The Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre presents their annual Aboriginal Symposium on Friday November 16th and Saturday November 17th, 2007. This year’s theme is the “Aboriginal Male and Female Body”.
On Friday evening they will be hosting a special event, the re-dedication of Inuit artist Daniel Nookiguak’s “untitled” whale bone sculpture, which will be taking place in the Fireside …
Posted on Nov 14
Download our pamphlet on the 50-Day hunger strike going on at the immigrant detention centre at Millhaven.
More info: solidarity@opirgkingston.org
Posted on Jan 23
Sunday, February 4 9:30pm
Luke’s! Café, 264 Princess Street
Join the organizing committee for our annual reelout closing gala party which, this year, will be held at the intimate and stylish Luke’s. It’s a chance to mingle with our visiting filmmakers and reminisce about the festival that was while enjoying drinks and complimentary appetizers. Anyone who attended the festival is invited …
Alternatif – Showcasing Montréal’s Alt Queer Cinema Scene
Sunday, February 4 7pm
The Artel, 205 Sydenham Street
Dogme 41: Lonely Child
William has a small digital camera and is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days with him, taking advantage of the situation …
Saturday, February 3 9:30pm
Etherington Auditorium
Inspired by a true story. A man wakes up naked in a vacant Montreal parking lot. He doesn’t remember his name, where he’s from, or how he got there. The only thing he’s sure of is that he’s gay. A local queer service organization launches a media campaign to help him recover his forgotten past. Eventually …
Saturday, February 3 7pm
Etherington Auditorium
Charting the relationship between a British working class family with a Romany-Czech refugee girl, this film explores the worlds of Helen, a house-wife in a monotonous and depleted marriage looking after her teenage daughter’s baby, Peter, the bigot of a husband who bitterly despises his poverty, and Tasha, who escaped with her mother from an abusive …
Friday, February 2 9:30pm
Etherington Auditorium
Take a walk on the wild side with Filthy Gorgeous, The Trannyshack Story. If you have ever entered The Stud in San Francisco on a Tuesday night, you have walked into a bizarre universe of outrageous performances, elaborate costumes, and extreme artistry that is unlike any other drag show on earth.
The bastard brainchild of drag superstar …
Friday, February 2 7pm
Etherington Auditorium
Nikhil Kapoor is at the top of his game. He’s popular with his friends, the pride of his family, and has just won the state all round swimming championship in Goa. Yet he struggles to live up to his family’s expectations and to hide his relationship with boyfriend Nigel. When Nikhil unsuspectingly learns he is HIV …
Thursday, February 1 7pm
Dunning Auditorium
What happens when a trans woman transgresses the law? This shocking and emotional documentary traces the experiences of five American women serving time in all-male prisons. Their identities ignored by a judicial system focused solely on physical “evidence” of gender, these women recount their experiences of rape, violence, solitary confinement and denial of medical care in …
Sunday, January 28 7:30pm
Etherington Auditorium
Betrayed by a smuggler who promises freedom from Nazi-occupied Paris, a family is slaughtered by the SS. Sara, a young Jewish girl, is the only surviving member, who finds herself hiding in the home of her childhood friend, Jean. However, there is something that Jean is hiding as well, his lover Philippe.
This …
These are the entries that were published in January 2007.