More than anything else, women’s self-defense classes are about literally embodying resistance, rejecting a societal narrative that tacitly allows misogynistic violence and recentering women’s safety and power.

Misha Pam Dick will be reading with Betsy Warland and Oana Avasilichioaei for Zutique 7. Thursday May 3, 8pm

Our current Godberd Residency hosts playwright Andrew Jamieson as he prepares his play “Who’s Afraid” to show at Godberd in May.

Oana Avasilichioaei will guest-host the next Zutique reading – with Betsy Warland (Vancouver) and Misha Pam Dick (NYC) – on Thursday, May 3

Performance installation @ ORO (May 17-25) Conor and Julian have been together for years. Their lives, their selves, are entangled. They were happy, or content. Now they’re changing, they’re growing, they’re separating. Tonight, they come home from a party and spend the rest of the night entertaining, loving, and torturing each other. Is this yet another night of fun and games, or have things changed?

Montreal producer talks about noise and physicality ahead of her set April 13 at Brasserie Beaubien for Live Analog DANCE Rhythms v 2

Errhead talked with producer and Temple Records founder R Weng! He plays April 13 at Brasserie Beaubien for Live Analog Dance Rhythms v2

Coming at you by way of an exclusive Godberd debut, this brand new Boogieman track features driving low end and hypnotic arpeggiated trills. Recorded live with analog sound sources, the harmonics and delivery are as colourful as the Boogieman mask.

Mark Francis Johnson is the author of Can of Human Heat, Treatise on Luck,and After Such Knowledge, as well as numerous shorter works. He lives in Philadelphia, where he sells antiquarian books and rare records out of his small shop, Hiding Place.

NICOLE RAZIYA FONG lives in Montreal. Her first book of poetry is forthcoming from Talonbooks in Spring 2019.

“Quebec cinema is on the rise and is being recognized around the world. There’s a real signature in Quebec cinema that’s fun to integrate into Indigenous cinema as well. There’s a real lack of Indigenous Francophone films, so I’m hoping to fill that gap.”

The following dialogue between Mercedes Eng and Fred Moten is excerpted from the new edition of Eng’s Mercenary English, which documents – among many things – the resistance to the gentrification of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, historically a working-class neighbourhood that includes many of the city’s historic and living communities of colour.

”Through fact with texture, atmosphere and affect,” Cecily Nicholson’s poems compose the possible syntaxes and slogans of collective resistance.

Phoebe Fregoli has written and directed a play adaptation of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red!