Seriously, 'http://tiny.abstractdynamics.org' i.e. tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's Tear is my favourite blog right now. I LOVE the way Jessica thinks.
This, from a recent post, rings many bells for me; my life, my purpose, my productions & creativity...
'It's been a long summer of being disconnected from writing. Writing with actual thought about it, writing that isn't about my work, my writing, my book. My life, I know, for a while, maybe an extended while, will be the care and feeding of the thing I made. To wrest away from that feels nessecary and strange. I have barely read, barely taken in, mostly just presented and talked and arranged and hustled. I am home, a little broke, medium tired, missing the entire part of the summer that is the part where you vacate and do nothing. Where you read. Look at stuff and hatch plans that are not terribly ambitious. Like "makin' a pie" or strip mining the massive pile in yr room known as "Clothes Mountain"'.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
future fuck all - submissions wanted
from my inbox...
Future Fuck All
"Hello friends, I am putting out a call for writing, art, comics, photographs, on the practicial and philosophical aspects of gender, sexuality, bodies, and queerness. Personal experiences (good, bad, and other), philosophies, rants, funny stories, observations, interviews, dreams of the future. Ultimately, I want to put a zine out that is a positive fuck yeah for queerness, transgenderisms, bodies, sexualityies, and ultra wave inclusive feminism. A recognition that all oppressions are interconnected, and the time is now to share our stories and deconstruct the dead ends.
Years ago I did four issues of a crudely similar zine call "Girl-Boy" with a co-editor. It was a fun and enlightening exploration, I want to do it again, this time with everybody!
After the submissions have been picked and assembled I will submit the final zine to an awesome independent publisher. I might also put it on a blog thing for the world to share. If you want to specify rights reserved in your works, write that on the work, or let me know in some way. This is not a profit venture, it is to share experience and open minds, our own, and anyone that reads.
If you have suggestions for a title, please send them in! My original brainstorm title idea "Beyond Girl-Boy" seems entirely cheesy. My new working title is" "Future Fuck All."
Deadline is November 1, 2009.
Drop me a note if you have questions." - Robert, robotearl(at)gmail.com, robnoxious.wordpress.com
x x x
Plus, also...
Nowhere 2 Be Found Magazine
is a fanzine that focses on diverse views & culture from a queer perspective. We're looking for gear heads, geeks, dorks, sci-fi/horror fans, punks, metalheads, those dealing with health, mental health, & substance abuse, doing project...to tell their stories, share their art, poetry, fiction/non-fiction, advice, how to, sites, project, events, etc. Send all submissions to nowheretwobefound(at)gmail.com. You can find more info on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace.
Future Fuck All
"Hello friends, I am putting out a call for writing, art, comics, photographs, on the practicial and philosophical aspects of gender, sexuality, bodies, and queerness. Personal experiences (good, bad, and other), philosophies, rants, funny stories, observations, interviews, dreams of the future. Ultimately, I want to put a zine out that is a positive fuck yeah for queerness, transgenderisms, bodies, sexualityies, and ultra wave inclusive feminism. A recognition that all oppressions are interconnected, and the time is now to share our stories and deconstruct the dead ends.
Years ago I did four issues of a crudely similar zine call "Girl-Boy" with a co-editor. It was a fun and enlightening exploration, I want to do it again, this time with everybody!
After the submissions have been picked and assembled I will submit the final zine to an awesome independent publisher. I might also put it on a blog thing for the world to share. If you want to specify rights reserved in your works, write that on the work, or let me know in some way. This is not a profit venture, it is to share experience and open minds, our own, and anyone that reads.
If you have suggestions for a title, please send them in! My original brainstorm title idea "Beyond Girl-Boy" seems entirely cheesy. My new working title is" "Future Fuck All."
Deadline is November 1, 2009.
Drop me a note if you have questions." - Robert, robotearl(at)gmail.com, robnoxious.wordpress.com
x x x
Plus, also...
Nowhere 2 Be Found Magazine
is a fanzine that focses on diverse views & culture from a queer perspective. We're looking for gear heads, geeks, dorks, sci-fi/horror fans, punks, metalheads, those dealing with health, mental health, & substance abuse, doing project...to tell their stories, share their art, poetry, fiction/non-fiction, advice, how to, sites, project, events, etc. Send all submissions to nowheretwobefound(at)gmail.com. You can find more info on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace.
oh, so rad
EveryBody!: Visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009 from September 11-October 10, 2009 at I Space Gallery, Chicago
Monday, 7 September 2009
rubber ring - seeking suggestions
From my inbox...
Hello,
I need some assistance with a design/illustration project I’m doing.
The project is called:
Rubber Ring: A zine of artful words as a life raft for adolescence. {The title is named after a song by The Smiths about remembering the music and the words that helped you in your youth once you’re grown and ‘laughing and dancing and finally living’}
Basically I’m creating a small self-published magazine that uses the song lyrics of music that is related to various themes such as:
Love / Sex / Death / Beauty / Fear / Alienation / Work / Fashion&Adornments / Bodily Changes&Illness
Anger / Violence / Difference / Creativity / Friendship / Inequality
What I hope to say with this is that in the world there are all of these things, and they exist simultaneously, and despite feeling it no one is alone in fearing isolation and inadequacy. That we are often manipulated and misinformed and that we have value and power and creativity. With these little pocket sized publications I intend to provide something that will do what music often does, offer comfort, recognition and inspiration; but visually. I will be illustrating and designing these words appropriately and including other things such as poems / stories / information / etc. to bolster the rich visuals and link them within a wider context. Basically harnessing popular culture and interpreting it in ways that might reassure someone when in the midst of that most tragicomic of times. I want to mix a blend of humour, mundanity and drama. I want to encourage and challenge, infusing it with the best kind of feminist humanity.
You can help me by:
* Recommending songs that you think are appropriate to one or more of the above themes. OR
* Recommending songs that you think are appropriate to one or more of the above themes that you loved when you were at that age. And a brief description of why that particular song is appropriate, was it helpful / inspiring etc? OR
* Do both of the above and tell me any anecdotes you have about things that were important to you then, embarrassing moments, love, fashion faux pas, fears, sexual encounters. Whatever you feel comfortable sharing with me really that you think might help someone going through something difficult. I won’t use any real names in the zine nor will I share the information about anyone’s identity with anyone else, not a soul.
Contact: jo_eliza_beth@hotmail.com
Hello,
I need some assistance with a design/illustration project I’m doing.
The project is called:
Rubber Ring: A zine of artful words as a life raft for adolescence. {The title is named after a song by The Smiths about remembering the music and the words that helped you in your youth once you’re grown and ‘laughing and dancing and finally living’}
Basically I’m creating a small self-published magazine that uses the song lyrics of music that is related to various themes such as:
Love / Sex / Death / Beauty / Fear / Alienation / Work / Fashion&Adornments / Bodily Changes&Illness
Anger / Violence / Difference / Creativity / Friendship / Inequality
What I hope to say with this is that in the world there are all of these things, and they exist simultaneously, and despite feeling it no one is alone in fearing isolation and inadequacy. That we are often manipulated and misinformed and that we have value and power and creativity. With these little pocket sized publications I intend to provide something that will do what music often does, offer comfort, recognition and inspiration; but visually. I will be illustrating and designing these words appropriately and including other things such as poems / stories / information / etc. to bolster the rich visuals and link them within a wider context. Basically harnessing popular culture and interpreting it in ways that might reassure someone when in the midst of that most tragicomic of times. I want to mix a blend of humour, mundanity and drama. I want to encourage and challenge, infusing it with the best kind of feminist humanity.
You can help me by:
* Recommending songs that you think are appropriate to one or more of the above themes. OR
* Recommending songs that you think are appropriate to one or more of the above themes that you loved when you were at that age. And a brief description of why that particular song is appropriate, was it helpful / inspiring etc? OR
* Do both of the above and tell me any anecdotes you have about things that were important to you then, embarrassing moments, love, fashion faux pas, fears, sexual encounters. Whatever you feel comfortable sharing with me really that you think might help someone going through something difficult. I won’t use any real names in the zine nor will I share the information about anyone’s identity with anyone else, not a soul.
Contact: jo_eliza_beth@hotmail.com
a small, potentailly setimental post about friends and community
I just got back. I've been in New York, working. I got two nights off, the only time off for the whole trip. I knew I had to spend it wisely. It was then I realised how lucky I am to have such an extended family of friends over the world; friends that have been gained through my projects and by keeping in touch with people who pass through my city. I'd been told about a gig happening in New York, co-incidently on one of my nights off...
7:30 Dibs, 8:00 Dan Fishback, 8:30 Susie Asado, 9:30 Andrew Phillip Tipton, 10:00 Nan Turner, 10:30 Horror Me, 11:00 Kat Burns, 11:30 Toby Goodshank, 12:00 Sibsi
I got to the Sidewalk Cafe and it felt like falling into the arms of the best hug ever. Nan had told me of the show, and it was *so* good to see her, both personally, and to see her solo set - now complete with rapping!! And oh, Dan... we have shared friends, and immediately after his set I knew I wanted to be his best friend, I fell head over heels. And Lisa came down to the show to say hi, and I met Yoko for the first time, years after interviewing her. And I bumped into folks that I've worked on shows with in the UK like Toby, Phoebe, and Matt. And it felt so wonderful to be alone in a strange city and wandering out into the night to this venue full of friends and love and community.
And not just for how they personally welcomed me that night, coming forward with hugs and smiles, but also the knowledge of how crazily talented they are. The awareness of this crazy-talented set of people interacting and performing and creating this music and art in such a supportive environment, in this creative community. It just felt so electric that these people who found each other in the wilds of new york and have come to work together as such a dynamic community - supporting each other, putting on shows and events, listening and collaborating. From an outsiders perspective I felt a pang of jealousy and knowledge that I don't really have that friendship community available to me 24/7. Yet so happy to be there, and feeling included and participating to the buzz of something important.
The sense of community I felt was different yet totally the same to that that I felt in San Francisco only a few short weeks before; that feeling of acceptance and love and shared worlds, and excitement and creativity, and small degrees of separation and the knowledge of how small the world can be, the sense of potential, the warmth, the wanting to forge a better sense of community in my day-to-day not just on these off-chances.
I know the greatest people. I need to stop forgetting that, cuz these connections and friends I have are just so ridiculously positive and inspiring.
7:30 Dibs, 8:00 Dan Fishback, 8:30 Susie Asado, 9:30 Andrew Phillip Tipton, 10:00 Nan Turner, 10:30 Horror Me, 11:00 Kat Burns, 11:30 Toby Goodshank, 12:00 Sibsi
I got to the Sidewalk Cafe and it felt like falling into the arms of the best hug ever. Nan had told me of the show, and it was *so* good to see her, both personally, and to see her solo set - now complete with rapping!! And oh, Dan... we have shared friends, and immediately after his set I knew I wanted to be his best friend, I fell head over heels. And Lisa came down to the show to say hi, and I met Yoko for the first time, years after interviewing her. And I bumped into folks that I've worked on shows with in the UK like Toby, Phoebe, and Matt. And it felt so wonderful to be alone in a strange city and wandering out into the night to this venue full of friends and love and community.
And not just for how they personally welcomed me that night, coming forward with hugs and smiles, but also the knowledge of how crazily talented they are. The awareness of this crazy-talented set of people interacting and performing and creating this music and art in such a supportive environment, in this creative community. It just felt so electric that these people who found each other in the wilds of new york and have come to work together as such a dynamic community - supporting each other, putting on shows and events, listening and collaborating. From an outsiders perspective I felt a pang of jealousy and knowledge that I don't really have that friendship community available to me 24/7. Yet so happy to be there, and feeling included and participating to the buzz of something important.
The sense of community I felt was different yet totally the same to that that I felt in San Francisco only a few short weeks before; that feeling of acceptance and love and shared worlds, and excitement and creativity, and small degrees of separation and the knowledge of how small the world can be, the sense of potential, the warmth, the wanting to forge a better sense of community in my day-to-day not just on these off-chances.
I know the greatest people. I need to stop forgetting that, cuz these connections and friends I have are just so ridiculously positive and inspiring.
Sunday, 6 September 2009
lily, yuka, and fumi
I've done quite enough zipping over the Atlantic for the time being, but, oh, what I wouldn't give to see this show in Los Angeles at ThinkSpace...
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
that's what i call a view!
See more about the knitted bunny on the Italian lanscape here. It took 5 years to knit and will stay in it's current location for another 15-20 years. It was created by the Gelintin collective, creators of other amazing installation creations such as this:
ladyfest edinburgh 09: what's the scoop?
Move over Edinburgh Fringe, Ladyfest is back in town. More bijou than last years month long extravaganza, but still the same great tasting feminist flavours.
The weekend events explode with the arrival of Sister Spit: The Next Generation. The tour is hitting the road again, with a whole new all-girl lineup of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, slam poets and fancy scribblers. Sister Spit: The Next Generation is hauling a vanload of killer underground female talent across the USA and into the bosom of Ladyfest Edinburgh. Take a peek behind The Big Red Door for this eagerly awaited pageant and fall headlong into the ramblin' roadshow.
Saturday is no day for takin' it easy either, lace up yer pussy pumps and head down to The Bowery for an afternoon of punk knitting, naked men (see Life Drawing), skill share, singing, self love dancing, stand up comedy with Sian Bevan, theatre combat, lotions, potions and commotions. To add to this heavy brew, Ladyfest have been collaborating with various young folks youth groups throughout the city in a visual arts project and some of the work will be on show for one day only before it goes on tour. The main aim of this project was to make stronger connections with our local community, debunk some of the stuffy myths of art and get young folk expressing themselves creatively through the visual arts.
Saturday leaks into night with a small pause for breath before The Bowery doors are opened again to a night of performance and music. Featuring the ultimate sticky fixative Sellotape, and the bilingual mixture of sound poetry and storytelling with megaphones of Zorras. (other acts still tbc)
"Think Kleenex or The Delta Five, with an in-built ramshackleness tempered by a vocal style betraying a smidgen of Siouxsie Sioux..." Neil Cooper, The List
"The images come so fast you sometimes feel like a Slinky falling down the stairs, yet the emotion and intention are clear, moving, and often funny" The Skinny
Our lazy Ladyfest Sunday afternoon goes for a gallery walk and coffee stop to sit with pinkies poised and napkins ready to catch spat out cake crumbs and hot liquid as all are invited to wander and talk about women in art, past present and future. The weekend finishes with a film at the brass monkey. See our website for further details.
