Till now, you’ll find the dates under the menu “Program”

Steps taken by RQS to create this safer space :


• no one will be turned away for lack of funds


• venues as accessible as possible, and the degree of accessibility indicated for each event


• non-gendered restrooms


• being open for specific needs


• confronting and stopping oppressive behavior, including but not limited to sexism, racism, cissexism, transphobia, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, classism and sizeism.

• safer space team at parties that you can call and ask for help, in a non-discriminating atmosphere

If you experience oppressive behavior, harassment, abuse, assault, or any other kind of violence while at our events, or if someone who is engaging or has engaged in such behavior is adversely affecting your participation, or if for any other reason you need support (personal or interpersonal problems linked to any form of discrimination or oppression, help needed for any reason), please contact the SAFER SPACE TEAM! They will be present during events to do active listening, look for solutions with you or simply give emotional support. These volunteers will be easily recognizable and can be reached by phone or text through a phone number that will be displayed in the space.


The safer space policy aims to break isolation and encourage accountability and self-determination. We hope that everyone can feel comfortable and valued in the spaces that we create. The policy has a preventive component, as it encourages everyone to reflect on their own needs, privileges and boundaries, and those of others. The safer space team volunteers aren’t there to repress or blame anyone, and that’s the reason why they will only intervene in a given situation if they have been asked to do so. If members of the safer space team judge that a person is VISIBLY uncomfortable, they can take the initiative to go speak to that person but they will not intervene in any way if the person doesn’t explicitly ask them to. If you are asked to leave an event in accordance with this policy, please do so immediately.

We strive to be survivor centric and survivor oriented, and we wish to always prioritize survivors’ needs. If you are a survivor and would like to make special provisions for this event beforehand, contact radical.queer.semaine@gmail.com.

Please spread this information widely. If you have any questions as to whether or not this safer space policy prevents you from attending the event, please contact radical.queer.semaine@gmail.com.

• You find the (physical) Accessibility details on the Venues’ list! (2013 >>> Venues List)

• If you would like to come to an event, please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or concerns, or if there is anything we could feasibly assist you with in making the space either more comfortable or accessible to you.

• If you need translation into sign language, spanish, portuguese or german, please contact us!

• If you need child care, let us know: radical.queer.semaine@gmail.com

• For those with allergies, please be aware that while there has been a thorough cleaning, l’Achoppe is not a pet-free space. Cat and dog hair especially may be present.

• All our events are both in English and French.
• We offer a safeR space >>> check the safer space policy on this website!
• Nearly every event is free or Pay What You Can, same for the community kitchen

Central space in Hochelaga
L’Achoppe
1800 Létourneux

Wheelchair accessible with rampe (one step). Large space. Toilets not accessible (small door) but adapted toilet outside. Non-gendered toilet.

2 min walk to bus 125 Ontario/Létourneux, 18 min M Pie IX

4 min biking /// 12 min walk /// 7 min public transport to l’Espace Social Anarchiste

Annexe
Espace social anarchiste
1407 Valois
1407valois.wordpress.com

Somewhat wheelchair accessible (one step, rampe). Toilets non accessible. Non-gendered toilet.

1 min walk to bus 34, 17 min M Joliette

other venues during the festival

Bistro Au Vieux St-Hubert
1241 Saint-Hubert
vieux-st-hubert.e-monsite.com

Not wheelchair accessible because of  semi-basement.

1 min walk to bus 15 Sainte-Catherine/ Saint-Hubert, 2 min bus 14 René-Lévesque/ Saint-Hubert, 4 min M Berri-UQAM

Café l’Artère
7000, Avenue du Parc
artere.coop

Wheelchair accessible but toilets non accessible because of too tiny toilets.

2 min walk to bus 92 Jean-Talon/ du Parc, 6 min M Parc

Club Lambi
4465 Boulevard Saint-Laurent

Not wheelchair accessible because of stairs.

1 min walk to bus 11, 55, 97 du Mont-Royal / Saint-Laurent, 8 min M Mont-Royal

Il Motore
179 rue Jean-Talon Ouest
www.ilmotore.ca
Completely wheelchair accessible.

1 min walk to bus 46 de Gaspé/ Maguire, 11 min M Laurier

Katacombes
1635 Saint-Laurent
www.katacombes.com

Wheelchair accessible (toilets on demand).

in front of bus 125 Ontario/St-Laurent, 2 min M Saint-Laurent

LA CENTRALE galerie Powerhouse
4296 boulevard Saint-Laurent
www.lacentrale.org

Wheelchair accessible but toilets non accessible. Non-gendered toilet.

