Annual General Meeting 2023
2023-04-27 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Quebec
QPIRG Annual General Meeting 2023

Join us for this year’s Annual General Meeting on April 27th at 3PM!
Register on Zoom here.
Come and learn about the projects QPIRG and its working groups have been developing over the past year.
We’ll also be electing new board members for 2023-2024!
As a board member, you will have the opportunity to:
• Learn more about and/or support important social and environmental issues in Montreal
• Make QPIRG-McGill a more active and effective organization
• Work within a collective
• Develop skills like problem-solving, supervision, financial management and event planning
Returning and prospective board members are elected at our AGM each year. To apply, fill out the nomination form:
https://forms.gle/Tj5V3KQsPjHkmxzM7
Email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org if you have any questions.

School Schmool Call for Submissions
2023-06-28 - 2023-07-10 | Quebec
School Schmool Call for Submissions

✨ CALLING ALL CREATIVE MINDS! School Schmool is seeking submissions for our upcoming publication on the theme of THRIVING. We want your written articles, poetry, visual artwork, comics, photography, and more that explore the concept of thriving in various aspects of life. Join us in creating a dynamic and engaging collection that sparks conversations, challenges norms, and inspires change.
Your work will be featured in our ad-free, empowering publication, reaching a wide audience. Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of School Schmool and share your unique take on thriving. Let your creativity shine!
Compensation:

Full page artwork: $100
Half page artwork: $50
Main issue/long-form 101 articles: $100
Short-form 101 articles, poetry, and short creative submissions: $75

📅 Please email your submissions to: school.schmool@gmail.com before July 10th at 11:59PM! Visit the link here for the full submission guidelines.
📓 WHAT IS SCHOOL SCHMOOL? We are your friendly guide to navigating university life with a radical twist. We’re ad-free, corporate-free, and put out an agenda with an agenda: connecting the McGill, Concordia, and Tioh’tia:ke communities. We proudly feature content that offers radical, anti-oppressive, and intersectional perspectives, giving voice to BIPOC, Queer and/or Trans individuals.
🔍 WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? This year, School Schmool invites submissions based on the theme of THRIVING. Capitalism and white supremacy leave many of us struggling to to simply get by: what does it mean to grow, to flourish beyond basic survival?
We invite submissions that explore the concept of thriving – whether personal, academic, or social. Share your experiences, insights, resources and creative expressions that inspire/are inspired by growth, resilience, resistance, and empowerment.
You can find prompts to inspire you in the Submission Guidelines in our linktree but feel free to go elsewhere with your medium(s).
✏️🎨📷 WHAT KIND OF SUBMISSIONS?

Longer articles or shorter pieces such as DIY/beginner’s guides, tips and tricks, 101’s and how-tos on any topic relating to our theme
Creative writing like personal essays, short stories and prose/poetry
Visual artwork in any medium! Illustration, photography, collage, etc.

Thanks!
The 2023 Coordinators 💕

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: film screening and discussion
2023-06-29 18:30 - 21:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: film screening and discussion

Join us for our next summer film screening on Thursday, June 29th at 6:30pm! We will be screening How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022), an environmentalist thriller based on the nonfiction novel of the same name by Andreas Malm.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline follows a group of environmentalists in West Texas who attempt to blow up an oil pipeline at two critical locations. The film engages with Andreas Malm’s argument that property destruction is a logical and effective form of climate activism, and his critique of climate pacifism and nonviolence.
The film will be followed by a discussion on different forms of activist organizing, sabotage as an activist tactic, and how to address the climate crisis.
Cost: Free!
Location: QPIRG-Concordia (2100 rue Guy, #205)
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 the building, entrance on Guy.

