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SUMMARY:Prisoners' Justice Day
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION CHANGED DUE TO WEATHER\nAugust 10th\, 5:30 PM\nUnion United Church\n3007 rue Delisle \nJoin us for our annual commemoration of Prisoners’ Justice Day. Every year we gather to honour those who have died in prison\, hear from people who have been incarcerated\, and celebrate prisoner resistance. This year is no different. There will be speeches and an open mic. \nFree Them All! \n— \nRejoignez-nous pour notre commémoration annuelle de la Journée de la justice pour les prisonnier·ère·s. Chaque année\, nous nous réunissons pour honorer la mémoire de celleux qui sont mort·e·s en prison\, écouter les témoignages de personnes incarcérées et célébrer la résistance des prisonnier·ère·s. Cette année ne fait pas exception. Des discours et une scène ouverte sont prévus. \nLibérez-les tous !
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/prisoners-justice-day/
LOCATION:Union United Church\, 3007 rue Delisle\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Prisoners Justice Day 2026
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SUMMARY:Kanatenhs - When the Pine Needles Fall
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening with director Katsi’sakwas Ellen Gabriel\nJoin QPIRG-McGill for a screening of When The Pine Needles Fall\, a documentary short directed by Katsi’sakwas Ellen Gabriel and based on her award-winning book. The documentary tells the story of the Kahnesatake Resistance\, when the Kanien’kehà:ka community set up a barricade in response to the planned expansion of a golf course and were met with extreme state violence. \nThe screening will be followed by a discussion with Ellen Gabriel. Light refreshments will be provided. \nCinema J.A de Sève\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W \nAccessibility \nThe cinema is wheelchair accessible from Maisonneuve Boulevard\, with four spaces at the back for audience members using wheelchairs. The doors to the cinema are not automatic.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/kanatenhs-when-the-pine-needles-fall/
LOCATION:JA DeSève Cinema\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260828T210000
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SUMMARY:True North - Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, August 28th for a screening of Michèle Stephenson’s 2025 feature documentary “True North”! \nThe film chronicles the history of Black people in Canada with a focus on the period of Resistance in the 1960s. Showcasing rare audio and visual footage of the 1968 Black Writers Congress that took place here at McGill University and the ensuing 1969 Occupation of Sir George Williams Campus (now Concordia University). Contextualizing these events within a broader global Black Liberation movement\, the documentary seeks to disprove claims that Canada\, historically and presently\, does not have a racism problem. \nWe are honoured to have the director Michèle Stephenson join us virtually for a post screening Q&A session! This event is free and open to the general public! \nCité des Hospitalières Chapel \n251 Avenue des Pins O \nAccessibility \nCité des Hospitalières Chapel is not wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/true-north-film-screening/
LOCATION:Cité des Hospitalières\, 251 Avenue des Pins\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Rad Frosh
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260829T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260830T000000
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SUMMARY:Vitamin Pink\, Bloodfarts\, and the Vauxhalls @ Kawalees
DESCRIPTION:August 29th at Kawalees 🎸🤸💖 For our community event\, Rad Frosh will be welcoming Vitamin Pink\, Bloodfarts\, and The Vauxhalls for one big night of awesome music\, friendship\, and good times ‼️ This show is open to froshies and the general public. Discounted tickets for froshies can be purchased with your general frosh ticket. Can’t wait to see you there… \nThank you to our co-presenter CKUT 90.3 FM \nGeneral tickets \nDoors 8:30pm\, show at 9pm \nKawalees (5175A Avenue du Parc) \nAccessibility \nKawalees is not wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/vitamin-pink-bloodfarts-and-the-vauxhalls-kawalees/
LOCATION:Kawalees\, 5175A Avenue du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Rad Frosh
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SUMMARY:24 heures ou plus & Night Shift: Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:FREE FILM SCREENING \nQPIRG McGill is partnering with Syndicat Général and the Critical Media Lab to host an evening of films centered on the labor movement in Québec! \nTuesday\, September 15th\, 5:30pm\nCritical Media Lab McGill University\nPeterson Hall\, Room 108\n3460 McTavish St \nNIGHTSHIFT\n2026\nChloe Damm\n7 minutes\nEnglish \nAn ethnography of the late-night bar staff at Brasserie Benelux\, Nightshift explores the unique lifestyle imposed by night shift work. Featuring interviews with bartenders and bussers\, the film inquires into the impact of nightshift work on one’s physical and mental health\, as well as the alternative social norms of the bar at night. \n24 heures ou plus\n1973\nGilles Groulx\n113 minutes\nfrançais avec sous-titres anglais \nA radical documentary capturing the energy of the labor movement in Québéc in the early 1970s\, a time when Québéc’s three largest unions— CSN\, FTQ\, and CEQ— came together to take a stand against the Québéc government. Groulx exposes the evils of consumer society in the context of workers’ rights\, offering a Marxist critique of the capitalist ethos.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/24-heures-ou-plus-night-shift/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, 3460 rue McTavish\, Room 108\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Continuing Through Stitch: Palestinian Embroidery Workshop
