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Protest Banner-Making Workshop

As part of Ontario Culture Days, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) will host a free banner-making workshop. Facilitated by artist and illustrator Pardis Pahlavanlu, this workshop will employ linocut printmaking techniques, including hand-drawing, carving, and inking, to invite participants to engage with protest imagery and collaboratively design banners. This event is co-presented with Whippersnapper Gallery.


*All materials will be provided


Founded by Korean-American textile artist Aram Han Sifuentes, the Protest Banner-Lending Library is partially housed at CFMDC. By familiarizing attendees with banner-making, we seek to build this collection, and promote community and collaboration over resources by trading knowledge, skills, ideas, and materials. All banners will be made available to borrow and use by community. Find out more about the Protest Banner-Lending Library at CFMDC here: https://www.cfmdc.org/protest-banner-library


Pardis Pahlavanlu is an artist and illustrator residing between Tkaronto (Toronto) and the unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver). With academic roots in studying systems of power in contemporary colonial states, Pardis channels her artistic energy into the healing necessary within these contexts. In her workshops, Pardis makes art-making accessible to all, creating space for imagination and play. She meets participants where they are, offering various approaches to printmaking, collaging, and other mediums. Her goal is for everyone to leave with pride in their learning and a newfound eagerness to explore more.

CineCycle is located in the old coach house down the lane behind 129 Spadina Ave. on the east side between Richmond St. W. and Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ontario. This venue has an accessible rear entrance, movable chairs, two washrooms (one accessible), a sink and a full size fridge.

TERRITORY & SOLIDARITY: The daily work of CFMDC takes place in Tkaronto (Toronto) which is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We also acknowledge The Dish with One Spoon treaty between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee that covers the land of what is now called southern Ontario. We work with the knowledge of the importance of recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the four First Nations Principles of OCAP®. As a Media Arts organization we draw your attention to the work of the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC). As part of  anti-colonial solidarity, CFMDC board and staff proudly commits to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Calls to support PACBI and the wider Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) come from Palestinian civil society and are grassroots strategies opposing the colonization of Palestine by directly targeting complicity.

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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

209 - 401 Richmond Street West  

 Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

  416-588-0725

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