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Announcing our guest speakers for Fryq, the Gathering, a discussion about accessibility and barriers in our music and arts scene: 

Lily Pepper

Marie LeBlanc-Flanagan

Chris Binkowski

Elsa Mirzaei

Sacha KW

Don't miss it Saturday, December 6 at 3 pm at Raw Sugar Cafe. It's a free event, the venue is wheelchair accessible, and all are welcome.  There will be tea.

And then come celebrate Fryquency 's one year anniversary at Mugshots with Fet.Nat, WTCHS and Grime Kings! Plus, Julia Dickens, who made the incredible poster above, will be doing an art installation. It is PWYC and all ages! 

Some more info on our guests:

Marie LeBlanc Flanagan is the founder of Wyrd Arts Initiatives, a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to encouraging, documenting, and connecting creative expression across Canada.

As the executive director of Wyrd Arts Initiatives she obtained a 50K grant to build a curated online store and distro for emerging Canadian musicians; recruited 400 new volunteers (from British Colombia to Nunavut); transitioned www.weirdcanada.com to bilingualism, ran a successful drive to win "Best Independent Music Website in Canada" (CBC3) and introduced policy and dialogue relating to responsive community building, knowledge sharing, openness and inclusivity.

Lily Pepper makes zines, writes about zines at zine-reviews.tumblr.com, and runs the zine racks at Pressed and Gabba Hey. A sometimes reluctant Ottawa booster, they contribute to Apt613.ca and edited the zine YOW! Ottawa Writers Write About Ottawa. They are interested in friendship, support, radical histories, trauma, vulnerability, and survival.

Chris Binkowski is an Ottawa based artist who has been going to shows for nearly twenty years. As someone who uses a power wheelchair for mobility he has plenty of experience using backdoors, service elevators or even getting lifted in to concert venues. He is a volunteer on the Accessibility Team at both Bluesfest and Folkfest. Chris recently founded Accessibility For Humanity and assisted Pressed Cafe with acquiring two portable ramps to become an accessible venue. Under the Bucko moniker, he creates electronic music with a mobile sound and light system. He has performed at Nuit Blanche, Chinatown Remixed Festival, Arboretum Festival and Pressed Cafe.

facebook.com/buckoArt

facebook.com/AccessibilityForHumanity

Elsa Mirzaei is an intersectional & brown feminist whose interests lie within challenging the white supremacy common in fringe and music scenes. She has also spoken out about the barriers with navigating the mental health systems as a survivor of sexual violence and is passionate about fighting the disproportionate experiences of violence and injustice faced by folks of colour within Canada. In her spare time, she tends to cry about school and write music.

  So here we go, with my personal favorite hero, Witch Doctor. He is lately a bit out of flavor, not just competitively, also with the new heroes in the line, he got weaker, due to he is very fragile to hero who can get to him, and also useless versus heroes who can get away from him very fast, but he a decent support/dps-support hero. He has a decent heal, which eventually can allow a fast 5man Roshan kill, even if you just have 1 points on it.

*Note: my guide requires full knowledge of game and mechanics to understand fully.

If you lack in that, go to Dota2Wiki for more, or Valve's page. 

What is the keys to play this hero perfectly?

1. Positioning - You always have to know where exactly your hero should stand, in lane, in fight. It's key not to get focused down, simple to be invinsible to the enemy while being the force behind fight.

2. Timing - The second, but equal to the 1st point, is timing. You have to know when to be where and toss your cask stun, hit a maledict or simply skip it for an awesome ulti. I huge fight maledic can't be always placed, because that would get you out of your position due to the cast range of it. It's a not a failure to skip it if you prefer to land a full 8s ulti instead, because it will do more damage anyway. Mostly you will have to wait till all the stuns are used up for the initiation and only then cask + ulti. Practically he is a counter to initiation in team fights with his bounce.

3. Warding + counter warding + smoke - less important the the above, but still you need to know what to do. 

*Note, this is simply the core of this very specific hero, not as a whole team.

Skill leveling

Always max stun firstly, then either 1 on heal + max meledict, or level it paralelly, what you need more. Always take ulti.

Starting items

     You should always buy either 1 set of wards if you go hard lane, or courier if you go bot lane. Usually I always go bot lane, because confident in not feeding the enemy and know how to ward the enemy jungle properly to avoid ganks or stop foresting hero.

 or 

 Core items

*Note, it's always the individual game who tell you the build, not guides. You have to read every game hero and play. For example you should never get arcane boots if magina is the enemy. Go simply power threads in stead + soul ring, or tranq boots + soul ring.

All he needs to do, is to be there with the stun and place wards during the game and if good money is there save up for 1-2 fancy items. He has only 1 core item he need.

  Luxury item

Most of the time, I end up being the dps/semi-carry. Because MM isn't perfect in balancing games. So if you feel like the carry besides you hit like a nub, moves like a nub don't be afraid to take some of the creeps for yourself, because believe it or not, WD has scaling potential and has amazing DPS if played correctly.

   into  if you can save up the money for it, but point booster is a decent start to get some HP/mana.

If you stall want some scaling, and there is no AC for your team, then you should go definitely for it.

  Situational items

 or 

*you have to decide which will allow you to stay for the full duration of your ulti.

Troll items

 +  = DEATH, but I don't recommend this build, because it's highly based on advantage and trolling people. Get it if the game is 20-0 in your advantage, but otherwise just keep it serious.

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