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    Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots
    Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots
    Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots
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    Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots

    By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson and Mathieu Murphy-Perron

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    In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against their biology professor. When an agreement to end the occupation fell through, riot police were called in, resulting in widespread damage, a mysterious fire, and nearly a hundred arrests. Created and devised by some of Montréal’s most prolific artists, Blackout re-examines the events that led to the occupation and protests, asking how race relations have changed in Québec and Canada.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateMay 16, 2023
    ISBN9780369104182
    Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots
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    Tamara Brown

    Tamara Brown is an award-winning multidisciplinary performing artist and creator based in Montreal who acts, sings, directs, and writes poetry for both the stage and screen. An occasional educator and perpetual student with a love for storytelling, natural sciences and the environment, alchemy, geekery, harmony, and social justice, Tamara is one of the founding members of Metachroma Theatre, created to address the under-representation of IBPOC artists in Quebec and Canadian theatre since 2010. In 2019, Tamara wrote Blackout for Tableau D’Hote Theatre with Lydie Dubuisson and Kym Dominique-Ferguson. Her work as a director has been seen on stages in Montreal, Toronto, Sherbrooke, Winnipeg, New York, and Stratford.

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