Here, in vlog form, is a truly great bit of internet enthusiam, hilarity, and inspiration which arrived in my life tonight just in time for me to mello out the dwindling end of a long work-on-the-internet weekend with a dose of happy and hell yeah. Thank you, Gary Busey and Internet, and John Green.
“Don’t try [...]
San Francisco Artists Launch “Indie Abundance: Music, Money & Mindfulness™” Tour: Chantelle Tibbs, Deborah Crooks and Emily Bonn share music and more.
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San Francisco, CA, August 3, 2009 – Chantelle Tibbs, Deborah Crooks and Emily Bonn, three San Francisco based independent musicians, announced the launch of ‘Indie [...]
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 [...]
We met these interesting people at the Salon de Musique Independent a little while ago who had recently started up a business advising people – mostly musicians – on how to get at the grant money. Ahh the grant money – love it or hate it, it hangs like a beacon of promise in the [...]
Now that we’ve all had a day (and a holiday, thank goodness!) to recover from our POP music binges and festival-induced highs, here’s a little food for thought. (If you had yourself a massive Thanksgiving dinner, don’t worry — serious pondering can only burn calories!) Think back to all the shows you attended, all your [...]
I don’t suck at french, but it always takes a few tries to nail down the vocabulary of a new situation. Le Salon de la Musique Indépendant this afternoon is a first for my Indyish-en-français spiel, but it gets rolling after a few visits:
Nous sommes un réseau d’artistes de toutes disciplines: musique, film, litérature, [...]
The Monthly Mess is approaching its 4th monthly installment (June 27th, at the Playhouse 5656 Parc) and has had well over 40 artists involved and many hundreds of attendees as well. In an effort to broach the often embarrassing or uncomfortable question of money (bling, clams, cash, bucks, kuai, coin, ka-ching) or lack thereof, [...]