CALL FOR ARTWORK FOR G8/G20 MOBILIZATIONS.

Leaders of the G8 and G20 countries are meeting Ontario in June 2010.

This is a historical meeting. Historical because it will probably be the

last G8 meeting. Historical because the G8 has dozens of promises that are

up and few it has met.

Historical because the year is 2010. A year that the indigenous and allied

struggles against the Olympics will peak, a year when No One Is Illegal!

May Day of Action will be on May Day (May 1), a year when Toronto will see

a mayoral elections, a year where large unions might go on coordinated

strikes in Ontario, a year that will probably see a federal election.

This G8/G20 Summits are going to be met with large community based

mobilizations. Mobilizations that will create and witness another world, a

world free of oppression, a democratic world, a world where each of us

participates in the decisions that effect us.

These mobilizations need an image. A design. A poster. A color scheme.

They require one designer.

One designer to craft a poster that 'inspires' 'liberation',

'community-power', 'self-determination', 'justice', that shows the

'multiplicity' of our anti-poverty, anti-occupation, migrant justice,

indigenous sovereignty struggles.

Could you make that design?

If so, email draft sketches to community.mobilize@resist.ca by 3rd January

2010.

A full list of phrases that the design should depict can also be

requested by writing to community.mobilize@resist.ca

Only selected designers will be contacted for further discussion.

The Toronto Woemn's Bookstore needs support urgently!!

Dear TWB community,

The Toronto Women's Bookstore is in crisis and we need your help!

Independent businesses and bookstores have been closing their doors this

year, and after 36 years it is possible that we will have to do the same if

we are not able to raise enough money to survive. TWB is one of the only

remaining non-profit feminist bookstores in North America, but despite all

of the events, courses, workshops, community resources and additional

services we offer, the fact that we are a store means that we do not receive

any outside funding and rely entirely on sales and the support of our

customers to stay in business.

Over the past few years, our sales have not been enough to sustain us and

this is why we are coming to you, our community, for help. If every one of

you donated $10 we would raise enough to keep going for 3 months, $20 each

would keep us in business for 6 months, and $30 each would be enough for us

to keep our doors open, hopefully for good. All donations will go directly

towards covering the bookstore's costs, and are a part of a larger plan of

action and structural change to make the business sustainable in the current

economy.

In the past, when feminist bookstores were closing down all across North

America, the support of the community is what kept TWB alive. You are the

reason that we are still here today, and we believe that with your help we

can once again work together to save this organization where so many of us

as readers, writers, feminists, artists, and activists have found a home.

You can make donations over the phone, on our website

www.womensbookstore.com (paypal link available soon), or in person at the

store. As a non-profit store we are not eligible for charitable status and

cannot offer tax receipts, but we are hoping to be able to offer tax

receipts for donations over $100 in collaboration with a non-profit charity

who shares our mandate, and we will have that information available on our

website and in store as soon as possible.

You can also help by spreading the word to your friends and community,

contacting us if you know of any funding we might be eligible for, promoting

this fundraising drive in your paper or on your blog, website or radio show,

organizing your own save the bookstore fundraisers or just passing the hat

at your holiday parties, giving a TWB donation as a gift, and of course,

coming in and bringing all your friends to the store for some holiday

shopping!

Thank you all for your support,

The Toronto Women's Bookstore Board, Staff & Volunteers

International Festival of Poetry of Resistance

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POETRY OF RESISTANCE
Pre-festival event:

THE WALLS OF SHAME
THE GENOCIDAL BLOCKADES

LOS MUROS DE LA VERGUENZA
LOS BLOQUEOS GENOCIDAS
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YES!
To the Right of Self
Determination of People!!
Free the Cuban Five, Mumia
Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier!!!

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SUNDAY DEC 20, 2009 -2:00 PM
at Ellington's Music & Cafe
805 St Clair Ave. West.

