Move-in
Location: Residence Commons
Time: 8am-5pm, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3
We will be in Residence Commons with a table to welcome new students. Look for giant puppets, and you will find someone who can help you get set up to get your keys and student card and get moved in to campus. If you have any trouble, just call us at 613 866 8066. Off campus students are also welcome to come meet us on the weekend. Preregistered RadFroshers will be able to pick up their kits and shirts from our move-in table volunteers. If you have any trouble, give us a call at 613 866 8066 or 613 520 2757 or come by the OPIRG Office. If you move in on a later day, just swing by the OPIRG office on the smaller third floor of the university centre, upstairs from Ziggy's hair studio.
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Ravenspalooza
Location: Athletics and Athletics Parking lot
Time: 5pm to 2am.
Ravenspalooza is the first ever collaborative event between all the frosh groups. It is expected that 4000 first year students will be there! It has a myriad of activities, from a grafiti art competition, to a talent showcase by Carleton students, including the Carleton Capoeira Society. Other events include a pep rally, a Carleton Ravens basketball game, a pool party, an ice skating party and it all ends with a Much Music Video Dance party, which will include some punk, conscious hiphop and funk requests from RadFrosh. When you're there, look out for our table at the video dance. For more info, visit Ravenspalooza.
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Radical Tour
Location: Meet at Mackenzie Field
Time: 10am-3pm
RadFrosh's Walking Tour of the City of Ottawa! On the tour, you'll not only learn what you need to know to get around and survive in your new city, but also how it came to be the way it is and the great work being done around the city to promote social, economic and ecological alternatives. Beneath the veneer of an orderly Capital, lies Ottawa's history as a colonial outpost, Bytown. We'll follow its development, and analyse it in terms of the class and ethnic divides that have organised the city since its founding. While we're at it, we'll check out some great places to get what you need, while ensuring that you're money goes to support communities here and away. We'll also stop for lunch at some of Ottawa's great vegetarian friendly restaurants and get an introduction to the transit system. This is the only event that costs to attend and that you need to preregister for, since space is limited, and lunch is included.
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NewSchool OldSchool
Location: Commons Grille, Residence Commons
Time: 8pm to Midnight
You're new to school, so you might want to bust out the old school. With a great local DJ, kicking out oldschool, funk, soul and hiphop jams in a lounge environment for dancing or meeting other radfroshers. Break the ice with classic boardgames and chill out with with mixed drinks and smoothies from the drybar.
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Campus Subversion Tour
Location: Start out at Mackenzie Field (between Unicentre and Mackenzie Building)
Ends at Oxbow Park for Green Tour
Time: 10am-12pm
Find your classes and also find out the story behind Carleton U. Ever wonder why Carleton has a bulding with the same name as a chain of grocery stores? Or why there are military recruiters on campus so often? How about what students have done to make Carleton a better place? We'll dig beneath the PR to examine the universities role in the world: where money comes from, where it goes, what research goes on and for whom, and the contested spaces and places where positive changes are developing thanks to the hard work of students, staff and faculty.
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Carleton Sustainable Campus Network Lunch and Green Tour
Location: Oxbow Park (End of Subverson Tour)
Time: 12pm to 4pm
The Carleton Sustainable Campus Network is teaming up with the Garden Spot Pay-What-You-Can lunch service for an afternoon of ecology and outdoor enjoyment at Oxbow park and around campus. We will begin at Oxbow park, where the Campus tour left off, and have some tasty vegan lunch from Carleton's only low-cost lunch service, the G(arden) Spot. We will then head out to take a look at the green spaces and ecology of campus and then come back to the park for Soccer and Ultimate Frisbee along the riverbanks.
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Teach-ins
Direct Action Theory and Practice Workshop & Animal Rights Workshop
Location: TBA
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Two Concurrent Workshops on Different Topics: Space is limited to 30 per session,so book ahead or show up early. Check back next week for more details
Direct Action Theory and Practice
Longtime Ottawa Activist and Community Organiser, Dan Sawyer will be presenting a workshop on the why and how of Direct Action as an approach to politics in your community. Drawing from Anarchism and his own experiences, Dan's workshops are informative, energizing and radical.
Animal Rights Workshop
Meredith Barret and Chandal from OPIRG's own Animal Rights Working Group will be offering this introduction to the issues and politics of animal liberation.
Hey, why not let us now what you'd like to attend when you preregister!
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Film Festival
Wednesday
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Location: 238 Tory (Enter from the tunnel access to 4th Unicentre)
The Struggle Then:
We will be showing Columbia Revolt by the NEWSREEL Collective, a radical film group active in the late 60s and early 70s. The film documents, in cinema verité style, the Columbia University occupation of 1968 that was part of a year-long, international student rebellion that included the French "Mai '68" and the Mexican struggles of the same year.
We will also be showing Peter Watkins' Punishment Park," A pseudodocumentary that features real dissidents and conservative townsfolk playing themselves in a fictional near-future in which the US government has gone to extreme measures to stamp out dissent against the Vietnam War and racism.
Thursday
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Location: 208 Tory (Enter Tory from the Tunnels near Unicentre and walk to the opposite end)
The Struggle Now
We will be showing two films. The first is Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's film about worker occupied and run factories in Argentina, The Take,. The pair went to Argentina in the hopes of learning about the explosive growth of social movements following the IMF induced economic crash of December 2001 and managed to film the story of the occupation, resistance and production the workers of Forja San Martín, a metal casting plant. They have woven in stories of other movements and factory co-ops in order to present a fascinating, real world alternative to capitalism. Our own Brenden Murphy spent 4 months in Argentina this spring and will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the film.
Our second film of the evening will be Battle Ground: 21 days at the Edge of Empire, a documentary by Guerilla News Network filmed in Iraq following the US invasion. Somehow, the crew managed to get embedded with the US military, as well as meeting militants, a homeward bound, former, anti-Saddam guerilla and others. A brilliant and multifaceted look at the second Iraq war.
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Speaker
Cancelled! Sorry, we were unable to get a good speaker in the time we had. We will bring in a number of speakers through out the year and hope to see you there.
