INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY WEEK MONTREAL
NOVEMBER 17-25, 2010

Info: www.defendersoftheland.org/montreal

Women of the Arctic

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse is pleased to launch Women of the Arctic, a series of exhibitions and events showcasing multidisciplinary works by Inuit artists from Nunavik and Nunavut. The series, which will develop over a period of three years, consists of exhibitions, performances and projections evenings, as well as artist presentations. It seeks to promote the work of female artists whose particular sensibility crystallizes into remarkable artworks through different media of artistic production.

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse is happy to contribute to the visibility of these artists whom, through their unique approach and community-based culture, work outside of the mainstream in art, breaking with certain precepts of contemporary art and its modernist heritage such as individualism and the separation of art and crafts. In contrast with the usual context in which we are used to seeing Inuit art, in museums or commercial galleries, Women of the Arctic seeks to show the variety of approaches and subject matters addressed by these artists. First and foremost, this series aims to bring strong and pertinent artistic productions forward to the wider public and to the local artistic community.

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The first edition of this series, presented in collaboration with Avataq Cultural Institute and curated by Noémi McComber, will take place from November 19th to December 19th 2010 and

features an exhibition of works on paper of five artists from Nunavik: Leah Nuvalinga Qumaluk, Maggie S. Kiatainaq, Jessie Koneak Jones, Jennifer Lapage and Laina Nulukie. An evening of performances will take place on the opening night, November the 19th, with Taqralik Partridge and her guests. On December 16th, Marie-Hélène Cousineau of Arnait Video productions will present an evening of video screenings, featuring the films and videos of Elisapie Isaac, Alethea-Ann Aggiuq Arnaquq-Baril and Mary Kunuk.

Encircle

Exhibition from November 19^th to December 19^th 2010

Opening on November 19^th at 7 pm, live performances at 7:30

Leah Nuvalinga Qumaluk, Maggie S. Kiatainaq, Jessie Koneak Jones, Jennifer Lapage, Laina Nulukie

Spanning over more than four decades, the works showcased in this exhibition point to a rich and diverse artistic production, addressing key themes traditionally associated with femininity such as maternity, domesticity, dressmaking, while also exploring the realm of dreams, spirituality and rituals belonging to Inuit culture. In between tradition, modernity and current realities, the artists navigate through interior and exterior spaces, capturing and tracing the world they live in while scrutinizing the memory of a past which is still vivid.

Echoing La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse’s new mandate, this exhibition links different generations of Nunavimmiut female artists, whose works are largely underrepresented in Quebec’s cultural institutions and contemporary art world. From this perspective, the exhibition brings together the works of three generations of artists through the media of drawing and print. These graphic media have a longstanding existence in northern communities and are particularly practised and prized by Inuit women artists. The works in this exhibition are marked by a shared experience, exploring daily life in the Arctic; they reveal the artists’ acute sense of observation and sensitivity to their environment.

Laina Nulukie, who is currently the artist in residence in Montreal, of the new Nunavik Fund for Arts and Literature, in conjunction with CALQ, will be present in the gallery during the first week of the exhibition. She will develop a new body of work in relation to the themes exposed in the exhibition.

A discussion with the artists is scheduled on Saturday November 20^th at 3 pm with Maggie S. Kiatainaq, Jessie Koneak Jones, Jennifer Lapage and Laina Nulukie. The artists will be in conversation with performance artist Taqralik Partridge and Louis Gagnon of Avataq Cultural Institute.

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse would like to thank Avataq Cultural Institute for its invaluable support to this exhibition.

4296 Boul. St-Laurent Montréal QC Canada 514 871-0268 www.lacentrale.org

4296 Boul. St-Laurent Montréal QC Canada 514 871-0268 www.lacentrale.org

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Femmes de l’Arctique

C’est avec grand plaisir que La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse inaugure Femmes de l’Arctique, une série d’expositions et d’événements multidisciplinaires dans laquelle sera présenté le travail d’artistes inuites du Nunavik et du Nunavut. La série, qui s’étale sur une période de trois ans, comprend des expositions en galerie accompagnées de soirées de performances et de projections, ainsi que des rencontres avec les artistes. Elle vise à diffuser le travail de femmes artistes dont la sensibilité particulière se cristallise dans des œuvres remarquables à travers différents médiums de production artistique.

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse est heureuse de contribuer à la visibilité de ces artistes, qui par une approche singulière et une culture communautaire, travaillent hors des courants dominants en art, ce qui remet en cause certains préceptes de l’art contemporain et de l’héritage moderniste tel que l’individualisme ou encore la séparation de l’art et de l’artisanat. Faisant contraste au contexte d’exposition soit commercial ou muséal où nous avons l’habitude de voir l’art inuit, Femmes de l’Arctique fait état du large spectre d’approches et de propos soulevés par ces artistes. La motivation première derrière cette série d’expositions est de présenter une production artistique forte et pertinente, tant au niveau formel qu’au niveau des sujets abordés, pour le grand public et pour la communauté artistique locale.

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La première édition de cette série, présentée en collaboration avec l’Institut culturel Avataq et commissariée par Noémi McComber, aura lieu du 19 novembre au 19 décembre 2010 et comprend une exposition des œuvres sur papier de cinq artistes du Nunavik : Leah Nuvalinga Qumaluk, Maggie S. Kiatainaq, Jessie Koneak Jones, Jennifer Lapage et Laina Nulukie. Une soirée de performances aura lieu lors du vernissage, le 19 novembre, avec Taqraliq Partridge et ses invités. Le 16 décembre, Marie-Hélène Cousineau d’Arnait Video Productions présentera une soirée de projections, avec entre autres les films et vidéos de Elisapie Isaac, Alethea-Ann Aggiuq Arnaquq-Baril et Mary Kunuk.