Ladyfest has been conducting itself underground all year so a quick update on us. This will be the second Ladyfest to be organised by people living in Edinburgh, building on the heritage of over 100 Ladyfests around the world since 2000: non-profit, feminist events organised mainly by women and platforms for the talents of female artists and performers. The events are mainly focused on encouraging the talent of women and girls, but are open to everyone.
Ladyfest is an idea not an ideology. The main aim of Ladyfest Edinburgh is to create an alternative space for the celebration of female creativity. The future of Ladyfest will be built on our need to grasp this free space and continue to make women more visible in the arts, culture and society.
For further information and pictures please contact:
Fiona Watt 0131 557 5869 (Eve and weekends only) or 07891 507716 (day) or
Marylou Anderson at info@ladyfestedinburgh.com
1 Weekend listings are attached below
2 For more information see our website www.ladyfestedinburgh.com
3 There is a facebook group you can join here www.facebook.com/group.php?=7816432651
4 All profits from ladyfest edinburgh will go to local women's charities
Ladyfest Edinburgh Weekend Listings
Comedy night with Sian Bevan, Liz Ely plus guests
Thurs 24th September, Doors 7pm
Communication Union's Workers Club, Brunswick Street, Edinburgh
£4 on the door or purchase a £10 weekend ticket
Sister Spit: The Next Generation
Fri 25th September, Doors open 7pm
The Big Red Door, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh
£5 on door or purchase a weekend ticket for £10
Youth art project exhibition and a whorl of workshops
Saturday 26th September, Doors 11am-5pm
The Bowery, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
Donation or free with a weekend ticket
Sellotape, Zorras plus guests
Saturday 26th September, Doors 7.30pm - midnight
The Bowery, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
£3 on door or purchase a £10 weekend ticket
Gallery walk and talk about women in art past, present and future
Sunday 27th September
Meeting for 2pm @ The fruitmarket Gallery
Free/
Films @ The Brass Monkey (see website for film details), From 8pm
Sunday 27th September
The Brass Monkey, Drummond Street, Edinburgh
Free/donations accepted
The weekend events explode with the arrival of Sister Spit: The Next Generation. The tour is hitting the road again, with a whole new all-girl lineup of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, slam poets and fancy scribblers. Sister Spit: The Next Generation is hauling a vanload of killer underground female talent across the USA and into the bosom of Ladyfest Edinburgh. Take a peek behind The Big Red Door for this eagerly awaited pageant and fall headlong into the ramblin' roadshow.
Saturday is no day for takin' it easy either, lace up yer pussy pumps and head down to The Bowery for an afternoon of punk knitting, naked men (see Life Drawing), skill share, singing, self love dancing, stand up comedy with Sian Bevan, theatre combat, lotions, potions and commotions. To add to this heavy brew, Ladyfest have been collaborating with various young folks youth groups throughout the city in a visual arts project and some of the work will be on show for one day only before it goes on tour. The main aim of this project was to make stronger connections with our local community, debunk some of the stuffy myths of art and get young folk expressing themselves creatively through the visual arts.
Saturday leaks into night with a small pause for breath before The Bowery doors are opened again to a night of performance and music. Featuring the ultimate sticky fixative Sellotape, and the bilingual mixture of sound poetry and storytelling with megaphones of Zorras. (other acts still tbc)
"Think Kleenex or The Delta Five, with an in-built ramshackleness tempered by a vocal style betraying a smidgen of Siouxsie Sioux..." Neil Cooper, The List
"The images come so fast you sometimes feel like a Slinky falling down the stairs, yet the emotion and intention are clear, moving, and often funny" The Skinny
Our lazy Ladyfest Sunday afternoon goes for a gallery walk and coffee stop to sit with pinkies poised and napkins ready to catch spat out cake crumbs and hot liquid as all are invited to wander and talk about women in art, past present and future. The weekend finishes with a film at the brass monkey. See our website for further details.
Ladyfest has been conducting itself underground all year so a quick update on us. This will be the second Ladyfest to be organised by people living in Edinburgh, building on the heritage of over 100 Ladyfests around the world since 2000: non-profit, feminist events organised mainly by women and platforms for the talents of female artists and performers. The events are mainly focused on encouraging the talent of women and girls, but are open to everyone.
Ladyfest is an idea not an ideology. The main aim of Ladyfest Edinburgh is to create an alternative space for the celebration of female creativity. The future of Ladyfest will be built on our need to grasp this free space and continue to make women more visible in the arts, culture and society.
For further information and pictures please contact:
Fiona Watt 0131 557 5869 (Eve and weekends only) or 07891 507716 (day) or
Marylou Anderson at info@ladyfestedinburgh.com
1 Weekend listings are attached below
2 For more information see our website www.ladyfestedinburgh.com
3 There is a facebook group you can join here www.facebook.com/group.php?=7816432651
4 All profits from ladyfest edinburgh will go to local women's charities
Ladyfest Edinburgh Weekend Listings
Comedy night with Sian Bevan, Liz Ely plus guests
Thurs 24th September, Doors 7pm
Communication Union's Workers Club, Brunswick Street, Edinburgh
£4 on the door or purchase a £10 weekend ticket
Sister Spit: The Next Generation
Fri 25th September, Doors open 7pm
The Big Red Door, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh
£5 on door or purchase a weekend ticket for £10
Youth art project exhibition and a whorl of workshops
Saturday 26th September, Doors 11am-5pm
The Bowery, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
Donation or free with a weekend ticket
Sellotape, Zorras plus guests
Saturday 26th September, Doors 7.30pm - midnight
The Bowery, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
£3 on door or purchase a £10 weekend ticket
Gallery walk and talk about women in art past, present and future
Sunday 27th September
Meeting for 2pm @ The fruitmarket Gallery
Free/
Films @ The Brass Monkey (see website for film details), From 8pm
Sunday 27th September
The Brass Monkey, Drummond Street, Edinburgh
Free/donations accepted
Monday, 24 August 2009
Friday, 21 August 2009
nicole george's zine challenge
From my inbox...
Nicole writes:
2009 Zine Challenge
I just found an entire box of zines i made with a 5th grader called "My Top Five Most Embarrassing Moments".
I'll trade you one for a zine about YOUR top five most embarassing moments.
Deadline: September 1st, 2009
Send $2 with your zine submissions to receive an envelope full of zines received from the challenge (this is for postage).
THIS SWAP IS OPEN TO ALL AGES
Please specify whether or not your zine will be 5th grade appropriate.
This will determine whether your zine will be swapped with 5th graders or just other adults.
Contact via: http://nicolejgeorges.blogspot.com/
We did a Spring Break Zine Challenge in 2008, with great results! Intergenerational zine trading with everyone from gay road trippers to feminist raisins, six year old artists, lesbian poets and bike messengers!
PLEASE REPOST!
Nicole writes:
2009 Zine Challenge
I just found an entire box of zines i made with a 5th grader called "My Top Five Most Embarrassing Moments".
I'll trade you one for a zine about YOUR top five most embarassing moments.
Deadline: September 1st, 2009
Send $2 with your zine submissions to receive an envelope full of zines received from the challenge (this is for postage).
THIS SWAP IS OPEN TO ALL AGES
Please specify whether or not your zine will be 5th grade appropriate.
This will determine whether your zine will be swapped with 5th graders or just other adults.
Contact via: http://nicolejgeorges.blogspot.com/
We did a Spring Break Zine Challenge in 2008, with great results! Intergenerational zine trading with everyone from gay road trippers to feminist raisins, six year old artists, lesbian poets and bike messengers!
PLEASE REPOST!
sister spit in europe this september
SEPTEMBER '09
2nd - Brighton (Cowley Club)
3rd - Bristol (Secret Warehouse Location) *
4th - Sheffield (Cafe venue tbc)
5th - London (RampARTS Social Centre)
6th - Leeds - (The Adelphi)
7th - Bradford (1 in 12)
9th - ljubljana (Menza Pri Korito)
10th - vienna (???)
11th - munich (Kafe Kult)
12th - berlin (Wirr Warr)
14th stockholm (Hallongrottan)
15th stockholm (Högkvarteret)
16th hamburg (Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift)
17th cologne (Kulturbunker)
18th paris (???)
19th bern (???)
20th milan (???)
22nd - Huddersfield (The Peacock Lounge)
23rd - Manchester (Yard Theatre)
24th - London (Chroma Journal workshop session)
25th - Ladyfest Edinburgh (The Big Red Door)
LISTINGS UPDATED AS OF 19/8/09
http://www.myspace.com/sisterspitnextgen
http://www.myspace.com/michelletea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Tea
http://www.sisterspitnextgen.com/fall07/michelletea.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/texta/sets/72157602455971563/
Details of performers hitting Europe
Thursday, 20 August 2009
friend zine submissions wanted
From my inbox...
Call for submissions
Instant friends, internet friends, soulmates, gangs of mates, house mates, holiday friends, friends who are more like family, family who are more like friends, friends who are lovers, friends who were lovers, old friends, new friends, school friends, work friends, ex-friends…
This is a call out for submissions for a new collaborative zine (as yet unnamed- ideas welcomed) about friendship. I want to celebrate the important role that friendship plays in all our lives and provide a space where people can acknowledge it in all its glory and gritty reality – break-ups of friendships, the strength that friends bring, the amazing wetting-your-pants laughing fun, the collaborations and creativity that can emerge from friendship etc etc etc
Submissions can be in whatever form you want – written/visual, the more variety the better! Anonymity if you like too.
Email submissions to: friendzine@gmail.com
Post submissions to: Friendzine, 19 Stockton House, Ellsworth Street, E2 0AY UK.
Deadline: 15th October 2009
PLEASE RE-POST
Call for submissions
Instant friends, internet friends, soulmates, gangs of mates, house mates, holiday friends, friends who are more like family, family who are more like friends, friends who are lovers, friends who were lovers, old friends, new friends, school friends, work friends, ex-friends…
This is a call out for submissions for a new collaborative zine (as yet unnamed- ideas welcomed) about friendship. I want to celebrate the important role that friendship plays in all our lives and provide a space where people can acknowledge it in all its glory and gritty reality – break-ups of friendships, the strength that friends bring, the amazing wetting-your-pants laughing fun, the collaborations and creativity that can emerge from friendship etc etc etc
Submissions can be in whatever form you want – written/visual, the more variety the better! Anonymity if you like too.
Email submissions to: friendzine@gmail.com
Post submissions to: Friendzine, 19 Stockton House, Ellsworth Street, E2 0AY UK.
Deadline: 15th October 2009
PLEASE RE-POST
gaycation tales
I got back from my gaycation in San Francisco yesterday and have had THE best time.
Here's a quick summary of my highlights...
Hanging out with the greatest people, meeting new friends, sunshine, ocean beach, writers-with-drinks dorothy allison reading, sutro baths, nomy lamm, santa cruz, strawberry farm, kareoke, dave end, pinball, almost- pink flamingos, tender forever, needles and pens, georgia o'keefe film at SFMOMA, haunted house/fright walk, tuna melts, mirah, charlie's, little otsu, backyard cinema film screening, hugs and cuddles, laughter, tara jane o'neil, modern times, alcatraz, dorothy allison cupping ass!, golden gate bridge at top speed, wax museum, lollipop generation, dolores park, erase errata, dog eared books, the brookdale inn, art xx benefit event, in search of margo-go screening, amoeba, bound together, valencia, michelle tea and daphne gottleib readings, back porch smoking, you tube giggles, christeene, giant robot, the lexington, silas howard, musee mechanique, photobooths -working or not!, younger lovers, queers galore, kirk read performance, lex-sally-maile-mary-iris-annah-pike, frida kahlo at SFMOMA, burning hot sand, windswept, couch-snoozing, graham crackers, grandmother predictions, burnt nose, the eagle - bear-bar extraordinare, hunx and his punx, brits-on-tour, femina potens, carletta sue kay, thee parkside, double dutchess, athens boy's choir, purple rhinestone eagle, mirah doing fleetwood mac, huge huge balloons, ketchup mustache, team gina's ode to the tiny degree of seperation, homo made merit badges, tater tots, the super-group of TJO, Melanie V, Jenny H and Tara J, maile's coolio, dog park, castro rainbows galore, valencia, smashed hope, giant pizza slices, soggy sea-jeans, mary's "duck hand" during fashion show, giant strawberry, running thru sprinklers, lex's english vocab lessons, art at SOMArts, santa cruz boardwalk, and then some!!!
Basically, learning to relax, enjoy, hang out, live and be.
Here's a quick summary of my highlights...
Hanging out with the greatest people, meeting new friends, sunshine, ocean beach, writers-with-drinks dorothy allison reading, sutro baths, nomy lamm, santa cruz, strawberry farm, kareoke, dave end, pinball, almost- pink flamingos, tender forever, needles and pens, georgia o'keefe film at SFMOMA, haunted house/fright walk, tuna melts, mirah, charlie's, little otsu, backyard cinema film screening, hugs and cuddles, laughter, tara jane o'neil, modern times, alcatraz, dorothy allison cupping ass!, golden gate bridge at top speed, wax museum, lollipop generation, dolores park, erase errata, dog eared books, the brookdale inn, art xx benefit event, in search of margo-go screening, amoeba, bound together, valencia, michelle tea and daphne gottleib readings, back porch smoking, you tube giggles, christeene, giant robot, the lexington, silas howard, musee mechanique, photobooths -working or not!, younger lovers, queers galore, kirk read performance, lex-sally-maile-mary-iris-annah-pike, frida kahlo at SFMOMA, burning hot sand, windswept, couch-snoozing, graham crackers, grandmother predictions, burnt nose, the eagle - bear-bar extraordinare, hunx and his punx, brits-on-tour, femina potens, carletta sue kay, thee parkside, double dutchess, athens boy's choir, purple rhinestone eagle, mirah doing fleetwood mac, huge huge balloons, ketchup mustache, team gina's ode to the tiny degree of seperation, homo made merit badges, tater tots, the super-group of TJO, Melanie V, Jenny H and Tara J, maile's coolio, dog park, castro rainbows galore, valencia, smashed hope, giant pizza slices, soggy sea-jeans, mary's "duck hand" during fashion show, giant strawberry, running thru sprinklers, lex's english vocab lessons, art at SOMArts, santa cruz boardwalk, and then some!!!
