Jamie Ross

2012-01-04T00:30:00.004-05:00

Hey so the rad ladies from Audio Smut recruited me to be part of their monthly sex-positive, queer and feminist radio hour on CKUT 90.5FM.

Wednesday 6-7PM

Listen to the archived show Online!

The first show is on Bathhouses, a bit about

+The 1980 Toronto Bathhouse Raids

+The 2000 Pussy Palace Raids

+Canadian women and trans baths, interviews with organizers and participants

+Interviews with employees and patrons!

2011-11-29T18:32:00.010-05:00

Festival Nomade

Je donne un atelier-discours interactif sur l'orthographie Berber Tifinagh au Festival Nomade, son histoire et évolution, la géographie de son usage en Afrique du nord et bien sur son écriture! Tout aura lieu samedi 10 déc. 2011, 10h-16h, chez Nomad Nation, 129 Van Horne, coin Clarke, Montréal. Gratuit, aproprié pour les familles!

I'm giving a workshop on the Tifinagh Berber script at the Festival Nomade, all about its history and evolution, the geography of its usage in North Africa and how to write it! Taking place Sat. 10 Dec, from 10-4. at Nomad Nation, 129 Van Horne, at Clarke, Montreal. Free and family friendly. All are welcome!

Expozine 2011

2011-11-22T02:10:00.002-05:00

I'm tabling EXPOZINE this weekend at St. Enfant Jésus church, Montréal with Coldwater, Bitchstick, prints and t-shirts!

SAT AND SUN.

FREE.

Canadian Mystic

2011-11-01T11:27:00.003-04:00

Mística canadiense

“After you have killed these suitors in your own palace,
either by treachery, or openly with the sharp bronze,
then you must take up your well-shaped oar and go on a journey until you come where there are men living who know nothing
of the sea, and who eat food that is not mixed with salt, who never
have known well-shaped oars, which act for ships as wings do.

And I will tell you a very clear proof, and you cannot miss it.
When, as you walk, some other wayfarer happens to meet you,
and says you carry a winnow-fan on your bright shoulder,
then you must plant your well-shaped oar in the ground” (The Odyssey, book XI, 11.119-137)

A winnowing fan is a device used to separate grains, and so only those living far from the sea would mistake an oar for one, thus this is how Odysseus knows that he is far enough from home. However to come to that realization, he must carry the Oar until someone questions its purpose. The question becomes a confirmation of expat status and a source of relief – once it is asked, he may abandon the proof. In the exhibition “ Canadian Mystic”, we want to get away too.

Canadian identity is characterized by mystical traditions and folktales that would not be understood elsewhere, we live in an insular, fragile world of magic and mystic traditions the balance of which is held up by self-awareness. The phenomena is tied to a culture of heritage preservation and the mixture of habit, tradition, art and sparsity. Our identities comprise a heterogeneous verse, concocted from generations of rejected, reclaimed and misunderstood practices.
When we go somewhere new, this becomes a point of struggle: do our efforts hold up in places shaped by traditions less diffused, are we able to plant ourselves there? When Odysseus got far enough, he had to abandon the oar, by sticking it in the ground, both claiming the earth and abandoning its virtue. Out of our National Canadian context, we might see something that brings us together. Something we could feel good about leaving behind.
This is a diverse group show bringing together a variety of identity and culture based practices.

This exhibition will travel to Mexico, a place that shares a continent with our country, however different. In this exhibition we want to bring ourselves there, to feel different enough, far enough from home to know who we are, to abandon our Oar.

Victoria Cheong, Brette Gabel, Ulysses Castellanos Matt Crookshank, Jamie Ross, Seth Scriver, Tyler Clark Burke,Terrance Houle, Xenia Benivolski.

At the Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, México

Opening: 11 November, 20

⊗ BURIAL MOUND ⊗

2011-10-30T14:13:00.008-04:00

Building a Samhuinn/Halloween ritual pit environment for the ritual tonight.

0 Samhuinn ritual

0 haunted haus

0 performances

0 comunal ancestral altar

0 divination

0 celebration of life, community, ancestry and the dying year!

