| Mise au Jeu – August 7th | Room A | Room B |
| 1pm-2:45pm | Modele Vivante/Life Drawing | BDSM for Beginners |
| 3pm – 4:30pm | Queering Sci-Fi | Basic Bondage for Kinky Fun |
| 5pm – 6:45pm | Crafternoon | Asexuality 101 |
| Centre St-Pierre – August 13th | Room A | Room B |
| 1pm-2:45pm | Twerkshop |
CANCELLED Tom Tom Magazine Help us prepare for the parade intervention instead! |
| 3:15pm-5pm | Queerying CAMP | Gender as Gender |
| 5:30pm – 7:15pm | Insert Here. Films curated by Andre Azevedo |
Men Against Sexism |
August 7th Workshops
Mise au Jeu – 90 de la Gauchetière Est, 1er étage
Atelier de Modele Vivant/ Life Drawing Session
Facilitator: Marc
Language(s): French and English
A celebration of the body, beautiful in diversity.
Following the success of the Queer Life Drawing Session during Radical Queer Semaine, we are back for a second helping. We will be holding a life drawing workshop featuring some sexy, queer models in whatever position they would like to take.
Bring your sketchbook, pencils, and other materials as desired. Extra supplies will also be available if needed. Chairs will be available; for those who wish to bring small tables or easels, please come early. Dry media only (no paint or messy stuff, please). No art experience required!
Queering Science Fiction towards Community Building and Resistance
Facilitators: Damien & Jenna
Language: English, French whisper translation
Science Fiction is a dynamic medium where any world we imagine can exist. In this workshop we will discuss the ways in which Science Fiction in general and specific books can help us ask key questions about building and sustaining queer and radical community. With what in Sci Fi can we learn, embrace, and challenge ourselves while thinking about spirituality, safety, prisons, polyamory, and organizing mass resistance? In this workshop, we will work to create a Montreal “Strategic Reader” as we brainstorm our favourite tactics and strategies as seen in Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction.
BDSM for Beginners
Facilitator: Contessa Alura from the ALCC (www.thealcc.org)
Language: English, French whisper translation
This is a discussion based workshop for all those new to BDSM or interested in learning more. We will discuss what BDSM is, provide you with tips on conducting yourself in the community, getting started at events, what to wear, how to meet people, and of course providing you the basics you need to know about safety and experimenting.
Feel free to share your own stories, experiences, curiosities and concerns.
Basic Bondage for Kinky fun
Facilitator: Contessa Alura from the ALCC (www.thealcc.org)
Language: English, French whisper translation
This is a hands-on workshop that will cover basic rope bondage safety and techniques that can be used for all kinds of kinky fun. You can apply these techniques in virtually any situation, such as for sexual fun, to tie up your tent, or simply to impress.
Materials will be supplied but bring rope (any kind) if you have it.
Asexuality 101
Facilitators: Warren & Kyran
Language: English, French whisper translation
In this workshop we will explain what asexuality is, address common misconceptions about it, provide a brief history of the modern asexuality movement, and discuss how the concept itself challenges certain normative assumptions about sexuality and gender.
Crafternoon
Facilitators: Pervers/Cité
In preparation for the Pride Parade intervention come make banners and posters for our informal Pride Parade contingent. We’ll brainstorm about slogans, costumes and actions to creatively resist the corporatization of Pride. Basic materials will be supplied but bring your own too!
August 13th Workshops
Centre St Pierre – 1212 Rue Panet
Twerkshop
Facilitators: Reyrey & Ryerye
Language: English, French whisper translation
With Reyrey & Ryerye’s instruction and support we will help you learn some new moves and brush up on old ones to help you keep it fresh and fierce on Montreal’s queerest dance floors. First will be craft time for participants to create individualized and unique costume pieces to emphasize various elements of body or movement that expresses their specific interests and style. This can include: pasties for chests and/or boobies, booty bustles, tu-tu’s, and props like: ribbon dancers, feather boas, fans, whips, body painting, or whatever makes you feel fabulous!