Basically, learning to relax, enjoy, hang out, live and be.
queer music project
From my inbox...
From: Wisdom Tooth
Date: 20/08/2009 07:17:50
Subject: ATTN: QUEERWADS!
Here's the story, homoglory.
I am currently taking submissions for a new project tentatively called Queer as Folk-Pop (Vol. 1)
The plan is to assemble a delicious buffet of singalongable queerfagdykebutchfemmetranny-centric lovejams for the pansy pop-addict in all of us.
Because don't tell me you're not sick of the same old compulsive heteroboticism harshing your tunebox. Sometimes we just wanna pine along to songs about relationships that look a little less like the ones in TV commercials, am I right?
This project aims to communicate to audiences of DIY folk/pop/whatever music that we're here, we're queer, and we dig handclaps. So if you or anyone you know has a ditty that is in any way queer-love/lust themed (interpret that whichever way you like), send it over to:
queerasfolkpop@gmail.com
The album will be available for free download once compiled, and upon request I can also make hardcopies to send to contributors, who can then do whatever they want with them (gift, sell, frame, etc). It's a great way to get some headphone-play for your hot mess of a music project, and contribute to queer visibility in the nebulous DIY music scene too.
There are no guidelines regarding the form or content of submissions. It doesn't have to be a new or exclusive song; it can even be a cover, like for instance if I did a dyketastic version of "I Kissed A Girl" where I liked it because I'm a flaming sexual deviant. The options include everything under/over the rainbow, so use your imagination. I'll contact you in a few months if I've decided to use your submission for the final product.
This is going to be sublime. Tell your friends of all queer-like persuasions and let's pitch in to make something that sissies and spinsters alike can sing, snap, stomp and swoon along to for ages to come.
Queer Lovejams for the Win,
Meagan Day aka Wisdom Tooth
From: Wisdom Tooth
Date: 20/08/2009 07:17:50
Subject: ATTN: QUEERWADS!
Here's the story, homoglory.
I am currently taking submissions for a new project tentatively called Queer as Folk-Pop (Vol. 1)
The plan is to assemble a delicious buffet of singalongable queerfagdykebutchfemmetranny-centric lovejams for the pansy pop-addict in all of us.
Because don't tell me you're not sick of the same old compulsive heteroboticism harshing your tunebox. Sometimes we just wanna pine along to songs about relationships that look a little less like the ones in TV commercials, am I right?
This project aims to communicate to audiences of DIY folk/pop/whatever music that we're here, we're queer, and we dig handclaps. So if you or anyone you know has a ditty that is in any way queer-love/lust themed (interpret that whichever way you like), send it over to:
queerasfolkpop@gmail.com
The album will be available for free download once compiled, and upon request I can also make hardcopies to send to contributors, who can then do whatever they want with them (gift, sell, frame, etc). It's a great way to get some headphone-play for your hot mess of a music project, and contribute to queer visibility in the nebulous DIY music scene too.
There are no guidelines regarding the form or content of submissions. It doesn't have to be a new or exclusive song; it can even be a cover, like for instance if I did a dyketastic version of "I Kissed A Girl" where I liked it because I'm a flaming sexual deviant. The options include everything under/over the rainbow, so use your imagination. I'll contact you in a few months if I've decided to use your submission for the final product.
This is going to be sublime. Tell your friends of all queer-like persuasions and let's pitch in to make something that sissies and spinsters alike can sing, snap, stomp and swoon along to for ages to come.
Queer Lovejams for the Win,
Meagan Day aka Wisdom Tooth
Friday, 31 July 2009
lori
Oh me, oh my! Lori Earley has announced her first solo exhibition in London; Oct 16-Nov 14th 09 at Opera Gallery.
Sorry London friends, it seems I'm gonna be descending on you again in the Autumn!!
Thursday, 30 July 2009
wave your hands
Ridiculous amounts of love to Bob and Len for showing me this at the weekend, and for spontaniously recreating bits over the next few days. Bloody amazing...
56a
At the weekend i was lucky enough to make my first visit to the 56a Infoshop in London.
I was there to check out the newly re-launched zine library that is established there. Volunteers Colette and Melissa have been working really hard to catalogue and organise the mammoth number of zines in the collection - from comix zines to perzines, music zines to spirituality zines, queer to anarchist zines, feminsm to race, and beyond - there's a huge amount of amazing work collected there, and well worth an hour or two of your browsing time! It really does capture the wealth and importance of self-publishing.
The zine library is also on the look-out for even more zine donations though, so do consider sending them yours. Melissa and Colette are always on the lookout for people to help them catalogue all the zines they have too, so get in touch with them if you have an eye for zines!
Also, it appears that there are a large amount of duplicates in their collection, so the 56a zine library are keen to send such duplicates to other (preferably UK based, for postage reasons) zine libaries, and build on the community, collaboration, and wealth of zine resources available UK-wide.
The 56a infoshop itself was dizzying and overwhelming - packed to the rafters with leaftlets, resources and information, a radical open-access archive/research library, plus zines, music, coffee and books for sale - I could have spent an absolute fortune! There's also bike maintanance facilities/workshops, advice on practical squatting, a book exchange, free cinema screenings, and a plethora of other things... Mind blowing!
Attached to the infoshop is Freeshare food co-op, a fair-trade wholefoods shop with pulses, spices, organic veg and more.
My favourite thing was perhaps the kitchen and toilet space, and not just because of the pancakes being made there on the day I went! The space is covered with posters from the 'Celebrate People's History' project (which I think I'll devote a whole blog post to an other day); just so very inspiring.
Here's to my next visit!
I was there to check out the newly re-launched zine library that is established there. Volunteers Colette and Melissa have been working really hard to catalogue and organise the mammoth number of zines in the collection - from comix zines to perzines, music zines to spirituality zines, queer to anarchist zines, feminsm to race, and beyond - there's a huge amount of amazing work collected there, and well worth an hour or two of your browsing time! It really does capture the wealth and importance of self-publishing.
The zine library is also on the look-out for even more zine donations though, so do consider sending them yours. Melissa and Colette are always on the lookout for people to help them catalogue all the zines they have too, so get in touch with them if you have an eye for zines!
Also, it appears that there are a large amount of duplicates in their collection, so the 56a zine library are keen to send such duplicates to other (preferably UK based, for postage reasons) zine libaries, and build on the community, collaboration, and wealth of zine resources available UK-wide.
The 56a infoshop itself was dizzying and overwhelming - packed to the rafters with leaftlets, resources and information, a radical open-access archive/research library, plus zines, music, coffee and books for sale - I could have spent an absolute fortune! There's also bike maintanance facilities/workshops, advice on practical squatting, a book exchange, free cinema screenings, and a plethora of other things... Mind blowing!
Attached to the infoshop is Freeshare food co-op, a fair-trade wholefoods shop with pulses, spices, organic veg and more.
My favourite thing was perhaps the kitchen and toilet space, and not just because of the pancakes being made there on the day I went! The space is covered with posters from the 'Celebrate People's History' project (which I think I'll devote a whole blog post to an other day); just so very inspiring.
Here's to my next visit!
love me a good poster/neato design
At Concrete Hermit gallery:
http://gallery.concretehermit.com
Plus, also, at London Tate Modern:
http://www.concretehermit.com/shop/tatemodern
http://www.concretehermit.com
http://gallery.concretehermit.com
Plus, also, at London Tate Modern:
http://www.concretehermit.com/shop/tatemodern
http://www.concretehermit.com
neato
PORTMAN VILLAGE GALLERIES
Exhibitions & events by emerging artists in a series of temporarily vacant spaces in Seymour Place and Quebec Street W.1. opening on the FIRST TUESDAY of each month. Open Tues-Sat 11am-6pm.
Admission Free.
For more infomation, contact info@alternativearts.co.uk 020 7375 0441
Exhibitions & events by emerging artists in a series of temporarily vacant spaces in Seymour Place and Quebec Street W.1. opening on the FIRST TUESDAY of each month. Open Tues-Sat 11am-6pm.
Admission Free.
For more infomation, contact info@alternativearts.co.uk 020 7375 0441
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
call for art...
Call for Art
Transnational Feminisms Conference
December 4-5 2009, with associated events on 6th
This 3 day event will take place at the University of Manchester.
We are putting together an exhibition to accompany the event and are looking for art in a variety of mediums that addresses the themes of this event.
We are keen to showcase original work at this event, through an exhibition, on conference publicity materials and in the conference booklet.
Themes of the conference include but aren’t limited to:
Global markets of cultural production
Religion and the nation state
Belonging and home
Feminism and neo-colonialism
Diaspora and migration
The international as the popular
Historical moments of transnational feminism
Struggle for, and violence of, borders
Postcolonial/queer intersections
Feminism and gender in a wider global political debate
Sites and voices of privilege
Historicisation and genealogies
AlliancesCultural and textual translations
Memorialisation
Feminist anti-racism
Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments, this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems in a global climate, how feminism translates and moves across borders, and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology for understanding the transnational context.
Here the transnational is understood to be a complication of notions of the 'elsewhere', highlighting the challenges of fluidity, movement and instability whilst also paying close attention to locatedness.This is a feminism that is engaged with the woman-as-subject without making universalising claims regarding women's experience; it both considers how gender operates and critiques categorisation.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the vitality of feminist interdisciplinarity as it pertains to the transnational, providing space for these debates to come together, creating an interrogation of transnational feminist theory and practice from academic, activist and artistic standpoints.
We have a small amount of funding to facilitate getting artwork to Manchester, or printing good quality and well-sized images that are sent in.
Funding can also be applied for to assist artists in attending the conference to talk about their work on an artists’ roundtable.
To submit your work for the conference please send the following to humairazsaeed@googlemail.com by August 28th 2009:
An outline of the work you would like to exhibit at this event - 300 words max
A short biography
Any relevant weblinks / jpegs of your work
The style of work you would like to exhibit (eg image / AV / slideshow)
How the work would need displaying (eg size of work, if work can be emailed / posted)
Expression of interest in being considered for poster image
Expression of interest in image in conference pack
Expression of interest in attending the event
Expression of interest in talking about your work at the event
Transnational Feminisms Conference
December 4-5 2009, with associated events on 6th
This 3 day event will take place at the University of Manchester.
We are putting together an exhibition to accompany the event and are looking for art in a variety of mediums that addresses the themes of this event.
We are keen to showcase original work at this event, through an exhibition, on conference publicity materials and in the conference booklet.
Themes of the conference include but aren’t limited to:
Global markets of cultural production
Religion and the nation state
Belonging and home
Feminism and neo-colonialism
Diaspora and migration
The international as the popular
Historical moments of transnational feminism
Struggle for, and violence of, borders
Postcolonial/queer intersections
Feminism and gender in a wider global political debate
Sites and voices of privilege
Historicisation and genealogies
AlliancesCultural and textual translations
Memorialisation
Feminist anti-racism
Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments, this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems in a global climate, how feminism translates and moves across borders, and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology for understanding the transnational context.
Here the transnational is understood to be a complication of notions of the 'elsewhere', highlighting the challenges of fluidity, movement and instability whilst also paying close attention to locatedness.This is a feminism that is engaged with the woman-as-subject without making universalising claims regarding women's experience; it both considers how gender operates and critiques categorisation.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the vitality of feminist interdisciplinarity as it pertains to the transnational, providing space for these debates to come together, creating an interrogation of transnational feminist theory and practice from academic, activist and artistic standpoints.
We have a small amount of funding to facilitate getting artwork to Manchester, or printing good quality and well-sized images that are sent in.
Funding can also be applied for to assist artists in attending the conference to talk about their work on an artists’ roundtable.
To submit your work for the conference please send the following to humairazsaeed@googlemail.com by August 28th 2009:
An outline of the work you would like to exhibit at this event - 300 words max
A short biography
Any relevant weblinks / jpegs of your work
The style of work you would like to exhibit (eg image / AV / slideshow)
How the work would need displaying (eg size of work, if work can be emailed / posted)
Expression of interest in being considered for poster image
Expression of interest in image in conference pack
Expression of interest in attending the event
Expression of interest in talking about your work at the event
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
nail on head over and over
my new favourite blog in the history of ever http://tiny.abstractdynamics.org
Not to state the obvious, but I think in 5-7 years, when all these pre-teen singing drummers and 15 yr old Pixies-obsessives hit able-to-tour age, and are 20 yr olds who have been playing for half their lives, there will be no doubt that Girls Rock Camps are the greatest thing to happen to rock this side of Zeppelin. There are eight year old girls who are seeking to OWN rock n' roll/punk/the world and what they are going to go on to do will make riot girls seem as duh/quaint as suffragettes. I cannot wait. I really cannot wait til these cool-as-hell 13 yr olds displace the Animal Collectives/etc. of the world with their own high concept epic amazingness.
Not to state the obvious, but I think in 5-7 years, when all these pre-teen singing drummers and 15 yr old Pixies-obsessives hit able-to-tour age, and are 20 yr olds who have been playing for half their lives, there will be no doubt that Girls Rock Camps are the greatest thing to happen to rock this side of Zeppelin. There are eight year old girls who are seeking to OWN rock n' roll/punk/the world and what they are going to go on to do will make riot girls seem as duh/quaint as suffragettes. I cannot wait. I really cannot wait til these cool-as-hell 13 yr olds displace the Animal Collectives/etc. of the world with their own high concept epic amazingness.
Saturday, 18 July 2009
whip it real good
Hang on... what? Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, and Ellen Page all in skates?!!!!
girlfriends
I'm totally late to hearing about this, but Catherine Opie's latest photographic project sounds *amazing*...
Can you tell me a bit about what you’re working on now, I heard recently about a series called “Girlfriends”.
Girlfriends is a fun body of work; it’s a bit of a play on a title of another body of work by the artist Richard Prince who did a series called Girlfriends, but they were all biker chicks, and my girlfriends are all butch dykes. They’re both famous and not famous and include: JD Sampson, KD Lang, Kate from the L-word, I think Sam Ronson is going to pose for me, and then a lot of my friends like Pig Pen and Jenny Shimizu (who we call Chicken). So to take all of these butch dykes and then to title it Girlfriends, raises all of these questions - what is a butch dyke? Is a butch dyke really a girlfriend or a boyfriend? It’s playing with a lot of things and I’m also just enjoying making portraits again.