Stencil Making Workshop
2023-07-12 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2H7, Canada
Stencil Making Workshop

We are thrilled to announce the first in a series of workshops and training for our QPIRG working groups!
This first workshop will be a beginners guide to the art of stencil making. The stencil has been a great utility in a variety of leftist causes and an excellent way to amplify your message and visual language.
In the workshop we will have a brief overview of stencilling, introducing participants to design elements, principals and strategies. Then, participants will learn effective techniques in the creation of their own piece. All necessary stencil-making materials will be provided.
Feel free to invite anyone participating in grassroots social justice projects and groups.
When: July 12th, 2023, from 6pm to 8pm
Where: QPIRG-McGill, Library space, 3516 Av du Parc
To bring: Any ideas you may have, visual inspiration, any images you would wish to trace.
Accessibility: The library space at 3516 du Parc is on the ground floor, with three steps up to the front door, and is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. This workshop does involve using cutting tools and as such does require tensile strength and some degree of manual mobility and sensitivity. Participants who cannot wield cutting tools are welcome to attend the workshop anyways, but may only be able to participate in the parts of the workshop that involve design.

Picnic in the Park!
2023-07-15 14:00 - 19:00 | Parc Jarry, Parc Jarry, Montreal, QC, Canada
Picnic in the Park!
with GRIP-UQAM, QPIRG-Concordia, and QPIRG-McGill

Happy summer aka picnic season!
We are planning a picnic for all our Working Groups and any other community members/orgs/friends that are interested. The picnic will be held Saturday July 15th, 14h00 – 19h00 @ Jarry Parc.
Schedule: We want to take this opportunity to hear from our Working Groups about what you awesome folks have been working on, make connections between our working groups, and build up our collective community knowledge :). Also very importantly, we want to eat, chill out, and have fun!
Starting at 14h00, we will have each working group do a quick introduction and present any ongoing campaigns/work they are doing. Then we will have a chance to share and learn from each other through a discussion around organizing in our changed/changing external reality (what challenges are we seeing in mobilizing and engaging folx, what’s worked for groups, how can we meet safely, etc)
Afterwards, it will be a lot of fun in the sun! Chatting and mingling with lots of rad people!
Working Groups: We would really love it if you could join us! And if you could arrive at 14h00 so we get to hear from all the working groups, that would be amazing!
Food: We will provide food! It will be bbq food with vegan and gf options provided.
Rendezvous: We will meet beside the swimming pool in Park Jarry
RSVP: Since we are providing food, RSVPs would be amazing! Again, the attendance of all of our Working Groups would be fantastic, and all are welcome. If you know for sure you are coming (and how many are coming with you), please let us know ahead of time so we make sure we can plan appropriately.
We are hoping that this is going to be a fun day of connection, delicious food, and new + old friends! If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to RSVP, please email us back at info@qpirgconcordia.org. .
See you there!
QPIRG/GRIP Concordia, McGill & UQAM

El Contrato - Film Screening and Discussion
2023-08-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Bar Milton-Parc, 3714 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2V 4J9, Canada
El Contrato – Film Screening and Discussion

Our next summer film on August 3rd will be El Contrato, a feature documentary by Min Sook Lee about the migrant agricultural workers who migrate to Southern Ontario every year to harvest tomatoes. The film follows a father from Central Mexico and his fellow workers as they speak out for fair wages, better work conditions, dignity, and respect.

Date: August 3rd, 6pm-8:30 pm
Location: Bar Milton-Parc Co-op (@coopbmp)
3714 Avenue du Parc

This is a free educational screening, followed by a discussion of the film. There will be popcorn and vegan snacks provided by @midnightkitchen !
For more information on the film visit https://www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/

Food Insecurity: Reasons, Those Affected and What Can Be Done to Help Food Sovereignty in Action
2023-10-16 18:00 - 20:00 | SSMU Ballroom, 301-3480 rue McTavish, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Food Insecurity: Reasons, Those Affected and What Can Be Done to Help Food Sovereignty in Action
Join QPIRG-McGill for a panel on food insecurity on October 16th! We will be discussing the issue of food insecurity and its impact on oppressed groups, the history of our food system, and strategies for improving food security in our communities.
Date: October 16, 6-8pm
Location: SSMU Ballroom (3480 rue McTavish, Room 301)
Speakers:
Prof. Erik Chevrier (Concordia Food Coalition)
Sona Sadio (Sankofa Farming)
Ayub Alleyne (Sister Sabria)
Moderator:
Nat Alexander (Midnight Kitchen)
Register here

