Project Democracy and Department of Culture present: THE YES MEN
The Yes Men vs. Stephen Harper!
Project Democracy and Department of Culture are excited to bring you THE YES MEN at the Royal on College Street in Toronto, Thursday, April 14 at 7pm.
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We’re organizing to ensure that we don’t get another Harper government and we need your help!
The Yes Men have become famous for impersonating company and government officials and delivering satirical pronouncements about industry and government practices that present a more ideal world. Their film, The Yes Men Fix the World, won the audience award at the Berlin Film Festival, the Grierson Award for Most Entertaining Documentary, and went on to become a smash box-office sensation. From reparations to victims of DOW Chemical in Bhopal, to a Canadian Climate change policy that that addresses global health, to delivering thousands of alternate issues of The New York Times that declare the end of the Iraq war, the Yes Men present corporate and government officials as they should be, rather than as they are.
Join us to imagine what a progressive Canada will look like, to support a campaign organized to defeat the Harper government and to talk about creative tactics and strategies!
This audio-visual extravaganza of tactics and progressive ideas is by donation/PWYC at the door.
GET THERE EARLY! THE THEATRE HAS LIMITED SEATING.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7pm.
Here’s what the Department of Culture is doing for Election 2011
One week into an election campaign, Department of Culture (DoC) is up and running! Welcome to the new campaign, and thank you for attending. We have two initiatives that we invite you to participate in:
1) Department of Culture call for proposals and projects for art about the election:
Are you anti-Harper, Pro-someone else? Do you have a vision for what Canada could or should be? Would you run things differently? Feel strongly about democracy?
We invite you to use your creative skills to explore these themes, or any others you find yourself mulling over, in response to the current Canadian federal election. We invite all media — paintings, photos, graffiti, videos, songs, prose, poetry, plays, speeches, games, interpretive
dance — whatever expresses your views on this election, and your vision of a better Canada.
We encourage submissions from a diverse selection of artists from across the country These works will be posted and disseminated widely by DoC.
Submit your artistic response, or idea for a creative response to the election to: art@departmentofculture.ca.
2) Department of Culture Launches Online Culture in the Election mapping tool
Beyond curated work, Department of Culture will also be seeking to identify and map cultural responses to the election through a dynamic map that will use crowdsourcing as a means of verification.
We are seeking volunteers who are willing to commit to being a part of this process — something you can do from the comfort and (relative) safety of your home computer.
Our first training session will take place this week over Skype, so you can participate from anywhere. To confirm your participation and get the rest of the details, email map@departmentofculture.ca.
Election 2011 is on, and we’ll be part of it. Stay tuned!
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The election has been called, and Department of Culture will once again be taking part in the fight for a fair, respectful, representative, and democratic parliament that truly represents what Canadians want from their government. Our country needs and deserves better than the contemptuous Harper government and their divisive, cynical politics of fear.
Our organizing committee met last week on Budget Day to talk strategy, and will meet again this week to finalize our plans for Canada’s 41st general election. We expect to have an exciting new initiative to announce very soon.
Please join our mailing list today to be kept up to date on our activities. And we’re not in this alone! Department of Culture is committed to helping other pro-democracy groups across Canada, and our mailing list serves as a way to connect the thousands of committed activists across the country as we all work together for a truly just and representative government.