Can you tell me a bit about what you’re working on now, I heard recently about a series called “Girlfriends”.
Girlfriends is a fun body of work; it’s a bit of a play on a title of another body of work by the artist Richard Prince who did a series called Girlfriends, but they were all biker chicks, and my girlfriends are all butch dykes. They’re both famous and not famous and include: JD Sampson, KD Lang, Kate from the L-word, I think Sam Ronson is going to pose for me, and then a lot of my friends like Pig Pen and Jenny Shimizu (who we call Chicken). So to take all of these butch dykes and then to title it Girlfriends, raises all of these questions - what is a butch dyke? Is a butch dyke really a girlfriend or a boyfriend? It’s playing with a lot of things and I’m also just enjoying making portraits again.
Friday, 17 July 2009
rightful due
I can't figure out how to do a direct link to an individual post from this particular blog, but the July 17th 'At Home I Feel Like A Tourist' post on Jessica Hopper's blog is one of my favourite blog posts that I've read in aaaages, for 101 different reasons. I feel so much better for reading it tonight
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Thursday, 9 July 2009
guerrilla girls exhibitions in the rest of the year
May 27, 2009 thru May 24, 2010 "elles@centrepompidou," First ever show of women artists in their collection by a museum that's notoriously too male, too pale. Centre Pompidou. Paris, France
May 30 - August 23 "REBELLE: Art and Feminism 1969-2009," Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
June 1- Sept 4 "Then and Now: 20th Anniversary of the Center Show," The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York City
June 6- July 27 "MasterPeaces - High Art for Higher Purpose," DaVinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California
July 3-October 4 "Ingres et les Modernes," Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
July 7-September "On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement," Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA,) Barcelona, Spain
July 24- August 9 "KÅT A4" (Horny)," Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden
September 1-December 15 Women's Studies Department and the Institue for Research on Women and Gender, Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
October New Guerrilla Girls project about Art In Ireland, Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Ireland
December 4-12 Galerie de l’UQAM, in Montreal (Quebec), Canada
May 30 - August 23 "REBELLE: Art and Feminism 1969-2009," Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
June 1- Sept 4 "Then and Now: 20th Anniversary of the Center Show," The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York City
June 6- July 27 "MasterPeaces - High Art for Higher Purpose," DaVinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California
July 3-October 4 "Ingres et les Modernes," Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
July 7-September "On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement," Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA,) Barcelona, Spain
July 24- August 9 "KÅT A4" (Horny)," Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden
September 1-December 15 Women's Studies Department and the Institue for Research on Women and Gender, Lane Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
October New Guerrilla Girls project about Art In Ireland, Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Ireland
December 4-12 Galerie de l’UQAM, in Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
original plumbing
from my inbox...
Share your story with ORIGINAL PLUMBING magazine::::::
Do you feel your personal identity is unique or under represented?
Do you have a hilarious, filthy or interesting personal narrative or essay you’d like to share with the world?
Do you have a trans-centric film to review?
A new band or book you’d like plug?
Have an organization, toy, technique, article of clothing, new pet or favorite place you’d like to share with the rest of the community?
Original Plumbing is currently seeking writing submissions of trans-masculine perspectives for upcoming issues!
Pitch us something today at originalplumbing@gmail.com .
xo
Amos Mac
Editor
Original Plumbing magazine
Share your story with ORIGINAL PLUMBING magazine::::::
Do you feel your personal identity is unique or under represented?
Do you have a hilarious, filthy or interesting personal narrative or essay you’d like to share with the world?
Do you have a trans-centric film to review?
A new band or book you’d like plug?
Have an organization, toy, technique, article of clothing, new pet or favorite place you’d like to share with the rest of the community?
Original Plumbing is currently seeking writing submissions of trans-masculine perspectives for upcoming issues!
Pitch us something today at originalplumbing@gmail.com .
xo
Amos Mac
Editor
Original Plumbing magazine
Monday, 6 July 2009
56a zine library benefit and relaunch weekend
56a Infoshop's Zine Library Benefit and Relaunch Weekend
Two days of bands and workshops...
Saturday 25th July
Launch Party Music & Distros at The Grosvenor in Stockwell (Stockwell/rixton tube)
7.30pm £4
Music from: jean genet, husbands, chaps and candy panic attack. all zinesters and diy musicians alike.
Distros: Cherry Bomb Comics, Ricochet Ricochet, 56a and more tbc
Sunday 26th July at 56a (crampton street, Elephant and Castle Tube)
Pancake breakfast from 12 noon
Workshops, discussions, exhibition, zine library browsing, general hanging out
(specific activities confirmed; self published comics discussion, practical
squatting and bike fixing workshops)
more workshops and discussions needed/wanted!! fans of the 56a library bring forth your ideas.
BRING YOUR ZINES to donate to the library, catalogue it youself DIY style
crashspaces available for weekenders
website for details: www.56a.org.uk
hoping and wishing for these to come soon
THE 12 WARNING SIGNS OF GOOD HEALTH*
(If several or more appear, you may rarely need to visit a doctor.)
1. Regular flare-ups of a supportive network of friends and family.
2. Chronic positive expectations.
3. Repeated episodes of gratitude and generosity.
4. Increased appetite for physical activity.
5. Marked tendency to identify and express feelings.
6. Compulsion to contribute to society.
7. Lingering sensitivity to the feelings of others.
8. Habitual behavior related to seeking new challenges.
9. Craving for peak experiences.
10. Tendency to adapt to changing conditions.
11. Feelings of spiritual involvement.
12. Persistent sense of humor.
*Adapted from a posting on a computer bulletin board in Waldport, Oregon, author unidentified. Reprinted in Whole Earth Review (Winter 1994), a compendium of brash thinking and lofty ideas.
(Found via: Bonfire Madigan Shive)
(If several or more appear, you may rarely need to visit a doctor.)
1. Regular flare-ups of a supportive network of friends and family.
2. Chronic positive expectations.
3. Repeated episodes of gratitude and generosity.
4. Increased appetite for physical activity.
5. Marked tendency to identify and express feelings.
6. Compulsion to contribute to society.
7. Lingering sensitivity to the feelings of others.
8. Habitual behavior related to seeking new challenges.
9. Craving for peak experiences.
10. Tendency to adapt to changing conditions.
11. Feelings of spiritual involvement.
12. Persistent sense of humor.
*Adapted from a posting on a computer bulletin board in Waldport, Oregon, author unidentified. Reprinted in Whole Earth Review (Winter 1994), a compendium of brash thinking and lofty ideas.
(Found via: Bonfire Madigan Shive)
gig poster
I'm in the midst of writing an article on gigposters, and wanted to take a mo to big up the following amazing gigposter artists (all of whom are being a huge help to me by currently answering interview questions on gig poster art)
xox
Graham Pilling
Cameron Steward
Chris White
Luke Drozd
Fox Fisher
Rachel Carns
Drew Millward
Alex Curtis
Dan Reeves
Leia Bell
Glyn Smith
Alice Horton
David Bailey
Lucy Jones
Kristian Jones
Carlos Ruiz
Anna Peaker
Adam Norwell
Ron Liberti
Tara McPherson
Jay Ryan
xox
Graham Pilling
Cameron Steward
Chris White
Luke Drozd
Fox Fisher
Rachel Carns
Drew Millward
Alex Curtis
Dan Reeves
Leia Bell
Glyn Smith
Alice Horton
David Bailey
Lucy Jones
Kristian Jones
Carlos Ruiz
Anna Peaker
Adam Norwell
Ron Liberti
Tara McPherson
Jay Ryan
Thursday, 2 July 2009
here here
This kinda just rocked my world. Thanks to Laura Woodhouse for pointing me in the direction of it.
If you can't sit still to watch for the full 20mins (though it is worth it), I found myself nodding along with every inch of my body at...
6.00 mins
11.30 mins
12.08 mins
13.08 mins
Sunday, 28 June 2009
free knowledge collective
From my inbox...
Hello :)
As part of the Free Knowledge Collective's endeavor to make accessible to the public multiple perspectives, otherwise-ignored voices, and radical ideologies, I am starting a portable library of independent, alternative, and radical texts.
You can read a little more about it here: http://www.freeknowledgecollective.com/AltLibrary.html
Everywhere the FKCollective goes (and for every FKCollective event) the library will come with. People will be given the chance to read, discuss, and learn from the texts at their leisure and if they want a copy of whatever they're reading, FKCollective members will provide them with info as to how to buy/obtain a copy for themselves.
Are you interested in donating to the FKCollective's radical library? I really hope so--I think this could be a great project. Send all donated materials to:
Samantha Manchester
7 Edgeclift Road
Towson, MD 21286 USA
Please include, if possible, info as to how people can procure your publication--where to write to, who to contact, etc.
Additionally, let me know if you think this is a good idea and if you'd like a copy of the FKCollective zine, or if you'd like to stay updated on Free Knowledge Collective events & news by joining our mailing list.
Thank you so much for your support in any fashion,
Samantha
Hello :)
As part of the Free Knowledge Collective's endeavor to make accessible to the public multiple perspectives, otherwise-ignored voices, and radical ideologies, I am starting a portable library of independent, alternative, and radical texts.
You can read a little more about it here: http://www.freeknowledgecollective.com/AltLibrary.html
Everywhere the FKCollective goes (and for every FKCollective event) the library will come with. People will be given the chance to read, discuss, and learn from the texts at their leisure and if they want a copy of whatever they're reading, FKCollective members will provide them with info as to how to buy/obtain a copy for themselves.
Are you interested in donating to the FKCollective's radical library? I really hope so--I think this could be a great project. Send all donated materials to:
Samantha Manchester
7 Edgeclift Road
Towson, MD 21286 USA
Please include, if possible, info as to how people can procure your publication--where to write to, who to contact, etc.
Additionally, let me know if you think this is a good idea and if you'd like a copy of the FKCollective zine, or if you'd like to stay updated on Free Knowledge Collective events & news by joining our mailing list.
Thank you so much for your support in any fashion,
Samantha
Saturday, 27 June 2009
transnational feminisms
From my inbox...
Call for Contributions
Transnational Feminisms Conference
University of Manchester
4-5 December 2009 (with associated activities on 6 December)
Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments,this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems in a global climate, how feminism translates and moves across borders, and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology for understanding the transnational context.
Here the transnational is understood to be a complication of notions of the 'elsewhere', highlighting the challenges of fluidity, movement and instability whilst also paying close attention to locatedness.
This is a feminism that is engaged with the woman-as-subject without making universalising claims regarding women's experience; it both considers how gender operates and critiques categorisation.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the vitality of feminist interdisciplinarity as it pertains to the transnational, providing space for these debates to come together, creating an interrogation of transnational feminist theory and practice from academic, activist andartistic standpoints.
The conference will also engage with ideas of transnational feminism through workshops, exhibitions and a history walk.
We welcome contributions from academics, postgraduates, activists and artists.
Keynote Speakers:
Doctor Anne-Marie Fortier (University of Lancaster)
Professor Gabriele Griffin (University of York)
Doctor Amrit Wilson (Royal Holloway)
Contributions may take the form of papers, workshops, exhibitions or reading group style discussions, amongst others.
Paper presentations will consist of panels of 3 x 20 minute papers.
Topics might include:
Global markets of cultural production
Religion and the nation state
Belonging and home
Feminism and neo-colonialism
Diaspora and migration
The international as the popular
Historical moments of transnational feminism
The struggle for, and violence of, borders
Postcolonial/queer intersections
Feminism and gender in a wider global political debate
Sites and voices of privilege
Historicisation and genealogies
Alliances
Cultural and textual translations
Memorialisation
Feminist anti-racism
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short biography by Friday August 28th to transfem09@yahoo.co.uk
Conference website www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/sage/transnationalfeminisms/
All enquiries to Humaira Saeed and Clare Tebbutt at transfem09@yahoo.co.uk
Call for Contributions
Transnational Feminisms Conference
University of Manchester
4-5 December 2009 (with associated activities on 6 December)
Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments,this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems in a global climate, how feminism translates and moves across borders, and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology for understanding the transnational context.
Here the transnational is understood to be a complication of notions of the 'elsewhere', highlighting the challenges of fluidity, movement and instability whilst also paying close attention to locatedness.
This is a feminism that is engaged with the woman-as-subject without making universalising claims regarding women's experience; it both considers how gender operates and critiques categorisation.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the vitality of feminist interdisciplinarity as it pertains to the transnational, providing space for these debates to come together, creating an interrogation of transnational feminist theory and practice from academic, activist andartistic standpoints.
The conference will also engage with ideas of transnational feminism through workshops, exhibitions and a history walk.
We welcome contributions from academics, postgraduates, activists and artists.
Keynote Speakers:
Doctor Anne-Marie Fortier (University of Lancaster)
Professor Gabriele Griffin (University of York)
Doctor Amrit Wilson (Royal Holloway)
Contributions may take the form of papers, workshops, exhibitions or reading group style discussions, amongst others.
Paper presentations will consist of panels of 3 x 20 minute papers.
Topics might include:
Global markets of cultural production
Religion and the nation state
Belonging and home
Feminism and neo-colonialism
Diaspora and migration
The international as the popular
Historical moments of transnational feminism
The struggle for, and violence of, borders
Postcolonial/queer intersections
Feminism and gender in a wider global political debate
Sites and voices of privilege
Historicisation and genealogies
Alliances
Cultural and textual translations
Memorialisation
Feminist anti-racism
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short biography by Friday August 28th to transfem09@yahoo.co.uk
Conference website www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/sage/transnationalfeminisms/
All enquiries to Humaira Saeed and Clare Tebbutt at transfem09@yahoo.co.uk
a photographic review of the cotl exhibition
Morwenna Catt, one of the artists exhibiting as part of the Colouring Outside The Lines exhibition has blogged about the exhibition's opening night, including lots of great photographs.
If you haven't yet been & don't want to spoil the surprise of what the gallery space has been transformed into, don't follow this link!
For those that wanna peak, check out Morwenna's blog post
If you haven't yet been & don't want to spoil the surprise of what the gallery space has been transformed into, don't follow this link!