1 min walk to bus 55 Saint-Laurent/ Marie-Anne, 10 min M Mont-Royal

L’Alizé
900 Ontario Est
lalize.net

Wheelchair accessible (details on the website)

2 min walk to bus 125 Ontario / Saint-Hubert, 8 min M Sherbrooke

La Brique
6545 rue Durocher #402

Not wheelchair accessible. It has a few steps to get in the building, but there is a lift.

3 min walk to bus 30 du Parc/ Beaumont, 8 min M Parc,

Right to Move/La voie libre
RTM is located in the alley between Bishop and Mackay, below Sherbrooke.

Not accessible at all because of 4 stairs and small doors.

3 min walk to bus 15 De Maisonneuve/ Guy, 4 min M Guy-Concordia. Generally, you can transport your bicycle on the Metro (subway) on weekends all day.

THURSDAY 21 MARCH

Friend Event
Material Uncertainties
@ LA CENTRALE galerie Powerhouse
19h
Free

An evening of performative projections and video as part of Meta Femmes Branchées #10 of Studio XX. With performances by Amanda Dawn Christie and Kerri Flannigan plus film/video by Jodie Mac, Sabrina Ratté, Wednesday Lupypciw, Leyla Majeri, Marie Dauverné and Sarah Pupo.

Friend Event
Sookee (The Quing of Berlin)
Facebook Event
@ L’Alizé
22h00
0-5$ PWYC (Pay What You Can)

The Quing of Berlin: Sookee, anti-Fascist rapper and DJane NoBigButL, both engaged against hetero-patriarchy, nationalism and capitalism will honour Montreal with their visit !

POMPe
Facebook Event
Fundraiser for Radical Queer Semaine with DJs Turtillian, JNNBNNRCK,  Like the Wolf and performances of Hua Li and Judy Virago
@ COOP Katacombes
23h
5$ PWYC (Pay What You Can)

FRIDAY 22 MARCH

Friend Event
UPop Montréal : Outils et concepts théoriques queer
@ Café l’Artère
18h30 – 20h30
Free
In french, no translation

In expanding on the major concepts used in queer theory, we aim at explaining different tools used to understand our world and its power structures. Amongst the concepts we will study, we will unpack notions of gender performativity, the epistemology of the closet, heterosexism, homonormativity, homonationalism etc.

SAFER SPACE COMMUNITY KITCHEN Burritos and spring rolls
@ L’Achoppe
20h
PWYC – Pay What You Can

SAFER SPACE Opening evening of the Radical Queer Semaine
@ L’Achoppe
21h
Free

Music: Those Trees (Mtl) http://www.myspace.com/thosetrees

Sookee + DJ NotButBig L (Berlin)

http://www.sookee.de/http://www.facebook.com/Sookeeberlinhttp://www.youtube.com/user/QuingTV

Performances:

Alain Desrochers (Mtl)

Sand Prince (Tel-Aviv) www.yoavadmoni.com

Sebastian De Gre (Mexico) with/avec «Wild is the Wind» Www.cargocollective.com/Sdegre

Miniature fantasy fancy by Dolly Deluxxxe (Mtl)

DOLLY DELUXXXE presents to you a miniature fantasy fancy. In the spirit of antique parlor games, burlesque, pageantry and pseudoscience, a dispensary of apparition awaits! Bloodletting, Ghosts, Dionysian sex! We R Tiffany Paige and K. Elizabeth

DJ Caniche (Paris)

DJ Radikale (Mtl)

VJ Keydam (Bruxelles) http://vimeo.com/damienpetitot

SATURDAY 23 MARCH

SAFER SPACE Workshop “Spreading the PosterVIRUS /// AIDS ACTION NOW! and SéroSyndicat”
Jessica Whitbread and Alex McClelland
Facebook Event
@ ESA
12h – 16h
Free
In english, whisper translation

Posters creation workshop, focused on merging art and activism to disrupt mainstream AIDS messaging. With support from other participants, community members and activist, we will refine messaging to make some solid work that similar to AIDS ACTION NOW!’s posterVIRUS, be replicated via photocpies and spread around Montreal. All the posters will be plastered for display on a wall at Il Motore during the No Pants No Problem party on Saturday, March 23rd.
Participants can bring any materials that they would like to create a poster with including but not limited to: laptops, favourite magazines, markers, and/or ideas!

