Centre for feminist pedagogy
Centre des arts actuels Skol, 372, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, espace 314
Tuesday at 12:00pm until 5:00pm
For the sixth consecutive year of the SKOOL program, Skol shares its space and resources with a team of cultural workers who will experiment with different forms of programming and organization.
Founded in 2012 based on the tradition of the Copenhagen Free University, the Centre for Feminist Pedagogy (CFP) is a space for open conversation and knowledge production, unencumbered by the financial constraints, program requirements and ideological limitations of traditional academic institutions. Taking feminism as a starting point, an invitation for debate, a challenge, and a fruitful exchange, the CFP provides the opportunity for collective and collaborative approaches to life and learning that are at once very serious and seriously funny.
During a ten week period, the CFP will set up its office in the gallery to organize and host various public events such as Master Classes, screenings, workshops, lectures, dance parties, and a ‘Trade School.’ Alongside these one-off events, the CFP’s office will also be open to the public for questions/comments/interventions/proposals from Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 5 pm.
Schedule of events :
Thursday, June 13th, 2 pm - Creation workshop: Elles partent en guerre: le manifeste féministe
Friday, June 14th, 8 pm - Dance Party: If I can’t dance I don’t wanna be part of your revolution
Saturday, June 22nd, noon - Trade School
Wednesday, June 26th, 7:30 pm - Screening and discussion: HERstories
Friday, July 5 th, to Satuday July 6 th, noon until noon – Master Class : Kunst with Cameras: The History of Feminist Video
Friday July 19th to Saturday July 20th, noon untill noon - Master Class: Feminism with Teeth: Bruce Nauman and Détournement in 24 hours
Week of July 22nd (time to be confirmed) - Trade school or Creation workshop
Friday August 9th (time to be confirmed) - Screening and Panel: La mise à mort: Militant French Feminist Video
Saturday August 10th (time to be confirmed) - experimental studies day: La mise à mort: Féminisme et/comme critique institutionelle.
Keep yourself posted and find out the details by visiting our website regularly during the summer!
http://skol.ca/en/programming/skool-2013-centre-for-feminist-pedagogy/
Résonance Reading Series 5
Tuesday, June 4th, 9:00pm
Resonance Café, 5175A Avenue du Parc
So far there are six readers:
Pamela Fillion
Zoe Koke
Peter Steiner
Jacob Spector
and Alex Leslie, visiting from Vancouver to attend the Lambda literary award ceremony
Now also with an appearance by Jon Paul Fiorentino!
Please support and invite friends to this event!
Residual Reading Series
Tuesday, June 4th, 7:30pm
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest
Residual Reading Series is pleased to present a reading of two new works of fiction by Marguerite Pigeon and Natalee Caple. Natalee’s new novel, In Calamity’s Wake, has been described as a cinematic adventure, a dual, or dueling, narrative in two voices that darts between, as Zoe Whittall writes, “mythology, historical accounts, song lyrics, poetry, rumours, and fiction of the time period.” Pigeon’s Open Pit confronts the landscape and the civil rights of indigenous people against the backdrop of big business and amid the chaos of love, relief and difference, resulting in the questioning of what it means to be situated against will.
Join us as these two talented and unique writers launch their books together in Montreal.
Festival FRINGE de Montréal 2013
Monday at 7:00pm until Sunday at 3:00am
MainLine Theatre, 3997 boul. Saint-Laurent
THEATRE, DANCE, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS & MORE!
Join us next June, at Montreal's international independent arts festival.
Photo: Gagnants Greenland Music Award winners "Lakes of Canada"
Park FRINGE Park by Cindy Lopez
www.montrealfringefestival.com
Waters Three Biggest Threats and Opportunities with Ben Grambles President of U.S. Water Alliance
Wednesday, June 5th, 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Hall Building, 12th floor, room 1220, Concordia University, 1455 boul de Maisonneuve O
Think green! U.S. Water Alliance President Ben Grumbles is coming to Concordia to speak about water, one of the world’s most precious resources. Join him in a discussion on how to best protect, manage, and benefit from it. This is a great opportunity to learn how to improve our outlook on water sustainability in our own university, city, and country!
RSVP at wssr@concordia.ca
If you decide to come last minute, we'll be happy to welcome you!
