Thursday, August 31, 2006

Mark your calendars...


The annual Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship "Meet & Greet" is scheduled for Tuesday, 26 September (5-7pm). Join us for a panel discussion of feminist research and resources at McGill, and stay for an informal gathering of graduate students involved in feminist, women's, gender, sexuality, and critical race studies. Location TBA. Stay tuned for more details.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

An announcement about an upcoming fundraising event in Montréal for the Sanayeh Relief Centre operating in Beirut. If you can't make it to this event, consider supporting the Centre's work on the frontlines of the carnage in Lebanon by sending a donation.

QPIRG McGill and Tadamon! present :

OUT AGAINST THE OCCUPATION!
A FUNDRAISER FOR THE SANAYEH RELIEF CENTRE IN BEIRUT

Wednesday, August 30 2006
Doors at 9 pm, Performance 10 pm
Club Lambi, 4465 blvd. St-Laurent (coin Mont-Royal)

Pay What You Can/Suggested Donation: 5-20$
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FEATURING
Screenings:

A Public Service Announcement from Electronic Lebanon
From Beirut to… those who love us, a video by Beirut DC film and
cinema collective
Poetry:
Trish Salah
Speakers:
Nayrouz from ASWAT (a Palestinian Gay Women's Group)
talks about negotiating a queer Arab Identity while resisting
occupation and Israeli apartheid.
Performance:
Radical Drag by Osama Bin Thuggin (Condoleza Rice and
Dick Cheney like you've never seen them before…)
Drag Performance by Farah Abdill and guest
Dj's Leila P., Kandis and more laying down beats
from Hip Hop to Arab Pop!

Translation available (English, French and Arabic)
Club Lambi is NOT wheel chair accessible

For more information:
Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University

3647 University, 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 2P8 CANADA
Tel. 514-398-7432 / Fax. 514-398-8976