For those that wanna peak, check out Morwenna's blog post
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
girls not chicks
The interview I once did with Jacinta Bunnell has today been added to her press page on the PM site. PM Press are the new folks who are printing up the new, updated issue of 'Girls Not Chicks' colouring book. Aceness!
It's totally spooky too that this came the day before the opening of the Colouring Outside The Lines exhibition, as Jacinta was one of the people there from the beginning, her interview featuring in issue one. It's like today it's all come full circle, or something!
It's totally spooky too that this came the day before the opening of the Colouring Outside The Lines exhibition, as Jacinta was one of the people there from the beginning, her interview featuring in issue one. It's like today it's all come full circle, or something!
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
back handed compliments to female musicians: zine submissions wanted
From my inbox...
hello friends!
so we are compiling a zine filled with our stories as well as the stories or other female musicians.
basically after touring and having the same bone-head things said to us every night, we though this would be a good way to get people thinking and talking to one another before approaching the band.
we want contributions!
send us any details you might think other people should read about. whats the most frustrating experience you've had? what do you want people to know/ take into consideration before they come talk to you.
i want to thank every dude that has come up to me after a show and said something along the lines of "whoa, you, like, play like me!"
i know it came from a place of love.
this zine is going to be a reaction to those comments and backwards compliments women in music receive night after night.
you can send your stories/comments/lovemail to purplerhinestoneeagle@gmail.com
or thru myspace
peace and also love
purple rhinestone eagle
hello friends!
so we are compiling a zine filled with our stories as well as the stories or other female musicians.
basically after touring and having the same bone-head things said to us every night, we though this would be a good way to get people thinking and talking to one another before approaching the band.
we want contributions!
send us any details you might think other people should read about. whats the most frustrating experience you've had? what do you want people to know/ take into consideration before they come talk to you.
i want to thank every dude that has come up to me after a show and said something along the lines of "whoa, you, like, play like me!"
i know it came from a place of love.
this zine is going to be a reaction to those comments and backwards compliments women in music receive night after night.
you can send your stories/comments/lovemail to purplerhinestoneeagle@gmail.com
or thru myspace
peace and also love
purple rhinestone eagle
Monday, 22 June 2009
calling those in paris &/or madrid...
Sabrina Chapadijev, American editor of 'Live Through This' is gonna be in Paris and Madrid in the first two weeks in August.
Do you want to help her out and set up shows for her?
Sabrina is available to do presentations/workshops on the issues in 'Live Through This', i.e. Creativity and Self-Destruction.
Sabrina is also a talented performer, and is available to do gigs/music performances too (see: her myspace to check out her music).
Sabrina is seriously rad, and more than wanting to spread the word about her work, she wants to meet and connect with more international/European feminists.
I highly recommend her work, and think shows in Paris or Madrid would be amazing!
You can find out more about Sabrina at her website
And contact her here: livethroughthis2008@yahoo.com
Do you want to help her out and set up shows for her?
Sabrina is available to do presentations/workshops on the issues in 'Live Through This', i.e. Creativity and Self-Destruction.
Sabrina is also a talented performer, and is available to do gigs/music performances too (see: her myspace to check out her music).
Sabrina is seriously rad, and more than wanting to spread the word about her work, she wants to meet and connect with more international/European feminists.
I highly recommend her work, and think shows in Paris or Madrid would be amazing!
You can find out more about Sabrina at her website
And contact her here: livethroughthis2008@yahoo.com
Friday, 19 June 2009
i'm lucky enough to know the rad people in renminbi
The first single from Renminbi's new EP "Surface" is available now in streaming format and also as a free download.
Please visit http://renminbi.cashmusic.org to hear "Portland" now. Just hit the "Play" button at the bottom-right to stream the track. If you want to download it (as a high-quality MP3, a FLAC, or an Apple lossless file) you'll need to enter & verify your email address. This isn't for any sneaky, evil reason -- it's just so we can send you a link to a download of the full album when it's out on July 7!
Some vital stats you need to know about "Surface":
1) It's out as a digital-only release on July 7. We are releasing it pay-what-you-wish style, which means you can also pay nothing. It will be available in several formats, all uber-high-quality for the audiophile in you.
2) It's out as a 12 inch 45 RPM vinyl in late August. Pre-orders for the vinyl will begin on digital-release day, July 7. Those who pre-order will receive lots of bonus materials when the vinyl is out, such as live tracks, demos, and other exclusives.
3) The EP Release Party is July 2 at Piano's. The cover is $8 and *includes* a free, limited-edition copy of the EP on CD on a first-come, first-served basis. The CD version of the EP will not be available anywhere else at any other time. This is a one-shot-only deal. We kick things off at 8pm, so don't be late!
4) We are releasing the EP under a Creative Commons license, which means you are free to copy it, share it, and remix it. However, we ask that you always direct people to http://renminbi.cashmusic.org so they can download the songs themselves and also gain access to other materials, such as photos, lyrics, and cover art.
Please visit http://renminbi.cashmusic.org to hear "Portland" now. Just hit the "Play" button at the bottom-right to stream the track. If you want to download it (as a high-quality MP3, a FLAC, or an Apple lossless file) you'll need to enter & verify your email address. This isn't for any sneaky, evil reason -- it's just so we can send you a link to a download of the full album when it's out on July 7!
Some vital stats you need to know about "Surface":
1) It's out as a digital-only release on July 7. We are releasing it pay-what-you-wish style, which means you can also pay nothing. It will be available in several formats, all uber-high-quality for the audiophile in you.
2) It's out as a 12 inch 45 RPM vinyl in late August. Pre-orders for the vinyl will begin on digital-release day, July 7. Those who pre-order will receive lots of bonus materials when the vinyl is out, such as live tracks, demos, and other exclusives.
3) The EP Release Party is July 2 at Piano's. The cover is $8 and *includes* a free, limited-edition copy of the EP on CD on a first-come, first-served basis. The CD version of the EP will not be available anywhere else at any other time. This is a one-shot-only deal. We kick things off at 8pm, so don't be late!
4) We are releasing the EP under a Creative Commons license, which means you are free to copy it, share it, and remix it. However, we ask that you always direct people to http://renminbi.cashmusic.org so they can download the songs themselves and also gain access to other materials, such as photos, lyrics, and cover art.
Saturday, 13 June 2009
swooning over swoon
I'm so lucky - an image of Swoon's work is to feature in COTL#5's gallery of artwork. I'm kinda head over heels!
what i wouldn't give to be at this in brussels
Maya Hayuk has an exhibition and intallation at Alice gallery in Brussels. Jealous of those who get to go!
cotl exhibition - opening night
Just a reminder that the opening, preview night of the Colouring Outside The Lines exhibition is on Thursday 25th of June 5-7pm, and you're all invited...
Gallery II at the University of Bradford hosts a new collaborative exhibition of female artists working beyond the bounds of the cultural mainstream.
Gallery II and Colouring Outside The Lines zine invites you to the private view of Colouring Outside The Lines: The Exhibition & zine launch (issue 5).
Curators and artists involved in the exhibition will be in attendance at the opening.
The exhibition seeks to open the discussion of who has access to art - in terms of both curators and artists.
Colouring Outside the Lines: The Exhibition will feature artwork and installations by Abigail Brown, Heidi Burton, Morwenna Catt, Naseem Darbey, Carolyn Mendelsohn and Helen Musselwhite.
If you've never been to the University before you are probably best to just head to Bradford and follow signs to the University. Coming up Richmond Road Gallery II is directly opposite the University Sports Centre. There is a downloadable leaflet at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/booklets/findus.pdf with proper directions on!
After opening night, the exhibition then runs for a further month, from Friday 26 June - Friday 24 July 2009. Opening times. Mon - Fri, 10am-5pm, Thursdays 'til 6pm. Or by appointment. Free entry
Also, we'll inform you about this nearer the time, but on Saturday 4 July 11am - 4pm we will be open and hosting a special opening and picnic, combined with a twisted storytelling event. More details TBC.
Hope to see you at the gallery!
Melanie & Rachelxox
Gallery II at the University of Bradford hosts a new collaborative exhibition of female artists working beyond the bounds of the cultural mainstream.
Gallery II and Colouring Outside The Lines zine invites you to the private view of Colouring Outside The Lines: The Exhibition & zine launch (issue 5).
Curators and artists involved in the exhibition will be in attendance at the opening.
The exhibition seeks to open the discussion of who has access to art - in terms of both curators and artists.
Colouring Outside the Lines: The Exhibition will feature artwork and installations by Abigail Brown, Heidi Burton, Morwenna Catt, Naseem Darbey, Carolyn Mendelsohn and Helen Musselwhite.
If you've never been to the University before you are probably best to just head to Bradford and follow signs to the University. Coming up Richmond Road Gallery II is directly opposite the University Sports Centre. There is a downloadable leaflet at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/booklets/findus.pdf with proper directions on!
After opening night, the exhibition then runs for a further month, from Friday 26 June - Friday 24 July 2009. Opening times. Mon - Fri, 10am-5pm, Thursdays 'til 6pm. Or by appointment. Free entry
Also, we'll inform you about this nearer the time, but on Saturday 4 July 11am - 4pm we will be open and hosting a special opening and picnic, combined with a twisted storytelling event. More details TBC.
Hope to see you at the gallery!
Melanie & Rachelxox
Friday, 12 June 2009
bradford zine fayre
From my inbox
On Sunday 21st June The Treehouse Café, Bradford, will become host to a glorious celebration of all things DIY and papery.
Zine synposiums are a chance for people to exhibit their creations and distros, meet likeminded self-publishers and general wander round with a joyful abandon, amazed at the wonderful things people can do with an old type-writer, some felt-tips and a prit-stick.
So we at Claptrap Zine thought it was about time Bradford played host- basically so we can coax all our favourite zinesters up/down here, whilst also showing off some Bradford-made publications.
The Bradford Centre for Non-Violence / Treehouse Cafe will be transformed into a den of DIY.
Three rooms will be full to the brim with lots of incredible zines from all over the UK. Feminism, queer issues, anarchism, music, personal experiences, crafts, art, photography, history, comics, illustration… zines can and do cover everything; you’ll have a chance to peruse through these lovely self-published tomes of joy and meet the creators too! Manifesta, Lola and the Cartwheels, BD7 Punx, Branches Distro, Subtext, Mobile Menstrual Zine Library, Claptrap, Beep! and ZNA Distro will all be there for your enjoyment, plus a load more.
Then there are the special workshops! --
All day
Footprint, a lovely printing co-op from leeds, will be making a ‘Zine on the Day’ – bring A5 submissions and see it come together through the hours.
All day
Bradford Zine Library- The Beginning. Ellie, general legend, hive housing co-op resident and publisher of one of the best new zines in ages ‘Every Text My Girlfriend Ever Sent Me’ will be taking submissions for a new Zine Library, to be based at the Café and 1in12 Club. Everyone has spare zines lying around at home, so bring yours in to be part of this!
All day
Claptrap 4 Launch- We’ll be unveiling the new Claptrap Zine to the world, as well as the results of our special ‘Photos of Bradford’ map and display.
All day-
Children’s peace library / Commonweal collection. This is a great chance to look through all the ace books in the library already at our centre… kids can enjoy the world’s only children’s peace library, whilst also contributing to a ‘Toddler Zine’, which will be made up on the day from contributors of a smaller age.
All Day-
Treehouse Café – we’ll be serving the usual fantastic vegan / vege soups, cakes, main meals, salads, teas and coffees. With the best fair trade, organic, local and volunteer-made credentials around.
2pm till 3pm
Adam and Cat- the dynamic parenting and craft duo- will be going through their legendary ‘Knitting for Beginners’ zine- with wool and needles provided.
3pm till 4pm
Adventures in Menstruating
‘Sanitary Disposal Units and you!’ Plus ‘Period Euphemisms- the colouring book!’
4pm till 5pm
An open discussion with people from mono, Beep!, Good Form Club, Claptrap and more-
‘Music Zines in Bradford- What is the importance? What are the challenges?’
5pm till 6 there will be a little bit of a rest bite for dinner and swapping tables around as we move into a poetry and music after party!
This is when we will be celebrating the first year wedding anniversary of Chella Quint and Sarah Thomasin, who are the pair behind Adventures in Menstruating, with a chance to eat loads of cupcakes and chat about the joy of love and zine making.
6pm – 7 – Zine readings.
7pm – 10 Poetry + Music evening.
Featuring Sarah Thomasin, Simon and Joel joint beatnik word and double bass pairing shocker, Garfunkle and Simon, Excerpts from ‘Slam’ the Saul Williams poetry film and probably Katie Hyatt and Jed Forward. Open mic slots aplenty too, so bring your own words or songs to perform.
It's just opposite the uni on the left as you wander up Great Horton Road.
Facebook page
On Sunday 21st June The Treehouse Café, Bradford, will become host to a glorious celebration of all things DIY and papery.
Zine synposiums are a chance for people to exhibit their creations and distros, meet likeminded self-publishers and general wander round with a joyful abandon, amazed at the wonderful things people can do with an old type-writer, some felt-tips and a prit-stick.
So we at Claptrap Zine thought it was about time Bradford played host- basically so we can coax all our favourite zinesters up/down here, whilst also showing off some Bradford-made publications.
The Bradford Centre for Non-Violence / Treehouse Cafe will be transformed into a den of DIY.
Three rooms will be full to the brim with lots of incredible zines from all over the UK. Feminism, queer issues, anarchism, music, personal experiences, crafts, art, photography, history, comics, illustration… zines can and do cover everything; you’ll have a chance to peruse through these lovely self-published tomes of joy and meet the creators too! Manifesta, Lola and the Cartwheels, BD7 Punx, Branches Distro, Subtext, Mobile Menstrual Zine Library, Claptrap, Beep! and ZNA Distro will all be there for your enjoyment, plus a load more.
Then there are the special workshops! --
All day
Footprint, a lovely printing co-op from leeds, will be making a ‘Zine on the Day’ – bring A5 submissions and see it come together through the hours.
All day
Bradford Zine Library- The Beginning. Ellie, general legend, hive housing co-op resident and publisher of one of the best new zines in ages ‘Every Text My Girlfriend Ever Sent Me’ will be taking submissions for a new Zine Library, to be based at the Café and 1in12 Club. Everyone has spare zines lying around at home, so bring yours in to be part of this!
