Free

Pre-registration required: email registration@mayworks.ca

This workshop explores how emerging science and the relational frameworks found in the cultures of global Indigenous and other ancient wisdom traditions promote well being and decolonization. This discussion will differentiate wisdom teachings from New Age "spirituality" that embraces the "Law of Attraction", cultural appropriation and other activities that mislead and even harm people. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences/teachings across cultures and arts practices. Together we will come away with new and renewed strategies for community building, decolonization and art-making.

Have you shot some footage, but are unsure about how audiences will respond? In an interactive screening format, participants will share their footage and receive feedback. Participants must come prepared to share approximately five minutes of footage on DVD.

Pre-register at: http://filmmakingseries3.eventbrite.com/

Do you have a specific idea to share, but haven't figured out how to translate it into a film? This workshop will help you develop that idea for the screen. In an interactive format, participants will share their ideas with the group and receive feedback. They will work through a series of writing and discussion activities designed to help participants discover the best way to tell their unique tale. Participants must come prepared to share their idea with the group.

Pre-register at: http://filmmakingseries2.eventbrite.com

Do you want to make a film, but don't know where to begin? This workshop will help you get started. In an interactive discussion format, participants will receive a broad overview of the filmmaking process. This session will guide participants through the main creative and logistical questions that filmmakers need to ask themselves before launching into production. 

Pre-register at: http://filmmakingseries1.eventbrite.com/

The Chicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective created this amazing workshop to introduce activists to the concept of the Prison Industrial Complex. The guide creates an outline for an intensive four hour long workshop which covers a ton of material. The 77 page guide doesn't skimp on the details and takes trainers through each activity. Although geared towards a US audience, the outline can be easily adapted to Canadian content. The workshop covers:

Icebreakers

Defining the PIC

PIC jeopardy

PIC timeline

In British Columbia there is an abundance of fruit bearing trees. European settlers were planting fruit trees as early as 1826. Though many people have fruit trees within their reach, they often go unattended and their harvest ends up rotting on someone's lawn. While bugs devour the local fruit, the same general kind is still bought at grocery stores - but for its durability and good looks rather than its local significance, flavour or tradition.

Fruit tree projects try to take these trees that are producing good usable, tasty food and harvest them to their full potential.

You're invited. 

From Fukushima to Toronto: A Town Hall is an opportunity to understand the causes of the Fukushima disaster and the parallels that exist in Ontario’s nuclear industry.  Workshops and pannel discussion will provide community groups, as well as old, and new activists alike with the knowledge needed to start building an Ontario free of nuclear risks powered by 100% renewable energy. 

Together we’ll develop strategies, and plans for 2012 and beyond for Torontonians to stop nuclear expansion in our region, and build a greener Ontario.

Cost: $5 or pay what you can (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

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As Occupy protests have erupted across the world to decry the injustice of our current economic system, the question arises: What are we fighting against? At present, Vancouver lacks any adequate forum for broad-based deliberation about what capitalism is and how it functions. It is for this reason that we are hosting a series of teach-ins to explore how capitalism operates, its inherent violence, and how it intersects with other forms of oppression.