SAFER SPACE Workshop « Why Israeli apartheid is a queer issue ? What is pinkwashing and how organize against it ? »
Mikki Stelder (Queeristan) and Natalie Kouri-Towe (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Toronto)
@ L’Achoppe
14h30 – 16h
Free
In english, whisper translation

This workshop introduces the concept of Pinkwashing and develops strategies for queer activism against it. Pinkwashing is the cynical use of gay rights, in this case by the Israeli state, to divert attention from the violation of other rights. For example, through Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, structural discrimination against Palestinians and other non-Jewish citizens of Israel, the expansion of illegal settlements, and the construction of the apartheid wall.

Workshop “Genderisation by movement, part 1 ”
Estelle Charron
@ L’Achoppe (bibliothèque)
15h
Free
In french, whisper translation

This workshop proposes an exploration of different body postures and how they’re linked to our perceptions of what’s masculine and what’s feminine. How do we move in public areas? In which ways does the way we move is gendered? Do our body movements agree with the way we picture gender and with our own gender identity? The workshops aims to sensibilize and reflect on internalized gender norms and on how we can change our mindset from gender categorization to a more inclusive approach. This workshop will take place twice during Radical Queer Semaine and could finish with a public action by the workshop attendees, marching while performing the different genders explored during the workshop.

SAFER SPACE COMMUNITY KITCHEN Vegan chili with rice, and chips
@ L’Achoppe
16h
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

SAFER SPACE Discussion “Heterosexuals and queers – how can we share a queer space?”
Collectif Radical Queer Semaine
@ L’Achoppe
16h30
Free
Bilingual discussion

You are invited to discuss with us in a safeR space athmosphère!

SAFER SPACE Workshop Body painting
Marie-Eve St-Louis
Facebook Event
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
18h
2$ PWYC (Pay What You Can)
Bilingue

The objective of this workshop is to have a great time while painting people of all body types, genders, and explore beauty. All this in a fun atmosphere with soft lighting, working on the canvas of the body. Living a sensual experience, relaxed, where nudity is an art to be explored.

SAFER SPACE  Friend Event
Party No Pants No Problem
@ Il Motore
22h
5$ without pants, 10$ with pants, NOTAFLOF (No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds)
Fundraiser for AIDS ACTION NOW!

NPNP is an underwear dance party, building/connecting communities, to challenge binary sexual and gender norms as well as constrictive inner dialogues about body image and self esteem. NPNP strives to disrupt conventional ways of approaching sexiness. We do this through advocacy, education, and creating a unique space for people from all a diversity of orientations to participate in sexually charged makeout games, such as Spin the Bottle, and Kissing Booths. NPNP provides an opportunity for people to release their inhibitions and shelf their labels about sex and sexuality for at least a couple of hours.

SUNDAY 24 MARCH

SAFER SPACE Discussion “s/he and they  – how can we queer the French language? An interactive workshop on the French language in queer terms”
Collectif Radical Queer Semaine
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
14h-15h30
Free
In french, whisper translation

After a short introduction on the possibilities of queering and feminizing language, a discussion will follow in order to exchange and create ideas for speaking and writing in our daily lives.

SAFER SPACE COMMUNITY KITCHEN Home-made dahl and nans
@ L’Achoppe
15h
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

SAFER SPACE Workshop and interview listening about non-co-ed space in a feminist LGBTQ squat
Les moules mouillées
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
15h30
Free
In french, whisper translation 

A presentation of a specific feminist /queer movement in a squatter context in France. Through  interviews collected by «les moules mouillées», members of the “community” of various identities share their views on the closed space, and the issues that accompany it.

SAFER SPACE Workshop “Genderisation by movement, part 2″
Estelle Charron
@ L’Achoppe
15h30 g
In french, whisper translation

SAFER SPACE Workshop(post-) Queer/feminist pornography: Rethinking Porn
Janyck Beaulieu
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
17h30-19h
Free
In french, whisper translation

Deconstructing masculinist and homophobic discourses of mainstream pornography, a mission for queer post-porn. To end with pornography rooted in sexist, heteronormative, and capitalist discourses. Rather a multiciplicity of bodies, genders, and sexualities. Our bodies, our weapons, post-porno in combat. An introduction to post-porn, film excerpts and discussion.

