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QUEER PUNX FEST- WORKSHOPS & NOISE

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QUEER PUNX FEST- WORKSHOPS & NOISE

We want to celebrate queerness outside the logic of oppressive, capitalist forces that scandalize and make spectacles out of queer identities.

We want an accessible event that speaks to the daily lives being lived pushed into norms, boxes and cells while recognizing that identifying as queer has a lot more to it than just sexuality.

Bring the glitter – not the bullshit!

$5-10/Pay What You Can. NO BOOZE. ALL AGES

WHEN?
JAN 5 2013
5-10PM

WHERE?
QUEEN ST COMMONS CAFE
43 QUEEN ST SOUTH, KITCHENER
http://www.theworkingcentre.org/queen-street-commons-caf%C3%A9/170

WHO?

5PM: WORKSHOPS:

Intersecting Oppressions: Queer Identity/ Ableism: By Eli

Discussions around Consent

ZINES

6PM: MUSIC & HULA HOOPING!!

LINDSAY JACK- Story Teller..Gossip Monger..Secret Keeper
https://lindsayjackkw.wordpress.com/storytelling/

LAVENDER- toronto crust gaylords

RUFF TALONS- posi poppy glitter punk
http://rufftalons.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7V2VS4aSs

MATT DAMON!- guelph hella sweet pop punk
http://mattdamon.bandcamp.com/

GLITTERBOMBS- slick pop punk beatz from guelph

YET TO BE NAMED- earth fondlers screaming in k/w

THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS- sarah mangle & richard laviolette
http://vimeo.com/6947775

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Michela Marino Lerman live from Small’s Jazz Club in New York on Coral FM

That’s Michela doin her Jazz Tappin thing at Small’s. Pic courtesy of The New York Times. Below Michela at Smalls. Pic by Coral

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 Michela first appeared on Sesame Street at the age of 5.  In February 2002 she was showcased on the cover of Dance Teacher magazine with Gregory Hines. In 2005, she was named by Dance Spirit magazine as one of the 20 hottest tap dancers under 20 and in 2008, Dance magazine named her as the only female tap dancer in its “25 to Watch in 2008.” Michela performs annual as part of Tap City (NYC Tap Dance Festival) and the Tap Extravaganza, and is the artistic director for Cobi Narita’s Tap Extravaganza Quens. She was born, raised, and continues to live in New York City.

She won first prize in the Harlem Jazz Dance Festival’s, “Hoofer’s Challenge” in both 2002 and 2003. In 2002, Michela performed with Jennifer Holliday on Broadway in Nothing Like A Dame and also in 21 Below at Town Hall. In 2003, she was inducted into the famed tap dance fraternity “The Copasetics” as their first and only female lifetime honorary member.  In 2004-2006, Michela toured Spain and Japan with Rafael Amargo’s Enramblao.  In the fall of 2005, her choreography was featured in the tap section of the opening number for the Bermuda Music Festival with UDP, starring Al Green, Angie Stone, and Patti LaBelle.

Michela began her touring career at the age of 14, when she travelled with the Cab Calloway Orchestra throughout the Northeast and Florida.  At the age of 19, she was commissioned by Dixon Place to create and direct her own show, entitled AM+bu$h+ED.2007 saw Michela tour Europe for 3 months as a lead dancer in the show Magic of the Dance.  In 2008-2009, she was featured in the show “Wonderland,” an all tap show set to Stevie Wonder’s music choreographed by Ayodele Casel and Sarah Savelli.

In 2008 she appeared on CBS’s Secret Talents of the Stars with Grammy award winning singer Mya, performing the choreography of Emmy award winner Jason Samuels Smith. From 2007-2008, Michela was a featured lead performer at NYC’s hottest nightclub, The Box. She also has performed with the Roy Hargrove Big Band and Quintet at the Jazz Gallery and the Village Vanguard.  Over the past several years, Michela has performed throughout the West Coast and in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, and Turkey in addition to tap festivals in Canada, New York, and Flint, Michigan.

