[IPSM] Fwd: Upcoming ASN events

[Robin Taylor]

recent news: Aboriginal Students' Network wins SSMU award for Best New Club of
the year, likely because of events like these:



Upcoming ASN Events :

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Wednesday, March 30th:

3rd Annual ASN Cabaret Night

@ Café Sarajevo  (2080 Clark St.)

Featuring live performances by Dale Boyle, Kathy Phippard, shalan joudry and
other guests

Doors open at 7:30pm
$7 cover charge


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Video Screening:  `Issues in Environmental Sciences: Aboriginal Perspectives`

Video by shalan joudry  U3 Environmental Biology student
Interviews with Ellen Gabriel, Janine Metallic, the Kahnawake Environmental
Protection Office, and more.

1st screening:  Thursday, March 31st at 6:30pm:
Macdonald Campus,  Macdonald-Stewart building room MS2-046

2nd screening:  Thursday, April 7th  at  3:00pm:
Downtown campus,  First Peoples House 3505 Peel St.


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Tuesday, April 5th at 1:00p.m:

ASN joins with OFNIE to host the next guest lecture in the ASN series

Mohawk scholar Rick Monture

Where:  Education building  room 223


‘What have you left to us of land’: Resistance, Performance, and Protest at
Grand River, 1784 – 2004

For over two hundred years, members of the Six Nations of the Grand River have
demonstrated an unwillingness to cooperate with the colonial agenda of Canada.
While resistance and protest have taken many forms over the decades, several
notable individuals have displayed a remarkable consistency of purpose in their
struggle to assert sovereignty and Native rights, and to call attention to
social and environmental injustice that takes place at the local and
international level.  In looking at the work of Joseph Brant (Mohawk chief),
Pauline Johnson (poet), Robbie Robertson (songwriter), and Shelley Niro
(artist), this presentation will examine how this diverse group of Iroquois
individuals has incorporated cultural and historical traditions to forge
statements of protest that resonate beyond the borders of their community. More
importantly, these performative acts of protest are evidence that First Nation
intellectual traditions provide creative ways to think about the problems that
continue to exist in this country - and to envision their possible resolutions.


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on behalf of
Aboriginal Students Network
McGill University
aboriginalsn at safe-mail.net