For more information on Mr. Grumbles, please visit:
http://politicalscience.concordia.ca/wssr/instructors/#BenGrumbles
We also offer a workshop on the topic taught by Mr. Grumbles. For more information, please visit:
http://politicalscience.concordia.ca/wssr/workshops/public-policy/#Environment
See you there!
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Vernissage FLORAISON
Thursday, June 6, 5:00pm until 11:00pm
USINE 106U, 160 Roy E.
USINE 106U is happy to convey you to the opening of the divine exhibition FLORAISON presenting the artwork of 29 visual artists: Mark Prent, Eric Braün, Winky, Jean-Martin (Raven), Mimi Traillette, Ectoplasm, José Bernard, Yves Milet-Desfougères, René Donais, Daniel Erban, Xavier Landry, Sébastien Forest, Claude Bolduc, Away, Cathou Lemire, Martin G. Blanchette, Fredy Bouhier, Martine Birobent, Majka Kwiatowska, Nancy Ogilvie, Zbynek Najser, Jean-Francois Montagne, Valery Latulippe, Jean-Francois Labelle, Serge De Cotret, Jessica Sallay-Carrington, Ginette J. Bouchard, Sophie Brunelière and Danielle Domon. Hallucinogenic paintings, textiles works, disquieting kinetic sculptures, erotic etchings, original drawings, trash plush toys, surrealist jewelry other fascinating curiosities will massively take over the space. The exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 160 Roy E. from June 5th to June 30th 2013, and the opening will be held on Thursday June 6th from 5hPM to 11hPM. Opening hours are Saturday to Wednesday noon to 6hPM , Thursday & Friday from noon to 9hPM.
www.usine106u.com
Knowledge Market - Urban Agriculture Edition
Tuesday, June 4th, 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Santropol Roulant
Bring out your gardening gear: E-180 is starting the season off with an interactive event to inspire all of your green projects! The Knowledge Market, Urban Agriculture / Gardening Special, is an knowledge-sharing event where you can offer and gain practical advice to organize your next urban agriculture adventure with other event participants and partners (LUFA farms, Montreal Urban Ecology Centre, Equiterre, Eco-stage, Crudessence, Rise Kombucha, Share your garden, PlantCatching).
Join us on June 4th from 6-8 PM on Santropol Roulant rooftop, 111, Roy St. E. This event is Pay what you can: all proceeds will benefit Santropol. Register at http://e180-agriculture-roulante.eventbrite.com/ !
An island theme organised by different subjects will make it easy to meet participants with similar interests and special projects such as:
1. Gardening all year long
2. Green rooftops and balconies
3. Community agriculture
4. Animals in the city
5. Recipes
6. Special Projects
There are only 150 spots available, so register quickly (Facebook doesn't count...) -->
http://e180-agriculture-urbaine.eventbrite.com/
We’re looking forward to meet you and share knowledge together!
Abortion Tales
Thursday, June 6th, 7:00pm
1500 maisonneuve, montreal, Suite 4.
COME AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH US.
The reproductive justice league is hosting a storytelling event about experiences surrounding abortion.
Let's break the stigma around abortion! Let's celebrate choice, reproductive autonomy, and personal expression! We CAN break down the barriers that silence us!
Let's work together to create a safe and respectful environment. We would like to give as much space to those who have experienced abortions, though everyone is welcome to attend and share. People of all genders and experiences are welcome, but judgements of others are definitly not. All experiences, postive or not, are appreciated and welcome!
We have a choice, let's celebrate it!!! :)
Hosted by the Reproductive Justice League
Snacks, wine and other beverages will be provided
Cozy and safe environment
Feel free to bring stories, poems, songs, art
Serenade by the Reproductive Justice League Choir
*Free
*Childcare provided within 48 hours notice.
*Wheelchair accessible
*Whisper translations.
*Smash the patriarchy
International Week of Struggle against Parasites
Every year at the beginning of summer, for years now, Montreal has fallen prey to a strange fever. For a period of several days, the air labours under a dense and foul-smelling cloud, residents suffer from a kind of collective tinnitus, a persistent and irritating ringing which disturbs thought and sleep. Many neighbourhoods, especially downtown, are invaded by hordes of blank-faced zombies, stripped of their senses and moving mechanically under the hypnotic influence of a malevolent power.
This disturbing state of affairs is brought on by tens of thousands of parasites who swarm into our beautiful city, stifling its habitual joy of living and injecting it with a paralyzing venom.
