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 …
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. …
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, …
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. …
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!
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 …
Positive Space Luncheon
· Free lunch! (Catering by Windmills)
· “Positive” remarks by Gender Studies Professor Scott Morgensen
· OPIRG Positive Space Award
When: Thursday, March 11, 11:30 to 2:00 (food from 11:30 on; “ceremonies” between 12:00 and 1:00)
Where: …
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
October 14-16, 2010
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his …
A workshop to begin engaging with issues of oppression, privilege and being an ally in the context of anti-racism
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:00pm - 4:00pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre
75 Queen Street
Are you looking for a non-judgmental space to confront apprehensions about anti-racism, or to start a dialogue about discrimination in your life and work?
Do you want to help fight racism, but …
Friday, March 5, 2010
8:00pm - 10:00pm
The Artel (205 Sydenham St.)
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, …
CAMPAIGN [ENGAGE] is a week-long event that will provide students with an opportunity to engage in discussion and education on issues of social justice and equity. An AMS initiative, CAMPAIGN.[ENGAGE] will host various activities and events throughout the week to demonstrate how and why social justice, equity, and oppression are relevant to many diverse aspects of student life at Queen’s. …
Afro-Brazilian Ancestrialidade
Thursday February 18th @ 1pm. Mackintosh-Corry Hall Room B204. Contact snid@queensu.ca
Alexandre Da Costa will present his paper on the role ancestral
knowledge plays in Afro-Brazilian social movements.
The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere: Anti-Black Racism Following the 2005 Boxing
Day Shooting
Thursday February 18th @ 7pm: Dunning, Room 11. Contact 6at3@queensu.ca
Valarie Steele speaks about the backlash following the shooting death of
Jane Creba on her …
Apple Crisp Arts, Chalmers United Church, CFRC, Live Wire, and Kingston Sound Works present a benefit concert for Haiti, with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders and the United Church Haiti Relief Fund.
Juno award-winning Jenny Whitely will headline, with other performances by The Wilderness of Manitoba, The Gertrudes, and a spoken word appearance by Kingston author Steven Heighton.
The concert will …