Toronto - Decolonizing Halloween
Date: October 31
Time: 7-11pm EST
Location: The Movement Centre (2480 Dundas St W - Suite 200, Toronto ON)
R3: Roots Rhythms Resistance and The Sedina Show present:
DECOLONIZING HALLOWEEN!
We invite you to join as we honor the dead and send up halloween!
in an evening of ceremony and comedy, of piety and play!
Refreshments Provided
pay what you can, suggested donation $5 - $15
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
~All proceeds will go to No More Silence, an organization raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women
About the altar:
"In Mexico, the tradition of our communities is to celebrate the day of the dead on November 1st and 2nd. Our belief is that during these two days God gives the dead permission to co-exist with their families and loved ones. On Oct 31st, we invite you to bring photographs and an offering to remember and reconnect with a loved one and in addition, remember and give tribute to the ancestors of Turtle Island also known as North America." - Veronica Bravo
If you can, please bring one or more of the following:
- An image or object that you could use to create your own small altar. Maybe a photograph of an ancestor and/or an object from your own tradition.
-Stories of how ancestors are honored in your own traditions (if you know).
-'Ghost stories' of any variety.
-At least one creative piece (song, picture, dance, drama, poem, prose etc.) that speaks to honoring ancestors.
-Yourselves ready to collaborate, improvise and play with other artists around Halloween themes!
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The G8/G20 meetings took place in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people organized a peoples convergence with 40,000 people taking to the streets, standing up for justice in collaboration and solidarity!
Activists, community members, inspired and outraged individuals came together as a movement to demand justice for people and the planet. Over a week of mobilizations, events, workshops and direct actions took place in the face of state and police repression, violence and infringements on rights and freedoms.
We must continue to mobilize and build greater solidarity among our communities- an important part of this is supporting all those arrested during the G20 summit, including our allies still in detention, and those released on bail.