EXILE Infoshop

Welcome to EXILE

May 1st, 2007

Welcome to the EXILE Infoshop’s virtual home! Browse around to find out more about other awesome groups in Ottawa, check out some local activist and fundraising events, and (below) find regular news updates about what’s going on with us.

Find us: 256 Bank St. (second floor), Ottawa, ON.
Hours of operation: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 8pm; Sunday noon to 5pm.


Movie – The Weather Underground

October 11th, 2009

When: Saturday October 17, 2009, 8pmTheWeatherUnderGround-poster
Where: EXILE Infoshop, 256 Bank Street room 200
Cost: Pay What You Can

Synopsis:

In the 1960s and 1970s, the polarization of the political situation of the USA was becoming acute with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being but the most obvious issues. For the youth political movement, the seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of an idealistic faction that want a more extreme approach that the Establishment could not ignore. This faction, called the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government that started with street riots and escalating to bombing government targets. Thorough archival footage and interviews of the veterans of both sides of this conflict, this film covers the resistance movement’s campaign of selective violence through this period until changing times and disillusionment brought it to an end while the FBI used unethical and illegal methods to hasten it.

anarchy week

September 23rd, 2009


thurs oct 1st to sun oct 11th

thurs 01 – anarchy bingo 5pm

fri 02 – DIY Sex Toys by Venus Envy @ EXILE 7pm

sat 03 – FREE SKOOL: music school and bike stuff @ 1pm
Folk Punk Show, doors @ 7pm

sun 04 – REALLY REALLY Free Market @ 10am to 5pm

mon 05 – Movie Night: DIY or DIe @ 7pm

tue 06 – reading group: “Ward Churchill: Indigenism, Anarchism, and the State” @ 7pm

wed 07 – Know Your Rights workshop with Yavar @ 7pm

thurs 08 – Anarchist Tour of the Art Gallery @ 5pm

fri 09 – Uri Gordon: “Anarchists Against the Wall & Joint Struggle in Israel/Palestine” (updated poster available)

sat 10 – Really Really Free Market Market @ EXILE, Street Party @ sunset
followed by dumpstering

sun 11 – Pot Luck Party @ 60 James St

handbills now available at EXILE! or right here
posters now available at EXILE! or right here
handbill for anarchy week

EXILE DANCE PARTY!!!

September 23rd, 2009

Do you like to shake your groove thang?  Do you like to support EXILE
Infoshop?  Do you like Brad Pitt in Interview With a Vampire?

If you answered yes to the first two questions then EXILE’s Dance Party
for Rent is for YOU! and everybody you know!  So come on down!

the poster

the poster


When: this Friday, September the 25th @ 8pm
Where: EXILE Infoshop
Who: you, silly
What to bring: your danciest dance clothes ever
Donations are more than welcome.

LICENSED
PWYC

Rumors that celebrity DJ dj pete of OPIRG fame will be throwin down da beats!

Richard Day: On Purity

September 22nd, 2009

Professor at Queen’s University and author of “Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements” Richard Day will be speaking at Exile Infoshop on Sunday, September 27 at 6pm. His talk will be titled ‘On Purity’.

Exile Infoshop
256 Bank St.
Ottawa, Ontario
613-237-9270
(this location is not wheelchair accessible)

NOTE: The shop will briefly close Sunday from 4:30pm until 5:30pm so we can have a meeting/break before the event.

THE TRASH ON WHEELS FILM PARTY

September 16th, 2009

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – one night only!
Doors @ 8, films @ 8:30
at Exile Infoshop
256 Bank St. (second floor)
Ottawa
$5 at the door

Trash Palace – “Toronto’s Classiest Cinema” – is proud to present THE TRASH ON WHEELS FILM PARTY – a back-to-school touring show of classroom films, cartoons and more from the files of Canada’s most demented film fanatics!

