Call for Submissions!
Fairy Tales Film Festival, presenter of the Calgary’s LGBTQ Film and Video Festival, invites you to join us for the 12th annual celebration of queer film and video from around the world. Fairy Tales hosts the largest queer film festival in Alberta highlighting the diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgendered film and video making in documentary, shorts and features.
A lot has been said about the reopening of the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. So much so that I don’t want this piece by Kristine Nutting on Prairie Artsters to get missed.
Ted Kerr, as always, phrased it so well in a small Facebook discussion:
It would be easy to suggest that she is being anti-change or anti-modern but in truth she is asking us how we move ‘forward’ and what that means, and what we are leaving behind.
An excerpt:
I was at the Art Gallery of Alberta’s swishy opening party, Refinery, for the young swish set of Edmonton last night. Perhaps what was noticeable right off the bat was the lack of strangers there, the lack of people unknown. All the people neatly clung to their identifiable groups. There were no strangers to flirt with, no one even alone, as though people don’t do that: go anywhere alone. All of them coupled off save for a few of the power lesbians in town who I am often left to flirt with by default. I had no idea art gallery openings were a date thing. I proceeded to look at this new miracle of Edmonton all by myself.
Request for Proposals
“25 Years of AIDS in Edmonton” – a Legacy Project event
HIV Edmonton is seeking applications from Edmonton writers interested in participating in the Legacy Project and “25 Years of AIDS in Edmonton” book.
Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 PM on Friday, March 5, 2010
Submissions should be sent to Joyce LaBriola at joyce.l@hivedmonton.com
Call For Submissions
As part of National Victims of Crime Awareness Week (April 18 – 24, 2010), the Edmonton Restorative Justice Network (ERJN) invites young people between the ages of 12 – 24 to express themselves on the issue of “Every Victim Matters”.
The purpose of this show, which will be shown at Latitude 53 Gallery between April 19 – 21, will be an exciting opportunity to:
From the official press release:
This weekend will serve as reminder of why we love this city. You still have a chance to catch PIG as part of the Canoe Theatre Festival.
“a rock music spectacle that dares us to consider what we consume as entertainment” – Michael Clark, Curator
In a surreal prairie landscape, wayward girls are being lured into the tent-prayer meetings of a glamorous female evangelist. She and her bible-salesman boyfriend quickly groom their new devotees into peep-show players, presenting acts that delight, horrify, and ensure salvation. There is no who-done-it here, no crime to solve, no story to unravel. At this peep show nothing matters but everything has a price. It’s a backward world where public execution is a performance, and accidental necrophiliacs can find redemption in true love.
Starting Friday you can catch At The Same Time , a contemporary photography exhibition, at the 
Artery.
At the Same Time is an exhibition that explores the concept of borders, both real and imagined. Consisting of the work of five different artists, the work explores the boundaries that exist between two people and those that separate those two people from the rest of the world.
Edmonton’s own Ted Kerr and Zach Ayotte are a part of the exhibit and we couldn’t be more excited to see it for ourselves.
Opening Reception on Friday, January 22, 2010, 7 – 10 p.m. at the ARTery 9535 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton. Dirty Dance Party with DJ Double Tights to follow!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Garneau Theatre, 8712-109street
In 1993 Tom Hanks won an Academy Award for his performance in Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia for his portrayal of a man living with HIV. It was a watershed film, not with out it critics and champions.
On Saturday January 16th the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) will be screening Philadelphia providing a new generation of audiences an opportunity to see the film on the big screen and a chance for those who have seen the film before to revisit it more than a decade after it was released.
The screening is part of AHFMR’s Science in the Cinema series. After the screening AHFMR researcher Dr. Chris Power, Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta will lead a brief discussion on the latest research in AIDS and HIV.
FREE ADMISSION & POPCORN!
Congratulations to Danielle Peers! She has been chosen as an Onlympic Torch “runner”. See her make her way down Groat Road and 111 Ave starting at 4:30 pm this Wednesday, January 13th.
More info on Danielle from her official website:
Danielle “Doc” Peers is a Paralympic Bronze medalist, world champion and world MVP in wheelchair basketball. She has made three movies, and has co-founded KingCrip Productions.She is also an accomplished public speaker, and an active volunteer in her disability, queer, sport and artistic communities.
One of Danielle’s films, And The Rest Is Drag, premiered during the festival this year. Visit her website for more information and make sure to cheer her on.
Police Warnings and Sexual Violence: The Mobilization of the Garneau Sisterhood
2009/10 Inside/OUT Speakers’ Series
Thursday, January 7th, 5-6pm
Room 128 (1st floor), Education SOUTH building.
Presented by Dr. Lise Gotell, Professor, Women Studies, UofA
From the Facebook event page:
In 2008, a series of sexual assaults occurred in an Edmonton neighborhood bordering the University of Alberta. Edmonton police service did not release any information until three women living within a one-block radius were sexually assaulted by a man who broke into their homes in the middle of the night. After a fourth attack on an elderly woman in suburban middle class neighborhood, the police warnings intensified. All women “living alone” were advised to be vigilant, and “lock their doors and windows.” In response to these events, an anonymous group of neighborhood women calling themselves the Garneau Sisterhood mounted in a poster and media campaign. This campaign was marked by great irreverence and a Do-It-Yourself (DYI) style of activism that is characteristic of third wave feminism. It challenged and mocked the disciplinary and individualizing thrust of police warnings. In this talk, I explore the contemporary construction of sexual violence through technologies of risk management. In its creative and edgy challenge to risk management discourses the Garneau Sisterhood campaign stands as an example of the productive possibilities of contemporary grassroots antirape activism.
Check out this article in Express News or visit the website that comes up when you google the Sisterhood.
Johnny!
We’re not big into the Olympics and general policies surrounding the event but we can’t deny our love for Johnny Weir. Watch this great piece about the totally outrageous treatment of our favourite skater in the media.