MIASMA INFOSHOP LAUNCH PARTY AKA AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL CENTER 75 QUEEN ST. SUN MAR 21ST 1-5PM

AKA Autonomous Social Centre launches its Miasma Infoshop! Join us for an afternoon of zine exploration, book lending, local author spotlights, DIY clothes and culture, food and music.

Miasma Infoshop in the AKA Autonomous Social Centre is a radical literature distributor with anarchist and other kinds of radical media including books, zines, pamphlets, film, music, and more.

Our infoshop has some materials available for sale, but the majority of our stock is in the lending library. We have reading and meeting space, and a kid’s area with toys and books.

The launch will go from 1-5pm on March 21. From 2-4pm the launch proceeds with zine/book readings and music from the excellent Dirty Lickens. Snacks and entrance are free…

Come celebrate a space for …

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Posted on Mar 16

Soul Shakedown benefit for OPIRG’s Kingston Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts SAT MAR 20th

Soul Shakedown benefit for the Kingston Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts
Saturday March 20th - 9:30pm at Time To Laugh Comedy Club (394 Princess St)

Soul Shakedown DJs Redfoot and La Gringa return with Latin, Pan African, Brazilian, and Dancehall tunes.

We are also welcoming back DJ Seditious who will be spinning neo-Soul and Hip-hop.

This party will be supporting Mayworks. The Kingston Mayworks Collective is a community collective of workers, …

Canadian Musicians Support Prison Farms SAT MAR 20th

Saturday, March 20th, 7-10pm at Sydenham Street United Church

Join us for an evening of music and words to Save Canada’s Prison Farms.

Performers:

Sarah Harmer, Fred Penner, Luther Wright, Open Heart Society featuring Chris Brown and Eric Schenkman, Brian Flynn, Kris and Dee, Maya Thau-Eleff and Special Guests

Tickets:

$15 ($5 for unemployed and underemployed) available at Renaissance Music, Tara Natural Foods, Brian’s Record Option, and Local Family Farms in Verona - …

Superprisons in Canada: What They Are, How to Stop Them

Superprisons in Canada: What They Are, How to Stop Them
Reading and Printing Available at
http://zinelibrary.info/superprisons-canada

This pamphlet was written in Kingston Ontario, the city with the largest
concentration of prisons in Canada, and our hometown. We wrote it to
bring people up to speed with what we see as a dangerous agenda at work
within the federal government with respect to the Canadian prison
system. At this very moment, the federal Conservative Party, their
various corporate …

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Posted on Mar 9

SHADES OF GAY DANCE PARTY QNSA/QCRED @ AKA 75 Queen St. Fri. Mar. 12 9PM

Queen’s Pride Project & Queen’s Native Students’ Association
Presents: SHADES OF GAY!

Dance! Dance! DANCE!
This QCRED-sponsored event is the first queer dance in Kingston that is
geared towards queers of colour! We welcome people of colour, Indigenous
people, and allies to dance without fear, and begin community building!!
This event is 19+, and Pay what you can!

In Miscellaneous

Posted on Mar 11

BTL & OPIRG’s MayWorks Kingston Present:Vincenzo Pietropaolo MAR 11

Between the Lines and MayWorks Kingston invite you to meet acclaimed photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo, and learn about his new book, Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Delahaye Room
Central Branch of Kingston Frontenac Public Library
130 Johnson Street, Kingston

Harvest Pilgrims tells the little-known story of Canada’s migrant workers. The photographs in the “Harvest Pilgrims” collection have been highly acclaimed internationally through many publications …

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