Hosted by Trash Palace programmer Jonathan Culp, TRASH ON WHEELS brings a full evening of lost, forgotten and undiscovered gems from the celluloid dumpsters of our nation to your town. Armed with their trusty 16mm film projector, a trunkload of film reels from the 60s and 70s, cold drinks, and a fully stocked snack bar (including handmade vegan truffles from Boardwalk Chocolates!)

Trash Palace will give you a taste of the madness that we’ve been dishing out at our home base for over two years.

With a constantly changing lineup of titles – partially selected by the audience via the “Trash Palace Applause-O-Meter” – every screening is a whole new ballgame. Will you see angry puppets smacking around their friends? Evil dancing cigarettes? Washed up pop stars ranting about LSD? Christian college students partying with the Virgin Mary? Animated sex ed lessons? Or masked headmasters wielding lawnmowers?

This is no stinkin’ film festival – it’s THE TRASH ON WHEELS FILM PARTY!

TRASH PALACE, named “the 11th best place to watch a film in Toronto” by BlogTO, shows shorts and features every Friday at their secret location. The Toronto Star writes, “It lives up to its seamy potential…the fun is pure,
untainted by cynicism, high expectations or irony.” And the National Post observes, “Trash Palace’s screenings promise the best in films that somebody out there was desperate to get rid of.” Check them out at http://www.trashpalace.ca.

For more information or interviews, please contact Jonathan Culp at trashonwheels(at)cheesemovie.com

see Facebook event page

(get the poster now!)

Anarchy Week! Semaine de l’anarchie

September 3rd, 2009


thursday october 1 to sunday october 11
jeudi le 1 octobre à dimanche le 11 octobre

stay tuned for detailed schedule of events!
restez branchés, le programme de la semaine de l'anarchie sera bientôt adjoint.

Indie Folk Rock and Acoustic Folk Jazz Extravaganza

August 26th, 2009

when: Sat Sept 12th. doors at 8pm!
where: EXILE Infoshop
256 bank (at cooper) suite 200 (2nd floor)
who:

PWYC/$5

poster adverts are now available at the shop

Untitled Indie Folk Show!

August 26th, 2009

when: Fri Sept 4th. doors at 7pm!
where: EXILE Infoshop
256 bank (at cooper) suite 200 (2nd floor)
why: there are too many reasons!
who:
Unreliable Narrator (Vancouver)
Musk Ox (Ottawa)
The Primates (Hamilton)

$7

Holy smokes! A surprise folk punk show!!

August 19th, 2009

when: Thurs Aug 20th, two thousand and nine. doors at 7pm!
where: EXILE Infoshop
256 bank (at cooper) suite 200 (2nd floor)
why: kinky kangaroos! do you need a reason !? it’s folk punk season!!!
what: leaping lizards! don’t you already know!? it’s a folk punk show!!!

who:
Davita G (London)
http://www.myspace.com/davitag
The Rough Sea (Ottawa)
http://www.myspace.com/theroughsea
Tapanga (Ottawa)
http://www.myspace.com/tapangas
and YOU!

PWYC/5$


august 20th 2009

SUN, FUN & SLAVERY

August 12th, 2009

Exile Infoshop Proudly Presents….

SUN, FUN & SLAVERY : How to South Became the North’s Playground

a new book by our very own, Nelson Ross Laguna

“In our attempts to re-invent our own little paradise in someone’s else’s backyard, we have in turn recreated a system we were determined to destroy.”

Friday, August 14th, 2009

8:00pm – doors open
8:30pm – one-on-one with the author

EXILE Infoshop 256 Bank St. (at Cooper) Second Floor

In the sixth Exile Press release, Sun, Fun & Slavery, Nelson Ross Laguna explores modern day tourism in the americas and its intersections with terrorism. Exposing modern tourism’s calculated and disastrous effects in South and Central America. As tourism, and the production of tourist infrastructure entrench the priviliges of the North, and reinforce the racialization of poverty, we ask: What are our hidden histories of modern slavery? How is the path of western imperialism continuing today? What is to be done? Join us on Friday, August 14th for a discussion with Nelson Ross Laguna, who will share his experiences & perspectives on sun, fun, and slavery.

update: *poster now available*