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1. January Events
2. Courses @ TWB in 2005
3. MEDALERT - Fundraiser for Sri Lanka Thursday, January 13.

1. January Events

> Susan Willis presents a talk: “Quien es mas macho? The Abu Ghraib Photos”.
The photos taken at the Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, conflate and render visible two of America’s grubby secrets: lynching and pornography. In talking about Abu Ghraib, Susan Willis considers the history of the KKK and its relationship to current U.S. foreign policy.

Tuesday, January 18 at 6pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St.
Free admission, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend.
Co-presented with the Centre for Media and Culture in Education (OISE/UT) and Cinema Studies (U of T).

> Celebrated author Dionne Brand reads from her new novel “What We All Long For”(Knopf Canada).
This wonderful book is an exploration of the friendship between four artsy urban young people, three women and a man, friends from high school, who are now in their 20s living in Toronto. The book takes the reader into each of the four friends' histories, their relationships with their parents, siblings, jobs, friends. The fifth character is the long-lost brother of one of the women, who was separated from his parents at a young age as they were fleeing Vietnam. He has lived a marginal and violent life, and the book describes his journey from Vietnam, to various refugee camps and cities in Asia and finally, to Canada.

Wednesday, January 26
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. W. Doors 8pm
Opening performances 8:30pm Reading 9pm
Tickets are $5 to $10 sliding scale (No Refunds) and are on sale at TWB or online http://www.womensbookstore.com

Co-sponsored by Knopf Canada and CKLN 88.1

> Toronto Women's Bookstore and Routledge Present a booklaunch and reading with:
Julia Sudbury, editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex and contributors.
Friday, January 28 at 6pm
Faculty of Social Work, 3rd Floor, 246 Bloor St. W.
At Bedford/St. George subway.
Suggested donation $5 to $20
All proceeds go to the Prisoner Justice Action Committee Co-sponsored by Routledge Publishing

> Lesbianas Latinoamericanas
An evening with Juanita Ramos, editor of “Companeras: Latina Lesbians” and Tatianna de la tierra, author of “Porcupine Love and Other Tales from my Papaya” and “Pintame una mujer peligrosa/Paint Me a Dangerous Woman”
Saturday, January 29 at 6pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St.
Free event, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend.
This event is co-sponsored by Latin American Coalition Against Racism (LACAR)

Watch for our Bright and Shiny Spring 2005 Events Calendar, available at the store after February 1, 2005.

2. Courses @ TWB in 2005
Interested in expanding your horizons? Self-improvement in 2005? Would you like to try something that you haven’t tried before? Take a 2-week or 4-week or 8-week course with us!!
Enrollment has already begun for the following five courses for February, March and April. Join now and meet new people, have some fun, and learn something new! All courses are wheelchair accessible. We ask that all participants who attend courses be scent- and fragrance-free. For full course descriptions, please refer to our bright yellow course booklet available at the store, or visit our website. All courses are held at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore on the main floor.

I. Two Tuesdays in February:
My Funny Valentine: For Everyone Who Dreads This Holiday and Wishes it Wouldn't Come Around So Often.
With instructor Siobhán Conway-Hicks
Tuesday February 8 and Tuesday February 15

Do you have a story of great expectations gone flat? How about painfully dramatic dates with Valentine’s Day? This workshop runs for two weeks - pre and post Valentine's Day 2005. Together, we will tell our stories of Valentine's Days. We will identify who or what we have passion for. We will have the best ever Valentine 2005.

About the Instructor: Siobhán Conway-Hicks was dumped just before the Valentine’s Semi-Formal in high-school. Ever dramatic, Siobhán brings experience in facilitating groups and making things, as well as working with difficult topics for a lighthearted transition to something new for the members of the group.

Two Tuesday evenings in February 2005
Tues February 8 and Tues February 15 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $25 (No Refunds)

II. Back by Popular Demand!!
Four Mondays in February:
Money 101 for Women. Facilitated by Amanda Mills, founder of Loose Change

In this workshop we will examine our relationship to money and begin to move money out of the driver’s seat so we can reclaim our place behind the wheel. This workshop endeavours to set you up with a toolkit of financial skills and the emotional support to take a closer look at your own money and the myths that intensify money’s importance in your life. This course is open to women who want to gain better control over money and its impact on their lives. There will be no need to disclose anything about your own financial situation. Confidentiality is required and extended.

