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January 18, 2014
Brazilian Guitar: Badi Assad in New York City (Jan 20 & 23 2014) & L.A. (Jan 31 2014)
From a media release:
CD & Tour
Life-changing experiences: acclaimed Brazilian guitarist Badi Assad returns to the world stage with new album, plus New York Guitar Festival and Los Angeles concert appearances in January 2014
• Get the CD Between Love and Luck (Quatro Ventos)
• See concert details at the bottom of the post
Thoughts on New Release Between Love and Luck
One of Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Guitarists and the winner of the 2013 USA Songwriting Competition in the World category, Badi Assad has enjoyed over 20 years on the world stage as one of the finest
Brazilian guitarists of her generation— many would argue that she is indeed the top of the line. The younger sister of legendary classical guitarists Duo Assad, Badi released 10 albums from 1989’s Danca Dos Tons through 2006’s Wonderland. Then…. Silence, until 2013 brought us her new CD Between Love and Luck.
Now back on the world stage, Assad brings her perceptive approach to songwriting and virtuosic guitar to New York and Los Angeles in January 2014, including a striking new score for a rare early 20th-century Chinese film tackling some of the same issues that still haunt women today at the New York Guitar Festival.
Where did Badi go for those years? The answer turns out to be simple and a great adventure all at the same time. She explains: “Where have I been? My last CD, Wonderland, was released in 2006. The big reason for my disappearance was because, in 2007, the most amazing creation of my life happened: the birth of my beloved daughter Sofia. That’s when I decided to leave the big city and devote myself fully to the amazing adventure that is motherhood…. And in the silence of the countryside I started to compose like crazy! It was a really creative and inspiring moment.”
That moment turned into Badi’s first album of completely original material, Between Love and Luck. It’s also her foray into independence as an artist: the new album was released on her own Quatro Ventos label.
Old adventures (and mismatched meetings) mix with new ones like maternity as a result of a new love and delicious new manias: how to love and seek one’s own balance of wanting the new. The new album also speaks about addictions like working hard or dependent relationships… and this craze for love. Yes, because love is also chronic, in the literal sense of the word: long term, what happens repeatedly and often.
An infectious template of original arrangements throughout, Between Love and Luck opens with the relentlessly driving Ultraleve. Over a canvas filled with sparkling moments of guitar virtuosity, ethereal vocal backgrounds, fat horn punches, and a bass line that would make Motown proud, Badi sings of caresses at moonlights, laziness at sunrise, and priceless trips, perhaps down love’s corridors.
Immediately following this romantic opening, life as a working parent intrudes as the alarm clock in Pega No Coco reminds us about getting up early and getting to work! Again, the groove is the main thing here as moments of crunchy metal-esque guitar chording trade sonic space with decidedly modern sounding electronica as Badi’s protagonist makes it through another day in the life.
Luckily for those fond of live guitar performance, Badi is hitting the road to present her new music to US fans. This January, New York area audiences will have a unique opportunity to hear the fruits of Badi’s labor via two performances at the prestigious New York Guitar Festival, which has been garnering wide accolades since its inception in 1999. In addition to performing, Badi is honored to be co-director of the NYGF in 2013.
On Monday, January 20, Badi co-curates and performs in a six hour guitar marathon celebrating the classical guitar in North and South America, contrasting rich traditions with bold experimentation. Badi has crafted an evening of propulsive rhythm and sensuous melody from South America, and caps the evening’s show with her stunning world-beat fusion of pop, jazz and Brazilian music.
A highlight of the NYGF will occur on Thursday, January 23 in the award-winning Merkin Concert Hall as Badi premieres her score for one of the best-known films of China's cinematic golden age: Wu Yonggang’s 1934 debut The Goddess, the story of a prostitute working the seamy streets of Shanghai to afford an education for her young son. Badi speaks about the challenges and rewards in composing this highly anticipated work: “My approach to score this movie is to let my intuition guide myself. It is a very dense and sad story. It is so incredible to realize that some of the ‘problems’ and ‘prejudice’ are still alive and strong nowadays. How frustrating is to face a sort of failure in so many facets as a Human
Being…it has been a challenge to score it... In the sense that I’ll have to perform it live. As I don’t have too much experience working with loops and electronics I’ll have to compose with what I can perform live and solo which decreases the endless possibilities and resources. But I love the challenges to interfere in the natural sound of the guitar, using props to modify its natural sound such as a stick under the strings provoking the listeners to discover which instrument that is? Or when I use a piece of wet fabric to scratch the strings sounding like a high pitch instrument, or when I play the guitar with one hand and a small percussive instrument with the other and so on. Of course my voice and vocals are going to be all over the place and I’m going to use other instruments as well such as a kalimba (African thumb harp), various small percussion instruments, a copper pipe (imitating a flute – played while I play the guitar simultaneously), a set of tuned ceramic pieces... “
It’s an intriguing challenge, and one that is sure to enthrall the audience at its premiere.
Moving on to the West Coast, Badi makes an appearance January 31 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. “Shine A light” (www.shinealightbenefit.org) is a benefit concert and fundraising campaign produced as an integral part of new charitable program called Shine A Light. The program was created in partnership with Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) (www.ireoigo.org), Celerity Educational Group (www.celerityschools.org) and Celerity Global (www.celerityglobal.org), and The Muse Collective. The Jan 31 concert will mark the launch of this program and will be focused on raising awareness about the dire challenges facing the Syrian War Refugees and raising funds to bring renewable energy solutions to the refugee camps. With the recent devastation in the Philippines brought about by Typhoon Haiyan, a portion of the proceeds will be used towards assisting in the recovery operations of the hardest hit areas. 100% of the events’ net proceeds will be used to fund renewable energy projects that bring both immediate and long term benefits to the people and communities in need in both areas.
As a world class guitarist, and now as a delightfully versatile composer, Assad has been enthralling audiences throughout her career. Don’t miss the experience of the new world of music this winter with Badi Assad!
