The Reel Art Film Festival presents the feature documentary Portrait of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge by director Roz Owen and editor Jim Miller.

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge live and work in Toronto. They have collaborated with various trade union and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 30 years. Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. Recently their work has been included in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery , Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival , Groningen, Holland.

Toronto ALPHA and Toronto Article 9 invite youth to take part in an ongoing platform for inter-community dialogue based on a shared understanding of our common humanity and commitment to social justice.

Engage with Jasmine Wong from Facing History and Ourselves and Sheena Resplandor from Harmony Movement to use art as a tool for unearthing history and moving towards social justice. This will be followed by a live play performance of Diana Tso's Red Snow, a new Canadian play inspired by survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Holocaust.

$15 includes show and lunch

Featuring performances by Kiki Ballroom Alliance and the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy

==>Trans Film Night: "MY FRIEND BRINDLEY"
==>Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!

The Trans Film Screening Series hosts a FREE screening of:
"MY FRIEND BRINDLEY" & the collected works of ALEC BUTLER

Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.

► MY FRIEND BRINDLEY: ***FILM PREMIERE*** An artistic documentary by Alec Butler about human rights activist, artist and biker Kathleen Brindley, who was the filmmaker's best friend until her death in 2007.

dir.:Alec Butler
rated:unrated (2010)
language:English (regrettably closed-caption/subtitles not available)

The 3rd International Festival of Poetry and Resistance (IFPOR) is in honour of oppressed people everywhere. In 2009, it focused on freedom for the Cuban Five and in 2010, on self-determination of peoples. 

IFPOR views poetry as, yes, a source of delight, but, also, as a weapon for liberation as it was used by the great poets of the past such as Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, Ho Chi Minh, Jose Marti, Vladimir Mayakovsky and so many others around the world.

A complete programme and various locations for the three-day event can be found here.

PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE illuminates the pioneering collaboration of two renowned Toronto-based artists. For the last 35 years Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge have worked with each other and a host community activists to produce politically engaged staged photographs rooted in the stories of working people. PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE brings older photo works alive as characters step out to speak and challenge the unfolding story from their point of view. We also witness Condé & Beveridge in action as they produce new works about the environment, Toronto's G20, and our current economic crisis.

The Story of Stuff takes you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture -- from resource extraction to iPod incineration. We will begin by watching this 20- minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of production, consumption, and waste. It’ll teach you something, make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all your stuff.

This event is FREE! 

Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.

GLEN OR GLENDA: wildly considered the worst film ever . . . it is an exploitation film created by Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi. The film is a docudrama about cross-dressing and semi-autobiographical. Wood himself was a crossdresser, and the film is a plea for tolerance.

"Glen or Glenda" tells two stories. One is about Glen, who secretly dresses as a woman but is afraid to tell his fiancée. The other is about Alan, a "pseudohermaphrodite" who undergoes a painful operation to become a woman. The film delivers earnest (even if incoherent) lectures on understanding. A cult classic with great conviction.

Campy with comic appeal and definitely a B-movie beyond the mainstream - come question what is has to say.

The “Nzirambi Photo Exhibition”, providing a glimpse into life at a Ugandan orphanage, will be unveiled during a special fundraising event on October 27. Funds raised go toward the Nzirambi Fund which ensures the boys and girls of this orphanage have access to higher levels of education.