Art Auction at the Ste. Emilie Skillshare!
Creative resistance against the 2010 Olympics

December 5, 2009
Party begins at 5pm, auction from 7pm-10pm
Ste. Emilie Skillshare (3942 Ste. Emilie, corner/coin St. Augustin)

The Olympics torch will arrive in Montreal on December 10. The 2010 Vancouver Olympics is taking place within BC’s violent colonial context. Today, the BC government continues to sell and “develop” Native land to corporations for mining, logging, oil & gas, and ski resorts, while Indigenous people suffer the highest rates of poverty, unemployment, imprisonment, police violence, disease, and suicides. The Olympics continues this imperialist tradition by destroying more land for the expansion and construction of highways, ski resorts, and Olympic venues. Additionally, the government has been displacing and criminalizing the poor in preparation for the Olympics, and for the 3 weeks during the games, Vancouver will be an occupied police state with 12,500 police, military, and security personnels deployed. Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by these efforts to “clean up” the city. So join the Ste. Emilie Skillshare on December 5 as we welcome the torch with an evening of art and activities in resistance to the colonial legacy of the Olympics!

Party begins at 5pm with drinks, snacks, live music from Abdelkader Belaouni and others, fun activities such as shirt making stations + haircuts + more. Auction goes from 7pm to 10pm and will feature art from Colectivo Cordyceps, Shannon Walsh, Billie Pierre, Kandis Friesen, Sves, Kerri Flannigan, Coco Riot, members of the Just Seeds Collective (Nicholas Lampert, Jesse Purcell, Shaun Slifer, Mary Tremonte, Erik Ruin, and Peter Yanke), the Ste. Emilie Skillshare, and many more.

All proceeds will go toward the Olympics Resistance Network in BC (http://no2010.com/) and The Forum Against Police Brutality in Montreal (http://forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.wordpress.com).

Keep your eyes open for an anti-Olympics movie night hosted by the Ste. Emilie Skillshare and qteam. More details soon to come.