@ Centre 2110 For Gender Advocacy (wheelchair accessible, scent-free please!)
2110 rue Mackay
Montreal, QC

*This workshop will be limited to 20 participants. Please pre-register in advance at mtlskillshare@gmail.com in order to ensure your participation in the workshop. Workshop participants will be accepted at the time of workshop until it is filled to capacity.

Workshop Description:
What are the essential elements to developing and maintaining an anti-oppressive art/cultural institution and what are ways in which this can be used for …community organizing purposes? Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will be presenting a workshop on creating art/cultural institutions as a form of organizing in queer/trans, disability and people of colour communities. This workshop if for those who are interested in gaining some specific tools of a ‘how to’ develop an art/cultural institution as organizing.

The workshop is co-presented by the Ste. Emilie Skillshare (a working group of QPIRG Concordia)

Facilitator Bio:
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a Worcester raised, Toronto matured, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the 2009-10 Artist in Residence and part-time professor at UC Berkeley’s June Jordan’s Poetry for the People and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America’s only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists. She is a commissioned performer with Sins Invalid, the national performance organization of queer people with disabilities and chronic illnesses and her one woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured nationally.