Come one come all, regardless of experience, affiliation or belief

375 rue de Castelnau, Mtl

doors closed at 9PM sharp

FREE

Ouvert/Open @ Pop montreal

2011-09-21T00:47:00.003-04:00

A film of mine, Jardin Guérilla Gorilla Garden is screening at a few places during the Pop Montreal festival.

le samedi 1er octobre, au Café Le Falco (5605 de Gaspé, Montréal)

**17h-18h : Cartographier la track !** Atelier d'expérimentation cartographique et de création.

Cet atelier de création cartographique propose de réfléchir aux usages et réappropriations de l'emprise ferroviaire. À partir de leur propre expérience du lieu, les participants seront invités à représenter sur une carte leurs chemins de traverse, leurs détours et leurs dérives autour de la voie ferrée. Les cartes créées feront partie d'une exposition organisée par la galerie Articule à l'automne. Venez participer à la mobilisation et partager votre expérience du lieu de manière créative!

En partenariat avec : galerie Articule, cabinet d'architecture Rayside-Labossière, Comité citoyen du Mile End, Les Amis du Champ des Possibles.

**18h : Projection À la track !** Projection multimédia sur l'univers visuel et sonore de la track.

Projection des œuvres du concours ‘À la track ! Regards sur l'emprise ferroviaire’. Sélection de photos, dessins, vidéos, films, animations et créations sonores illustrant la réalité, l'insolite, la vie quotidienne, les rencontres, l’atmosphère et la poésie de la voie ferrée et ses alentours.

En partenariat avec : Pop Montréal, Ubisoft, Les Amis du Champ des Possibles.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=234642513250453

Also: - Projection toute la journée à la billetterie de Pop Montréal le 21, le 22 et le 25 septembre.

(Ancienne École des Beaux Arts de Montréal, coin St Urbain et Sherbrooke)

- Projection à la place Pasteur le 23 septembre de 19h à 21h dans le cadre de l'installation éphémère

le Mouvements des idées, crée par des finissants en design d'événement de l'UQAM.https://www.facebook.com/placepasteur

(Place Pasteur, 1430, rue St-Denis)

- Projection à Ubisoft Montréal Studio le 24 septembre dans le cadre de Pop Montréal.

(Ubisoft Studio, 5505, boul Saint-Laurent)

Vernissage Îlot d'art - vendredi 12 août

2011-08-09T11:47:00.003-04:00

Vernissage for the Quartier 21 public art project, Îlot d'art, for my wheatpasted collage collaboration with Jonas Gilbert, Pousse le béton!

Girls of Prey NYC screening

2011-06-28T20:30:00.005-04:00

Girls of Prey is screening at Word Up in Washington Hts, New York, Saturday July 9.

FREE!

Facebook Event

photo by Nick Bostick, part of the Boys of Montreal project.

Jamie Ross' Complete Video Works

2011-06-02T19:43:00.004-04:00

"When everything else has gone from my brain – the President’s name, the state capitals, the neighborhoods where I lived, and then my own name and what it was on earth I sought, and then at length the faces of my friends, and finally the faces of my family – when all this has dissolved, what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that."

-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

Jamie Ross is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in personal psycho-geography, Land and Place. The ways in which people establish connections and meaningful relationships with their powerful places - their linkages to the landscape and topography and to the specific non-human persons who inhabit these landscapes drive his art practice.

Ross' work deals with mythology, genealogy, storytelling and dreams; the numinous as is approached by a young, urban queer man largely isolated from the powerful magical cultures from which he sprung.
Creating and documenting queer community based on a sincere engagement with magic, grafting myself onto the rich artistic traditions of my cultural ancestors is fundamental. Overt references to things queer and punk are often present.

Friday, June 17 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm

The White House, 277.5 Augusta Av,

Toronto

Free

This show is Part 2 of THE LEGEND IS BLACK commissioned by THIS IS PARADISE. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the National Gallery of Canada.