Every year, in the month of June, Montreal falls prey to the macho and consumerist virus of the Grand Prix!
Creeping politicians and flashy de luxe dealers are pumping themselves up to suck the blood of this crowd, handed over on a giant checker-board.
Streets are blocked off so that we can be subjected to grosteque advertising and alienating shows.
The forces of repression outdo themselves to maintain the commercial peace.
This year, the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC) is proposing an antidote:
ANTI-CAPITALIST CRITICAL MASS
Friday, June 7th at 5:30pm
Two meeting points:
Place Valois (Ontario/Valois in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
Parc Laurier (Laurier/Mentana in the Plateau)
Come on your bicycle, rollerblades, stakeboard, scooter …
and let's take back the streets together, because the city belongs to all who live here!
Let's invade the city and take a ride - for as long as we want!
We won't let car culture drive us off the road!
IT IS TIME TO COLLECTIVELY RE-APPROPRIATE OUR SPACE!
Fuck the Grand Prix! Down with car culture!
6 June to 13 June: call for autonomous action!!!!
The Plant Summer Workshop series
Saturdays
La Plante
The workshop series' goal is to provide non-judgmental space where people can share skills and learn together. People of all skill-levels are welcome to facilitate or attend workshops.
If you have an idea for a workshop you would like to facilitate, on any topic, contact one of the organizers. There are plenty of open spots!
All contributions are voluntary and are mostly to recoup expenses or to help the Plant maintain its space.
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KIMCHI: A delicious fermented spicy thing
Saturday June 15, 3PM
Kimchi is a fermented dish originating in Korea. After this workshop, you'll be able to know some of the science behind making kimchi, should be comfortable with several methodologies, and you should be able to make other lactose fermentations such as sauerkraut. You will help in the making of a kimchi batch, and be able to take home a liter of kimchi on the day of the workshop.
$5-7 suggested for covering ingredients
Please bring a jar or container.
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RISE ABOVE: making bread
Sunday June 30, 3PM
Bread is an old trick for putting air in between ground grains. Learn some things, share your tips, and by the time the workshop is done you should be able to feel comfortable making a wide variety of breads, from French bread to olive bread to brioche. Participants will then prepare bread for that night's community kitchen.
$5 suggested
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WRITING A FRENCH CV
Wednesday June 26, 7:30PM
Emphasis will be on translating or composing your CV in collaboration (although sharing your personal CV will not be required). We will also look at more formal phrases and grammar for covering letters, introductions, and interviews. Please bring any materials you'd like to work on, and a laptop if you have one (some computers will be available for those without a laptop or tablet). Participants will leave with a CV in French and a list of vocabulary, and if there's time we will look at some French job listings for future employment quests. Please note that due to limitations, it is not yet confirmed that you will be able to print a physical copy. We're working on that though!
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STRANGE BREW: Making your own beer
Saturday July 6, 12PM
After brewing our own beer for over a year, we want to do it with you! Learn the ins and outs of homebrewing, the different methods, and what you need to get going.
$5 suggested
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Planting between the cracks, gardening in the city
No date yet!
Uban gardeners share their experiences. Includes a walking tour, hands-on planting, and a discussion on the politics of gardening in the city. By the end of this workshop you should be comfortable starting your own garden, scoping out sites for gardening in the city, and knowing what plants will grow best. Bring your extra seeds or seedlings for a seed-share!
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Movement / Viewpoints
Thursday July 11, 6PM
Learn Marie Overly and Anne Bogart's technique for physical expression, movement, and gesture. We will focus on listening to our impulses, awareness of how we hold ourselves in space both in relation to our environment, emotions, and other bodies around us!
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Kitchen tactics: Some struggles take place on the street, but the every day struggle is in the kitchen
Sunday August 25, 4PM
A discussion on some of our experiences with communal and collective cooking. Learn about bulk purchasing, where to buy cheap groceries all over Montreal, how to stock your pantry, and how to share the kitchen with roommates. Discuss some of the politics of our current food system and why communal cooking is important. All this while making and preparing a meal.
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XEROXXEROXXEROXXEROXXEROX: zine-making
Saturday September 7, 3PM
Learn to make your own zine, and an afternoon discussion on zine-making, the politics and history of zines. Workshop your own project or help make a zine compiling all the things learned from the summer workshop series.
