QPIRG McGill

What does homelessness look like in our communities?
2025-03-25 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
With Lil Borger and Robbie Madsen
Society makes a lot of assumptions about what homelessness “looks” like. This 1.5 hour discussion-based workshop centers around community member Robbie Madsen’s life stories, and how wrong these assumptions can be about how homelessness happens, what it looks like, and how it feels.
QPIRG-McGill (3516 Av du Parc)
Accessibility:
The library space at 3516 is partially accessible – there is a ramp to the front door, but the door is not automatic. Please ring the doorbell or call us at 514-284-2664 if you require assistance.
There is a gender-neutral bathroom on the first floor, but it is not wheelchair accessible.

De-escalation Workshop: Communicating Through Mental Health Crises
2025-03-22 13:00 - 14:30 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
Free workshop by Liz Singh
This is an introduction to crisis intervention and de-escalation. In it, we will cover: defining crisis, planning for crisis and crisis de-escalation, de-escalating yourself & basic suicide intervention.
This workshop will be given in two parts, totalling 3 hours:

a 90 minute online module
a second 90-minute in-person workshop where we will work through scenarios.

To register and access the online materials prior to attending the workshop, visit the link here.
About the facilitator:
Liz Singh is a community organizer concerned with harm reduction, public health policy, and decolonization.
Saturday, March 22, 1-2:30PM
QPIRG-McGill (3516 Av du Parc)
Accessibility:
The library space at 3516 is partially accessible – there is a ramp to the front door, but the door is not automatic. Please ring the doorbell or call us at 514-284-2664 if you require assistance.
There is a gender-neutral bathroom on the first floor, but it is not wheelchair accessible.

Gaza as a Compass for Thinking
2025-03-21 17:30 - 20:00 | SHIFT Concordia, LB-145, 1400 rue Maisonneuve, Montreal, Canada
Keynote lecture by Dr. Alia Al-Saji, professor of Philosophy at McGill
Gaza as a Compass for Thinking: A decolonial philosophy of debilitation and resistance in colonial duration
Seventeen months into the genocide in Gaza, our philosophies remain for the most part either silent or complaisant, seemingly unable to think with a contemporaneous reality that would shake many of its presuppositions and theoretical tools. This is a colonial duration in which genocide continues to snowball—during the current ceasefire—through disease, cold, exposure, starvation, untreated injury, and the debilitation of the infrastructure for healthcare. Refusing the application of pregiven frameworks, I ask what an anticolonial/decolonial and feminist philosophy that accompanies and affectively registers this reality may be. What is it to take Gaza as the compass for thinking. What might it mean to resist and refuse the inevitability of this colonial duration. Drawing on concepts of qahr (suffering, oppression), ashla’a dismemberment), shaheed (martyr, witness) and sumud (steadfastness), found in Palestinian, Arab and Muslim thinking—and on thinkers from Fanon to Shariati, Azoulay, and Meari—I reconfigure an approach to philosophy that might begin to do justice to Palestine.
Bio:
Alia Al-Saji is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. Al-Saji’s work brings together phenomenology, critical philosophy of race, and feminist theory, with an abiding interest in questions of time and affect. She has published extensively in critical phenomenology and on the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Frantz Fanon, most recently: “Touching the Wounds of Colonial Duration: Fanon’s anticolonial critical phenomenology” (Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024). Her recent work extends Critical Disability Studies in colonial contexts, notably in: “A Debilitating Colonial Duration: Reconfiguring Fanon” (Research in Phenomenology, 2023).
RSVP here
Vegan meals will be served at the end of the event!
Masks are strongly recommended for this event. N95 masks will be available at the door.

Inappropriate Content: Censorship in Prison Mailrooms
2025-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
Hosted by Prisoner Correspondence Project
The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a solidarity project for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gendervariant, two-spirit, intersex, bisexual and queer prisoners in Canada and the United States, linking them with people a part of these same communities outside of prison.
Since its inception, one of the most significant barriers that the project has faced is the censorship of information and speech by prison mailrooms. Even the most benign materials–a form to fill out to be matched with a pen pal, or a list of free resources available from our library–have been flagged by prison staff as threatening to the security of the prison, and rejected. Repressive mailroom policies have direct consequences on the wellbeing of people inside, who are denied access to lifesaving information about harm reduction and gender/sexuality, or to handwritten letters from loved ones.
In this workshop, we will learn about some of the ways prisons use censorship as a tool of control–including through emerging technologies such as digital mail processing systems–, and how this affects prisoners; and will explore some methods of resisting censorship from the inside and the outside.
QPIRG-McGill (3516 Av du Parc)
Accessibility:
The library space at 3516 is partially accessible – there is a ramp to the front door, but the door is not automatic. Please ring the doorbell or call us at 514-284-2664 if you require assistance.
There is a gender-neutral bathroom on the first floor, but it is not wheelchair accessible.

