STE-EMILIE SKILLSHARE looking for collective members + volunteers!

Ste. Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily
people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic
expression and self-representation in our communities. We are building
and running an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their
skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression
(anti-racism/sexism/classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/
ableism/sizeism/etc). The space includes a silkscreen studio, a
darkroom, a craft and sewing room, a kids' room and a 'zine
distro/library. We host open studios (Saturdays) and workshops, open
to the public, for cheap. We are located in St. Henri at 3942 St.
Emilie and on the internet at http://snap.mahost.org/distro. We regret
that St. Emilie is not wheelchair accessible. Ste. Emilie Skillshare
is a working group of Q-Pirg Concordia. qpirgconcordia.org

To find out more/to arrange an interview to be part of the collective,
email or phone us with a paragraph about why you'd like to join…………
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BREAK OUT YER SKILLS:
STE-EMILIE SKILLSHARE looking for collective members

- Organize with other queer/people of colour in the south-west
- Training in Kind: learn silk-screening, black and white photo,
crafting and sewing skills
- Learn organizing skills and to make decisions by consensus
- Play a role in future programming
- Have unlimited access to the studios
- Have access to space to show your art/Put your zines
in our distro
- Be part of Ste-Emilie's people of colour only caucus to
arrange poc specific events (open to all people of colour
and Indigenous identified people)

Collective responsibilities include:
- Attending meetings bi-weekly
- Contributing 50$/month to pay our rent (through personal fundraising
or out of yer own pocket)
- Working one open studio shift per month
- Working on building and maintaining the space
- Participating in fundraising & promo
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STE EMILIE SKILLSHARE IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH STUDIO MAINTENANCE AND CHILDCARE

Ste. Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily
people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic
expression and self-representation in our communities. We are
building and running an art studio for people to learn new skills,
share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and
anti-oppression (anti-racism/sexism/classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/
ableism/sizeism/etc). The space includes a silkscreen studio, a
darkroom, a craft and sewing room, a kids' room and a 'zine
distro/library. We host open studios (Saturdays) and workshops, open
to the public, for cheap. We are located in St. Henri at 3942 St.
Emilie and on the internet at http://snap.mahost.org/distro.

VOLUNTEERS OF STE-EMILIE WILL RECEIVE
• TRAINING IN KIND!! learn to silkscreen, develop photos, sew
• USE OF THE SPACE DURING OPEN STUDIOS
• PRIORITY BOOKING THE SPACE

Ste Emilie is looking for people to:

Short term:
1) help complete the building of our black and white photo darkroom
(people with experience building darkrooms!!!, or know-how in
plumbing)

2) help complete the building of our silkscreen studio (people with
knowledge of how to install and operate a power-washer, how to test
light table for proper exposure times and how to build a textiles
print table top)

3) a repair-person for our industrial sewing machine and our serger

Long term:
1) help run our open studios which will be happening on Fridays or
Saturdays from 12-6pm (it's great if you have experience in black and
white photography, silk-screening or sewing…if not it's not a problem,
we will familiarize everyone with the equipment)

DUTIES WOULD INCLUDE:

- participating in a volunteer orientation to familiarize yourself
with Ste-Emilie's mandate and history and to familiarize yourself with
the equipment
- helping people use the sewing machines, serger, silk-screening
equipment, craft equipment
- collecting donations from people who come in to make things
- helping with clean-up and ensuring that people clean up equipment
that is used and leave the space clean
- washing out and coating silk-screens for people to use
- lending out materials that are part of the zine library and helping
ensure that materials are returned to us
- collecting money for the sale of materials that are part of the zine distro

2) people with experience in providing childcare who would like lead
arts and crafts activities for kids during open studios

If you are interested in volunteering please email
mtlskillshare@gmail.com or call us at 514.933.2573 and send us a
paragraph about why you're interested in volunteering at St. Emilie.
(We especially encourage queer/people of colour to get involved.)
Please send your paragraph by Monday August 5th.

STE-EMILIE'S VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION WILL TAKE PLACE SATURDAY AUGUST
11TH FROM 1PM-6PM AT 3942 ST-EMILIE. Childcare is available upon
request (please contact us 48 hours in advance). We regret that
Ste-Emilie is not wheelchair accessible