This summer Catalyst Centre invites you to look at our city’s labour history and explore the relationship between popular education, work and community organizing and activism.

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 concerns of the surrounding community. The goal for the video:  a tool for community outreach at the political level, to send it to local politicians and community leaders – to spark a new dialogue about the slaughterhouse; 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...

The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is pleased to announce that it will be returning for its fourth year! This year, TPFF will take place from October 1-7, 2011. We are excited to build on our previous years' successes and bring you a fantastic fourth season. Mark your calendars and follow us on twitter, facebook and the website for more information on all that we have planned for you!

TPFF is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing vibrant Palestinian cinema to GTA audiences. Our mandate is to promote the richness of Palestinian Arab culture through cinema, music, and other forms of visual arts. TPFF was conceived in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba.

Supporters plan to welcome former British MP at airport

Former British MP George Galloway will arrive in Toronto on Saturday, October 2 to resume his pan-Canadian speaking tour after being prevented from entering Canada in March 2009. A welcome rally that includes tour organizers, supporters and Mr. Galloway's legal counsel will assemble at 5:00 p.m. at the Terminal 1 arrivals gate at Lester B. Pearson International Airport. Upon Mr. Galloway's arrival, he will hold a 15-minute media conference at the gate.

OneToronto to supporters: "We Must Raise the Bar for this Election"

Former Toronto Mayor David Crombie Expected to Speak

Monday night residents from across the city and activists from environmental, arts, labour, poverty, housing and cultural organizations will come together under the OneToronto banner. They will be learning more about what is at stake in this election and develop strategies for how to raise the bar for the election debate.

The short documentary film is an integral part of a project which produced a 800-plus photographs collected in the book by the same name. It offers a more dynamic and fast-moving testimony of ordinary people, Christians and Muslims, living together in peace in what has been at various times a war-torn country.

The documentary presents interviews with people from many parts of Lebanon through the personal experience of the filmmaker in her country of origin. Individuals speak of their life with neighbors, friends, family members, who happen to be of the "other" religious persuasion. Through interviews, viewers glimpse landscapes, personal and family stories that help to create a country's history and identity.

Are you furious about the arrest and detainment of over 900 people during the G20 weekend in June?

Are you angry about the detention and detainment of ten of thousands every year in immigration detention centres in the city? Want to end forced incarceration of people with disabilities in provinicial institutions, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities and other abusive institutions?

Are you concerned about the over-representation of racialized people, indigenous people, disabled people, poor people, women and trans people and people without status in the prison industrial complex?

SO ARE WE!
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Prisoners' Justice Week Event Listings:

Residents along the Clearwater River in Alberta, opposed to a proposed sour gas well, fear the impact a deadly hydrogen sulphide leak could have on their lives.

Preceded by CITIZEN Z

A flourishing neighbourhood group is threatened with evacuation from a Toronto Park on Christmas Eve.

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Entertain your dark side with Carnaval Noir, an evening with burlesque, magic and aerialist performances. Play carnival games to win amazing prizes and enjoy many other carnival themed delights!

All proceeds from Carnaval Noir go to the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Bring your sweet tooth! We will be serving cupcakes and cotton candy.

For more information visit www.carnavalnoir.webs.com. To purchase tickets, become a sponsor/donor, or for any other inquiries email carnaval.noir@yahoo.ca. Tickets can be purchased for $16.50 at http://www.eventsbot.com/events/eb192047922.

This summer Clay & Paper Theatre presents: The Circus of Dark & Light, a subversive comedy featuring puppets, live music and special appearances by a human cannonball, a pyrophobic firebreather and a truly elegant ersatz elephant.

Welcome to CIRCUS SCAMALOT, currently on tour with Prime Minister Nobody and under the tiny thumb of Little Big Man. Can a bedraggled bunch of clowns, a cowardly ringmaster and a hard-nosed high wire beauty queen band together to break out of oppression, galvanize hope and take control of their own lives? Come join our unlikely heroes and discover how the magic of community can change the world.