2 events!!! Both free and wheelchair accessible...<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Danger & Beauty: An evening with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Vivek Shraya</span></b></font><br>
Wednesday, January 19 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm<br>Il Mottore<br>179 Jean Talon O.<br>Montreal, QC<br><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Art, Organizing and Marginalized Communities workshop with LEAH<br></span></b></font>Thursday, January 20th at 1:00pm<div>
at the 2110 Centre For Gender Advocacy (wheelchair accessible, scent-free please!)<br>2110 rue Mackay<br>Montreal, QC<br><br>*This workshop will be limited to 20 participants. <b>Please pre-register in advance at <a href="mailto:mtlskillshare@gmail.com">mtlskillshare@gmail.com</a></b> 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.<br>
<br>Workshop Description:<br><br>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.<br>
<br>The workshop is co-presented by the Ste. Emilie Skillshare (a working group of QPIRG Concordia)<br><br>Facilitator Bio:<br>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.<br>
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