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SUMMARY:POSTER EXHIBITION: Art is a Weapon: Revolutionary and Antifascist Posters from Spain 1936-39
DESCRIPTION:Poster exhibition runs April 15 to June 20\, 2026.\nGongfu Bao Restaurant\, 365 Bank Street\nFree entry\nOrganized by the Education for Liberation Collective \nIn 1930s Spain\, artists\, organizers\, unions\, and leftist political parties produced thousands of stunning posters promoting revolutionary social change and opposing fascism. In 1936\, the Spanish Civil War began when fascists organized a coup to overthrow Spain’s democratically-elected leftist Popular Front government\, composed of a coalition of socialists\, anarchists\, communists\, workers’ organizations and social movements. From 1936-38\, thousands of international volunteers\, including at least 1500 Canadians\, went to Spain to join the Popular Front in the fight against fascism. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy enthusiastically supported the coup\, and the fascists ultimately won\, installing a dictatorship that would last until the late 1970s. \nArt is a Weapon: Revolutionary and Antifascist Posters from Spain 1936-39 presents reproductions of more than 25 striking posters that teach us the history of revolutionary Spain and the Spanish Civil War. But these posters are more than just artefacts of the past. They illuminate a history that extends into the present moment and to struggles we continue to fight today\, from opposing fascism\, fighting for gender liberation\, defending children’s genuine health and well-being\, and defending the dignity and well-being of working people to fighting for environmental sustainability\, for public education and art\, and supporting international solidarity. \nThe exhibition also includes reproductions of artefacts from the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion\, the Canadian contingent of the International Brigades that fought against fascism in Spain.\nCurated by Claire Nicolson-Hurtig (@encrenoire.illustration\, Posters for Palestine 2024 exhibition\, member of Education for Liberation Collective) \nPosters are reproduced from the collections of the Fundacion Pablo Iglesias (Madrid\, Spain)\, the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections of Brandeis University (USA)\, and the Centre de Recursos per Aprenentatge i la Investigació at the University of Barcelona (Spain).
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/poster-exhibition-art-is-a-weapon-revolutionary-and-antifascist-posters-from-spain-1936-39/
LOCATION:Gongfu Bao\, 365 Bank St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P1Y2\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Education for Liberation Collective":MAILTO:educationforliberation@protonmail.com
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Long Sixties with Joan Kuyek and Lib Spry`
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Apr 21st\, 2026\n\n\n6:30 PM\n\n\n–\n\n\n8:30 PM\n\n\n GCTC\, 1233 Wellington St. W\n\n\n\n\n\nOctopus Books welcomes Joan Kuyek and Lib Spry to celebrate the Ottawa launch of The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left\, edited by Jim Harding. \nSharing their stories as lifelong activists\, Joan and Lib will reflect on their victories and defeats\, their personal and political challenges\, and how their perspectives deepened and changed along the way. Join us for a conversation on how the lessons of the past can help inform our ongoing fight for a more just and equitable future. \nThis event will be held at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in their upstairs lobby. Light refreshments will be served and the theatre’s bar will be open for beverage sales. Doors open at 6:30pm\, program begins at 7pm. \nAbout the book \nIn The Long Sixties\, seven veteran political activists from the sixties\, all still engaged in campaigns and organizations across Canada\, tell their stories of transformational activism. This book provides hope\, chronicling the significant gains — in advancing peace\, international human rights\, Indigenous rights\, women’s and 2SLGBTQ+ rights\, workers’ rights\, and environmental protection. Weathered voices open an intergenerational conversation about social solidarity and transformation to address the grave crises we face globally and nationally\, including climate catastrophe\, escalating warfare\, extreme wealth inequality\, ethno-nationalism and a heightened continental threat to Canada’s sovereignty. \nJoan Newman Kuyek is a writer\, researcher and community organizer living in Ottawa. In 1965-70\, she worked with the Kingston Community Project (KCP)\, which was instrumental in getting changes to the Landlord and Tenant Act and establishing the first Legal Clinic in Ontario. She has been an organizer all her life\, living in Sudbury from 1970 to 1999 and then in Ottawa as community-focused mining activist. In Sudbury\, she helped organize Women Helping Women\, Wives Supporting the Strike and Better Beginnings Better Futures Project. She was also a founding National Coordinator of MiningWatch Canada. She is the author of many articles and four books that share her learnings form these experiences. \nLib Spry has been theatre-maker for over sixty years as a director\, writer\, producer\, educator\, and translator\, specializing in political\, non-traditional\, clown and physical theatre. She is a recognized teacher of Theatre of the Oppressed. She has founded three theatre companies: Theatre Agile (2011 to present)\, Passionate Balance (1989-1996) and\, with Shirley Barrie\, the award-winning Straight Stitching Productions (1986-1993). She has published in Canadian Theatre Review\, Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada\, alt.theatre\, and has a chapter in the book Playing Boal. She is presently working on a solo show It’s in Our Bones\, and ¡Unsettling!\, a life-size board-game for settlers to look at their relationships to Indigenous realities. \nCo-sponsored by Fernwood Publishing. \nThis event is free and open to all. Please RSVP to help us know how many guests to expect.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/book-launch-the-long-sixties-with-joan-kuyek-and-lib-spry/