Encerclé

Exposition du 19 novembre au 19 décembre 2010

Vernissage le 19 novembre à 19h, performances à 19h30

Leah Nuvalinga Qumaluk, Maggie S. Kiatainaq, Jessie Koneak Jones, Jennifer Lapage, Laina Nulukie

S’étalant sur plus de quatre décennies, les œuvres présentées dans cette exposition font état d’une production riche, diversifiée et porteuse, abordant des thèmes reliés à la sphère féminine tels que la maternité, la domesticité, la confection de vêtements, mais explorant aussi le domaine du rêve, la spiritualité et les rituels propres à la culture inuite. Entre la tradition, la modernité et les réalités actuelles, les artistes naviguent à travers les espaces intérieurs et extérieurs, elles captent et tracent le monde dans lequel elles vivent et scrutent la mémoire d’un passé encore vif.

En résonance avec le nouveau mandat de La Centrale, cette exposition fait le lien entre différentes générations de femmes artistes nunavimmiuts, dont le travail est largement sous-représenté dans les institutions culturelles et dans le milieu de l’art contemporain au Québec. L’exposition regroupe en effet les œuvres de trois générations d’artistes, à travers les médiums du dessin et de l’estampe. Ces médiums graphiques ont une longue tradition d’existence dans les communautés nordiques et sont particulièrement prisés par les femmes inuites. Les œuvres regroupées dans l’exposition sont empreintes d’une expérience commune, explorant la vie quotidienne au Nord; elles font état d’un sens de l’observation accru et d’une sensibilité singulière.

Laina Nulukie, qui effectue présentement une résidence de recherche et de création à Montréal, rendue possible grâce au Fonds du Nunavik pour les arts et les lettres en partenariat avec le CALQ, sera présente en galerie pendant la première semaine de l’exposition. Elle y développera une nouvelle série d’œuvres en lien avec la thématique de l’exposition.

Une rencontre avec les artistes aura lieu samedi le 20 novembre à 15h, en présence de Maggie S. Kiatainaq, Jessie Koneak Jones, Jennifer Lapage et Laina Nulukie, en conversation avec l’artiste de performance Taqralik Partridge et de Louis Gagnon de l’Institut culturel Avataq.

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse remercie l’Institut culturel Avataq pour son précieux soutien.

4296 Boul. St-Laurent Montréal QC Canada 514 871-0268 www.lacentrale.org

*********CULTURE SHOCK 2010*************

October 3^rd – 15^th

On McGill Campus and in the Community

http://qpirgmcgill.org/events/culture-shock/

Culture Shock is an annual event series dedicated to exploring the myths surrounding immigrants, refugees, indigenous people and communities of colour, and is co-organized by the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) at McGill and the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). Culture Shock seeks to bring together members of these communities to engage in dialogue about issues relevant to their lives, as well as to educate non-members around some of the issues faced by communities of colour in Canada.

All events are free and open to the public. The two fundraisers (the booklaunch and show during the first week, and the dance party taking place during the second week) involve suggested donations.

Culture Shock is an annual collaborative project between the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) and the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) at McGill.  For childcare, please notify us 48 hours in advance. All venues are wheelchair accessible EXCEPT the Cultural Studies Screening Room. For full schedule, visit http://qpirgmcgill.org/events/culture-shock/,  send us an e-mail at qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca or call 514-398-7432.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

————————————— Sunday, October 3rd at 4pm

Informal Discussion on Labor and Migration with Robyn Rodriguez
Hosted by the Immigrant Workers Center
4755 Van Horne, Bureau 110 (Metro Plamondon)

Please join us for an informal discussion on labor and migration with Robyn Rodriguez.

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is an assistant professor in sociology at Rutgers University. She has been actively involved as an immigrant-rights activist and advocate in the US-Filipino community. In her first book, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine state brokers labor to the world” Rodriguez examines the Philippines’ emergence as one of the top labor-exporting countries in the world. She will be presenting at the first four events of Culture Shock 2010. (See more complete bio below.)

The discussion on October 3rd at 4pm will address the reality of the Philippines as a “labor brokerage state” that mobilizes, exports and regulates gendered and racialized Philippine workers for labor markets world-wide. And will also be an opportunity to discuss broader issues of migration and labor, and mobilizing for justice for migrant workers.

For more information call the Immigrant Workers Center 514 342-2111, or visit http://iwc-cti.ca/

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Monday, October 4th 12pm

On the question of expertise: A critical reflection on “civil society” processes
A Guest Seminar on Globalization, Education and Change with Dr Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Rm 233, Faculty of Education, 3700 McTavish

In October 2008, the Philippine government hosted the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). While not formally part of the UN process, the GFMD is aimed at providing a space for labor receiving and labor sending countries to trade strategies around instituting temporary labor migration programs. In addition to meetings of government officials, the GFMD instituted a series of civil-society meetings aimed putatively to represent the concerns of migrants themselves. Grassroots migrant activists, however, claimed that the GFMD was in fact, the “global forum on modern-day slavery” and countered both the government meetings, and the ‘civil-society’ meetings with their own International Assembly for Migrants and Refugees where they declared that they would “speak for themselves.”

