QPIRG McGill

Radical Walking Tour #2
2024-10-29 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What does homelessness look like in our communities?
2025-03-25 17:30 - 19:00 | 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.

Annual General Meeting 2025
2025-04-24 17:30 - 20:30 | Quebec
QPIRG will be holding its 2025 Annual General Meeting on April 24, 5:30-8:30PM.
It has been a huge and tumultuous year for QPIRG…this was truly a year where decades happened! The AGM is a great opportunity to learn more about how QPIRG functions, our ongoing projects, QPIRG’s finances, and our changing relations with the university.
We are also looking for new board members! Board members are elected at the AGM every year. If you are interested in joining the Board, fill out the application form linked here.
The location of the AGM will be announced soon. We will email all registered participants with the venue location. For participants who cannot make the AGM in person, we will set up a hybrid option on Zoom. Register for the AGM here.
We will be serving a free dinner at the AGM! Please indicate below if you have any dietary restrictions.
We hope to see you there!

Anti Canada Day BBQ and Fundraiser
2025-07-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Parc Jeanne Mance
Anti Canada Day BBQ and Fundraiser
Join us for a decolonial anti-Canada day BBQ and fundraiser on July 1st, 2-6pm! We will meet at Parc Jeanne-Mance (near the corner of Mont-Royal and Parc). There will be vegan and gluten-friendly options.
Grab some free food and mingle with tablers from the Palestinian Feminist Collective, Spring Network, Health Workers Alliance for Palestine, the Mohawk Mothers, and more! Fundraising proceeds will go towards a variety of local decolonial struggles – details TBA.

Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance
2025-07-31 20:30 - 2025-08-19 22:30 | QPIRG-McGill, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 2H7, Canada
Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance
Join us for our next QPIRG summer film screening of Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance. We will be screening this film outdoors, in the backyard of 3516 Av du Parc, on July 31st at 8:30pm
There will be free popcorn and cold beverages!
“Unflinching, bold, enraging, hopeful […] a vital new chapter in the queer canon […] pivotal moments that sparked Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ movement and honouring the activists whose resistance led to the rights we have today.”
This film is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

Anti-Capitalist Queer Picnic
2025-08-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Quebec
Anti-Capitalist Queer Picnic
Dear community,
Come join QPIRG community for our third annual picnic and BBQ! This year, we will be meeting close to the Verdun waterfront – come share a meal, have a chat, and spend some time in the sun. The picnic has a queer, anticapitalist theme, but everyone is welcome!
Where: Parc Arthur Therrien, close to the baseball field – between Métro De L’Église and Lasalle
When: 1pm to 4pm
Bring your flyers and materials if you want to share your group’s work with the others, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like to co-host or help set things up.
Cheers,
Your friends at the PIRGs

Rad Frosh 2025
2025-08-29 00:00 - 2025-08-31 23:59 | Quebec
Rad Frosh 2025
Rad Frosh 2025 is happening August 29–31!
Rad Frosh is a three-day alternative orientation for students who want to connect, learn, and build community, all through a social justice lens.
This year’s theme, All Roads Lead to Rad, invites you to explore where your story meets collective resistance.
Expect:

Catered meals
Art & reflection spaces
Skill-building workshops
Panels on activism, organizing & movement-building
We kick off with a campus tour that challenges colonial histories, and dive into a Friday night panel on McGill, repression, and lawfare, with voices from across campus and beyond.
Whether you’re new to Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang or just looking for a space that feels real, this is your Frosh.

This unique experience will give you the chance to get to know activist and community groups on campus and beyond, while also introducing you to more social justice issues.
Rad Frosh is open to all McGill students! Registration for Rad Frosh is open now on MyInvolvement!
Registration for Rad Frosh costs $80. Rad Frosh operates to be as accessible as possible, and offers a pay-what-you-can bursary option on the registration platform.
Contact us for more information.

Library Day
2025-09-02 13:00 - 18:00 | QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2H7, Canada
Library Day

QPIRG-McGill is hosting Library Day, an open house with programming throughout the day on Tuesday, September 2nd! Come by the QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library at 3516 Ave. Parc between 1 and 6pm to learn about how the library works, make a button, write your own zine, and to have some yummy free food!
When: September 2, 1-6pm
Where: 3516 Av du Parc, first floor
Presentation on the library: 1-1:30pm
Zine Workshop: 3:00-3:30pm

Community Dinner
2025-10-21 18:00 - 19:30 | SSMU Flex Space, 3480 rue McTavish, room 106, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7 2H7, Canada
Community Dinner
As is tradition, we’re kicking off Culture Shock with a FREE community dinner, this October 21st! 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 our previous community dinners!
Our catering was originally supposed to be provided by @midnightkitchen; the abrupt and ill-advised firing of the entire staff left us scrambling for a solution, but we found one! Along with the food and good company, we will provide supplies to make buttons showing your support for Midnight Kitchen, and thank you cards for the staff of Midnight Kitchen.
Tuesday, October 21st, 6-7:30 PM
SSMU Flex Space (3480 rue McTavish, #106)
Accessibility:
The SSMU University Centre is wheelchair accessible. There are single-stall accessible bathrooms on the second and fourth floor.