SAFER SPACE Workshop Queer Argentinean Tango
Estelle Charron
@ L’Achoppe
17h30 – 19h
In french, whisper translation

During the workshop, the participants will explore the two roles in this complex and sensual couple dance. Based on the listening and respect of their partner, queer Argentinean tango challenges the stereotype of the man leading the woman in order to concentrate on the subtlety of the exchanges between partners and the music. Bring dress shoes (with or whithout heels), that slide a bit (not sport / hiking shoes).

Friend Event
Get it together, Tanya
Facebook Event
@ La Brique
21h
7$ PWYC (Pay What You Can) – BYOB (Bring Your Own Beer)

Hosted by: Mini Maul and Tanya Crack

Performances: poof pony, Ruff Talons, Hatchet Face et autres magiciennes

MONDAY 25 MARCH

Radio Show En profondeur  RQS special, with guests
@ CKUT
90,3FM
17h – 18h
In french

En profondeur is an activist radio show aired every Monday from 5 to 6 pm at CKUT 90,3 fm. Every week, the collective tries to broach current topics which are often neglected by the mass media in order to give radical ideas a wider broadcast. On Monday March 25,  we’ll hold a special show to discuss the issues brought forward during the Radical Queer Semaine.

SAFER SPACE Workshop Drawing
Princesse
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
19h30 – 22h30
Free
Bilingual french and english

L’Achoppe will be holding a model-drawing workshop during the RQS for a special session. Naked but decorated, man and woman, come and draw Princess, a princess unique in their gender. Bring your own material.

SAFER SPACE COMMUNITY KITCHEN by People’s Potato
@ L’Achoppe
19h
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

SAFER SPACEFilm night about identities
something dangerous (zavé martohardjono) autogeography: a kind of beginning (zavé martohardjono) Assume nothing (Kirsty MacDonald)+ discussion
@ L’Achoppe
19h30
Free
english language films, no subtitles available

Candid, provocative, and genre-blurring Assume Nothing(2009) focuses on the art and performances of five “alternative” gender artists of Maori, Samoan-Japanese, and Pakeha/European descent, posing the question: “What if “male” and “female” are not the only options?”

autogeography: a kind of beginning (2011)Three neon spirits wander Brooklyn, their colorful presence disrupting a city landscape and evoking the visibility of the lost and forgotten. They seem to be searching for their way home, but where are they from?

something dangerous (2012)“Thoughts pass through my head when I perform my own weekly grooming rituals: thoughts about this body I happen to be in; thoughts about these gentlest expressions of in-between-ness–a masculinity that is nothing other than dangerous.”

TUESDAY 26 MARCH

Workshop Feminist Art
@ ESA
17h30
free
bilingual

Collectif Rebelles Montreal invites you to get feminist and artsy & crafty with us ! In a society were feminist and queers voices have historically and are stilll currently marginalized, opportunities for self expression, even on a small scale, are essential.

**Unfortunately there won’t be a safer space team for this workshop. We couldn’t find people to do it, we’re very sorry **

Community Buffet + talk and artwork by Philippe DesRues and RATS9 Collective
@ ESA
7h
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

Supper will be served at 7 and not at 5:30 as stated in the paper program!

**Unfortunately there won’t be a safer space team for this event. We couldn’t find people to do it, we’re very sorry **

SAFER SPACE Les Guenilles >>> KARAOQUEER et Clothesswap
Facebook Event
@ Bistro Au Vieux Saint-Hubert
21h
Free

We understand that one outfit is not nearly enough for a night of karaoké. We understand that during a clothes swap, we all want to shine bright like a diamond in our new finds. The principle of a clothing swap is simple. We put all our old clothes in a pile, and then take what you wish. Bring some clothes, leave with other clothes! All items without a home at the end of the night will be given to the parent-student comity of l’UQÀM, which is currently organizing a collection.

WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH

SAFER SPACE Workshop “Queering time : an origa(s)mique self-care workshop”
Collectif M.O.U.S.T.A.C.H.E.S.
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
18h
Free
In french, whisper translation

In this workshop, the MOUSTACHES propose to reflect on the links inbetween the notions of self-care and safer space through a «time wasting» collective origa(s)mic. Queering time, is it possible? We would like to talk about all of this by framing it around a useless workshop, un-productive and relaxing (in principle!), of paper folding. We wish to extract ourselves, for a short while, from dichotomies of activists/non-activists, art/crafting, artists/activists, hairy/shaved to discuss, together of the roots of marginalization in our everyday lives.

