Such an honour~!
March 12th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Shameless Magazine (For Girls Who Get It) has an awesome “Shameless Women” section on their website with rad profiles on different awesome and inspiring ladies! This week D. Cole featured me! Thanks for the honour!!
- Read the article here!
Photo by Mike Rollo, for shamelessmagazine.org
Nightwood is a-blogging and a-songwriting! (checkitout)
March 11th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Photo by Lara Kaluza, thecrumpetcloset.etsy.com
Nightwood is having so much fun songwriting and playing music these days! I think it shows in the writing in the blog part of our website. I hope you check it out!!
Making W@ves – The Whistlestop Project
March 11th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
- I had a lovely time taking part in The Whistlestop Project when it stopped over in Montreal this week…check it out:
“This site is part of a critical and appreciative inquiry into the historically and culturally situated art practices of Canadian popular educators involved in the transnational women’s movement from the 1800s until today, in Canada and the Global South. We invite you to contribute your knowledge and understanding of the art practices of the global women’s movement from the 1800s until today, in Canada and internationally.
Naming the world in order to change it, so central to Brazilian adult educator Paulo Freire’s ideas of popular education, underpins the project of naming individual women and their groups/organizations as popular educators. Like all popular educators, activists within the women’s movement draw on diverse popular culture forms — song, dance, photography, performance, handicrafts, blogs, quilting, humour, poetry, fashion, culinary & gardening arts, zines, storytelling, and autobiography.
Feel free to name yourself and your art practice as part of the ongoing story of women’s power and empowerment.”
- There will be video and photos added to the blog of our MTL-based feminist discussion about our art and art practice. Check out this post on the blog for a bit about how the MTL stop went down:
“The gallery space windows onto Boulevard Saint-Laurent, and we were taken with the idea that we were presenting a snapshot of the artists and educators of the women’s movement to passers-by — a painted canvas, a remembered song set from popular theatre, a dance for gospel women, an embroidered spiral, omni-sexual photography, stand-up (actually sit-down) comedy, and animated conversation replete with laughter and tears and (sometimes provocative) responses and questions to each other.”
- Thanks to Sarah and Dorothy for inviting me to participate!!
Lickety Split is a winner!
March 6th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
A snapshot of the award certificate!
Lickety Split smut zine #7: The Beyond Human Issue won on an award for Best Zine this past Tuesday evening at the Expozine Alternative Press Awards! Check out their site as well as the Lickety Blog for more!
Best English zine:
Lickety Split #7, www.licketysplitzine.com
“Taking the genre to a new level. Guilt free and fun smut for everyone!”
Lickety Split #7 is nominated for an award at the Expozine Alternative Press Awards!
February 26th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Lickety Split smut zine #7: The Beyond Human Issue has been shortlisted for Best English Zine at the Expozine Alternative Press Awards!
The award ceremony is this coming Tuesday, March 3 at Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent in Montreal. 7pm! Admission is free and beer and liquor specials will be in effect all night. Check out the Facebook event or Expozine site for more details!
“The nominees :
English Zine:
Four Minutes To Midnight no. 10, www.lokidesign.net/2356
Nailbiter: An anxiety Zine, www.steemilie.free23.net
Soulgazers, Camilla Wynne, www.endlessbanquet.blogspot.com
Lickety Split no. 7, www.licketysplitzine.com
Mostly True vol.19 issue 7, Bill Daniel, Microcosm Publishing, www.billdaniel.net, www.microcosmpublishing.com
Place Magazine, Winter 08 issue, www.placemag.org
The first two (in bold) are buds and I wish them all the best!! (High fives all around!!)
Mike Rollo’s Ghosts and Gravel Roads
February 20th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Ghosts and Gravel Roads by Mike Rollo, one of the Top Ten Canadian Shorts (as named by the TIFF Group) screens at the 27th edition of Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.
