Tag: Event Listings
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Save the date: Shameless magazine presents our first silent auction!
Shameless magazine presents our first silent auction! Come and check out all the incredible items on display and help fund independent feminist media! When: October 25, 2012, 6:30 - 9:00pm Where: ING Direct Cafe (221 Yonge St.). Accessible space. Tickets will be $15 adv. or $20 at the door. Tickets available here: http://shamelessauction.eventbrite.ca/ Unique wares and creative services! You won’t want to miss this! Raffle prizes for Nightwood theatre tickets! Music! Food! Cheap drinks! This event wouldn’t be possible without the support of … READ MORE
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October 4, 2012 Vigil Locations: for Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
From the Native Women’s Association of Canada: Each year on October 4th communities across Canada come together to honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. As we do so, we remember the lives of sisters, daughters, mothers and grandmothers tragically taken from us. There will be at least 164 vigils on Thursday, October 4 across Canada. A full list of cities and towns with all information can be found here: http://nwac.ca/programs/2012-vigil-locations OR Virtual Candlelight Vigil The … READ MORE
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Zines! DIY! Revolution! Activity book! - Shameless Magazine at Nuit Blanche
If you’re in Toronto for Nuit Blanche the night-to-morning art festival, make sure to drop by the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. W.) at 9 p.m. for the 12 Hr. Zine Machine! Shameless Editorial Director Sheila, and Arts Editor Ronak are working alongside two super rad teens Kaya and Sahlla (the mastermind behind the Fight Like A Girl zine) to craft together a zine activity book on DIY interactive guides to revolution. We have one hour … READ MORE
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Toronto workshop: “I do!” Project spoken word workshops
The Forced Marriage Project at Agincourt Community Services Association is holding a series of Spoken Word workshops for young women. The aim of the “I do!” youth initiative is to get young women to speak up about relationship violence issues that mostly affect young women. There will be seven workshops held on Thursdays starting October 25th, from 4 - 6pm at Dorset Park Community Hub, 1911 Kennedy Rd, Unit 105. After learning to write their own … READ MORE
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Toronto event: Day of the Girl
In celebration of the inaugural International Day of the Girl, the United Nations Association in Canada’s Toronto Branch (UNACTO), will be hosting a screening of the powerful and must-see documentary IT’S A GIRL, on Friday, October 12th from 7-10pm. The event will be held at George Ignatieff Theatre at Trinity College at the University of Toronto (15 Devonshire Place). The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today as … READ MORE
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Come visit Shameless at Word on the Street Toronto!
It’s the Word on the Street Festival! Sunday, September 23, from 11am-6pm, at Queen’s Park in Toronto You won’t want to miss us at the Shameless booth (MM7, in the Magazine Mews). Here are a few reasons why: Back issue sale! All back issues are $1 ONLY at WOTS. Tote bag sale! Tote bags are an amazing $8 ONLY at WOTS. Meet your favourite editors and members of the Shameless team! Plus: keep an eye on our twitter feed (@ShamelessMag) for … READ MORE
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Toronto: Abilities Arts Festival Takes it to the Streets!
Experience Toronto through a disabilities perspective September 20-October 11, 2012 As part of the tenth annual Abilities Arts Festival launching September 20 with the ARTrageous! Gala and running September 21-October 11, three events look at our city from a unique perspective featuring a roster of visual and performance-based artworks by artists with disabilities. In keeping with the theme of storytelling, each event at this year’s festival, including a photography exhibition and book launch, a multi-media extravaganza as part … READ MORE
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2-qtpocmontreal: a look ahead
I have heard it so many times in the past few months: we love Montreal. We love the community, the endless cultures of resistance, and the freedom and joy the city gives us. But over and over again, I hear, it feels so hard to stay here. For all it gives them, Montreal also exposes its 2-qtpoc folks (two-spirited, queer, and trans people of colour) to surprisingly overt, harsh, and exhausting racism. People talk about 2-qtpoc … READ MORE
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Celebrating Contemporary Global Indigenous Culture: Planet IndigenUS
Celebrating Contemporary Global Indigenous Culture Planet IndigenUS co-produced by Woodland Cultural Centre kicks off this Friday! Aug. 10-19, 2012 WHAT: Planet IndigenUS co-produced by Woodland Cultural Centre The biggest festival in the world of its kind: A ten-day celebration of cutting-edge, contemporary Indigenous culture from around the world. WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto; Woodland Cultural Centre, 184 Mohawk Street, Brantford; and partners across the GTA Buses will be running between Harbourfront Centre, Woodland Cultural Centre and partner sites … READ MORE
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TAKE A SICK DAY! At the AGO
TAKE A SICK DAY! At the AGO presented by Disabled Young People’s Project Come share your know-how and come to know how we deal with our bodies and our health on our own terms. This is an event filled with wisdom, colour and the noise of change for those of us (young) people of colour who live with disabilities. We will have: art food community strategy sessions Music attendant care ASL interpreters wheelchair accessibility gender neutral restrooms LGBTQ positive vibe Scent-free ALL INCLUDED WITH YOUR FREE ADMISSION When/Where: AUGUST 18, 2012 10:30am-6:00pm ART GALLERY … READ MORE
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Event/Preview: 2-qtpocmontreal art show at this year’s Pervers/cite
This month, I had the honour to be invited to connect with 2-qtpoc (Two spirited, queer, trans, people of colour) Montreal artists to talk about their work at the 2-qtpocmontreal art show at this year’s Pervers/cite. It was also my pleasure to interview Textaqueen, an awesome artist who shared some of their passion for art as well as for working within their own communities of 2-spirited, queer/trans people of colour. So what is Pervers/Cite? Their website states: Pervers/Cite … READ MORE
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Free media-arts and storytelling program for youth next week in Toronto!!
