Tag Archive for the term: technology

On top of a month-long itinerary of amazing shows, Suoni Per Il Popolo is collaborating with The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium at the University of Guelph and McGill University in Montreal to put together this weekend’s Improvisation Colloquium. I really really wish I could go, but I’m working both days. If you’ve got any free […]

On my way home from work last Friday, I spotted this knitted sash on a tree. The tag says, “Knitty Gritty” so when I got home I googled the name, but couldn’t find anything that seemed to match, even though I seem to remember hearing about a Montreal group who knit things to put on […]

The skies may have been grey, but long-time mobile talkers came out in droves to hand off their old cell phones, some so old and brick-like that the team just had to keep them out of the boxes, on display for those too young to remember to marvel at. Everyone who donated a phone was given a Matt & Nat eco-friendly shopping bag… Y’know, so we can avoid adding more plastic bags to landfills?

I just got back from Gilberto Gil’s second event here in Montreal, a kind of curated discussion between the Brazilian Culture Minister and Tropicalismo musical innovator and rebel Gil, the Digital Policy Coordinator Claudio Prado (sweetly anarchic and kind), and four academics and activists implicated in digital media.
Gilberto Gil, and Brazil as a whole, […]

You don’t have to be weened on poetry to appreciate John Giorno’s pieces. At 72 years old, he’s the raunchy, flaming, psychedellic, grandpa that you never knew you always wanted. On Sunday night, he captivated the audience with stories about magical trees and uncountable loverboys, all with a happy-go-lucky Dr Seuss kind of cadence.

Laptops. Artists and laptops. Is one a prerequisite for the other?
I must admit: I’m a laptop newbie. I’ve only had my beautiful MacBook, named Cleopatra, since July. Before this best-birthday-present-ever I’d only ever been able to call myself a desktop computer owner, and the sight of my friends’ laptops, while inspiring the odd thoughts of […]

Overzealous much? Yup, that’s me. Having a schizophrenic little afternoon? Yup, that’s me too!
After my last post, I heard the opening riff to one of my favourite songs, the song that will get me up and dancing and hyper-energized no matter how I felt before, and knew it was time to dash to see We […]