Open Studios and the 7th Annual Theme Show
In January 2008, the Long Hall grew l o n g e r. Once a small, little-known visual arts
workspace and gallery made up of 15 artists, it has now doubled in size. With its unique
existence recently threatened, the Long Hall survived and emerged with twice the number
of artists, [...]
The Sugar Shack Mess, the 13th edition of our Indyish MonthlyMess multi-arts showcase, was a success for us by virtue of a big network of allies, as Alanah described heart-warmingly here. Jason Bolanis from Soundcraft was the new soft-spoken star on the Monthly Mess team, he and James Finnerty had the AKG mics subtle and [...]
So this is my first Indyish blog - yee haa! So much empty white space and errr … I’m slightly nervous!
I’m Hannah and I’m one of the co-founders of SNAP! Magazine, a free bi-monthly arts and lifestyle magazine. We’re still working on the first print edition (who ever thought releasing a mag would [...]
Indyish.com, Pregnant Goldfish, and Woodenapples present…
The Clothing Swap!!!
Saturday March 8th
at Atelier Woodenapples
5319 Parc Ave (btw Fairmount and Saint Viateur)
Noon: Drop Off
1pm: SWAP!
To participate: Bring a bag of clothes you’re ready to get rid of, pay what you can, and be ready to rummage!
Donations and leftover clothing will be given to the Mile End Mission
Remember [...]
I dig Ariadne: weaver, conqueror of labyrinths, lover of love and of wine and, in this case, community and enviro oriented indie knitting! I wandered into the new yarn boutique following a meeting down in the St.Henri hood, remembering it from Worn Journal founder’s squawks of delight when driving past it back into town from [...]
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 [...]
This is a multiple-part post on getting your CD out of your living room. Part One is about radio airplay. Part Two will be about getting reviewed and sending your CD to record labels. Part Three might be about distribution if we have some by then.
I thought of blogging this a while ago, but wasn’t [...]
Woo! We’re excited and delighted to be putting on an evening of Hip Hop Karaoke again with our friend, the hilariously talented MC More or Les, and his colleagues from Toronto, Never Forgive Action.
Hip Hop Karaoke is a wildly sweetly fun party - good MC’s come out to show their versions of classic joints, [...]
Well, since No Media Kings, seemed to dig my last Indie Intern posts on how to get and keep ‘em, I felt inspired to hammer our another set of How To thoughts that occurred to me yesterday - this time it’s about time, and how to get more of it.
I started to jot down [...]
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 [...]