*Mouvement Origa(s)mique Ultra Subversif de Théorie par l’Action Contre l’Hétéronormativité et le Sexisme.

SAFER SPACE COMMUNITY KITCHEN by People’s Potato
@ L’Achoppe
19h
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

SAFER SPACE Film screening Videoqueer : it gets better… organized! “How to Organize a Flash Mob” & ”United in Anger”
Project 10
@ l’Achoppe
20h00
Free
french and english films 

Videoqueer: it gets better… organized! Is an initiative of Project 10 and the Radical Queer Semaine. Because thing don’t get better own their own, this project looks to supply youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities with the tools needed to self organize and to be heard. We invite you to the launch of the film “How to Organize a Flash Mob”. This movie is based on the experience on young activists from Montreal who participated in a workshop last August on resisting the criminalization of HIV by interrupting images with artistic actions. This short film will be followed by the film “United in Anger”, which retraces the strategies and actions of ACT-UP New York, an activist group who changed the face of the HIV epidemic. Discussion will follow. This project was made possible by a grant from the minister of Justice as part of the campaign against homophobia.

THURSDAY 28 MARCH

Friend Event
Workshop “Plottes à modeler” (Vagina modeling)
non-mixte – female identified people only
Catherine & Marianne
@ ESA
19h
gratuit
A discussion about vulvas and vaginas, their pleasures, pains, problems, solutions, etc. Let’s chat while creating real or imaginary genitals with colorful modeling clay (home made!) This is a non-mixed, trans-friendly workshop.

Friends Event
«résistance/résidence» art evening with Hua Li, Zara Ahmed, Lady Sin, Parthna Lor and Kama La Mackerel
@ Café l’Artère
20h
Fundraiser for the permanent resident status of the Montréal-based artist, Kama La Mackerel

“résistance/résidence” is an evening of queer art and performances with and by people of color in Montreal. With the ardent desire to create an artistic space where battles, failures and victories can be expressed, alongside desires and dreams of decolonization, narratives of migration, nostalgia and demystification of the nation, this evening showcases artists who had to rethink their queer sense of belonging in light of racialized experiences.

The artists:

Prathna Lor:

Prathna Lor is a M.A. candidate in English at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, Ventriloquism (Future Tense Books, 2010). His writing has most recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Black Warrior Review, Poetry is Dead Magazine, and The Collagist. He is currently working on two book projects: DADDY, a poetic investigation of inter-generational homosexual phantasmagoria; and HEROISM/EULOGIES, a book-length essay on poetics at the intersections of aesthetics, (identity) politics, and critical theory.

prathnalor.tumblr.com

Lady Sin:

Lady Sin Trayda is a fierce, fine, femme fatale who hails from the West Coast bearing tales of the East. Her written and spoken word has appeared on pages and stages across Canada, speaking truth to power about queer love, diaspora, and lives lived beyond man and woman.

http://www.facebook.com/SinTrayda

Hua Li:

Hua Li was born out of of cosmic forces of Benetton Mob, the united colors squad which oversees bad bitch behaviour in select Montreal neighbourhoods. Hua Li will never bring you the best of both worlds because she is convinced there must be more than two. She throws shade in a loving and respectful manner. She has officially declared war against conventionality and bullshit and you can follow her progress at http://huali.bandcamp.com Hua Li is also known as Peggy Hogan when she is not fighting crimes against her sisters and you might want to check out her full-length album at peggyhoganmusic.com

Zara Ahmed:

Zara Ahmed is an alt/folk musician based in Montreal. She’s a big fan of Josh Ritter and Cat Power, and would love to play in a tribute band called Cat Ritter. Her 2011 album Act of Treason was produced by Kevin Lynn of Minotaurs, King Cobb Steelie (and Holy F*ck alumni) and is a gutsy garage-folk album a la PJ Harvey or (who are we kidding) Cat Ritter. She’s toured with Sockfoot, Vivek Shraya, Jay Brannan, Ingrid Gatin and many others. She’ll be recording an EP of ukulele ballads in Sydney, Australia in September.