Understanding and Supporting Sex Workers in our Communities
2025-03-18 17:30 - 19:30 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
This workshop offers an in-depth introduction into various dimensions of the sex industry, the history of the global sex worker rights movement, the laws impacting sex work in Canada and the unique conditions under which sex workers navigate issues of consent, violence and self-determination. Particular attention is paid to the connection between sex worker rights and migrant justice.
RSVP here
QPIRG-McGill (3516 Av du Parc)
Accessibility:
The library space at 3516 is partially accessible – there is a ramp to the front door, but the door is not automatic. Please ring the doorbell or call us at 514-284-2664 if you require assistance.
There is a gender-neutral bathroom on the first floor, but it is not wheelchair accessible.

Home is Where Public Transit Is
2025-03-17 17:00 - 19:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
Climate Justice Montreal
In this workshop, we will discuss how economic, physical and social access to public transit shapes the way we live and defines our home. We will also discuss the role of public transit for unhoused communities and the way it could act as a sanctuary space. For many of us, especially in disadvantaged communities, public transit is not only a means to get from one place to another; it also determines where we can live and work, and the way transit routes are designed maps our entire lifestyles, placing limits on where we can establish a place to call home. How could we make public transit more harmonious with a radical vision of what home is in terms of relationships, care and community? How could we transform public transit spaces to better serve our needs in terms of housing and living?
QPIRG-Concordia (2100 rue Guy, #205)
Accessibility
The QPIRG space itself is wheelchair accessible.
There is an elevator in our building. There are two entrances. The entrance at 2100 Guy has one flight of stairs.
For step-free access, use the entrance at 1625 de Maisonneuve Ouest.
Buzz #0205 to be let through the automatic doors, then take the elevator up to the second floor. The door to the space can be opened by automated button, and swings out.
There is a paid parking lot beside the building, entrance on Guy.
A list of other spaces downtown (Ville-Marie borough) reserved for people who have the blue-and-white parking permit can be found here.

Drylongso: Film Screening
2025-03-15 18:30 - 21:00 | 7080 rue Alexandra, #506, 7080 rue Alexandra, #506, Montreal, QC, Canada
Regards Noirs
(1998, 1 hour 26 minutes, 4k restoration)
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland, California, art student Pica (Toby Smith) attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship (April Barnett) and experiencing love, heartbreak, and the everyday threat of violence. Capturing the vibrant community spirit of Oakland in the nineties, Smith crafts both a rare cinematic celebration of Black female creativity and a moving elegy for a generation of lost African American men. (Criterion)
Directed by Cauleen Smith.
7080 rue Alexandra, #506
RSVP at the link here

Eviction: Film Screening
2025-03-14 18:00 - 20:00 | 3475 rue Peel, 3475 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, Canada
with Director Mathilde Capone
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal’s queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. EVICTION is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation.
Read more
(2023, 1 hour 30 minutes)
3475 rue Peel
Accessibility
Unfortunately, the theatre space at 3475 rue Peel is not wheelchair accessible.