Drawing on her contribution to Learning from the ground up: Global perspectives on social movements and knowledge production (Eds. Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Dr Rodriguez examines the knowledge mobilized and deployed by migrants themselves alongside that mobilized and deployed by their so-called “advocates” in official civil society meetings. She asks how notions of “expertise” and “authority” are defined by different actors and to what political ends are particular forms of expertise, authority and knowledge used.

All are welcome to attend. Organized by Dr Aziz Choudry, Assistant Professor, International Education, Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Phone: 514 398 2253 / Email: aziz.choudry@mcgill.ca

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Monday, October 4th at 3pm

“Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World.”
Sociology Speaker Series
Leacock Building, McGill Campus, 655 Sherbrooke St. W., Rm. 738

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Rutgers Univesrity

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She works on globalization and development; political sociology; international migration; race, ethnicity and nationalism; gender; and ethnographic methods. She is also faculty affiliate of the Department of Women and Gender Studies and has been part of faculty-student initiatives to increase the visibility Asian American scholarship at
Rutgers.

Her recent book, Migrants for Export (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) examines how the Philippine state has emerged as one of the largest labor exporting countries in the world. Her publications on Philippine migration and Filipino migrant transnationalism have appeared in the journals Citizenship Studies, Signs, and the Peace Review as well as several edited anthologies. She is currently working on a second book project tentatively titled, “In Lady Liberty’s Shadow: Race, Immigration and Belonging in New Jersey after 9/11.”
———————————– Monday, October 4^th 6pm From Arizona to Montreal: Migrants fight back!A Panel Discussion with Professor and activist Robyn Rodriguez, Ramani Balendra of the Canadian Tamil Congress, and Farha Najah Hussain from No One Is Illegal. Moderated by Dr. Aziz Choudry. Leacock Building, McGill Campus, 655 Sherbrooke St. W. Rm. 232

A roundtable discussion presenting the ways that migrant and racialized communities in Canada and the United States experience state repression and alienation. From the effects of Arizona’s new immigration law (SB 1070) to the detention of Tamils in Vancouver to the criminalization of communities of colour in Ottawa and Montreal, this panel will attempt to shed light into the ways that the state fails these communities and the how these communities struggle and fight back.

Bios:

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (see bios above)
Farha Najah Hussain is a social-justice organiser based in Montreal. She has been actively involved with the No One Is Illegal Campaign since 2007.
Ramani Balendra has been a community worker at the South Asian Women’s Community Centre for the past fifteen years. She is also a founding member of the Canadian Tamil Congress in Quebec and was previously president of the Canadian Tamil congress from 2001-2006.  This panel is a co-presentation with the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA Concordia), Sociology Department of McGill University, East Asian Studies (McGill University), QPIRG McGill and the SSMU.  ————————————-
Tuesday Oct 5th – 1pm
Film Screening: Food Inc.
Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), Room 302, McGill University

Hosted by: The Midnight Kitchen – Food provided!

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our the US food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. American food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Bio: The Midnight Kitchen is a non-profit, volunteer and worker run food collective dedicated to providing affordable, healthy food to as many people as possible. Based out of McGill University in Montreal, QC we provide free/by donation vegan lunches 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, at 12:30 in the Shatner building on McGill campus.

————————————-Tuesday, October 5^th 6pm Community and Resistance: Katrina, Jena Six and Prisoner Justice A panel discussion with journalists and community organizers Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad, and Victoria LawChancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court  This panel is one stop on a book and speaking tour, COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE, of which all three panelists are a part, and which has been organized in part to launch Jordan Flaherty’s recently published Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six (Haymarket books, on sale in Montreal at the panel and booklaunch).  The COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena to women organizing inside prisons, from resistance to school privatization to post-Katrina community organizing and cultural resistance. The tour also seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media.  This discussion will include contributions from local activist Scott Weinstein (who volunteered with Common Ground Health Clinic after Katrina hit New Orleans) and will be facilitated by Professor Gada Mahrouse (Simone de Beauvoir Institute).  The event will be an opportunity for community organizers to come together and have discussions around issues raised during the panel.  Co-sponsored by CKUT, Media@McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU.  Bios:

Jesse Muhammad: Energetic, inspiring and effective are just some of the words audiences have used to describe the writings and messages delivered by writer, news reporter, artist, publicist and photojournalist Jesse Muhammad. Jesse, a native of Houston, has been an official staff writer for the Final Call Newspaper (FCN) the only national Black-owned newspaper. Since that time, he has gained worldwide recognition for his consistent coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing struggle of its survivors. In 2007, he was credited with bringing national and international attention to the case of the “Jena Six”, and helped to mobilize the 50,000 plus attendees to the historic “Jena Six” rally in September of that year.

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist and community organizer based in New Orleans. His new book, FLOODLINES: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six was released this summer from Haymarket Press. For more information on the book, see floodlines.org. Jordan has been a regular correspondent on both Democracy Now and News and Notes. As a white southerner who speaks honestly about race, Jordan Flaherty has been regularly published in Black progressive forums such as BlackCommentator.org and Black Agenda Report, and is a regular guest on Black radio stations and programs such as Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jordan is also an editor of Left Turn Magazine, a national publication dedicated to covering social movements.

Victoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. In 1996, she helped start Books Through Bars-New York City, a group that sends free books to prisoners nationwide. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison and has facilitated having incarcerated women’s writings published in larger publications. Her book Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2009) is the culmination of over seven years of listening to, writing about and supporting incarcerated women nationwide and resulted in Victoria winning the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award.  —————————————- Wednesday Oct 6th – 1:30pm

Workshop: A Radical Look at Jewish History and Identity
Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), McGill University
Come for some radical perspectives on Jewish history, and analyses on the diversity of ideas and thought within Jewish communities historically. Stay for discussions on identity formation and how changing systems of race and racialization have effected and influenced the Jewish community, now and in the past!