The American Tap Dance Foundation commissioned Michela to produce and direct her second show, entitled Tapsploitation, which was presented a second time by HarlemStage. Recently she has been co-creator in forming the tap dance company The Tap Messengers who performed at the CareFusion Jazz Festival with Talib Kweli and Nicholas Payton with the Revive Da Live Big Band, Joe’s Pub, and HarlemStage opening for Marcus Strickland.  Her newest group is Sole Society, which has just debuted at Matthew Garrison’s ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, collaborating with the Marcus Strickland Quartet, and appeared at the Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival with Revive Da Live. For the past 4 years, Michela has hosted the only weekly tap jam in NYC at Smalls Jazz Club, collaborating some of today’s most gifted young jazz musicians including Joe Sanders, Ben Williams, Justin Brown, Harold O’Neal, Sullivan Fortner, and Burniss Earl Travis, to name just a few.  Michela also hosts monthly tap jams at Fat Cat.

 Michela is grateful for the mentoring and guidance given to her by Buster Brown, Gregory Hines, and Leroy Myers. She has taught in numerous schools, studios, programs, and festivals throughout the globe. As a performer, teacher, director, and choreographer Michela is dedicated to spreading the art of tap around the world.

Michela was the first interview I did when I went down to New York. I met her at the legendary jazz club Smalls! in Greenwich Village.  Tap Jazz is cooolomundo! – Coral FM.

 

 

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Coral FM at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute on location in New York with MultiStages Artistic Director Lorca Peress

Lee Strasberg Institute New York. Pic by Coral
Lee Strasberg Institute New York. Pic by Coral

 

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LORCA PERESS (President) is the Founder and Artistic Director of MultiStages, and an across-the-boards theatre artist specializing in new works. Ms. Peress’ diverse artistic background (primarily theatre, visual arts, dance, music and writing) led her to create MultiStages, a theatre company where artists from different disciplines would work together to produce extraordinary theatre. In her role as MultiStages Artistic Director, she has developed and produced all productions, readings and festivals, and supervised four New Works Contests. Ms. Peress has also conceived and directed the majority of MultiStages’ productions, and has acted in and designed puppets and masks for several. She is a native New Yorker, a Bennington College graduate, and did her professional study at the Lee Strasberg and Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institutes (NTI). Her formative training was through several internships with Missouri Repertory and Stage West in Massachusetts, where she assisted directors Rae Allen (former Artistic Director of Stage West), Vincent Dowling (former Artistic Director of Alley Theatre, Dublin), and Harold Scott (Broadway and Regional director). At NTI, she also assisted writer Dale Wasserman in the O’Neill Playwriting Conference and worked with Theatre for the Deaf. In addition to her work with MultiStages, Ms. Peress has appeared or directed at Missouri Repertory, Stage West, The Walnut Street Theatre, Orlando Opera Co., The Century Theatre, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Repertorio Español, Lambs Theatre, Dixon Place, Theatre for the New City, HERE, The Colleagues Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C., The Sackett Group’s Women’s Work Festivals, NYU Tisch, Teatro La Tea, Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Hudson Guild Theatre, Access Theatre, the Players Club, and Latino Playwrights (Raul Julia founder). Ms. Peress has been a playwriting contest judge for Repertorio Español’s Nueces Voces I and II, the Ohio State Council on the Arts, La Mia Ink, Lee Strasberg One Act Contests, and the MultiStages New Works Contests. Ms. Peress has received an Inky Award from La MaMa Experimental Theatre Co. through the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, numerous MultiStages producing grants, and several La Mia Ink! playwriting awards. She has served on the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Production Committee, Curator for NYU hotINK Festivals for Strasberg (2002–2010). She teaches in the NYU Strasberg Studio and at the Lee Strasberg Institute, and is a member of numerous theatrical Unions, and is the Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women. 

