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Christine

Monday, February 10, 2014

Bringing you Events for Week of February 10, 2014


Events:
  
Tuesday, February 11, 2014-7pm- Young Lakota Film Screening and Discussion
Screening followed by a discussion with Native Youth Sexual Health Network.
@ Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue

$5-$10 suggested donation

Tuesday, February 11, 2014-7:30pm-11pm- Book Thug’s 10th Anniversary Party
Where: Monarch Tavern @ 12 Clinton Street (1 block south of College)
PWYC. Suggested $5.00.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014- OPEN MIC @ Ciro’s with Dave DeLeary and Glen Gould
Time-8pm-2am
Where: Ciro’s Restaurant 1316 Bloor Street. West

Come out of the cold, keep warm and join us for live music, food & a beverage or two! Bring your guitar and share your talents; spoken word, performance or a few tunes!

Acoustic guitar, bass guitar and digital drums available !!!

Ciro's is at the NW corner of the intersection of Bloor & Lansdowne, just steps away from Lansdowne subway station !!!


Wednesday February 12, 2014-6pm-9pm Muskrat Magazine, Toronto & York Region Métis Council, and The Sound of My Heart Collective present:

Honouring Indigenous Women Booklaunch & Fundraiser
Hearts of Nations - Vol. 2

Featuring Readings from Guest Writers:
Angela Mashford - Pringle
Cristina Lai
Tera Beaulieu
Zainab Amadahy
Faith Turner

Special Guest Speaker:
Audrey Huntley, co-founder of No More Silence will discuss the new community run database documenting violent deaths of Indigenous women/Two-Spirit and Trans people

Also featuring Hand Drum Group (tba)

Come join us at the newly opened Toronto Birth Centre, 525 Dundas Street East for an evening to honour Indigenous women. Light refreshments will be served. Families welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

Donated proceeds go towards Drummers & Community-Run Database - Event is FREE!!


February 13, 2014-1pm-6pm- Canadian Blood Services Blood Drive
Where: Canadian Blood Services, 67 College St.

One person every minute in Canada needs blood. It's in us to give. Together we can change lives!

A bus will be available at 2:10pm and 4:10pm to pick up students and return them to the Front Steps of Hart House 7 Hart House Circle. Otherwise students can walk over to 67 College St. (Corner of College & Elizabeth) to donate blood any time between 1-6pm on Thurs. Feb 13. Refreshments are available following your donation!

To register:
http://www.multifaith.utoronto.ca/Events-And-Programs/Blood-Drive-Feb-13-2014.htm

Co-sponsored by Health Promotions, Health and Wellness, Student Life, Hillel of Greater Toronto, the Muslim Student Association, the Multi-Faith Centre, the Nursing Society, Agape Impact, the Coptic Orthodox Student Association, University of Toronto Canadian Blood Services Youth Committee, and the Graduate Students’ Union.

Friday February 14, 2014-12:30pm-1:30pm- 9th Annual Strawberry Ceremony in Honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Those Who Have Died Violent Deaths by Colonialism:

Strawberry Ceremony with Wanda Whitebird begins at 12:30 Police Headquarters 40 College Street at Bay, Toronto

Community Feast catered by NaMeRes at the 519 Church Street Community Centre; 519 Church Street following the rally.

Please leave your agency and organizations signs and banners at home and make some in honour of women who have died instead.

Tokens will be available at the rally.

 
Monday February 17, 2014-8pm-10pm-The Shittiest Warrior: The Ryan McMahon Ontario Tour Comes to Toronto @ the Central, 603 Markham Street, Toronto, ON

TICKETS: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ryan-mcmahon-comedy-ontario-tour-toronto-tickets-10075553251

Ryan McMahon has hit the road to tour his newest album The Shittiest Warrior! Touted as the Native George Carlin, comedian Ryan McMahon returns to Toronto on Monday, February 17 at The Central for an unapologetic but brutally honest standup comedy show about the relationship between Indian Country and the mainstream.

Ryan McMahon is one of North America’s fastest rising comedians. He has appeared at the Just For Laughs Festival and Winnipeg Comedy Festival and was the first Native comedian to ever record a full-length comedy special for CBC TV. His most recent album spent 6 months at the top of the iTunes comedy charts and he just finished a live recording at CBC Radio 1 to a sold-out audience in Edmonton. The CBC show will be aired

The Shittiest Warrior is a loose, fast-paced and silly but always-honest look at society from the perspective of a “Native dude.” McMahon’s comedy is irreverent and boundary pushing as he focuses his attention on the good, the bad and the ugly of Indian Country. Ryan’s show will sell out and is not to be missed.

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