Fuck le Pinkwashing
2025-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 | SSMU Flex Space, 3480 rue McTavish, room 106, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7 2H7, Canada
Fighting rising islamophobia & transphobia in Quebec education through solidarity & accomplicity
‘Fuck le Pinkwashing’ is a workshop and community dialogue that seeks to explore how we can collectively resist oft-invoked, consent-manufacturing rhetoric in educational settings which can position Muslim and Queer communities against each other. This discussion takes place in the context of Bill 21, Quebec’s infamous law prohibiting teachers from working while wearing religious symbols, and the National Assembly’s recent inflammatory, Islamophobic remarks in the wake of the report on the Bedford School. Likewise, in 2023, the Comité de sages sur l’identité du genre was also formed with the mandate of investigating the “issue” of gender identity in schools following protests organized by Hands Off Our Kids, a group backed by far-right donors, which opposed the inclusion of contemporary gender and sexuality curricula in schools. Together, RECESS facilitators, invited collaborators and workshop attendees will study the possibilities for solidarity-building between communities through a variety of lenses, including organizing for social justice, student organizing, radical pedagogical practices, the (re)politicization of teachers’ unions, electing accomplices into school boards and service centers, and navigating the gray areas of educational policy and law.
There will be free vegan meals served at the end of the event. Please RSVP at the link here.
SSMU Flex Space (Room 106, 3480 rue McTavish)
Accessibility:
The SSMU University Centre is wheelchair accessible. There are single-stall, accessible bathrooms on the second and fourth floor.

Community Dinner
2025-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | SSMU Flex Space, 3480 rue McTavish, room 106, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7 2H7, Canada
Come for a free vegan meal and hang out with QPIRG!
SSMU Flex Space (Room 106, 3480 rue McTavish)

Accessibility:
The SSMU University Centre is wheelchair accessible. There are single-stall, accessible bathrooms on the second and fourth floor.

Lupa ay Buhay (Land is Life)
2024-10-29 18:00 - 20:00 | 680 Sherbrooke, 680 Sherbrooke O, Room 361, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lupa ay Buhay (Land is Life)
In this event, we will hear from one of our community members who went to their homeland of the Philippines to live with and among the peasants and farmers as they waged their campaigns for land, rights, and livelihood. October marks Peasants Month in the Philippines. This is a month to cherish the continuous and surging selfless struggle of Philippine peasantry and farmers against all yoke of social injustice and inequality.
We will explore the lives and experiences of peasants and farmers in the Philippines through art. Participants will engage in activities that highlight the vital role of farmers in the country, their daily struggles, resilience, and connection to the land. Together, we will examine the intersection of agriculture, capitalism, culture, and human rights – fostering a deeper understanding of rural life. This workshop aims to spark meaningful conversations and highlight ways we can promote solidarity in our increasingly globalized world.
October 29, 6-8pm
680 Sherbrooke O, Room 361
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs

Radical Walking Tour #2
2024-10-29 12:00 - 13:30 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
Radical Walking Tour
The Radical Walking Tour of Milton Parc presents a critical and nuanced historical presentation to the neighbourhood sites. The tour includes a visit to notable sites on McGill’s campus, focusing on the history of James McGill’s abuse and enslavement of First Nations and Indigenous residents of Tiohtià:ke and the ongoing fight of the Kanistensera to secure justice regarding the Royal Vic project. Similarly, the walking tour would rotate between a series of stations where different local organizations will present about their ongoing projects, and talk about the history of the area.
Meeting point: 3516 Av du Parc
October 29, 12pm-1:30pm
This tour will also be held on October 22, 4pm-5:30pm.
If you are interested in learning more about the amazing variety of projects and community groups in the milton parc area, and would like to learn more about the activist history of the neighbourhood, this tour is for you! Even you are familiar with the area, the tour provides historical context of notable sites that you may be new to you. For instance, did you the know the federation of co-ops in Milton-Parc consists of 22 different housing co-ops and non-profits, with 133 buildings and 645 apartments, housing a total population of about 1,500. Come learn more at the radical walking tour of Milton Parc and McGill!
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs

Panel: History of Montréal Activism
2024-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 | SSMU Ballroom, 301-3480 rue McTavish, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Panel: History of Montréal Activism
Our upcoming panel event, ‘History of Montréal Activism’ will bring together community activists who have been organizing for generations to explore the rich history of activism in this city, with a particular focus on anti-imperialism. Participants will hear stories about how organizing has evolved throughout time and the effectiveness of different tactics. The discussion will feature active organizers who have played pivotal roles in various movements surrounding Palestine, migrant justice, and women’s rights over the years. Attendees can also look forward to a free dinner, and space for further discussion at the end of the event.
Our panelists include organizers from: Women of Diverse Origins, Old People 4 Palestine, the Immigrant Workers Centre, and École Sans Police. The panel will be moderated by Elena Stoodley.
Women of Diverse Origins is an alliance of grassroots women’s groups and individuals from diverse cultural communities, which has organized the International Women’s Day demonstration for 20 years and other events that reflect our militant stand and our awareness about the world context and the role of our struggles within it.
Old People 4 Palestine is dedicated to supporting the Palestinian struggle through fostering solidarity across generations of activists involved in Palestine organizing in Montreal.
The Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC-CTI) defends the rights of immigrants in their places of work and fights for dignity, respect, and justice. The IWC-CTI was founded in 2000 by a small group of Filipino-Canadian union organizers along with their academic and activist allies. The Immigrant Worker’s Centre emerged to address these needs and concerns, providing both a safe place for workers to discuss their workplace circumstances, as well as establishing an alternative to standard union organizing. It has become a prime example of a community based labour approach in action.
École Sans Police is a subgroup of Montreal’s Defund the Police Coalition. École Sans Police advocates for police-free schools, and organizes a variety of educational events and workshops on alternatives to policing.
Elena Stoodley is a singer, author, songwriter and sound designer and a community organizer. Born in Tio’tia:ke, Montreal, she often blends her passion for social justice and black liberation with her art practices.
October 28, 6-8pm
SSMU University Centre Ballroom (3480 rue McTavish, 3rd floor)
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs

Zine Making with Prisoner Correspondence Project
2024-10-25 17:30 - 19:30 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
Zine Making with Prisoner Correspondence Project
An all-in-one primer of what you need to know about zines, their historic role in leftist movements, and their current relevance in the age of Information. This workshop will be facilitated by volunteers from Prisoner Correspondence Project (PCP).
Plus: make your own zine with provided materials, and check out samples from the zine libraries of QPIRG-McGill, QPIRG Concordia, and PCP.
Prisoner Correspondence Project (PCP) is a solidarity project for 2SLGBTQ+ prisoners in Canada and the United States, linking them with people a part of these same communities outside of prison. As part of our work, we distribute hundreds of zines covering many, many topics – from gay smut to safer tattooing to legal aid – per year to queer prisoners who request them from our library.
October 25, 5:30pm
QPIRG Concordia (2100 rue Guy, #205)
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs
Accessibility:
The entrance at 2100 Guy has one flight of stairs. For step-free access, use the entrance at 1625 de Maisonneuve Ouest. Buzz #0205 to be let through the automatic doors, then take the elevator up to the second floor. The door to our space can be opened by automated button, and swings out.
There is a paid parking lot beside our building, entrance on Guy.
A list of other spaces downtown (Ville-Marie borough) reserved for people who have the blue-and-white parking permit can be found here: http://www.statdemtl.qc.ca/index.php?page_id=322&lang=en#sondage

Canadian Imperialism 101
2024-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Introduction to Canadian Imperialism
How much do you know about Canadian imperialism? Interested in learning more? Join QPIRG-McGill for our Intro to Canadian Imperialism: Workshop hosted by Tyler Shipley, professor and author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination. This workshop offers a deep dive into Canada’s international engagement since Confederation, providing an accessible introduction to its foundations. Throughout the workshop, we will explore key case studies that help us to see the continuity in Canadian policy, helping us to theorize how to struggle against it today.
The event is open to students, community members, or scholars interested in learning and discussed topics in Canadian imperialism. Snacks will be provided, and the lecturer will be on Zoom, while the rest of the workshop is in person.
Tyler Shipley is a professor of culture, society and commerce at Humber Polytechnic and author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination.
October 24, 7 PM
Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs

How to Design an Effective Political Image
2024-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
How to Design an Effective Political Image
Art has always been a tool in political discourse. Posters serve as a unique exclamation in that discourse. Their images can be used as a prism to code and decode culture, movement and alignment as well as a stew of other signifiers makes them invaluable in their effect.
The seminar, using the elements and principles of design, as well as a political framework, will explain what makes an effective political image.
The seminar will conclude with a brief explanation of spray painting techniques, wheat pasting, and other ways to disseminate a political image.
October 23, 6-8pm
QPIRG Concordia (2100 rue guy, #205)
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs
Accessibility:
The entrance at 2100 Guy has one flight of stairs. For step-free access, use the entrance at 1625 de Maisonneuve Ouest. Buzz #0205 to be let through the automatic doors, then take the elevator up to the second floor. The door to our space can be opened by automated button, and swings out.
There is a paid parking lot beside our building, entrance on Guy.
A list of other spaces downtown (Ville-Marie borough) reserved for people who have the blue-and-white parking permit can be found here: http://www.statdemtl.qc.ca/index.php?page_id=322&lang=en#sondage

