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The Contemporary Urgencies of Audre Lorde’s Legacy

March 3, 2013 • Ronak Ghorbani

This coming Thursday will launch a two-week long celebration of poet and activist Audre Lorde. There are free events happening across Toronto and at both York University and The University of Toronto. Check out the list of events below.

Community Arts Practice, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University in association with Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto Invite you to

THE CONTEMPORARY URGENCIES OF AUDRE LORDE’S LEGACY, MARCH 7-21, 2013

1) Medicines for Survival: Indigenous Knowledge and the Sacred: a lecture by M. Jacqui Alexander

DATE: Thursday March 7th

PLACE: HNES (Health, Nursing, and Environmental Studies)building room 140, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

TIME: 6 p.m.

http://www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/fac_wgsi.html

2) Litanies for our Survival: Visual and Performative Conversations with Audre Lorde and inaugural exhibition in new Community Arts Practice Space

DATE: Thursday March 7th

PLACE: HNES (Health, Nursing, and Environmental Studies)building room 283 and throughout the building, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

3) Film screening, Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 (directed by Dagmar Schultz)

Followed by panel discussion with Dagmar Schultz, Marion Kraft, Gloria Wekker, M. Jacqui Alexander, Carol Allain, Farrah Khan, Bonita Lawrence

DATE: Friday March 15th

PLACE: William Doo Auditorium, University of Toronto, 45 Willcocks Street

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

http://www.audrelorde-theberlinyears.com/emails/orgs_english_short.html

4) What’s (Homo)Sexuality got to do with it? Lecture by Gloria Wekker, with responses from Anna Agathangelou and Jin Haritaworn, chaired by Ena Dua

DATE: Tuesday March 19th,

PLACE: HNES (Health, Nursing, and Environmental Studies)building room 140, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

TIME: 1 p.m.

5) “After the 9-5 in Audre’s Livingroom”

(An intimate, collaborative poetry marathon recite &r espond multidisciplinary hangout!)

presented by backforward collective

DATE: Thursday March 21st

PLACE: Whippersnapper Gallery, 594b Dundas St. West

TIME: 6 - 11 pm

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE ADVERTISE WIDELY.

CHECK OUT: https://www.facebook.com/events/563445090342037/

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: #audrelordeslegacy2013

YORK UNIVERSITY SPONSORS: Community Arts Practice, Office of the Dean; ACE and the Seminar Series in Equity and Diversity at FES; Faculty of Health; Centre for Feminist Research at York University and Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

YORK UNIVERSITY DIGITAL MAP: http://www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/maps/KeeleMap.pdf

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SPONSORS: Women and Gender Studies; Principal’s Initiatives Fund at New College; Equity Studies; Caribbean Studies; Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, OISE; Centre for the Study of the United States; Sexual Diversity Studies; Anti-Racism and Diversity; Status of Women; Cinema Studies; Canadian Studies

CONTACT:
anique.j.jordan@gmail.com
or
Honor Ford-Smith, PhD.
Associate Professor
Community and Environmental Arts
Faculty of Environmental Studies
280, HNES Bldg
York University
4700 Keele St,
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

phone: 416-736-2100 X22629
fax: 416-736-5679
Mad Students Society Presents: Presents: Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other Inside and Outside the Mental Health System

February 28, 2013 • Julia Horel

What? A peer support meeting in Ottawa
When? Saturday, March 9, 2013 from 5:30 – 7:30pm
Where? University of Ottawa. Email outreach@madstudentsociety.com for details.
Who? Students (from any college, university, or adult education course/program) and people planning to return to school with personal experiences of psychiatric systems, madness, mental illness, mental health disability, emotional or spiritual distress, etc.
Cost: FREE

Join us this month for an informal conversation about navigating the mental health system to get what we want and need – and where we find support outside of mainstream recommendations.

• Talk with people who’ve been there about our experiences with crisis lines, emerg services, hospital care, medication, case managers, counsellors, and psychiatrists.
• Share info about CBT, the best self-help books, group therapy, intake processes, wait-lists, and good doctors.
• Discuss with your peers how helpful (or not) music, pets, friends, sleep, sex, exercise, pizza, veggies,
spirituality, meditation, television, sunlight, or activism is to your quality of life – and how you explain this to
your mother when she wants you to see your GP.
• What’s the most unusual “alternative” source of care and support in your life?

Of course, we rarely stay on topic during our Mad meeting meanderings and look forward to hearing whatever else is on your mind! We welcome new members, frequent faces, and folks we haven’t seen in a while.

Can’t make the meeting? Looking for other support? Join our active email discussion listserv to continue this and other conversations. The listserv is a private place for members to talk about our lives, support each other, discuss ideas, share info/resources/events/news, and arrange local gatherings wherever we happen to be.