MultiStages website – http://www.eljallartsannex.com/multistages.htm


Lorca Peress from MultiStages at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City

 

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So Old It’s New set list, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012

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Listed by song, band, album:

1. Achilles Last Stand, Led Zeppelin, Presence
2. Heatseeker, AC/DC, Blow Up Your Video
3. Bad Women, McKenna Mendelson Mainline, Stink
4. Stay Frosty, Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth
5. Jeffery Goes To Leicester Square, Jethro Tull, Stand Up
6. Out of Control (live), The Rolling Stones, No Security
7. Woman Is The Nigger of the World, John Lennon, Some Time In New York City
8. When the Levee Breaks, Memphis Minnie, Me and My Chauffeur Blues compilation
9. Heaven On Their Minds, various artists, Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 original soundtrack)
10. What’s the Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying, Jesus Christ Superstar
11. Everything’s Alright, Jesus Christ Superstar
12. Sitting By the Window, Moby Grape, Moby Grape
13. Snowblind Friend, Steppenwolf, Steppenwolf 7
14. Do Ya Dream of Being Somebody, Murray McLauchlan, Sweeping the Spotlight Away
15. Solitary Man, Neil Diamond, single/The Feel of Neil Diamond
16. Maybe I’m A Leo, Deep Purple, Machine Head
17. The Entertainer, Scott Joplin adapted by Marvin Hamlisch, The Sting movie soundtrack
18. Bang Bang Bang, Tracey Chapman, Matters of the Heart
19. Driftin’ Back, Neil Young, Psychedelic Pill

Coral FM, New Music, Off The Air

An Interview with Dan Geddes from Vancouver’s Peace on Coral FM

Peace is Dan Geddes band located in Vancouver.
Peace is Dan Geddes band located in Vancouver.

Dan Geddes is a force, plain and simple. And despite the heaps of hella-high-praise references Peace receives — to Neu!, or Orange Juice, or Edwyn Collins, or whatever — there’s no substitute for experiencing their work via headphones. Peace shines not in virtuosity or violence (despite their ties to Vancouver’s explosive Emergency Room scene), but in their command of tone: The World Is Too Much With Us swaps the verbosity of Peace’s earlier work in favour of emotional dexterity, ranging from bombastic romancers (“Your Hand in Mine”), to menacing creepers (“Free Time”), to gleefully detached absurdist romps (“Kissed Dust”). It’s subtle, eloquent and direct — all of which is why I’m so obsessed. – Mark Teo. 

Dan has recently opened his own record store called Horse Records in Vancouver.  And Dan’s dad CBC Producer Ash Geddes is a good pal of mine and I saw Peace when they played in TO at The Magpie  a couple of years back.  That was fun!

Peace plays at The Magpie in Toronto. Pic by Coral
Peace plays at The Magpie in Toronto. Pic by Coral

 

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So Old It’s New set list, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012

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Listed by song, artist, album:

1. Back In the Saddle, Aerosmith, Rocks
2. Last Child, Aerosmith, Rocks
3. Devil’s Sidewalk, Graham Parker and the Rumour, The Up Escalator
4. Mr. Limousine Driver, Grand Funk Railroad, Grand Funk
5. The Rolling Stones, One More Shot, Grrr!
6. The Rolling Stones, Doom and Gloom, Grrr!
7. Elvis Presley, Fever, Elvis is Back!
8. Evil Woman, Spooky Tooth, Spooky Two
9. War Pigs, Black Sabbath, Paranoid (request)
10. (I Know) I’m Losing You, Rare Earth, Ecology
11. Those Shoes, Eagles, The Long Run
12. Get Over It, Eagles, Hell Freezes Over (request)
13. All Right Now, Free, Fire and Water (request)
14. Nature’s Disappearing, John Mayall, USA Union
15. I Ain’t Superstitious, Jeff Beck Group, Truth
16. Perfect, Smashing Pumpkins, Adore (request)
17. Don’t Look Back In Anger, Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (request)
18. Red, Treble Charger, NC 17 original version (request)
19. Driver’s Seat, Sniff ‘n’ the Tears, Fickle Heart
20. The Gumbo Variations, Frank Zappa, Hot Rats

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