Radical Walking Tour
2024-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
Radical Walking Tour
The Radical Walking Tour of Milton Parc presents a critical and nuanced historical presentation to the neighbourhood sites. The tour includes a visit to notable sites on McGill’s campus, focusing on the history of James McGill’s abuse and enslavement of First Nations and Indigenous residents of Tiohtià:ke and the ongoing fight of the Kanistensera to secure justice regarding the Royal Vic project. Similarly, the walking tour would rotate between a series of stations where different local organizations will present about their ongoing projects, and talk about the history of the area.
Meeting point: 3516 Av du Parc
October 22, 4pm-5:30pm
This tour will also be held on October 29, 12pm-1:30pm.
If you are interested in learning more about the amazing variety of projects and community groups in the milton parc area, and would like to learn more about the activist history of the neighbourhood, this tour is for you! Even you are familiar with the area, the tour provides historical context of notable sites that you may be new to you. For instance, did you the know the federation of co-ops in Milton-Parc consists of 22 different housing co-ops and non-profits, with 133 buildings and 645 apartments, housing a total population of about 1,500. Come learn more at the radical walking tour of Milton Parc and McGill!
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs

Community Dinner
2024-10-21 18:00 - 20:00 | SSMU Flex Space, 3480 rue McTavish, room 106, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7 2H7, Canada
Community Dinner
The week of Culture Shock will kick off with a free vegan dinner from Midnight Kitchen! Join QPIRG at the SSMU Flex Space (on the first floor, to the left) on Monday, October 21st at 6pm. Plates and cutlery will be provided, but feel free to bring a tupperware container if you want to take home extras!
This event is part of Culture Shock 2024! Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. It seeks to bring together racialized communities to discuss issues relevant to their lives, as well as to allow those who do not belong to these communities to learn more about struggles against racism, colonialism and border violence. Every year, QPIRG brings panels, workshops, film screenings, performance nights and fundraiser parties to McGill students and broader Montreal communities.
Culture Shock 2024 will take place from October 21st to 30th. For more information, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs
Accessibility:
The SSMU University Centre is wheelchair accessible. There are gender-neutral bathrooms on the second and third floor.

QPIRG Fun-Raiser: Book & Zine Sale, Art Market, Open Mic, and Free Food!
2024-10-12 13:00 - 2024-10-13 18:00 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
QPIRG Fun-Raiser:
Book & Zine Sale, Art Market, Open Mic, and Free Food!
The QPIRG Fun-raiser is coming up on October 12 and 13, 1-6pm! Swing by QPIRG-McGill (3516 Av du Parc) for a book and zine sale, art market, and open mic/karaoke! There will also be free food from @midnightkitchencollective 🦄
Here is a list of vendors who will be at the art market:
1. @ccharly_art (ccharly-art.com)
2. @flo._.designs (ko-fi.com/flodesigns)
3. @noenoah_
4. @asparag.art
5. @its.daylen
6. @ameliesthisandthat
7. @stuff_nstitch
8. @collective4891
9. @scatterbrainmagazine
This is an all-in-one fun-raiser event, with the goal of collecting funds for QPIRG to continue operating. We are funded by McGill students through a fee levy of $5/semester for full time and $2.50/semester for part time students. However, this fee has not changed in 8 years, despite rising inflation.
We have also seen a substantial hike in working group and discretionary funding applications, as well as renewed interest in all our programming. Under such a budget crunch, we have had to scale down some of our activities and temporarily close our discretionary fund.
We appreciate your support! Every donation brings us closer to restoring our normal level of programming and reopening our discretionary fund!
There is no pressure to donate – you are welcome to come for food, fun, and the open mic!

