Hacking the Culture: Speakers Series on Media Activism and Social Justice is a series of free events that encourage open dialogue and invites the public to look critically at the global mediascape and investigate power and privilege in society.

All events are FREE

PART 3

Affectively Queer with Reena Katz

Thursday March 5

LIB 172, 350 Victoria St.

PART 2

Migrant Media: An Evening with documentary filmmaker Min Sook Lee

Min Sook Lee will be discussing art and activism and how her films about/with migrant workers are a tool for migrant worker justice. Showing excerpts from her award-winning documentaries, she will talk about building a sense of authorial voice and strengthening community engagement over time. After her presentation she'll be joined by Chris Ramsaroop of Justicia for Migrant Workers for a conversation and q&a.;

Min Sook Lees filmography includes: El Contrato Cesar E. Chavex Black Eagle Award, about the lives of Mexican migrant workers in Ontario, and and Hogtown, an analysis of the politics of policing in Torontos city hall Best Canadian Documentary Prize, Hot Docs . Her latest documentary The Real Inglorious Bastards received a Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary. She teaches documentary filmmaking at Ryerson and is currently in production on a new documentary, Migrant Dreams, about migrant women workers in Canada.

PART I

Hands On: Artists/Activists Discuss State & Police Violence

Thursday January 29th from 7-8:30pm in Ryersons School of Image Arts 122 Bond Street, Room 307

In the wake of police crackdowns on civil liberties across Europe, a critical look at the role of police and state in civil society is more important than ever. Ryersons Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought presents a forum featuring OISE professor and activist Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, documentary filmmaker Amar Wala, new media artist Cheryl LHirondelle, and photographer Abdi Osman.

This event invites artists and thinkers to discuss how they address state and police violence in their own practice, followed by a moderated question and answer period.

Dr. Rinaldo Walcott is a professor in Social Justice Education at OISE, author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada and the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism. Amar Wala is the winner of the Hot Docs Emerging Filmmaker Award for Secret Trial 5, a sobering examination of the Canadas use of security certificates. New media artist Cheryl LHirondelle is the past recipient of two imagineNATIVE New Media Awards, was a curator for imagineNATIVE Film Media Arts Festival and is a member of OCADUs Indigenous Education Advisory Council. Abdi Osman is a Somali-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on questions of black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim and queer identities.