Qouleur s Annual 2qtpoc Festival Graces Montreal Audio

Beyoncé dropped the music video for her most politically charged song yet and accompanied it with a Super Bowl performance that had tongues wagging and police unions protesting. Kendrick Lamar electrified the Grammys stage with a performance that touched on everything from the prison industrial complex to repatriation. But given today is International Women's Day, I want to recognize a few lesser known artists here at home who are using their work to challenge, to protest, to educate, to inspire, to remix and to imagine. In mid-August, the city's Gay Village hosts the week-long Pride and Black & Blue, the world's largest gay-benefit dance party, follows in October. Cinephiles flock to the Afrocaribbean LGBT Film Festival and Image+National LGBT Film Festival, and more offbeat events include the Qouleur Festival of art and social action and Mado's Drag Races, a fun event that flips gender on its head. Using art and critical dialogue as vehicles for social change — through performance and visual art, panel presentations and conversation-style breakout sessions — it explores the ways mixed folks negotiate identity, power dynamics and community building in their everyday lives.

M. Sharon Jeannotte is an Affiliated Researcher at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. From 2005 to 2007, she was Senior Advisor to the Canadian Cultural Observatory in the Department of Canadian Heritage. Before that, she was the Manager of International Comparative Research in the Department’s Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate. Kuan-Yun Wang is a Ph.D. student in the joint program Communication and Cultural Studies at York and Ryerson University. Wang has been working as a journalist and photographer and writing and reporting about Palestine since 2015. Currently, she is writing a book that is scheduled to publish in the summer of 2021 on Palestinian identity. Ira Wagman is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.
Montreal Highlights Festival
Her previous academic positions include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Waterloo. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d'Art moderne Paris. This paper examines the relationship between digital platforms and the Canadian government. Our examination is based on records contained in the Canadian lobbying registry and a large corpus of government documents obtained via access to information requests; our method is outlined in part two. In part three, we present an overview of the interactions between the Canadian government and digital platforms between 2008 and the present, drawing on records in the lobbying registry and our corpus of access to information documents.

Her purpose is to create space for Indigenous peoples to access the knowledge they carry from their ancestors and bring back community, balance and humanity to the design, integration and evolution of digital technologies and online spaces. The legacy of which is meant to advance Truth and Reconciliation both in physical and virtual worlds. Dr. Jennifer Wemigwams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education at University of Toronto. Her research is focused on Indigenous Knowledge Education that reflects and embraces diverse Indigenous Nations nationally and internationally.
Eahr @ Artexte: Uncovering Asian Canadian And Black Canadian Artistic Production Launch
there are a great many teenage, racialized transwomen with PTSD who have never been abusive. " is a way to create a space for more marginalized voices, and also to create a different space where it’s about encountering different people," said Lin. Professor Xavier’s research interests include Indigenous food security, Indigenous land connections and rematriation, Indigenous food ways, and Indigenous ways of knowing. In 2020, she was awarded the new McMaster Indigenous Research Institute "Indigenous In-Community Scholar Fellowship." The project will work within Adrianne’s community of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory to grow the understanding and capacity around food security and sovereignty. Zeinab Farokhi is a doctoral candidate at the Women and Gender Studies Institute and Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the transnational aspect of right-wing extremist groups, paying specific attention to the gender dimension of the development of this phenomenon in India, Canada, and the United States. Taeyoung is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication, https://www.ada-x.org Simon Fraser University. Since joining the school in 2016, he has studied the ideological and discursive dynamics of the global cultural/creative industries by analyzing government policies and texts of cultural products.
She was awarded with Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts Award by the Conseil des arts de Montréal in 2020.They rolled the testimonies and left them behind as part of the installation, which grew heavier with the stories as the performance progressed.Group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities.Applications may be scheduled as solo exhibitions or a mixed program; this will be determined in context of the proposals reviewed.