Questions? Directions? Nervous? Need Something? For further info, location details, to join the listserv, or if you have accommodation needs, want someone to meet you at the bus stop, or would like to chat with a member before the meeting, please email Alisa and Elizabeth at outreach@madstudentsociety.com.

More about us: Mad Students Society (MSS), created in 2005, is a community of students who are attending or planning to attend post-secondary or adult education institutions and have personal past/present experiences with psychiatric/mental health systems. We meet monthly (in Toronto and Hamilton) and communicate through an email listserv to support each other, discover tools for self-advocacy, and connect with our history and broader social movements. Visit our website at www.madstudentsociety.com or find us on Facebook.

Spread the word! Share this event on Facebook at www.facebook.com/events/425402874209784/. Email for other ways to support MSS.
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Centre for the Arts’ Film Camp for Teens Offers Comprehensive Training for Toronto Youth

February 21, 2013 • Julia Horel

For one productive and inspiring week this March Break in Toronto, Centre for the Arts will offer teens the opportunity to gain a firsthand look into the world of professional filmmaking through the Film Camp for Teens. Young filmmakers will train with some of Canada’s most respected talent during this 5-day intensive. Teens will participate in all aspects of filmmaking as they conceptualize, write, direct, act, light, shoot and edit their own short films. This March, Film Camp for Teens is celebrating its 21st camp.

With the rise and development of Canada’s film industry, and the recognition of its international success, filmmaking has become an increasingly popular and enticing option for students when exploring future career paths, both in front of the camera and behind. The unfortunate reality is that often they are unable to cultivate their skills or foster their talent because of a lack of financial resources. The Film Camp for Teens offers a training opportunity to all youth, regardless of income, though their Pay-What-You-Can and Sponsorship Programs. The camp also welcomes all young aspiring filmmakers regardless of experience.

Throughout the week, accomplished film professionals lead daily workshops in the various disciplines of filmmaking. Over the years an assortment of Genie, Gemini, DGC, ACTRA, and TIFF Award Recipients have participated, including; Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo), Saul Rubinek (Frasier), Judith Thompson (Lost and Delirious), Joan Hutton (President, CSC), Nicholas Campbell (DaVinci’s Inquest), George Bloomfield (Due South), Bill While (3DCC, WFW), TW Peacock (Heartland), Eleanore Lindo (Degrassi), Cal Coons (Murdoch Mysteries), Jerry Ciccoritti (King), Sudz Sutherland (Guns), Michael Grassi (Degrassi), Maury Chaykin (Less Than Kind), Duana Taha (Degrassi), Chris Fisher (Warehouse 13), Aaron Ashmore (Smallville) and many more.

These workshops are immediately followed by film shoots where the teens put learned creative and technical ideas into practical use. This hands-on training builds towards the successful completion of the teens’ final short films. On Friday afternoon, the films are showcased during a celebration and screening with family and friends. Each teen will take home a DVD copy of their films.

Film Camp for Teens operates with the assistance of individuals and companies such as William F. White, Trew Audio, Panavision, Stephenson’s Rental, Grace Foods, Sick Kids, Ghost FX, Pendulum Entertainment, Lee Weston Photography and many more.

The camp is produced by Sarain Boylan, Ashleigh Rains and Troy Miller.

Film Camp for Teens runs Monday, March 11th – Friday, March 15th from 10:00am - 5:30 pm at 918 Bathurst: Culture, Arts, Media and Education Centre (918 Bathurst St.)

Centre for the Arts also offers an August Film Camp for Teens.

The camp fee is $425 + HST, with Pay-What-You-Can and Sponsorship Spots available.

For more information, including pictures and videos from previous camps, please visit http://centreforthearts.com/film-camp-for-teens/

To either enroll or sponsor a teen, please email: info@centreforthearts.com
Call for Volunteers: Dyke March Toronto 2013

February 20, 2013 • Julia Horel

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
TORONTO DYKE MARCH

The Toronto Dyke March is ramping up for 2013 and we need your help!

We are seeking a diversity of lesbian, bi and queer women as well as dyke-identified trans and 2-Spirit people who would like to help organise this year’s Dyke March and affiliated events, including parties, panels, political actions, and community art projects.

We need both experienced members and those seeking to develop new skills. We need help with event coordination, fundraising and budgeting, graphic and web design, social media, marketing, blogging, community outreach, volunteer coordination, and political action.

Join the team! DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 27, 2013
To apply, send us brief explanations of 1) why you would like to be involved, 2) your qualities and experience as well as 3) the skills you would like to develop and your overall areas of interest.

Feel free to submit your answers by filling out this form: Dyke March 2013 Application

Applicants may include a resume (optional). You are encouraged to self identity. Queer people of colour, Indigenous dykes and 2-Spirit people, and trans folks strongly encouraged to apply.