UPCOMING LIVE DATES:
January 20, 2014
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th Street - New York, NY - Tix: $25, Show: 7:00 pm
January 23, 2014
Kaufman Music Center, 129 West 67th St. (btw Broadway and Amsterdam) - New York, NY - Tix: $25, Show: 7:30 pm
January 31, 2014
Orpheum Theater, 842 Broadway - Los Angeles, CA - Show: 8:00 PM
Images by Danielle Marafon & Claudio Soares
CD & Tour
Life-changing experiences: acclaimed Brazilian guitarist Badi Assad returns to the world stage with new album, plus New York Guitar Festival and Los Angeles concert appearances in January 2014
• Get the CD Between Love and Luck (Quatro Ventos)
• See concert details at the bottom of the post
Thoughts on New Release Between Love and Luck
One of Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Guitarists and the winner of the 2013 USA Songwriting Competition in the World category, Badi Assad has enjoyed over 20 years on the world stage as one of the finest
Brazilian guitarists of her generation— many would argue that she is indeed the top of the line. The younger sister of legendary classical guitarists Duo Assad, Badi released 10 albums from 1989’s Danca Dos Tons through 2006’s Wonderland. Then…. Silence, until 2013 brought us her new CD Between Love and Luck.Now back on the world stage, Assad brings her perceptive approach to songwriting and virtuosic guitar to New York and Los Angeles in January 2014, including a striking new score for a rare early 20th-century Chinese film tackling some of the same issues that still haunt women today at the New York Guitar Festival.
Where did Badi go for those years? The answer turns out to be simple and a great adventure all at the same time. She explains: “Where have I been? My last CD, Wonderland, was released in 2006. The big reason for my disappearance was because, in 2007, the most amazing creation of my life happened: the birth of my beloved daughter Sofia. That’s when I decided to leave the big city and devote myself fully to the amazing adventure that is motherhood…. And in the silence of the countryside I started to compose like crazy! It was a really creative and inspiring moment.”
That moment turned into Badi’s first album of completely original material, Between Love and Luck. It’s also her foray into independence as an artist: the new album was released on her own Quatro Ventos label.
Old adventures (and mismatched meetings) mix with new ones like maternity as a result of a new love and delicious new manias: how to love and seek one’s own balance of wanting the new. The new album also speaks about addictions like working hard or dependent relationships… and this craze for love. Yes, because love is also chronic, in the literal sense of the word: long term, what happens repeatedly and often.
An infectious template of original arrangements throughout, Between Love and Luck opens with the relentlessly driving Ultraleve. Over a canvas filled with sparkling moments of guitar virtuosity, ethereal vocal backgrounds, fat horn punches, and a bass line that would make Motown proud, Badi sings of caresses at moonlights, laziness at sunrise, and priceless trips, perhaps down love’s corridors.Immediately following this romantic opening, life as a working parent intrudes as the alarm clock in Pega No Coco reminds us about getting up early and getting to work! Again, the groove is the main thing here as moments of crunchy metal-esque guitar chording trade sonic space with decidedly modern sounding electronica as Badi’s protagonist makes it through another day in the life.
Luckily for those fond of live guitar performance, Badi is hitting the road to present her new music to US fans. This January, New York area audiences will have a unique opportunity to hear the fruits of Badi’s labor via two performances at the prestigious New York Guitar Festival, which has been garnering wide accolades since its inception in 1999. In addition to performing, Badi is honored to be co-director of the NYGF in 2013.
On Monday, January 20, Badi co-curates and performs in a six hour guitar marathon celebrating the classical guitar in North and South America, contrasting rich traditions with bold experimentation. Badi has crafted an evening of propulsive rhythm and sensuous melody from South America, and caps the evening’s show with her stunning world-beat fusion of pop, jazz and Brazilian music.
A highlight of the NYGF will occur on Thursday, January 23 in the award-winning Merkin Concert Hall as Badi premieres her score for one of the best-known films of China's cinematic golden age: Wu Yonggang’s 1934 debut The Goddess, the story of a prostitute working the seamy streets of Shanghai to afford an education for her young son. Badi speaks about the challenges and rewards in composing this highly anticipated work: “My approach to score this movie is to let my intuition guide myself. It is a very dense and sad story. It is so incredible to realize that some of the ‘problems’ and ‘prejudice’ are still alive and strong nowadays. How frustrating is to face a sort of failure in so many facets as a Human
Being…it has been a challenge to score it... In the sense that I’ll have to perform it live. As I don’t have too much experience working with loops and electronics I’ll have to compose with what I can perform live and solo which decreases the endless possibilities and resources. But I love the challenges to interfere in the natural sound of the guitar, using props to modify its natural sound such as a stick under the strings provoking the listeners to discover which instrument that is? Or when I use a piece of wet fabric to scratch the strings sounding like a high pitch instrument, or when I play the guitar with one hand and a small percussive instrument with the other and so on. Of course my voice and vocals are going to be all over the place and I’m going to use other instruments as well such as a kalimba (African thumb harp), various small percussion instruments, a copper pipe (imitating a flute – played while I play the guitar simultaneously), a set of tuned ceramic pieces... “It’s an intriguing challenge, and one that is sure to enthrall the audience at its premiere.
Moving on to the West Coast, Badi makes an appearance January 31 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. “Shine A light” (www.shinealightbenefit.org) is a benefit concert and fundraising campaign produced as an integral part of new charitable program called Shine A Light. The program was created in partnership with Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) (www.ireoigo.org), Celerity Educational Group (www.celerityschools.org) and Celerity Global (www.celerityglobal.org), and The Muse Collective. The Jan 31 concert will mark the launch of this program and will be focused on raising awareness about the dire challenges facing the Syrian War Refugees and raising funds to bring renewable energy solutions to the refugee camps. With the recent devastation in the Philippines brought about by Typhoon Haiyan, a portion of the proceeds will be used towards assisting in the recovery operations of the hardest hit areas. 100% of the events’ net proceeds will be used to fund renewable energy projects that bring both immediate and long term benefits to the people and communities in need in both areas.