Panel on Migrant Justice
2025-10-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Centre St-Pierre, 1212 rue Panet, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Panel on Migrant Justice
Join us for an in-depth and important discussion on migrant justice, led by organizers working with speakers from Centre d’aide aux familles latino-américaines (CAFLA), the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC-CTI), and the Migrant Justice Clinic (CJM). This event will explore the lived realities of migrants navigating a province shaped by colonial borders, systemic racism, and increasingly hostile immigration policies.
The panel will begin with an introduction to the speakers and their organizations, offering insight into the work being done on the ground. The heart of the conversation will center on critical questions such as: How are migrant communities organizing in the face of structural barriers? What challenges do they face? And how are state policies, such as Bill C-2 and growing anti-migrant rhetoric, impacting their everyday lives?
We will explore intersections between migrant justice and other social movements, asking how solidarity can be built across struggles for Indigenous sovereignty, workers’ rights, climate justice, and more.
Whether you are a long-time ally or just beginning to learn about these issues, this is a space to listen, ask questions, and reflect on what it means to be in true solidarity with the migrant community.
About the speakers:
Guarav Sharma (IWC-CTI)
Since 1997, Gaurav Sharma has been a driving force in Chandigarh theatre (India), using his artistry to advocate for women’s empowerment, labor issues and social change. His extensive portfolio includes directing plays and films that shed light on pressing social issues, including the Punjabi opera Yaddan/Memories (Sala Rossa, 2024) and the revolutionary play, Ram Mohammad Singh Azad/Celebration of Independence of India (Sala Rossa, 2025). With the Immigrant Workers Centre, Sharma performs street theatre and workshop leadership on labor rights issues in Parc Extension, in particular the South Asian community. He has been a worker at Dollarama warehouse, and a key player in the IWC’S Dollarama warehouse campaigns.
Camille Bonenfant (CJM)
Camille Bonenfant est co-coordonnatrice et organisatrice communautaire de la Clinique pour la justice migrante. Elle a travaillé dans le milieu communautaire montréalais en défense des droits des personnes assistées sociales et en logement pendant plusieurs années. Elle s’implique dans des mouvements pour la justice migrante notamment Solidarités sans frontières depuis plus d’une dizaine d’années.
There will be a free dinner served after the event! Catering provided by Les Filles Fattoush.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 6-8pm
Centre St-Pierre (1212 rue Panet)
Accessibility:
Centre St-Pierre is wheelchair accessible.

Walking as method: Exploring hostile design in Milton-Parc
2025-10-23 16:00 - 18:00 | QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2H7, Canada
Walking as method: Exploring hostile design in Milton-Parc
This workshop introduces walking/ rolling as a research method while exploring how design shapes access, safety, and inclusion in the Milton-Parc neighbourhood. This workshop will encourage participants to reflect on how design, policing, and city policies impacts inclusion and will question who has the right to access public space.
Facilitated by Cara Chellew, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Policy & Design, McGill University
October 23rd, 4-6pm
Meeting point: QPIRG-McGill Backyard (3516 Ave du Parc), accessible by the back alley which can be reached by Milton.

Keynote Address with Ellen Gabriel
2025-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Macdonald Harrington G-10, 815 rue Sherbrooke O, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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 – from resource extraction and the climate crisis, to housing and homelessness, to borders and imperialism. The Land provides water, energy, food, and life. It roots the resistance of Land defenders blocking forestry in Nehirowisiw Aski just as it moves the resistance of Palestinian children throwing rocks at the Zionist occupation. From migrants navigating an imperial border imposed upon Land to unhoused community members criminalized for occupying Land, this year’s event series, Culture Shock, challenges us to reject that Land is an object of capitalist possession, and recenter it as the root of our struggle.
Ellen Gabriel is an activist, artist, and educator from the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, known for her central role as spokesperson during the Kanehsatà:ke Siege, also known as the Oka Crisis. She has won numerous awards for her most recent book, When the Pine Needles Fall.
Friday, October 24th, 7:30-9pm
Macdonald Harrington G-10
Accessibility:
Macdonald Harrington is wheelchair accessible. To access the building from Roddick Gates (entrance to McGill campus from rue Sherbrooke O), go north on the main path, follow the path on the right towards the Frank Dawson Adams Building (3450 rue University), and enter using the west entrance. Once inside, turn left to access Macdonald Harrington.