Elderberry Syrup Workshop
2023-10-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Elderberry Syrup Workshop
Join us for a demonstration of how to make elderberry syrup and a discussion around the medicinal properties and culinary applications of sambucus nigra, the black elderberry. This workshop will be facilitated by Andrea McDonald @and.ree.ah
Date: Friday, October 20th
Time: 3-5PM
Location: Le Frigo Vert @lefrigovert (1440 rue Mackay)
About the facilitator:
Boozhoo! I am a two spirit Anishinaabe herbalist and community educator. I believe that our plant nation relatives who thrive on this island hold special medicine to share with us, and that being in good relation with these relatives is an essential part of community care and resilience.
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This workshop takes about an hour and a half, during which an introduction to the plant matter and its medicinal constituents would be discussed. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to taste the results of the demonstration.
Register here

Cook with us! With Community Cooks Collective
2023-10-23 15:00 - 18:00 | Centre St Jax, 1439 rue Ste-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cook with us!
Come make sandwiches for Open Door and PAQ with QPIRG and @communitycookscollective !
Date: October 23, 3-6pm
Location: Centre St Jax (1439 rue Ste-Catherine)
This event is part of Culture Shock, QPIRG-McGill’s annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity.

Culture Shock: Community Feast
2023-10-27 18:30 - 20:30 | CÉDA, 2515 rue Delisle, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Culture Shock: Community Feast
Come enjoy a free community dinner and mingle with activists and community groups! Food prepared by Midnight Kitchen and People’s Potato.
Date: October 27, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: CÉDA (2515 rue Delisle)
Register here.
This event is part of Culture Shock, QPIRG’s annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity. To learn more about QPIRG and Culture Shock, visit qpirgmcgill.org/cs
Accessibility:
The main floor of CEDA is accessible to people using wheelchairs.
Please note: The CEDA entrance for people needing to use the wheelchair ramp is via the rear parking lot to the left of 2520, avenue Lionel-Groulx, before Vinet, but after Charlevoix.

Spring into Action call for submissions: OUTRAGE
2024-01-12 | Quebec
Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE
Call for Submissions
Submit an event proposal for Spring into Action!
We are seeking proposals for workshops, performances, film screenings, or social events for our annual event series in the spring, which is tentatively taking place from March 11th to 22nd.
The theme of Spring into Action 2024 is “Outrage” and how we can act on it. Anger and despair in the face of crisis can feel immobilizing and demoralizing, whether we are confronted with smaller scale interpersonal conflicts, housing and food crises, or colonialism, imperialism, and injustice. Our event series this year seeks to explore a variety of responses to crises, including harm reduction and de-escalation, practical protest skills, capacity building, fostering community resilience, mobilizing through direct action, and more!
Submit your proposal using the form linked here: forms.gle/EpUwaRoguwL1CRfLA
Deadline to submit proposals: January 12, 2024
We will be giving out stipends for all the event proposals that are selected. For more information, email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org.
Spring into Action is an annual event series that is organized and funded by QPIRG-McGill and the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). Every spring, QPIRG organizes a week of workshops, discussions, film screenings, and social events engaging local and global issues. Spring into Action testifies to the diversity of critical political engagement on the McGill campus, and offers students concrete opportunities to get involved in their community.

Call for Submissions: Convergence Zine
2024-01-14 | Quebec
Convergence is back!
Call for submissions
This is a call for submissions for the ninth issue of Convergence!
We are seeking submissions on a wide range of issues and ideas from students or community members, with a focus on community-based social justice research. We are also looking for creative formats, such as poetry, cultural expression, collages, fiction stories, visual artwork, photo essays, community-based art installations, recipes, (interactive) maps and charts, as well as a variety of written contributions, including research essays, and articles.
Submit your pieces here: forms.gle/XvREWBznXdwhYnmRA
Deadline to submit works is Sunday, January 14th at 11:59pm. To learn more about Convergence, check out the website convergencejournal.ca.

