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Imagining Africa: El Anatsui brings his metal tapestries to ROM

Three Continents, 2009 by El Anatsui

Ghanaian sculptor Brahim El Anatsui's father was a master weaver who taught the tradition of strip-weaving Kente cloths to his sons. This textile technique has become a staple of El Anatsui's art: he amasses and refashions the debris from his community to create majestic, visual narratives that address his personal history and global issues like environmental sustainability. The North American premiere of his four-decade career retrospective When I Last Wrote to You About Africa is at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, having been extended to Feb. 27.

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Murray Dobbin

Consumer culture crisis looming

| May 12, 2010
Meghan Murphy

Thirty things that will make you want to kill yourself whether or not you're 30, courtesy of Glamour

| April 27, 2012
The Dispatch

Fair trade and empire: An anti-capitalist critique of the fair-trade movement

March 27, 2012
| While fair trade channels more income into agricultural communities, it ultimately fails to address the colonial capitalist structures that produce the impoverishment of farmers on an ongoing basis.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)

Feeling Canadian: Book Launch & Reading by Marusya Bociurkiw

Feb 16 2012 - 7:30pm

Location

Aqua Books
274 Garry Street
Winnipeg, MB
Canada
49° 53' 35.9988" N, 97° 8' 25.9728" W

"My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!" How did a beer ad become a
national anthem? When did Olympic opening ceremonies become an
advertisement for national superiority? What do toques and canoes have
to do with nationalism? Canadian couch potatoes need wonder no longer.
This book by award-winning Toronto-based author, media theorist,
filmmaker and professor Marusya Bociurkiw examines how affect
(passionate sites of feeling) and consumerism work together to produce
shows like Canada A Peoples' History, North of 60, and television
coverage of the 2010 Olympics. As Canadian TV expert Michelle Byers
writes, "Providing anecdotes that most readers will be very familiar
with, Bociurkiw's analysis situates us firmly within the context of

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Leslie
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Catalytic Conversation: The Story of Stuff

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 under- side of production, consumption, and wa
Oct 4 2011 - 6:30pm
Oct 4 2011 - 8:30pm

Location

OISE
252 Bloor Street West, 7th floor St. George Subway Station
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6
Canada
43° 40' 4.4004" N, 79° 23' 54.1392" W

 

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! 


 

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Deborah Konecny
Redeye

Examining the factors behind the riots in England

August 22, 2011
| British Prime Minister David Cameron attributes the recent riots in England to irresponsibility and selfishness. Faiza Shaheen thinks a lot of other factors came into play.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)

Buy Nothing Day

In September 1992, the first Buy Nothing Day commenced in Vancouver, Canada. Founded on the premise of directing concern to the societal problem of over-consumption, Buy Nothing Day is understood as a worldwide day of protest against consumerism.

Contemporarily, Buy Nothing Day is celebrated November 26 and 27.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

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