Shameless Magazine will be at Canzine in Toronto this Sunday selling magazines (including our fanatstic, brand new issue) and cut price subscriptions. Come by, say hi, and get a fantastic deal!
Photo by Kevin Steele
CANZINE
Canada’s Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto
1pm - 7pm
Thursday is Media Democracy Day, and events are being held all week in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, where our own Anna Leventhal will be giving a talk titled “Roots of Grass: An (Incomplete) History of Alternative Media in Quebec.”
As the folks at Campaign for Democratic Media have pointed out, Media Democracy Day has taken on a new sense of urgency this year as
the major Internet Service Providers exert more control over Canadians’ online experience, and media ownership is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. For more information, visit Media Democracy Day’s website. City by city event listings below.
This Thursday, we can’t think of a better way to celebrate Media Democracy Day than to help Rabble.ca raise a ruckus at their rocking relaunch.
Help Rabble.ca relaunch on Media Democracy Day!
As part of the celebration, there will be a panel that includes Linda McQuaig, Maude Barlow, Duncan Cameron and our own Shameless blogger, Jessica Yee, followed by a party with music from LAL (whose new album, Deportation, we raved about in the new issue).
Tickets are pay-what-you-can, and the event is all-ages. More information at rabble.ca/relaunch.
Attention youth bloggers, journalists, photographers, video artists, writers, community organizers, musicians and artists in Toronto!
Are you tired of media depictions of our communities and of youth by the mainstream media? Do you want hear YOUTH telling our stories about our communities, our lives, our issues?
Freedom Youth Collective (FYC) wants YOU! We are looking for youth bloggers, community organizers, journalists, photographers, musicians and artists that want to share their ideas, stories and images with other youth. FYC wants to showcase the amazing art, music, photographs, writing, videos that youth are creating in the city. We also want to feature pieces about youth doing amazing grassroots community work and the issues you care about. The pieces will be featured on FYC website highlighting the leadership, initiative and passion of youth in Toronto.
Activist Report,
Event Listings,
Race and Racism
Taking Action Toronto! Public exhibition of youth art this Sunday!
You are cordially invited to attend the public exhibition of Aboriginal youth art for Taking Action Toronto! on Sunday, October 19th from 3-5pm.
As part of the launch of my latest book, Eye Weekly is running a contest where you could win 20 free boxing lessons generously donated by our friends at the fantastic Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club. Enter today at eyeweekly.com.
So this is one of my favourite times of year - when some of the brightest and best talent in the Native film industry strut their awesomeness at one of Canada’s largest Aboriginal film festivals, imagineNATIVE:
“The creative voices of Aboriginal women will be among those heard loudly and clearly at the 9th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which runs in Toronto from Wednesday, October 15th until Sunday, October 19th, 2008. imagineNATIVE is pleased to announce and welcome their presenting sponsor CTVglobemedia.The festival, which annually spotlights Aboriginal filmmakers and media artists from across the Indigenous spectrum, is proud to feature this year’s “Indian Jane” marketing campaign, its latest trenchant and clever parody of mainstream Hollywood imagemaking. And the showcase of more than 100 works by Indigenous people at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media, will lead with the women’s side of the story of Indigenous survival and evolution of identity.”
Be sure to also check out the amazing Youth Activities and Youth Program on October 16th!
Be there…or be square! But we’ll still love you if you’re square =)
Hotel Canzine is Canada’s Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture, located every year at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. And just in case the shift in weather was getiing you down, this year’s theme is “Comedy.”
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 1pm-7 pm
The Gladstone Hotel Downtown Toronto, 1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
$5 admission comes with a free copy of the Fall issue of Broken Pencil Magazine
Full schedule after the fold!
It’s true: we’re shameless about spreading the word of the amazing accomplishments of our team members.
Since our publisher and blogger Stacey May Fowles is probably all humble about it, I will do the honours of promoting her shamelessly!
She will be launching her new book, Fear of Fighting, illustrated by Marlena Zuber, at:
THIS IS NOT A READING SERIES
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto
7:30PM-12AM
The two will compare notes with Mariko Tamaki on the creative process.
Since I’m all blocked and stuff, and considering the Artist’s Way (how 80s of me), I’m going to try and make it.
There will also be a live set by Tomboyfriend!
Did you know that over 90,000 students in Toronto go to school hungry?
Or that one in three children live in poverty?
How about the fact that 41% of Toronto school children start school each day without breakfast?
The Toronto Foundation for Student Success feeds many of these students in schools and community programs through various breakfast, lunch and snack programs. Over 1200 volunteers assist to administer and facilitate these programs, but there is so much more that needs to be done.
This week, October 6th to 8th, has been declared the “Feeding Hungry Toronto Students Week” and the aim is to promote awareness of the missing link between nutrition and learning, and to increase support for child nutrition programs in our communities and neighbourhoods in Toronto.
A series of events are taking place across schools and across the city this week, and your participation and involvement is definitely needed!
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