This seems appropriate. See you on the other side!

At the end of the week, I’ll be taking off on a European tour courtesy of my good friends at Memefest for the Oddstream communication and multimedia festival in Nijmegen, NL. I’ll be presenting at/mentoring a workshop on youth critical media literacy training and also participating in Memefest’s socially responsive communication workshop, alongside a host of international media activists and artists. I’m very excited to be a part of this event and to have the opportunity to share my experience from Montreal with an international audience.

After the festival, I’ll be heading to Slovenia with the Memefest crew to celebrate Oliver and Vida’s wedding!!! (and stalk Slavoj Žižek) I’ll then be heading to Berlin for a few days before rounding off my trip in London to see dear old friends from LCP. If you’re around these parts, and want to see me, hit me up!

Today and tomorrow!!!

I recently completed the poster design and art direction of promotional materials for this beautiful documentary by local filmmaker Shannon Walsh. The film is a subtle and stunning montage of the neighbourhood of St-Henri and really captures the essential romantic/nostalgic quality of life in Montreal.

From the official synopsis:

On August 26th, 2010, 16 filmmakers followed multiple stories in the Montreal neighbourhood of St-Henri. The result is a touching, funny and fascinating day-in-the-life of this eclectic community (…) Inspired by the 1962 ONF film “À St-Henri le 5 septembre”, this unique collaborative film brings together some of the brightest talents in the contemporary Montreal documentary community to capture this story.

>> More information here.

I’d been waiting to see my favourite band in the world, Godspeed You! Black Emperor for well over ten years. I had given up hope when the hiatus that began in 2003 seemed to spell the end of the band until they announced last spring they were reforming. I was ecstatic then, and I am ecstatic now. I finally got the opportunity to see them, not once, but twice this past week and was completely and utterly blown away.

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