Kama La Mackerel:

Kama La Mackerel is an islander, a sissy, and a drag and burlesque performer whose tense relationship with Bollywood aesthetics is yet to be fully exploited. Guided by themes of feminism, alienation, exile and cultural untranslatability, La Mackerel believes in performance as a ritual of survival. Kama La Mackerel presently resides in Montréal and hopes to create more spaces for other QPOC artists to showcase their art.

lamackerel.com

https://www.facebook.com/KamaLaMackerel

“résistance/résidence” est une soirée d’art et de performances queers avec et par des personnes racisées de Montréal. Dans un souci de créer un espace artistique où exprimer des luttes, des victoires, des défaites, des désirs et des rêves de décolonisation, cette soirée regroupe des artistes qui créent des appartenances queers et racisées tout en nous contant des narrations de migrations, de nostalgie et de demystification de la nation.

Friend Event
Queer ASS PunK présents CROOKED FAGAZINE!!!
@ Coop Katacombes
22h
10$ PWYC (Pay What You Can)

A sordid night of queer rock, amazing bands, extraordinary friendships, feminist kicks, and creative intensity. A space to rock-out, get bruised and cruised.

VENDREDI 29 MARCH

SAFER SPACE Brunch COMMUNITY KITCHEN
@ L’Achoppe
14h
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

SAFER SPACE Film Screening Joy! The portrait of a nun (Joe Balass) & At Last (Virilia Crush & Mée Rose)
@ ESA
14h45
Free
In english, french subtitles

 In an intimate setting, this full-length documentary puts us in the shoes of Sister Missionary P. Delight,  founding member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.  

JOY! The portrait of a nun, of a convent, of sex, of fraternity, of a festival of fairies.  A mystical world where sexuality, spirituality, and activism come together. A bearded nun.  In an intimate setting, this full-length documentary puts us in the shoes of Sister Missionary P. Delight,  founding member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. JOY! Puts under the spotlight a fascinating group of individuals, made up mostly of Radical Faeries living in between San Francisco, and the deep South of the United States, who have brought an immeasurable contribution to the queer community and the movement for sexual liberation.

SAFER SPACE Panel and letter writing, with Eric Stanley and Toshio Meronek
Prisoners Correspondance Project
@ L’Achoppe
15h30
Free
English, whisper translation

An event of discussion and writing around queer and trans prisoner solidarity work: Readings and discussion from “Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex” with co-editor Eric Stanley, and writer/activist Toshio Meronek, followed by letter writing/pen-pan matching with the Prisoner Correspondence Project. The goal of this event is to fuse the international links in prisoner solidarity work with local organizing addressing the needs of prison solidarity groups in Montréal.

SAFER SPACE Workshop More Hurt & Less Harm
Virilia Crush & Mée Rose
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
16h30
Free
In english, whisper translation

More Hurt and Less Harm: Hotter, Stronger, Longer Sexplay!Learn and practice hands-on tactics to make heavy BDSM more easy on our bodies. Find out sexy ways to give and receive strikes, kicks, slaps and takedowns with less risk and recovery time!

Friend Event
Soirée Bend Over Magazine
@ Club Lambi
8$ prévente/ 12$ door

It’s a celebration for the launch of Bend Over Magazine: Berlin based DJ Ena Lind will mix all evening with Rilly Guilty at Club Lambi. This event will offer an expression space with interactive performances.

SATURDAY 30 MARCH

SAFER SPACE Brunch COMMUNITY KITCHEN
@ Achoppe
12h30
PWYC (Pay What You Can)

Queer Skate with Daphné
@ L’Achoppe
13h
Free 

Skateboarding for fun! The activity is skateboarding and it is for fun. It is not a contest or anything like that. We can go to an outdoor skatepark or go to known skate spots (legal) like Lafontaine park or Berri Square. We all bring ourskateboards and we skate in the afternoon. We can also film if some people bring cameras or take skate pictures.

SAFER SPACE  Workshop Dyke Marche des lesbiennes ★ Diversity in non-mixity! For people identifying as dykes
Collectif Dyke March
Facebook Event
@ ESA
13h30
Free
bilingual, whisper translation 

For the RADICAL QUEER SEMAINE, the Montreal Dyke March collective invites you to a workshop-discussion to prepare the 2013 Dyke March taking place on August 8th!

★★★ On August 14th, the first Marche des Lesbiennes/Dyke March of Montreal, a non-mixt march by and for dykes took place. In the spirit of the first Dyke March organized by the Lesbian Avengers in 1993 at Washington, Montreal’s Dyke March that is antiracist, antipatriarchy and anticapitalist aims to bring together and make visible dykes in all their diversity. A little less then a year ago, for that march a thousand dykes of different horizons, identities and life experiences took the streets.