All day
Claptrap 4 Launch- We’ll be unveiling the new Claptrap Zine to the world, as well as the results of our special ‘Photos of Bradford’ map and display.
All day-
Children’s peace library / Commonweal collection. This is a great chance to look through all the ace books in the library already at our centre… kids can enjoy the world’s only children’s peace library, whilst also contributing to a ‘Toddler Zine’, which will be made up on the day from contributors of a smaller age.
All Day-
Treehouse Café – we’ll be serving the usual fantastic vegan / vege soups, cakes, main meals, salads, teas and coffees. With the best fair trade, organic, local and volunteer-made credentials around.
2pm till 3pm
Adam and Cat- the dynamic parenting and craft duo- will be going through their legendary ‘Knitting for Beginners’ zine- with wool and needles provided.
3pm till 4pm
Adventures in Menstruating
‘Sanitary Disposal Units and you!’ Plus ‘Period Euphemisms- the colouring book!’
4pm till 5pm
An open discussion with people from mono, Beep!, Good Form Club, Claptrap and more-
‘Music Zines in Bradford- What is the importance? What are the challenges?’
5pm till 6 there will be a little bit of a rest bite for dinner and swapping tables around as we move into a poetry and music after party!
This is when we will be celebrating the first year wedding anniversary of Chella Quint and Sarah Thomasin, who are the pair behind Adventures in Menstruating, with a chance to eat loads of cupcakes and chat about the joy of love and zine making.
6pm – 7 – Zine readings.
7pm – 10 Poetry + Music evening.
Featuring Sarah Thomasin, Simon and Joel joint beatnik word and double bass pairing shocker, Garfunkle and Simon, Excerpts from ‘Slam’ the Saul Williams poetry film and probably Katie Hyatt and Jed Forward. Open mic slots aplenty too, so bring your own words or songs to perform.
It's just opposite the uni on the left as you wander up Great Horton Road.
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seripop
My friends are curating this wonderful exhibition and weekend of events at Baltic centre for contemporary art in Newcastle. Well worth a visit!
SERIPOP 31 July - 2 August 2009
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
beautiful
"A Woolgathering Exodus" // Benoît Pioulard from Church and Steak on Vimeo.
Directed by Church & Steak. Church & Steak is a film collective founded by Josh Lowman and Rinee Shah.
driver wanted for UK Sister Spit tour
Do to ill health, I'm unfortunately unable to drive the UK leg of the Sister Spit tour this September, as planned. Excitingly though, it means that somebody else can nab the opportunity...
The UK leg will be a week long, during September, and you will be required to drive a 10-12 seater van packed with queer lit superstars.
Please get in touch if you think you could be this somebody!
The UK leg will be a week long, during September, and you will be required to drive a 10-12 seater van packed with queer lit superstars.
Please get in touch if you think you could be this somebody!
Monday, 1 June 2009
Friday, 29 May 2009
keeping it together
*********Still accepting submissions!************
Dear All,
Keeping it Together is a resource on conflict resolution and coping with personal conflicts within d.i.y. / activist communities. It is looking for contributions (words / pictures / both), including:
- recommended resources e.g. books, leaflets, organisations
- personal experiences Suggestions:
i) Frustrations encountered
ii )Managing difficult situations / people- any successful prevention tips/ coping strategies?
iii) Have you ever felt that your own behaviour may have caused conflict within a group? How did you deal with it? How did others deal with it? Did you feel the results of conflict were even positive?
NOTE: as this is a sensitive topic, all personal experiences will be edited very carefully to ensure anonymity for potentially implied contributors / and individuals and/or communities. IIf edited, contributors will be sent the edited version to ensure they are happy with it before it is published. You may wish to make your contribution anonymous before submitting it
Please send your contributions to:
kit.contributions@googlemail.com
Contributions via post to go to:
27 Cromwell Avenue, Manchester
M16 0BQ , UK
NEW DEADLINE: 31st JULY 2009.
If you cannot make this deadline but would like to contribute, please get in touch by e-mail.
Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Heena
Dear All,
Keeping it Together is a resource on conflict resolution and coping with personal conflicts within d.i.y. / activist communities. It is looking for contributions (words / pictures / both), including:
- recommended resources e.g. books, leaflets, organisations
- personal experiences Suggestions:
i) Frustrations encountered
ii )Managing difficult situations / people- any successful prevention tips/ coping strategies?
iii) Have you ever felt that your own behaviour may have caused conflict within a group? How did you deal with it? How did others deal with it? Did you feel the results of conflict were even positive?
NOTE: as this is a sensitive topic, all personal experiences will be edited very carefully to ensure anonymity for potentially implied contributors / and individuals and/or communities. IIf edited, contributors will be sent the edited version to ensure they are happy with it before it is published. You may wish to make your contribution anonymous before submitting it
Please send your contributions to:
kit.contributions@googlemail.com
Contributions via post to go to:
27 Cromwell Avenue, Manchester
M16 0BQ , UK
NEW DEADLINE: 31st JULY 2009.
If you cannot make this deadline but would like to contribute, please get in touch by e-mail.
Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Heena
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
"i'm a lesbian. would you like to punch me?"
From my inbox...
Hey friends,
Gina Young here, a.k.a. Gina Genius from Team Gina. I'm writing to you today because I'm "like so totally over" violence against queer people and the constant denial of our rights as human beings. Not only did California uphold Proposition 8 today, banning gay marriage, but Seattle has seen yet another in a string of hate crimes and I am ready to do something about it!
You can read more about the specific recent incident on my blog at http://myspace.com/ginayoung
In response to the ubiquitous threat of violence against lesbians, I am starting a public art / performance art project entitled, "I'm a lesbian. Would you like to punch me?"
If you would like to participate in this project, here's all you have to do:
1) Make a sign, on a big piece of posterboard or using any materials you would like, that says "I'm a lesbian. Would you like to punch me?"
2) Take a picture of yourself holding that sign. [For this project to have maximum impact, I would like to request that only lesbian-identified people hold the signs. Friends and allies are welcome to take the picture or appear elsewhere in the picture, but please let's only have the signs held by actual lesbians.]
3) Send pictures to gina@ginayoung.com [Please note that submitting your pictures to that address indicates consent to have them published on the internet and potentially in other media.]
For the second part of this project I am thinking of doing a series of public performances in which I will stand on a busy street corner with a sign reading "I'm a lesbian. Would you like to punch me?" to see if anyone punches me. This portion of the project will be site-specific to Seattle, to call the city out on its passive-aggressiveness. Despite its somewhat-deserved reputation as a friendly, liberal city, Seattle has seen a rash of hate crimes against queer people recently as well as threats against gay bars and other queer spaces. I personally am sick of watching my friends hide their sexuality in public places because they fear the violence that lurks just beneath the surface.
Thanks for spreading the word!
Gina Young
gina@ginayoung.com
Hey friends,
Gina Young here, a.k.a. Gina Genius from Team Gina. I'm writing to you today because I'm "like so totally over" violence against queer people and the constant denial of our rights as human beings. Not only did California uphold Proposition 8 today, banning gay marriage, but Seattle has seen yet another in a string of hate crimes and I am ready to do something about it!
You can read more about the specific recent incident on my blog at http://myspace.com/ginayoung
In response to the ubiquitous threat of violence against lesbians, I am starting a public art / performance art project entitled, "I'm a lesbian. Would you like to punch me?"
If you would like to participate in this project, here's all you have to do:
1) Make a sign, on a big piece of posterboard or using any materials you would like, that says "I'm a lesbian. Would you like to punch me?"
2) Take a picture of yourself holding that sign. [For this project to have maximum impact, I would like to request that only lesbian-identified people hold the signs. Friends and allies are welcome to take the picture or appear elsewhere in the picture, but please let's only have the signs held by actual lesbians.]
3) Send pictures to gina@ginayoung.com [Please note that submitting your pictures to that address indicates consent to have them published on the internet and potentially in other media.]
For the second part of this project I am thinking of doing a series of public performances in which I will stand on a busy street corner with a sign reading "I'm a lesbian. Would you like to punch me?" to see if anyone punches me. This portion of the project will be site-specific to Seattle, to call the city out on its passive-aggressiveness. Despite its somewhat-deserved reputation as a friendly, liberal city, Seattle has seen a rash of hate crimes against queer people recently as well as threats against gay bars and other queer spaces. I personally am sick of watching my friends hide their sexuality in public places because they fear the violence that lurks just beneath the surface.
Thanks for spreading the word!
Gina Young
gina@ginayoung.com
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
further info about 'colouring outside the lines: the exhibition'
Running from Fri 26th June to Fri 24th July, 2009, Gallery II at the University of Bradford is to host a provocative group exhibition featuring British female artists working beyond the bounds of the cultural, or artistic mainstream.
The exhibition is the first curatorial venture of two young women, Rachel Kaye (Gallery II, University of Bradford) and Melanie Maddison (Colouring Outside The Lines zine), and seeks to open the discussion of who has access to art – in terms of both curators and artists.
The exhibition will feature work by established and developing artists – from a variety of ages and backgrounds, who work across a range of less conventional mediums.
26 June 2009 - 24 July 2009
Gallery II,
Located on the University of Bradford campus, Bradford, W. Yorks, UK
(http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery)
Exhibition opening times [weekdays only, 10am-5pm, Thursdays until 6pm.] Or by appointment.
Free.
Colouring Outside the Lines: The Exhibition will feature artwork and installations by Morwenna Catt, Helen Musselwhite, Abigail Brown, Carolyn Mendelsohn, Heidi Burton, Louise Art & Ghosts, and Naseem Darbey. The exhibition aims to celebrate, highlight, encourage, and support female creativity in its diverse forms.
Morwenna Catt
Bradford based Morwenna produces work across a range of media including textiles, painting, drawing and installation. Playing with narratives and creating stories around the objects she makes she explores themes of childhood, family and innocence lost.
Morwenna will be exhibiting work from her ‘Phrenology’ series, including six hand crafted textile heads.
http://www.morwennacatt.co.uk/
Helen Musselwhite
Helen uses bold colour, strong graphic lines and handcut and scored paper to create highly individual work. Her art pays respect to all forms of mid-century design, folk and ethnic art as well as current and future trends. Influenced by the natural world each piece is manipulated to become an intriguing place, a glimpse into another world of fiction and fairy tale.
Helen will be exhibiting her work both as framed papercuts, and an installation of papercuts situated within glass domes.
http://www.helenmusselwhite.com/
Louise Art & Ghosts
Louise is a digital artist based in Manchester who works across mediums of collage and illustration. Her work immerses the viewer in an etheral sphere of spectres, dreams and childhood stories. Often gothic, sometimes disturbing, her work is strange and beautiful.
Louise will be exhibiting prints from her ‘Anomolies / Metamorphosis’ series.
http://artandghosts.typepad.com/
Abigail Brown
Textile designer and creature maker extraordinare Abigail uses colour, pattern and texture to create a visual language which is quirky and playful, reminiscent of a childhood that she holds very dear.
Abigail will be exhibiting a selection of hand created textile birds, and wall hangings.
http://www.abigail-brown.co.uk/
Heidi Burton
Tea-drinking freelance illustrator inhabiting the lovely, historical city of Cambridge, UK. Heidi works with both digital and traditional methods, producing illustrations and modified moleskin journals which are both charming and uncanny.
Heidi will be exhibiting a selection of her modified moleskin journals.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5211919
Carolyn Mendelsohn
Photographer, film-maker, performer, and installation artist, Carolyn creates work that has been described as "enchanting" "haunting" "magical" and "moving", drawing influence from the moment before the curtain opens in the cinema.
Carolyn will be exhibiting work from her ‘Behind Closed Doors’ series, an interactive installation of images framed within curious cupboards that invite us to open doors into secret, strange and magical places.
http://www.carolynmendelsohn.com/
Naseem Darbey
Naseem is an artist interested in mark making using unconventional tools and means; primarily using her sewing machine as a drawing tool. Naseem utilises the sewing machine for freehand, fluid, and spontaneous drawings focusing primarily on portraiture and figurative drawing, incorporating the dynamics of the stitched line, tears and perforations.
Naseem will be exhibiting work from her ‘Tension’ collection, using colour, texture, and light to depict both traditional and reinterpreted fairy tales.
http://www.naseemdarbey.com/
Running from Fri 26th June to Fri 24th July, 2009, [weekdays only]
Opening night is Thursday 25th of June 5-7pm.
We can also arrange appointments to see the gallery outside standard opening hours, contact Rachel if you are interested in this.
R.Kaye@Bradford.ac.uk
Colouring Outside The Lines started life in 2003 as a self-produced zine. The publication interviewed female artists and included reproductions of their art, giving the women featured a voice over their own productivity beyond traditional art criticism and the meta-narratives of the art world alone. The zine focused on artists working in less-conventional forms; including comic books, poster art and textiles, and gave a platform to those artists whose feminist and queer agendas were less appreciated.
Based on the philosophy of the Colouring Outside the Lines zine the curators worked together to select work which departed from the 'traditional canvas' and conventional
mediums of creation and production - quite literally, work was selected which coloured outside the lines.
Melanie comments, 'The exhibition seeks to make an active comment about the cultural myth that art is reserved for the elite and privileged. By breaking down the barriers between creators and audiences, and including work in unconventional and populist forms which everyone has access to, we are asserting our belief that everyone can be creative in their own life'.
Rachel adds, 'the work exhibited is deliberately selected from a cross generation of artists and includes established and establishing practitioners. Although the exhibitors work is diverse in terms of form and media it is united thematically through reoccurring explorations of ideas of mythologies, fairytale discovery and surprise'.
(N.B: Issue 5 of Colouring Outside The Lines zine will also be launched at the exhibition)
The exhibition is the first curatorial venture of two young women, Rachel Kaye (Gallery II, University of Bradford) and Melanie Maddison (Colouring Outside The Lines zine), and seeks to open the discussion of who has access to art – in terms of both curators and artists.
The exhibition will feature work by established and developing artists – from a variety of ages and backgrounds, who work across a range of less conventional mediums.
26 June 2009 - 24 July 2009
Gallery II,
Located on the University of Bradford campus, Bradford, W. Yorks, UK
(http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery)
Exhibition opening times [weekdays only, 10am-5pm, Thursdays until 6pm.] Or by appointment.
