Being a big fan of Invincible’s music, I was honoured to be asked to design the poster for the event and enlisted my good friend Kirsten McCrea to help with the ornamentation, resulting in my first ever 100% hand-drawn poster! (or at least since I finished design school aeons ago…)
I’ll also be a panelist during the BDS conference itself, participating in the artist’s roundtable workshop between 4 and 6 PM on Saturday. I’ll be speaking about Imaging Apartheid and my work for the Palestinian cause from a personal perspective, the role of cultural workers in social justice struggles generally, and Palestine specifically. So please register for the conference or come by for the individual workshops—it promises to be an educational and inspiring weekend.
As part of Pop Montreal John is putting on a For the Sake of the Songs tribute show to the prolific composer and performer Van Dyke Parks this Sunday at le Cagibi.
As always, all proceeds go to the Mile End mission.
We’re very excited (freaked actually!) to present Uncle Bad Touch‘s first Montreal show, with guests Desert Owls and Griefer, this Friday night at La Sala Rossa. The show is a fundraiser to help us put out our next issue which is very nearing completion (also very exciting after a year and a half of hard work!).
So please come on out and show four minutes some love, these bands really rock, and it’s going to be a kick-ass night to remember (or not)!
For those that know me personally, Sept. 3rd will also mark my very last day at Cossette. I’ve decided to leave the day job behind to focus on teaching and my own projects. More on that soon, but for now it’ll be another good reason to celebrate!
To make up for the negativity of the previous post and the recent lack of activity on this site, please enjoy this series of lovely murals by Steve Powers in Philadeplhia. Much love!
Wednesday June 02nd 2010, 12:01 pm
Filed under: music
I’ve been really enjoying this sublime mashup by San Francisco DJ wait what for the last few months, and recently found out while checking his site that the inevitable law suit has come down and the album is no longer available for download.
“…a small part of me hoped that the music industry would have seen the value in spreading a piece of art that melded two disparate performers’ work together, thereby introducing each artist to a new audience, but they must’ve been too busy suing 9-year-olds downloading mp3s to have figured that one out….”
Going to see them this Friday and Saturday at the Ukranian Federation. If anyone wants to meet up for pre/post drinks, please hit me up. I’m gonna be as happy as those little kids, can’t wait!
