Sign of the times at Concordia
For those who don’t know, I went to Concordia University back in the day. I was a journalism student and not much of an activist at the time. My how times have changed…sort of.
You see, I still write for sites like Forget The Box and occasionally get a paying writing gig, but I’m considerably more of an activist these days. As you may know I do quite a few guerilla theatre culture jams and many of them have taken place at Concordia (against Chartwells, Starbucks, you name it).
Last fall, I returned to my alma mater to play Brandon You from Pub Partout, the fake CEO from the fake ad company I helped to create in order to do something about ad trucks by speaking out “in favour” of them. Brandon and company were for American-style tuition increases because that would allow his company to brand broke students.
The same group of student activists I worked with, now called Free Education Montreal (visit their site and sign the petition, please!), were putting on Angry Week to raise the issue of tuition increase during Concordia’s Congress, a major humanities and social sciences event. Last Thursday I participated in the culture jam portion of the event playing Concordia president Jack Woolworth (a play on the actual president Judith Woodsworth).
I’m really glad to have been able to support this cause once again and also happy I managed to incorporate that dolphin shirt I’ve had for years into a performance.
Here’s the video, enjoy!
