Toronto Women's Bookstore
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1. May and June Courses at Toronto Women's Bookstore
2. Laura Davis in Toronto Sat May 28
3. Tariq Ali Sat April 30
4. Mayworks has begun!

1. May and June Courses at Toronto Women's Bookstore

There are still spots available for these great courses!! There’s something for everyone here!
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i. Workshop: Tuesday May 3, 2005
Post-Secondary Futures: a Workshop for Moms of Colour and their teens With facilitator Kristine Maitland
One Night Only.
Tuesday May 3rd from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St (south of Bloor, west of Spadina)
Fee: $10 for one participant, $15 for a mom plus a teen

This one-day workshop endeavours to provide mothers of colour with the tools and skills needed to help their teenage children get access to post-secondary educational funding and enrichment opportunities. Together, we will learn funding research strategies, develop application-writing skills, and discuss avenues of communication between parents and teens regarding their post-secondary futures, be it in university, college, or through apprenticeships. Further, we will look at avenues for young women of colour versus those of young men of colour.

Reference materials will be provided. Teens are welcome to attend with their moms.

Enrollment limited to 26 participants. This course is wheelchair accessible

ii. Four-Week Course: Mondays in May
Cancer: Creative Strategies for Resistance
With instructor Pam Patterson

Mondays in May: 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds)
Enrollment limited to 15 participants

Confronted with the increasing numbers of people who now have this disease and the danger to the next generation, what are simple practical actions we can do to take on the battle to combat powerlessness? What are creative ways we can incorporate action into our everyday lives? Personal experience with cancer may be useful but not necessary. There will be a focus on breast cancer; however, the material is applicable to other cancers as well.

Week 1: Locating the issues in the cancer debate
Week 2: Cancer prevention: the environmental debate, creative strategies for prevention
Week 3: Cancer treatment: the realities
Week 4: Creative strategies by artists and writers

iii. Three Tuesdays in May, and One Wednesday
“Spoken Word” A Cappella: Theory and Practice with facilitator Naila Keleta Mae (nah-ee-lah)

This course aims to prepare participants and their materials for an a capella Spoken Word performance. Participants must bring material that they want to work on for the duration of the course: an existing text, part of a text or an idea! Each Session will be divided into two parts: (1) investigate theoretical aspects of the Spoken Word genre and (2) focus on practical application of the theory into text and performance development. This course is open to all.

Session One: Pasts and Presents / Why Spoken Word?
Session Two: Language of Resistance / (Re) Working Your Text.
Session Three: Performance Techniques/ Rehearsal
Session Four: Chap Books and CDs / Performances

Three Tuesdays in May (plus one Wednesday) from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Tues May 10, Tues May 17, Wednesday May 25, Tues May 31.
Fee: $52 (No Refunds)

iv. Four-Week Course: Mondays in June:
Bisexuality: The Basics With facilitator Cheryl Dobinson

This course will provide the opportunity for participants to learn about bisexuality and bisexual issues. The course will combine information sharing with interactive exercises and discussion in order to promote different kinds of learning. This course is open to people of any and all sexual identities who want to learn more about bisexuality.

Week 1 What does it mean to be bisexual?
Week 2 Identity
Week 3 Relationships and Community
Week 4 Representation and Activism

Mondays in June: 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants

v. Four-Week Course: Tuesdays in June:
Cuban Feminist Writing With Instructor Clelia Rodríguez

This course strives to familiarize participants with an overview of Cuban feminist movements as well as twentieth-century Cuban female writers. For Cuban feminist writers confronting the patriarchal dichotomy, reinforced by the machista discourse, prose and poetry, has allowed them to address key questions in search of their own creative, autonomous, unique and intimate space. Among the issues that will be discussed are ethnicity, race, class and politics. THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO ALL.

NOTE: The required readings for each week will be available in English and Spanish. Participants are expected to come prepared for each session. All readings will be ready to be picked up two weeks prior to the course at the Women’s Bookstore.

Week One: Introduction to Cuban feminist movements
Week Two: A look at accessibility to literary production and literary quality produced posteriori to the Cuban Revolution. Week Three: Articulating spaces in the public and private sphere
Week Four: New voices on the streets of Havana, Matanzas and Santiago

Tuesdays in June: 7, 14, 21, 28 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants

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All courses and workshops are wheelchair accessible. Due to space limitations, pre-registration is required. There are a limited number of subsidized spots in each course, please call the store to inquire and to register. 416.922.8744. We cannot hold spots in courses unless they are paid for. All courses are held at Toronto Women’s Bookstore at 73 Harbord St. We ask that all course participants be scent- and fragrance-free. Unless otherwise indicated, courses are open for all to attend.

2. An Evening With Laura Davis: A Woman With the Courage to Heal
Saturday May 28, 7pm
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. W
Tickets $8 to $15
General admission
Call 416.922.8744 to reserve tickets, or go online at www.womensbookstore.com and click on the link near the Laura Davis box.

ASL interpretation. Free childcare provided. Wheelchair accessible.

TWB gratefully acknowledges our Co-presenter George Brown College Assaulted Women and Children’s Counsellor/Advocate Program. Community Co-sponsors: Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (OISE/UT), December 6th Fund, Sistering. Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Women’s Support Network of York Region and YWCA Toronto. Sponsoring publisher: Harper Collins Canada

3. Tariq Ali In Toronto: U.S. Hegemony: Venezuela, Iraq, Palestine...
Saturday April 30, 2005 6:30pm
Medical Sciences Auditorium, U of T, 1 King's College Circle
Also speaking:
Judy Rebick
Leo Panitch
Jehad Aliweiwi

Admission $10 Tickets available at Toronto Women's Bookstore

This event is sponsored by the Muslim Canadian Congress Co-sponsored by rabble.ca, Socialist Register, Palestine House, Canadian Dimensions and Toronto Women's Bookstore.

3. Mayworks Opening Night Cabaret

After the Tariq Ali talk, come to Double Deck(ade), Mayworks’ Opening Night Cabaret.
Saturday April 30 8pm
The Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil St. just east of Spadina, south of College

Tickets $12 to $15 sliding scale

MC Hassan Yussuff
With stellar performances by: Ragin’ Asian Women, NY Labor Chorus, Common Thread Community Chorus and Women Ah Run Tings
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Sunday May 1
The Great May Day Family Celebration
Noon to 5pm
The Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil St. FREE all day!
Noon: BBQ
1pm: Story Circle
2pm: Costume Making
3:30: Bal Moderne Community Dance Lesson