PART 1 http://www.butchergallery.com/thelegendisblack
PART 3 http://www.1332queenwest.com/upcoming.html

Curated by Xenia Benivolski.

Jamie Ross was born in a little house on Pendrith Street, just north of Toronto's Christie Pits Park. He is a red haired film/video artist, working primarily in time-based media, working at the farthest-flung edges of narrative film and video. His work has screened in nationally and in Europe and Asia. His fiction has been anthologized, self-published in the form of a zine, and his most recent work, a novella entitled Coldwater, was published this year. Ross now lives in Montreal.

With generous support from CARFAC and the Canada Council for the Arts.

2011-06-01T22:22:00.003-04:00

I'm giving a talk about my upcoming film/book project at the Co:Lab lecture series Friday June 3rd.

Both of them are entitled Fallow (La Friche): Unsettling the lowlands above the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers.

Friday June 3rd 2011

The Plant, 185 Van Horne,

Montreal

6PM

(other talks run from 2PM-11:30)

FREE

Butcher Gallery - The Legend is Black

2011-05-14T12:32:00.004-04:00

Girls of Prey screening - Butcher Gallery,

4 Northern Place, Parkdale, Toronto

June 3 - June 17 2010

The Legend is Black exhibition at the Butcher gallery examines the visual elements of punk rock culture in Toronto in the 80s. Often it feels like these elements are lost on us – or lost in a myriad of visual language relating to music, art and advertising. In this exhibition I want the audience to feel the spirit and circumstance that inspired a new generation and defined visual street code.

Punk Rock posters from Mickey Skin and Steve Goof’s collection are drawings on cave walls, they are markings on three stumps, hobo trails, warnings, and testaments to the life of profits and of leaders, young people possessed by inspiration, ritual, sacrifice and defeat.

The work Girls of Prey by Jamie Callum Ross and Lezster Rott is a generous incarnation of that spirit. When gender identity politics and battles against authority cease to feel sacred, a new influence arises in an abandoned quarry, inspiring a dynamic where progress can be made. Rott and Ross’s short film is an acutely staged atrocity that makes it feel like the future is now.

MONTREAL UNDERGROUND FILM FEST

2011-05-10T19:06:00.003-04:00

Come see Girls of Prey at the MUFF.

Friday the Thirteenth May, 2011

Friperie Potetr, 6029 Av. Du Parc entre Bernard/Van Horne

10:30 PM

MIDNIGHT TERROR SCREENING!!!!

Tarot workshop on Queercorps CKUT 90.3FM

2011-05-08T15:57:00.003-04:00

I'm going to be hosting a queer divination workshop (tarot-centred) Monday May 9th at 6PM on Queercorps, CKUT 90.3 FM.

Call-in with your questions to be answered live on air!

514-448-4041

Coldwater Interviews

2011-04-04T11:21:00.004-04:00

An interview and reading I gave on Coldwater will be aired on Audio Smut on CKUT 90.3 FM at 6PM Wednesday, April 6. It's going to sound awesome, and is set to music. Tune in!

Check the McGill Daily, available on the McGill campus, for another interview on my book and finally, check out the short write-up in this week's Montreal Mirror!

My Day - Cabaret Faux Pas

2011-04-02T18:21:00.002-04:00

Performing 'My Day' with Jordin Loeppky-Kolesnik at Cabaret Faux Pas @ Katakombs, April 2 2011

Divination Workshop - Montreal Radical Queer Week

2011-03-17T00:19:00.004-04:00

I'm going to be giving an introductory tarot workshop (in English) at the Radical Queer Semaine at Mise au Jeu (de la Gauchetiere & St Laurent) on Saturday March 19 2011, 2-4.

Dust off your decks or come armed with just an interest – we’re going to talk tarot! With about a decade of reading under the belt, Jamie’s going to discuss the history and theory of tarot, breaking down the structure of the deck as well as distinctions between decks, before getting into the practical, everyday methodology of doing tarot readings for yourself and for others. Experiences with queering the often normative iconography and symbol systems will be a central. We will use the tarot as a tool for opening up discussion and practical work on the development of intuitive faculties.