Questions? Email us or come by our VOLUNTEER INFO SESSION
Saturday, February 23, 2013
1:00-3:00pm - drop-in
The 519 - room 303

The 2013 Dyke March Team Leads

Email: dykemarchto@gmail.com
Facebook: DykeMarch Toronto
Twitter: @dykemarchTO
Toronto conference: Making Noise! Learn. Act. Heal.

February 12, 2013 • Julia Horel

The UARR would like to invite you to the Making Noise! Learn. Act. Heal. Community Conference on Gender-based Violence on March 1st and 2nd.

Media, Art & Performances!
Supports & Resources.
Self-care Body Work.
Interactive Workshops.
Strategies for addressing gender-based violence.

Making Noise! Learn. Act. Heal. Community Conference on Gender-based Violence is a gathering aimed at providing a space to explore interactive, practical, artistic and healing ways to address and prevent gender-based violence. The conference wraps up the three-year Making Noise! Initiative which has engaged over 500 diverse youth and people who work with youth across the GTA.

Making Noise!
LEARN.ACT.HEAL.
Community Conference on Gender-based Violence

Date:
Friday, March 1st 5:30pm - 8:30pm &
Saturday, March 2nd 10am - 6pm

Location:
Ryerson University, Oakham House
63 Gould Street (@ Church)

*Register now for FREE lunch, TTC tokens & snacks. All are welcome. Please contact us to let us know how we can accommodate you.
*For more info or to register email: info@urbanalliance.ca or call 416-703-6607 x 3
Eventbrite Registration: http://makingnoiseconference.eventbrite.ca/
*Please visit www.urbanalliance.ca/conference for Conference Workshops, schedule, keynote and performers.
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LAUNCH PARTY! Sunday, Feb 10, Toronto

February 5, 2013 • Team Shameless

Shameless‘ new winter issue has been published, and we’re holding a party to celebrate! The launch party will feature bands and a DJ, so come listen to some great music and then dance the night away! We’ll also be having great food from Urban Herbivore!

Sunday, February 10
5pm

The Academy of the Impossible

231 Wallace Ave
Toronto, Ontario
M6H 1V5

This venue is accessible
$5 cover at the door (includes a free copy of the new issue!)

This event is ALL-AGES!

Featuring performances by:

Superlion
Labour Day
DJ Sun Sun

Come have the chance to win prizes from Come As You Are and the lovemuffin bakery!

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The Get Schooled! issue features:

Learn Outside the Classroom: What they didn’t teach you in school, By Auburn Phillips, Anqi Shen, Kate Miller, and Laura Shaw

It’s Your Right to Study: Making education your right, By Karine-Myrgianie & Jean-Francois

Aboriginal Education: How Canada’s colonialist tradition affects Indigenous communities, By Jackie Mlotek
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Queer from the Heart: Letters I Never Sent Showcase

February 4, 2013 • Julia Horel

consensual. anti-racist. unapologetic. not your average burlesque.

Start off your Valentines day week with consensual queer love that doesn’t fit into a box and an unapologetic showcase!

Hosted by Dainty Box and Deb Singh!

**Featuring:
Franny
annu saini
Maria Mete
Scorpio Rising
Genie Emerald
Aemilius (Milo)
Black Eyed Floozy
Joy
Sidra Mahmood
Ebonee Darling
Red Mango
Zaid Ade
Jynx
SPARKLE

* shout outs to Jenny for an AMAZING poster!

(http://unapologeticburlesque.weebly.com/upcoming-shows.html)

more performer announcements coming soon…

Monday February 11th
Gladstone Ballroom
Doors: 7pm
Showcase: 8 – 10pm
All Ages
$5-15, PWYC No one turned away!
Proceeds go towards supporting folks in our communities that are performers, artists, mentors, space providers, etc!

** Venue Accessibility: Ramp out front leads into Melody Bar, 2 single stall gender neutral washrooms. One in lobby, the other in between the Melody Bar & Art Bar.

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Have you ever had a secret, a wish, an emotion, an invaluable piece of knowledge that you might not have had the space or words to share, but that you can no longer keep silent?

Letters we’ve never sent can range from confessing being in love with a best friend, to having conversations with ancestors, to speaking to the parts of ourselves that we don’t always acknowledge to anything in between.

Sometimes our letters exist in tucked away notebooks, e-mail drafts and lost in memories. Join us as we unapologetically send our letters out into the world.

**if anyone has the means and would like to donate any funds to the show beforehand, please let us know! any funds received before the event, as well as the door sales, will first go toward paying a sound technician to make sure the show can happen and then toward performers and volunteers. no pressure, but any money we can secure before the event will go a long way.

Email Shaunga (shaunga.tagore@gmail.com) or Kumari (kumari.giles@gmail.com) to get in touch about donating, performing, volunteering or any thoughts/questions/concerns!

