Toronto Women's Bookstore
http://www.womensbookstore.com
416-922-8744

THANK-YOU from TWB to all of you who came out to our 3rd Annual Customer Appreciation Day/Harry Potter Party/BBQ/Book Sale ! We hope you had a great time! We appreciate your support and could not continue our work without you. Thank-you.
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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Win tickets to the 4th Annual Arab Film Festival
2. Cloth Book Making Workshops in July and August
3. Ticket give-away to WAYOVÉ-Electrified Tropical Funk Orchestra
4. Win tickets to Cinematheque Ontario 's Tribute to Susan Sontag
5. Bus Rides to Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
6. (Un)Making the Cut: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity call for Submissions
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The Toronto Arab Film Festival (TAFF) celebrates its 4th anniversary this year
Join us from JULY 20-24 at the NFB and Bloor Cinemas
Tickets to all screenings are $10 (students $5)
Festival pass is $50 (students $30), available at the Toronto Womens' Bookstore

Of our 9 feature films, 6 documentaries, and 21 short works, most are Toronto premiers. We have films from Egypt , Algeria , Lebanon , Morocco , Jordan , Palestine , USA , Australia , but almost half (15) are from Canada . Arab Canadian filmmakers finally have a festival to call home!

TAFF is a non-profit, non-sectarian collective of Arab Canadian independent media artists. We hope to see you at the festival!!!

For complete box office, program, schedule and party details please visit: www.taff.ca
For media info, to volunteer, advertise, or ask questions, contact: taff@taff.ca or call 416-654-5608

* * Win a pair of tickets to “Cut Us Up, Cut Us Down: Arab Experiences in the Diaspora”, Thursday July 21, 2005 @ 3:30pm. Be the third correct email response to the following query: Name one of the performers at our 3rd Annual Customer Appreciation Day/BBQ/Book Sale this past Saturday. Contest closes Wednesday July 20th at 6pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email.
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Crossing Generations to Sew Family Ties

You are invited to participate in a series of Cloth Books Workshops celebrating the revival of Needlework skills by making a handmade, one-of-a-kind cloth book.

Seven Workshops (one per week for 7 weeks) With instructor Ruth Brown
THURSDAYS from 5PM TO 7 PM
JULY 14, 21, 28, and AUGUST 4, 11, 18, 25
Annex Art Centre, 1073 Bathurst Street , below Dupont Street

Fees: Adults - $125 for 7 workshops including all materials
Seniors(60+ w/I.D.), Students(I.D), and Children (9 years and up, w/adult) -
$75 for 7 workshops including all materials

The workshops begin with a Presentation in which the instructorat will share her own handmade, one-of-a-kind cloth books, and also cloth books from other countries ( Brazil , Iran and Japan ). Participants will be shown a variety of fabrics and will begin to discuss possible themes for their own cloth book. Experience is not required, but enthusiasm is! All cloth books made become the property of each participant.

Participants are invited to bring any memory pieces of fabric and other small artifacts that they would like to include in their cloth books. As well, it is recommended that participants bring a personal pair of scissors and extra pins.

Ruth Brown is a retired, but not retiring, elementary school teacher with 30 years of formal teaching experience. She has continued her interest and experience in initiating diversity projects. "Crossing Generations to Sew Family Ties" is one of her current efforts.

If you are interested in signing up to attend the cloth books workshops please contact Ruth Brown @ 416-979-3603 or email - clothbooks@yahoo.ca

*Also, if you do have a heritage handmade, one-of-a-kind cloth book, please contact Ruth. We would like to have a copy of your book and possibly borrow it for our Cloth Books Exhibition.

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3 Direct from Cartagena , Colombia ...
WAYOVÉ-Electrified Tropical Funk Orchestra Performs at Fundraiser Party for the Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA)

FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2005
Gypsy Co-Op
817 Queen Street West (west of Bathurst )
Doors @ 9:30pm/ Music @ 10pm
Admission: $10 in advance/ $12 @ door, available at the Toronto Women's Bookstore

Special Guests: Colombian Kidz Drummers & DJ No-Capitalista.

WAYOVÉ:
Named for an Afro-Colombian term meaning “is going to rain”, WAYOVÉ is the latest exponent of a dynamic and burgeoning Colombian musical and cultural scene that combines deep folkloric roots with the more aggressive sounds of son, salsa, timba, blues, rock and champeta.

All funds raised will support the CASA's ongoing solidarity work with Colombia 's grassroots social movements and an upcoming trade union education tour that will take place in Sept/Oct 2005.

Co-Sponsors: CKLN 88.1 Fm, CHRY 105.5 FM, CUPE Local 3393, Toronto Women's Bookstore & Andina Travel ( 605 Bloor Street West ).

More Information: 416.929-1834 casacontact@yahoo.ca

* * Win a pair of tickets to WAYOVÉ, Friday July 29, 2004 @ 9:30pm. Be the seventh correct email response to the following query: What position is TWB currently accepting resumes for? Contest closes Wednesday July 20th at 6pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email
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Cinematheque Ontario presents…
Ten Japanese Classics: A Tribute to Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) - writer, director, human rights activist and vital contributor to film culture. Sontag loved nothing more than Japanese films, and in the latter years worked tirelessly to curate and present them. Get your tickets to this tribute series, and enjoy the films that Sontag loved.
Series Runs JULY 30 - AUGUST 20
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.bell.ca/cinematheque
Infoline at 416-968-FILM
In person at the year-round Box Office, located at Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor Street West.
Screenings are restricted to individuals 18 years of age or older, and take place at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (please use the McCaul St. entrance).

