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UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS

1. Win a double pass to see North Country !
2. Win a festival pass to the imagineNATIVE film + media arts festival!
3. Shtiller at the art bar
4. In Unity is Strength concert/fundraiser
5. Immigrants and Mental Health: Different Dialogues Forum
6. Tani Barlow on "The Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai Advertising During the Interwar Years"
7. Racism and National Consciousness Conference
8. The Scrubbing Project Cross-Canada Tour
9. Examining Breast Cancer Information from Racially Marginalized Perspectives: A Community-Based Analysis - Participants needed!

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Win a double pass (and other goodies) for North Country !

North Country stars Academy Award winners Charlize Theron (Monster), Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom) in the inspiring story of a single mother who rallies her coworkers to rise above the unfair treatment they face at a local mining company. In the wake of a failed marriage, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota hoping to build a better life for herself and her two children. Encouraged by her friend Glory (Frances McDormand), one of the few female miners in town, Josey takes a job at the mine. She's prepared for the back-breaking and often dangerous work, but coping with the harassment she and the other female miners encounter from their male coworkers proves far more challenging. Josey's attempts to carve out a better future for her family puts her at odds with her children, her disapproving parents (Sissy Spacek and Six Feet Under's Richard Jenkins) and her community. Through these struggles Josey will find the courage to stand up for what she believes in - even if that means standing alone. Inspired by a true story, North Country follows Josey's journey on a road that will take her farther than she ever imagined, ultimately inspiring countless others, and leading to the nation's first-ever class action lawsuit for sexual harassment.

* * Win a double advanced screening pass to see the film (Monday October 17 at 7pm at Paramount Theatre), a copy of “Class Action” and the movie soundtrack. Be the seventh correct email response to the following query: Name one of the readers at the A is for orange event. Contest closes Monday October 17 at 1pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email.

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imagineNATIVE film + media arts festival
OCTOBER 19 to 23

Celebrating the works of Indigenous filmmakers from Canada and around the world.

Join us at the Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. for our Welcome Reception on Wednesday Oct. 19 from 1:30-4:30.

For more information visit us online at www.imaginenative.org

* * Win a festival pass! Be the fourth correct email response to the following query: Name the author of “Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming” and tell us when she will be in Toronto . Contest closes Monday October 17 at 1pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email.

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Shtiller
Silent film in the Yiddish tradition: Accompanied by experimental klezmer

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
at the Art Bar
1214 Queen St. West
Hosted by Reena Katz on violin and laptop

This month's programme: Theda Bara in A FOOL THERE WAS featuring:
treated vocals by Nemirov
and a commissioned video by Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

doors open at 7:30 show at 8pm
cover: $8

more info visit www.gladstonehotel.com or e-mail radiodress@sympatico.ca

*haunted by orientalism*

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IN UNITY IS STRENGTH
A concert/fundraiser in solidarity with the people of New Orleans and the Gulf States

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
Doors open at 5:30, Show starts at 7pm
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas West (2 blocks west of Dufferin)
416 588 0307
Admission: $20 (give more if you can!)

Featuring…
Pianist Tiki, Mercury Clarke, Singer/Songwiter Shelley Hamilton, Dub Poet and actor d'bi young, Acappella Singers The Delightful Divas and many more
Hosted by Shelley Hamilton and Jamea Zuberi

Tickets available at Toronto Women's Bookstore ( 73 Harbord Street ), A
Different Booklist ( 746 Bathurst Street ), Ashanti Room ( 836 Bloor Street West)

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Immigrants and Mental Health: Different Dialogues Forum
Join us at the seventh annual forum presented by the three mental health programs at George Brown College - Assisted Cook Extended Training (ACET), For You, and Redirection through Education (RTE)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26
Centre for Financial Services Building 290 Adelaide Street East (north of the St. James Campus)
Cost - including lunch and snacks - $85.00

The morning presenters are Dr. Morton Beiser (a leading psychiatrist in the study of trans-cultural psychiatry and an Order of Canada recipient); Dr. Jasmin Zin (an assistant professor at Wilfred Laurier University ); Chioma
(an immigrant who has struggled with personal and settlement difficulties). Senator Virginia Poy will open the event and Ben Chin (recently appointed Senior Media Advisory to Premier McGuinty) will moderate. There are seven workshops in the afternoon on a wide range of topics, including traditional healing methods, culturally sensitive interventions, employment and settlement stress. The forum will close with some readings and reflection from Wayson Choy (best selling author of “The Jade Peony” and “All That Matters”).

For further information, visit our web site at
www.georgebrown.ca/worldmentalhealthday or call Sheila Mavor Moore at
416-415-5000 ext. 3398.

