About this Event
ANOTHER STORY BOOKSHOP launches Norman Nawrocki's timely new book, Squat The City! How To Use The Arts For Housing Justice, Fri Oct 10, 2025, with speakers from local community groups
Acclaimed Montreal author Norman Nawrocki launches his exciting, timely new book, Squat The City! How To Use The Arts For Housing Justice.
Nawrocki will be joined by speakers from four local community groups, York South-Weston Tenants Union, Parkdale Housing Justice Network, High Park Tenants’ Association, Parkdale-High Park for Palestine and Davenport for Palestine discussing how they use the arts in their campaigns. The multi-media event is free.
Squat The City! How To Use The Arts For Housing Justice (Kersplebedeb Books, Montreal, 2025) is an inspiring and practical resource for anyone curious about how the arts can help navigate the fight for housing rights. It's full of lessons, strategies and examples based on Nawrocki's decades of ongoing work as an activist/artist/organiser and educator using music, theatre, comedy and poetry to address the issue. His 18th book, it assembles his essays, articles, and extracts from his plays, albums, stories and Creative Resistance workshops, plus material from his legendary "community cabarets” seen by thousands of Quebec's poorest tenants.
The Vancouver Sun praised his last book, the novella Vancouvered Out (2024), as, "In the honoured tradition of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London ... Highly recommended." The Montreal Gazette describes Nawrocki as, "A fighter — invariably for the underdog . . . a Montreal legend," while The Globe & Mail has called his previous work, “Subversively powerful.”
Nawrocki is a veteran community organiser who co-founded his non-profit housing coop in Montreal's Milton-Parc and has been active in housing rights across Canada. He's also an internationally acclaimed violinist, playwright, actor and producer with seventy albums both solo and with his bands and dozens of theatrical productions. He teaches classes about how to use the arts for community organising.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
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