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Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations Screening & Talk

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1515 Sainte Catherine Street West
Montreal QC H3G1S6
Canada

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Please join Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia, in collaboration with les Archives gaies du Québec, on Friday April 19th for "Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations", a screening and conversation between UK-based researcher Conal McStravick and photographer Sunil Gupta about transnational 2SLGBTQ+ and AIDS activism in the UK, Québec and Canada.
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Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past

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Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave
Toronto ON M5S2M7
Canada

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Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past is a roundtable/book launch for an edited volume on the community cable television series Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA). In-person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto. ASL available. Saturday, March 16 | 2pm EST | 90 min.
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Working Papers Series: Béatrice Cloutier-Trépanier | Zoom, Feb 20

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Earlier this week, Béatrice Cloutier-Trépanier presented her paper "I Say the Only Plot I Can Write is a Life: Lucy Lippard's Feminist Fiction" as part of our ongoing Working Papers Series. If you did not get a chance to join us live on Zoom for Béatrice's talk, we now have a recording of the presentation available on our website and Vimeo channel.
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Archival Atelier | "Digitising and Remediating Personal Archives" Workshop with Nada El-Omari and Jean-Pierre Marchant

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Nada El-Omari, current artist in residence at CineMobilia, and Jean-Pierre Marchant, Director of Operations at CineMobilia, have been talking and making films with family archives for several years. In this workshop Nada and Jean-Pierre will discuss their shared interest in silences, stories, migration, and grief in family photos and home movies.
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FOGGY: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & The Archive Screening

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Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor
401 Richmond St. West
Toronto ON M5V3A8
Canada

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Foggy: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & the Archive is a screening program of eight new works by Palestinian artists and their allies that is being coordinated as part of the Queer Cinema for Palestine global festival.
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Stories from the Heart of Turtle Island: A screening curated by ACA artist-in-residence Redsun//Sahgothé

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304-100 Arthur Street
Winnipeg MB R3B 1H3
Canada

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Join us on Friday, November 17th, at the Black Lodge for an evening screening of Indigenous Short Films! The event runs from 7-9 pm and is free to all. Pulled from the Winnipeg Film Group’s archival collection by Denesuline/Nehitho artist in residence, Redsun//Sahgothé — with Support from Archive/Counter-Archive.
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