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The 747 Movie Series presents: If I Die Tonight at 7:47pm

A unique and provocative view into the great divide between “the people” and “the police”.

IF I DIE TONIGHT is not a “documentary from a distance”. Whether or not one agrees with their viewpoints, the characters elicit instant rapport with and compassion from their audience as they re-live their experiences. IF I DIE TONIGHT is a film about racial profiling, police brutality and the system that allows these enigmas to exist and persist, as seen through the lives and stories of those who are living on both sides of an impenetrable divide.

(USA 2009, 92 minutes. Written, produced and directed by Seyi.)

http://ifidietonight.com/

Sunday January 24th, 1-5pm

WHAT: A market of free stuff!

Bring: books, music, clothes, ideas, skills to share, food and other items to give away. And/Or, take as much free stuff as you want.

WHY, you ask?: Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning and because as a community we have many more resources than we do as individuals.

All are welcome… no money please!

The Fun House Series, where we will be hosting live shows every Saturday night until April, kicks off Saturday January 23rd with bands The Creeps, Let’s Rage, and Dirty Lickins.

Show starts at 8pm. All Ages. $5 at door, Noone Turned Away.

Permaculture and the Post-Capitalist Economy
A Workshop and Skill-Share with Mighk from Victoria
Thursday, December 10th, 2009, 4pm-7pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre (75 Queen St.)

Join Mighk for a workshop about permaculture food systems and forest gardens in both urban and rural sites of the pacific northwest bioregion.

There will be a brief introduction to the concept of permaculture, slides of various autonomous spaces, collectives, and forest gardens that are adopting permaculture principles in ways that challenge capitalist and authoritarian relations. Finally, there will be a skillshare, where folks can get their hands dirty and try guerilla grafting… Bring a pocket knife for this segment if you have one!

Mighk lives at the Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island, Washington. Next year he will help teach the Permaculture Design Course at Linnaea Farm on Cortes Island, BC.  He is a co-founder of the Camas Infoshop in Victoria BC.

Image credit: “Interdependence” by Bec Young, available from JustSeeds.org (http://www.justseeds.org/bec_young/15interdependence.html)

AKA Autonomous Social Centre presents….

RADICAL OPEN MIC NIGHT!
Dec. 5th
8pm-11pm

Come out for an anti-capitalist, anti-state, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-queerphobic, pro-love, pro-community open mic night. Bring stories, poems, spoken word, music and any other forms of knowledge through art you wish to share with or without a mic.

This is a dry, pay what you can event.
All are welcome.

With music from DJs Seditious and Grenadier.

This event will be a presentation of Aric McBay’s new book, What We Leave Behind, and discussion of its insights. WWLB is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. In the book, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and local Kingston activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and nonhuman—will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being’s waste must always become another being’s food.

As part of Olympics Awareness Week, Aric will also make ties between the destruction and colonialism of land in British Columbia and question the notion of ‘Green Olympics’, and sustainability in development in general.

FROM THE DEPTHS (North Carolina) – http://fromthedepths.info

A couple of the survivors of Requiem—not to mention other bands such as Intense Youth, Auryn, Balaclava, Network of Terror, and Catharsis—are in a new band now, From the Depths.

Hearkening back to the days when anarcho-punk was characterized by bands as diverse as Crass, Chumbawumba, and Contropotere, the songs on this album combine d-beat power, slower and faster hardcore, harsh noise, and even a passage from a traditional Italian anarchist folk ballad. This is intense, defiant, dark music, but it is based in compelling melodies; you can scream these songs at the top of your lungs in a riot, but you could also sing them quietly to yourself in jail to maintain your spirits.

joining them will be…

RENEWAL (Peterbough) – Hardcore Punk
http://www.myspace.com/renewaltheband
A new band outta ptbo with members of Shitreign, Crazy Bomber, Like Fucking Fools and the like

DIRTY LICKINS (Kingston) – Folk punk
http://www.myspace.com/dirtylickinskickedyourdad

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This is a benefit show for Resist 2010 and a part of Olympics Awareness Week. More info: http://resist2010.opirgkingston.org

Chaotic Travels Storyslam and Workshop
Thursday, November 19th @ 1pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St

Renowned spoken word artist, anarcho surrealist, and traveler to the stars, Paula Belina touches down in Kingston with an afternoon of sharing stories, skills, and a workshop on the theme of Chaotic Travels. Come out to this pay-what-you-feel event for an excellent afternoon of sharing stories and perspectives gained from the road.

For more information on her current tour and past work, check out Paula’s blog at http://liberatethemarvelous.blogspot.com/

Join us at 7:30 pm on October 18th for a screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s film ‘Shortbus’!

At 7:30 we will commence a 1/2 hour fun-filled interactive workshop with folks from the Sexual Health Resource Centre, including games. The SHRC crew will also be bringing a sex toy kit and will answer any of your questions. Come and bring your friends. Movie starts at 8pm!

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Spatially connected through a cartoon New York City, a number of individuals’ stories develop: there’s Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a frigid sex counselor who’s unhappily married to Rob (Raphael Barker) “the two Jamies,” (Paul Dawson and PJ DeBoy) who struggle with their relationship, searching new paths of sexual enlightenment; and a lonely, Polaroid-obsessed dominatrix to trust fund hipsters.

These stories and others meet in the secret downtown club that gives the film its name, a “salon for the gifted and challenged” where initiates go to eat “potcorn,” participate in orgies, or just watch as self-proclaimed orgasmic superheroes do their thing.

See the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL3GvP8UZjk

On October 1st, at 6:30pm, join us for the launching of the

Irritable Poets’ newest anthology. Local poets and artists work

in mutual support, exploration, and expression of their art.

This poetry and art reflects struggles and solidarity amongst

the Irritable Poets, with their diverse and yet intertwining

personal histories.

The group receives no government or agency funding, but

through the sales of their last anthology they have been able

to self-sustain.

Poems and work from the 2009 chapbook (80 pages) anthology will

be read and there will be an opportunity to meet many of the group’s

members.

Admission is free and there will be refreshments provided!

*The group is also actively welcoming poets
into their literary community where emphasis
is on common interest, not history.