Elise Eisenkraft Klein, creator and facilitator of this workshop, is one of the founders of Young Jews for Social Justice.
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Bio: Jordan Flaherty is a journalist and community organizer based in New Orleans. His new book, FLOODLINES: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six was released this summer from Haymarket Press. For more information on the book, see floodlines.org. Jordan has been a regular correspondent on both Democracy Now and News and Notes. As a white southerner who speaks honestly about race, Jordan Flaherty has been regularly published in Black progressive forums such as BlackCommentator.org and Black Agenda Report, and is a regular guest on Black radio stations and programs such as Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jordan is also an editor of Left Turn Magazine, a national publication dedicated to covering social movements.
Hosted by QPIRG McGill, The McGill Daily, and CKUT Radio.

———————————————————– Wednesday, October 5^th, Doors at 7:30pm Fundraising concert, featuring the Fat Tuesday Jazz Band and members of Kalmunity Vibe Collective, and the Booklaunch of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six by Jordan Flaherty. Il Motore, 179 Jean Talon West, Metro Parc$5-10, pay what you can  Bringing a little piece of New Orleans to Montreal, this multi-media book launch will feature musical performances by the Fat Tuesday Jazz Band and members of Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Jordan will show videos and his book will be on sale at the venue.  All proceeds will go to a Pakistani grassroots organization called Hirrak (www.hirrak.org), who have set up a camp to house and feed 3-4,000 people since the floods and underwhelming international response to the crisis in Pakistan.  This event is co-sponsored by CKUT, Media@McGill, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU.  ————————————————— Thursday October 7th at 1pm

Film Screening and discussion:  Film TBA, hosted by G-CARE Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), McGill University (Metro McGill)

Bio: The Graduate Collective Against Racism and for Equity (G-CARE) is a diverse group of graduate students working in collaboration with their undergraduate and community allies to identify and take action against institutional racism and intersecting forms of systemic oppression at McGill and in the wider Montreal community. We engage in activist support for racialized students, and work to strengthen relationships with activist groups on and off campus, in order to challenge dominant Eurocentric, neo-liberal and racist ideologies/culture through research and action. Presently, we are developing critical consciousness-building workshops, policy research, and a media justice campaign. Please contact us at gcare.info@gmail.com to get involved!
—————————————— Tuesday October 12th at 3pm

Workshop: Landed Resistance: How Land Rights Struggles Fight Climate Change  Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), McGill University (Metro McGill)
This workshop will examine this question by attempting to connect us to some of the histories of land based struggles and forced displacement that have been erased in the creation of “North America”.  Building on these histories we will examine how land rights, indigenous solidarity and migrant justice tie into the notion that supporting communities in protecting their land and their livelihoods is one of the most strategic ways to fight the drivers of climate change

Bio: Climate Justice Montreal works in Montreal and surrounding communities to confront the root causes of climate change. We are committed to environmental justice, recognizing that only with broad social transformation will we be able to effectively confront the climate crisis.

——————————————- Tuesday, October 12^th 6:30pm Film Screening of Injustice, a documentary about police violence in the U.K. Cultural Studies Screening Room, 3475 Peel (NOT wheelchair accessible)  This documentary depicts the relentless struggles of families who have lost loved ones at the hands of police in the U.K. Each family is met with a wall of official secrecy and the film documents how they unite and challenge this together. The documentary uses powerful exclusive footage filmed over a five-year period and witnesses the families’ pain and anger at the killings. It documents the fight to retrieve the bodies for burial, the mockery of police self-investigation and the collusion of the legal system in the deaths.  Injustice is being screened during Culture Shock 2010 in honour of the October 22^nd International Day to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.  This screening is a co-presentation with the October 22^nd Coalition to Commemorate Victims of Police Killings, a Working Group of QPIRG McGill.  —————————————– Wednesday, October 13^th 1pm Voices Against 377: Decriminalizing same-sex activity in IndiaA Presentation by Delhi-based legal rights activist Ponni Arasu Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Rm. 200

Ponni will speak to her experiences as one of the core activists who worked on having gay sex decriminalized in India. Ponni will focus her talk on the legal aspects of queer rights struggles in India, and will reflect on how effective this approach is, both in India and internationally.

Bio:

Ponni Arasu is a queer feminist activist from New Delhi, India. She has worked with the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, India, as well as with the Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her work involves a range of human rights issues including gender, sexuality, labour and conflict. Since 2003, Ponni has worked with Voices Against 377, a coalition of women’s groups, child rights groups, human rights groups and sexuality groups formed to initiate discussions on sexuality and the law. Voices Against 377 filed an affidavit to strike down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the section that criminalizes gay sex.