This workshop is followed by an hour of one-on-one reading with Jamie, for all your burning questions.

Coldwater Booklaunch - April Fools

2011-03-16T14:22:00.006-04:00

False Flesh Press presents the release of Coldwater, a newly finished novella by Jamie Ross. Written during a residency at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse, November 2010, Pittsburgh.

Set in the marshy Fall a few hours out of the city, Coldwater is a dark tangle of tales about those who find each themselves on a place no longer on the map. The novella follows the natural and human history of a specific landscape which has long held its secrets fast.

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=The Pop Winds (http://www.myspace.com/the

popwinds)
=Solar Year (http://www.myspace.com/solaryear)

=Cop Car Bonfire (http://www.myspace.com/copcarbonfire)
=Johnny Forever http://johnnyforever.wordpress.com/)
=DJ Ezekill
=DJ Itgetsbetter

++installations by Aditi Ohri & Tom Rolinson

Friday, April 1, 2011
Doors at 8:00pm
Interstice, 242 Young
Griffintown, Montreal

Girls of Prey Premiere

2011-02-23T17:30:00.005-05:00

The Torn Curtain

6595-A St. Urbain

8PM, Free

Screening of Girls of Prey (2011, co-directed with Esther Splett) & Shartbus II: A Period Piece (2011, co-directed with Austin Milne for the Bloody Valentines 48-hour Horror film contest)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191928894162754

My Day - Nuit Blanche Montreal

2011-02-22T14:42:00.004-05:00

Nuit Blanche

"Ste Céline, full of grace, pray for us now and at the hour of my mariage."

A young bride-to-be on her wedding day. A healer from her past, preparing her for the ultimate self-sacrifice, guiding her down the perilous catwalk of her betrothal. Everything is not as it seems. This bridal train is about to be derailed. Audience participation, live percussion and video projection combine to fuel the unbridled drag frenzy of My Day.

« Ste Céline, pleine et grasse, priez pour moi maintenant et a l’heure de mon marriage. »

Une jeune future mariée au jour de son mariage. Un guérisseur mysterieux de son passé, qui la prépare pour son sacrifice ultime, qui l’ammène au bout du catwalk périlleux de ses fiançailles. Les apparences sont trompeuses. Et avec la participation du public, percussion live, et projection vidéo, personne va être à la traîne. De la frénésie drag débridé.

Le Cagibi,

5940 St Laurent

8PM - 6AM (We're performing around 11PM)

FREE

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196679233694520

Bloody Valentines

2011-02-11T00:45:00.005-05:00

Hey, I'm taking part in the weekend horror contest at Blue Sunshine. Shoot, edit and screen a horror movie in 48 hours. UPDATE: OUR FILM, ENTITLED

Shartbus II: A Period Piece

has been successfully entered into the contest. Codirected with Austin Milne. Screening on Monday.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188675067818233&index=1

Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Centre

3660 St-Laurent, 3rd Flr

Montreal, QC

Screening: Mon Feb 14 @ 7:30, $9

Also, a gigantic lovemaking pinata of mine will be beaten to bits at Stoned Henge for their party/launch of Hangoverzine

HERE and THERE and HERE - Biboon Geamhradh Screening

2011-02-01T15:15:00.008-05:00

Here and There and Here

presented by Yo Guy

DATES/TIMES/LOCATIONS

EVENT #1:

February 27^th, 2011_7PM – 11PM

First Performance Starts at 8PM

Last Performance Starts at 1030PM

Artscape Gibraltar Point
Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island
443 Lakeshore Avenue

Performative works by the selected artists, reinforce the setting of both shows, through their relationship to the spaces they inhabit. They will act as an anchor that stabilizes and reflects the atmosphere of the event. Each artist was specifically chosen based on similarity in tone, as opposed to visual manifestation. As a curatorial experiment it explores ways of viewing that are not relying on the superficial but on the undercurrents of feeling.