★ Organized by a new collective of dyke activists with principles of horizontal and anti-oppression organizing, this mobilizing and historic event managed to bring together not only people who identify as dykes but who also have multiple identities: constructed, deconstructed, reconstructed, revendicated, rejected (lesbophobia, racism, misoginy, butchphobia, transmisogyny, transphobia, ablism, classism, etc.), collective, individual, fixed, fluid, intersectional, complex, imposed, linked to systems of oppression, chosen and reclaimed (queer, butch, sissy, etc). ★ This workshop-discussion will also be the time to collectively discuss how we can ally the fight against lesbophobia and the fight against other specific oppression that we have to work through: transphobia, racism, sexism, biphobia, butchphobia, femphobia.

▼ This discussion will be Dyke-Only ▼

★ This space is open to anyone who identifies as lesbian/dyke/gouine: womyn that are cis, trans or intersex that identify as lesbian, bisexual or queer as well as people who have a non-binary gender identity and who identify as lesbian, genderqueer, two-spirited, fluid or intersex.
★ People that are questionning are welcomed.
★ This workshop is not opened to allies who don’t identify as dykes. We thank them for their solidarity and support and ask them to respect this non-mixt space.

▼★▼ COME HAVE A DRINK WITH US AFTER ▼★▼
Following this workshop-discussion there will be a 5 à 7. The location will be annouced during the workshop.

We are really exited to share this reflection space with you!

▼▼▼ Love & Rage ▼▼▼

The Montreal Dyke March Collective / Collectif de la Marche des Lesbiennes
marchedesdykes@gmail.com
Facebook: Marche Dyke

SAFER SPACE Workshop Queers on Cops
Patrick DeDauw
@ L’Achoppe
14h
In english, whisper translation

As the boundaries of sexual and other forms of criminalisation shift, what has happened to the queer critique of the criminal justice system and its enforcers? In the context of community policing and its public-relations practices, what are possible responses to their queer-cop reconciliation campaigns? This workshop and discussion will take on this question in hopes of maintaining the lineage of queer anti-police organising and resisting the partitioning of well-behaved queers from ‘real’ criminals, sexual or otherwise.

SAFER SPACE Workshop
Coalition jeunesse montréalaise de lutte à l’homophobie
@ L’Achoppe (Library)
14h30
Free
In french, whisper translation

Are you a QUEER YOUTH GROUP or a COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS WITH QUEER YOUTH? Are you having trouble finding FUNDING, finding VOLUNTEERS, CONNECTING with youth, or experiencing OTHER DIFFICULTIES? Have you found SOLUTIONS to any of these challenges?

The Montreal Youth Coalition Against Homophobia (MYCAH) will be hosting a workshop as part of Radical Queer Semaine (http://radicalqueersemaine.com/) for groups that work with queer youth to meet, discuss challenges they have faced, share solutions and learn from each other. The workshop is open to everyone.

This is a chance for queer youth groups to meet and learn about each other, so bring your FLYERS or any other PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL!

This workshop will also help us prepare a list of propositions to present in anticipation of the next municipal elections.

Friend Event
Soviet Kong Video Clip
@l’Achoppe
17h30 – 1h
Free

You are invited to come to be an extra in the video clip of this punk-rock group, which includes a mad pursuit of the crowd by a possessed gorilla that transforms its victims into zombies while the band is performing. You would have to stay for the entire shooting and to bring clothes that can be dirtied (false blood!).

SAFER SPACE Discussion for those who identify as “men”, to exchange and share experiences on the intimate/sexual relationships between cis and trans men.

Sam et Gabriel
@ ESA
17h30
Free
french, whisper translation 

This workshop aims to create a space for discussion about social/affective/sexual relationships and desires between cis and trans guys who identify as gay/bi/pédé/queer … and to present a participative project.
Open to cis and trans guys.

Friend Event
Girls’ Night In
@ Right to Move/La voie libre
18h-21h
Free
Bilingual

Right to Move open its doors every last Saturday of the month from 6 to 9 pm to welcome people who identify as female. In an open and safe environment, you are invited to come work on your bike with the help of our experienced volunteers. Transgender and queer friendly.

SUNDAY 31 MARCH

SAFER SPACE  Chill-out Afternoon with cakes, drinks and music by DJ Groovy Jack
@ L’Achoppe
15h
Free
Potluck, bring what you like the most!

