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| PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Diffusion November
22th, 2001 Musical
intervention SOUNDS LIKE PEACE Thursday,
December 6th, 2001 at 6 p.m.Studio XX, Montreal’s digital media
resource centre for women, in collaboration with the South Asian
Women’s Community Centre, Chœur Maha, le Mouvement contre
le viol et l’inceste, CKUT and the National Film Board of Canada
marks December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action On
Violence Against Women with SOUNDS LIKE PEACE, a musical intervention
for peace in three parts. The public
is invited to participate in this multi-faceted event. Part one
of the musical action will begin at Angrignon Metro at 6 p.m., led
by Choeur Maha, Montreal’s eclectic women’s choir. Bring
along a battery-operated radio and join in this sound happening.
How will this work? At 6 p.m. CKUT will broadcast a composition
by Annabelle Chvostek. Sound artist Anna Friz will improvise to
this recorded piece from within the CKUT studio. Participants in
Angrignon Park will be conducted by Chvostek, as they sing on top
of the radio waves. Angrignon
Park is the site of the brutal murder of the young Dawson college
student, Milia Abrar which took place in October 1998. The case
remains unsolved to this day. Members of the South Asian Women’s
Community Centre believe the case was not given due attention. Evidence
points to the fact that Milia was probably killed by someone she
knew, yet no arrests have been made. SOUNDS LIKE PEACE is an action
to reinvest a site of extreme violence with a message of peace and
the right to live without fear. Leaving
Angrignon Park, participants will ride the metro to the Vendome
Station where part 2 of SOUNDS LIKE PEACE will take place at 6:45pm.
Participants will tune in again to CKUT and raise their voices in
sound. It was close to Vendome where Katerine, a 17-year-old girl
was found beaten and lying half-naked in a parking lot in May of
this year. The attack left Katerine in a coma for months. Although
several people had spotted Katerine, it was hours before anyone
called 911. SOUNDS LIKE PEACE is a protest against such indifference
to violence against women. Finally,
at 7:30 p.m. participants will meet at Studio XX for part three
of the evening. Choeur Maha will perform a short concert. The South
Asian Women’s Community Centre will give a reading of a theatrical
piece written about Milia Abrar’s murder. Writer and multidisciplinary
artist D. Kimm will read an excerpt of Madeleine Gagnon’s Les
femmes et la guerre that poignantly details and analyzes the mass
rape of women in Bosnia. Video images taken at Angrignon Park and
Vendome Metro will be projected throughout the evening. Food and
drink will be available and the public is welcome. Throughout
the event, members of le mouvement contre le viol et l’inceste
will encourage participants and the public to sign pledge cards
for feminist actions. Instead of pledging money you can pledge to
bring a friend to a woman’s documentary film; to speak aloud
when you have something to say about violence against women or to
follow through on an internet action for feminist social change.
In addition, during the week of December 6th, these pledge cards
for feminist actions can be found on the Studio XX website and filled
out, submitted and/or forwarded to friends and family. Studio XX,
in collaboration with NFB Montreal is happy to offer the public
free visits to the CineRobotheque on December 6th from noon –9
p.m. Viewers can choose from among the many NFB films that look
at issues of violence against women, such as After the Montreal
Massacre and the Vienna Tribunal. To download and print a copy of
a free coupon, visit www.studioxx.org. Peace is
the ultimate goal of all anti-violence work. Studio XX and its many
community partners invite all Montrealers and beyond to participate
in working towards an environment of peace and well-being through
SOUNDS LIKE PEACE on December 6th. -30- For more
information please contact :
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