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Patterns Magazine: The Apathy Issue is now available for sale! Super limited edition of 115 copies and counting DOWN! Get yours today! Contact us at [email protected]! Only $40! (A steal!) 

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Please join us in the OCAD U Student Gallery (52 McCaul Street) March 11 - April 4, 2015 for APATHY/ACTION: A Campus Community Lab! 

APATHY/ACTION brings together two projects that respond to incidents of idleness and alienation on campus. Nyssa Komorowski and Megan Yetman operate the front gallery as an open publications studio, and as their production space for the Apathy issue of Patterns Magazine. The back gallery is a social space informed by interventions by Matt Apedaile, who produces DIY furniture in his painting studio to encourage sociability amongst his peers. Come make, meet, discuss, organize and socialize! Or, like, don’t. Whatever. Matt Apedaile, Nyssa Komorowski and Megan Yetman Curated by Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas

Pub Nights every Thursday! 

Thursday March 12, 5-9pm: Speakeasy, OCAD! - student feedback session and fun night hosted by OCAD Student Union  Thursday March 19, 6-10pm: Function 8 - artist talks hosted by OCAD U Student Press  Thursday March 26, 6-10pm: Sister Corita FUN-raiser! - screening of Sister Corita documentary “We Have No Art” and Corita-inspired art party co-hosted by Patterns Magazine, Shannon Gerard and Mary Tremonte Thursday April 2, 7-11pm: Pub Pub - Closing party for APATHY/ACTION residency/exhibition, and launch of Patterns Magazine

Other Events: 

Wednesday March 11, 10-11:30am: Guest Speaker - John Robinson: Regenerative Sustainability, Emerging Dialogue and Imaginary Worlds Saturday March 14, 12pm NOON: FIELD TRIP - Xpace Open House and Exhibition Tour with curator Brette Gabel Wednesday March 25, 5-6pm: Spoken Word Workshop with Lillian Allen - Join Lillian Allen’s dub, spoken word and performance class to workshop your writing and performance skills  Saturday March 28, Meeting time TBA: FIELD TRIP - Artscape Youngplace for Shannon Gerard’s Pressing Issues' self-care zine launch and event 

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Got books? Share the knowledge! Got Zines? Disseminate your work to a wider audience and connect with the OCAD U community!

Patterns Magazine is seeking donations of BOOKS, ZINES, MAGAZINES & other printed stuff for inclusion in a local pop-up reference library in March. (Toronto based)

we want: Single copy per title Donate or Loan Physical copies (already finished, printed & bound)

on any of the topics: APATHY, PRINTMAKING, PUBLICATION (including "how to" + guides + resources), POLITICAL RESISTANCE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and ACTIVISM.

DONATE NOW thru MARCH - we're running the pop-up in March and will be adding to the collection throughout the month. Let us know what you've got and we'll coordinate a drop-off!

More details about the library TBA!!

CONTACT: [email protected]

http://patternsmagazine.strikingly.com/#call-for-submissions https://www.facebook.com/events/879164502134131 http://patternsmagazine.com

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Got books? Share the knowledge! Got Zines? Disseminate your work to a wider audience and connect with the OCAD U community! 

Patterns Magazine is seeking donations of BOOKS, ZINES, MAGAZINES & other printed stuff for inclusion in a local pop-up reference library in March. (Toronto based)

we want: Single copy per title Donate or Loan Physical copies (already finished, printed & bound) 

on any of the topics: APATHY, PRINTMAKING, PUBLICATION (including "how to" + guides + resources), POLITICAL RESISTANCE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and ACTIVISM.

DONATE NOW thru MARCH - we're running the pop-up in March and will be adding to the collection throughout the month. Let us know what you've got and we'll coordinate a drop-off!

More details about the library TBA!!

CONTACT: [email protected]

http://patternsmagazine.strikingly.com/#call-for-submissions https://www.facebook.com/events/879164502134131 http://patternsmagazine.com

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"I always wanted to be on the cover of magazine, its just not quite what I had pictured."

Maclean's recently published a story on the callous indifference and racist attitudes experienced by Aboriginal people in Winnipeg, calling Winnipeg the most racist place in Canada. Rosanna Deerchild is featured on the front cover of the print issue, and the "screaming headline used [her] quote about ugly name-calling to call out Winnipeg as the most racist city in Canada."

I'm linking here to Deerchild's response to her feature on the cover.

"I do not want to be racism's cover girl. I am far from the angry Indian complaining about being hard done by and Winnipeg is far from the place described in that story."

"Let me be clear: I love my city, my community, my home; Winnipeg — North End — Canada. But neither will I quantify, qualify or pacify racism in this place or any place it rears its ugly head. I stand by my words. Those damaging names have been thrown at me like punches and yes - it still hurts every time. It is because I love this place that I must speak up."

It seems that Deerchild supports the view that the facts and incidents as reported by Macleans are true, but as Deerchild says, this is not the whole story about this place, "However, it is still part of our story."

As Deerchild says, after speaking emotionally about an incident in which another child called her daughter a 'dirty Indian' at school, "The question is, how will we re-write this narrative for [my daughter] and for all our children?"