LOCATION:Great Canadian Theatre Company\, 1233 Wellington St. W\, Ottawa
ORGANIZER;CN="Octopus Books":MAILTO:octopus@octopusbooks.ca
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SUMMARY:digestion\, maturation\, and death - Queer Death Salon
DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \nCome try on a lens through which we see death as a natural part of cyclical human maturation\, and digestion of experience as an ongoing\, mundane yet essential practice of being with death. \nhannah is a somatics practitioner\, bodyworker & facilitator who roots her work in the unshakeable knowing that the wisdom of your body is your birthright\, and that this wisdom is the heart of transformation & healing for personal & collective liberation.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/digestion-maturation-and-death-queer-death-salon/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Opening event for "Art is a Weapon" Poster Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:In 1930s Spain\, artists\, organizers\, unions\, and leftist political parties produced thousands of stunning posters promoting revolutionary social change and opposing fascism. In 1936\, the Spanish Civil War began when fascists organized a coup to overthrow Spain’s democratically-elected leftist Popular Front government\, composed of a coalition of socialists\, anarchists\, communists\, workers’ organizations and social movements. From 1936-38\, thousands of international volunteers\, including at least 1500 Canadians\, went to Spain to join the Popular Front in the fight against fascism. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy enthusiastically supported the coup\, and the fascists ultimately won\, installing a dictatorship that would last until the late 1970s. \nArt is a Weapon: Revolutionary and Antifascist Posters from Spain 1936-39 presents reproductions of more than 25 striking posters that teach us the history of revolutionary Spain and the Spanish Civil War. But these posters are more than just artefacts of the past. They illuminate a history that extends into the present moment and to struggles we continue to fight today\, from opposing fascism\, fighting for gender liberation\, defending children’s genuine health and well-being\, and defending the dignity and well-being of working people to fighting for environmental sustainability\, for public education and art\, and supporting international solidarity. \nThe exhibition also includes reproductions of artefacts from the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion\, the Canadian contingent of the International Brigades that fought against fascism in Spain.\nCurated by Claire Nicolson-Hurtig (@encrenoire.illustration\, Posters for Palestine 2024 exhibition\, member of Education for Liberation Collective) \nPosters are reproduced from the collections of the Fundacion Pablo Iglesias (Madrid\, Spain)\, the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections of Brandeis University (USA)\, and the Centre de Recursos per Aprenentatge i la Investigació at the University of Barcelona (Spain). \n\nOpening event for Art is a Weapon: Revolutionary and Antifascist Posters from Spain 1936–39\n\nEvent Timeline\n\n7:00pm – Doors open \n7:30pm – Presentation by exhibition curator Claire Nicolson-Hurtig\n8:30pm – Snacks by Gongfu Bao!\n10:00pm – End of event \n\n\n\nMasking: Please Note \n7:00–8:30pm – Masks will be required and provided.\n8:30–10:00pm – Masks will be optional and people will be eating and drinking in the space\, and on the patio if weather permits.\n\nPoster and Zine Sale!\nWe will have Spanish revolutionary and antifascist posters and postcards as well as Education for Liberation zines available for purchase!\nAll proceeds will go to cover the costs of the exhibition (archival works display fees\, high quality poster reproduction printing\, publicity materials\, space rentals\, frames\, and other miscellaneous supplies).\nPayment methods: Cash (preferred)\, e-transfer\, and tap.\n\nAccessibility Information\n\n\nHEPA filter rated for volume of space\nHVAC System\nStopgap ramp at entrance\nWheelchair access throughout the space – floor is level. The main aisle through the restaurant is 3 feet wide but narrows to 2 feet 10 inches wide in one part.\nWashrooms are partially accessible and have handrails; doors are not wide enough for wheelchair entry.\n\n\nWe aim for this event to be a welcoming and community-oriented space! Feel free to come by at any point in the evening\, bring a friend\, and spend some time with the exhibition.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/opening-event-for-art-is-a-weapon-poster-exhibition/
LOCATION:Gongfu Bao\, 365 Bank St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P1Y2\, Canada
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