On May 21, 2015, The Radical Imagination Project was pleased to host a community event titled White Ignorance and the Struggle Against Gentrification, Past and Present featuring Concordia University professor Dr. Ted Rutland, Dr. Ingrid Waldron of the Dalhousie School of Nursing, community and labour activist Lynn Jones and Halifax’s poet laureate El Jones. Here…
A presentation by Ted Rutland, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, with responses from local activists and organizers. Wednesday, May 20, 6-8pm at The Company House, 2202 Gottingen St.
A child-friendly event about idealized motherhood is constructed, directed and enforced by the state.
MY BROOKLYN (2012, Dirs. Kelly Anderson & Allison Lirish Dean, 76′) is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson’s personal journey, as a Brooklyn “gentrifier,” to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson moves to Brooklyn in 1988, lured by cheap rents and bohemian culture. By Michael…
Application Deadline Extended! The Radical Imagination Project is Hiring! The Radical Imagination Project is a socially-engaged research initiative, based at Mount Saint Vincent University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, dedicated to celebrating and enlivening radical ideas and practices in Halifax. We work collaboratively with social movements, conduct grounded participatory research, organize…
WHO: “Scholar-activists,” whatever that means WHAT: a casual and informal gathering WHEN: January 10, 4-6pm WHERE: The Company House, 2202 Gottingen st., Halifax WHY: If you’re like us, work in the neoliberal, neocolonial university is isolating, alienating, heartbreaking and exhausting. The struggle against capitalism, colonialism, heteropatriarchy and white-supremacy in the classroom, in the institution and…
From mortgages to payday loans to student debt to moral obligations, how does debt shape our lives and our society? And how can we overcome it? Join us for provocative films, followed by moderated discussion. A collaboration between The Radical Imagination Project and the Cinema Politica Network and the Halifax Public Libraries. More information: http://radicalimagination.org/debt-our-common-problem/ Check out…
