Tag Archive for the term: spaces

Ok, I’m jumping back into the frey of the Venue Stories column by hearkening back to the first time we did a fashion Mess, back in September 2007. This show was a co-production with a local friperie called Wa’ou, whose owner was launching her first full line of recycled designs and showing off her ideas [...]

Dream scheme with me for a moment, won’t you? Bands, crafters, publishers, friends, think on this and then use the comments to share your thinkums: What would your ideal indie arts space be like? If Indyish could make a real-world homebase out of it’s rambly web art-itechture, what would it need to have to delight [...]

Venue Stories is an open column which any Indyish member can contribute to by writing a story about a venue they’ve been in. Currently I’m working my way through stories of our first year’s worth of Indyish Monthly Mess shows which were all in Montreal…
Playhouse is like that bar in Buffy, (not the Bronze, which [...]

We did our first Monthly mess at the Katacombes. Janick, the owner/manager of the space, was our primary contact. She’s a bilingual passionate punk lady with dreads and smiles and stories from a history of Montreal venue management. When we went down to talk with her and to book the show, we had to fill [...]

Over the past year and a half of Indyish, and 10 months of Monthly Messes, (which are archived by Elran on the Monthly Mess round up page), we’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of different venues in Montreal. We started the Mess thinking we might keep it at Katacombes (venue #1) but [...]

I’m usually reluctant to let city planners lose on our precious public spaces - especially ones with great historical significance like Place d’Armes. However, an afternoon spent in the square revealed to me that there is indeed room for improvement in the site’s design. For one thing, the square is disconnected from the urban fabric, an island lost in a sea of traffic and tour busses.

Art spaces, studio spaces, the hatching zones of madcap schemes and creative endeavors, this is what MIx Magazine is looking for. MIX is a fantastic arts magazine put together out of Kensington Market (an independent territory of Toronto- about 8 square blocks packed with more nationalities and creative community politics and good ole hippie art [...]