Featuring contributions to social and environmental justice research by students, activists, and artists

MARCH 2-4, 2012
at Concordia University, MONTREAL
info: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction

All STUDY IN ACTION / ART IN ACTION events take place on the 7th floor of the Hall Building – 1455 de Maisonneuve West, métro Guy-Concordia

- Free & welcome to all!
- Wheelchair accessible.
- Free childcare on-site during the conference.
- Whisper translation in English and French will be available as well as ASL interpretation for the opening panel and some of the daytime sessions.  
- Vegan lunch served on Saturday and Sunday
- Conference registration is encouraged: http://qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/register-here/
- Attend one panel, workshop or event, or attend them all!
- STUDY IN ACTION & ART IN ACTION are joint projects of QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill

HIGHLIGHTS

-> OPENING PANEL: RE-CREATING THE COMMONS (March 2, 6:30pm)

with Silvia Federici (Caliban and the Witch), Suresh Naidu (Occupy Wall Street), Julie Châteauvert (Les femmes ont faim), and Shannon Franssen (Solidarité St-Henri).

The Study In Action opening panel will explore the reclamation of community spaces in diverse ways — including local examples related to gentrification and public art. We’ll discuss together how to reclaim and create the commons, in resistance to capitalism & patriarchy.

more details below or consult: http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/?p=2751
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/104344966357046/

-> ART IN ACTION (February 27-March 4)

ART IN ACTION highlights creative expression on social and environmental justice issues through diverse mediums including: drawing, painting, photography, performance, film & video, installation, spoken word, zine, collage, watercolour, poster and print.

This year ART IN ACTION includes close to thirty exhibits, installations and performances from: Claude Bernier-Tremblay * Al Blair * Karen Boyles * Anne Breton * Andrea deBruijn * Sylvia Chan * Emily Yun Ching Clare & Ryan Kai Cheng Thom * Shaw Desjean * Colectivo Dignidad Migrante * Arthur Gauthier * Guillaume Girard * GLAD Theatre Collective * Bianca Hlywa * Alix Hugonnier * Sophie Ingels-Fortier * Virginie Jourdain * John Lanthier * Naomi Large * Allison LaSorda * Emmanuelle Lippé * Kevin Yuen Kit Lo * Simone Lucas & Christian Scott * Cassandra Marsillo * Léa Radoslava Marinova * Erica Mazerolle * Nadia Myre * Sheryl-Ann Simpson * Keara Yim

more details below or consult: http://qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/237215266364030/

-> SEVEN PANEL PRESENTATIONS (March 3-4)

Undergraduate students and community activists will together be presenting their community-based social justice research on the following seven panels:
Criminalization and Resistance * Bodily Sovereignty and Disability Politics * Transgender Health, Research, and Resources * Exploring Contested Spaces * Anti-Violence, Hip Hop and Rock & Roll: Youth Organizing In Montreal * Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis Resistance and Survival * Alternative Pedagogies – Challenging the Academy … more details below.

-> SIX WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS (March 3-4)

The following community workshops will be presented during the weekend of Study In Action: 

The Cirque Social: An alternative and inclusive space to outreach creatively to marginalized people * Community-Building Through A Sex-Positive Conversation * Daily Realities of Living Inside Prison, A Multi-media Play * Do you hear what I see? An exploration of the evolution of deaf music * Occupy What?! A critical look at Occupy Movements Within and Beyond Montreal * Anti-authoritarian Media in Quebec … more details below.

-> UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Undergraduate research submissions from students at: 

Concordia University * McGill University * University of Ottawa * Ryerson University * University of Victoria

-> GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY RESEARCH & KNOWLEDGE

The following community groups are participating in STUDY IN ACTION: 

Action Santé TravestiEs et TransexuelLEs du Québec (ASSTeQ) * Cirque Social * Collectif de recherche sur l’autonomie collectif-Québec * Justice for the Victims of Police Killings * Ligue des droits et libertés * Missing Justice * No One Is Illegal- Montreal * People’s Commission Network * Right to the City * Rock Camp for Girls * South Asian Youth (SAY) * Termite Collective Montreal * Writing Our Rhymes Down (W.O.R.D.)