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-MC: CHARLES ROACH

Readings & Music by: GODOFREDO CARRANZA - GRUPO CHAAK-
ELIZABETH CORONA (MATLACTLI KIAHUTL) -
JEANNINE PITAS – LUZ MARINA ORTIZ -
MONICA ROSAS - JOSEFINA CHAVEZ -
CARLA MESA - NINA LA PORTA and others
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For more info contact: resistancepoetryfest@gmail.com

Maple Tree Literary Supplement

Maple Tree Literary Supplement, MTLS issue #5 live and hot at http://www.mtls.ca/issue5/index.php

*Editorial: “Of Grammatology and Writing”
*‘Roundtable’ with novelist, essayist and gardener, Merlyn Simonds
*Essay by John Ralston Saul
*Fiction by Olive Senior and sundry
*On the art of printing with Stan Bevington of Coach House Books
*Reviews by George Elliot Clarke and sundry
*Photos of literary events on the Festival of Life page
*Nnorom Azuonye asks hard questions of Chimamanda Adichie
*Artworks and more.
*poetry

In This Issue

Madhur Anand
Nnorom Azuonye
Claudia Del Balso
Nicolas Billon
Stan Bevington
Amatoritsero Ede
George Elliott Clarke
Julia P.W. Cooper
Benson Eluma
David Fancy
Harry Garuba
Carla Goldberg
Salim Gold
Patrick Iberi
Onyinye Ihezukwu
JL Jacobs
Michael Laverty
Julie Leroux
Allan E. Levine
John W. Macdonald
Ben Noble
Sanya Osha
Niran Okewole
Chukwuma Okoye
Céleste Parr
Justin Pfefferle
Dawn Promislow
Rebecca Rustin
Naben Ruthnum
John Ralston Saul
Halima Sekula
Olive Senior
Dianne Scott
Merilyn Simonds
Carly Stewart
Amanda Tripp
Kọlá Tubọsun
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
J.A. Weingarten
S. Nadja Zajdman

http://www.mtls.ca/issue5/index.php

The Play: The Making of St Jerome.

The Next Stage Theatre Festival & eastBOUNDtheatre present
'The Making of St. Jerome'

THE PLAY | 'THE MAKING OF ST. JEROME':
After Jerome’s violent death, his older brother Jason embarks on a quest to bring the police officer that shot him to justice. Jason’s pursuit uncovers uncomfortable facts and plants a growing seed of doubt about Jerome’s innocence. Inspired by the 2004 fatal shooting of a Filipino-Canadian teenager by a plain-clothes police officer, The Making of St. Jerome is an exploration of guilt, grief, and brotherly love, set against the backdrop of a Coroner’s Inquest into the untimely death of a Toronto schoolboy. Inspired by true events.

Multiple-award winning director Nina Lee Aquino directs this powerful and haunting piece written by fu-GEN Theatre’s 2008-2009 Playwright-in-Residence Marie Beath Badian.

Written by Marie Beath Badian
Directed by Nina Lee Aquino
Set/Costumes by Jackie Chau
Lighting by Aaron Kelly
Sound Design by Romeo Candido
Choreography by Clare Preuss
Stage Managed by Kat Chin

FEATURING: Byron Abalos, Keith Barker, Aura Carcueva, Christian Feliciano, and Audrey Dwyer

Factory Studio 125 Bathurst St. Toronto, ON/ 75 Minutes /
Drama / General Audience / Strong Language / Gunshots
SHOW TIMES:
Wednesday January 6th - 9:00PM
Thursday January 7th - 7:15PM Special Group Rate
Friday January 8th - 9:15PM
Saturday January 9th - 9:00PM
Sunday January 10th - 7:15PM
Wednesday January 13th - 8:30PM Special Group Rate
Thursday January 14th - 5:30PM Special Group Rate
Saturday January 16th - 7:15PM
Sunday January 17th - 3:30PM

TICKET PRICES:
$15 – Evening Performances (7pm and after start time)
$12 – Afternoon Performance (6:59pm or before start time)
$10.80 Special Group Rate, groups of 5 or more

HOW TO PURCHASE:
By phone: 416-966-1062
Toll Free:1-866-515-7799

For additional show information please visit http://www.fringetoronto.com/nstf
http://themakingofstjerome.blogspot.com

All shows start on time
No latecomers will be admitted and no-readmittance
General seating for all performances
No refunds or exchanges

Invitation to Jovanni Sy's Workshop

Cahoots Theatre Projects would like to invite you to their upcoming workshop presentation of Jovanni Sy's

'A Taste of Empire'

which was featured during fu-GEN's 5th Annual Potluck Festival.

Performances are at the Compass Group Canada Culinary Arts Demonstration Theatre and Kitchen Lab at the North Campus of Humber College at the following times:

Thursday, December 17 @ 8:00pm
Friday, December 18 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, December 19 @ 8:00pm

Please visit www.cahoots.ca for additional information

SCHOOL Call for Submissions

Open call for submissions of underrepresented artwork and writing

to SCHOOL: Art and literature magazine of stuff they don't teach you

DEADLINE for submissions SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010.

www..schoolmagazine.ca

SCHOOL is an online magazine with strong anti-racist, queer and feminist roots. It publishes underrepresented work by emerging and established artists. Submissions are open to anyone. See submission criteria below.

