YOU ARE INVITED TO THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE WORKSHOP SERIES:
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1. Humberto daSilva presents Guerrilla Video Workshop on Saturday, July 2, 2-5 pm, at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina, 4th floor
Video production and broadcasting, essential to the culture wars, used to be available exclusively to corporate interests through their media networks. All of that has changed. The mobile device in your pocket now has the potential reach more people faster than a television network 30 years ago. Revolutions are being televised LIVE by the agents of change. We can do it, we need to do it, and we will do it better. Become a guerilla broadcaster -- join the Revolution!
Humberto is a citizen journalist commentator who writes and delivers the Sindicalista TV news commentary on rabbletv. He was the winner of the rabble.ca Not Rex video competition and the 2010 OPSEU video award. He has presented a number of social media and video workshops to activists and trade union members across Ontario.
See Humberto’s latest video "Apocalypse soon" on climate change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd_2cNmf1hs&feature=channel_video_title
Please RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189292111120104
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2. Tricks of the Trade series: PUPPETRY WORKSHP with Caitlin Black
Time: 24 July · 12:00 - 15:00
Location:
Coronation Park (across the street from the Exhibitiion's Princess Margaret Gates)
The history of puppetry has been to serve & represent common people. Puppetry has the capacity to voice concerns, express dissent, and give voice to the voiceless. This workshop will introduce basic concepts of political street art. This workshop will focus on the presence of Quality Meat Packers in downtown Toronto and address the thousands of pigs who pass through our city daily, silenced & unseen, on their way to slaughter.
Caitlin Black is an illustrator, comic-book artist & puppeteer. She recently published her riveting graphic novel "Marry of Mud Creek" about the rescue of sows from a factory farm. Visit her website at http://crumpled-Caitlin.blogspot.com/
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3. Making a Community Doc with Liz Marshall at Quality Meat Packers
Sunday, Aug 28, 12-3pm• Fort York
Liz Marshall, award-winning filmmaker of Water on the Table & forthcoming The Ghosts in Our Machine, is Workshop Facilitator
A group workshop. To film one video, working together, in 3 hours. The emphasis will be on working together, quickly, to conceptualize and then film an artfully crafted mini documentary which explores / unearths the concern of the surrounding community.
The goal for the video is to spark a new dialogue about the slaughterhouse and to create a tool for community outreach at the political level and to send it to local politicians and community leaders in order to bring to light the issues from the community. In doing so, the video should also expose the cold hard facts about slaughter: the number of pigs slaughtered each day, the conditions ...
Please RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150525715020337
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Tricks of the Trade Workshops Presented by:
Toronto Pig Save www.torontopigsave.wordpress.com
and
Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals www.humanefood.ca
Media sponsor is rabble.ca
The name of the series, Tricks of the Trade, draws on the idea of Nobel laureate playwright and actor Dario Fo’s Tricks of the Trade workshops and book which he undertook in order to empower and animate the left. We are planning 4-6 sessions this summer on a variety of topics (street theatre, photography, guerrilla videos) and hope to continue the series in the fall. The workshops are FREE or pay-what-you-can, with all proceeds going to the facilitator to assist in their art and media democracy work.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact anita.krajnc@gmail.com