- READ MORE below or visit: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction
- STUDY IN ACTION / ART IN ACTION events take place on the 7th floor of the Hall Building – 1455 de Maisonneuve West, métro Guy-Concordia. Wheelchair accessible.
- CONTACT: studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org / 514-848-7585
- REGISTRATION is encouraged: http://qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/register-here/ (free!)
- STUDY IN ACTION / ART IN ACTION are joint projects of QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill
 

 

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Opening Panel of Study In Action 2012:
RE-CREATING THE COMMONS
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 6:30pm
7th floor, Hall Building, Concordia University
(métro Guy-Concordia) MONTREAL

- Free! Welcome to all!
- Wheelchair accessible.
- Whisper translation in English and French.
- ASL translation available for opening panel.
- Childcare available on-site

Study In Action this year draws its inspiration from the resistance in public spaces worldwide -- from Tahrir Square to Spain’s indignados, from Occupy Wall Street to local community organizing. The opening panel will explore the reclamation of community spaces in diverse ways -- including local examples related to gentrification and public art. We’ll discuss together how to reclaim and create the commons, in resistance to capitalism & patriarchy.

We will discuss the idea of “commons” acknowledging that Canada is a settler state, on occupied Indigenous lands, and that understanding Indigenous perspectives and struggles is crucial to navigating how we ultimately share so-called “public space.”

 

Confirmed speakers include:

 

- JULIE CHÂTEAUVERT: member of the local art collectives Les femmes ont faim (http://plottes.wordpress.com/), Les delicates Attentions (http://lesplottes.com/) and Artivistic (http://artivistic.org/). She was also the coordinator for community relations for the Dare-Dare Center (http://www.dare-dare.org/)

 

- SYLVIA FEDERICI: scholar, teacher, and activist; member of the Midnight Notes Collective; author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Sample articles: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-4580.2010.00319.x/pdf & http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/federici-feminism-and-the-politics-of-commons.pdf

 

- SHANNON FRANSSEN: coordinator of Solidarité St-Henri, a coalition of anti-poverty community groups involved with public space issues in the southwest, including community opposition to the Turcot highway interchange. Info: http://www.solidarite-sh.org & http://mobilisation-turcot.info/

 

- SURESH NAIDU: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and active participant at Occupy Wall Street. Info: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/occupy-wall-street-zuccotti-columbia-economics-professor_n_1082766.html
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This panel opens the STUDY IN ACTION weekend, which will include 7 panels, 6 workshops and the ART IN ACTION exhibition featuring close to 30 exhibits. Together, STUDY IN ACTION & ART IN ACTION highlight undergraduate, community and artistic contributions to social and environmental justice research and ideas.

STUDY IN ACTION / ART IN ACTION events take place on the 7th floor of the Hall Building – 1455 de Maisonneuve West, métro Guy-Concordia. Wheelchair accessible.

STUDY IN ACTION is a joint project of QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill.
Info: http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction - 514-848-7585 – studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org

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STUDY IN ACTION
A grassroots undergraduate and community research conference 

Featuring contributions to social and environmental justice research by students, activists, and artists

March 3-4, 2012 at Concordia University
7th floor, Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve West)
métro Guy-Concordia, MONTREAL
info: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction

- RE-CREATING THE COMMONS Opening Panel on Friday, March 2 (read above for details)
- ART IN ACTION from February 27-March 4 (read below for details)
- STUDY IN ACTION is a joint project of QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill

- Free & welcome to all!
- Wheelchair accessible. Free childcare on-site during the conference.
- Whisper translation in English and French will be available as well as ASL interpretation for some of the daytime sessions (please e-mail studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org for details)
- Vegan lunch served on Saturday and Sunday
- Conference registration is encouraged: http://qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/register-here/
- Attend one panel, workshop or event, or attend them all!
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SCHEDULE 

(see below for details about panel presentations and workshops)

FRIDAY, MARCH 2:
6:30pm -- Opening Panel: Re-Creating the Commons
with Silvia Federici (Caliban and the Witch), Suresh Naidu (Occupy Wall Street), Julie Châteauvert (Les femmes ont faim), and Shannon Franssen (Solidarité St-Henri)