This panel is a co-presentation with Rad Law and Outlaw (two radical law groups at McGill), QPIRG McGill, the Law Faculty of McGill University, Queer McGill, Human Rights Working Group at McGill, the Social Equity and Diversity Education (SEDE) Office of McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and the SSMU.
———————————————— Wednesday, October 13^th 6:00pm Resisting the Neoliberal Gay Agenda: Queer Organizing in an International ContextKEYNOTE PANEL with Ponni Arasu, Joshua Pavan, and Natalie Kouri-Towe, moderated by Indu Vashist Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court This panel will look at the different ways queers organize around a variety of issues and across borders. The panelists will seek to look critically at the ways in which queers engage with or resist the corporate, mainstream gay agenda. Ponni Arasu will talk about her experience with the India specific context, having worked within various queer collectives, including the Nigah media collective that is based in Delhi. The collective has organised the annual Nigah Queer Fest in Delhi for the past three years.  Joshua Pavan, a Montreal-based community organizer who has worked for the past few years with the Prisoner Correspondence Project and is part of the Pervers/cite collective, will address some of the ways that queer organizing in Montreal has evolved over the past few years, namely through looking at Pervers/cite as an alternative to pride. Natalie Kouri-Towe will focus on her experiences with queer solidarity work, both in Montreal and Toronto.
This panel is a co-presentation with the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU.  ———————————————– Thursday October 14th  at 1.30pm

Workshop: Racism in Canada: From Colonialism to Border Control Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), McGill University (Metro McGill)

Racism has been part of the history of the `making of Canada` since its inception on indigenous land when the first settlers arrived.  It continues today in many new forms.  This workshop goes beyond common understandings of racism as `hating` people of colour, it is an on the ground phenomenon that affects a large portion of the world`s ability to live their lives with dignity.  Starting with timelines of the colonization of Canada and the white supremacist nature built into immigration law for most of Canadian history, this workshop continues into the ways that Canada promotes more implicitely racist policies into the present.  This includes an examination of racial profiling, the incarceration of indigenous communities, the on-going theft of native land, the use of restrictive border policies, exploitative temporary workers programs, Islamophobia and `national security` legislation, and much more.  It is meant as an introduction of the topic of the hsitory and the current reality of `Racism in Canada`.

Bio: Robyn Maynard organizes, writes and does popular education around racial profiling, police violence, and migrant justice.  She believes in standing up and fighting back against the indignities caused by racism and colonialism.  She is part of No One Is Illegal Montreal and co-hosts No One Is Illegal radio.

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Workshop: Say Your Piece: creating culture that speaks to you Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), McGill University (Metro McGill)

This workshop aims to talk about cultural appropriation, discuss it in contemporary terms that make the discussion engrossing and hopefully not guilt laden.  From there, we will ask participants to examine their own histories and cultures to find those stories that the world needs so badly.  All of our lives are full of intersecting oppressions, and, where that shit piles up highest, that is where we can meet the rest of the world on even footing.

Participants will leave with a piece of art they’ve made, either out of collage or spray paint.
Bio: The Ste-Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. The Skillshare collective runs an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression (anti-racism/ sexism/ classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/ ableism/ sizeism/ etc). Our space is open to all. Long live skill-sharing!

—————————————-Friday, October 15^th 10:30pm Q-Team Queer Dance PartyIl Motore, 179 Jean Talon West  Get your dance on at our final Culture Shock closing party. This event is co-sponsored by qteam, Queer McGill, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU.
All proceeds will go to a Pakistani grassroots organization called Hirrak (www.hirrak.org), who have set up a camp to house and feed 3-4,000 people since the floods and underwhelming international response to the crisis in Pakistan.


