subMedia.tv invites you to join them for
Protect the Territory: Stories of land defense against pipeline and industrial expansion //Territoires en batailles: resistances autochthones on November 17, 6pm an evening where we celebrate struggles of indigenous land defense with Toghestiy, Hereditary Chief of the Wet’suwet’en Likhts’amisyu Clan, Shannon Chief, Shannon Chief, from the Anishnabe Nation of the Ottawa River Water
Felipe Uncacia of the U’wa people from Colombia, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, poet and Innu activist, André Pikutelekan, traditionnalist Innu from Pessamit, Marie-Hélène Parant and Video documentaries by subMedia.tv.

 Divan Orange and The Void Magazine invite you to THE VOID “STRANGERS” LAUNCH! So get down to the Plat and celebrate the launch of their STRANGERS issue. Readings from the finest up n coming writers, music like you’ve never FELT before! Brave the cold, kiss your friends, enter The Void, rub shoulders with a stranger, on November 26, 8pm. (Tix is $5)

Free City Radio — fall / winter 2015 community conference series @ la pass: Join Free City Radio in collaboration with La Passe and with the support of the Community News Collective at CKUT 90.3FM for a series of community lectures, on the first Tuesday of each month (started in October 2015) until 2016. This lecture series is FREE to attend, donations appreciated. Presentations will be recorded for radio broadcast on CKUT radio.

  The Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS presents I Am Not Alone In This Way:
Queer and Black in Contemporary Art. The lecture will take place in Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest), on December 1, at 7pm. The lecture will be in English. Admission is FREE. Doors open at 6:45pm.

Sur, a Montreal native, never regretted his decision to move to New York, despite the hoops he was expected to jump through as a resident alien and identifiable queer Black male. He was able to create a world for himself within the field of contemporary art beginning in the early 1980s – a fly in the buttermilk of a predominantly white contemporary art world. “I hadn’t realized how segregated the art world was then, not was I expected to be a survivor of the AIDS pandemic that was then in full dress rehearsal.”

The onset and struggle around AIDS and its effect on the art world would manifest itself during his co-directorship of the Gracie Mansion Gallery, a prominent East Village gallery named after his partner Gracie Mansion, beginning in 1982. ACT-UP would form in 1987. In 1988 Sur’s activist stance would have him leave his gallery position to help take care of artist friends living with HIV/AIDS while beginning a mission to set up and advise on their Estates. In the mid-1990s he was invited to serve on the Board of Visual AIDS, wherein he helped organize exhibitions of artists affected by HIV/AIDS and assisting in the creation of the Visual AIDS Archive Project which would become the largest archive documenting the works of artists with HIV/AIDS in the world.

For more information contact the Concordia HIV/AIDS Project by email at hivaids@concordia.ca or by telephone at (438)-932-1593 (http://hivaidsconcordia.wix.com/lectureseries)

Sarah Mangle invites you to her event: Launch: The All Ages Colouring Book of Worries and Reassurances by Sarah Mangle <3 <3 with artist Ezra Steam Train Moss Menuck <3 <3 <3, taking place on December 5th, in RATS 9.

Sarah is enthusiastically launching her 2nd colouring book project, The All Ages Colouring Book of Worries and Reassurances with a daytime party.

Ezra Steam Train Moss Menuck will be showing his drawings and sculptures in amazing installations.

There will be:
Snacks!
Art times!
Hang outs!

♥ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ♥ GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS ♥ KIDS VERY VERY VERY WELCOME ♥ PETS WELCOME ♥