Gendai: Screening Hashima, Japan 2002 and Public Discussion, Mar 28

     
 
Image credit: Hashima, Japan 2002, Film still ©CM von Hausswolff/T Nordanstad, 2002
 

Film Screening and Public Discussion
Wednesday, March 28th
Gendai Workstation
1265 Bloor St. West

$5 – 10 suggested donation

Door opens at 7:30pm
Screening starts at 8pm

Join us on Wednesday March 28th at the Gendai Workstation, for a film screening of Hashima, Japan 2002 by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad and a discussion with artist Mitchell Akiyama and scholar Eric Cazdyn, moderated by film programmer Aliza Ma. The screening event will offer a critical point of intersection between the sound installation Seismology as metaphor for empathy by artist Mitchell Akiyama recently on exhibit at the Gendai Workstation, Eric Cazdyn’s essay Semi-ology of a Disaster or, Toward a Non-Moralizing Materialism in Scapegoat journal issue 02 Materialism and a premier of Hashima, Japan 2002.


Hashima, Japan 2002
The world’s most densely populated civilization in history, and a full society of 5000 people living on an island 140 meters wide and 400 meters long existed for nearly 80 years until Mitsubishi suddenly closed the coal mining down. In the crazy ruins of a 20th century madness, walks one of the men who grew up, and was forced to leave in 1970. He tells his story among the almost untouched buildings, where remnants of daily life remains as symbols for a sociey much like our own. The man wants to make it into a museum, but painfully realizes that decay cannot be frozen, and even less restored. (from http://nordanstad.tripod.com/)
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ONN Webinars: Network Builders and The Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (Bill 65)

 

Friday, March 23 2012

Upcoming Webinars —
 Register Today!

Network Builders: Designing the Right Structures and Processes to Make it Work  

Offered by the Ontario Volunteer Centre’s Network (OVCN) in partnership with ONN and sponsored by Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Presenter: Linda Mollenhauer, Mollenhauer Consulting.

Target audiences: 

1.  Nonprofit organizations who are: a) currently in a network or collaboration and are wanting to ensure they have taken the appropriate steps to build their structure and processes; and, b) exploring or just establishing a network or collaboration and want to take the right steps forward.

2.  Funders, intermediaries and capacity builders: funders, including foundations, corporations, governments, United Ways, intermediaries and capacity builders, who are supporting networks/collaborations and want to learn about the key decisions points which non-profit organizations face.

Description: 

With today’s complexity of issues and the pressure to work smarter, not harder, non-profit organizations are increasingly building networks or collaborations as a way to weave together and create capacities that get better leverage and results. But the key challenge for many network and collaboration builders is to ensure they are designing a network that will work effectively. Typical organizational structures and processes don’t work the same way for networks.

This webinar will help non-profit Board, management or staff members or funders and capacity builders to understand the critical choices and decisions required to put the right structure and processes in place. It will be of interested to those who are just establishing a network or collaboration and want to understand the building blocks or those who already have an established one, but want to ensure it’s built on solid foundations. You will learn about the important steps of finding unifying purpose, identifying members, choosing the organizational and governance structure and getting the work done. As well, you’ll have the opportunity to share your own experiences and hear from others. Spaces will be limited.

Dates: 

March 30, 2012, 12-1:30pm (Eastern)  Cost: Free. Register Here.

April 25, 2012, 12-1:30pm (Eastern)  Cost:  Free.  Register here.

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Webinar: Understanding the New Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (Bill 65)

ONN is holding a webinar on the ONCA to help you better understand the basic features of the Act, and how it will affect your organization, both with and witho
ut our proposed amendments. This session will provide you with a sufficient overview to begin transition planning.

Hosted by the ONN and presented by ONN Policy Advisor, Lynn Eakin, this information is best suited for Executive Directors, Board Presidents, Treasurers and Secretaries, but all are welcome to join. Spaces are limited. 

Dates:

March 28, 5:30-7pm (Evening session. Spaces left)

April 5, 12-1:30pm (Spaces left)

Cost:

General – $60

ONN Supporters – $30 (Sign Up to Become a Supporter Here)                      

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Aluna Cafe TONIGHT! FemCab this Thursday


Aluna Theatre
A Latin­-Canadian company encouraging new hybrids of performance

 

Una compañía Latino Canadiense que fomenta nuevos híbridos teatrales

 

ALUNA CAFÉ TONIGHT

Monday March 26, 2012

Cortázar

 

 

(Free admission)

DOORS OPEN at 7:00 p.m.

 

In English and Spanish

 

Aluna Café invites you to our session Conservación de Cortázar, a study of Cortázar’s short story, Letter to a Young Lady in Paris, presented by Carlos Gonzalez-Vio. Originally from Argentina, Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) has been recognized as one of the leading writers of the Latin American literary Boom. This reading in Spanish and English explores translation and interpretation of a text challenging the way we interpret the written word.

 

Facilitating the session, Alejandro Zamora, professor of Hispanic Studies at York University (Glendon College) will lead us into the magical universe of Cortázar.

 

Join us at Aluna’s studio: 1 Wiltshire Ave., studio 128 Toronto

 

TEL. 416 203-2535

 

DIRECTIONS:  Aluna’s Sutdio is a little hidden gem.

 

-Take bus #168 from the Dundas West Station

-Get off at the first stop AFTER Symington and Dupont

-Walk half a block south to Adrian and Symington, TURN LEFT

Walk one block east to the STOP sign and you are at the Wiltshire Studios

Turn Right into the Parking lot and go straight toward the train tracks

TURN Left into the courtyard and look for STUDIO 128

(see map below)

 

 

Hoy:  Carta a una señorita en París, presentado por Carlos Gonzalez-Vio. El autor argentino Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) ha sido reconocido como uno de los escritores más importantes del movimiento literario latinoamericano del Boom. Esta lectura bilingüe en inglés y en español explora el mundo de la traducción y la interpretación de un texto, cuestionando nuestra manera de interpretar la palabra escrita.

 

Nuestro invitado, Alejandro Zamora, profesor de estudios hispánicos en la Universidad de York

(Glendon College) facilitará nuestro viaje al universo mágico de Cortázar.

 

Entrada gratuita

 


COMO  LLEGAR:

 

-BUS #168 Symington North desde Dundas West Station

-Bajase en la primera parada  después de  Symington y Dupont

-Camine media cuadra al sur hasta Adrian y Symington

-Gire a la izquierda y camine  una cuadra hasta el STOP

Gire  a la derecha entrando al parqueadero

-Camine derecho hasta  las carrileras del tren

-Gire a la izquierda y entre en el courtyard donde encontrará el studio 128

 

 

 

ALUNA THEATRE SUPPORTS

a Panamerican Routes / Rutas Panamericanas Festival partner

Nightwood Theatre

 

 

 

 

FemCab 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012 / 8pm

Brigantine Room / Harbourfront Centre

Tickets $25

Call 416-944-1740 x 5 to order today!

Elvira Kurt hosts FemCab 2012, Nightwood’s annual International Women’s day celebration. This award-winning stand up comedian and Second City veteran promises to make the 29th FemCab a side-splitting and commemorative event.

Along with host Elvira Kurt and resident DJ Cozmic Cat!  There will be appearances by:

Olivia Chow
DJ Cozmic Cat
Rosina Kazi
Dayna McLeod
Motion
Andrea O’Reilly
Evalyn Parry
Lisa Pijuan-Nomura
Raging Asian Women
Suba Sankaran
Shoshana Sperling
Anna Willats
Kristyn Wong-Tam

 

 


 

                    

 

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