Once we are dressed to distress, dance class begins! We will do a revue of various booty-droppin’, soul-shakin’, hip-gyratin’ moves as demonstrated by Reyrey & Ryerye and then practiced as a group. The final section will be a fierce show-off and vogue-off of all moves learned to conduct an improv. dance party and shake-down at the end until we collapse in a pool of our own glittery sweat!!
*Note: Dress to dance comfortably, bring water, and bring any materials or costuming that you are inspired by.
CANCELLED Tom Tom Magazine: DIY Drum Trigger Workshop & Talk
Help us prepare for the parade intervention instead!
Facilitator: Sean (Bell’s Roar)
Language: English, French whisper translation
Tom Tom Magazine is the only magazine in the world dedicated to female drummers and beatmakers. Tom Tom seeks to raise awareness about female percussionists from all over the world and hopes to inspire women and girls of all ages to drum. Come learn about the magazine and sit in on a workshop teaching easy DIY techniques for making drum triggers. Don’t know what a drum trigger is? They are cables that turn acoustic drum sets into electronic drum kits.
Queerying CAMP: Screening of Alexis Mitchell’s new video CAMP and discussion about silence and transgression in Jewish history and contemporary culture
Facilitators: Kat & Kinneret, with Alexis Mitchell via skype
Language: English, French Whisper Translation
CAMP is a 3-part, single channel, video essay exploring the secrets that underscore a personal relationship to Jewish history and culture. Through a look at 3 camp environments, the work engages with a queer re-telling of the traditional Purim story, the censored passages in Anne Frank’s diary, and a haircut given by a grandfather in order to reveal the ways in which these secrets haunt the surface of our cultural moments. CAMP is framed through a play on the word ‘camp’ utilizing a camp sensibility within an analysis of temporary built environments. This frame seeks to expose histories that labour to keep hidden, and points to a larger fear of speaking out against injustice as a cause for silence. An online Q&A with the filmmaker and discussion will follow the screening of the short film.
Alexis Mitchell is a Toronto-based media artist whose video works and documentaries have screened in 5 continents. She has been creating performative documentary and hybrid visual works that focus on queerness, performativity, the body, the carnivalesque, architecture and queer notions of diaspora. Most recently, she completed an MFA in Film and Video Production at York University
Gender as Gender, a panel discussion on trans and gender queer drag!
Facilitators: Glenn Marla, Coral Short, & Johnny Forever
Language: English, French whisper translation
This panel discussion features Glenn Marla (New York), Coral Short (Montreal), and Johnny Forever (Montreal) in conversation about trans and genderqueer conceptions of drag. We are, all of us, the hidden basis of Judith Butler’s bread and butter theory. If we talk about gender as performance, we cannot ignore the stage (and, as Viviane Namaste points out, the various forms of paid work that go into and come out of drag); however, for those of us who daily negotiate trans or queer genders off stage, the participation in onstage drag traditions comes with a set of non-tradtional concerns, potentially imbuing drag itself with new meanings. Just how this happens is up to each of our panelists to describe to you! We will be sharing our perspectives and opening the floor for audience members to share
Insert Here
a curation by André Azevedo, MIX NYC
This is a collection of films which demand and invite the audience to explore their arousal, desire, curiosity in a gender agnostic way. A queer cacophony of visual penetration: a fist, a piece of fruit, a cock, an egg. We invite the audience to insert themselves in their own way.
MAS Uprising: Stories & Thoughts from a Queer Prison Gang
Facilitator: Matty
Language: English, French whisper translation
*Trigger Warning: talks about prison rape, queer bashing, sex slavery & child abuse*
Men Against Sexism (MAS) was made up of almost entirely queer and trans prisoners. In the 70’s, they successfully changed a whole culture within Walla Walla prison where rape and ownership over queer/trans prisoners went from being a power and status symbol to a reason to fear for your life.
Their work had a ripple effect to all the other prisons in the U.S. Northwest and 10 years later, according to MAS member Ed Mead, there were no more instances of rape within Walla Walla.
This workshop will include a telling of the story of Men Against Sexism from their perspective and look at some of the ways they were able to challenge cultural norms which targeted Queer and Trans prisoners. Followed by a discussion of the methods and tactics they used to keep themselves safe, and how those concepts of self defense could be applied to our modern day struggles as Queer/Trans Communities.