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Le GRIP-McGill et l’AÉUM présentent… *********CULTURE SHOCK 2010**************
Du 3 au 15 octobre Sur le campus de McGill et dans la communauté http://qpirgmcgill.org/events/culture-shock/ Culture Shock est une série annuelle d’événements dédiée à l’exploration des mythes qui entourent les communautés immigrantes et réfugiées, les peuples autochtones et les communautés de couleur. Elle est organisée par le Groupe de recherche en intérêt public (GRIP) de McGill et l’Association étudiante de l’Université McGill (AÉUM). Culture Shock vise à rassembler les membres de ces communautés pour les encourager à discuter des enjeux qui influencent leur quotidien ainsi que d’éduquer les non-membres des enjeux que font face les communautés de couleur au Canada.  Tous les événements sont gratuits et ouverts au grand public. Les deux levées de fonds (le lancement de livre et le spectacle durant la première semaine et le party durant la deuxième semaine) seront à contribution suggérée.  Pour la halte-garderie, veuillez nous notifier 48 heures d’avance. Toutes les salles sont accessibles aux fauteuils roulants SAUF le Cultural Studies Screening Room. Pour l’horaire complet, incluant les ateliers et les événements durant la journée, visitez http://qpirgmcgill.org/events/culture-shock/.  Vous pouvez également nous envoyer un courriel à qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca ou composez le 514-398-7432. Pour la traduction chuchotée vers le français, contactez-nous 48 heures en avance.
(Pour le moment, les ateliers sont exclusivement en anglais. Contactez-nous si vous aimeriez participer dans un des ateliers décrits en anglais en haut de cette page.)  Culture Shock est un projet collaboratif annuel entre l’Association étudiante de l’Université McGill (AÉUM) et le Groupe de recherche en intérêt public (GRIP) de McGill.
HORAIRE DES ÉVÉNEMENTS : ———————————- Le lundi 4 octobre 18 h De l’Arizona à Montréal : les migrant-e-s ripostent!Un panel avec la professeure et militante Robyn Rodriguez, Ramani Balendra du Congrès Tamoul Canadien, et Farha Najah de Personne n’est illegal Pavillon Leacock, campus de McGill, 655 rue Sherbrooke O., salle 232  Une discussion à table ronde qui présentera les façons que les communautés migrantes et racialisées au Canada et aux États-Unis subissent la répression de l’état et l’exclusion. Des effets de la nouvelle loi de l’Arizona sur l’immigration (SB 1070) à la détention des Tamoul-e-s à Vancouver à la criminalisation des communautés racialisées à Ottawa et à Montréal, ce panel tentera d’illuminer les façons que l’état néglige ces communautés et comment ces communautés luttent et ripostent.  ROBYN MAGALIT RODRIGUEZ est professeure de sociologie à l’Université Rutgers. Son livre intitulé Migrants for Export : How the Philippine State Brokers Labour to the World fut publié par la presse de l’Université du Minnesota en 2010. Elle s’implique comme militante et partisane de la communauté philippine-américaine, incluant le Forum philippin basé à New York.  Ce panel est une présentation de l’École des affaires publiques et communautaires de Concordia (ÉAPC Concordia), le département de sociologie de l’Université McGill, le départment d’East Asian Studies [Études du sud-est Asiatique] (Université McGill), le GRIP-McGill et l’AÉUM.  ———————————- Mardi 5 octobre, 18h00 Katrina, le Jena 6, et justice prisonnierUn panel avec journalistes et activistes communautaires Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad, et Victoria Law. Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court  La tournée communauté et résistance arrive à Montréal! Cette tournée vise  à partager les luttes actuelles de justice et de libération qui se déroulent à Jena, ville du nord de la Louisiane: del’organisation des femmes dans les prisons, au mouvement de résistance à la privatisation de l’éducation, à la résistance culturelle et l’organisation post-Katrina des communautés. La tournée vise également à faire mettre enréseau des processus collectif de libération, en établissant des relations entre les communautés locales, les militantEs et les médias indépendants.   Le panel animé par Gada Mahrouse, professeure à l’institue Simone deBeauvoir inclura une intervention de l’activiste local Scott Weinstein qui a entre autres été volontaire auprès de la clinique Common Ground Health après les ravages de l’ouragan Katrina à la Nouvelle Orléans.  Cet événement sera une chance pour les militant-e-s de se rejoindre et de discuter les enjeux soulevés durant ce panel.  Commandité par CKUT, Média@McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, le GRIP-McGill et l’AÉUM.  Bios : Jesse Muhammad : Énergétique, inspirant et efficace sont quelques-uns des adjectifs que le public a utilisé pour décrire les écrits et les messages livrés par l’écrivain, reporter, artiste, publiciste et photojournaliste Jesse Muhammad. Jesse, un originaire d’Houston, est un journaliste au Final Call Newspaper (FCN), le seul journal national avec des propriétaires afro-américains. Depuis ce temps, il a été reconnu pour sa couverture médiatique régulière de l’ouragan Katrina et des luttes actuelles de ses survivant-e-s. En 2007, il fut reconnu pour attirer l’attention nationale et internationale au cas des « six de Jena » et il assista à la mobilisation de plus de 50 000 participant-e-s à la manifestation historique en appui aux « six de Jena » en septembre 2007.  Jordan Flaherty est un journaliste et militant basé en Nouvelle-Orléans. Son nouveau livre, FLOODLINES : Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six est sorti cet été chez Haymarket Press. Pour plus d’information sur ce livre, consultez http://www.floodlines.org. Jordan est un correspondant régulier aux émissions Democracy Now et News and Notes. Un blanc originaire du sud des États-Unis qui parle franchement de la race, Jordan Flaherty est publié fréquemment dans des forums progressistes afro-américains comme Blackcommentator.org et Black Agenda Report, et il est un invité habituel des stations de radio et programmes afro-américains comme Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jordan est aussi un rédacteur de Left Turn Magazine, une publication nationale qui se dédie à la couverture de mouvements sociaux.  Victoria Law est une écrivaine, photographe et mère. En 1996, elle contribua à l’établissement de Books Through Bars – New York City, un groupe qui envoie des livres gratuitement aux prisonnières et prisonniers à travers les États-Unis. Depuis 2002, elle a travaillé avec des femmes incarcérées à travers le pays pour produire Tenacious : Art and Writings from Women in Prison et a facilité la publication des œuvres de femmes incarcérées dans des publications plus importantes. Son livre Resistance Behind Bars : The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2009) fut le produit de plus de sept ans d’écoute, d’écriture et de soutien des femmes incarcérées à travers les États-Unis et mena à son obtention du prix PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society Award [prix de la prévention pour une société plus sécuritaire]) en 2009.  ———————————————————– Mercredi 6 octobre, Portes ouvertes 19h30 Concert de levée de fonds, avec The Fat Tuesday Jazz Band et membres du Collectif Kalmunity Vibe, et Lancement du livre:  “Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six” de Jordan Flaherty. Il Motore, 179 Jean Talon West, Metro Parc  Pour apporter un petit peu de la Nouvelle-Orléans à Montréal, ce lancement de livre va inclure des performances musicales du Fat Tuesday Brass Band et de quelques membres du Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Jordan va présenter des courts-métrages et son livre sera en vente à la salle.  Toutes les recettes vont être contribuées à l’organisme pakistanais Hirrak (http://www.hirrak.org) qui a aménagé des camps pour loger et nourrir 3 000 à 4 000 personnes depuis les inondations au Pakistan pour compenser le manque d’assistance internationale durant cette crise.  Cet événement est commandité par CKUT, Média@McGill, le GRIP-McGill et l’AÉUM.  ————————–————- Le mardi 12 octobre 18 h 30 Présentation du film Injustice, un documentaire à propos de la violence policière au Royaume-Uni Cultural Studies Screening Room, 3475 rue Peel (PAS accessible aux fauteuils roulants)  Ce documentaire présente les luttes implacables des familles qui ont perdu des proches aux mains de la police au Royaume-Uni. Chaque famille fait face à un mur de silence officiel et le film documente comment elles s’unissent et le contestent ensemble. Le documentaire utilise des séquences exclusives tournées au cours d’une période de cinq ans et témoigne la douleur et la colère envers les meurtres. Le film documente la lutte pour récupérer les corps pour les enterrer, la moquerie des enquêtes internes du corps policier et la collusion du système judiciaire dans ces morts.  Injustice sera présenté durant Culture Shock 2010 pour honorer la Journée internationale pour arrêter la brutalité policière, la répression et la criminalisation d’une génération du 22 octobre.  Ce visionnement est une co-présentation avec le October 22^nd Coalition to Commemorate Victims of Police Killings, un groupe de travail du GRIP-McGill.  —————————————- Le mercredi 13 octobre 13 hVoices Against 377: décriminaliser les activités de même-sexe en Inde Une présentation de Ponni Arasu, militante pour les droits légaux basée à Delhi Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 rue Peel, salle 200 Ponni discutera de ses expériences comme l’une des militantes les plus importantes dans la lutte pour la décriminalisation des relations sexuelles gaies en Inde. Ponni va se concentrer sur les aspects juridiques des luttes queer en Inde et va revenir sur l’efficacité de cette approche en Inde et à l’échelle internationale.  Ce panel est une co-présentation de Rad Law et Outlaw (deux groupes radicaux d’étudiant-e-s en droit à McGill), le GRIP-McGill, la faculté de droit de l’Université McGill, Queer McGill, Human Rights Working Group de McGill, Social Equity and Diversity Education (SEDE) Office de McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy et l’AÉUM.  Bio : Ponni Arasu est une militante queer et féministe de New Delhi. Elle a travaillé avec l’Alternative Law Forum en Bangalore ainsi qu’avec le Law and Society Trust de Colombo, Sri Lanka. Son travail inclut une variété d’enjeux en droits humains qui incluent le genre, la sexualité, le travail et le conflit. Depuis 2003, Ponni collabore avec Voices Against 377, une coalition composée de groupes de femmes, groupes pour les droits d’enfants, groupes pour les droits humains et groupes de sexualité créée pour initier des discussions sur la sexualité et la loi. Voices Against 377 a fait une déclaration par écrit et sous serment pour abolir la section 377 du code pénal indien qui criminalise les relations sexuelles gaies.  ————————————— Le mercredi 13 octobre 18 hRésister le néolibéralisme gai : le militantisme queer dans un contexte international PANEL PRINCIPAL avec Ponni Arasu, Joshua Pavan et Natalie Kouri-Towe; animé par Indu Vashist Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 rue Peel, Moot Court  Ce panel discutera des différentes démarches que les queer emploient pour s’organiser autour d’une variété d’enjeux et à travers des frontières. Les invité-e-s vont observer de façon critique les manières dont les queer s’engagent avec ou résistent le plan politique du courant principal, capitaliste du mouvement gai. Ponni Arasu racontera ses expériences en Inde, qui incluent militer avec quelques collectifs queer, comme le collectif médiatique Nigah basé en Delhi. Le collectif a organisé les festivals annuels queer de Nigah pendant les trois dernières années.  Joshua Pavan est un militant basé à Montréal qui travaille avec le Prisoner Correspondance Project depuis quelques années et fait partie du collectif Pervers/cité. Il va adresser quelques-unes des façons dont la militance queer a évolué depuis quelques années, notamment en présentant Pervers/cité comme une alternative à la fierté gaie. Natalie Kouri-Towe va discuter de ses expériences de solidarité queer à Montréal et à Toronto.
Commandité par 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill et l’AÉUM.
——————————————-Le vendredi 15 octobre 22 h 30 Q-Team présente…Party queer et levée de fonds Il Motore, 179 rue Jean-Talon Ouest, 22h30 Venez danser à la fête de fermeture de Culture Shock. Cet événement est commandité par le Q-Team, Queer McGill, le GRIP-McGill et l’AÉUM.
Toutes les recettes vont être contribuées à l’organisme pakistanais Hirrak (http://www.hirrak.org) qui a aménagé des camps pour loger et nourrir 3 000 à 4 000 personnes depuis les inondations au Pakistan pour compenser le manque d’assistance internationale durant cette crise.

Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University3647 University, 3rd Floor Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B3Tel. 514-398-7432Fax. 514-398-8976 www.qpirgmcgill.org

Event :Colloquium-forum presentation

Taking place at UQAM (Montreal) from June 21st to June 23rd 2010

Topic of the conferences: Matter and Material in Contemporary Native Artistic Practices
Speakers (mainly artists) will present the relation between the subjects that inspire them and the materials they use to express them in their work as creators (or curators) in Quebec and Canada

If you need any supplementary information contact us at: kwe@artial.qc.ca

Message from Artial’s founder, Anaïs Janin, initiator and coordinator of the project:

Hello to all our visitors!

I’m glad to invite you to to Artial’s first colloquium, bringing together more than thirty Native artists, academics, and experts in the diffusion of Native art of Quebec and Canada. We are convinced that their presentations and performances will allow you to discover how, in each sector of cultural activity and for the fifteen or so disciplines touched by the conferences and special activities, the artists are are the carriers of a specific sensitivity.

They contribute, in their own way, to the evolution of the contemporary artistic practices by their hability to build an authentic identity while conciliating influences coming from different sources: the feeling of belonging to the community, the aesthetic streams that cross the cultural milieu, and the inputs coming from outside.
The special activities make up for an integral part of the programme because each participant will be invited to speak out and talk about the meaning of her or his work, either at the photo exhibition opening on Tuesday, or during the closing-show on Wednesday.