Anti-Colonial Week: The Kairos Blanket Exercise
2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
Anti-Colonial Week: The Kairos Blanket Exercise
This event is FREE. Register at the link here to guarantee your spot.
Co-organized by QPIRG McGill, QPIRG Concordia, GRIP UQAM, and Le Frigo Vert
Date: Jan 24th at 6pm
Location: QPIRG Concordia (2100 Rue Guy, #205)
In 1996, the Aboriginal Rights Coalition worked with Indigenous elders, Knowledge Keepers, and educators to develop an interactive way of learning the history most Canadians are never taught. The KAIROS Blanket Exercise was the result; an interactive and experiential teaching tool that explores the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in so called Canada. It has since been offered thousands of times and the fourth edition was released in 2016.
During this 2 to 3-hour workshop, participants step on blankets representing the land and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. They are guided by trained facilitators, including Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, who work from a script that covers pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization, resistance and much more. Participants read scrolls and respond to cues in the script. The KBE concludes with a debriefing, conducted as a talking circle, during which participants discuss the learning experience, process their feelings, ask questions, share insights, and deepen their understanding.
Accessibility
QPIRG-Concordia has 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.
About Anti-Colonial Week
Join us for Anti-Colonial Week, a grassroots initiative that’s been evolving since its humble beginnings as the Anti-Colonial Dinner in 2015. Now, in 2024, it’s a week-long exploration of food, film, and resistance. Created for Concordia students and the wider community, this event is all about education and awareness, digging into the real impacts of colonization on communities and weaving connections with social and environmental movements.
This year’s lineup includes From Palette to Plate, a hands-on food/art workshop, The KAIROS Blanket Exercise for a profound historical experience, and Plantcestors, a workshop on plants and herbs. Immerse yourself in films, engage with speakers, and participate in workshops that unpack the realities of colonization. It’s not just a week – it’s a movement!

Anti-Colonial Week: Plantcestors
2024-01-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Ant-Colonial Week: Plantcestors

Date: Monday, January 9th at 7PM
Location: Le Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
Join hosts Andrea and Hunter in an intimate conversation about connecting with our plant ancestors. From decolonizing herbalism to exploring urban plant allies, we’ll share personal, community, and professional experiences, offering practical techniques for building meaningful relationships with our plant siblings. This workshop, guided by Andrea’s lifelong journey learning from our Plant Nation relatives and Hunter’s mix-gendered Trans Clinical Herbalist perspective, creates a supportive space for reflection and dialogue. Enjoy herbal tea as we discuss repairing relations with our plantcestors, encouraging you to apply decolonial herbal practices in your life. Our goal is to provide hope, support, and build a community rooted in the wisdom of our plantcestors and plant siblings. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn, share, and connect in a safe and welcoming space!

Accessibility:
Frigo Vert is a wheelchair accessible space, with a gender-neutral bathroom.
About Anti-Colonial Week
Join us for Anti-Colonial Week, a grassroots initiative that’s been evolving since its humble beginnings as the Anti-Colonial Dinner in 2015. Now, in 2024, it’s a week-long exploration of food, film, and resistance. Created for Concordia students and the wider community, this event is all about education and awareness, digging into the real impacts of colonization on communities and weaving connections with social and environmental movements.
This year’s lineup includes From Palette to Plate, a hands-on food/art workshop, The KAIROS Blanket Exercise for a profound historical experience, and Plantcestors, a workshop on plants and herbs. Immerse yourself in films, engage with speakers, and participate in workshops that unpack the realities of colonization. It’s not just a week – it’s a movement!