DESCRIPTION:October 24\, 2-4pm at Cité des Hospitalières (Noviciat) \nContinuing Through Stitch: Palestinian Embroidery Workshop is a two-hour presentation and hands-on beginner embroidery workshop exploring Palestinian embroidery as a living artistic practice that connects tradition with the realities of the present.\nThe workshop will begin with a short presentation featuring artwork by Palestinian artist Kawn Bader. Through the work\, Kawn will discuss how traditional Palestinian embroidery can be engaged with as a contemporary artistic language—one that responds to present-day experiences and realities while remaining connected to histories\, memory\, and cultural knowledge. The presentation will consider how embroidery can carry tradition forward while also documenting the present and creating traces that may be encountered by future generations.\nParticipants will then take part in a hands-on introduction to Palestinian embroidery. They will learn basic cross-stitch techniques\, how to prepare fabric and thread\, how to read a motif pattern\, and how to begin stitching a Palestinian geometric motif. The session will include demonstrations\, individual guidance\, time for practice\, questions\, and conversation. No previous embroidery experience is required. \nRegistration link here \nAccessibility: \nCité des Hospitalières is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/continuing-through-stitch/
LOCATION:Cité des Hospitalières\, 251 Avenue des Pins\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Culture Shock 2026
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SUMMARY:Community Dinner + Otros Futuros
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 26\, 6-8pm\nSSMU Flex Space (3480 rue McTavish\, room 106) \nAs is our tradition\, we’re kicking off Culture Shock with a FREE community dinner\, on Monday\, October 26th! While the temperature drops\, warm up with a delicious vegan meal (catered by Parc-Ex Curry Collective)\, and hang out with QPIRG and like-minded folks who care about social justice and building real community. \nWe’ll also have:\nA creative circle and speculative card game\, Otros Futuros\nButton-making \nOtros Futuros (Other Futures)\nOtros Futuros (Other Futures) is a speculative card game and creative circle for collective imagination beyond colonial narratives\, designed by Gabriela Franco and Guillermo Schoning. Otros is a Latin American climate imagination movement looking to create and articulate other possible futures that resist capitalist\, imperialist\, extractivist narratives. In a moment when it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism\, the card game invites participants to exercise imagination as a radical act to enact other modes of life\, other possible territories\, other ends to the world and other beginnings for our planet. \nAccessibility: \nThe SSMU Building is wheelchair accessible. There are wheelchair accessible\, single-stall bathrooms on the second and fourth floor.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/community-dinner-6/
LOCATION:SSMU Flex Space\, 3480 rue McTavish\, room 106\, Montreal\, QC\, H3A0E7 2H7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Culture Shock 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261027T180000
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SUMMARY:Border Memories (Mémoires de la frontière)
DESCRIPTION:October 27\, 6-8pm\nCritical Media Lab (3460 rue McTavish #108) \nThe “Border Memories” (*Mémoires de la frontière*) project\, led by a committee within the Solidarity Across Borders (SAB) collective\, aims to give a voice to undocumented individuals through the creation of autobiographical video shorts. \nMembers of Solidarity Across Borders will present both the project and the collective\, followed by a screening of the short videos filmed over the past year. The evening will conclude with a discussion session exploring the themes raised in the videos—such as exile\, migration journeys\, the experience of arriving and living in Quebec\, racism\, among others. \nBeyond sharing stories for the purpose of popular education through screenings and discussions\, the project seeks to archive oral histories to ensure they are not lost. It aims to immortalize marginalized narratives—stories deliberately rendered invisible in the public sphere—in order to reclaim the narrative and the public perception imposed upon migrants and those without legal status\, a control of which they have been stripped for political ends. These filmed testimonies will allow individuals to speak about their journeys\, challenges\, and hopes\, while humanizing their experiences. \nAccessibility:\nThe Critical Media Lab is located in Peterson Hall\, which is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/border-memories-memoires-de-la-frontiere/
