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- 1981-1983 (Creation)
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File contains press releases for various events involving the Women's Cultural Building, including the exhibition "Pork Roasts: 250 Feminist Cartoons" (1983), the Feminist Resource Video Library, the regular Wednesday Reading Series of women writers, the Womanfilm film festival, the "Storefronting" project, a call for submissions for the Festival of Women Building Culture, and a special reading featuring Mary Meigs and Jovette Marchessault and a panel and discussion to examine the role of women in theatre and the performing arts with Playwrights' Workshop Montreal, as well as a flyer for the Festival of Women Building Culture listing details for a panel discussion, a request for support written to the March 8 Coalition or the IWDC for funding support in videotaping workshops, correspondence between the Women's Media Alliance and the WCB regarding funding for workshops, stickers reading "Pornography is Anti-Woman Propaganda" by the Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media, a flyer for the Narrative Video Program featuring Jane Wright and Lisa Steele as part of the exhibition "Narratives," a flyer for a collaboration between WCB and Gallery 940 for the exhibition "Narratives from Childhood," and a flyer for International Women's Day in 1982 and 1983. File also contains administrative records related to the founding and governance of the WCB, including a report on the planning of the Festival of Women Building Culture by Rina Fraticelli, planning notes for the founding of the WCB, news releases from the Paul McGibbon Cultural Centre regarding their closure and a related announcement regarding the new establishment of a women's cultural centre by the Coalition of Feminist Artists and Cultural Workers, a list of aims to achieve in founding the WCB, meeting minutes from 1981 to 1983, photocopies of newspaper articles and newspaper clippings regarding the closing of the Paul McGibbon Cultural Centre and the founding of the WCB, a statement of physical space requirements for the WCB, and the WCB's application to the Ontario Arts Council's Experience '82 program and related correspondence.
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- English