Finding Words is a free media-arts program for immigrant and first generation youth (age 13-29) who identify as women. We’ll be running the second phase of our pilot project on the 7,8,&9 of August from 12-4pm at 10 Old Meadow Lane, right near Lawrence West subway station. We’ll be creating a blog which will feature stories told through sound, video and text about immigration, which will be used as a resource for organizations that serve immigrant … READ MORE
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Event/Opportunity: Elle Project 2012 - Projet ELLE 2012
From the Girls Action Foundation: It’s time to register! Do you get fired up about issues and want to make a difference? Do you want to change things up in your life or community? Then why not join inspiring young women from across the country at the ELLE Leadership Training! (Or, if you know a young woman who could be interested, please pass this on!) The event is FREE. All costs for attending the training will be … READ MORE
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Rainbow Camp: for LGBTQ and Allied Youth 13-17 in Thessalon, Ontario
Join us for our first Rainbow Camp! This is a unique opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer questioning, and allied (LGBTQA) youth and/or members of Queer families. We are committed to developing a camp community which honours creativity, individual choice, and social justice. Rainbow Camp will provide opportunities for campers to make new friends and develop skills through traditional camp programming. More than anything, Rainbow Cam is a fun place to come OUT and be yourself! Our Camp … READ MORE
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Event: Mad Pride Toronto 2012
Mad Pride Toronto 2012: July 10-15. Full event schedule now available! Mad Pride is an arts, culture, and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad people, folks the world has labelled “mentally ill,” and those in solidarity with us. Mad Pride is about: . remembering and participating in mad history . challenging discrimination . advocating for rights . affirming mad identities . developing and empowering mad communities . having fun! Our lives and contributions are valuable and need celebration! For the full schedule of … READ MORE
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Audition/Event: Spotlight on Summer Talent: Hot Talents Exposing Hot Issues
On Sunday, August 19, we will be hosting “Spotlight on Summer Talent: Hot Talents Exposing Hot Issues.” FYI and Redwood Women’s Shelter have partnered to put on this amazing event! With female-only performances, we hope to raise awareness about violence and discrimination against women. Performances are meant to empower and inspire girls from all across Toronto and the GTA to showcase their talents in a female dominated space. We are inviting young women to come … READ MORE
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Workshop: Alliance of Multicultural Agencies Against Forced Marriages in Canada
“I do!” is a youth initiative that is part of the project Alliance of Multicultural Agencies Against Forced Marriages in Canada at Agincourt Community Services Association. It seeks to create awareness about forced marriage among young women through art workshops and to film the workshops for making a documentary. We have completed the first art workshop which involved young people (13 - 18 years of age) creating posters about what they learned. You can read about … READ MORE
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Toronto event: Brown Canada Showcase
Brown Canada Showcase, Wed Jun 27 @ Grace Toronto. Premiere of the original play “Oh Canada, Oh Komagata Maru!” Tickets are free, RSVP now on eventbrite! Brown Canada Showcase Sharing Our Stories: Creating New Legacies Wednesday June 27th, 2012 5:30-9:00 p.m Grace Church, 41 Britain Street, Toronto (east of Queen station) Dinner served from 5:30-6:30 pm. Program starts at 6:30 pm, sharp. This is a Free Event, but space is limited; please RSVP before June 25th ateventbrite or by contacting browncanada@cassa.on.ca or 416-932-1359 … READ MORE
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Conference: The Arab Spring: Implications and Opportunities For Canada
Since 1932, the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs has been a major player in Canada’s civic discourse about public affairs nationally. The Institute offers itself up as a “civil place to disagree.” This dynamic element brings all kinds of different people together from across Canada to participate in exchanging ideas on the issues that matter to us most. The goal? To bring understanding, awareness, and knowledge of domestic and international issues to an open and … READ MORE
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Halifax teens: Write Now!
Hey Teens! Are you interested in writing? Stories, song lyrics, journals, poetry, spoken word, graphic novels or whatever else you can think of? Are you creative? Do you love to express yourself? Why not join Write Now! Halifax this summer? WHAT A writing club that brings together creative youth and adult writers to learn, share and collaborate on creative writing of all kinds. WHO Youth ages 13-18 WHEN Tuesdays, 6-8 pm July 17 to August 21 WHERE Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax Bus tickets … READ MORE