Video works:

Micheal Farley (Baltimore, Maryland)http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nomination/view/michael%20farley Paul B. Davis (London, UK)http://www.post-data.org/~paul/ Anna-May Henry (Toronto, Canada)http://fantasticalgeographic.blogspot.com/

Jamie Callum Ross (Montreal, Canada)http://www.jamieross.org/

Hazel-Hill McCarthy III (Los Angeles, California)http://www.hazelhillmccarthyiii.com/Geoffrey Pugen (Toronto, Canada)http://www.geoffreypugen.com/Jules Marquis (New York, New York)http://www.julesmarquis.com/Jon Clark (Los Angeles, California)http://jonclarkvideo.com/Abbe Findley (Kansas City, Missouri)http://www.youtube.com/user/sheughnessyIris Fraser-Gundrunas (Toronto, Canada)http://vimeo.com/irisfraserRobby Rackleff (Baltimore, Maryland)http://dothemathcomics.com/Dan Siney (Vancouver, Canada)http://lesgallery.ca/?p=123Laura McCoy (Toronto, Canada)http://lauramccoy.blogspot.com/Neelam Kler (Nanaimo, Canada)http://webspace.ocad.ca/~nk05lS/Colin Snapp (New York, New York)http://www.colinsnapp.com/

Performances at Space #1 (The Toronto Island Artscape Lodge):

Leah Finkle and Pat Jeffries (musical act)

Emma Cale Roberts (Reading and Visual)

Yuula Benivolski (Visual Performance)http://www.yuulabenivolski.com/

Lisa Cristinzo (Visual Performance)http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=173659

Performances at Space #2 (Double Double Land):

Laura McCoy (Visual Performance)http://lauramccoy.blogspot.com/

Jon McCurley (Visual Performance)http://www.amylamwebsite.com/craphead.html

BRENDAS HOMOSEXUALIST SURREALIST POLITI-FIT INDOC-TRAIN-ATION STATION

2011-01-17T01:14:00.003-05:00

This week s@w the first we're m@king it once every lun@tion so we c@n @ll synch our cycles.

BRENDAS HOMOSEXUALIST SURREALIST POLITI-FIT INDOC-TRAIN-ATION STATION (monthly)

4363 Esplanade (a la parc jeanne-mance)

next d@te: S@T FEB 12 2011 2pm

Sweet faggots,

We warmly welcome you to BRENDAS HOMOSEXIST SURREALIST POLITI-FIT-INDOC-TRAIN-ATION STATION, and we want ALL of you to be a part of it.

Our vision: running on the mountain in a flash of fitness drag, wigs flying, mustaches smearing, spandex taut, and limbs flailing in running, stretching dance aerobics training exercise.

We're going classic aerobics group, outdoor endurance training with a heavy emphasis on slogans and laughter to increase heart rate and lung capacity. Think of this as a running aerobics class meets roving anti-hetero-domination protest on the mountain - social intervention in a sweaty wig.

We will choose a weekly time to go (perhaps saturdays, when the other fitness groups go) and then tear up the mountain, charging with power.

Get Fit. Get Farce. and find your inner Brenda.

xo

Brenda (michael) and Brenda (jamie)

Residency at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse

2010-11-26T10:10:00.004-05:00

My residency in Pittsburgh is really sadly coming to a close this weekend.

We're having a reading tonight of

HORROR STORIES

5431 Carnegie Street, PGH, PA 8PM, original or not!

Scary sumach lemonade, creeepy electric candles, a vegan Cthulhu cakeeeeee

I'm finished the manuscript of my novella, Coldwater, which will be released this Winter!

Performance at OFF Interarts

2010-11-22T22:54:00.005-05:00

Folio Magazine launch party - friday dec. 3rd, OFF Interarts 5143/45 Blvd. Saint-Laurent Facebook Event

Vernissage - 20h

Fete/Perfos - 22h

Performance, costume, music etc

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The Pop Winds

Solar Year

Also, stills from Biboon Geamhradh are included in this issue (that's one on the cover) and there'll be a looped screening at the opening.

