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Social Justice in Creative Arts Therapies Project

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The Social Justice in Creative Arts Therapies Project is a student-led initiative that focuses on providing social justice informed educational and community building opportunities for students. In response to a need for representation, understanding, and belonging, two student-led groups have formed as branches of our graduate association: CATSOCA (Creative Arts Therapies Students of Colour Alliance)…

AI and Democracy Panel

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As part of a requirement for a School of Public Affairs course, 4 students will host a panel on the incoming impacts of artificial intelligence on democracy. There will be 4 panelists from various spheres of work including; a governmental worker, a Concordia professor, a MILA tech developer, and an advocate from the Montreal Ethics…

Anti- Colonial Week

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Anti-Colonial Week is a week-long event of food, film, and resistance. The annual event is an education and awareness project geared towards Concordia students. The event touches on the impacts of colonization on Indigenous communities and makes connections with social and environmental movements. This year Anti-Colonial Week will have programming all week long from November…

International Community Outreach Program Social Business Case Competition

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The ICOP Social Business Case Competition stimulates a culture of community and social responsibility among 70 budding Concordia Business Graduates (MBA & GDBA students). It allows students not only to apply knowledge and skills gained during their studies, but also opens views about a different kind of business model, a departure from the traditional profit-driven…

Cinema Politica

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For 16 years Cinema Politica screened independent political films and video by Canadian and international artists at Concordia University every Monday. Cinema Politica hosts films that cover a series of sustainability topics; In Fall 2019 the films comprising the Mining Injustices, Toxic Chemicals: Communities Fight Back series deal with different environmental, social justice and sustainability…

Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures

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Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures- the second Concordia-McGill African Studies Conference, aims to bring futurists, sustainable development advocates and scholars from various African countries or part of the African diaspora to discuss empirical and policy actions and initiate partnerships among Concordia community and African based scholars to work jointly for a sustainable, prosperous and equitable Africa.…

Tax Clinic

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The Tax clinic is an annual student-run event registered with the CRA’s Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP). Its purpose is to give back to the downtown Montreal community all while enhancing the student life at Concordia University. The majority of the individuals benefiting from our service come from a low-income bracket (many of them…

CURE- Community-University Research Exchange

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CURE is working on developing a website that would help increase accessibility to mental health services by listing racialized mental health professionals. Often, racialized people do not seek support for their mental health needs due to the systemic racism they face as well as stigma in our society. Developing this website would mean offering people…

ConcordAI

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ConcordAI / Artificial Intelligence Concordia organizes free AI Research & Development Mentorship Programs that provide participants from all backgrounds the opportunity to work with exceptional mentors, acquire real-world experience and skills in AI, and to push the boundaries of AI in environmentally sustainable research and development and open innovation projects. In addition to providing experiential…

No Crying at the Dinner Table

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“No Crying at the Dinner Table” is an experimental-documentary that capture the directors family’s confessions and reunifies them through confrontation and listening in hopes to start dialogues within families and minority communities. In 2011, 20.6% of Canada’s population were immigrants. 17.4% were second-generation Canadians [Statistics Canada]. Some of the more obvious adversities that minorities face…
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