As a world class guitarist, and now as a delightfully versatile composer, Assad has been enthralling audiences throughout her career. Don’t miss the experience of the new world of music this winter with Badi Assad!UPCOMING LIVE DATES:
January 20, 2014
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th Street - New York, NY - Tix: $25, Show: 7:00 pm
January 23, 2014
Kaufman Music Center, 129 West 67th St. (btw Broadway and Amsterdam) - New York, NY - Tix: $25, Show: 7:30 pm
January 31, 2014
Orpheum Theater, 842 Broadway - Los Angeles, CA - Show: 8:00 PM
Images by Danielle Marafon & Claudio Soares
Free Talk: David Cronenberg with Piers Handling January 21 2014 at OCAD Uni Toronto
From a media release:
OCAD University
President’s Speaker Series presents:
A conversation between David Cronenberg and Piers Handling
• Free Talk -Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 7 p.m. (please note seating is limited)
TORONTO - OCAD University is pleased to present a free public discussion between Piers Handling and David Cronenberg.
Cronenberg, the master of the macabre, creepy obsessions and weird fantasies, is coming to OCAD University to talk about the relationships among technology, art, cinema, architecture, design and city landscapes. The iconic Toronto-based Canadian filmmaker will be interviewed by Piers Handling, Director and Chief Executive Officer of TIFF.
During Cronenberg’s 40-year career as a filmmaker, his works have included independent, experimental, science fiction, horror, thriller and studio productions including Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. Cronenberg is the recipient many awards, including France’s prestigious Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres, a Special Jury Prize at Cannes, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.
Piers Handling is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of TIFF. Since 1994, under his diretion, TIFF became an internationally renowned cultural institution and opened TIFF Bell Lightbox, a permanent home for all of TIFF’s year-round film, educational and exhibition programming. Handling is the former Deputy Director of the Canadian Film Institute (CFI), taught at Carleton and Queen’s universities and has published extensively on Canadian cinema. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from OCAD U.
OCAD University
Auditorium (Room 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
416-977-6000 www.ocadu.ca
OCAD University
President’s Speaker Series presents:
A conversation between David Cronenberg and Piers Handling
• Free Talk -Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 7 p.m. (please note seating is limited)
TORONTO - OCAD University is pleased to present a free public discussion between Piers Handling and David Cronenberg.
Cronenberg, the master of the macabre, creepy obsessions and weird fantasies, is coming to OCAD University to talk about the relationships among technology, art, cinema, architecture, design and city landscapes. The iconic Toronto-based Canadian filmmaker will be interviewed by Piers Handling, Director and Chief Executive Officer of TIFF.During Cronenberg’s 40-year career as a filmmaker, his works have included independent, experimental, science fiction, horror, thriller and studio productions including Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. Cronenberg is the recipient many awards, including France’s prestigious Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres, a Special Jury Prize at Cannes, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.
Piers Handling is responsible for leading both the operational and artistic growth of TIFF. Since 1994, under his diretion, TIFF became an internationally renowned cultural institution and opened TIFF Bell Lightbox, a permanent home for all of TIFF’s year-round film, educational and exhibition programming. Handling is the former Deputy Director of the Canadian Film Institute (CFI), taught at Carleton and Queen’s universities and has published extensively on Canadian cinema. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from OCAD U.OCAD University
Auditorium (Room 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
416-977-6000 www.ocadu.ca
Jazz by 3: Lara Solnicki, Fern Lindzon, Sinal Aberto with Luanda Jones January 21 2014 in Toronto
From a release:
JAZZ BY 3
Lara Solnicki, Fern Lindzon, Sinal Aberto with Luanda Jones
Three fabulous small jazz ensembles in one night! With Ted Quinlan, Gord Sheard and Mark Kelso. Each group features celebrated bassist George Koller.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
LULA LOUNGE
Doors 6pm, show at 7pm
$15 or $49 dinner package includes three course dinner and show.
Dinner reservations guarantee seating. 416 588 0307, lula.ca
TORONTO - Three ladies of jazz in one hot show - January 19, 2014 at Toronto's Lula Lounge.
LARA SOLNICKI 7 pm
"...One of the finest jazz singers to emerge on the Canadian scene..." - Stanley Péan, host: Espace Musique/Radio Canada
A graduate of The Glenn Gould School/ Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto-born Lara Solnicki has been praised for her "beautiful voice, warm, grave and measured." (Christophe Rodriguez, Le Journal de Montreal) and her "stylish and sensual interpretations of The Great American Songbook." (Mark Rheaume, CBC).
Lara Solnicki's debut at Lula features trio-band mates Ted Quinlan, guitar and George Koller, bass, in a colourful performance featuring orignials, standards and a preview of songs from the soon to be released second CD. larasolnicki.com
FERN LINDZON 8:30 pm
"Fern Lindzon is an engaging pianist and singer who brings an unassuming authority, an inquiring spirit and a natural grace to contemporary jazz." - Mark Miller, jazz writer
JUNO Award nominee Fern Lindzon is a multi-faceted pianist/vocalist/composer with a technique that The WholeNote calls "intricate, yet commanding," and her latest CD Two Kites, "breathtakingly beautiful."
Fern's second CD, Two Kites (2011), with saxophonist Mike Murley, bassist George Koller and drummer Nick Fraser, was nominated for a 2012 JUNO Award as Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. It has also drawn admiring comments from the New York pianist Fred Hersch and the British singer Norma Winstone, as well as from reviewers for The WholeNote, Los Angeles Jazz Scene and several other publications. fernlindzon.com
SINAL ABERTO FEATURING LUANDA JONES 10 pm
Sinal Aberto is an exciting Brazilian jazz quartet featuring outstanding musicians from Brazil and Canada. The group brings a jazz approach to a repertoire consisting of classic Brazilian songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Djavan, Pixinguinha, Cartola and others, as well as vibrant original compositions by band members Gordon Sheard and Luanda Jones.
Featuring: Gord Sheard (keys and arrangements), George Koller (bass), Mark Kelso (drums) and Luanda Jones (vocals). sinalaberto.com luandajones.com
JAZZ BY 3
Lara Solnicki, Fern Lindzon, Sinal Aberto with Luanda Jones
Three fabulous small jazz ensembles in one night! With Ted Quinlan, Gord Sheard and Mark Kelso. Each group features celebrated bassist George Koller.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
LULA LOUNGE
Doors 6pm, show at 7pm
$15 or $49 dinner package includes three course dinner and show.
