Kingston’s only anarchist infoshop has moved its materials into the OPIRG Kingston office! You can now purchase any of their materials during office hours. Miasma will continue to have a presence at concerts and events and hope to move into the bottom floor of a new local social centre (http://kingston.roadnetwork.org/germinations) this fall.
For more information about Miasma please contact kingston.crimethink[at]gmail.com
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In Dunning 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Susan Cahill and Carla Taunton present “Performing Culture: Gender, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs”
This seminar investigates the ways in which identities were constructed, promoted, and maintained on behalf of those who were silenced due to their gender, race, and/or class. Including issues of imperialism, colonialism, power relations, and constructions of the Other(s), our discussion …
Come out to OPIRG Kingston’s Annual General Meeting to find out what we have been up to this past year, to meet the new board and more! And stick around to celebrate 15 years of research, education and action on social justice and environmental issues in Kingston!
Meet us at The Grad Club (1st floor-wheelchair accessible) at 162 Barrie St. For …
The Positive Space Speaker Series presents Dr. Andil Gosine Tuesday March 25th, 6pm in Watson Hall Room 517 on:
“Men who have Sex with Men in Miss Diva’s Worlds: Notes on Heteronationalist Impulses in the Caribbean”
A recent trip to Trinidad and Tobago and a Sexuality Rights workshop in Barbados provide starting points for Dr. Gosine’s consideration of some ways in which …
In Dunning Hall Room 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Ian Johnston presents “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Reading Renaissance Drama”
This lecture will examine the historical context of Shakespeare’s, as well as his contemporaries’, drama, and explain how to use that context to better understand these plays. Shakespeare’s plays in particular will be considered in the context of a vibrant, competitive, as well as cooperative play …
Are you committed to anti-oppression and non-hierarchical spaces? Are you interested in social justice and environmental issues?
OPIRG Kingston is looking for new board members for the 2008-9 year. Click here to download an application form. Or drop by the office to get a paper copy.
Applications will be due Friday March 14th at 4pm to info[at]opirgkingston.org or you can …
Policy Studies Building, Room 202 4pm-7pm
The Queen’s Native Students Association and OPIRG Kingston present Jode Kechego. Jode will be screening his documentary “Balance From Within (Documentary ‘Three Nations One Story’)”. This three-hour session will have a viewing of the documentary and discuss the importance of awareness and acceptance.
As part of the process to understanding what Native identity is, …
Fourth Wave Feminist Speaker and Discussion Series in collaboration with the Queen’s Native Students Association present Georgina Riel, Director of Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre.
Georgina will speak her experience with Indigenous Feminism and its possibilities, limitations, and future.
The talk will take place at Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, 146 Barrie St at 6pm-8pm
This event is part of Aboriginal Awareness Week …
If you would like to help make Queen’s a positive space, sign up for the next information session during Queen’s Pride Week.
You can sign up by visiting: http://www.queensu.ca/positivespace/app.htm
Mark Streeter presents “Panel Discussion: The Art of Comics” in Dunning Room 12.
Don’t let that new “Graphic Novel” section in your local bookstore fool you: we’ve been using sequential art to talk to each other for at least a thousand years. Comic narrative is a system of communication that represents time and space on the one-dimensional surface of the page. …