The White House presents: Ghost Hole 2

2010-10-25T15:23:00.008-04:00

GHOST HOLE 2: Saturday October 30th, 8PM, the White House (*277 1/2 Augusta Av.) and Doubledoubleland, $5,
DEVIL'S NIGHT

Work by Heather Smith, Laura Curley, Erin Zimmey, Peter Kalyniuk, Jamie Ross, Julia Dickens, Kira Crugnale, David F.M. Hanes, Brandon Dalmer, Cameron Stott, Jonny Wheeldon, Felix, Nitasha McKnight, Sarah Friend, Adam Cowan, Derek Aubichon, Erica, Neelam Kler, Zoe Alexis-Abrams, Brandon Bolmaert, Larry McDowell, Ian MacTilstra,

Performances: Marisa, Dodo Baji,
Music: Fresh Flesh, Toddler Body, Induced Labour, DJ Peter Malcolm, DJ Jimmy Weaver

Cornhusk Performance at the Stonedhenge

2010-10-17T23:13:00.007-04:00

I'm going to be performing at the Lickety Split Smut Zine fundraiser
Thursday, October 21 at 10:00pm, at the STONEDHENGE
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PERFORMANCES BY:
SOLAR YEAR (http://www.myspace.com/solaryear)

The return of MISS LADY SWAMP PUSSY (http://www.myspace.com/MISSLADYSWAMPPSSY)

DILLY DALLY (Toronto) (http://www.myspace.com/dillydillydally)

ESOTERIC STAND UP COMEDY by KIKI

MYSTERIOUS AND OUT OF BODY ASS PLAY by DeDAUW (assplay actually unconfirmed - sry folks)

introducing the amazing LADIDA

ARTFUL AND FABULOUS WIZARD FAGGOTRY by JOHNSTON

MC'd by your long lost lover Betty Whipcreamer (in town for one night ONLY)

Probably some special guests. Come by after GLAM GAM, or drop in early for a sophisticated ode to the gloryhole. Maybe someone will read your sexy tarot cards.
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STONEDHENGE is a basement in Little Italy. Address to be announced closer to the date. Entrance is $5 or PWYC; proceeds to go to Lickety Split Smut Zine - keeping you horny since 2004.

BIGDEAL Radical Lecture Series - Genealogy and Storytelling

2010-09-16T15:51:00.007-04:00

I'm giving a lecture and leading a discussion at the Bigdeal Radical Lecture Series on Genealogy and Storytelling. Organized by the Paper Scissors Collective

Saturday the 25th
Burritoville, 3rd floor
2055 Bishop St, Montreal
3:30-4:30 PM
FREE

I'm going to be screening Biboon Geamhradh and giving a talk on Genealogy and Storytelling. I'll be sharing my experience as a storyteller, genealogist and mythologist and talking about the artistic process behind my video!

Radical Lecture Series: take notes, listen, laugh, interrupt, walk out

Support the Algonquins of Barriere Lake

2010-06-05T17:08:00.006-04:00

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is attempting to take away the right of the Mitchikanibiko inik (the Algonquins of Barriere Lake) to determine their leaders in their traditional way by forcing band council elections on the community using Section 74 of the Indian Act, which hasn't been used since 1924 to force out traditional systems of government.

In 1924, armed police entered the Six Nations Haudenosaunee community to force out traditional chiefs and end the customary system of governance outlined in the Great Law of Peace. They established a band council by force, although the traditional council still operates to this day, as chosen by Clan Mothers.

The Algonquins of Barriere Lake occupy a heavily forested territory which the government of Canada and logging companies have been eager to harvest. The traditional chief and council are staunchly against the cutting of their forest, but the government believes that if the vote is opened up to significantly more people who are on the 'band list' but who do not reside in the territory, a chief will be elected who will not oppose the logging, in exchange for some programs, services, and money.

Barriere Lake Solidarity is planning a feast and a demonstration in Ottawa for the 14th and 15th of June. Check out the poster I made for the event, and check the events out too if you're in the area!