SATURDAY, MARCH 3:
9:30am – 10:30am: Breakfast and registration
10:30am – 12:00pm: Session 1
- Panel: Criminalization and Resistance
- Workshop: The Cirque Social: An alternative and inclusive space to outreach creatively to marginalized people
12:00 – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm: Session Two
- Panel: Bodily Sovereignty and Disability Politics
- Workshop: Community-Building Through A Sex-Positive Conversation
3:00 – 3:30pm: Break
3:30 – 5:00pm: Session Three
- Panel: Transgender Health, Research, and Resources
- Panel: Exploring Contested Spaces
- Workshop:: Daily Realities of Living Inside Prison

SUNDAY, MARCH 4:
10:00 – 10:30 am: Breakfast
10:30 am – 12:00pm: Session 1
- Workshop: Do you hear what I see? An exploration of the evolution of deaf music
- Workshop: Occupy What?! A critical look at Occupy Movements Within and Beyond Montreal
12:00 – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm: Session Two
- Panel: Anti-Violence, Hip Hop and Rock & Roll: Youth Organizing In Montreal
- Panel: Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis Resistance and Survival
3:00 – 3:30pm: Break
3:30 – 5:00pm: Session Three
- Panel: Alternative Pedagogies – Challenging the Academy
- Workshop: Anti-authoritarian approaches to media in Quebec

 

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH4: ART IN ACTION

info: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art

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SEVEN PANEL PRESENTATIONS (March 3-4)
Undergraduate students and community activists will together be presenting their community-based social justice research on the following seven panels:

i) Criminalization and Resistance (Saturday, March 3, 10:30am)
- Police Abuse and Access to Legal Services in Quebec City (Emilie Guimond-Bélanger, Ligue des droits et libertés)
- Organizing against Police Impunity (Julie Matson, Justice for the Victims of Police Killings)
- Understanding and Resisting Double Punishment (Robyn Maynard, No One Is Illegal- Montreal)
- The Criminalization of Student Protest at McGill University (Christian Scott, McGill University)

ii) Bodily Sovereignty and Disability Politics (Saturday, March 3, 1:30pm)
- Unbounded Embodiment vs. Containment and Control: A Critical Analysis of Fatphobia: A Critical Analysis of Fatphobia (Andrea DeBruijn, Concordia University)
- The Language of Pain: How Words Define Illness and Shape Treatment of Disabling Severe Pain (Simone Lucas, McGill University)
- Choreographing Inclusive Spaces: How Dance, Architecture and Disability Collide (Ariel Appel, McGill University)
- Disability and the Militarization of Urban Spaces: Configuring Radical Accessibility and Communities of Support in Contexts of War (Al Blair, McGill University)

iii) Transgender Health, Research, and Resources (Saturday, March 3, 3:30pm)
- The default Trans (Gabrielle Bouchard, Concordia University)
- Centralizing Community Knowledge: Reflecting on the Creation of Trans Community Resources (Jackson Ezra, Action Santé TravestiEs et TransexuelLEs du Québec - ASSTeQ)
- On Gender-Based Violence in the Trans and Gender-Variant Community (Shoshana Erlich, Ryerson University)

iv) Exploring Contested Spaces (Saturday, March 3, 3:30pm)
- Gentrification, Consultation and Resistance: The Case of Shauhnessy Village (Kelly Pennington, Concordia University/Right to the City)
- Montreal’s Security Industrial Complex (Cleve Higgins, People’s Commission Network)
- Witnessing and Photography in Student Movements (Allison Cooper, McGill University)
- Place and Displacement: Mapping Narratives of Kouchibouguac (Julia Gregory, Concordia University)

v) Anti-Violence, Hip Hop and Rock & Roll: Youth Organizing In Montreal (Sunday, March 4, 1:30pm)
- South Asian Youth (SAY) and Anti-Racist Feminist Organizing (South Asian Youth is a working group of the South Asian Women’s Community Center)
- Writing Our Rhymes Down... into curriculum (Lindsay Lichty, Concordia University/W.O.R.D. (Writing Our Rhymes Down))
- Rebel girls: Creating a space for female empowerment and education (Heather Hardie, Concordia University/Rock Camp for Girls)