Now accepting:

Artwork

Poetry

Short stories

Creative non-fiction

Personal essays

Artist Interviews

Copyrights:

SCHOOL Magazine reserves nonexclusive electronic rights over accepted works. This means the artist grants SCHOOL the permission to print their work on its website with full credit to the artist. If the work you are submitting has been published previously, please indicate by who and when upon submission.

Artwork

Send images in JPEG format in a low resolution (less than 300 dpi) attachment to the editor@schoolmagazine.ca. Please submit only three images at a time. In the title of the email, please include name of the artist and that it is an Artwork submission, i.e. “Tina Chin – artwork”. Also, include a short bio (120 words max).

All written submissions: send as Microsoft word document attachments to the editor@schoolmagazine.ca

Poetry

You can submit up to 3 poems at a time. Each can be up to 200 lines long. If longer, please send your request to the editor@schoolmagazine.ca. In the title of the email, please include name of the artist and that it is a poetry submission, i.e. “Tina Chin – poetry”. Also, include a short bio (120 words max).

Short stories, Creative non-fiction, Personal essays, INTERVIEWS

Please submit only one piece at a time. Prose must be double-spaced in 12-point font and 500 to 5000 words. We are looking for pieces that take thematic and stylistic risks. If your piece is longer, you can contact the editor@schoolmagazine.ca about potentially splitting it up into a serial to be published over several editions, bearing the piece is strong enough. In the title of the email, please include name of the artist and if it is either a short story, creative non-fiction or personal essay submission, i.e. “Tina Chin – creative non-fiction”. Also, include a short bio (120 words max).

Unfortunately, due to the current lack of resources SCHOOL cannot give feedback on submitted pieces..

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Have a great day!

- Kenji Tokawa

Editor-in-Chief

SCHOOL: Art and literature magazine of stuff they don't teach you

www.schoolmagazine.ca

HELP US GET OUR LOST WEEK OF YICHUD REHEARSAL BACK!

IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE NEWS YET...

On November 18^th 2009, the Harold Green Jewish Theatre revealed to us and Theatre Passe Muraille that they regretfully had to pull Yichud (Seclusion) from their 2010 season. We learned that one of HGJT's major sponsors had withdrawn their financial support from the production because of “concerns that the content might be misinterpreted.”

Read more in the Dec. 2^nd Toronto Star Article here.

You can imagine that this news came as a BIG surprise to us. And with rehearsals set to begin on January 11^th, 2010, TPM was suddenly left with a $50,000 shortfall.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WILL AMAZE YOU...

Theatre Passe Muraille immediately decided that Yichud (Seclusion) could NOT be abandoned, and that there was no other option but to try and raise this $50,000. We immediately jumped on board with TPM to assist with this new plan!

Over the past three weeks we have collectively managed to secure 4/5 of the necessary funding, which guarantees that the production is moving forward. We also know that we have the means to secure the remaining 1/5 of the funds. So we can now proclaim that our collaborative fundraising efforts have been 100% successful.

HOW ON EARTH DID WE DO IT?!

This remarkable success story was possible due to a wide variety of “angels” who have been extremely generous with their financial contributions and have expressed their profound support for Yichud (Seclusion) and its artistic merit.

SO YICHUD (SECLUSION) HAS BEEN RESCUED, RIGHT?

Almost...! As a result of HGJT’s sudden withdrawal, TPM was forced to make a number of cuts and compromises to the production budget in order to be able to move forward with the show at all. With this unbelievable fundraising success we now find ourselves in a position to look at recouping some of those losses. The most devastating of these cuts was the loss of our first week of rehearsal.

HELP CONVERGENCE THEATRE GET OUR LOST WEEK OF REHEARSAL BACK!

The cost of one week of rehearsal is $9,467. Virtually all of this will go to artists’ salaries. Are you able to contribute? Do you know someone who might be able to contribute?

If you’re a fan of Convergence Theatre and you’ve enjoyed our work in the past, please consider offering your support. Any amount, no matter how small, will help us be able to put on the production we originally envisioned.

WILL I GET A TAX RECEIPT?

YES! Theatre Passe Muraille is a registered charitable organization,

#11921 4344 RR0001. A tax receipt will be issued for all donations!

HOW DO I DONATE?

