OLD SCHOOL / NEW SCHOOL QPIRG Concordia’s Alternative Orientation September 21-25, 2009FREE! Welcome to ALL new and returning students as well as community members. Events include: Writing & Resistance Panel * Two Film Nights * Radical Walking Tour * Scavenger Hunt * Tabling Fair * Activism for Students Workshop * Community Bike Tour * Party and Benefit Show (with the Kalmunity Vibe Collective and the Narcicyst) * Community-University Research Exchange Social * and more! MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7:30pm Our friends at Cinema Politica present their weekly film screening, presenting another year of politically engaged, socially relevant cinema. This showing will also serve as a kick-off event to QPIRG’s Alternative Orientation. For details: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/concordia TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1pm An interactive workshop about how students can get involved in social change. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 3pm A radical scavenger hunt around Concordia’s downtown campus (with prizes and surprises!) Bring a friend or 3. Co-presented with the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy at Concordia. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7pm A special panel about writing and social transformation, featuring local writers and poets Kaie Kellough (Lettricity) Trish Salah (Wanting In Arabic: Poems) and others. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 11am-2pm Come see what resources and volunteer opportunities exist on campus and in the Montreal community. Lunch served by the People’s Potato. The tabling fair will also include a live broadcast by CKUT community radio (1-2pm), and a stenciling workshop by the Ste-Emilie Skillshare. There will be more than 25 local groups present. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2pm (sharp!) Join us on this unique tour and learn an alternative history of student and community struggles on campus and beyond. This engaging tour will explore student mobilizing against racism and tuition hikes, to social movements of international solidarity and against global capitalism. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 5-7pm This social, including snacks and drinks, will allow students to meet with community groups, and learn more about the Community-University Research Exchange (CURE) and how to make your class work meaningful beyond campus. Community groups will give short presentations about their work and research needs. Welcome to students from all campuses. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 7pm As part of Keeping it Reel: QPIRG Concordia’s Subversive Cinema Series, and on the eve of the protests against the G-20 in Pittsburgh, we present The Fourth World War by Big Noise Films. From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. Narrated by Michael Franti and Suheir Hammad. The evening program will also include short films about local community struggles. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 3-5pm Rising tuition and the under-funding of education in Quebec affects all students. Instead of fighting separately, we should join forces! This summer, students from francophone and anglophone campuses and unions in Montreal came together to start a united campaign: Montreal Students Against Tuition Increase. Come hear students from different universities and Cegeps talk about the history of tuition fees and the student movement in Quebec, and how to join the movement! Refreshments will be provided. Organized by the GSA with the support of QPIRG Concordia. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 9pm This music show and dance party features the thundering beats and earthy tones of the Kalmunity Vibe Collective the city's wickedest musicians presenting live & organic flavors of R&B, hip-hop, afrobeat, funk, reggae and soul. The concert also includes Iraqi MC/Media Master (via Concordia U) the Narcicyst, and youth hip-hop by Writing our Rhymes Down (WORD). A benefit for WORD, the Solidarity ID Project and the DIRA Anarchist Library. Suggested donation $5 (or pay what you can). Check out The Narcicyst's new video, PHATWA on youtube. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1pm (sharp!) An interactive tour of neighborhoods near Concordia, including Little Burgundy, St-Henri, Griffintown and Point-St-Charles. Come learn more about popular and working class struggles in our community. Rain or shine! Bring your bike, borrow a bike! The unofficial opening event of the Velo Velo! Conference, September 25-27, 2009. OLD SCHOOL / NEW SCHOOL Note about accessibility: With the exception of our Community Bike Tour, all our events are wheelchair accessible. Please get in touch with any accessibility needs, including participation in the walking tour, scavenger hunt or bike tour. If you require childcare during any events, please get in touch before September 16 at 514-848-7585 FREE! Welcome to ALL new and returning students as well as community members. INFO: * Partial funding for these events has been provided by the New Student Program Office |
