[Ste-Em] Danger & Beauty (Performance) & Art, Organizing and Marginalized Communities (Workshop) with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

[ste. emilie skillshare]

2 events!!! Both free and wheelchair accessible...

*Danger & Beauty: An evening with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Vivek
Shraya*
Wednesday, January 19 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Il Mottore
179 Jean Talon O.
Montreal, QC

LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a Worcester raised, Toronto matured,
Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the
2009-10 Artist in Residence and part-time professor at UC Berkeley’s June
Jordan’s Poetry for the People and the co-founder and co-artistic director
of Mangos With Chili, North America’s only touring cabaret of queer and
trans people of color performing artists.

She is a commissioned performer with Sins Invalid, the national performance
organization of queer people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Her
one woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured nationally, including
performances at the National Queer Arts Festival, Swarthmore College, Yale
University, Reed College and McGill University.

The author of Consensual Genocide, her writing has appeared in the
anthologies Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize
This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous
Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World.
She writes regularly for Bitch, Colorlines, Hyphen, Left Turn and Make/Shift
magazines. The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence
Within Activist Communities, which she co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai
Dulani, will be published by South End Press in March 2011. Her second book
of poetry, Love Cake, and first memoir, Dirty River, are forthcoming.


VIVEK SHRAYA is a Toronto-based artist. Winner of the We Are Listening
International Singer/Songwriter Award, Vivek has released albums ranging
from acoustic folk-rock to electro synth pop, driven by powerful vocals,
incisive lyrics, and tight pop hooks. God Loves Hair, his first collection
of short stories, won the Applied Arts Award for Illustration, and is
currently being used as a textbook at several post-secondary institutions.

Vivek has performed and read at shows and festivals internationally, sharing
the stage with Tegan and Sara, Dragonette, and Melissa Ferrick, and
appearing at NXNE, CMW and Word on the Street. His music has been featured
on Degrassi and Private Practice.

*Art, Organizing and Marginalized Communities workshop with LEAH
*Thursday, January 20th at 1:00pm
at the 2110 Centre For Gender Advocacy (wheelchair accessible, scent-free
please!)
2110 rue Mackay
Montreal, QC

*This workshop will be limited to 20 participants. *Please pre-register in
advance at mtlskillshare at gmail.com* in order to ensure your participation in
the workshop. Workshop participants will be accepted at the time of workshop
until it is filled to capacity.

Workshop Description:

What are the essential elements to developing and maintaining an
anti-oppressive art/cultural institution and what are ways in which this can
be used for ...community organizing purposes? Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha will be presenting a workshop on creating art/cultural
institutions as a form of organizing in queer/trans, disability and people
of colour communities. This workshop if for those who are interested in
gaining some specific tools of a 'how to' develop an art/cultural
institution as organizing.

The workshop is co-presented by the Ste. Emilie Skillshare (a working group
of QPIRG Concordia)

Facilitator Bio:
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a Worcester raised, Toronto matured,
Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the
2009-10 Artist in Residence and part-time professor at UC Berkeley’s June
Jordan’s Poetry for the People and the co-founder and co-artistic director
of Mangos With Chili, North America’s only touring cabaret of queer and
trans people of color performing artists. She is a commissioned performer
with Sins Invalid, the national performance organization of queer people
with disabilities and chronic illnesses and her one woman show, Grown Woman
Show, has toured nationally.

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