vi) Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis Resistance and Survival (Sunday, March 4, 1:30pm)
- Taking Responsibility for Violence Against Indigenous Women (Candice Cascanette, Concordia University/Missing Justice)
- Otepemisiwak: Armed Métis Nationhood, 1818-1885 (William Leonard Felepchuk, University of Ottawa)
- Examining the Increasing Rates of Homelessness Amongst Inuit Women in Montreal (Carly Seltzer, Concordia University)

vii) Alternative Pedagogies – Challenging the Academy (Sunday, March 3, 3:30pm)
- “Let’s Talk” Abortion Zine: It’s not about what choice you make but the ability to make a choice (Lindsay Beattie, Concordia University)
- Music Education as a Tool for Preserving Dominant Canadian Culture (Jillian Sudayan, McGill University)
- The University of the Streets Cafe: Conversation for a Learning Society (Sarine Makdessian, Concordia University)
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SIX WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS (March 3-4)
The following community workshops will be presented during the weekend of Study In Action:

- The Cirque Social: An alternative and inclusive space to outreach creatively to marginalized people (Saturday, March 3, 10:30am)
presented by Le cirque social (Montreal)

- Community-Building Through A Sex-Positive Conversation (Saturday, March 3, 1:30pm)
presented by Chandra Merry & Karl Domes (University of Victoria)

- Daily Realities of Living Inside Prison, A Multi-media Play (Saturday, March 3, 3:30pm)
presented by the Termite Collective (Montreal)

- Do you hear what I see? An exploration of the evolution of deaf music (Sunday, March 4, 10:30am)
presented by Shoshana Erlich (Ryerson University)

- Occupy What?! A critical look at Occupy Movements Within and Beyond Montreal (Sunday, March 3, 10:30am)
with Suresh Naidu (Columbia University/Occupy Wall Street), Emily Ekelund (Concordia University) and participants in Occupy Montreal

- Anti-authoritarian Media in Quebec (Sunday, March 3, 3:30pm)
presented by Aaron Lakoff & Sandra Jeppesen (Collectif de recherche sur l’autonomie collectif-Québec)
 

STUDY IN ACTION is a joint project of QPIRG Concordia & QPIRG McGill.
INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction - studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org - 514-848-7585

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ART IN ACTION 2012
Creative student and community contributions related to social and environmental justice

FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 4, 2012
7th Floor, Hall Building at Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve West, métro Guy-Concordia
wheelchair accessible -- free -- welcome to all

ART IN ACTION highlights creative expression on social and environmental justice issues through diverse mediums including: drawing, painting, photography, performance, film & video, installation, spoken word, zine, collage, watercolour, poster, and print.

This year ART IN ACTION includes close to thirty exhibits, installations and performances from: Claude Bernier-Tremblay * Al Blair * Karen Boyles * Anne Breton * Andrea deBruijn * Sylvia Chan * Emily Yun Ching Clare & Ryan Kai Cheng Thom * Shaw Desjean * Colectivo Dignidad Migrante * Arthur Gauthier * Guillaume Girard * GLAD Theatre Collective * Bianca Hlywa * Alix Hugonnier * Sophie Ingels-Fortier * Virginie Jourdain * John Lanthier * Naomi Large * Allison LaSorda * Emmanuelle Lippé * Kevin Yuen Kit Lo * Simone Lucas & Christian Scott * Cassandra Marsillo * Léa Radoslava Marinova * Erica Mazerolle * Nadia Myre * Sheryl-Ann Simpson * Keara Yim

- full details below or http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art
- facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/237215266364030/

ART IN ACTION is part of STUDY IN ACTION, which together not only cross disciplinary lines, but also transcend borders between academic and popular knowledge. For more information about STUDY IN ACTION: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction

ART IN ACTION Viewing Hours:
- Monday, February 27, 10am-8pm -- vernissage from 5-7pm, with artists present
- Tuesday, February 28, 10am-5pm
- Wednesday, February 29, 10am-8pm
- Thursday, March 1, 10am-8pm
- Friday, March 2, 10am-10pm -- “5 à 7”, with artists present
- Saturday, March 3, 10am-8pm
- Sunday, March 4, 10am-6pm

- Art In Action-related performances will take place between February 27-March 4; more details forthcoming.
- After March 4 until the end of the month, Art In Action exhibits will be displayed at L’Escalier, Galerie X, the Concordia Greenhouse, QPIRG Concordia, and other locations around Montreal.

INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art - studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org - 514-848-7585
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ART IN ACTION 2012 CONTRIBUTIONS

PERFORMANCE/MULTIMEDIA:

- Opium Dreams
Projection/Spoken Word by Emily Yun Ching Clare (Visual Artist) and Ryan Kai Cheng Thom (Writer, Performer)

- Piece of Trash
Performance by the GLAD Collective (various theatre students, Concordia University)

- re:moved
Multimedia by Allison LaSorda (University of New Brunswick)

- Suces Moi
Performance/Installation by Virginie Jourdain (La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Dyke Rivers)

PRINT/POSTER/COLLAGE/SCULPTURE:

- Collage #1 and Collage #2
Collage by Simone Lucas & Christian Scott (QPIRG-McGill University)

- Dirty Laundry
Sculpture/Installation by Cassandra Marsillo (Studio Arts, Concordia University)

- Le jeune de la rue
Mixed media by Anne Breton (Association des Artiste Peintres Affiliés de la Rive-Sud)

- Manifesto Print
Print by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (LOKi Design) & Nadia Myre (The Scar Project)

- People’s History of Montreal
Posters by Al Blair (ABC Posters)

PHOTOGRAPHY:

- Dignidad Migrante en la lucha
Photographs by Colectivo Dignidad Migrante (a working group of QPIRG Concordia)

- Fun Cutting my self; The window; Vierge VS Bouddha; Beau comme Amour; and more
Photography by Shaw Desjean (Theater Design, Concordia University)

- Human Earth Decay; Fashion’s Puppet; The Awakening
Photography & Photomontage by Erica Mazerolle (Stéfano Photographe, Projet 'ColorFul' & son équipe)

- one two three tree
Photographs by Keara Yim (Women’s Studies/Human Environment, Concordia University)

- Point de chute
Photography by Arthur Gauthier (student at L’Ecole de la Vie)

ZINE:

- FIT: A Zine about sports, fatness, feminism, and disability
Zine by Andrea deBruijn (Concordia University)

-Four Minutes to Midnight
Zine by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (LOKi Design)

- Good Hair
Zine/Drawings by Sheryl-Ann Simpson (a crash and a murder)

FILM/VIDEO:

- Banca Rota
Video by Emmanuelle Lippé (Full Instinct Productions)

- Diarios de bicicleta
Film by Guillaume Girard (independent filmmaker, Quebec City)

- La femme aux cigarettes
Film by Léa Radoslava Marinova (Film Production, Concordia University)

PAINTING/DRAWING/WATERCOLOR:

- Dissembled; Over-flooded; Darkness and Light; Part of the Cycle; The Tsunami
Paintings by Sylvia Chan (Fine Arts, Concordia University)

- Him, Her, Us
Watercolor by Bianca Hlywa (Fine Arts, Concordia University)

- In Debt We Trust
Painting by Claude Bernier-Tremblay (Hibernum; c-load.com)

- Jungle Imperialist
Painting by John Lanthier (Fine Arts, Concordia University)

- Lighten
Drawing by Karen Boyles (Studio Arts, Concordia University)

- La Logorrhee
Painting by Shaw Desjean (Theater Design, Concordia University)

- Our Boxes
Painting by Naomi Large (Art Education, Concordia University)

- Politics, Dis-Over Engagement, Theology, and Art
Paintings and Drawings by Alix Hugonnier (Science Po Paris (France)/ Concordia University)

- Prison Dorée
Painting by Sophie Ingels-Fortier (EpicMind Studio)

INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/art - studyinaction@qpirgconcordia.org - 514-848-7585