<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">Hey everyone<i>,<br></i>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!<br>
xo<br>ste-em<br><i><br>WINTER SURVIVAL STRATEGY</i><br><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font></div><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="im"><b>The Workshops:</b><br>
::::::<br>Nov 7 - Intro to photoshop<br>Nov 8 - Basic silkscreening<br></div>Nov 14 - Open studio<div class="im"><br>Nov 21 - Graffiti<br>
Nov 22 - Basic silkscreening<br>Nov 28 - Bootydancing 101: Intro. to Fabulousity<br><br></div>Dec 5 - Vermicomposting<div class="im"><br>Dec 6 - Basic silkscreening<br>Dec 12 - T-shirts into underwear<br></div>Dec 19 - super advanced and awesome silkscreen boot-camp for champions and heroes alike<div class="im">
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Dec 20 - Basic silkscreening<br>Dec 26 - Edible art<br>::::::<br></div><div class="im"><font size="2"><b><br>Who we are:<br><br></b>The Ste. Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists,<br>primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting
artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. We are<br>building and running an art studio for people to learn new skills,<br>share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and<br>anti-oppression (anti-racism/sexism/classism/ homophobia/
transphobia/ableism/sizeism/etc). Long live skill-sharing!</font></div></pre><div class="im"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br><b>The Workshop Lowdown:</b><br></font><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">-> Each workshop listed has a suggested donation amount. We love<br>donations! And really need them to keep emilie running. We have a pay<br>what you can system and no one will be turned away.<br>-> Some workshops have a maximum # of participants, please try to RSVP!
-> All workshops will begin at 1pm (unless otherwise noted).<br>-> All workshops are given in english unless stated otherwise.</font></pre><br></div><b>""""<div class="im"><br>a note on BASIC SILKSCREENING workshops</div>
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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.<br>
<br>Max. number of participants: 6<br>Suggested donation: $10-20<br><b>""""</b><br><br><b>-->Nov 7 - Intro to photoshop</b><br>come and learn the basics tricks and tips to getting started with photoshop!<br>
bring yer laptop if you have it (with photoshop even better) but if not we will try and provide you with the equipment/programming.<br><br>Max. number of participants: 8<br>Suggested donation: $5-10<br><br><br></div><div class="im">
<b>-->Nov 21 - Graffiti</b><br>
We will be learning the basics of graffiti including technique with the can, basic drawing and proper attire.<br>
<br>More info coming soon!<br><br><b><br>-->Nov 28 - Bootydancing 101: Intro. to Fabulousity</b><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div>
<br></div><div>Bootydancing 101: Intro. to Fabulousity</div>
<div>Facilitator: Reyrey</div><div><br></div>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! <br>
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!!</span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px;"></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">*Note: Dress to dance comfortably, bring water, and bring any materials or costuming that you are inspired by.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">$5-10 suggested donation.</span></font></div>
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<br><br></div><b>-->Dec 5 - </b><b>Vermicomposting</b><br>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.<br>
Each participant will leave the workshop with a compost box complete with hungry hungry worms.<div class="im"><br>
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Max. number of participants: 5<br>
Suggested donation $10-20<br><br><br><b>-->Dec 12 - T-shirts into underwear</b><br>Bring in your old/new/fav t-shirt and make it into your new most prized unmentionable/<br>
<br>More info coming soon!<br><br></div><b><br>-->Dec 19 - </b><b>:: super advanced and awesome silkscreen boot-camp for champions and heroes alike ::</b><div class="im"><br>Do you already know the basics but but still find your prints don't look the way you want?<br>
Are you constantly finding fingerprints, random blobs of ink or bleeds?<br>
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.<br>But what if you're already an advanced awesome silkscreen champion/hero???...<br>
...How about adding some new techniques to your repertoire!!!!<br>**color blends and merging<br>**ink tints and transparencies<br>**high gloss over coats!<br>**paper registration for multiple editions<br>**thinking outside acetates<br>
**cheap DIY inks<br>**AND MUCH MUCH MORE<br><br>Max. number of participants: 6<br>Suggested donation $10-20<br><br><br></div><div class="im"><b>-->Dec 26 - Edible art</b><br>Spin art, geodesic pies, frosting portraiture, glow in the dark pasta and more.<br>
<br>More info coming soon!</div></div></div></div><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>Calling all art/trouble-makers;<br>
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Ste-Emilie cordially invites you to submit an art for our up-coming art <span class="il">auction</span>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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All proceeds from the auctioned art will assist the olympics resistance network (see below for more information).<br>
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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.<br>
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Deadline for submissions is Saturday November 21st 2009.<br>
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to contribute, please<br>
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phone: 514.933.2573<br>
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mail to: 3942, rue Ste-Émilie / Montréal, QC / H4C 2A1<br>
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Why We Resist 2010<br>
March 13, 2007 - 13:40 — no2010<br>
Why We Resist<br>
the 2010 Winter Olympics<br>
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).<br>
10 Reasons to Resist 2010<br>
1. Colonialism & Fascism<br>
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.<br>
2. No Olympics on Stolen Land<br>
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.<br>
3. Ecological Destruction<br>
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.<br>
4. Homelessness<br>
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’!<br>
5. Criminalization of the Poor<br>
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!<br>
6. Impact on Women<br>
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.<br>
7. 2010 Police State<br>
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).<br>
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.<br>
8. Public Debt<br>
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.<br>
9. Olympic Corruption<br>
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.<br>
10. Corporate Invasion<br>
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.<br>
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).<br>
RESIST 2010<br>
“What causes opponents to come of their own accord is the prospect of
gain. What discourages opponents from coming is the prospect of harm.”<br>
Sun Tzu, The Art of War<br>
for more info please go to <a href="http://www.no2010.com/" target="_blank">www.no2010.com</a></div><br>-- <br>Ste-Émilie Skillshare & Zine Distro<br><a href="http://snap.mahost.org/distro/">http://snap.mahost.org/distro/</a><br>
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