Dinner reservations guarantee seating. 416 588 0307, lula.ca
TORONTO - Three ladies of jazz in one hot show - January 19, 2014 at Toronto's Lula Lounge.LARA SOLNICKI 7 pm
"...One of the finest jazz singers to emerge on the Canadian scene..." - Stanley Péan, host: Espace Musique/Radio Canada
A graduate of The Glenn Gould School/ Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto-born Lara Solnicki has been praised for her "beautiful voice, warm, grave and measured." (Christophe Rodriguez, Le Journal de Montreal) and her "stylish and sensual interpretations of The Great American Songbook." (Mark Rheaume, CBC).
Lara Solnicki's debut at Lula features trio-band mates Ted Quinlan, guitar and George Koller, bass, in a colourful performance featuring orignials, standards and a preview of songs from the soon to be released second CD. larasolnicki.com
FERN LINDZON 8:30 pm
"Fern Lindzon is an engaging pianist and singer who brings an unassuming authority, an inquiring spirit and a natural grace to contemporary jazz." - Mark Miller, jazz writer
JUNO Award nominee Fern Lindzon is a multi-faceted pianist/vocalist/composer with a technique that The WholeNote calls "intricate, yet commanding," and her latest CD Two Kites, "breathtakingly beautiful." Fern's second CD, Two Kites (2011), with saxophonist Mike Murley, bassist George Koller and drummer Nick Fraser, was nominated for a 2012 JUNO Award as Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. It has also drawn admiring comments from the New York pianist Fred Hersch and the British singer Norma Winstone, as well as from reviewers for The WholeNote, Los Angeles Jazz Scene and several other publications. fernlindzon.com
SINAL ABERTO FEATURING LUANDA JONES 10 pmSinal Aberto is an exciting Brazilian jazz quartet featuring outstanding musicians from Brazil and Canada. The group brings a jazz approach to a repertoire consisting of classic Brazilian songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Djavan, Pixinguinha, Cartola and others, as well as vibrant original compositions by band members Gordon Sheard and Luanda Jones.
Featuring: Gord Sheard (keys and arrangements), George Koller (bass), Mark Kelso (drums) and Luanda Jones (vocals). sinalaberto.com luandajones.com
January 13, 2014
Mississippi Hill Country Blues: Cedric Burnside at drom (New York City) January 24 2014
From a release:
CEG & Nolafunk Present Cedric Burnside
January 24, 2014
at drom (New York City)
Mississippi Hill Country Blues, Funk, R&B and Soul
• Tickets Here
Cedric was born and raised in Holly Springs, Mississippi. At the young age of 13, he began touring around the world playing drums with his grandfather, North Mississippi blues legend R.L. Burnside also known as "Big Daddy". In late 2006, Cedric & Lightin' Malcolm teamed up and toured as "The Juke Joint
Duo" which produced the award winning record, ‘Two Man Wrecking Crew'. In 2010, Cedric collaborated with his younger brother, Cody Burnside, and his uncle, Garry Burnside, to create The Cedric Burnside Project. They created a new genre of music by infusing Mississippi Hill Country Blues, Funk, R&B and Soul that will keep your foot stomping all night long! Following the passing of his brother, Cody, Cedric keeps the flame burning, touring with Trenton Ayers.Cedric has performed and Recorded With: R.L. Burnside, Burnside Exploration, Jimmy Buffett, T Model Ford, Bobby Rush, Honey Boy Edwards, North Mississippi Allstars, Galactic, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Widespread Panic, John Spencer Blues Explosion. Cedric also just won the 2013 Memphis Blues Award for Drummer of the Year. This is the third time Cedric has won this prestigious award.
Official website
Doors 9PMShow 9.30pmAdvance Price $15 / $20 day ofDoor Price $20
A Conversation with Edith Head on stage January 17-19 2014 in Toronto
From a media release:
CAFTCAD presents A Conversation with Edith Head
Canadian premiere brings costume design icon back to life
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto
January 17 - 19, 2014
• Buy tickets
Toronto - The Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design (CAFTCAD) presents Susan Claassen in A Conversation with Edith Head, by Paddy Calistro and Susan Claassen. The one
woman play is based on the book Edith Head’s Hollywood by Paddy Calistro and Edith Head.
A Conversation with Edith Head is playing in Toronto, January 17-19, 2014 at 8:00 pm in the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. It is a behind-the-scenes feast of great movie lore and delicious stories providing insight into Hollywood’s legendary costume designer, Edith Head. At A Conversation with Edith Head, audiences hear Miss Head tell her own story. It’s a tale as fascinating as the history of the film industry itself, filled with humour, frustration and glamour.
The play, created when Susan Claassen was inspired by watching a television biography of Head, comes to Toronto directed by Claassen and produced by CAFTCAD. To aid with production costs, CAFTCAD, a not for profit organization, launched an Indiegogo campaign. It aims to raise $10,000. CAFTCAD’s vision is to increase awareness of the value costume arts and design bring to the industry.
They represent a powerful element in the collaborative process of filmmaking, furthering international recognition of the creative talent we have in Canada.
In her 60 year career, Head worked on 1,131 motion pictures, dressing Hollywood heavyweights like Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, received 35 Academy Award® nominations and won an unprecedented eight Oscars®. In addition, Edith Head was nominated for a BAFTA in 1975 for the epic The Man Who Would Be King, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
About CAFTCAD
CAFTCAD is a not for profit association of individuals interested in promoting Costume Design for film, television and media from both an artistic and technical perspective. Our goal is to enrich our community with artistic presentations, seminars, workshops and social networking events.
CAFTCAD presents A Conversation with Edith Head
Canadian premiere brings costume design icon back to life
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto
January 17 - 19, 2014
• Buy tickets
Toronto - The Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design (CAFTCAD) presents Susan Claassen in A Conversation with Edith Head, by Paddy Calistro and Susan Claassen. The one
woman play is based on the book Edith Head’s Hollywood by Paddy Calistro and Edith Head.A Conversation with Edith Head is playing in Toronto, January 17-19, 2014 at 8:00 pm in the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. It is a behind-the-scenes feast of great movie lore and delicious stories providing insight into Hollywood’s legendary costume designer, Edith Head. At A Conversation with Edith Head, audiences hear Miss Head tell her own story. It’s a tale as fascinating as the history of the film industry itself, filled with humour, frustration and glamour.
