Tag Archive for the term: performance

These days (as opposed to, say, the days of ancient Greece), anyone creating theatre has to deal with an inescapable truth: a lot of people just don’t care about live performance. Or at least, they’re not familiar with it. People tend to like the things they’re familiar with, and in the case of modern storytelling, […]

One of performance poetry’s champions and a speeding freight train of a Fringe regular, Jem Rolls is back with a show called How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Mall.

(We chatted for a quite a while and then other Indyishers couldn’t resist joining in to talk about Montreal, which I ended up […]

VAD call for entries 2008! Check out the winners of last year’s Video and Digital Arts Festival in Girona Spain.
We are pleased to inform you that you can send your videos, digital works, video installations, etc. to VAD, Video and Digital Arts International Festival Competition of Girona (Spain), that will take place from October 15th […]

Actors, students, drama-hobbyists: do you remember the strange stuff you’ve auditioned for over the years? You know, the REALLY memorable independent films, commercials, Hollywood blockbusters that made you ask “someone got money to film this/write this sh*t?” Yes? Good… because we want to make your pain a part of the April Monthly Mess!
Indyish.com is asking […]

It’s true! It’s true! The Unsettlers will be holding their CD launch at Club Lambi on April 1st, no foolin’. And with the Cockroaches and Maurice Benjamin to fire up the night, it’s sure to be a tumbling good time.

The Unsettlers CD Launch… poster.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Club Lambi, 4465 St.Laurent, Montreal
Cost : 5$
“Well pour me […]

Flier!

There’s plenty going on this weekend to enjoy in the music cat-er-gory, but if you find yourself with a hankering from some grit, country and blues, go check out Maica Mia Machnik at Divan Orange.

Maica

Check out Maica’s “My Bad Old Habit” on her myspace page…voice of melancholy and reason. Play it three times in a […]

Last night I joined a couple of folks from Indyish on a talk radio spot for Holder Tonight, a midnight AM radio show on CJAD hosted by Peter Anthony Holder. It was a last minute thing and Tristan Brand had asked me to come to the studio and bring along my guitar as there might […]

The cocktail gala for the 2008 Montreal International Music Initiative (MIMI) awards is Saturday March 1st at the Lion d’Or. Bands performing include Torngat and The National Parcs, and The Hot Springs, Mathias Mental, and Numero# will be playing the afterparty.

From MIMI:
The great music that evening will accompany a menu which includes an
entrée of small […]

Sometimes my main job with Indyish is to trim the maybes, and sometimes it’s to pursue them. Sometimes it’s hard to know when to do which. Over the past week I’ve met with a potential investor and a television producer, and handed in the last bit of a Phd application that would see me doing […]

Aimster Productions presents a plethora of dance pieces presented by members of the Concordia Dance program tonight (too late!), tomorrow (Sat, Feb the 16th, 8pm) and Sunday afternoon at 4pm.
I was able to sit in on the dress rehearsal last night, but failed to get in to see tonight’s show. Seats are very limited (50 […]