Moniker Designs show - Really rad collage of mine

2010-04-27T15:17:00.003-04:00

My collage is in the Moniker Designs show on Saturday May 1st:

Moniker Designs

135 Van Horne,
Montreal
17h-23h, Free
Booze and Tacos

To the Finals!

2010-04-09T11:53:00.002-04:00

Biboon Geamhradh advanced to the Finals!!

Vote for it again - one of only 9 videos in the Roots Contest!

Radio Canada ROOTS Competition!

2010-03-19T20:56:00.007-04:00

My film Biboon Gemhradh was chosen to be be in Radio-Canada International's Roots Competition. It can be seen at Roots from April 1st - 8th.

GO AND VOTE FOR MY FILM.

APRIL 1ST - 8TH.

This will be the premiere of Biboon Geamhradh, my latest film about ancestral wintertime storytelling traditions, genealogy, history and myth.

Insane Gown Posse - Nuit Blanche at the Cagibi

2010-02-16T15:09:00.005-05:00

Going to be performing with the Insane Gown Posse at Cagibi from 1h-- till 2h--
Saturday February 27th
Free.

Thunder Hag.

Event: http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/event.php?eid=302273522187&ref=ts

SOLID GOLD Mercer Union Members Show

2009-12-14T14:33:00.007-05:00

Work of mine will be in the Members show, Solid Gold, at Mercer Union

Bloor West @ Lansdowne
Thursday, December 17th, show starts at 6, sale at 8
About a hundred artists, all works priced at $149.99

Re-politicize the Olympics!

2009-12-02T18:32:00.008-05:00

Come support the Olympic Resitance Network

at the Ste. Emilie Skillshare's Art Auction Supporting the Olympic Resistance

December 5th, evening

Food, drink, art, t-shirt printing, music

Peep my poster for the event too!

and help Extinguish the Flame as it passes through Montreal on December 10.

NO 2010 .com

The McGill Daily's Literary Supplement Spoken Word night

2009-11-21T11:05:00.004-05:00

The McGill Daily has a literary supplement every year and there's a reading night to launch it.

Out Loud and Intimate
I'll be reading a short story at Arts Cafe
201 Fairmount West.
November 21st at 8:00
$3

Folio lauch, Screening!

2009-11-20T15:29:00.004-05:00

Some stills from Cras Valde Facessite are featured in the current edition of Folio and the film will be playing during their launch.

Folio Magazine launch

Friday December 4th

3827 St. Laurent, #301

Montreal Quebec

Free (includes a copy of the mag)

GULCH launch!

2009-11-01T19:03:00.007-05:00

The fiction anthology GULCH, which my story is in, from Tightrope Books is being launched at

Trash Palace
801 Queen West
November 13th

Free. I'll be there!

Publication and Reading: Gallery 1313, In My Bed

2009-10-25T15:51:00.004-04:00

My short story, Binaakwe Giizis, will be published in the next issue of In My Bed magazine.

I will be reading it as part of the event "Is Your Love Supernatural"

Friday November 13th (Friday the Thirteenth!!!)
Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen West
7-11
Toronto
10 bux before, 15 at the door

It's a really rad story about boys and it's pretty scary.

In My Bed Magazine
Gallery 1313

It Follows Me: Film & Video

2009-10-16T15:34:00.004-04:00

Cras valde facessite will be screened at this event

Saturday November 14th
Jamie's Area (Double Double Land)
209 Augusta
Toronto
9:00
$3-

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=david+hanes&init=quick#/event.php?eid=158058385765&ref=mf

GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose

2009-10-16T01:16:00.005-04:00

My short story, Draw Them All Together was chosen to be published in this anthology by Steel Bananas. It is semi-autobiographical and deals with my experiences teaching 3 and 4 year-olds. Coming this fall.

So, here's what GULCH is all about:

"Inspired by the contemporary theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose is a rhizomatic exploration of the modern Canadian literary community.