The leading thread for the different meetings will be the relation between the subjects that are touched in the artworks (the “Matter”) and the materials used to communicate them. It will be interesting to see if we can pin point some traits that are common to the approaches of persons coming from different disciplines, but also the particularities that make of each creator a unique personality, with her or his own itinerary.

I wish you personaly, in the name of the whole Artial: art & social team, a stimulating experience of discoveries in the company of the presentators and actors of Creation and Diversity in Native Art Today.

Anaïs Janin

Doctorate researcher in sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Administrative director for ARTIAL, which she founded in January 2010.

CKUT & FPH present: Aboriginal Day Celebration

“Join us as we take back the airwaves! With special guests and live performances, and much more, join CKUT 90.3fm for this special broadcast. On Thursday, June 17th, join CKUT Radio and the First Peoples’ House at McGill University, and the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal for a live broadcast and community dinner.”

Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126188677395479

Schedule – June 17, 2010

Voices of Our Nations: 8-hour Radio Broadcast with CKUT and Inter-tribal Youth Center
Native Friendship Center Art Expo

Musical Guest: DJ Madeskimo, Tiohtiake, CerAmony + More!

11h00-13h00 “Voices of Our Nations” Broadcast at CKUT (3647 Rue University 514.448.4041 x 2593)
13h30-17h00 “Voices of Nation” Broadcast at NFCM (2001 St-Laurent 514.499.1854 x 2229) & NFCM Art Expo
14h00-17h00 Open air sculpture with Eugene
17h30 Art Expo Opening Ceremony
18h00 Community Feast

Schedule – le 17 juin 2010

“Les Voix des Nos Nations” radio sur les ondes avec CKUT et Centre Inter-Bande des Jeunes

Expo d’Art du Centre d’amitié autochtone de Montréal

Les invités musicales: DJ Madeskimo, Tiohtiake, CerAmony + plus

11h00-13h00 “Les Voix des Nos Nations” Radio sur les ondes à CKUT (3647 Rue University 514.448.4041 poste 2593)
13h30-17h00 “Les Voix des Nos Nations” Radio sur les ondes à CAAM (2001 St-Laurent 514.499.1854 poste 2229) et Expo d’Art de CAAM
14h00-17h00 Sculpture à aire libre
17h30 Cérémonie d’ouverture du Expo d’Art de CAAM
18h00 Dîner Communautaire

KANATA is looking for volunteers for this event!

If you are interested in attending this event and would like to lend a hand, please contact KANATA at mcgillnativestudiesjournal@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

On behalf of Claudine Cyr et Isabelle St-Amand, organizers of the event at the GIRA:

June 17-19 – Indigenous Cinema – conferences, round table discussions, panels/forums – Festival Présence autochtone (Montréal + Kahnawake)

Hi,

We are pleased to invite you to the 2^nd edition of REVISIONING THE AMERICAS THROUGH INDIGENOUS CINEMA that will be held in Montreal and Kahnawake on June 17, 18 and 19^th 2010 as part of the annual First People’s Film Festival Présence autochtone.

The event aims to create a space for Native filmmakers/videomakers, distributors, producers, scholars as well as people from local indigenous communities to meet and discuss in order to bring about a collaborative reflection on Indigenous cinema in the Americas. Our 2^nd edition will commemorate the 20^th anniversary of the Oka crisis of 1990 by proposing activities on the role of film in this significant event.

Conferences, round table discussions and panels/forums with Alanis Obomsawin (filmmaker, Canada), Elizabeth Weatherford (Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian), Lorna Roth (U. Concordia), Michèle Rouleau (producer, Canada), Reaghan Tarbell (filmmaker, Etats-Unis), Leire Fernández (UNESCO, Cuba), Kenneth Deer (The Eastern Door, Kahnawake) and other guests.

Free admission! With simultaneous translation!

Detailed program and bus info soon available at:

www.gira.info

http://www.gira.info/en/revisioning-the-americas

Hope to see you all there!

17-19 juin – Cinéma autochtone  – conférences, tables rondes et forums – Festival Présence autochtone (Montréal + Kahnawake)

Bonjour,

Nous souhaitons vous annoncer la tenue de la 2^ème édition de REGARDS AUTOCHTONES SUR LES AMÉRIQUES, les 17, 18 et 19 juin 2010, à Montréal et à Kahnawake, dans le cadre du festival Présence autochtone.

L’événement rassemblera des chercheurs universitaires, des cinéastes/vidéastes, scénaristes et producteurs autochtones, ainsi que gens des communautés autochtones locales afin d’engager une réflexion collaborative sur le cinéma autochtone dans les Amériques. Les journées à Kahnawake souligneront le 20^e anniversaire de la crise d’Oka en proposant des discussions autour des films sur l’événement.

Conférences, tables rondes et forums avec Alanis Obomsawin (cinéaste, Canada), Elizabeth Weatherford (Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian), Lorna Roth (U. Concordia), Michèle Rouleau (productrice, Canada), Reaghan Tarbell (cinéaste, Etats-Unis), Leire Fernández (UNESCO, Cuba), Kenneth Deer (The Eastern Door, Kahnawake) et autres invités.

Entrée libre! Avec interprétation simultanée!

Programme détaillé et renseignements au :

www.gira.info

http://www.gira.info/fr/regards-autochtones/regards-2010

Au plaisir de vous y voir!

Claudine Cyr et Isabelle St-Amand, organisatrices de l’événement au GIRA