Title: Ghosts and Gravel Roads (16minutes, 2008) by Mike Rollo,
Screening date and time: February 24th at 5pm
Where: Cinémathèque québécoise ( 335 boul. de Maisonneuve Est)
Who knew that a wordless film set in the prairies, with fading ghost towns and no cast to speak of could be so eerie and unforgettable? Many around the world now know this to be possible after having watched Mike Rollo’s award winning short film, Ghosts and Gravel Roads. The film is now returning home and will be screening at the 27th edition of the festival Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. The film will be showing at 5pm on February 24th at the Cinémathèque québécoise ( 335 boul. de Maisonneuve Est).
What they’re saying about Ghosts and Gravel Roads
“Featuring gorgeous cinematography, this short plays out like a horror movie without any ghosts, monsters, or even people really…This is the highlight film of the entire festival.” – Mike Everleth, Bad Lit The Journal of Underground Film
“This is a song of the prairie laid bare, capturing in a few telling images the fragile communities that once were and the place of humans on the Earth.” – RIDM Festival 2008
“The shots of empty fields and dilapidated farmhouses in Mike Rollo’s much-honoured short (one of the only Top Ten items to represent the west) are eerie enough to make the Prairies a prime destination for adventurous goths.” – Jason Anderson, Toronto Eye Weekly
“The cinematography is stunning, haunting, poetic and beautiful. The language of montage and sound shows the evolution of an auteur.” – Dan Cross, filmmaker and producer, Eye Steel Film
Double Negative Collective presents The Loop Collective!
February 20th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE PRESENTS
The Loop Collective: Recent Works in Film and Video
Thursday, February 26, 2009
21H15
Ex-Centris (Cinéma Parallèle)
3536, Boul. St. Laurent (Metro Saint Laurent / Bus 55) / (Metro Sherbrooke)
Based in Toronto, Loop is a collective of independent media artists that strives to develop a public platform integrating experimental film and video with other art forms. The Loop Collective programs and produces work for presentation through exhibitions and events in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Their mission is to explore the roots of experimental film and video by creating a dialogue with other art media. They strive to promote experimental film and video for critical engagement by cultivating relations among different artistic communities. More here…
New stuff soon.
February 18th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Hi there, thanks for visiting! I am redoing my site and ask for your patience while I do so. There will be lots of changes in the coming weeks. I have lots of projects and events to recap, which I haven’t been able to do in a while (as you can see below). For now, get caught up by visiting the Lickety Split, Slowdance Night, Nightwood and Double Negative Collective pages. Otherwise, explore the tabs above to check out the other pages.
Come again!
St. Henri Garage sale June 16th: Ibanez guitar, zines, videos and more for sale
June 15th, 2007 § Leave a Comment
Howdy!
Come on out to our garage sale this Saturday, June 16th from 10-5pm, on Laporte Ave., just above St. Anotine. That’s close to Guay Park, or the Atwater exit off of the highway, close to both St. Henri and Lionel Groulx metro stations.
Some stuff we’re selling:
an Ibanez guitar
a small stove (for pick up June 29th- $75)
glass ware
craft supplies
Britannica set
zines
art & craft supplies
books
videos
and more…
See you Saturday!
March 25th, 2007 § Leave a Comment
I was checking out Jim Munroe‘s website, wondering how he does it all, you know, what’s his magic or funding because I think he’s amazing.
And there was a lovely, endearing post he published about his wife Susan on the occasion of her birthday, she the author of LadyScientist zine among other distinctions, and he had included her band Tom Boyfriend. Listen to it here: http://myspace.com/tomboyfriend
I really dig their stuff, super fun!
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Also, I’ll be posting up photos from Canzine and the THREADS art show soon.
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I picked up some postcards by Texta from the Concordia Coop Bookstore and now I just need some penpals. If you want one of her lovely postcards showing up at your door for free, just e-mail me at “a” at licketysplitzine “dot” com, and include your name and mailing address.
Hearts,
Amber
