Queering the g20: Trigger Festival
TRIGGER FESTIVAL
June 11th & 12th 2010 Raging Spoon (Venue Accessible)
The provocative and diverse TRIGGER COLLECTIVE is hosting Toronto's
second ever annual TRIGGER FESTIVAL 2010 after the huge success of the first 2009 festival!
A militantly unapologetic group of performers, facilitators, speakers,
musicians, film makers and activists will transform, evoke and
stimulate with outrageous interactive performances reclaiming the
notion of the queer survivor through art as activism and activism as
art.
TRIGGER identifies the queer survivor in the relation to the
individual experiences of: Aboriginal queers, refugee queers, raped
queers, disordered queers, diagnosed queers, queers of colour, poor
queers, fat queers, struggling queers, disabled queers, abused queers,
working queers, anti-capitalist queers, homeless queers, trans
identified queers, gender non-conforming queers, questioning queers
and unstable queers. TRIGGER celebrates the strength of each queer
within our community and their ability to survive.
TRIGGER brings together performers, artists, activists and
facilitators to address and confront shared experiences of violence,
oppression and marginalization.
By showcasing cabaret, art, music, workshops, crafts and skill
sharing, TRIGGER reclaims the notion of survival through art as
activism and activism as art.
TRIGGER is a respectful, militantly unapologetic community festival.
We are challenging the capitalist, the racist, the homophobe, the
transphobe, the rapist, the able-ist, the size-ist, the classist and
the misogynist. We are creating an interactive space that stimulates
discussion and initiates action.
This space is outrageous. This space is safe(r).
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The G8/G20 meetings took place in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people organized a peoples convergence with 40,000 people taking to the streets, standing up for justice in collaboration and solidarity!
Activists, community members, inspired and outraged individuals came together as a movement to demand justice for people and the planet. Over a week of mobilizations, events, workshops and direct actions took place in the face of state and police repression, violence and infringements on rights and freedoms.
We must continue to mobilize and build greater solidarity among our communities- an important part of this is supporting all those arrested during the G20 summit, including our allies still in detention, and those released on bail.