Be prepared to slow dance once in a while between the rock and roll, salsa, beat, soul, funk and many more tunes that will invite you to move freely and shake your soul up.

If you’re coming to Montréal for RQS, Jordan and Eren are here to help you find a queer and trans-friendly, anti-oppressive bed or couch to crash on!

Your host may not be able to offer you a key to their house or shared meals, but we can normally at least find you a place to rest your weary head!CONTACT: pensionnatRQS@gmail.com

If you HAVE a bed or couch to OFFER, we just ask that you send us a few quick details:
- WHICH DATES can you host?

- Bed or couch? Closed room or open? Should they have their own pillow/blanket?

- Are the entrance and bathroom in your apartment accessible to people with reduced mobility or who may use a wheelchair?

- Do you have cats or dogs?

- Do you have any preferences concerning the person you would be able to host? (dietary, language, night-owl vs early riser, safety, etc.)

If you are LOOKING for a place to sleep, please let us know the following:
- WHICH DATES?

- Are you ok with an open room (e.g. living-room couch) or do you need a closed room ideally?

- Do you have any pet allergies?

- Do you have any accessibility-specific needs?

- Do you have any other specific needs for the place you’ll stay at (dietary, language, night-owl vs early riser, safety, etc.)

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/139520232887542/

 ▀▀▀▀ RADICAL QUEER SEMAINE 2013 ▀▀▀▀

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 21 AU 30 MARS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

The Radical Queer Semaine is coming up fast, and we are in need of volunteers to make this wonderful autonomous Queer space possible.

There are many ways you and your friends can help out!If interested, write at radical.queer.semaine@gmail.com with the subject VOLUNTEER and your interests and write us when you’re available!

♥ POSTER DISTRIBUTION Folks to put posters for the RQS up in bars and community spaces next week (11-17march).

BE PART OF THE COLLECTIVE KITCHEN RQS will be offering a few vegan, pay-what-you-can meals during the week and we will need folks to grocery shop, prepare meals, and clean up.

BE PART OF OUR “SAFER SPACE” TEAM If you experience harassment, abuse, assault, or any other kind of violation while at the event, or if someone who has engaged in such behavior is adversely affecting your participation, or for any other reason you need support, please contact the SAFER SPACE TEAM: support people available to address these issues, to do active listening, look for solutions with you or simply give emotional support. Please e-mail us for a more detailed outline of our SAFER SPACE POLICY.

DECORATION TEAM Help make our event venues fabulous and inviting, an arts n’ crafts good time

TRANSLATION For all you wonderful bilingual folks to be available for whisper translation during panels/talks. We will need both English to French and French to English.

GENERAL VOLUNTEERS Folks to help set up/take down event spaces and be info guides for folks attending RQS.

***CHILDCARE***  To facilitate the participation of parents during the RQS we will be offering childcare. Let us know if you would like to be put on the list of potential babysitters!

If you are interested in volunteering please e-mail radical.queer.semaine@gmail.com and include in the subject line VOLUNTEER: then the area you would like to help out with.  

Volunteering is a great way to meet new folks and support this community-building week. And we can never have too many… sign up with a friend or five!

**NO PANTS NO PROBLEM**

on Saturday 23rd March at 22:00

@ IL MOTORE

179 Rue Jean Talon

A SISTER EVENT WITH RADICAL QUEER SEMAINE 2013

**Our Safe Space team will be there**

For more details: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/168368029978933/?fref=ts

FROM THE FACEBOOK PAGE:

Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Missing Justice) invites you and yours to attend, spread the word about, and participate in this year’s Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women on Thursday February 14th, 6pm at St. Laurent metro.

The first women’s memorial march was held in 1991 in response to the murder of a Coast Salish woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. Out of this sense of hopeless…ness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories. Twenty-two years later, the women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of all missing and murdered women.

This year, Montreal holds it’s 4th Annual Memorial March.

For more details, please visit http://www.missingjustice.ca/

Location: Métro Berri – Beaudry – Papineau

The Association pour la Défense des Droits et l’Inclusion des personnes qui Consomment des drogues du Québec (ADDICQ) and the AQPSUD (L’Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues) unite at the three métro stations where homelessness and drug use have been heavily policed and politicized.

There will be actions outside three metro stations: Berri-UQAM [Ste-Catherine exit], Beaudry or Papineau. Followed by a demo at 5:30pm at Parc de l’Espoir,  (corner Ste-Catherine and Panet).