Carla Bergman, Corin Browne and John Collins have made a film about The Purple Thistle Centre, which will be screened at the DOXA film festival:<\/p>\n
Common Notions: No Handbook Required For almost 15 years, the youth-run arts and activism space, the Purple Thistle, has been home for a variety of activities, from guerilla gardening to DIY publishing and screen-printing. Common Notions: Handbook Not Required<\/em> is not only a celebration of the Thistle\u2019s achievements, it\u2019s a manifesto for the youth liberation movement. An array of alternative education advocates and scholars including Astra Taylor, Gustavo Esteva, and Madhu Suri Prakash, as well as local organizer Khelsilem, make a compelling case for democratizing knowledge and re-imagining our current systems of education. They argue that institutionalized schools, as we currently know and understand them, offer an extremely narrow and commodified definition of what it means to teach and to learn. Consensus decision-making, inclusivity, and a strict \u201cnoassholism\u201d policy are just some of the Thistle\u2019s guiding principles. Last year, the Thistle officially closed its doors. But this isn\u2019t necessarily all bad news. Youth members and staff facilitators say the spirit of the collective will carry on in different permutations. After all, the Thistle was never meant to be an institution, but a path to a different way of experiencing the world. -SC<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/a>Wednesday, May 11, 2016 – 5:00pm
\nVancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)<\/a><\/p>\n