Riot Lung is a well-balanced introduction to a new voice. Horlick’s poems vibrate with spontaneity and yet retain an intimacy that is emotionally intoxicating. Whether reflecting on her coming of age moments within her family, or measuring the impact of both the rural and urban prairie landscapes on her life, she never strays far from how her identity as a queer writer has been shaped.

Leah Horlick is a writer, poet, and spoken word artist from Saskatoon. Her best work has earned her a Short Grain Award (2008), a place among the top 15 poets in the Canadian Independent Poetry Slam (2012), and named her a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry (2012). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in So To Speak, Canadian Dimension, GRAIN, Poetry is Dead, Plenitude, and On Nights Like This: An Anthology of Comics by Survivors. Horlick currently lives in Vancouver, where she works as the Poetry Editor for PRISM international. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsv3bQD2sk

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein

Expressive Art is a spontaneous engagement with our imagination and the power of creativity. It integrates different artistic media to aid in a process of self-exploration and healing, where participants have the opportunity to examine their emotions, thought processes and expressive qualities.

During this 8 week workshop, we will work with visual arts, writing and movement in a playful and safe environment, creating the conditions for growth, embracing new challenges, enabling ourselves to move beyond our comfort zone and imagining new possibilities of engaging with the world.

The workshop will be offered at the Toronto Women’s Book Store, an inviting and cozy environment, committed to promoting community-building, anti-oppression and feminist ideas.

The workshop will be facilitated by Ximena Moreno, a visual artist and expressive arts therapist with experience in working in the social and mental health sectors.

This book pioneers radical new directions in human-environmental relationships. With 22 international contributors; over half of whom are either women, indigenous or from traditional cultures, this volume explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples’ worldviews to critique and complement the approach of western style science. Organized into three sections – Head, Heart and Hand – this volume is a valuable resource for the scholar, student and practitioner.

Dr Lewis Williams, lead editor and contributor, is the Founding Director of K.I.N. (Koru International Network) HYPERLINK “http://www.kinincommon.com” kinincommon.com an emerging community of practice whose aim is to address ecological issues through the re-vitalization of indigenous worldviews in all cultures. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand, she is of Ngai Te Rangi (Maori) and Scottish origins. A previous Associate Professor, Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Lewis was responsible for hosting and organizing an international human ecology retreat in 2008 from which the Radical Human Ecology Project emerged. Today her international work with communities focuses on intercultural and intergenerational approaches to ecological well-being through holistic education and social action research. Her scholarship and activism are motivated by the radical change in the human condition we so deeply need at this time. HYPERLINK “http://KALewisWilliams.com” http://KALewisWilliams.com

We invite you to celebrate Indigenous Resistance with Fito Molina, Latin American singer and composer http://fitomolina.com/

Fito Molina is a well known Latin American singer and composer in Toronto. The “people’s artist”, as his friends call him, is known for his commitment to social justice and participation in multiple community and solidarity events.

Fito’s poetic and musical tradition has been linked to la Nueva Cancion movement. Fito’s most recent project is a CD titled “Pan y Luna” which he recorded with Macayo band in Toronto. Fito has had the privilege to sing alongside popular musicians such as Los Guaraguao, Amanda Martines, Luis Mejía Godoy and he has had great teachers
such as Adrián Goizueta.

In the US, Australia and other countries around the world, many midwives have been arrested and charged. Many leading experts claim there’s an international witch-hunt against midwives. But this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to injustice and denial of women’s human and civil rights. As birth increasingly becomes seen as a “medical event”, so women have frequently been denied the right to decide the circumstances and location of where and how they give birth.

Now it’s time women took back those rights.

Our hope is that through watching this film, millions of women are empowered with the knowledge of precisely what they need to do to take back those rights, to take back childbirth.There is a promise of hope. This film will reveal something huge that could be the catalyst to revolutionise maternity systems worldwide but no-one knows about it….yet.