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How to give a workshop (a workshop)
Learn how to plan and facilitate a workshop. Part of the TRADE FOR CHANGE series.
Find out more »Screening: This Changes Everything
Special event: A collaboration between The Radical Imagination Project, the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group and the Ecology Action Centre. Monday, December 14, 6:30pm - Central Branch Library, Room 301 Cultures of Resistance (2015) Directed by Avi Lewis and produced in conjunction with Lewis' partner Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name, This Changes Everything is an urgent dispatch on climate change that eschews the abstract and rhetorical in favour of the personal and immediate. With Klein serving as narrator…
Find out more »Graphic Design for Activists: A crash-course on InDesign and Illustrator
Learn the bare-bones basics of Illustrator and Indesign, the leading software professionals and non-professionals use to design great posters, flyers and logos.
Find out more »Screening: After the Last River
The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering with Cinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and open to the public. Monday, November 30, 6:30pm – Central Branch Library, O’Regan Auditorium After the Last River (2015, director: Vicki Lean) In the shadow of a…
Find out more »Radical Theory: Exploring Ideas for Social Justice and Social Change
How we think about the world and our place in it matters. Social change and social justice aren't just about social movements and collective action, they're also about ideas - why society is the way it is, who benefits and who pays, how the world might be different, how we might get there. In this workshop we'll take a tour through some key concepts advanced by radical political thinkers (alienation, exploitation, hegemony, liberation, oppression, revolution) and consider them in relation…
Find out more »Screening: Cultures of Resistance
The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering withCinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and open to the public. Monday, December 14, 6:30pm - Central Branch Library, Room 301 Cultures of Resistance (2010, director: Iara Lee) In 2003, on the eve of the…
Find out more »How to talk to your racist uncle (or almost anyone else) about the Paris attacks (or other issues): a skill-building workshop
This workshop will help us develop our capacities and confidence to talk one-on-one to other people about racism and other difficult but crucial topics.
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