Tag: Event Listings
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Mid-Week Round Up: March 11
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Mid-Week Round Up: February 11
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Theatre Review: NSFW
NSFW, by Lucy Kirkwood (Studio 180) The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen Street West, Toronto To November 30 Making its North American premiere at The Theatre Centre in Toronto, NSFW (an acronym for “not safe for work”) is a black comedy that skewers magazine culture while also tackling themes of choice feminism, youth unemployment, underage sexuality, and workplace sexual harassment—all in 90 minutes. The first two acts take place at Doghouse Magazine, a British “lad mag” equivalent to Maxim or … READ MORE
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The HTMlles Festival: The New World of Digital Philosophy
Mehreen Murtaza has generated a new vision of the apocalypse, and it’s not the one you expected—it’s so much more. Featured in this year’s Festival HTMlles, Murtaza’s Triptych is a three-paneled image of the kind typically found on religious altars. The triptych combines the utopian and the dystopian, creating a harmonious collage of a chaotic time. Filled with the urban, the alien and the divine, Murtaza’s Triptych displays her deep interest in Islamic historicity and Islamic iconography. READ MORE
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The HTMlles Festival: A Guide to the Obsolete Future
Taking place in Montréal, The HTMlles is an international biannual festival that brings together artists, scholars and activists who are passionate about exploring new technologies from a feminist perspective. This year’s festival, Zero Future, is dedicated to the presentation of independent media artworks by women, trans, and gender non-conforming artists in a transdisciplinary, anti-oppressive environment. With over 50 local and international artists, curators, and thinkers participating in this year’s festival, Shameless has partnered with The HTMlles to provide a brief guide to festival events that are not to be missed. READ MORE
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Zero Future: A look into Montréal’s HTMlles Festival
From November 7-15, The HTMlles will explore inventive genres such as afrofuturism, cyberfeminism, and queer futurity, among others. Produced by Studio XX, a Montréal-based studio that enables the creativity of women working in technology and media art, the festival includes the work of more than 50 local and international artists, curators, and thinkers, in exhibitions, performances, discussions, and workshops held both online and in galleries and spaces throughout Montréal. READ MORE
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Mid-Week Round Up: September 24
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Mid-Week Round Up September 17
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From zines to online community: Masala Militia’s one-year anniversary
Masala Militia is a year-old Toronto-based, feminist-oriented online magazine, zine, and movement focusing on a variety of topics affecting self-identified brown girls and women of the brown diaspora. READ MORE
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Announcements
Event: The University of Toronto Equity Studies Student Union presents: Decolonizing Our Minds 2014
Over the past six years, the Equity Studies Students’ Union has annually hosted the Decolonizing Our Minds conference so as to identify and interrogate the ways in which different groups of people practice resistance. This year we examine how identities are actively negotiated and constructed, ultimately bringing together “non-traditional” communities against colonial domination and structural oppression. READ MORE
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In Bloom Festival Looking for Youth Artists
Run by youth for youth, the Gallery provides a space for youth to express themselves. It serves to build community awareness and acceptance of youth and youth issues and to foster, recognize and showcase the incredible strengths, talents and diversity amongst Toronto’s youth community. READ MORE
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Toronto Event at York University: Queering Urban Justice
For the past few months I have been lucky enough to work with a bunch of folks to bring together this amazing panel. If you have any time off and live/work near York University, please join us for an afternoon of Queering Urban Justice with Che Gossett, Rio Rodriguez and Syrus Marcus Ware on Tuesday 21 January, 2.30-4pm, York University , Faculty of Environmental Studies, Building HNES (Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies) Room 140. To … READ MORE
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Shameless Silent Auction fundraiser gala: Monday, December 9!
Shameless magazine is holding its second annual silent auction and fundraising gala! We hope you can join us for an amazing evening in support of Shameless, an award-winning progressive magazine for teen girls and trans youth. Come bid on some incredible items, enjoy excellent music (featuring DJ Betti Forde), food (courtesy of the Afghan Women’s Catering Group) and drinks (with thanks to Black Oak Beer) and help support our volunteer-run magazine for teen girls and trans … READ MORE
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Hamilton event: A Celebration to Mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
SAVE THE DATE! The Office of Human Rights & Equity Services, The School of Social Work and the Accessibility Community of Practice invite you to: A Celebration to Mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities Join us for an afternoon of arts, crafts, music, entertainment, the launch of the Accessibility Community of Practice Website and an informal meet & greet! Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 Time: 3:30pm to 6:30pm Location: CIBC Hall, McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC), 3rd floor (this … READ MORE
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Bump And Jump With Shameless Magazine! Dance Party Featuring DJ cyborgmonkey & DJ Lizzy Mercier
We are pleased to announce that our third fundraiser at the Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar is just around the corner on Wed. Dec. 4th. We are super excited to announce we’ll be having 2 rad-as-heck DJs spinning all night. DJ cyborgmonkey and DJ Lizzy Mercier will be spinning a radical mixture of riot grrrl/house/synthpop/electropunk and Minneapolis Sound (think Prince but weirder)/’90s hip hop/R&B/New Wave all night! Proceeds will be going to Shameless Magazine, a volunteer-run alt mag … READ MORE
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Toronto event: Autonets Convergence - November 13
This Wednesday, join us for this networking event between anti-violence organizers and tech makers to come up with new ways to use technology to end violence! There will be short intros by micha cardenas about Autonets, Farrah Khan about Barbra Schlifer Clinic and Joan Ruzsa of Ritten House talking about prison abolition. After that, we’ll have people introduce themselves and then get into small groups to brainstorm ways of using technology to end violence and … READ MORE
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Toronto event: Tease Project
ASAAP and SAVAC would like to tease you starting at 5:30pm on Nov 6 at Beit Zatoun. The Tease Project is an initiative by and for South Asian youth focusing on arts and health. We aim to share a space with youth to challenge social perceptions around gender, culture, sexuality and identity. Funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, this art exhibition and booklet launch will be showcasing all the artwork the youth have created in the … READ MORE
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Toronto event: Linked Oppressions 2013
Linked Oppressions was born out of the realization that our individual lives and identities continue to be shaped by the intersection of multiple types of discrimination. The ways in which we are racialized and marked by gender, sexuality and dis/ability impact how we occupy certain spaces, negotiate personal relationships and encounter everyday realities. An annual tradition of the Equity Studies Students’ Union, Linked Oppressions is a week-long event series that examines how various forms of marginalization, … READ MORE
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Call for proposals: The HTMlles - Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture
The HTMlles - Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture 11th edition, November 2014, in Montreal Deadline: November 17, 2013 Taking place in Montreal, The HTMlles is an international biennial festival that brings together artists, scholars and activists who are passionate about critical engagement with new technologies from a feminist perspective. Based on a specific theme, each edition addresses urgent socio-political questions by pushing the boundaries of artistic and feminist practices. The HTMlles is produced by Studio XX, … READ MORE
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Calling all Youth and Older Adults from the LGBTTIQQ2S community!
Calling all Youth and Older Adults from the LGBTTIQQ2S community! Would you like to: Meet other youth and older adults from the community? Celebrate our stories and histories? Share experiences across generations Have fun playing games and doing creative arts activities? Enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal together? Come join Sunshine Centres for Seniors’ new program: Together, we are not alone: Rainbow Bridges Across Generations an intergenerational project for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, and Two-Spirit Older Adults (55 and up) and … READ MORE
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