From Palette to Plate: Cooking & Art Workshop
2024-02-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
From Palette to Plate: Cooking & Art Workshop
Date: Thursday, February 7th at 7PM
Location: Le Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
Mindful Campus Initiative and the Art Hive are teaming up with us to bring you a unique experience that celebrates the importance of food in our daily lives. Join us for a delightful food and art workshop, a celebration of the profound role food plays in our daily lives. Unleash your creativity in a collaborative art-making session, where everyone, regardless of artistic experience, is invited to connect and express themselves. Following this burst of inspiration, Andrea, a Two Spirit Anishnaabe herbalist and community facilitator, will guide us through a cooking workshop. Using fresh, locally sourced ingredients, we’ll come together to create a delicious vegetarian meal. Andrea will share insights into the intersection of anticolonialism, food security, and student life struggles, emphasizing the importance of being in good relation with our plant spirit relatives for community care and connection. Join us for a unique blend of creativity, culinary exploration, and meaningful conversation!
Accessibility:
Frigo Vert is a wheelchair accessible space, with a gender-neutral bathroom.
About Anti-Colonial Week
Join us for Anti-Colonial Week, a grassroots initiative that’s been evolving since its humble beginnings as the Anti-Colonial Dinner in 2015. Now, in 2024, it’s a week-long exploration of food, film, and resistance. Created for Concordia students and the wider community, this event is all about education and awareness, digging into the real impacts of colonization on communities and weaving connections with social and environmental movements.
This year’s lineup includes From Palette to Plate, a hands-on food/art workshop, The KAIROS Blanket Exercise for a profound historical experience, and Plantcestors, a workshop on plants and herbs. Immerse yourself in films, engage with speakers, and participate in workshops that unpack the realities of colonization. It’s not just a week – it’s a movement!

Plant Allies for Rage and Resilience
2024-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Plant Allies for Rage and Resilience
Come and learn with Andrea Macdonald, Two Spirit Anishinaabe herbalist and community educator, about a few local, abundant plants that support the various body systems impacted by prolonged anger and stress. There will be a tea tasting and burdock pickling demonstration, during which we will discuss care strategies to support our loved ones and ourselves during these outrageous times.
Date and time: Monday, March 11th at 6pm
Location: Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
This event is part of Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE. For more information visit qpirgmcgill.org/spring-into-action.
Accessibility:
Frigo Vert is a wheelchair accessible space. There are gender-neutral and accessible bathrooms in the space.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org.

Are you Outraged? Organize Collectively: A History of WDO and Militant Women’s Movement in Montreal-Tio'tia:ke and beyond
2024-03-14 17:00 - 19:30 | SSMU Madeleine Parent Room, 3480 rue McTavish, Room 201, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7, Canada
Are you Outraged? Organize Collectively
A History of WDO and Militant Women’s Movement in Montreal-Tio’tia:ke and beyond
Date and time: Thursday, March, 14th at 5-7:30pm

Location: 3480 rue McTavish, Room 201 (Madeline Parent Room)
Register to attend this event here.
This workshop will cover the history of Women of Diverse Origins and the grassroots women’s movement in Montreal/Tio’tia:ke. Women of Diverse Origins has been organizing International Women’s Day activities, including the main IWD demonstration in Montreal since 2001. We have joined together as women from different communities making the connection between our situation in Canada- Turtle Island, and issues in our countries of origin, from war and militarism to forced migration and exploitation of migrants, to violence against women here and globally. We have organized forums, conferences and yearly demonstrations to make us visible and to affect awareness and change.
During this workshop, this history will be shared, with lessons drawn from organizing over the years. We are looking to engage young women and women-identified persons to join us in continuing to build a militant, grassroots, women’s movement in Montreal-Tio’tia:ke and the world. This 2-hour workshop will be for knowledge transfer and to exchange views and examples of organizing in our communities. We encourage students to get involved in our activities!
Women of Diverse Origins (WDO) is a grassroots anti-imperialist women’s network that organizes public events to educate, discuss and empower! WDO-FDO -Femmes de diverses origines, organizes the yearly demonstration on International Working Women’s Day in Montreal on March 8. https://wdofdo.wordpress.com/ We are also a founding member of International Women’s Alliance, made up of some 100 organisations in 20 countries. Check out https://www.internationalwomensalliance.org/
This event is part of Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE. For more information visit qpirgmcgill.org/spring-into-action.
Accessibility:
The SSMU building at 3480 rue McTavish is wheelchair accessible. There are gender-neutral accessible bathrooms on the second floor.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org.