Because of organizational limitations, most workshops will not be in French, but please let us know before hand if you would like whisper translation and we will make it happen!
Child care will also be available upon request.
Regrettably, the space is not wheelchair accessible.
Montreal Zombie Walk - summer 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2:00pm
June is coming fast, get ready for another stroll of the dead! Sunday June 9 2013, the walk will take off at 2pm!
Location TBA later: we're looking for any bars or cafés that will let some of us do our make-up together from 11am to 2pm; suggestions?
If
you want to help come up with ideas for the route and any "surprise
attacks" please let us know. You can email to info@thegrindhouse.ca.
(Last year we attacked the medieval fighters at the Tam Tams!)
Color me Rad Montreal (LES MEERKATS )
Sunday, June 9, 9:00am
Place De L'esplanade - Stade Olympique
BESOIN D'UNE MOTIVATION?
CETTE COURSE DE 5 KM ME SEMBLE FOU FOU FOU!
QUI EMBARQUE DANS NOTRE ÉQUIPE??? (Les Meerkats) / chef d'équipe: Lafleur
35$ avant le 1ier Mars pour l'inscription!
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Si vous êtes allergique au système métrique, à la fécule de maïs sans gluten ou aux surdoses de joie, vous serez sûrement plus confortables si vous restiez bien assis sur votre sofa à regarder l’Auberge du chien noir en reprise qu’à la ligne de départ de cette course de 5 kilomètres, qui ressemble beaucoup plus à la course arc-en-ciel dans Mario Kart.
Par contre, si vous préférez vous dégourdir les jambes et barbouiller le visage de votre meilleur ami, ne manquez surtout pas la course Color Me Rad de Montréal.
Qu’il ait été créé ou qu’il ait évolué, il n’en reste pas moins que l’Humain est fait pour courir pour une raison et une raison seulement : rester en vie. La course de Pamplona fut la première course organisée pour accomplir ce dessein : courir ou mourir!!!
Heureusement, nous avons évolué au point où nous chassons seulement pour trouver des partenaires potentiels, nous récoltons les coupons pour économiser chez Provigo et nous courrons pour amasser des fonds pour des œuvres caritatives et pour notre système cardiovasculaire.
Détails de la course
La course Color Me Rad de Montréal prend place à l’Esplanade Financière Sun Life, située au Parc Olympique, et amassera des fonds pour la Société de leucémie et lymphome du Canada. Cliquez sur l’onglet "Charity Partner" pour en savoir plus sur cet organisme.
Les bombes de couleur commenceront à siffler et exploser à 9:00 AM, en même temps que les vagues de coureurs qui se feront cochonner de peinture à chaque 5 minutes. Au fil d’arrivée, vous ressemblerez fort probablement à une classe d’arts plastiques à la maternelle qui a mal fini… mais l’Art de la Course en vaudra assurément la chandelle.
The Little Beau Peep Show - Montreal Fringe Edition
Saturday, June 8 at 10:00pm until June 16 at 12:00am
Café Cléopatra, 1230 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
Little Beau Peep lost her sheep and didn’t know where to find them. It turns out, they had simply hitched a ride to the big city to start a career in show business with Glam Gam Productions and some of their favourite storybook heroes. Join Beau Peep and her tantalizing flock and naughty cast of fictional characters in the newly revamped Little Beau Peep Show - where this time around, the only things she risks losing are her skivvies.
Come early and step into the rabbit hole for a live peep show! Then, have a seat and watch adult bedtime stories come to life on stage, accompanied by our live sex-shop quartet!
Written By: Glam Gam Productions
Directed By: Deanne Pye & Les Blow
Including choreography by: Gabrielle Coulter
$10 (+ 2 admin fee)
BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE:
http://www.montrealfringe.ca/en/show/little-beau-peep-show
VIDEO TEASER:
http://youtu.be/N68b-uy3Vi0
http://www.montrealfringe.ca/en/show/little-beau-peep-show
Transition NDG Presents: A Community Celebration
Saturday, June 8, 5:00pm until 10:00pm
Eglise St-Thomas Church 6897 Somerled
Want to know more about the Transition Movement and what's going on in your neighborhood? Then join us! There will be a potluck dinner and the opportunity to brainstorm together about the more resilient we would like to create (and are creating) locally... and music and dancing! PLEASE let us know if you will be attending by early June (RSVP). Please bring an object made out of petroleum (aka: plastic) for the creation of a collective monument !
