[Ste-em] Workshop Series updates + art auction callout

[ste. emilie skillshare]

Hey everyone*,
*there's a few changes in the workshop schedule.  So if there was anything
you tried to sign up for or wanted to sign up for, please double-check that
it's still where you thought it was.  Also, please consider making something
for the anti-2010 art auction.  There's about a month to go til the
deadline, which is plenty of time if you think about it.  Need any help
fulfilling a particular vision or need some emotional support to complete
it?  Get In Touch!
xo
ste-em
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WINTER SURVIVAL STRATEGY*

*The Workshops:*
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Nov 7 - Intro to photoshop
Nov 8 - Basic silkscreening
Nov 14 - Open studio

Nov 21 - Graffiti


Nov 22 - Basic silkscreening
Nov 28 - Bootydancing 101: Intro. to Fabulousity

Dec 5 - Vermicomposting

Dec 6 - Basic silkscreening
Dec 12 - T-shirts into underwear
Dec 19 - super advanced and awesome silkscreen boot-camp for champions
and heroes alike



Dec 20 - Basic silkscreening
Dec 26 - Edible art
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Who we are:

*The Ste. Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists,
primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting
artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. We are
building and running an art studio for people to learn new skills,
share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and
anti-oppression (anti-racism/sexism/classism/ homophobia/
transphobia/ableism/sizeism/etc). Long live skill-sharing!


*The Workshop Lowdown:*

-> Each workshop listed has a suggested donation amount. We love
donations! And really need them to keep emilie running. We have a pay
what you can system and no one will be turned away.
-> Some workshops have a maximum # of participants, please try to RSVP!
-> All workshops will begin at 1pm (unless otherwise noted).
-> All workshops are given in english unless stated otherwise.


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a note on BASIC SILKSCREENING workshops
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These workshops are essential if you would like to use the Ste-Emilie
silkscreen studio.  You will learn all the basics pertaining to using the
studio including preparing the image, preparing the screen, printing onto a
variety of materials, cleaning afterwards and how to do this all safely.

Max. number of participants: 6
Suggested donation: $10-20
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*-->Nov 7 - Intro to photoshop*
come and learn the basics tricks and tips to getting started with photoshop!
bring yer laptop if you have it (with photoshop even better) but if not we
will try and provide you with the equipment/programming.

Max. number of participants: 8
Suggested donation: $5-10


*-->Nov 21 - Graffiti*
We will be learning the basics of graffiti including technique with the can,
basic drawing and proper attire.

More info coming soon!

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-->Nov 28 - Bootydancing 101: Intro. to Fabulousity*

Bootydancing 101: Intro. to Fabulousity
Facilitator: Reyrey

With Reyrey's instruction and support, the first section will be craft time
for participants to create individualized and unique costume pieces to
emphasize various elements of body or movement that expresses their specific
interests and style. This can include: pasties for chests and/or boobies,
booty bustles, tu-tu's, and props like: ribbon dancers, feather boas, fans,
whips, body painting, or whatever makes you feel fabulous!
Once we are dressed to distress, dancing class begins, which will include: a
revue of various booty-droppin', soul-shakin', hip-gyratin' moves instructed
by Reyrey and practiced as a group.  The final section will be a fierce
show-off and vogue-off of all moves learned to conduct an improv. dance
party and shake-down at the end until we collapse in a pool of our own
glittery sweat!!

*Note: Dress to dance comfortably, bring water, and bring any materials or
costuming that you are inspired by.

$5-10 suggested donation.



*-->Dec 5 - **Vermicomposting*
Vermicompost, is composting utilizing various species of worms, specifically
red wigglers, white worms, and earthworms creating the heterogeneous mixture
of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and pure
vermicast produced during the course of normal vermiculture operations.
Vermicast, similarly known as worm castings, worm humus or worm manure, is
the end-product of the breakdown of organic matter by the species of
earthworm.  It's a great way to decrease on garbage output as well as being
really fertile dirt for plants and gardens.
Each participant will leave the workshop with a compost box complete with
hungry hungry worms.


Max. number of participants: 5
Suggested donation $10-20


*-->Dec 12 - T-shirts into underwear*
Bring in your old/new/fav t-shirt and make it into your new most prized
unmentionable/

More info coming soon!

