Karonhyawake Jeff Doreen is a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario. He sings Beatles’ songs that he translates into Kanyen’'kehá:ka, Mohawk language, as well as originals. He is a speaker and teacher of Kanyen’'kehá:ka in the Grand Erie School Board. He has also taught in Six Nations of the Grand River at the adult immersion program. Come hear this unique performance and have your mind changed about Native languages. Jeff may even have you singing a few bars....in Mohawk. This is a rare treat. Jeff rarely comes to the city. Don't miss it.
Special Event
Introducing the first statistical model of a capitalist metabolic rift
Capitalism separates our economy from the cooperative commons and regenerative biosystems upon which we all depend. In effect, capital aims at projecting both nature and people off Earth proper into a distinct space where alienated nature and alienated people interact on commoditization’s terms alone. Livestock and crops, and the farmers who tend them, have been beamed up into this new social metabolism.
What are the effects of such an agroeconomics on the evolution and spread of pathogens that emerge there?...
11-12 Week Class
Spring Fever
These four selected writers have provided an array of work to counter the despair of late capital during this period when the scales are weighted far more towards barbarity and continual degradation of our biosphere, than towards what should be an equally shared planet by all who inhabit it. Please join us this for close readings and discussions of works spanning the last century and much of the globe.
G. / John Berger
Berger sets the story of G. against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi and the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War, and the...