SOURIS PRIX
Saturday, June 8, 5:30pm
Square Dorchester
On
Summer’s Eve, Montreal is treated with its yearly Grand Prix Douche and
leaves the city smelling like fresh consumerism. It’s the most
wonderful time of the year! I’m certain you’re all foaming at the mouth
with rabid excitement at the thought of:
- Fast Cars!
- Scantily Clad Women in/on Fast Cars!
- Various Flags on Cars!
- The Elite attending the Hottest Clubs
- Purchasing things at break-neck speeds!
- Flags on Women in Clubs with Cars
- JACQUES VILLENEUVE
ON SATURDAY JUNE 8TH, IT’S TIME FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL SOURIS PRIX.
Time
to mock everything the Grand Prix tries to get away with, and reeducate
the attendees about the issues they should be concerning themselves
with.
In Souris Fest fashion, choose your weapon of mass hilarity and let’s make some noise.
Suggestions:
- Men dressed as « race babe »
- Bring Helium inflatable sex dolls, toy race cars, a mountain of Monopoly money
- Wear your « bling bling », your big cigar and your big muscles
- Make signs like: « Be pretty and shut up », « work, buy and watch cars going in circles», « Champagne and F1! », etc.
À QUI LA VILLE ? À NOUS LA VILLE ! Marche familiale / Pique-nique (VILLERAY)
Sunday, June 9, 1:00pm until 5:00pm
Metro Jarry
WHOSE CITY? OUR CITY! (Villeray) For a Solidarity City
1 year after we started the casseroles, we still refuse to share our demo routes
Our neighborhood is not for sale! We will not submit to anti-protest by-law P-6!
1pm: Family-friendly Demonstration & March
Starting in front of Jarry métro and marching through our neighborhood
2:30pm: Festive picnic and BBQ
at Parc Tillemont (corner of Villeray & Des Érables)
map: http://goo.gl/maps/1MgzP
Free! Music! Games for the kids!
Organized by the Neighborhood Assembly of Villeray (APAQ-Villeray)Supported by Solidarity Across Borders.
INFO :
www.apaqvilleray.org * villerayclame@gmail.com
Hatha yoga class
Every Sunday from 11-12
185 Van Horne apt. 5.
It is PWYC and all are welcome.
My yoga practice is therapeutic, strengthening, and meditative. The
style is accessible to absolutely everyone who has an open mind,
patience, and a sense of humour.
There are mats you can borrow from us, and though all classes are PWYC, we do ask for a donation of 5$.
Please invite anyone you think would be interested.
For more info or to ask a question please find us:
Facebook: Yoga at the Plant
Gmail: yogaattheplant@gmail.com
Atelier de création de bobettes
Monday, June 10, 11:00am
Café l'Artère, 7000 avenue du Parc
On veut pas de bobettes qui viennent d'usines meurtrières du Bangladesh.
On veut pas de bobettes biologiques branchées à 50$.
On veut juste des bobettes sexés, ludiques, confortables, pis c'est dur à trouver.
Fack on va se les FAIRE!
Et on va en profiter pour jaser de plein de choses féministes!
How Do You Start A Nonprofit?
Monday, June 10, 6:30pm
Apathy is Boring, 1514, avenue Docteur Penfield
You’ve got an idea, you’ve got a ton of energy and you’re raring to go.
Easy tiger. We want you to change the world. We do. But we also want that change to be sustainable - not a flash in the pan. So, we’ve lined up two heavyweights who have some serious experience in guiding first time founders through the process of starting their projects.
Dev Aujla will be skyping in from Toronto. He founded DreamNow, an organization that helps young people start community projects. And in “real life”, we’ll have Gioel Gioacchino. She is a 2012 Sauvé Scholar who founded Recrear, a public benefit project platform that helps young people launch development projects in the global community. They know what it takes to create a healthy organization.
So, get ready to take action. Make that cause you’re always thinking about a reality.
Or you can just come chill out. You don’t have to have a savior complex to enjoy a beverage with the A is B team and learn how this whole nonprofit thing gets started.
Come by June 10th from 6:30 to 8:30 to learn the ins and outs of starting an organization.