Free.
Colouring Outside the Lines: The Exhibition will feature artwork and installations by Morwenna Catt, Helen Musselwhite, Abigail Brown, Carolyn Mendelsohn, Heidi Burton, Louise Art & Ghosts, and Naseem Darbey. The exhibition aims to celebrate, highlight, encourage, and support female creativity in its diverse forms.
Morwenna Catt
Bradford based Morwenna produces work across a range of media including textiles, painting, drawing and installation. Playing with narratives and creating stories around the objects she makes she explores themes of childhood, family and innocence lost.
Morwenna will be exhibiting work from her ‘Phrenology’ series, including six hand crafted textile heads.
http://www.morwennacatt.co.uk/
Helen Musselwhite
Helen uses bold colour, strong graphic lines and handcut and scored paper to create highly individual work. Her art pays respect to all forms of mid-century design, folk and ethnic art as well as current and future trends. Influenced by the natural world each piece is manipulated to become an intriguing place, a glimpse into another world of fiction and fairy tale.
Helen will be exhibiting her work both as framed papercuts, and an installation of papercuts situated within glass domes.
http://www.helenmusselwhite.com/
Louise Art & Ghosts
Louise is a digital artist based in Manchester who works across mediums of collage and illustration. Her work immerses the viewer in an etheral sphere of spectres, dreams and childhood stories. Often gothic, sometimes disturbing, her work is strange and beautiful.
Louise will be exhibiting prints from her ‘Anomolies / Metamorphosis’ series.
http://artandghosts.typepad.com/
Abigail Brown
Textile designer and creature maker extraordinare Abigail uses colour, pattern and texture to create a visual language which is quirky and playful, reminiscent of a childhood that she holds very dear.
Abigail will be exhibiting a selection of hand created textile birds, and wall hangings.
http://www.abigail-brown.co.uk/
Heidi Burton
Tea-drinking freelance illustrator inhabiting the lovely, historical city of Cambridge, UK. Heidi works with both digital and traditional methods, producing illustrations and modified moleskin journals which are both charming and uncanny.
Heidi will be exhibiting a selection of her modified moleskin journals.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5211919
Carolyn Mendelsohn
Photographer, film-maker, performer, and installation artist, Carolyn creates work that has been described as "enchanting" "haunting" "magical" and "moving", drawing influence from the moment before the curtain opens in the cinema.
Carolyn will be exhibiting work from her ‘Behind Closed Doors’ series, an interactive installation of images framed within curious cupboards that invite us to open doors into secret, strange and magical places.
http://www.carolynmendelsohn.com/
Naseem Darbey
Naseem is an artist interested in mark making using unconventional tools and means; primarily using her sewing machine as a drawing tool. Naseem utilises the sewing machine for freehand, fluid, and spontaneous drawings focusing primarily on portraiture and figurative drawing, incorporating the dynamics of the stitched line, tears and perforations.
Naseem will be exhibiting work from her ‘Tension’ collection, using colour, texture, and light to depict both traditional and reinterpreted fairy tales.
http://www.naseemdarbey.com/
Running from Fri 26th June to Fri 24th July, 2009, [weekdays only]
Opening night is Thursday 25th of June 5-7pm.
We can also arrange appointments to see the gallery outside standard opening hours, contact Rachel if you are interested in this.
R.Kaye@Bradford.ac.uk
Colouring Outside The Lines started life in 2003 as a self-produced zine. The publication interviewed female artists and included reproductions of their art, giving the women featured a voice over their own productivity beyond traditional art criticism and the meta-narratives of the art world alone. The zine focused on artists working in less-conventional forms; including comic books, poster art and textiles, and gave a platform to those artists whose feminist and queer agendas were less appreciated.
Based on the philosophy of the Colouring Outside the Lines zine the curators worked together to select work which departed from the 'traditional canvas' and conventional
mediums of creation and production - quite literally, work was selected which coloured outside the lines.
Melanie comments, 'The exhibition seeks to make an active comment about the cultural myth that art is reserved for the elite and privileged. By breaking down the barriers between creators and audiences, and including work in unconventional and populist forms which everyone has access to, we are asserting our belief that everyone can be creative in their own life'.
Rachel adds, 'the work exhibited is deliberately selected from a cross generation of artists and includes established and establishing practitioners. Although the exhibitors work is diverse in terms of form and media it is united thematically through reoccurring explorations of ideas of mythologies, fairytale discovery and surprise'.
(N.B: Issue 5 of Colouring Outside The Lines zine will also be launched at the exhibition)
feed your soul
feed your soul: the free art project
Feed Your Soul is a free art project. Each month artists are invited to participate and to contribute a print which is totally free and available for download.
"Even though the economy is tanking, it’s more important than ever to stay positive. We shouldn’t dwell on the negative news, it’s just not doing our souls any good. Feed Your Soul: the free art project to hopefully bring a smile to your face and brighten your day."
Feed Your Soul is a free art project. Each month artists are invited to participate and to contribute a print which is totally free and available for download.
"Even though the economy is tanking, it’s more important than ever to stay positive. We shouldn’t dwell on the negative news, it’s just not doing our souls any good. Feed Your Soul: the free art project to hopefully bring a smile to your face and brighten your day."
Sunday, 24 May 2009
subtext seven
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
confessions of a poser
Confessions of a Poser @ The Hole In T'Wall, Hebden Bridge on 27th May Doors 8pm; show 8.30pm
Tickets: £5
Lynn Breedlove rocks on as a no-op transsexual standup comic after 15 years as lead yeller of legendary punk dyke band Tribe8, vanguard of the queer revolution. Over the last fifteen years, Breedlove has been fronting the band, writing the highly acclaimed, Lambda Literary Award nominated urban punk novel, Godspeed, performing with the all woman spoken word troupe Sister Spit, and hosting San Francisco’s queer cabarets. He has developed an onstage persona which is sharp as a new chainsaw blade and an intimate, improvisational fluidity that reaches everyone, turning the specific universal, and making high-minded political concepts fun at last.
Lynnee Breedlove’s all new one-freak show, Confessions of a Poser is a comic look at men’s bodies, the mystery of the purple dick, lesbian legacies and how to use them, family, the impossibility of manhood, fatherhood, butch heroes, and the evil drive to feminize. Buckets, knives, and body parts are still integral to the show.
A human body quest for compassion, an irreverent look at the interior world of Lynn Breedlove, giving out permission slips to laugh at ourselves and each other, hate each other, and accidentally stumble on love.
Annie Sprinkle, Katastrophe, and Michelle Tea loved it.
Jello Biafra, singer for the Dead Kennedys, says: "The best Tribe 8 show I ever saw was when Lynnee went off on these comic tangents between songs and cracked me up as much as any great comedian I've ever seen. Breedlove sings, writes, now brace yourself for a razor-sharp storyteller. Get in on the ground floor - see this show. A true renaissance rabble-rouser, the sky's the limit."
www.lynnbreedlove.com
www.myspace.com/lynnbreedlove
Come along and enjoy a unique queer-tastic evening, right here in Hebden Bridge!
Tickets: £5
Lynn Breedlove rocks on as a no-op transsexual standup comic after 15 years as lead yeller of legendary punk dyke band Tribe8, vanguard of the queer revolution. Over the last fifteen years, Breedlove has been fronting the band, writing the highly acclaimed, Lambda Literary Award nominated urban punk novel, Godspeed, performing with the all woman spoken word troupe Sister Spit, and hosting San Francisco’s queer cabarets. He has developed an onstage persona which is sharp as a new chainsaw blade and an intimate, improvisational fluidity that reaches everyone, turning the specific universal, and making high-minded political concepts fun at last.
Lynnee Breedlove’s all new one-freak show, Confessions of a Poser is a comic look at men’s bodies, the mystery of the purple dick, lesbian legacies and how to use them, family, the impossibility of manhood, fatherhood, butch heroes, and the evil drive to feminize. Buckets, knives, and body parts are still integral to the show.
A human body quest for compassion, an irreverent look at the interior world of Lynn Breedlove, giving out permission slips to laugh at ourselves and each other, hate each other, and accidentally stumble on love.
Annie Sprinkle, Katastrophe, and Michelle Tea loved it.
Jello Biafra, singer for the Dead Kennedys, says: "The best Tribe 8 show I ever saw was when Lynnee went off on these comic tangents between songs and cracked me up as much as any great comedian I've ever seen. Breedlove sings, writes, now brace yourself for a razor-sharp storyteller. Get in on the ground floor - see this show. A true renaissance rabble-rouser, the sky's the limit."
www.lynnbreedlove.com
www.myspace.com/lynnbreedlove
Come along and enjoy a unique queer-tastic evening, right here in Hebden Bridge!
spit
Sister Spit are coming to Europe this Autumn, and in particular, the UK this September. I'm gonna be driving the tour bus - haha!
I just found this neat work-in-progress trailer for a film about Sister Spit that has raised my excitement levels 100%! These are the sorts of people I need and crave in my life.
I just found this neat work-in-progress trailer for a film about Sister Spit that has raised my excitement levels 100%! These are the sorts of people I need and crave in my life.
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
drawing on our mad gifts
This link has a video interview with one of my favourite people, Madigan Shive, where (once again) she manages to bowl me over with her ability to articulate so much that I personally hold dear.
Monday, 18 May 2009
alternative press festival 2009
Alternative Press Festival 2009 http://comicsandzines.wordpress.com
Wednesday 29th July – Sunday 2nd August 2009
A festival of events over five days celebrating the small press, self publishing and being creative in the print media.
Anthology Book launch
Wednesday 29th July
7pm – 9pm
Free
We will be launching an Anthology book to showcase some of what’s going on in the small press scene at the moment; it will include work by Mark Pawson as well as a foreword by Roger Sabin and a variety of work from different areas of the scene. The evening will include the declaration of our aims and agendas in the form of a manifesto, as well as talks and discussion on the subject of the contemporary small press scene.
Housmans radical booksellers
5 Caledonian road
London
N1 9DX
http://www.housmans.com/
Are you zine friendly?
Thursday 30th July
7pm – late
Free
At the foundry we will be having an evening to launch our idea of zine friendly events! In the two weeks around this event we will be hosting a zine wall at the Foundry and asking artists and small press creators to come down and contribute to this ongoing exhibition. There will be music and good times, the twist is that Zinesters, comix and small press creators are invited by the foundry’s owner to come along and sell their material. There will be a communal table for individual zines and the selling of zines out of bags, or diy carriers is encouraged! After all, it is a zine friendly event, the question is: are you zine friendly?
The Foundry
86 Great Eastern Street
London
EC2A 3JL
http://www.foundry.tv/
Contact – garethbrookes69@hotmail.com
Spoken Word night out!
Friday 31st July
7pm – Late
Free
In order to promote poetry in the small press, we will be holding an evening of poetry, zine readings, story telling and other performances from artists creating work in the print media themselves.
Venue TBC
Collaborama!
Saturday 1st August
11am – Late
Free
We hope you’ll join us at the Collaborama (as we’ve affectionately come to know it!) an all day event which will comprise many elements of the small press coming together. Tables will be set out in the main space downstairs at the miller for zinesters, comix and small press creators to exhibit their work. There will also be space where any combination of visitors and exhibitors can get together to create pages which will be used to create a zine of the day. The garden will have a barbeque and the upstairs space will be used for workshops, film screenings and talks. In the evening Resonance FM’s Radio Orchestra will be performing a piece written by Ed Baxter which will be interpreted and illustrated live by two teams of small press artists on overhead projectors!
The Miller
96 Snowsfields road
London Bridge
SE1 3SS
http://www.themiller.co.uk
Contact – jimigherkin@yahoo.co.uk
Alternative Press Fair
Sunday 2nd August
11am- 7pm
Free
We will be returning once more to St Aloysius Social centre, where in February we held the first Alternative Press Fair. We hope you’ll join us once more for chilled out Sunday to celebrate comix, zines, poetry, book arts and radical literature. We will have space for around 80 exhibitors and many more visitors so see you there!
St Aloysius Social Club
20 Phoenix road
London
NW1 1TA
Nearest tube Euston
Contact – peterlally@gmail.com
Wednesday 29th July – Sunday 2nd August 2009
A festival of events over five days celebrating the small press, self publishing and being creative in the print media.
Anthology Book launch
Wednesday 29th July
7pm – 9pm
Free
We will be launching an Anthology book to showcase some of what’s going on in the small press scene at the moment; it will include work by Mark Pawson as well as a foreword by Roger Sabin and a variety of work from different areas of the scene. The evening will include the declaration of our aims and agendas in the form of a manifesto, as well as talks and discussion on the subject of the contemporary small press scene.
Housmans radical booksellers
5 Caledonian road
London
N1 9DX
http://www.housmans.com/
Are you zine friendly?
Thursday 30th July
7pm – late
Free
At the foundry we will be having an evening to launch our idea of zine friendly events! In the two weeks around this event we will be hosting a zine wall at the Foundry and asking artists and small press creators to come down and contribute to this ongoing exhibition. There will be music and good times, the twist is that Zinesters, comix and small press creators are invited by the foundry’s owner to come along and sell their material. There will be a communal table for individual zines and the selling of zines out of bags, or diy carriers is encouraged! After all, it is a zine friendly event, the question is: are you zine friendly?
The Foundry
86 Great Eastern Street
London
EC2A 3JL
http://www.foundry.tv/
Contact – garethbrookes69@hotmail.com
Spoken Word night out!
Friday 31st July
7pm – Late
Free
In order to promote poetry in the small press, we will be holding an evening of poetry, zine readings, story telling and other performances from artists creating work in the print media themselves.
Venue TBC
Collaborama!
Saturday 1st August
11am – Late
Free
We hope you’ll join us at the Collaborama (as we’ve affectionately come to know it!) an all day event which will comprise many elements of the small press coming together. Tables will be set out in the main space downstairs at the miller for zinesters, comix and small press creators to exhibit their work. There will also be space where any combination of visitors and exhibitors can get together to create pages which will be used to create a zine of the day. The garden will have a barbeque and the upstairs space will be used for workshops, film screenings and talks. In the evening Resonance FM’s Radio Orchestra will be performing a piece written by Ed Baxter which will be interpreted and illustrated live by two teams of small press artists on overhead projectors!