Rosanna Deerchild is the host of Unreserved, on CBC Radio One. She's an award-winning Cree author and has been a broadcaster for almost 15 years — including stints with APTN, CBC Radio, Global and a variety of indigenous newspapers. She hails from South Indian Lake, Man., and when she is not hosting Unreserved, she is behind the microphone at Manitoba's premier indigenous radio station, NCI-FM.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/unreserved-i-do-not-want-to-be-racism-s-cover-girl-1.2930205

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riot grrrrr

"Alien She separates the historical archive of zines, cassette tapes, and posters made by riot grrrls in the 1990s from the show’s seven featured artists: Tammy Rae Carland, Miranda July, Faythe Levine, Allyson Mitchell, L.J. Roberts, Stephanie Syjuco, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi." So excited to see an exhibition like this, and local (Toronto/Canada) artist Allyson Mitchell's involvement is super sweet!

http://hyperallergic.com/176778/art-in-the-grip-of-riot-grrrl/

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Canada, the value of design & the value of young labour

I heard recently about a contest by our Canadian government to engage design students with Canada's 150th anniversary. I also heard about the focus group-designed logos that some in the design field criticize as not meeting industry standards for good design (I have to, quite frankly, agree with that assessment).

Personally, I'm not super enthusiastic about concepts like nationalism. I could go on for quite a while about problems that I see with nationalism, and how the specifically Canadian nationalist identity as advertised by our culture and government washes over many issues, especially Indigenous issues and relations, including a history of genocide and violence.

I do care about this issue though, because good design is a highly practiced skill, one that many young people take on a great deal of debt to pursue, and the practice should be regarded as professional and deserving of fair compensation. Design itself should be considered valuable, and our government should be more than willing to pay fair wages to designers to create national logos and symbols that meet industry standards for good design. Most concerning, our government should not utilize students as a form of cheap or free labour, and when the government looks to students, they should invest in creating a truly equitable, valuable and educational experience for those students.

Check out these websites and articles if you're not familiar with this current issue: http://www.ibraheemyoussef.com/the150logo/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-s-150th-birthday-logos-tested-ahead-of-2017-anniversary-1.2449234 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/20/mytimehasvalue-canada-150-logo-birthday_n_6510432.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

- Nyssa

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Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (link updated 1/14) 

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki (link updated 1/14) 

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks (link updated 1/14) 

Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks (link updated 1/14) 

Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell

I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

Black Feminist Thought-Patricia Hill Collins (updated 1/14) 

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Four books by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory  - edited by Michael Warner

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba (updated 1/14)

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault

The Gloria Anzaldua Reader

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey (updated 1/14)

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey (updated 1/14)

The Disability Studies Reader (updated 1/14)

Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 

Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge

  This blog also has a lot more.

(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)

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If I Called This My Mind - Unknown Source

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Have any thoughts about apathy? Submit to Patterns Magazine and we’ll publish your art and creative/critical writing!

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Have any thoughts about apathy? Submit to Patterns Magazine and we'll publish your art and creative/critical writing!

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Depression apathy combined with perfectionist procrastination tendencies 

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Patterns Magazine

Our website is up and running, and just about finished! Find your way there through the "ABOUT & SUBMIT" link above, or follow the link in this post. We'll have the library posted soon, so check back! 

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Call for Submissions! Art, creative writing, critical essays, reviews and interviews on the topic Apathy. 

Deadline: January 30, 2015

Submit to: [email protected]

Find out more Here.

What is apathy? What causes it? Do we need to get rid of it? Apathy is maybe more complicated (and helpful) than you might initially think. It’s not just a potentially destructive personal lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern — it can be a normal and healthy response to overwhelming circumstances, situations too intense to handle, or can signal that you're feeling a lack of control. And it can be a pit.

"Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me."  ― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

How do we normally talk about apathy? Who do we identify (and criticise) as apathetic? Who is responsible for apathetic feelings? Google ‘apathy’ and the results represent a few broad categories: youth, voters and students. Why? Does this signal a larger, social problem? Are students apathetic toward their studies, or does institutionalized education foster an apathetic response? Are we even apathetic at all?

“If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.” ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

Think about it! Then share your thoughts with us and SUBMIT.

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TOWN HALL will live on!

As a generative teaching & learning publication production lab.

Our first official Town Hall meeting, held “In The Garden” exhibition space at the OCAD U Student Gallery on November 20th 2014 was a success! We gathered together, admired the art around us, browsed some zines and publications from the Patterns Library, read through the Patterns Magazine proposal together and talked about some pressing issues. A huge variety of interests were discussed, and we identified so many problems to tackle and great ideas to fight for with art, writing and publication!

Town Hall will live on, each event addressing aspects of publication as an open workshop-style community hangout and production lab.

We’d like to give an extra special thank you to Lido Pimienta for helping us organize our first Town Hall meeting and providing a lovely, artful space for the event. Thank you!

Keep your eyes open for what’s coming up next!

Our first CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

The next TOWN HALL meeting!