Drawing on the postmodern themes of detachment and disjuncture, GULCH seeks to create an optimistic snapshot of the pluralities and complexities that constitute the post-pomo literary landscape. Focusing on the theme of fragmentation, Steel Bananas members Sarah Beaudin, Karen Correia Da Silva and Curran Folkers have collected pieces from community artists, Professors, lit students, burgeoning young talent as well as established writers in order to compile a collection that resists the notion of wholeness, privileging instead the multiplicity and diversity found in contemporary globalized culture.

This assemblage of poetry and prose bares the innovation and cultural critique of post-millennium Canadian writers, and seeks to expose the beauty of discontinuity."

Published by Tightrope Books
for more information and ordering information: http://tightropebooks.com/

We Dream our Culture's Dreams

2009-09-30T14:16:00.006-04:00

My performance, We Dream our Culture's Dreams, Saturday September 26th went swimmingly!

Thanks to all the other artists at the DeLeon White Gallery. Thank you to my most revered Ancestors. And remember:

SHARE
YOUR
DREAMS!

Return dreams to their place in our culture!
1. Tell people your dreams in the morning
2. Ask loved ones about their dreams.
3. Think about your dreams before sleep.

Your dreams will come back.

Crās valdē facessite

2009-09-20T19:16:00.012-04:00

At long last!

My latest film, Crās valdē facessite, co-directed by Derek Muehlgassner, is finally out of the editing room!
There will be a screening Saturday September 26th all day at

the DeLeon White Gallery
1138 College West (at Dufferin)
FREE

It is a mythological journey narrative of a son to find his father to resolve one of life's deepest conflicts. Divinatory and dream messages drive the twins on in a paternal quest to end all quests! Shot in Super8 and video in Toronto and rural Ontario.

Explicit and Safe versions.

Moniker Designs 2009 Collection

2009-07-25T01:14:00.008-04:00

My collage, Biboon, was the best-selling design at the Moniker Designs t-shirt show this spring in MTL! Check it out:

http://www.monikerdesigns.ca/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11369431917&ref=mf

Free Drawings 5

2009-07-15T21:03:00.004-04:00

A drawing of mine, Biindaakoojike, was published in Free Drawings 5, which can be found around Toronto for free.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Drawings/67893456324

Writing of mine was published in Casino Magazine from Montreal this spring. Copies can be found around Toronto and Montreal. Pick up a copy! My short story is entitled all eyes were closed.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Drawings/67893456324#/group.php?gid=91249540426&ref=ts

Hawaiʻian Sovereignty on Canada Day

2009-07-01T12:04:00.005-04:00

In honour of Indigenous Hawaiians and their culture, which has long suffered marginalization in their traditional territory.

This collage was created on Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day, the day in 1867 on which Canada received its nationhood seperate from its purely colonial identity). During last two centuries, many former colonies around the world, in which the colonizers did not leave as significant a demographic contribution, returned to indigenous (or at least local) control. The British left India in 1947, the United States left the Philippines in 1946, and France left Vietnam in 1954.

Here in Canada, the British and French remain, in measure of culture, political power and population, overwhelmingly dominant. Canada is a country that has not been de-colonized. It is on this day that I ask for a serious mind be drawn to the colonial history and realities of this country where I was born and live.

The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, an indigenous monarchy modelled after those in Western Europe was overthrown by the United States in 1898, and its government and settlers still remain on the colony, along with settlers from around the Pacific. The Hawaiian language, Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, is highly endangered, not unlike a vast majority of the languages of the indigenous Western Hemisphere. In 1984, Native Hawaiʻians began an experiment in early child language immersion, called Pūnana Leo (nest of voices), modelled after similar trials by the Maori in New Zealand in which fluent elders run preschools in Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, eventually producing fluent children. This model has been replicated for the strengthening of indigenous languages with much success around the world! The revitalization of indigenous nations and cultures begins with the language.

Some interesting reading:
Language Nests
Decolonization
Hawaiian Monarchy

Sprined Ankle Collage with Tom from Montreal

2009-06-07T18:47:00.001-04:00

Thus begins my online portfolio. Check back to learn where little bits of myself will be appearing in the world.

Look for a drawing of mine in the latest issue of FREE DRAWINGS.