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-->Dec 19 - **:: super advanced and awesome silkscreen boot-camp for
champions and heroes alike ::*

Do you already know the basics but but still find your prints don't look the
way you want?
Are you constantly finding fingerprints, random blobs of ink or bleeds?
The first part of this workshop is tips and tricks to ease the frustration
of basic printing, and to improve your consistency for doing additions.
But what if you're already an advanced awesome silkscreen
champion/hero???...
...How about adding some new techniques to your repertoire!!!!
**color blends and merging
**ink tints and transparencies
**high gloss over coats!
**paper registration for multiple editions
**thinking outside acetates
**cheap DIY inks
**AND MUCH MUCH MORE

Max. number of participants: 6
Suggested donation $10-20


*-->Dec 26 - Edible art*
Spin art, geodesic pies, frosting portraiture, glow in the dark pasta and
more.

More info coming soon!

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Calling all art/trouble-makers;

Ste-Emilie cordially invites you to submit an art for our up-coming art
auction in support of the olympic resistance network.  The event will take
place in the early December when the olympic torch will be passing through
Montreal.

We are looking for art that reflects anti-colonial resistance to the
upcoming 2010 olympics, illustrations depicting the impact the olympics have
on first nations, women and people living in poverty, Indigenous
sovereignty, ecological destruction, a militarized police presence, etc. We
are also interested in art that links the olympics in other anti-colonial
and anti-imperialist struggles.

All proceeds from the auctioned art will assist the olympics resistance
network (see below for more information).

If you have an idea and need help fulfilling it, please get in touch.  The
Skillshare is at your disposal, if you need to silkscreen, develop photos,
sew or tap into some creative know-how.  All art forms are welcome.

Deadline for submissions is Saturday November 21st  2009.

