Tag Archive for the term: arts

Late Night in the Loft is launching its pilot episode with an awesome lineup of emerging artists, directors, poets, actors, musicians and more, and you’re invited to be part of its live audience!
Late Night in the Loft is a live, late night event and talk show taped in front of an audience, featuring the diverse, [...]

Here in the cozy, rickety Montreal apartment we call the Indyish homestead, us Indyish co-founders are juggling and looking toward the future and hoping we’re making the right choices.
For us, as for most Indyish members, I believe, the benefits of our work on Indyish are largely indirect – we don’t make our living from [...]

Aesthetica Magazine produces an annual arts contest – submissions for this year are closed, but check out the magazine for other opportunities.
Three winners are awarded £500 each and all finalists (but not everyone who submits) get published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual, in stores December 2009. Entry to the 2009 Aesthetica Creative [...]

Webisodes 1 and 2 in this running series of interviews with Q-tip about his long awaited experimental, alter ego hip hop album Kamaal the Abstract are posted to Indyish here, and the conversation continues below, with insights about how one gets great, and all the work it takes.

Q-Tip – “A Million Times” from By [...]

Amazing! Today I sent out word via our Indyish Facebook group, member newsletter, and Twitter about how people can help us ride the wave of some upcoming great press we’re getting (more on this at midnight when we can show you the cover of the Hour!) Anyway – what’s nice is how many people sent [...]

Thanks for your advice! Keep it coming! Comment on this post and your name and email address will be on a list at the door of the next Indyish Monthly Mess entitling you to 1 free McAuslan beer. The next Indyish Monthly Mess is August 15 and 16 2009 at the Centre Chat Bleu, it’s [...]

For all artists, finding money to fund your artistic project- no matter what it is- can be a huge ordeal. This is particularly difficult in central Canada, where grant committees such as FACTOR, Canada Council for the Arts/Ontario Council for the Arts, VideoFACT, BravoFACT, etc., receive applications by the boatload. Making it through the panel [...]

Hi All – Just wanted to pass on this quick and inexpensive rallying call for CKUT radio station. There are very good reasons to send some bones to radio below, but I tell you, in my experience, CKUT is an incredibly welcoming and supportive media experience. People are learning on the spot and making mistakes [...]

On Monday October 6th, at MainLine Theatre, something happened in Montreal for the first time: The Wrecking Ball!
Now, before I explain what The Wrecking Ball is, I should first mention that this is not the first Wrecking Ball in history. Nope. The Wrecking Ball has taken place annually in several major Canadian cities since 2004, [...]

I ended up on the radio yesterday talking about how the massive cuts to arts funding affect indie artists. I feel a little uncomfortable being called on as a kind of spokesperson but as it happens I do know a lot of artists who are directly affected by the cuts, so there you go. [...]