The play, created when Susan Claassen was inspired by watching a television biography of Head, comes to Toronto directed by Claassen and produced by CAFTCAD. To aid with production costs, CAFTCAD, a not for profit organization, launched an Indiegogo campaign. It aims to raise $10,000. CAFTCAD’s vision is to increase awareness of the value costume arts and design bring to the industry.
They represent a powerful element in the collaborative process of filmmaking, furthering international recognition of the creative talent we have in Canada. In her 60 year career, Head worked on 1,131 motion pictures, dressing Hollywood heavyweights like Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, received 35 Academy Award® nominations and won an unprecedented eight Oscars®. In addition, Edith Head was nominated for a BAFTA in 1975 for the epic The Man Who Would Be King, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
About CAFTCAD
CAFTCAD is a not for profit association of individuals interested in promoting Costume Design for film, television and media from both an artistic and technical perspective. Our goal is to enrich our community with artistic presentations, seminars, workshops and social networking events.
Opening in Toronto: Big Bad Wolves - January 17 2014
From a media release:
Video Services Corp. presents
BIG BAD WOLVES
A film by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado
Opens Friday January 17, 2014
• Toronto – Cineplex, Yonge & Dundas, 10 Dundas St. E
• Ottawa – Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St.
• Victoria – The Vic Theatre, 808 Douglas St.
• more Canadian cities to follow.
(Toronto) Big Bad Wolves, Quentin Tarantino’s “best film of the year” opens in cities across Canada January 17 from Video Services Corp (VSC).
Described as “mesmerizing from start to finish,” by The Hollywood Reporter, Big Bad Wolves involves a series of brutal murders that put the lives of three men on a collision course: the father of the latest victim, a vigilante police detective and the main suspect in the killings – a religious studies teacher arrested and released by a police blunder. It follows Israeli filmmakers Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s first feature, Rabies, which caused a sensation at its 2010 debut at the Tribeca Film Festival as Israel’s first horror film. Big Bad Wolves asks the question, “does being the victim give you the legitimate right to turn into a bloodthirsty vigilante?”
Writer/directors Keshales and Papushado took their inspiration from contemporary society, explaining that, “existential anxiety serves as Israel's foundation and attempts to define and reinforce the legitimacy of the state: a fear of terrorist activities, primarily kidnappings, unremitting feelings of being persecuted, inherent intolerance and macho behavior topped with a historical craving for vengeance create an ideal breeding ground for extreme actions and subsequent reactions.” Big Bad Wolves is their attempt to address those issues.
“The rapturous reception the film received at the Fantasia Festival earlier this year has been repeated at screenings across the world and we’re excited to bring it to theatres in Canada,” stated VSC President Jonathan Gross, “Aharon and Navot have made a thought-provoking film that will have audiences talking.”
The film will be released on VOD, iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray later in 2014.
About Video Services Corp.
Founded in 1993 by former rock critic Jonathan Gross, Video Services Corp. is a leading independent DVD distributor with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles and a vast catalogue strong in television, sports and comedy. VSC’s releases include Corner Gas, Comedy Now! Starring Russell Peters and Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…. Recent theatrical releases include Union Square, with Oscar® winner Mira Sorvino, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, from writer/director Roman Coppola and The Matchmaker from Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher. VSC also owns the e-commerce websites sportonvideo.com, laffstock.com and jewishflicks.com.
Official Selection:
2013 Tribeca Film Festival
2013 AFI Film Festival
2013 Fantastic Fest
2013 Fantasia Festival
2013 Chicago International Film Festival
2013 Philadelphia Film Festival
2013 Toronto After Dark Festival
2013 Vancouver International Film Festival
Winner:
Cheval Noir Award for Best Film – 2013 Fantasia Festival
Best Screenplay – 2013 Fantasia Festival
Video Services Corp. presents
BIG BAD WOLVES
A film by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado
Opens Friday January 17, 2014
• Toronto – Cineplex, Yonge & Dundas, 10 Dundas St. E
• Ottawa – Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St.
• Victoria – The Vic Theatre, 808 Douglas St.
• more Canadian cities to follow.
(Toronto) Big Bad Wolves, Quentin Tarantino’s “best film of the year” opens in cities across Canada January 17 from Video Services Corp (VSC).
Described as “mesmerizing from start to finish,” by The Hollywood Reporter, Big Bad Wolves involves a series of brutal murders that put the lives of three men on a collision course: the father of the latest victim, a vigilante police detective and the main suspect in the killings – a religious studies teacher arrested and released by a police blunder. It follows Israeli filmmakers Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s first feature, Rabies, which caused a sensation at its 2010 debut at the Tribeca Film Festival as Israel’s first horror film. Big Bad Wolves asks the question, “does being the victim give you the legitimate right to turn into a bloodthirsty vigilante?”Writer/directors Keshales and Papushado took their inspiration from contemporary society, explaining that, “existential anxiety serves as Israel's foundation and attempts to define and reinforce the legitimacy of the state: a fear of terrorist activities, primarily kidnappings, unremitting feelings of being persecuted, inherent intolerance and macho behavior topped with a historical craving for vengeance create an ideal breeding ground for extreme actions and subsequent reactions.” Big Bad Wolves is their attempt to address those issues.
“The rapturous reception the film received at the Fantasia Festival earlier this year has been repeated at screenings across the world and we’re excited to bring it to theatres in Canada,” stated VSC President Jonathan Gross, “Aharon and Navot have made a thought-provoking film that will have audiences talking.”The film will be released on VOD, iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray later in 2014.
About Video Services Corp.
