Social Justice

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…

This two-part social project aims to strengthen the capacity of female Québécoise and Colombian entrepreneurs from minority groups who are running businesses in the cultural sector, providing a sustainable means for members of marginalized groups to combat poverty and income inequality. This project also aims to reduce the impacts of the intersectional discrimination that many…

This short film will illustrate Nicaragua’s volcanic ecosystem’s role in the population’s cultural imagination. The active volcano, which will be added digitally as a child’s drawing, symbolizes the character’s friendship.  The film aims to represent the important role ecosystems have on cultural identity. The Nicaraguan government often neglects to protect the national ecosystem which can…

Mango Lemon Soda is a 20-minute short film about liberating oneself from toxic environments and relationships. The film, which is set in the heat of a summer’s day, follows the life of a Black femme who has set up a date with her estranged ex, Tyler; hopeful that he has changed after a year of…

The whole project was driven by the need and the desire to share this invisibilized reality of BIPOC youth in the countryside of Québec. Within a “cinema format”, our main goal is to create a relatable portrait of people of color’s matter in Quebec regions and in that matter create a wider range of what…

The Fine Arts Student Alliance (FASA) is deeply committed to doing anti-oppression work within the organization. To this end, it is undertaking a pilot program to develop a new coordinator position that takes sustainability and anti-oppression as its main focus. The Sustainability and Anti-Oppression Coordinator Pilot Program will provide a model for the implementation of…

Curated by Bettina Pérez Martínez, “Seascape Poetics” is a virtual exhibition that examines the complexity of Caribbean relationships to water. Featuring six contemporary Caribbean artists – Lionel Cruet, Nadia Huggins, Deborah Jack, Olivia Mc Gilchrist, Jeffrey Meris, and Joiri Minaya – and drawing on the work of Caribbean scholars and theorists, the exhibition considers connections…

SOME OF US DID NOT DIE is a community fundraiser and online experience of Afro-poetic futurisms. Adopting the title from Black feminist visionary June Jordan, this curated evening features LGBTQ2S+ Black, Montreal-based performers, spoken word artists, and emcees imagining worlds against the carceral and toward Black liberation. YEARS FUNDED 2020-21 AMOUNT ALLOCATED $1,750.00 PROJECT LEADER…