The Miller
96 Snowsfields road
London Bridge
SE1 3SS
http://www.themiller.co.uk
Contact – jimigherkin@yahoo.co.uk
Alternative Press Fair
Sunday 2nd August
11am- 7pm
Free
We will be returning once more to St Aloysius Social centre, where in February we held the first Alternative Press Fair. We hope you’ll join us once more for chilled out Sunday to celebrate comix, zines, poetry, book arts and radical literature. We will have space for around 80 exhibitors and many more visitors so see you there!
St Aloysius Social Club
20 Phoenix road
London
NW1 1TA
Nearest tube Euston
Contact – peterlally@gmail.com
calm air all ice
From my inbox...
Calm Air All Ice- Camilla Stacey and Claire Elizabeth Platt
Starts: Monday May 18th, 11am
Calm Air All Ice features new work from artists Camilla Stacey and Claire Elizabeth Platt. Sharing a love for vintage materials and handcrafting the show will include embroidered fortune tellers made from vintage hankies, screen prints, knitted WWII planes and lots and lots of badges.
Come join us between 11am and 6pm Mon-Sat or from 6pm onwards on the 23rd for our closing night party.
More info including images, map and transport details: http://calmairallice.blogspot.com
* * *
Hello- it would be lovely if you could make it along to our little show- but if you can't get to Bristol then all our work will be up on the website and available to buy from anywhere in the world from Monday onwards,
hope to see you
Camilla and Claire
Calm Air All Ice- Camilla Stacey and Claire Elizabeth Platt
Starts: Monday May 18th, 11am
Calm Air All Ice features new work from artists Camilla Stacey and Claire Elizabeth Platt. Sharing a love for vintage materials and handcrafting the show will include embroidered fortune tellers made from vintage hankies, screen prints, knitted WWII planes and lots and lots of badges.
Come join us between 11am and 6pm Mon-Sat or from 6pm onwards on the 23rd for our closing night party.
More info including images, map and transport details: http://calmairallice.blogspot.com
* * *
Hello- it would be lovely if you could make it along to our little show- but if you can't get to Bristol then all our work will be up on the website and available to buy from anywhere in the world from Monday onwards,
hope to see you
Camilla and Claire
Thursday, 14 May 2009
i obviously couldn't get to japan...
... so am so bloody pleased that the pieces of work exhibited in Audrey Kawasaki's recent Japanese show have been posted online.
*Ridiculously* beautiful.
*Ridiculously* beautiful.
the gallery is blossoming
One of the things I love about making zines is getting to include and involve amazingly talented people.
Colouring Outside The Lines issue 5 is due out in June, and here's a sneak-peak at one of the images in this issue's gallery, by Emily Cunningham.
I *love* it :)
xox
Colouring Outside The Lines issue 5 is due out in June, and here's a sneak-peak at one of the images in this issue's gallery, by Emily Cunningham.
I *love* it :)
xox
Thursday, 7 May 2009
it's spreading like wildfire!
Aww, shucks!
The F Word posted in their blog today about the Colouring Outside The Lines art exhibition in June... http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/05/round-up#comments
Their blog came off the back of the wonderful Spinster Blog unexpectedly spreading the word. Thanks heaps Spinsters!
The F Word posted in their blog today about the Colouring Outside The Lines art exhibition in June... http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/05/round-up#comments
Their blog came off the back of the wonderful Spinster Blog unexpectedly spreading the word. Thanks heaps Spinsters!
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
alternative press anthology - dealine extended
From My Inbox...
Dear all,
hope you're well and everything's cool. We've decided to extend the deadline to give people a chance to get something in. So, the new deadline is 30th May 2009. I really hope if you've been thinking about contributing something that you will, we want to get as much as possible to paint a picture of what's going on in the scene at the moment. We are planning to have the book finished by the end of July when we will launch it, which brings me on to our next really exciting news; we are planning an Alternative Press Festival which will be five days of events in London!
At the moment this is in the planning stages, but the venues are booked up and we're just getting ready to put our publicity machine into action! the dates for your diary are wednesday 29th july - sunday 2nd august 2009. Anyone who would like to offer any support; it'd be most appreciated, especially those in london who could attend meetings etc, just get in touch.
There'll be more on the website soon, so keep an eye out...
love all round
jimi
comicsandzines.wordpress.com
jimigherkin@yahoo.co.uk
Original details on the anthology:
Dear all,
The Alternative Press Fair was great! We’ve had reports from all over that those who came had a good time, met some interesting people and sold, bought or swapped work. Some saw exciting things, and generally enjoyed the day. It gave a chance for creators to get their work out to a wide audience, and we think it inspired some people to do something creative.
Following on from that, we are now putting together a full colour book. The main aim is to get small press creators and the alternative press scene noticed by a wider audience.
We think it’s a brilliant scene; the work, the people, the creative freedom - and we strongly believe that people are empowered by realising their creativity and expressing themselves through the small press. We will set out to reflect as much of the alternative press scene as possible, covering zines, comics, poetry, short stories and political writing as well as anything else that you believe represents the scene.
So, the themes are very broad. Introduce yourself! What we mean is, look at yourself and what you do in the small press, why you do it and how you got into it, or how you got started and think about how you can put that across. We want this book to be a collection of the great work going on in the small press scene, as well as having a handbook element exploring how people can be involved or get started themselves. We’d like to include artwork, illustration, poetry, articles, opinion, biographies and ‘how to’ sections.
To make it a really special book we are asking people to do something new - it’s your book, promoting the scene and what you do, so do your best work and we’ll do our best to get decent distribution and spread the word as far as possible on its release. Please get in touch letting us know how you’d like to contribute.
Good luck
jimi gherkin and peter lally
comicsandzines.wordpress.com
Pagination: 80 pages
Size: 240mm x 170mm (with bleed - don’t need to leave any border round the edge)
Printing: Full colour CMYK
Dear all,
hope you're well and everything's cool. We've decided to extend the deadline to give people a chance to get something in. So, the new deadline is 30th May 2009. I really hope if you've been thinking about contributing something that you will, we want to get as much as possible to paint a picture of what's going on in the scene at the moment. We are planning to have the book finished by the end of July when we will launch it, which brings me on to our next really exciting news; we are planning an Alternative Press Festival which will be five days of events in London!
At the moment this is in the planning stages, but the venues are booked up and we're just getting ready to put our publicity machine into action! the dates for your diary are wednesday 29th july - sunday 2nd august 2009. Anyone who would like to offer any support; it'd be most appreciated, especially those in london who could attend meetings etc, just get in touch.
There'll be more on the website soon, so keep an eye out...
love all round
jimi
comicsandzines.wordpress.com
jimigherkin@yahoo.co.uk
Original details on the anthology:
Dear all,
The Alternative Press Fair was great! We’ve had reports from all over that those who came had a good time, met some interesting people and sold, bought or swapped work. Some saw exciting things, and generally enjoyed the day. It gave a chance for creators to get their work out to a wide audience, and we think it inspired some people to do something creative.
Following on from that, we are now putting together a full colour book. The main aim is to get small press creators and the alternative press scene noticed by a wider audience.
We think it’s a brilliant scene; the work, the people, the creative freedom - and we strongly believe that people are empowered by realising their creativity and expressing themselves through the small press. We will set out to reflect as much of the alternative press scene as possible, covering zines, comics, poetry, short stories and political writing as well as anything else that you believe represents the scene.
So, the themes are very broad. Introduce yourself! What we mean is, look at yourself and what you do in the small press, why you do it and how you got into it, or how you got started and think about how you can put that across. We want this book to be a collection of the great work going on in the small press scene, as well as having a handbook element exploring how people can be involved or get started themselves. We’d like to include artwork, illustration, poetry, articles, opinion, biographies and ‘how to’ sections.
To make it a really special book we are asking people to do something new - it’s your book, promoting the scene and what you do, so do your best work and we’ll do our best to get decent distribution and spread the word as far as possible on its release. Please get in touch letting us know how you’d like to contribute.
Good luck
jimi gherkin and peter lally
comicsandzines.wordpress.com
Pagination: 80 pages
Size: 240mm x 170mm (with bleed - don’t need to leave any border round the edge)
Printing: Full colour CMYK
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Sunday, 3 May 2009
this project just blew my mind
SESSIONS queer publication and event/convention/teach-in this summer, brain child of Katerina Llanes.
SESSIONS
SESSIONS: CON VERSE SENSATIONS is a two-part book/ event that follows in the tradition of autonomous artist-run projects. It is a response to the imbedded canons, institutional bureaucracy, inflated tuition, and increasing privatization of American art education and its affect on artistic production.
SESSIONS
SESSIONS: CON VERSE SENSATIONS is a two-part book/ event that follows in the tradition of autonomous artist-run projects. It is a response to the imbedded canons, institutional bureaucracy, inflated tuition, and increasing privatization of American art education and its affect on artistic production.
another reason why i wish i lived in the US...
New Report (first version of collaboration by k8 Hardy with Wynne Greenwood) is installed at the Brooklyn Art Museum Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in a fantastic group show called: Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
May 1, 2009–January 10, 2010
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor, New York
When video emerged as a new medium in the early 1970s, feminist artists embraced it as a way to explore issues related to their own bodies, experiences, and identities. The rather straightforward capture of the artist performing (usually alone) in front of a stationary camera served as an avenue to investigate desire, autonomy, and selfhood. Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video presents recent video by a new generation of feminist artists. Like their ’70s precursors, these young artists place greater emphasis on their performances for the camera than on complex narratives or special effects.
The videos presented in this exhibition show varied approaches from humor to intense revelation. Thematic threads include the embrace of media appropriation and parody; repetition of self-imposed tasks; and rebelliousness—the lashing out society and the self. Exhibiting artists are Cathy Begien; Jen DeNike; Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn; Kate Gilmore; K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood; Klara Liden; and Shannon Plumb.
The exhibition title Reflections on the Electric Mirror is taken from an eponymous essay written in the 1970s by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman that examines the link between television and video art. The mirror serves as an apt metaphor for work in which artists use their own images for various types of subjectivity and self-analysis, ranging from role playing to autobiography.
Early feminist videos from the 1970s will also be screened in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center Forum during the month of May. Please check back for dates and times.
This exhibition is curated by Lauren Ross, Interim Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video is made possible by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
May 1, 2009–January 10, 2010
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor, New York
When video emerged as a new medium in the early 1970s, feminist artists embraced it as a way to explore issues related to their own bodies, experiences, and identities. The rather straightforward capture of the artist performing (usually alone) in front of a stationary camera served as an avenue to investigate desire, autonomy, and selfhood. Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video presents recent video by a new generation of feminist artists. Like their ’70s precursors, these young artists place greater emphasis on their performances for the camera than on complex narratives or special effects.
The videos presented in this exhibition show varied approaches from humor to intense revelation. Thematic threads include the embrace of media appropriation and parody; repetition of self-imposed tasks; and rebelliousness—the lashing out society and the self. Exhibiting artists are Cathy Begien; Jen DeNike; Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn; Kate Gilmore; K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood; Klara Liden; and Shannon Plumb.
The exhibition title Reflections on the Electric Mirror is taken from an eponymous essay written in the 1970s by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman that examines the link between television and video art. The mirror serves as an apt metaphor for work in which artists use their own images for various types of subjectivity and self-analysis, ranging from role playing to autobiography.
Early feminist videos from the 1970s will also be screened in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center Forum during the month of May. Please check back for dates and times.
This exhibition is curated by Lauren Ross, Interim Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video is made possible by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
Saturday, 2 May 2009
by hook or by crook i'm going
Homo A Gogo 2009, San Francisco
Thursday, August 13
Opening Night Party
Eagle
Lineup TBA
Friday, August 14
1:00-1:45 Spoken Word Set TBA
1:50-2:50 Amy Casio, Alexander Crumnsnatcher, Argyle Miss
3:05-3:25 MKG FRNDZ
3:40-4:25 Silas Howard
4:40-5:10 Pickup Pattern
5:25-5:45 Warm Streams
6:00-6:30 Mon Cousin Belge
6:45-7:15 Athens Boys Choir
7:30-8:00 Team Gina
8:15-8:45 Purple Rhinestone Eagle
9:00-9:30 TJO
9:45-10:30 Girl In A Coma
Saturday, August 15
12:00-12:20 Jeremy Gloff
12:35-1:55 Shunda K.
2:10-2:30 Tori Fixx
2:45- 3:30 Spoken Word 2
3:30- 3:50 Shunda K (?)
4:00-4:20 Jenna Riot
4:30-5:00 Bennie E
5:10-5:40 SGT. Sass
5:50-6:20 Katastrophe
6:35-6:55 Hunx & His Punx
7:10-7:40 Partyline
7:55-8:25 TBA
8:40-9:10 The Judy Experience
9:25-9:55 TBA
10:00-10:45 TBA
Sunday, August 16
12:00-12:55 Spoken word/performance TBA
1:10-1:40 Yr Heart Breaks
1:55-2:25 Nomy Lamm
2:40-2:50 Dave End
3:00-3:30 Dorian Wood
3:45- 4:15 Lovers
4:30-5:15 The Casual Lust
5:30- 6:15 Mirah
6:30-7:30 Fashion Show
8:30-1:00 AM Closing Night Party
Thee Parkside
Lineup TBA
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
exeter zinefest
EXETER ZINEFEST IS A FREE NON-PROFIT D.I.Y EVENT CELEBRATING UNDERGROUND AND INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING HAPPENING SATURDAY MAY 3OTH AT THE PHOENIX ARTS CENTRE IN EXETER, DEVON WHICH WILL COINCIDE WITH THE NO STARS NO STRIPES PUNKROCK ALL DAYER AT THE SAME VENUE. BOTH EVENTS ARE ALL AGES + ALL INCLUSIVE!
WHILE THE FOCUS IS PRIMARILY ON ZINES, ALL AREAS OF DIY ARE WELCOME - COMICS, ART, CRAFT, POSTERS, SHIRTS, PATCHES ETC. ETC.+ WE ARE PLANNING ON SHOWING FILMS
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET INVOLVED WITH HELPING US ORGANISE ZINEFEST OR IF YOU WANT TO 'BOOK' A TABLE PLEASE EMAIL IZZY PEPPERMINT_SKINNY@HOTMAIL.COM
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