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Legacy: Activating and celebrating the legacy of Black student culture & activism at Concordia

The Legacy project, will be centering the Concordia Black student community and situating Concordia in a broader continuum of Black student and youth presence, mobilization, and connections through and around Concordia. This project will bring together six decades of Black student presence at Concordia into a week of activities and conversations across campus that will…

Where They Stood (Animated Series)

In 2021 the BCRC, in collaboration with 10 English-speaking Black youth, embarked on a journey to create a book that highlighted the history of the English Speaking Black community that was relatively absent in Quebec. As a follow-up to this initiative, our current project proposes to create an animated series based on BCRC’s Where They…

I want my LGBTV

I Want My LGBTV is a performance art piece exposing the production of “The Hot Mess Hotline”, a segment of the second episode of “The Alex A*********s Show” video art series. The segment is a relationship advice hotline where LGBTQ+ folks seek and receive advice from two Queer love gurus. The majority of our cast…

Concordia Film Festival

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 The CFF is an annual festival that is run by students, for students. Our team is composed of Concordia students majoring in a spectrum of faculties such as fine arts, arts and science, and business, all of whom are eager to learn how to run a film festival. The team is driven by an innate…

DINAH’s Healing

The objective of this project is to systematically break down barriers preventing the Afro-Canadian population from collectively healing from childhood sexual trauma. Through different awareness initiatives, the goal is to invoke conversations surrounding the taboo topic of childhood sexual trauma within the different African and diaspora African communities. A two-day event will be conducted as…

Ratgirl (Short Film)

“Ratgirl” is a 20-minute upcoming short film written by Sloane Sherman. The film follows the titular Ratgirl, a diffident 19 year-old woman, as she and her older roommate Alice discover their apartment is infested with rats — a claim which is adamantly ignored by their miserly landlord. Over the course of a hellish fourty-eight hours,…

Generation All: Reimagining Montreal Panel

This virtual event will be held on March 29th, 2022 at 6pm EST. With a panel of research experts and community organizers, our panel will explore the question – how could Montreal become an age-friendly, intergenerational city. Our panel will discuss how ageism manifests itself in our communities. We will explore what can be done…

Reimagining Safety: What happens when we defund the police?

A growing discourse surrounding the legitimacy of policing institutions in so-called Montréal and across all of Turtle Island has brought to the forefront the voices of scholars and activists who have been dedicated to abolition and similar causes for many years. When presented with the opportunity of hosting a panel on the broad topic of…

Woodnote Cooperative

The Woodnote Solidarity Cooperative is a groundbreaking project that was started at Concordia through investments from the CSU. This investment was initially managed by UTILE, which delivered on the financing and construction of the building, after which management was handed off to the Woodnote. Woodnote’s model is planned by UTILE to be replicated into other…

Reform Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program Panel

Canada takes pride in its Charter of Rights and Freedom; however, these rights and freedoms are not present in some of Canada’s main industries. Indeed, Canada has a history of abusing and exploiting its foreign temporary workers. Starting in the 19th century, Canada’s federal government brought in Chinese migrants to work on our famous railways.…
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