our garden and meet those who helped grow it.
Equinox Cothing Swap
Thursday, September 19, 5:00pm until 7:00pm
Le Milieu, 1251 rue Robin
New season, new wardrobe!
Free, earth-friendly and guilt-free!
For all genders, ages and sizes!
Bring once loved (clean and not damaged) clothing items, shoes and accessories to be loved again by someone new!
Anarchism and Hope
Thursday, September 19, 6:00pm until 9:00pm
Bar Populaire, 6584 St-Laurent
The Howl Arts Collective presents Zine launch: Anarchism and Hope by Aaron Lakoff
Free event. Copies of the zine will be on sale at the event for $5.
Featuring presentations by:
* Aaron Lakoff. Aaron is the author of the zine "Anarchism and Hope". He is a radio journalist, DJ and community organizer living in Montreal, trying to map the constellations between reggae, soul and a liberated world. His writings, radio reports, and other musings are on his blog at aaron.resist.ca
* Mostafa Henaway. Mostafa is a long-time radical organizer for migrant justice, anti-poverty, and Middle-East solidarity movements. While living in Toronto, he worked with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), where he organized taxi drivers to fight for better working conditions. He is currently a community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre of Montreal, and a member of Tadamon.
* Nora Butler Burke. Nora is a coordinator at ASTT(e)Q, a trans health project in Montreal supporting low-income and sex working trans people. She has spent the past decade involved in migrant justice, prison abolition, feminist and anti-colonial movements.
About the zine
Anarchism and Hope” is a zine which asks us why we get up in the morning, and why we fight for a better world. In an attempt to map a distinctly anarchist vision of hope, the text does not try to draw any definitive conclusions, but rather serve as a springboard for people to discuss their hopes, dreams, and desires. Drawing on interviews with community organizers, anarchist literature, and his own life experience, Lakoff argues for a vision of hope bound up in our day to day realities – the realities of cold bureaucracies, abusive relationships, borders, racist cops, and ecological devastation. Our hope needs to be grounded in our opposition to these grim realities. These realities should fill us with rage, and that rage should in turn fuel our hope.
McGill University Divestment 101 Workshop
Thursday, September 19, 7:00pm
TBA, SSMU building or McLennan
Amidst runaway climate change and unchallenged power of the fossil fuel industry, a new movement has emerged in North America. The Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign has sprouted in over three hundred campuses, and Divest McGill is proud to be one of the first to spark momentum over the past year!
From gaining over one thousand signatures from the entire campus community, creative stunts and actions, support from all three major student unions, and a final presentation at the Board of Governors last May, the campaign has made some serious tracks. And when the Committee to Advise on matters of Social Responsibility declined to bring forward a recommendation for divestment last May, our resolve became stronger than ever. This year, Divest McGill is ready for some serious organizing.
We're kicking off the year with an introductory workshop and conversation to go through the logic of divestment, where McGill is at, and where we're headed in the future. Come by and meet new people already battling climate change at the university, and join the campaign!
www.divestmcgill.com
Concordia Sustainability Orientation: Free EcoVillage Tour to Largest EcoVillage in Quebec!
Friday, September 20, 9:00am until 6:00pm
Ham Nord, Quebec
The Sustainability Action Fund brings you an immersive experience that's not to be missed! As part of our commitment to promoting sustainable lifestyles, we are sponsoring a free trip from Montreal to a beautiful ecovillage - La Cité Écologique de Ham-Nord. Participants will get first-hand experience with a model sustainable community, and the inspiration to help further its goals right here at home!
This event includes free:
- Transportation
- Guided tour of the eco-village (beautiful gardens, Sustainable Business Enterprises, etc.)
- Harvesting session (tentative) and
- Lunch!
Spaces on this trip are very limited: only twenty members of the general Concordia community will have the chance to be a part of it! To reserve your spot, come on down to the SAF office at 2090 Mackay St., Office 305z, before September 18, 2013. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis, so don't wait!
*The Fine Print*
Participants will be asked to deposit $5 to confirm their space. Refunds will be made as soon as the bus leaves Montreal. Only Concordia students are allowed. Please bring in your ID when you reserve your ticket.
BOOK SWAP - ECHANGE DE LIVRES
Saturday, September 21, 2:00pm until 5:00pm
Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke Ouest / West
Bring up to twenty (20) well cared for books* that you’ve already enjoyed & are willing to part with. Tables will be set up so everything can be sorted into categories. Any leftovers remaining by the end of the afternoon will be donated to the Westmount library's shelves.
We will also be swapping books on CD, music CDs, & DVDs.
First Fall Geek OUT!
Saturday, September 21, 2pm-8pm with afterparty at 8pm
Burritoville, 2055 Bishop Street
Geek OUT!s are a fun, free celebration of the things that make us geeks. For an afternoon, you get to play board games, hear presentations of local projects, do arts and crafts, eat snacks and laugh in the company of other geeks.
The next Geek OUT! is happening on Saturday, September 21st at Burritoville, 2055-B Bishop Street, Montreal (between Sherbrooke and De Maisonneuve) and will go from 2:00pm onwards. then at 8:00 PM we'll all head down to Brutopia for a few drinks and some more board games!
***Workshops! TBA
***Arts & Crafts! button-making, fridge-magnet-making, felting, collaging, knitting, crochet
***Board games galore! Settlers of Catan, Scrabble, Clue, Hero Quest, Last Night on Earth, Illuminati, Battleship, Zombies, RISK, etc, etc. Join in on an already begun game, bring your own, watch and learn, make friends!
Brought to you by the Geek Montreal love brigade. http://www.geekmontreal.com/
EQUINOX POTLUCK & Co-Op Info Session
Saturday, September 21, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
Le Milieu, 1251 rue Robin
Bring a vegetarian dish made from local produce if you can, and come find out more about Coop Le Milieu!
You want to volunteer this fall, have been thinking for a while of becoming a member, have a collaboration idea in mind, or simply would like to find out more about how our collective operates? This evening will be the perfect time to ask all your questions, meet current members and share ideas, dreams and passions!
EVERYONE, absolutely everyone, is invited to this free event and to become a Co-op member!
www.lemilieu.ca