August Mess + Vernissage + Art Marts with Methinks – We Made a Deal with the Devil!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“We Made a Deal with the Devil & Indyish is 3 Years old!”
The next Indyish Monthly Mess is produced in partnership with Methinks Presents.
Date: August 15 + 16 2009
Place: 435 Beaubien West, Centre Chat Bleu [2 blocks west of Parc ave]

August 15 at 8pm – Monthly Mess.
August 16 at 4pm – Vernissage + Art Mart and a special performance by Sapo.

Montréal, Québec – July 27, 2009: Indyish! (www.indyish.com), Montreal-based independent artist network (now THREE YEARS YOUNG!), along with Toronto’s METHINKS Presents is bringing you a two-day Monthly Mess & Vernissage at Le Centre Chat Bleu (435 Beaubien Ouest, 4th Floor) on Saturday August 15 8pm and Sunday August 16 from 4-6pm.

“We’re celebrating three years of independent artists coming together”, says Risa Dickens, co-founder of Indyish. “And what better way to do just that than partner with Methinks on their 16 stop art tour, and link it up with the crazy collaborative art + circus + boxing community we work with at the Chat Bleu!”

“METHINKS is bringing their traveling visual and performing art show, ‘We Made a Deal with the Devil’, to Montreal,” says Paul Aflalo, Indyish Producer “and we’re so excited to have them! Performing art antics and dozens of devil drawings and more!”

We Made a Deal with the Devil is a cultural expedition, touring art show, video project and tour blog – check it out at www.methinkspresents.org.

We’re going to have a remarkable show on Saturday August 15, with great performances from Nista (indie electro Swedes? Yes please: www.myspace.com/nistamus), Gypsy fire from Briga (www.myspace.com/briga123), and irony to make you dance your face off by Commodore84 (www.myspace.com/COM84A1) and Garbageface (www.myspace.com/garbagefacemusic), and a brand new collaboration between Franco Proietti (The Franco Proietti Morph-tet) and Brie Nielson (The Unsettlers) a Billie Holiday Tribute like you’ve never seen.

In addition, Rahul Varma the artistic director off Montreal’s celebrated Teesri Duniya theatre company – committed to “socially and politically relevant theatre that supports a multicultural vision of society” – will be presenting a special preview of his new production, ‘Truth and Treason,’ exclusively for our audiences. ‘Truth and Treason‘ takes place in Iraq and, in part, is about what could drive a person toward accepting a suicide mission, it is about the devil with whom we make deals in ourselves, and in our culture. Meet Rahul Varma:

“Come celebrate THREE years of Indyish, check out the reverberant Methinks Presents ‘We Made a Deal with the Devil’ art galleries, and jam with us – it’s going to be a fantastic show”, says Aflalo.

All Indyish Messes are supported with the help of MOOG Audio, the Mcauslan Brewery and Italmelodie (www.italmelodie.com). Each of the artists performing do so free of charge.

For more information, please visit www.indyish.com.