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<p><font style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);" size="4">♥CRIMINAL QUEERS BACKYARD FILM SERIES + PERFORMANCES*♥</font><br>
Nope, it didn’t start in Oakland. A backyard film series honouring our
favorite criminal or criminalized queers. Films are preceded by some
nice live musical performances (performers are not necessarily
criminalized, they’re just nice people who play music). Film begin at dark.<br></p>
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<p><b>July 29th, 2010 – 7-11pm (film at dark)<br>
Performers: TBC<br>
Film: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55O18SYG9nQ" target="_blank">Before Night Falls (2000)</a></b><br>
The film offers an episodic look at the life of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" target="_blank"> Cuban</a> poet and novelist,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinaldo_Arenas" target="_blank"> Reinaldo Arenas</a> (1943-1990), from his childhood in the province of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriente_Province" target="_blank"> Oriente</a> to his death in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank"> New York City</a>. As a youth he joins<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" target="_blank"> Castro</a>’s
rebels. By 1963 he is studying in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an
early lover; their love-hate relationship lasts for years. His writing
and openly gay lifestyle get him into trouble: he spends two years in
prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel.
Later he befriends Lázaro Gómez Carriles, with whom he lives stateless
and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" target="_blank"> Cuba</a> in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift" target="_blank"> Mariel boatlift</a>. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, “Revenge.”</p>
<p><b>♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥</b></p><p><b>August 12th, 2010 – 7-11pm (part of <a href="http://www.perverscite.org/"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Pervers/cité</span></a>)</b><b> </b><br><b>Performers: <a href="http://sarahbernard.co.nr%20"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Sarah Bernard</span></a>, + TBC<br>
</b></p><p><b>Film: <a href="http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/video/msr/yap_int.html" target="_blank">Yapping Out Loud by Mirha -Soleil Ross (2004)</a></b><br>
A video documentary based on first-person Toronto performance show (7
monologues) dealing with prostitution and anti-prostitution. A tour de
force by Canada’s most famous transsexual sexworker animal-rights
activist performance artist, Yapping is hilarious and moving –half
autobiographical, half agitprop satire, fully unforgettable.<br><br><b>Sarah Bernard</b> is a young girl from Haiti who has momentarily settled in Montreal. She writes songs and book(s) in English, French, and Creole for piano, guitar, and voice. (Someday, Spanish and Italian-- someday.) She's a DJ who lives on and for dance-floors, but when Sarah sings, you can find soft traces of traditional Haitian folklore, little girl blues, traces of growing up on a piano and moving across the continent. They haven't invented a name for her genre yet.</p>
<p>CHECK OUT OUR WHOLE PERVERS/CITE program that also includes a SELF-DEFENSE workshop for women/trans/queer people, a QPOC Potluck, and the Queer Bookfair... <br><a href="http://steemilieskillshare.com/ste-emilie-is-the-official-flogger-of-perverscite">http://steemilieskillshare.com/ste-emilie-is-the-official-flogger-of-perverscite</a><br>
</p><p><b>♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥</b></p>+ MORE!<br>check our website for more info and to sign up to our mailing list.<br></div><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" clear="all"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">*Metro Place-St-Henri*</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">(Ste-Emilie Skillshare is a working group of QPIRG Concordia/</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Ste-Emilie est un groupe de travail de GRIP Concordia</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
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