It Gets Better Canada is offering a zine-making workshop celebrating queer joy and envisioning queer futures for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth!
Throughout this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore and express their visions of joy, resilience, and possibility within the queer community and their allies. Participants will be invited to craft their own zine reflecting their personal identity and aspirations.
This workshop offers a space for youth to connect, imagine, and celebrate the vibrant futures they envision for themselves and their community.
Location: Sackville Public Library, 636 Sackville Drive, Lower Sackville
6:30 p.m.
Accessibility in Relation to Food, Land, and Art
The YouthProject is excited to announce an Accessibility Futurisms Panel on “Accessibility in relation to Food, Land, and Art”. This panel will explore the tangible nature of these themes and how they relate to accessibility.
This panel will take place online, and registration is required. You can register via the provided link: https://forms.gle/gzxvuaNUDQNuxiQu8 or by finding the link in our linktree.
Come join us online. You can read about our lovely panelists below:
Calendula Sack (she/her) is an L’nu & Nehiyaw, Two-Spirit trans woman from Sipekne’katik, Indian Brook Reservation. She is currently living and thriving in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) on the unceded/unsurrendered lands of Mi’kma’ki. Calendula works as the BIPOC Support Services Educator at the Halifax Youth Project & she is the recipient of the Candy Palmater Award in 2022. Calendula’s biggest passions include: practicing decolonial ways of teaching & holding space, uplifting young brilliance, coffee, horror movies, video games, large floral dresses, turtleneck sweaters & candles.
Cinthia Arias Auz (she/ella) is an Ecuadorian artist and writer based in Kjipuktuk. Her writing has been published in Visual Arts News, Public Parking and Billie Magazine. She is currently Artistic Co-Director at Eyelevel Artist-Run Centre. In this role, she established a Free Mask Bank open to the public to centre Disability Justice in arts programming. In 2024, she helped develop an Access Commitment Document and presented it on a panel titled “Access on a Shoestring Budget” at the Arts Atlantic Symposium alongside Dr. Eliza Chandler and Sally Wolchyn-Raab. She is also a co-facilitator for the Accessibility Futurisms programming at the Youth Project.
Nike Baneberry (they/them) is a mad, neurodivergent, and disabled fibro cutie, community organizer and artist living in rural Mi'kma'ki. They are a founding member of Crows' Commons Co-operative a queer/trans and disabled land sharing collective. They are passionate about community land trusts, alternative housing models, and the intersections of housing, food, and art. A founding member of The 644 Revitalization Network organization in New Germany, they help coordinate the New Germany Farmers Market, and the maintenance of the local community fridge and cooks. They hope to bring to this conversations the intersections of disability and neurodivergence in the farming world and their intense enthusiasm for building accessible rural communities and developing housing security for other queer/trans and disabled buddies.
Rae Paul (they/he), is a butch, trans and queer person of Indian-Chinese Guyanese and Sicilian descent. Originally from Toronto, they have spent the last 5 years in community-based youth work. At present, Rae is the Kitchen Coordinator at the Loaded Ladle, providing an anti-capitalist campus food option for students. He supports volunteers to cook nutritious and free meals for community members in South End Halifax and beyond. Rae is a proponent of the power food has to bring people into conversation across difference. They believe strongly in the vital role food has in creating stronger and resilient communities.
This event will be recorded to be repurposed as a resource and shared with our funder, Accessibility Standards Canada. The recording will not be shared outside of these purposes.
This event is open to all to attend, but our prioritized audience is 2SLGBTQIA+ folks, Youth, and Disabled folks.
ASL Interpretation is provided.
You can email Robin at robin@youthproject.ns.ca with any questions you might have about the program.
Location: Zoom
7:00 p.m.
Tracy & Martina Live
Tracy and Martina are two fun-loving best friends from Cape Breton. As their motto suggests, “savin’ money, savin’ time, for gettin’ loaded,” Tracy and Martina are experts when it comes to partying on a dime. Despite living in a rural post-industrial community, these girls always find entertainment and glamour in everyday activities.
Whether they’re playing bingo, getting groceries, shootin’ the sh!t, or going out, Tracy and Martina never miss an opportunity to cake on some makeup and cause a scene.
Tracy and Martina are doing 3 lives shows in Halifax: March 17, 18, and 19. More info online.
Tickets: Sold out.
Location: Light House Arts Centre, 1800 Argyle Street
8:45 p.m.
Montréal, ma belle
Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montreal, has spent her life shaped by duty — to her family, her culture, and a loveless marriage. But when she meets Camille, a spirited young Québécoise, a long-buried desire is awakened.
In the balmy and joyful Montreal summer, Feng Xia takes the radical step of choosing herself — embarking on a journey of forbidden love and long-overdue self-discovery. Her awakening becomes a profound reckoning with identity, exile, and the steep cost of liberation.
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