QPIRG McGill

Annual General Meeting 2025
2025-04-24 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | QC
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 | QC
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 | QC
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 | QC
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.

Manthan Film Screening
2026-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 | McConnell Engineering, Room 12, 3480 rue University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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 milk producer. It is also India’s first crowdfunded film, produced by 500,000 dairy farmers who contributed two rupees each toward the production. Afterwards, organizers from SADAC will lead a discussion on labour, gender, caste, and community organizing in India.
MANTHAN (1976)
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Runtime 134 minutes
VOSTA
McConnell Engineering, Room 12
3480 rue University
Accessibility:
The McConnell Engineering building is wheelchair accessible via the doors closest to rue Milton, just past the Milton Gates to enter McGill campus.

Tatreez Workshop
2026-03-26 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2H7, Canada
Join us on March 26, from 6-8 PM in the QPIRG McGill Alternative Library to learn the basics of Tatreez embroidery. Tatreez is a Palestinian embroidery tradition that has been passed down through generations that carries stories of land, identity, and resistance.
This beginner-friendly workshop will be guided by local Palestinian Suzane Obeid, and will create space to learn about the significance of this cultural practice in preserving memory, identity, and as a form of resistance against erasure and ethnic cleansing.
All materials will be provided, and no prior experience is necessary. Hot drinks and sweets will be served.
QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library
3516 Avenue du Parc