LOCATION:Critical Media Lab\, 3460 rue McTavish\, Room 108\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Culture Shock 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261101T190000
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SUMMARY:Palestine Cinema Days
DESCRIPTION:November 1\, 7-9pm\nDoors at 6:30pm\nJ. A. de Sève Cinema (1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O) \nFree film screening! Register here. \nSince 2014\, Days of Cinema has been Palestine’s leading international film festival\, bringing Palestinian and international cinema to audiences across Palestine each year from late October to early November. Since 2023\, however\, the festival has been unable to take place in its traditional format. In response\, Palestine Cinema Days Around the World was created. The initiative invites cultural practitioners\, filmmakers\, artists\, and organizations around the world to organize screenings of curated films for their local audiences—as an act of cultural solidarity and a way of ensuring that Palestinian cinema continues to circulate\, connect communities\, and be experienced collectively. \nThe Dream\nMohammad Malas | Documentary | 45 min\nA collection of interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during the civil war\, interviewed by Malas about what dreams they saw when they went to sleep. \nThey Do Not Exist\nMustafa Abu Ali | Documentary / War | 25 min\nShooting under extraordinary conditions\, the director covers conditions in Lebanon’s refugee camps\, the effects of Israeli bombardments\, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. \nThe Flowers Stand Silently\, Witnessing\nTheo Panagopoulos | Documentary | 17 min\nWhen a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers\, he decides to reclaim the footage \nAccessibility: \nThe J. A. de Sève Cinema is wheelchair accessible; there is room at the back of the screening room with space for four wheelchair users.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/palestine-cinema-days/
LOCATION:JA DeSève Cinema\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Culture Shock 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261105T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261105T153000
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SUMMARY:Echoes of Liberation: Afro-Futuristic Sonic Transmissions & Radical Visual Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Sound and visual storytelling have long served as clandestine tools of survival\, resistance\, and anti-colonial struggle. Join us for a panel discussion with speakers Webster\, Emem Etti\, and Kym Dominique-Ferguson on the Black and African diaspora\, oral and visual history\, resistance\, and the future of storytelling as a pathway into a liberated future. \nThis panel discussion is organized by SSMU External Portfolio and QPIRG and co-hosted with CKUT 90.3 FM. \nNovember 5\, 1pm\nSSMU University Centre\, Room 203\n3480 rue McTavish \nAccessibility:\nThe SSMU Building is wheelchair accessible. There are wheelchair accessible\, single-stall bathrooms on the second and fourth floor.
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/echoes-of-liberation/
LOCATION:SSMU Lev Bukhman Room 203\, 3480 rue McTavish\, room 203\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 0E7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Culture Shock 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261105T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261105T203000
DTSTAMP:20261028T191054Z
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SUMMARY:Community Radio and Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion co-hosted by CKUT 90.3 FM and QPIRG McGill as part of Culture Shock 2026\nIncluding presentations by Samaa Elibyari and Stefan Christoff \nYou have a passion for Justice\, whether it is for a political\, social\, or environmental issue. You are a rebel with a cause. Then don’t miss this event jointly organized by QPIRG and CKUT. \nTwo committed radio activists and CKUT show hosts share their vision and their experience. Where to start\, how to plan your program and engage your listeners. What to avoid and what to pursue. How to meet challenges and stay the course. \nSamaa Elibayari will share reflections on her long time work representing marginalized voices on the airwaves through community radio\, particularly Arab/ Muslim experiences on the program Caravan and lately Palestine with Sounds of Resistance which airs as part of CKUT 90.3 FM’s community news programming. \nStefan Christoff will share reflections about his work at the intersections of cultural work\, social movements and community radio. Stefan is a long-time community member volunteer at CKUT 90.3 FM and hosts the weekly program\, Free City Radio\, which airs on 10 campus / community radio stations throughout Canada. Stefan also regularly contributes to Radio AlHara and curated the book Freedom Frequencies: The Radio AlHara Sessions on Cultural Work in a Time of War\, out in February 2027 through Common Notions Press. 
URL:https://qpirgmcgill.org/event/community-radio-and-social-justice/
LOCATION:Burnside 1B16\, 805 Sherbrooke O\, room 1B16\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Culture Shock 2026
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