The 100-Sided-Die, a multi-purpose collective studio space in Montreal’s Mile-End, is opening their doors this Saturday to the public. Created in 2004, the Die has been home to some big Montreal talent: it is the former jam space of Wolf Parade, current home to AIDS Wolf, houses the studio space of renowned screenprint duo Seripop, [...]
Air make music that keys directly into my cognitive comfort zones, it’s amazing how some music doesn’t just fill your ears, but plays your spine and nervous system like you are one of those huge and no doubt happy wooden zylophones. Air hums so pretty it sits on your tongue, and in this video The [...]
K’naan, the Somalian rapper that Canada likes to claim as our own, takes consciousness hiphop to higher levels by connecting the studios and streets of New York and Toronto to the effect the music has in hearts and minds in countries like Somalia where hope can be harder to come by.
K’Naan “Strugglin” (mp3) [...]
All over the world artists sit in their studios, compelled to create…
Photo is by Prahkar.
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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, [...]
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 [...]
Workshops in animation, hair-cutting, and shoplifting (?!)!! Check out what this new amazing artists collective has to offer. Straight from the horse’s mouth:
The Ste. Emilie Skillshare is open, so come and check us out!!
Break out your skills or learn some new ones!!
Make good art!! Make bad art!! Make crafts!! Make whatever!!
Shake shit up and [...]
The blog is feeling a little lonely right now, I suppose everyone spent this weekend doing vacationy things as they well should have. I wish I could argue that I’ve been equally busy, but I’ve just been m.o.b. (missing on blog) while my laptop sits 2 feet away from me at all times. I’ve been [...]
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 [...]