**Re-defining Burlesque:
This is a show where the performers can tell their own stories, not ones that are dictated by what audiences and larger society want to hear, but stories that are unique to them and that no one else can tell. To us burlesque is; storytelling, playing with gender, can incorporate spoken word, singing, acting, dancing and any other talents you have! To us burlesque is consensual: you get to choose who gets to see what, where and when, who looks where and when, what you wear, choose to take off, what to put on, and what stays on the whole time.

This show gives performance space to emerging, first-time, and seasoned performers who are people of colour, Indigenous, queer, genderqueer, trans*, people of varying body sizes, people of all abilities, people from varying class backgrounds. We acknowledge that even within queer people of colour performing spaces there are barriers of accessibility and still certain bodies and genders don’t get as much space as others. We hope that broadening accessibility and representation will be an ongoing dialogue.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Toronto event: Idle No More Solidarity Action

January 30, 2013 • Julia Horel

A space for allies to learn and unlearn in solidarity with the efforts of the Idle No More Movement

Date: February 4th, 2013

Time: 4pm to 6pm

Where: Ryerson University at Gould and Victoria Street

Featuring:

Chief Johnny Yellowhead
Nibinamik First Nation

Hon. Landon Pearson
(Former Senator); Resource Centre for the study of Childhood and Children’s Rights, Carlton University

Elijah (Chief Bear) Sugarbear
Youth Leader and Student
Kiikenomaga Kikenjigewen
Employment and Training Services

Devon Meekis
Creator of www.idlenomore.ca;
Meekis Designs & 1/2 of HIP HOP Group F.A.M

Alice Sabourin
Community Arts Facilitator and Educator, Lakehead University

Cyndy Baskin
Associate Professor
School of Social Work, Ryerson University

More speakers and performers are planned!

Facebook: Idlenomore Solidarityaction

Twitter: @RyersonINM

Tumblr: http://ryerson-idlenomore.tumblr.com

Accessible Venue

ASL Translation Provided

If you require additional accommodations for your participation, please contact Shoshana Erlich at shoshana.erlich@ryerson.ca
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Workshop series: Family Matters

January 30, 2013 • Julia Horel

Between 16 and 29 years old?

2SLGBTQQ (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, or questioning)?

Interested in talking and making art about families?

LET’S SHARE OUR STORIES AND OUR STRENGTH!

Apply to be a part of FAMILY MATTERS – a FREE arts-based workshop series for 2SLGBTQQ youth!

FAMILY MATTERS is a 12-week workshop series for 2SLGBTQQ youth where we will explore the families we have, the families we want, and the families we are building. Some of the reflections, ideas, questions, and art pieces we produce will be turned into community resources and used for ongoing community dialogue!

We will do this work through skill-building, arts-based workshops in creative writing, photography, digital storytelling, video production, poetry, and spoken word.

Through this process we will all learn more about communication, creating safer spaces, community building, self-care, violence prevention, and healing.

This program includes:

Honorarium
TTC tokens
Lunch before every workshop
Money for child care (if needed)
Attendant Care
ASL interpretation

When?

The program will run from 1-5pm on either Saturday or Sunday afternoons, starting on the weekend of March 2nd. Let us know in your application which day works best for you!

Where?

Springtide Resources – 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 220 – wheelchair accessible building and washrooms.

How do I apply? APPLICATIONS ARE DUE MONDAY FEBRUARY 25th by 3pm!

If you identify as 2SLGBTQQ and are between the ages of 16 and 29, we would love to hear from you! Email abrittain@springtideresources.org for an application form, or if you have any questions.

NOTE: We are looking for 8 participants of different experiences and backgrounds. We will prioritize people who can attend all of the workshops and who are unemployed or underemployed (not making enough money to cover all their expenses).

FAMILY MATTERS is a project of the Youth and Young Women’s Program at Springtide Resources.
www.springtideresources.org
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Join the Forced Marriage Project in Celebrating “VDay”

January 29, 2013 • Guest Blogger

Do You Want to Rise With Us?

Strike. Dance. Rise.

To End Violence Against Women

Join the Forced Marriage Project in Celebrating “VDay” with a twist, shout, or whatever move inspires you. As we join with One Billion Rising to dance with women and men worldwide to demand an end to rape and the culture that suports it.

Date: February 14th 2013
Location: 2660 Eglinton Ave. E - Mid Scarborough Hub
Time: Reception 5:30pm, Performances 6-8pm

RSVP Today Online: www.fmp_vday.eventbrite.com
Or by Phone: 416-292-6912 ext. 314

TTC tokens are provided to those with proof of transportation
https://www.facebook.com/events/331515393630826/ |@FMPACSA|#FMP #1BR #VDAY

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