Film Screening - Off Frame: Revolution Until Victory by Mohanad Yaqubi
2024-08-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Off Frame: Revolution Until Victory by Mohanad Yaqubi
Join us Sunday, August 25th at 8pm for a Palestinian film screening of Off Frame: Revolution Until Victory by Mohanad Yaqubi. We explore themes of resistance, nationhood and national liberation; themes that have been especially relevant for the past 10-months, but also 76 years. As we place ourselves in the context of deliberate erasure and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Zionist regime, these films become a way for us to forcefully engage with the past and history of the Palestinian people despite attempts to hide it and bury it.
Sunday, August 25th at 8pm
Le Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
The event will be in collaboration with SPHR McGill and Cinema Politica!
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this amazing workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

All Eyes on McGill: Kahnistensera Solidarity Symposium
2024-08-25 16:00 - 17:00 | SSMU Madeleine Parent Room, 3480 rue McTavish, Room 201, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7, Canada
All Eyes on McGill: Kahnistensera Solidarity Symposium
Rad Frosh will be hosting ALL EYES ON McGill Program on Sunday 25th August 2:30-5:30PM with the Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers)! Starting with a solidarity symposium and then a “McGill Denies Genocide” walking tour to the sites on campus related to weapons research and development and psychological warfare including the MK–Ultra experiments at Allan Memorial Institute and former Royal Victoria Hospital. We will end by holding a somber vigil by tying orange ribbons to the fences for the victims and survivors of the ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples perpetrated and perpetuated by the so-called Canadian state, church, and institutional apparatuses.
Sunday 25th August 2:30-5:30PM
SSMU University Centre (3480 rue McTavish) room 202 & 203
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this important workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Yoga in Parc Jeanne-Mance
2024-08-25 11:30 - 12:30 | Quebec
Yoga in Parc Jeanne-Mance
Join Pranvera this Sunday to connect with your breath and generate some heat through mindful movements! Yoga mats will be provided.
Pranvera completed her yoga training at Luna Yoga this past year. A certified to teach Flo (a style of yoga combining the Hatha, Ashtanga, and Jiva Mukti tradition), she has been student of yoga for nearly 10 years and is passionate about sharing the practice with others.
Sunday, August 25 at 11:30am
Parc Jeanne Mance
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this important workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Workshop with AGSEM
2024-08-25 11:30 - 12:30 | Burnside 1B18, 805 Sherbrooke O, room 1B18, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
McGill IS A UNION UNIVERSITY (EVEN IF IT SAYS IT’S NOT)!
Join us for a workshop with the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) on August 25th at 11:30 am to discuss union organizing on campus, as well as strikes and solidarity. Following this past year’s TA strikes and protests, we explore the importance of such mobilizations and the role of students too!
August 25th at 11:30 am
Burnside Building (805 Sherbrooke O), 1B18
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this important workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Understanding and Surviving the Quebec Healthcare System
2024-08-24 15:30 - 17:00 | SSMU Madeleine Parent Room, 3480 rue McTavish, Room 201, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7, Canada
Understanding and Surviving the Quebec Healthcare System
Join us Aug. 24, 3:30pm for a workshop provided by The Trans Patient Union (TPU) on Understanding and Surviving the Québec Healthcare System!
The TPU is an advocacy and mutual aid collective by and for trans and nonbinary patients in Tio’tia:ke (“Montreal”). The TPU advocates to the standards of care for trans patients at health clinics and provides medical, legal, and institutional resources and one-on-one assistance to trans and NB people navigating the difficulties of transitioning in Tio’tia:ke.
Saturday, Aug. 24, 3:30pm
SSMU University Centre (3480 rue McTavish) room 202
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this amazing workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Know Your Rights Workshop
2024-08-24 14:00 - 15:00 | SSMU Madeleine Parent Room, 3480 rue McTavish, Room 201, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7, Canada
Know Your Rights
McGill has a maze of policies…and some of them work in your favour. In the Radfrosh Know Your Rights workshop, run by the office of the VP University Affairs at SSMU, become an expert in your rights as a student: academically, personally, and even when you’re disrupting university activities.
Learn what you’re entitled to and how to fight for it. And if McGill tries to punish you for campus activism, you’ve got rights there, too!
Fight bureaucracy with bureaucracy and dive into the shadowy world of grievances, the charter of student rights, Quebec law, and playing along to a fucked-up rule book, in this hour long workshop. There is an optional interactive component.
Saturday, August 24, 2-3pm
SSMU University Centre, room 202
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this important workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Police Free Schools: Safety on Campus Beyond Carceral Systems
2024-08-24 11:30 - 12:30 | Burnside 1B18, 805 Sherbrooke O, room 1B18, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Police Free Schools: Safety on Campus Beyond Carceral Systems
This workshop will be a 101 session on abolition as it relates to education, security culture at McGill and how it can be challenged (including the recent mobilization around Palestinian activism), police-free schools organizing across Turtle Island (what’s worked for organizers?), and an invitation to imagine what campus would look like without campus security/police and carceral/punitive measures in curriculum/teaching.
This workshop will be facilitated by Blain Haile and Attou Mamat, two of École Sans Police organizers. ESP is a group of organizers dedicated to removing police from education. They are abolitionist organizers who believe that there is no room for carceral or punitive systems at any level of education.
Saturday, August 24 at 11:30am
Burnside Hall (805 rue Sherbrooke O), room 1B18
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this important workshop among other events which will through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Tatreez Workshop
2024-08-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Tatreez Workshop
Join us Friday, August 23rd at 7pm for a special in-person event at Frigo Vert to learn the beautiful art of Tatreez with local Palestinian artist Amnna Attia. You will not only discover the rich cultural heritage of Gaza, but explore the significance of Tatreez as a form of resistance against erasure and ethnic cleansing.
Please bring your kuffiyeh or shirt (or fabric) to embroider on.
Friday, August 23rd at 7pm
Le Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
Purchase your full or flex tickets for Rad Frosh 2024 here to join this amazing workshop- among other events which will, through community learning and bonds, free our minds!