Founded in 1993 by former rock critic Jonathan Gross, Video Services Corp. is a leading independent DVD distributor with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles and a vast catalogue strong in television, sports and comedy. VSC’s releases include Corner Gas, Comedy Now! Starring Russell Peters and Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…. Recent theatrical releases include Union Square, with Oscar® winner Mira Sorvino, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, from writer/director Roman Coppola and The Matchmaker from Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher. VSC also owns the e-commerce websites sportonvideo.com, laffstock.com and jewishflicks.com.
Official Selection:
2013 Tribeca Film Festival
2013 AFI Film Festival
2013 Fantastic Fest2013 Fantasia Festival
2013 Chicago International Film Festival
2013 Philadelphia Film Festival
2013 Toronto After Dark Festival
2013 Vancouver International Film Festival
Winner:
Cheval Noir Award for Best Film – 2013 Fantasia Festival
Best Screenplay – 2013 Fantasia Festival
Amnesty International "Films for Change" Series - THE SQUARE - January 17 2014 in Toronto
From a media release:
Amnesty International "Films for Change" Series - THE SQUARE
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 6:30pm
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
506 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario
TORONTO - Amnesty International Films for Change Presents The Square - Join Amnesty International Toronto (AITO) for the first installment in the 2014 Films for Change series! AITO is proud to present a
limited engagement of the award-winning documentary The Square, Friday, January 17 2014 at the Bloor Hot Docs cinema.
The Square follows a diverse group of Egyptian activists, armed only with cameras and the power of social media, as they risk their lives to build a liberated society. Directed by Egyptian-American Jehane Noujaim, The Square follows these activists not only through the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, but also through the turbulent years that followed. Defiant, courageous, and inspiring, The Square has been called “a remarkable portrait of Egypt’s false dawns, and worthy of its Oscar buzz” by Time Magazine.
The Square was first released as an unfinished cut at Sundance in 2013, and was awarded the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary. However, even as the filmmakers were accepting their awards, the activists featured in the film were returning to the streets of Cairo, as the country’s first democratically elected president began granting himself extraordinary powers. It was clear that the fight was not over, and the filmmakers returned to Cairo to capture what would become the second part of this developing story.
Following the film, AITO will host a panel discussion focusing on the important issues raised in the film.
Where: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West (Bathurst & Bloor)
When: Friday, January 17, 2014 at 6:30 PM
Cost: $11.00, tickets are available at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Box Office
Amnesty International "Films for Change" Series - THE SQUARE
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 6:30pm
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
506 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario
TORONTO - Amnesty International Films for Change Presents The Square - Join Amnesty International Toronto (AITO) for the first installment in the 2014 Films for Change series! AITO is proud to present a
limited engagement of the award-winning documentary The Square, Friday, January 17 2014 at the Bloor Hot Docs cinema.The Square follows a diverse group of Egyptian activists, armed only with cameras and the power of social media, as they risk their lives to build a liberated society. Directed by Egyptian-American Jehane Noujaim, The Square follows these activists not only through the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, but also through the turbulent years that followed. Defiant, courageous, and inspiring, The Square has been called “a remarkable portrait of Egypt’s false dawns, and worthy of its Oscar buzz” by Time Magazine.
The Square was first released as an unfinished cut at Sundance in 2013, and was awarded the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary. However, even as the filmmakers were accepting their awards, the activists featured in the film were returning to the streets of Cairo, as the country’s first democratically elected president began granting himself extraordinary powers. It was clear that the fight was not over, and the filmmakers returned to Cairo to capture what would become the second part of this developing story. 
Following the film, AITO will host a panel discussion focusing on the important issues raised in the film. Where: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West (Bathurst & Bloor)
When: Friday, January 17, 2014 at 6:30 PM
Cost: $11.00, tickets are available at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Box Office
Tickets Nearly Sold Out! Green Porno Live on Stage with Isabella Rossellini at BAM (Brooklyn) Jan 16-25 2014
From a release:
Tickets Nearly Sold Out!
Green Porno
Live on Stage
Conceived and performed by Isabella Rossellini
Written by Isabella Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carrière
Staged by Muriel Mayette
Jan 16—Jan 25, 2014
at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Part of 2014 Winter/Spring Season
Art-house luminary Isabella Rossellini reveals the surprisingly kinky and confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this one-woman show, adapted from the celebrated Sundance Channel series of the same name.
With day-glo costumes and paper puppets, Rossellini channels a host of reproductive oddities based on a text by the influential French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (The Mahabharata, 1987 Next Wave; The Tin Drum). Part nature documentary, part DIY cartoon, Green Porno is a cheeky, delightful zoology lesson brought vividly to life by Rossellini’s singular flair for storytelling.English translation by Sofia Groopman
Post-Show Artist Talk
with Isabella Rossellini
Moderated by Suzanne Braun Levine
Tue, Jan 21
Actress Isabella Rossellini discusses her creative process, the origins of her acclaimed Sundance series Green Porno, and how it came to the stage. Free for same-day ticket holders.
Fishman Space
RUN TIME: Approx 1hr 15min
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $72—80
FULL PRICE TICKETS: $120 ($30 rush*)
Eight ticket limit per household.
*Rush Tickets: A limited number of $30 rush tickets will be available for purchase starting 90 minutes before each performance, at the BAM Fisher box office (321 Ashland Pl). Limit two tickets per person. Rush tickets are only available for purchase in person.
January 8, 2014
Habib Koité: New Album Soô & North American Tour January 31 to March 7 2014
From a media release:
Home is Where the Heart is for Habib Koité: New Album Soô Spotlights Mali’s Diversity
Guest Appearances by Toumani Diabate and Bassekou Kouyate—and Habib’s First Banjo
The tour kicks off January 31, 2014 in Sebastopol, CA - check out the full tour at the link
Including:
Aeolian Hall, London, ON - February 13, 2014
The Mod Club, Toronto - February 14, 2014
L'Astral, Montreal - February 15, 2014
City Winery, New York City - March 6, 2014
With all the turmoil that has hit Mali since singing guitar master Habib Koité’s last recording, it is no wonder that his February 25, 2014 release, titled Soô (which translates to Home in English), was
recorded in his own home. But the civil strife in Mali was not what drove the musician to do his first home recording. The real reason simply was—just like many other established musicians—because he could. What started as a logistical decision paved the way for the album’s theme.