Textures of the land: Reconnecting with our roots.
2025-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Maison de l’Amitié, 120 Duluth Ave E, Montreal, QC, Canada
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 will be launched by a short film, opening the conversation. You will then be guided into a mirror collage workshop, creating a unique piece to take home with you.
Charly is a queer multidisciplinary immigrant artist living in Montreal. Their art focuses on belonging and being unapologetically themselves. Their homelands (Mauritius, Madagascar and Reunion) feeds their artistic practice in many ways. Charly ran multiple workshops in their professional and artistic life, where they pride themselves on prioritizing a safe space and accessibility for Queer BIPOC community members
Tuesday, October 28, 6-8pm
Maison de l’Amitié, room 14 (120 Duluth Ave E)
Accessibility:

“Severed” Screening hosted by In Pain and Insane
2025-10-29 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205, Montreal, QC, H3H 2M8, Canada
“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, new, short documentary Severed. Severed follows Mohamad Saleh, a Palestinian teenager from Gaza who lost his leg at only 12 years old, and has survived five Israeli military assaults. In those attacks, he lost his home, close family members, and best friends. Mohamad’s story is both deeply personal and emblematic of the thousands of Palestinians disabled by Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This is an opportunity to center Palestinian voices, deepen understanding of the genocide, and build solidarity between Palestinians and the larger disability justice community.
Together, we can take action on disability justice and Palestine.
Wednesday, October 29th, 6-8pm
QPIRG Concordia, 2100 rue Guy Suite 205
Accessibility:
Mask mandatory event; free masks will be available at the entrance to the space.
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.
The space contains one gender-neutral, single occupancy, wheelchair accessible washroom. The door is not automated, it swings in, and is pretty light.
Two air purifiers will be running in the space. This is a reduced scent space. We encourage people to not wear scented products at QPIRG or reduce drastically their usual use of these products (eg. perfumes, colognes, etc.).

WHERE I COME FROM THE GROUND IS RED
2025-10-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Leacock 210, 855 rue Sherbrooke O, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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 share personal experiences and collectively read from a selection of poetic provocations. What follows will take different shapes as each will formulate a response, process a piece of trauma, or simply explore a musing in creating a paper zine. We will conclude with a zine exchange.
Mak Ékoué is an artist and design researcher born and raised in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Specifically interested in explorations of queerness, radical care, and material cultures as they pertain to urban contexts, all spheres of their work revolve around ideas of memory, archival, and cultural references. Their artistic practice, primarily composed of poetry and zine-making, is largely comprised of writings about the cherished people, and multitude of sacred places, that have cradled them thus far.
Thursday, October 30th, 6-8pm
Leacock 210 (855 rue Sherbrooke O)
Accessibility:
Building is wheelchair accessible. Gender neutral washroom is on the second floor.

Jazz Night at the QPIRG Library
2025-11-21 18:00 - 21:00 | QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2H7, Canada
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 ramp to the front door – please ring the doorbell or call us at 514-284-2664 if you require assistance opening the door.
There are single-stall bathrooms on the first and third floor, but these are not wheelchair accessible.

Community Dinner
2026-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 | McGill Arts Building, Room 150, 853 Sherbrooke O, Montreal, QC, H3A2A7, Canada
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 our previous community dinners!
Monday, March 16th, 6-8 PM
Arts 150 (853 rue Sherbrooke O)
Accessibility:
The Arts Building is accessible by wheelchair via the Leacock Building (855 rue Sherbrooke O). There are accessible bathrooms on the ground floor of the Leacock Building.

Guerrilla Gardening & Seed Bombs 101
2026-03-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Concordia Greenhouse, 1455 Blvd de Maisonneuve, 7th floor, Montreal, QC, Canada
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 for and by the community.
Participants will explore the intersecting agricultural and land-back resistance movements throughout history, from Canada and the US to Africa, Latin America, and beyond, grounded in the revolutionary teachings of the Zapatistas and Emiliano Zapata’s “Tierra y Libertad” (Land & Freedom) movement.
Get your hands dirty making seed bombs, a guerilla gardening tool, and discover which seeds work best for different spaces, taking into account native plants and avoiding invasives. All seed bombs made during the workshop will be ready to take action in your community, equipping you to plant seeds of beauty wherever they’re needed most.
Register for the workshop here
Concordia Greenhouse
1455 Blvd. de Maisonneuve Ouest, 7th floor
Accessibility:
The Concordia Greenhouse is accessible from street level by elevator.

Mapping Extraction
2026-03-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Quebec
This workshop maps extraction as a political and environmental process of the capitalocene, tracing how projects framed as development or sustainability- by bringing together cases from India, Palestine, and Alaska- reorganize land and life through colonial or racial power. Rather than proposing reformist solutions, the workshop opens space to revisit environmental possibility by questioning what kinds of futures these projects make possible or foreclose.
The core of the session will center on examining 3 case studies, followed by a discussion guided by questions of the ontology of environmental “injustice” and the role of capital accumulation in shaping what counts as environmental “good.” Participants will collectively explore what a critical environmental politics might require us to refuse, and what sort of knowledge could guide alternative environmental responses.
Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Register on Zoom here.
Jenan Afaneh (B.A. University of British Columbia, M.A. Birzeit University) is a writer, researcher, and educator. They are interested in tracing the multiple and shifting realities produced by colonialism, across time, space, and social life.

Solidarity Crochet
2026-03-23 18:00 - 21:00 | SSMU Flex Space, 3480 rue McTavish, room 106, Montreal, QC, H3A0E7 2H7, Canada
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 housing projects and resources and further information for how to best support the unhoused in our communities and beyond. Any projects completed during the workshop will be donated to Résilience Montréal.
Tea and light snacks will be served.
Accessibility:
The SSMU Building is wheelchair accessible.