Film Screening: Conviction
2024-08-01 18:30 - 20:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
Film Screening: Conviction

QPIRG is screening Conviction (2019), a documentary that follows three incarcerated women inside the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility and Nova Institution for Women. This film questions the role of prisons in our society and prompts us to imagine alternatives to incarceration and the current justice system.
Date and time: Thursday, August 1, 6:30pm
Location: QPIRG Concordia (2100 rue Guy, #205)
Accessibility:
There is an elevator in the building. There are two entrances. The entrance at 2100 Guy has one flight of stairs.
For step-free access, use the entrance at 1625 de Maisonneuve Ouest. Buzz #0205 to be let through the automatic doors, then take the elevator up to the second floor. The door to our space can be opened by automated button, and swings out. There is a paid parking lot beside our building, entrance on Guy.
A list of other spaces downtown (Ville-Marie borough) reserved for people who have the blue-and-white parking permit can be found here:
http://www.statdemtl.qc.ca/index.php?page_id=322&lang=en#sondage

Film Screening: Soraida, a Woman of Palestine
2024-06-27 18:30 - 20:30 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
Film Screening: Soraida, a Woman of Palestine
Join us for a screening of Soraida, a Woman of Palestine (2004). This documentary follows Soraida, a woman living in Ramallah under siege and strict curfews. Soraida and her family and friends share their inner thoughts, dreams, and reflections on life under Israeli occupation.
Date and time: Thursday, June 27, 6:30pm
Location: QPIRG Concordia (2100 rue Guy, #205)
Accessibility:
There is an elevator in the building. There are two entrances. The entrance at 2100 Guy has one flight of stairs.
For step-free access, use the entrance at 1625 de Maisonneuve Ouest. Buzz #0205 to be let through the automatic doors, then take the elevator up to the second floor. The door to our space can be opened by automated button, and swings out. There is a paid parking lot beside our building, entrance on Guy.
A list of other spaces downtown (Ville-Marie borough) reserved for people who have the blue-and-white parking permit can be found here:
http://www.statdemtl.qc.ca/index.php?page_id=322&lang=en#sondage

Film Screening: Battle of Chile
2024-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 | SSMU Madeleine Parent Room, 3480 rue McTavish, Room 201, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7, Canada
Battle of Chile Film Screening
Join us for a screening of Battle of Chile: the Struggle of an Unarmed People. This three-part documentary by Patricio Guzmán chronicles the violent coup led by US-backed General Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected socialist government.
We will be screening the first of three parts of the documentary on May 30th at 6pm, at SSMU (3480 rue McTavish), room 202.
Content warning for this film: violence, war, death
Accessibility:
The SSMU Building is wheelchair accessible. There are wheelchair accessible, single stall bathrooms on the second floor.