For a musician, on the road for long stretches, home becomes a dream, a vision. A place to treasure. But this home is much more than four walls. It’s a chance to draw together all the strands of his life – his music, his friends, his countrymen. A chance to breathe, to reflect, and to make some changes.
“On this album most of the songs are played by new musicians,” Koité explains. “I had the same band for 22 years, they played on all my albums and tours everywhere in the world. All my albums, I did with them.” It was time for fresh blood; only bassist Abdul Berthe remains from the old lineup. Even the engineers were new – one of them Koité’s twenty-year-old son.
Habib Koité’s Soô has had a complete makeover. Not only personnel, but songwriting and instrumentation. The drum kit has gone, replaced with a percussionist on calabash and djembe. And with this album, Koité has brought the banjo home to Africa. After playing with American bluesman Eric Bibb on 2012’s Brothers in Bamako and on tour, Koité adopted Bibb’s six-string instrument belonging to Eric Bibb.
“It gives another effect to my sound, something new,” says Koité. “Issa, my other guitarist, said ‘Wow, I’ve never played this instrument.’”Neither had Koité, but he knew he wanted to hear the banjo in his new music along with the brand-new guitar which was a gift from a fan in England. It has a wide neck, like his familiar nylon-stringed instrument, but this uses metal strings. “The sound is so great. I fell in love with it and decided to record all the songs with this guitar.” But he made a few changes, switching to heavy strings for a cleaner sound. “You can hear it on ‘Drapeau,’” he observes, a song which features just Koité and the guitar. “I muted the bottom strings. You can hear the bass lines and the treble separately that way.”
Singing in Malinke, Bambara, and Dogon, and incorporating styles and rhythms from all over the country, Koité brings together the diversity of ethnicities of Mali on Soô. But that’s a perfectly natural feeling to him. Growing up in Kayes, he was surrounded by a Babel of tongues, and that continued when he moved to the the capital, Bamako. A student of classical guitar, he also learned jazz on his way to becoming a master of the instrument, “the African Clapton” as he’s been called. And from the start he’s relished
mixing things up in his own music. On his 1995 song “Fatma,”Koité crossed cultural borders playing a sonrai style from the North, creating a hit in Mali. Ten years later the great singer Afel Boucoum told Koité that he was shaken by this song. “he thought it was familiar, but somehow very different.”
That mix of Malian musical cultures is very much in evidence on Soô. It’s an album that looks squarely at his native land, a country torn apart by violence over the last two years – a time when a real feeling of home couldn’t be more vital. On “Diarabi Niani,” for instance, Koité takes a traditional rhythm then gives it a twist by adding a bridge which wouldn’t normally exist. And with “Bolo Mala” he sings in Malinke, but over a Kassonké rhythm from his own Kayes, before adding a few words in Spanish.
Koité addresses many of the issues facing Mali at the moment. Under the beautiful lilt of “Dêmê” is the serious issue of people helping each other and living together peacefully. But there are other problems to be addressed: the forced marriages highlighted in “Need You,” where the iron fist is hidden beneath the velvet glove of a gorgeous melody, or “Khafolé,” the traditional story of a mother loses her young child to a circumcision gone wrong. This song was first performed over a hundred years ago when a group of women were protesting to the chief of the Blacksmiths, the group traditionally in charge of circumcision.
“In the big cities, it’s going down in popularity,” Koité notes. “But it still continues in small villages.”
And sometimes he makes his point without words. “Diadjiri” is completely solo, a reminder of Koité’s virtuosity on the fretboard. But it’s also a song made famous by Fanta Damba, one of the first Malian singers to find fame in Europe, a song about war and its horrors. It’s a piece that will have been resonating in the minds of all Malians in recent times, and when Koité lets his fingers do the talking, the melody more eloquent than any voice.
But Soô is a place of joy, too. “Balon Tan” celebrates soccer, a vital part of life in Mali.
“Every afternoon after school you can see boys of different ages playing soccer in the dust,” Koité explains. “Parents come to watch and talk. It's an important point of meeting where you learn to live together. And everybody goes home at the end of the day.”
Home. Always home. Even in “Tekila=L.A.,” a memory of times with friends in Los Angeles, he compares the city to the place closest to his heart – Mali – while the banjo connects people on both sides of the Atlantic. And “Terere,” featuring the legendary Toumani Diabaté on kora and the n’goni of the masterful Bassekou Kouyate, is a celebration of the strings that power Malian music.
Home. The place that brings everything together, as he sings on the title track, “Soô.”
“The word soô is a symbol of the heart,” Koité reflects. “It’s the center of your life, the heart of life. It’s a place with your family, the place where you have old friends. A place where you know the climate. It is all of those. That’s what soô means. Your sweet home. It’s where your life makes sense.”
Habib Koité will be taking his home on the road in North America from January 31 – March 7, 2014.
Images by Dirk Leunis
Home is Where the Heart is for Habib Koité: New Album Soô Spotlights Mali’s Diversity
Guest Appearances by Toumani Diabate and Bassekou Kouyate—and Habib’s First Banjo
The tour kicks off January 31, 2014 in Sebastopol, CA - check out the full tour at the link
Including:
Aeolian Hall, London, ON - February 13, 2014
The Mod Club, Toronto - February 14, 2014
L'Astral, Montreal - February 15, 2014
City Winery, New York City - March 6, 2014
With all the turmoil that has hit Mali since singing guitar master Habib Koité’s last recording, it is no wonder that his February 25, 2014 release, titled Soô (which translates to Home in English), was
recorded in his own home. But the civil strife in Mali was not what drove the musician to do his first home recording. The real reason simply was—just like many other established musicians—because he could. What started as a logistical decision paved the way for the album’s theme.For a musician, on the road for long stretches, home becomes a dream, a vision. A place to treasure. But this home is much more than four walls. It’s a chance to draw together all the strands of his life – his music, his friends, his countrymen. A chance to breathe, to reflect, and to make some changes.