Penning Community Almanacs for The Future: Persisting and Resisting Corporate Climate Crisis
2024-03-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Le Frigo Vert, 1440 rue Mackay, Montreal, QC, Canada
Penning Community Almanacs for The Future
Persisting and Resisting Corporate Climate Crisis
Date and time: Friday, March 15th from 2-4pm

Location: Frigo Vert (1440 rue Mackay)
This workshop is inspired by the Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac (to be discussed in the workshop) which is described as follows: “This is a farmer’s almanac for the end of a world and the beginning of many others/ It’s a place for experimentation, for finding new forms and retrofitting old ones, for sharing stories of lived efforts toward a collective exit from this colonial nightmare, this separateness from the Earth.” Creating almanacs for these times – building on past practices of almanacs but for the current conditions that climate crisis brings up – is the making of experimental space for connection engaging deeply with life on earth (including the stars) while resisting the systems at the root of suffering. The goal of this workshop is to offer a potential tool for persisting and resisting climate crisis both personally and collectively. This workshop will include a presentation, an almanac journal collage and art activity, guided group discussion, and skillsharing.
This workshop is hosted by Pamela Fillion, a community herbalist and radical home ec educator who has been involved in social and environmental justice in Montreal for over 16 years.
This event is part of Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE. For more information visit qpirgmcgill.org/spring-into-action.
Accessibility:
Frigo Vert is wheelchair accessible. There are gender-neutral accessible bathrooms in the space.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org.

Atelier de sérigraphie à Coup d'Griffe
2024-03-16 11:00 - 15:00 | Coup d’Griffe, 5570 R. Cartier local b-03, Montreal, QC, H2H 1X9, Canada
Atelier de sérigraphie à Coup d’Griffe
Apprenez la sérigraphie à Co-op Coup d’Griffe !
Première session:11h-13h
Deuxième session:13h30-15h30
IMPORTANT: Il y a deux sessions, la première à 11h et la deuxième à 13h30. Il y a 5 places disponible par session. SVP vous inscrire à une seule session.
Inscrivez-vous ici.
Si vous ne pouvez plus participer, annulez votre réservation en ligne ou écrivez-nous à info@qpirgmcgill.org.
Samedi le 16 mars, 11h et 13h30
Coop Coup d’Griffe (5570 rue Cartier local b-03)
Les ateliers se déroulent en français.
Créé en 2012, la Coop Coup D’Griffe est une association d’artistes et de travailleurs autonomes qui se sont unis afin de partager un lieu, outils et savoir-faire. Notre expertise tourne autour de l’univers de la musique, de l’édition et de la création de matériel promotionnel.
Pour ceux et celles qui préfèrent « le faire soi-même », nous offrons une formation d’initiation à la sérigraphie qui permet ensuite de louer nos installations basées à Montréal.
Accessibilité:
Co-op Coup d’Griffe n’est pas accessible aux personnes en fauteuil roulant.
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Join us for a screen printing workshop, led by Coup d’Griffe!
First workshop: 11am-1pm

Second workshop: 1:30pm-3pm
IMPORTANT: This workshop will be held twice, first at 11am and then at 1:30pm. There are 5 spots available for each session. Please only register for one time slot.
Reserve your spot at the link here.
If you can no longer attend the workshop, please cancel your ticket online or email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org to cancel so we can give your spot to someone else.

Date and time: Saturday, March 16th at 11am & 1:30pm
Location: Coop Coup d’Griffe (5570 rue Cartier local b-03)
The workshops will be held in French.
Créé en 2012, la Coop Coup D’Griffe est une association d’artistes et de travailleurs autonomes qui se sont unis afin de partager un lieu, outils et savoir-faire. Notre expertise tourne autour de l’univers de la musique, de l’édition et de la création de matériel promotionnel.
Pour ceux et celles qui préfèrent « le faire soi-même », nous offrons une formation d’initiation à la sérigraphie qui permet ensuite de louer nos installations basées à Montréal.
This event is part of Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE. For more information visit qpirgmcgill.org/spring-into-action.
Accessibility:
Unfortunately, Co-op Coup d’Griffe is not wheelchair accessible.