to contribute, please

surf: snap.mahost.org/distro <http://steemilieskillshare.com/>

email: mtlskillshare at gmail.com

phone: 514.933.2573

mail to: 3942, rue Ste-Émilie / Montréal, QC / H4C 2A1
(if yer mailing from out of town we can help with postage)
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Why We Resist 2010
March 13, 2007 - 13:40 — no2010
Why We Resist
the 2010 Winter Olympics
The Olympics are not about the human spirit & have little to do with
athletic excellence; they are a multi-billion dollar industry backed by
powerful elites, real estate, construction, hotel, tourism and television
corporations, working hand in hand with their partners in crime: government
officials & members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
10 Reasons to Resist 2010
1. Colonialism & Fascism
The modern Olympics have a long history of racism, from its early founding
members (i.e., Pierre de Coubertin, a French Baron who advocated sports as a
means of strengthening colonialism) to recent IOC presidents. The 1936
Berlin Olympics empowered Hitler’s Nazi regime. Both the 1988 Seoul and 2008
Beijing Summer Games helped legitimize authoritarian regimes in Asia. The
1968 Mexico City Olympics (where over 300 student protesters were massacred
by soldiers, days before the Olympics began) also helped legitimize state
terror. IOC President Avery Brundage, an infamous US racist and Nazi
sympathizer, didn’t even acknowledge the massacre. But when two Black US
athletes raised their fists in a Black power salute on the medal podium, he
had them immediately stripped of their medals and ejected from the Games!
Another well-known fascist IOC president was Juan Antonio Samaranch (IOC
president from 1980-2001), a former government official in Franco’s fascist
regime in Spain.
2. No Olympics on Stolen Land
BC remains largely unceded and non-surrendered Indigenous territories.
According to Canadian law, BC has neither the legal nor moral right to
exist, let alone claim land and govern over Native peoples. Despite this,
and a fraudulent treaty process now underway, the government continues to
sell, lease and ‘develop’ Native land for the benefit of corporations,
including mining, logging, oil & gas, and ski resorts. Meanwhile, Indigenous
peoples suffer the highest rates of poverty, unemployment, imprisonment,
police violence, disease, suicides, etc.
3. Ecological Destruction
Despite claims to be the “greenest Olympics” ever, and PR statements about
‘sustainability’, the 2010 Olympics will be among the most environmentally
destructive in history, with tens of thousands of trees cut down &
mountainsides blasted for Olympic venues in the Callaghan Valley (near
Whistler) & the Sea-to-Sky Highway expansion. In the summer of 2007, a
record number of black bears were hit on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, with at
least 11 dying (attributed to loss of habitat). Massive amounts of concrete
used in construction have also caused millions of Salmon to die in the
Fraser River, where tons of gravel are being mined to make concrete.
4. Homelessness
Since winning the 2010 Winter Games in 2003, Vancouver has lost over 850
units of low-income housing; during the same period, homelessness has
increased from 1,000 to over 2,500. It is estimated by 2010, the number of
homeless may be as high as 6,000. Since the 1980s, Olympic Games have caused
the displacement of over 2 million people (Fair Play for Housing Rights
report, 2007). In Seoul 1988, some 750,000 poor were displaced, in Atlanta
1996, over 30,000, and for Beijing in 2008, an estimated 1.5 million have
been displaced. Yet still today Olympic officials talk about
‘sustainability’ and ‘Olympic legacies’!
5. Criminalization of the Poor
To ‘clean out’ the poor and undesirables, Olympic host cities routinely
begin a campaign to criminalize the poor. In Vancouver, the city has
launched Project Civil City and new by-laws to criminalize begging for
money, sleeping outdoors, etc. It has also included hundreds of thousands of
dollars for increased private security (i.e., the Downtown Ambassadors). New
garbage canisters on streets make it more difficult for the poor to gather
recyclables, and new benches make it impossible to lay down. These measures
fit with government plans to remove poor downtown residents to mental
institutions, “detox centers” on former military bases, and the ‘fly-back’
scheme by police to return persons wanted on warrants in other provinces.
This is nothing less than a process of social cleansing!
6. Impact on Women
Events such as the Olympics draw hundreds of thousands of spectators and
cause large increases in prostitution and trafficking of women. In
Vancouver, over 68 women are missing and/or murdered. Many were Native, and
many were reportedly involved in the sex trade. In 2007, the trial of
William Pickton occurred for six of these murders, and he is to be tried for
an additional 20 more. In northern BC, over 30 young women, mostly Native,
are missing and/or murdered along Highway 16. The 2010 Olympics and its
invasion of tourists and corporations will only increase this violence
against women.
7. 2010 Police State
Some 12,500 police, military and security personnel are to be deployed for
2010, including Emergency Response Teams, riot cops, helicopters, armoured
vehicles, etc. The RCMP plan on erecting 40 km of crowd-control fencing
along with CCTV video surveillance cameras. Special security zones will be
established to control entry near Olympic venues. For 3 weeks, Vancouver
will be an occupied Police State! And once the Olympics are over, there is
no guarantee many of these security measures will not remain (i.e., CCTV).
Repression also involves attacks on anti-Olympic groups & individuals,
including arrests of protesters, raids of offices, surveillance, media smear
campaigns, cuts to funding programs, etc., all in an effort to undermine
anti-2010 resistance. This repression has already been used against
anti-poverty & housing groups, environmentalists and Natives, in Vancouver.
8. Public Debt
VANOC and government officials claim the 2010 Games will cost some $2
billion. However, this amount doesn’t include the Sea-to-Sky Highway
expansion, the Canada Line Skytrain to the airport, the Vancouver Convention
Center, or the lower mainland Gateway Project. Including these costs, since
they were necessary to win the bid and had to be completed by 2010, makes
the true cost of the Games some $6 billion, which must be paid for through
public debt, money that could’ve been spent on social services, housing,
drug treatment, healthcare, etc.
9. Olympic Corruption
The modern Olympics are well known for their corruption, including both top
IOC officials involved in bribery scandals (i.e. Salt Lake City 2002) or
athletes found to be using performance-enhancing drugs (such as steroids).
Yet the IOC still claims the youth need an inspiration and a “model” of good
sportsmanship! Despite published reports of bribery scandals involving IOC
members and host cities (i.e., The New Lords of the Rings, by Andrew
Jennings), the Olympics continue to be seen as an honorable & noble
enterprise, thanks to the corporate media.
10. Corporate Invasion
Government’s and business use the Olympics as a means to attract corporate
investment. In BC, the Liberal government has ‘streamlined’ application
processes, cut taxes, and offered other incentives to increase certain
industries such as mining, oil & gas drilling, and ski resorts. This
includes large increases in transport systems, including new ports, bridges,
expanded highways & rail-lines. This is all part of their Investment to 2010
Strategy. The results have been dramatic, record-breaking increases in these
industries, resulting in greater environmental destruction and more
corporate power & influence over our daily lives.
Many of the main corporate sponsors of the Olympics are themselves
responsible for massive ecological destruction and human rights violations,
including McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Petro-Canada, TransCanada, Dow, Teck
Cominco, etc., while others are major arms manufacturers (General Electric &
General Motors).
RESIST 2010
“What causes opponents to come of their own accord is the prospect of gain.
What discourages opponents from coming is the prospect of harm.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
for more info please go to www.no2010.com

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Ste. Emilie est un groupe de travail de GRIP Concordia
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