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Tani Barlow will give a public lecture on "The Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai Advertising During the Interwar Years"

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 6-8 p.m.
William Doo Auditorium, New College, 45 Willcocks Street
This is part of the series Theorizing Transnationality, Gender and Citizenship, organized by the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

Tani Barlow is author of "The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" (Duke, 2004) and Founding Senior Editor of positions: east asia cultures critique. She is Director of the Project for Critical Asia Studies and a collaborator on The Modern Girl Around the World Project ( U. of Washington ) and The Modern Girl and Colonial Modernity Project (Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University).

For further information contact wg.si@utoronto.ca or 416-946-5800

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Racism and National Consciousness Conference
Presented by New College

OCTOBER 29 and 30
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks, New College, University of Toronto

Theme: RACE, NATION, STATE and RACIAL PROFILING

This conference has been attended each year by over 300 people from a wide spectrum of social and cultural workers, activists, intellectuals, artists, writers, students and concerned individuals. Admission is free. Lunch will be provided. Please register well ahead of the date so we can cater for lunch and ensure space for everyone.

To register call the New College Programs Secretary at 416-978-5404.

ISSUES:
- Racial profiling, the White supremacist imperial state, globalizing divide-and-rule triumphal capitalist exploitation, resistance, terrorism
- National Security, repression and socio-personal insecurity, Homeland Security, the Patriot Act and racial profiling
- Racial profiling and the destruction of political dissent, the hunt for “radicals”, the affirmation of the status quo “moderate”, the demonization of Islam, the creation and denunciation of “radical Islamists.”
- Shoot to kill: Kill first, ask questions later. Imperial British anti-terrorist policing and racial profiling.
- Racial profiling and policing in Canada and the U.S.A.
- Privileging the Eurocentric episteme, racial profiling, and anti-racist education
- White supremacy, racial profiling and the demonization of the designated Other: Indigenous Peoples, African, Asian, South Asian, Hindu, Islamic, Arabic, Latin American & Caribbean and many more world majority peoples
- The underdevelopment of Africa, racial profiling and “saving Africa ”. Live Aid/8 and imperial racism.
- Employment, promotion and racial profiling
- International EuroAmerican solidarity on the war on terror, and racial profiling
- Racial profiling as a hate crime.
- Transformation possibilities: towards the radical equality of all peoples and episteme

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The Scrubbing Project Cross-Canada Tour
opens in Toronto
NOVEMBER 8 - 13 (Wed - Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm)

Robert Gill Theatre
214 College Street
$22/ $11 for students (incl GST)
Written and performed by Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble
Featuring Jani Lauzon, Monique Mojica, Michelle St. John
Directed by Muriel Miguel
Presented by the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

With the generous support of Aboriginal Studies, Canadian Studies, Department of English, Equity Studies, New College, Office of the Dean -OISE , Social Justice Cluster, Faculty of Social Work, the Office of the Status of Women, the Bissell-Heyd Chair in History, the Transitional Year Program, the Office of the Vice-President and Provost, the Office of the Vice-President Human Resources and Equity, and Visual Studies, and in association with Native Earth Performing Arts.

The Scrubbing Project is a collective creation developed through improvisation, traditional storytelling and ensemble theatre methods. It is a courageous original work that probes the dangerous territory of internalized racism and genocide where Vaudeville becomes a madcap metaphor for navigating identity and grief is juxtaposed with the healing powers of humour.

Box Office 416-978-7986 Mon - Fri 1-5pm and one hour prior to performance.

For more information contact da.trotz@utoronto.ca

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Examining Breast Cancer Information from Racially Marginalized Perspectives:
A Community-Based Analysis - MORE PARTICIPANTS NEEDED!

Are you an immigrant woman or a woman of colour who has been diagnosed with breast cancer? If so, we want to know:
- What you like and don't like about the breast cancer information that is out there
- What would have been helpful to know following your diagnosis

Come participate in a half-day seminar with a small group of other breast cancer survivors!

An honorarium, lunch and refreshments are provided / Parking / TTC / mileage and childcare reimbursements available

Comments from other participants so far:
"I really enjoyed talking to other women who had the same experience!"
"I was so happy to participate - we need to give our views so that other women who get breast cancer will get better information."
"I felt like I was making a difference - there's not much out there for women of colour."

Please call Leslie Norville at 416-351-3800 ext.2128, or email leslie.norville@sw.ca to find out how to participate or to get more information. If no one is available to take your call, please leave a message.

Examining Breast Cancer Information from Racially Marginalized Perspectives:
A Community-Based Analysis is a project conducted through the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative (OBC CRI) and Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre.

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