Prison Abolition 101
2024-03-19 19:00 - 21:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
Prison Abolition 101
Join us for a workshop that offers community members an introduction to prisoner solidarity work and prison abolition, as well as an introduction to the Prisoner Correspondence Project and our role in the abolitionist movement. Centering the lived experiences of the project’s imprisoned 2SLGBTQ+ members, this workshop will look at the systematic violence of prisons, both on an individual and structural level; explore the differences between reform versus abolition; and investigate some of the ways that we as individuals, organizations and movements can work towards abolition. We hope that this presentation will be of interest to people who are new to the concept of prison abolition, and to those who are familiar with it but are looking for concrete ways to get involved in abolitionist work. Given the scope of our project, our workshop will emphasize prison abolition as it intersects with queer activism, but we of course welcome community members of all identities to attend.
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.
Date and time: Tuesday, March 19th at 7pm
Location: QPIRG-Concordia (2100 rue Guy, room #205)
This event is part of Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE. For more information visit qpirgmcgill.org/spring-into-action.
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

Discordia Film Screening
2024-03-21 17:30 - 19:00 | ECOLE, 3559 rue University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Discordia Film Screening
Join us for a screening of Discordia on March 21, 5:30-7pm at ÉCOLE (3559 rue University)! This event is co-hosted by SPHR @sphrmcgill, IJV McGill @ijvmcgill, ÉCOLE @ecoleproject, and QPIRG McGill @qpirgmcgill.
“On September 9, 2002, a scheduled appearance by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked heated debate at Montreal’s Concordia University. By the end of the day, the “Concordia riot” had made international news, from CNN to Al-Jazeera. This film documents the fallout from that eventful day, following three young campus activists as they negotiate the most formative year of their lives.”
This documentary is available on the NFB.

Community Dinner and PAC Zine Night
2024-03-22 18:00 - 20:00 | SSMU Flex Space, 3480 rue McTavish, room 106, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7 2H7, Canada
Community Dinner and PAC Zine Night
Register to attend this event here.
Join us for a free community dinner and an evening of zine-making with the Pan-Asian Collective (PAC)! Vegan meals will be provided by Midnight Kitchen and People’s Potato.
For this year’s Spring into Action 2024 theme, “Outrage,” PAC is excited to host a Community Zine Night to provide a safe space for channeling anger and despair into tangible forms with the presence of our community. Although direct action is one of the most important ways we can respond to crises, this event is instead focused on building mental and emotional capacity through creating tangible creative arts – in this case, in the form of a Zine. Our goal is to create a needed space for our community to express ourselves safely within an intentionally curated environment and the presence of like-minded people.
The Pan Asian Collective is a QPIRG-McGill and QPIRG-Concordia working group. Throughout the year, we host various events including a book club, potlucks, picnics, film screenings, discussion groups, and an arts market with focus on Pan-Asian community engagement and education. The collective’s principles are rooted in leftist politics that center abolition and solidarity across global Indigenous struggles against colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy – we welcome all Asian-identified folks who share our values to join us!
Date and time: Friday, March 22nd at 6pm

Location: 3480 rue McTavish, Student Lounge (1st floor, to the left of the main entrance)
Accessibility:
The SSMU building at 3480 rue McTavish is wheelchair accessible. There are gender-neutral accessible bathrooms on the first floor.
This event is part of Spring into Action 2024: OUTRAGE. For more information visit qpirgmcgill.org/spring-into-action.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us at info@qpirgmcgill.org.

Annual General Meeting 2024
2024-04-30 17:30 - 20:30 | Quebec
QPIRG Annual General Meeting 2024
It’s Tuesday evening and something heinously exciting is under way. People have gathered beneath the billowing roof of an oddly shaped trophy building, sipping wine and exchanging opinions. It’s the wompty-dom-di-dommiest event of the year and all the cool kids have RSVP’d. Where are you, if you are not there?
Register on Zoom here.
It’s been a big year for QPIRG! Our 2024 Annual General Meeting is on April 30th at 5:30PM, on Zoom. Come and learn about all the incredible projects our staff, board, Working Groups, and volunteers have accomplished this year.
This is also your chance to shape the future of QPIRG by giving us your feedback and using your vote as a student/community member to elect our Board of Directors. If you’ve ever wanted to get more involved with us, now is the time! Applications are open for the QPIRG Board of Directors. For more information on how to apply, click here.

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.

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: 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

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!

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!

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!

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!