“On this album most of the songs are played by new musicians,” Koité explains. “I had the same band for 22 years, they played on all my albums and tours everywhere in the world. All my albums, I did with them.” It was time for fresh blood; only bassist Abdul Berthe remains from the old lineup. Even the engineers were new – one of them Koité’s twenty-year-old son.
Habib Koité’s Soô has had a complete makeover. Not only personnel, but songwriting and instrumentation. The drum kit has gone, replaced with a percussionist on calabash and djembe. And with this album, Koité has brought the banjo home to Africa. After playing with American bluesman Eric Bibb on 2012’s Brothers in Bamako and on tour, Koité adopted Bibb’s six-string instrument belonging to Eric Bibb.“It gives another effect to my sound, something new,” says Koité. “Issa, my other guitarist, said ‘Wow, I’ve never played this instrument.’”Neither had Koité, but he knew he wanted to hear the banjo in his new music along with the brand-new guitar which was a gift from a fan in England. It has a wide neck, like his familiar nylon-stringed instrument, but this uses metal strings. “The sound is so great. I fell in love with it and decided to record all the songs with this guitar.” But he made a few changes, switching to heavy strings for a cleaner sound. “You can hear it on ‘Drapeau,’” he observes, a song which features just Koité and the guitar. “I muted the bottom strings. You can hear the bass lines and the treble separately that way.”
Singing in Malinke, Bambara, and Dogon, and incorporating styles and rhythms from all over the country, Koité brings together the diversity of ethnicities of Mali on Soô. But that’s a perfectly natural feeling to him. Growing up in Kayes, he was surrounded by a Babel of tongues, and that continued when he moved to the the capital, Bamako. A student of classical guitar, he also learned jazz on his way to becoming a master of the instrument, “the African Clapton” as he’s been called. And from the start he’s relished
mixing things up in his own music. On his 1995 song “Fatma,”Koité crossed cultural borders playing a sonrai style from the North, creating a hit in Mali. Ten years later the great singer Afel Boucoum told Koité that he was shaken by this song. “he thought it was familiar, but somehow very different.”That mix of Malian musical cultures is very much in evidence on Soô. It’s an album that looks squarely at his native land, a country torn apart by violence over the last two years – a time when a real feeling of home couldn’t be more vital. On “Diarabi Niani,” for instance, Koité takes a traditional rhythm then gives it a twist by adding a bridge which wouldn’t normally exist. And with “Bolo Mala” he sings in Malinke, but over a Kassonké rhythm from his own Kayes, before adding a few words in Spanish.
Koité addresses many of the issues facing Mali at the moment. Under the beautiful lilt of “Dêmê” is the serious issue of people helping each other and living together peacefully. But there are other problems to be addressed: the forced marriages highlighted in “Need You,” where the iron fist is hidden beneath the velvet glove of a gorgeous melody, or “Khafolé,” the traditional story of a mother loses her young child to a circumcision gone wrong. This song was first performed over a hundred years ago when a group of women were protesting to the chief of the Blacksmiths, the group traditionally in charge of circumcision.
“In the big cities, it’s going down in popularity,” Koité notes. “But it still continues in small villages.”
And sometimes he makes his point without words. “Diadjiri” is completely solo, a reminder of Koité’s virtuosity on the fretboard. But it’s also a song made famous by Fanta Damba, one of the first Malian singers to find fame in Europe, a song about war and its horrors. It’s a piece that will have been resonating in the minds of all Malians in recent times, and when Koité lets his fingers do the talking, the melody more eloquent than any voice.
But Soô is a place of joy, too. “Balon Tan” celebrates soccer, a vital part of life in Mali.
“Every afternoon after school you can see boys of different ages playing soccer in the dust,” Koité explains. “Parents come to watch and talk. It's an important point of meeting where you learn to live together. And everybody goes home at the end of the day.”Home. Always home. Even in “Tekila=L.A.,” a memory of times with friends in Los Angeles, he compares the city to the place closest to his heart – Mali – while the banjo connects people on both sides of the Atlantic. And “Terere,” featuring the legendary Toumani Diabaté on kora and the n’goni of the masterful Bassekou Kouyate, is a celebration of the strings that power Malian music.
Home. The place that brings everything together, as he sings on the title track, “Soô.”
“The word soô is a symbol of the heart,” Koité reflects. “It’s the center of your life, the heart of life. It’s a place with your family, the place where you have old friends. A place where you know the climate. It is all of those. That’s what soô means. Your sweet home. It’s where your life makes sense.”
Habib Koité will be taking his home on the road in North America from January 31 – March 7, 2014.
Images by Dirk Leunis
Photographic Art: J.W. Bush at Sealed Art (Hamilton, ON) January 25 to February 25 2014
From a media release:
Opening:
J.W. Bush - Watermarks
Opening at Sealed Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON
January 25 to February 25, 2014
• Opening Reception January 25, 2014 - 5 to 9pm
• Photographs are in series of five only 225.00 CAD each
HAMILTON, ON - Enigmatic and evocative, J.W. Bush's latest show of photography opens on January 25, 2014 at Sealed Art Gallery.Jeff is a long time self-taught photography artist who's been exhibiting his work in Hamilton for decades. The former owner of the J.W. Bush Gallery has been a well-known member of Hamilton's arts community. His work has included stints volunteering for the City and he's often documented Hamilton's arts scene along with providing photography services to poets, musicians and theatre artists and general design work - but no weddings! He hopes to re-open the gallery as a photographic centre in the future.
The show includes experimental music on the Korg M1 Syntech, provided by Rob Vecera, mixed and produced by J.W. Bush. A strongly visual thinker, he lets his images and poetry do the talking for him.
Watermarks
telling stories coming from far away
starting explosions creating life to form
frequencies, light, magnetism, reactions and heat.
a flat plain just before a forest, a mystical place, somewhere here or there,
or in the scene of a eerie past.
topical textures, looking yet like charcoal sketches
new emerging forms
reproduction
emerging from earth humanoid figures
sensual overtone
you can see bird like figures
ghostly faces on spirit land
many eyes too one
wipe away clean
beads of rhythm
natural
natural universal language
mystical forest from long ago
or future
topography
J.W.Bush
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