* * Win a pair of tickets to the following two films…

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Repast (Meshi)
Directed by:Mikio Naruse, Starring:Setsuko Hara and Ken Uehara (1951, 96min.)
Saturday August 13, 2005 @ 6:30pm.
-Setsuko Hara gives a brilliantly nuanced performance as an Osaka housewife who feels trapped and unhappy in her marriage to a stockbroker. Ironically, the couple married for love and not by arrangement, but their childless relationship has after only five years stagnated into domestic routine. A surprise visit from the husband's niece, on the run from her parents, galvanizes the unhappy Hara, and when she takes the troublesome young woman back home to Tokyo , she contemplates never returning to her husband-

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ( Onna Ga Kaidan O Noboru Toki) Directed by:Mikio Naruse, Starring:Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori (1960, 110min.)
Friday August 12, 2005 @ 6:30pm.
-Hideko Takamine plays an aging Tokyo hostess, a childless widow trying to maintain her dignity amid the sleaze and neon of the Ginza bar district. She remains faithful to the memory of her dead husband, and supports her mother, brother and his handicapped son, even as she dreams of opening her own bar. The rich patrons she needs to finance her venture must be charmed and courted, but she attempts to stay aloof from their booze-fueled advances. Splendidly shot in Scope, all dense and congested interiors, “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs” was greeted as a revelation when it was re-released two decades ago; it is ripe for rediscovery now -

… Be the fourth and eighth correct email response to the following query:

Name one of the books that is 25% off for the month of July. Contest closes Wednesday July 20th at 6pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email.
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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival - Highway coach will transport from Toronto and pick up along 401 to MWMF and return. Tentative dates are AUGUST 12-14 for $87 and AUGUST 8-14 for approximately $150. Need 40 to make each a "go". Organized by LOO Ontario tour company - We are charging for cost only, because we can help our sisters and MWMF in this small way.

Email meg@GoNash.ca <mailto:meg@GoNash.ca> with questions or to add your name.

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In creative response to Hollywood 's continued domination of the global film market, many alternate industrial practices have taken shape over the past couple decades, destabilizing certain entrenched assumptions about not only the process of filmmaking, but also the very nature of film itself. As a result contemporary cinema has come to be characterized by a fluidity that is unaccounted for in studies that take the conventions of classical cinema as normative; that is, with increasing frequency people and/or products are moving between venues (gallery, theater, on-line, television, festival, and classroom), materials (celluloid and digital video), locales (including those in both the “First” and “Third” Worlds), modes of production (studio-financed and “independent”, auteurist and collaborative), and artistic roles (actor, director, producer, and writer). Given the extent to which such fluid practices have resulted from or been influenced by those women who, fuelled by economic and political imperatives, have struggled historically for access to cinematic means of production, they are implicated in a feminist practice defined by ongoing and contingent negotiation with and between a diverse range of theoretical models.

(Un)Making the Cut: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity will be an anthology dedicated to the myriad ways in which women around the world are currently participating in the production process outside Hollywood , thereby contributing to these flows, and the fruits that their labors are yielding aesthetically, commercially, and politically. Rather than assert isolation or ostracism, this volume looks to subvert the constant erasure of women's engagement with cinema by investigating working relations (as well) as textual relations of affiliation and community. Thus it has two methodological priorities. The first is to forge a middle ground that militates against closure between, on the one hand, a critical practice grounded in close textual analysis that severs a film from the conditions of its production and circulation, often denying a film's engagement with feminist and other politics, and, on the other, an auteurist approach that reads film, particularly that made by women, in terms of autobiography. The second is concomitantly to expand discussions of the filmmaking process to incorporate the creative contributions of all involved and thus to broaden the definition of what it means to be a woman in film beyond the masculinist director-centric model.

In the process, we seek to recognize and encourage definitions of “woman” that are equally fluid and demonstrate the emergence of trans/Two-Spirit cinema(s) and trans/Two-Spirit film-makers, as well as others who trouble gender distinctions and identity formations, for such definitions are an integral part of the contemporary incarnation of feminism in practice

Possible topics:
• those working in a transnational context and/or with an interstitial (Naficy) mode of production
• women artists moving between multiple roles within film-making, and between film-making and other cultural forms (dance, photography, creative writing)
• collaborative relationships
• fluid boundaries between documentary and feature film, in both formal and production/distribution terms
• prominent producers and writers working in the “independent” sector or the context of a national cinema
• the new opportunities that have emerged in television, particularly due to specialty channels like HBO and Showtime
• women's participation in the political economy of film festivals
• the ways women have negotiated the tension between the gallery and the cineplex, aesthetic/political imperatives and commercial ones
• women's presence in on-line forums
• the ways that women's work with moving images is contributing to, engaging with, and/or revisioning feminism and imbricated political movements (anti-racism, anti homophobia)
• a consideration of whether reading practices based in identity politics are still valid

Submit: paper proposals of 500 words (max.) with brief C.V., and a cover letter including institutional/professional affiliation and postal and email contact details.

Deadline: 31 August 2005
Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2005

Send proposals (as attachments) and CFP-related queries to: Corinn Columpar corinn.columpar@utoronto.ca and Sophie Mayer sophie.mayer@utoronto.ca

Proposals may also be mailed to:
Corinn Columpar
Innis College
University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue
Toronto ON M5S 1J5
CANADA

Please include an SASE or IRC if you would like a postal response.