On-line: Go to www.artsboxoffice.ca Click on the “DONATE NOW” button. Under “FUND DESIGNATION” choose “HELP CONVERGENCE THEATRE!”

Cheques can be made out to THEATRE PASSE MURAILLE and mailed to:

16 Ryerson Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2P3.

Be sure to write “Convergence Theatre – Extra Rehearsal Week” in the memo line.

I CAN’T AFFORD TO DONATE BUT I WANT TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP!

1) Buy your tickets NOW! In person, by phone (416) 504-7529 or on-line:

http://passemuraille.on.ca/09-10-season/yichud/

2) Why not organize a group? Group rates are available for groups of 10 or more.

3) Help spread the word that Yichud (Seclusion) is still on! We run Feb. 6 – 27, 2010 in the TPM Mainspace.

4) And of course, FORWARD THIS E-MAIL!

With extreme gratitude for all of your continued support,

Julie Tepperman & Aaron Willis

playwright & director, Yichud (Seclusion)

co-Artistic Directors, Convergence Theatre

WAIT WAIT WAIT…BEFORE YOU GO, I'VE GOT MORE QUESTIONS!!!

Okay, go ahead...but if other people need to go, we don't mind!

CAN I ASK YOU TWO WHAT YICHUD (SECLUSION) IS ALL ABOUT?

This new play by Julie Tepperman has had previous incarnations at the Lab Cab Festival, the Ashkenaz Festival, and the Next Stage Theatre Festival. This brand new version has been expanded and re-written with the developmental support of Theatre Passe Muraille. Yichud (Seclusion) is set in Toronto’s Orthodox Jewish community and powerfully dramatizes issues of love, respect, honour & duty. The setting is specifically Jewish, but the story is universal and life affirming.

DO I KNOW ANY OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED?

Yichud (Seclusion) features: Diane Flacks, Richard Greenblatt, Jordan Pettle, Michael Rubenfeld, Julie Tepperman & Aaron Willis plus a live Klezmer band: Ronen Segal, Chris Willes & Jeff Wilson

Director: Aaron Willis

Consulting Director & Dramaturg: Richard Greenblatt

Designed by: Beth Kates

Musical Designer: Aviva Chernick

Project Consultant: Shira Schwartz

Stage Manager: Sandy Plunkett

WHAT ELSE ARE PEOPLE SAYING?

“Yichud (Seclusion) expands in the mind and heart.”

Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine

“Tepperman and Willis know how to tear down the fourth wall, splitting the audience by gender and inviting a Klezmer band along for the ceremony.”

Paul Gallant, Eye Weekly

“Both moving and funny.”

Paula Citron, Classical 96.3 FM

“I adore this company – they’re very inventive…. Julie Tepperman’s writing is smart, perceptive, and at times it does cut close to the bone. Aaron Willis’ direction is clear, sensitive and detail-minded. The acting of the company is very fine. I look forward to when she fleshes this out into a larger play.”

Lynn Slotkin, CBC Radio One “Here & Now”

“Yichud (Seclusion) is the first play I have seen that engages with Orthodox Jewish custom with nuance, precision and artistic integrity. This groundbreaking play captures the beauty of Orthodox ritual without sacrificing its depth or complexity; it directly confronts the tensions that exist in the Orthodox world between tradition and modernity without placing them in opposition to each other.”

Shira Schwartz, Project Consultant and active member of Toronto’s Orthodox Jewish Community

This message has been sent to you by Julie Tepperman & Aaron Willis, co-artistic directors of Convergence Theatre. Please e-mail convergencetheatre@gmail.com if you would like to be removed from our list.

anitafrika! dub theatre raw works festival

mikey smith raw works festivals: dec 17, 18, 19: 7pm door, 8pm show @ anitafrika! dub theatre

hello beautiful village
anitafrika! dub theatre
is in it's second season
and second festival of the season

please come out to
the mikey smith raw works festival
featuring the first draft raw works of
the artists-in-residency at anitafrika! dub theatre

Poetry Reading - December 16th

Pivot at the Press Club is a poetry and fiction reading series happening every second Wednesday at the Press Club in downtown Toronto. Each event features a mix of fiction and poetry from both established and emerging talent. The Press Club is located at 850 Dundas Street West, three blocks west of Bathurst on the north side of the street. The event begins at 8 p.m.

Come out on Wednesday, December 16 to enjoy readings from Claudia Dey (Stunt), Edward Nixon (Free Translation) and Moez Surani (Reticent Bodies). Pay what you can!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
8 p.m. at the Press Club
850 Dundas Street West