Keynote Address with Ellen Gabriel FREE event, with registration: REGISTER HERE. Join us for a keynote address from the renowned activist and artist, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel. This year, QPIRG-McGill and SSMU External Affairs are exploring the theme of Land in relation to liberation, decolonization, and environmental justice. Land is at the core of our struggles […]
Textures of the land: Reconnecting with our roots With Charly Cartier This event is for QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour). Register here to attend. An artistic exploration workshop and conversation. This event invites Queer members of the BIPOC community in a discussion around ancestry, land, pre/de colonialism, belonging, home etc. The discussion […]
“Severed” Screening hosted by In Pain and Insane On October 29th, in recognition of two years of Israel’s relentless genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, as well as National Disability Awareness Month in the so-called U.S. and Disability Employment Awareness Month in so-called Canada, In Pain and Insane invites you to a screening of the powerful, […]
WHERE I COME FROM THE GROUND IS RED With Mak Ékoué WHERE I COME FROM THE GROUND IS RED is a slow, attentive, creative workshop – an exercise in bearing witness to the life of land beyond human intervention. Using simple writing to share intimacies with strangers and create space between wounds, participants will first […]
Jazz Night at the QPIRG Library QPIRG is hosting a fundraiser jazz night at the Alternative Library! Performances by Bee, Lily Rose, and Bloodfarts. RSVP only, limited spots available. Get your tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/qpirg-jazz-night November 21, 6-9pm QPIRG Library (3516 Av du Parc) Accessibility: The QPIRG Library space is only partially accessible. There is a […]
As always, we’re kicking off Spring into Action with a FREE community dinner, on Monday, March 16th! Come for a delicious vegan meal, and hang out with QPIRG and like-minded folks who care about social justice and building real community. First come, first served – and we have run out of food at all of […]
Dig into the art and activism of guerrilla gardening with us on March 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Concordia Greenhouse! This hands-on workshop explores how planting in neglected, public and private urban spaces has been used as a form of resistance that creates beautiful green spaces, grows food, and reclaims unused land […]
Come join us on March 23, from 6-9 PM in the SSMU Flex Space, in making plarn, which is yarn made from recycled plastic bags. You will learn all about the techniques of making plarn with guidance. This workshop is beginner friendly! Within this event there will be an opportunity to share awareness about local […]
Join us on March 25th from 6:30 pm at McEng 12 alongside South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), QPIRG-Concordia, and the Association of McGill University Support Employees (AMUSE) to watch MANTHAN (1976). This film is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary dairy cooperative movement that transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world’s largest […]