Tag Archive for the term: canada

Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old […]

A subtly dark story told with wide eyed irony, a kind of perfect one person Fringe show that sums up the odd moral landscape of the relationship between storytelling and audience.

Teaching the Fringe

Keir Cutler is in the Fringe pantheon, he is one of those regulars who returns with a new show or a remount of […]

A writing contest with a really sweet prize! This from POP Montreal -
Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine have teamed up to establish an innovative and exciting new literary competition. We are looking for the most unique and original voices in literary voices in Canada. So if you’re an emerging poet or short story writer […]

Thanks to soundman James Finnerty and indie sponsor Solar Dog Records, the whole January Indyish Monthly Mess - the City Mess - is now available over on the Indyish podcast!
You can check out Charlotte Cornfield’s set, which for me was the bright delight surprise of the evening, and the full Save Griffin Town Presentation, […]

IndieCan Music is so hyped about teaming up with Indyish and all of you members. We cover the emerging music scene in Canada in the rock, pop, punk, folk, reggae and alt-just about anything genres. We started posting our pod cast to the internet at http://www.indiecan.com early in 2006 and Episode 1 had […]

Non-commercial community radio that emphasizes independent and local alongside intrepid international audio - can we agree this sounds like a good thing? I don’t know much about the current debate at University of Waterloo aside from what is described below, and the brief mention my new Indyish friend made when she (who seems to […]

The gals and guy at Ms. Guided seek submissions for their upcoming third issue.
We’re on a roll — and we thought an appropriate theme this time around was CHANGE OF COURSE . […]

Intern’s are like the holy grail for independent artists. Someone who will work with me on my dream scheme FOR FREE because they actually care to learn about what I DO? Amazing. Companies with good reputations and payrolls don’t have the same feeling about interns, I don’t think. From certain perspectives interns are largely a […]

Montrealers!! The Ice Storm of 98!! This week’s the 10 year anniversary of our very own natural disaster. It was a wonderful, magical, mysterious and very harrowing experience. Like any big historical event, we all have our “where were you” stories. It’s truly such a part of our city’s collective consciousness.
It’s wonderful to […]