Week 1 Money’s Mask: A look at images and characteristics of money both personally and culturally.
Week 2 Money’s Mechanics: A review of tasks central to making our money work for us; identifying where the trouble is.
Week 3 Money’s Museum: A glimpse at our own private histories around money and its effect throughout our lives.
Week 4 Money’s Magic: A celebration of our discoveries and increased respect for our feelings and desires from which our financial decisions flow.

Drawing from her abilities as a financial therapist, in 2001 Amanda Mills created Loose Change Inc: the place where money and feelings meet. With 19 years experience as a business management consultant for small business and the arts, Amanda is a Certified Financial Counselor, a tax professional and a financial trouble-shooter. She is also a crisis counselor with a best-selling book on recovering from trauma.

Monday evenings in February 6:30pm to 9pm Mon Feb 7, 14, 21 and 28
Fee: $52 (No Refunds)

III. Four Mondays in March: Getting Knitty With It.
With instructor Jae Steele

This course is geared towards beginner, lapsed, and a-wee-bit-beyond-beginner knitters. There will be opportunities to make any of the following: toque, scarf, armwarmers/wrist cuffs or variations on any of those. A handful of patterns (some with samples) will be offered, though participants should feel free to bring their own and we'll see what we can make of them.

Monday evening sin March: 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Fee: $52 (No refunds) IV. Eight Tuesdays in March and April:
Writing Workshop - The Short Story.
With Instructor Tamai Kobayashi

An introduction to the craft of constructing the short story (with some curious digressions). For beginners, beginners at heart or just the plain stuck and confused. All participants must come to the first session with a completed short story, which will be workshopped.

Week 1 Story and Plot, Necessary evils - conflict, crisis and resolution, Show and Tell, The Devil in the Details, exercise 1.
Week 2 Character is destiny, Presentation of character, indirect - the hidden hand of the author, direct - appearance, action, speech, thought, and when worlds collide, exercise 2.
Week 3 Point of View, Third person, second, first, and speaks to whom, Joys of the Unreliable Narrator, exercise 3
Week 4 Setting and Atmosphere, Metaphors, Allegory and Symbol, Beginnings, How to Critique, Some notes on genre, exercise 4.
Week 5 Workshopping Stories: Group 1
Week 6 Workshopping Stories Group 2
Week 7 Workshopping Stories: Group 3
Week 8 Review and Revision

About the instructor: Tamai Kobayashi is the author of Exile and the Heart (Women's Press) and Quixotic Erotic (Arsenal Pulp Press). She has written erotica, horror, speculative fiction and the literary short story.
Tuesday evenings in March and April 2005 March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and April 5, 12 and 19 from 6:30 to 9pm @ TWB Fee: $100 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 12 participants

V. Four Mondays in April: Also Back by Popular Demand:
Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism In Canada. With instructor Sheila Wilmot

This goal of this course is a theoretical and applied integrated look at white activists’ and unionists’ understanding and response to white supremacy/racism in Canada today. The course will explore the complex reasons why white folks still don’t do anti-racism very well. There will be required weekly readings, beginning with the first session. This course is open to whoever wants to take it, both people of colour and white folks alike.
THE READING PACKAGE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP THE WEEK OF MARCH 14, 2004.

Week 1: Monday, April 4: Setting of the current Canadian context for anti-racism, including Canada’s place in the global hierarchy and a look at white racism’s Canadian face.
Week 2: Monday April 11: An anti-racist, feminist & anti-capitalist look at Canadian racism’s history. Topics include: resistance; othering and christianity, race and racism; nation-building and white supremacy.
Week 3: Monday April 18: Where white activists and unionists learn about anti-racism: what activist groups, non-profit agencies, universities and union organizations teach us.
Week 4: Monday April 25: - Anti-racist organizing principles; Individual and collective challenges to racism; Anti-racist organizing for social change. The materials for this course are from the instructor's unpublished manuscript, which is based on much secondary research as well as her own experience and analysis. It is expected that participants will engage with the material from the perspective of their own experiences, analyses and social location.

About the Instructor: The anti-racism exploration in this course is not guilt-based or moralistic; rather, based on Sheila Wilmot's years as a white community organizer and what she has learned - particularly from organizers of colour; she applies an integrated set of politics to look toward a more complex, effective white anti-racism.
Monday evenings in April 2005 Monday April 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants

3. MEDALERT! Fundraiser for direct medical support to Sri Lanka.
Proceeds going to the Canadian Committee for Relief to Eastern Province www.canrelief.org
Thursday Jan 13th
Supermarket 268 Augusta & The Embassy 223 Augusta Ave
9pm - 2am
$10 - $50 sliding scale for more info e-mail: info@lalforest.com
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