Canadian Music? You Bet.. eh...

Hi all.

I just wanted to let you know of two big, Canadian centric events I'm doing in November. This is sorta the stuff I do with my full time job. I'd really like you to come, or if possible, tell your friends/email lists. The first is happening on Monday, November 9th and acting as the launch of a new project from my organization, CIMA, called 'Canadian Blast Presents'. It's essentially a marketing platform for bands already over, so we can amalgamate and strengthen Canadian content in London. It's at Puregroove Records (5-6 East Smithfields) and performing in DAN MANGAN and KAE SUN, and it's from 7:30PM - 8:45PM, and over by 9PM. Both artists have gigs afterwards, so the curfew will be held strictly.

The second gig is Tuesday, November 24th at The Queen Of Hoxton (1 Curtain Road) and it's the first official 'Canadian Blast Presents', supporting by the website, Muso's Guide. Performing will be SPIRAL BEACH and HEY ROSETTA, alongside British acts THE ARGUMENT AND HOW IT STARTED and one more. It's £5 at the door but tickets are available for £4 at www.wegotickets.com/event/62503. It's starts at 7:30PM and will be over before 11PM.

Links below to all. Really hope you can support this :)

www.myspace.com/danmangan
www.myspace.com/kaesun
www.myspace.com/spiralbeach
www.myspace.com/heyrosetta
www.myspace.com/theargumentandhowitstarted

FEVER RAY MIXES RESIDENT ADVISOR'S HALLOWEEN PODCAST

I know at least one of you is a Fever Ray fan, the rest will have to deal with my unrestrained excitement.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=178

Black Rain

Anyone interested in a movie on Hiroshima on Saturday at the ICA? Will go there.

http://www.ica.org.uk/Black%20Rain+21856.twl

Tina

www.civicroom.org.uk

For all you conceptual californians

http://www.musevery.com/frame.html

anyone been?

"Four Ways My Life is Like Pac-Man's" by John Crownover 1. ever-present wail of sirens 2. relentlessly pursued by ghosts 3. occasionally eat some fruit 4. four special pills daily keep ghosts at bay

Free talk, sounds good

November 11th 2009
2:00pm - 5:00pm
UEL Docklands Campus
Room EB.3.19
(first floor, main building, turn left upon entering the main square after leaving Cyprus DLR
Cyprus DLR is literally situated at the campus) 
Free, All welcome
Has the idea of ‘postmodernism’ left any legacy but that of a generalised capitulation to the demands of liberal capitalism? What can contemporary urbanism learn from the era of unabashed ‘militant modernism’? Is the most controversial living philosopher, Alain Badiou, with his radical re-conceptualisation of Truth, Event and Subject, to be understood as advocating a neo-modernist programme, or something quite different? Can there be any progressive radicalism that does not ultimately embrace the revolutionising logic of modernism?

BFI London Film Festival

http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/

Anyone going to any of the events or screenings?

A lot of them seems to have already been fully booked.

Miroslaw Balka talks at the Tate October 20th, 6:30

I am definitely going to the upcoming Balka talk at the Tate. He's doing the current Turbine Hall installation. So if anyone is interested, get tickets through the Consortium and let me know! We should go together.

Unfortunately in the States

Missile Silo Repurposed as Condominium

Frieze week openings

Here's a limited list if anyone fancies some art and free booze...

(6-8/7-9 if nothing else stated):
Monday, 12th
Thomas Dane - Walead Beshty, 11 Duke Street, SW1Y 6BN
Tate Modern - Baldessari and Balka (invite only)

Tuesday, 13th
Lisson - Ryan Gander +, 52-54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA
Hotch-Potch, Norwegians, MK II, 71-75 Powerscroft Road E5 0PT
Sadie Coles, John Bock/Ugo Rondinoe, 9 Balfour Mews/ 69 South Audley Street

Thursday, 15th
Stephen Friedman, Yinka Shonibare, 25-28 Old Burlington Street, London W1S 3AN

Whitechapel, Sophie Calle (invite only)

Victoria Miro, NS Harsha and Grayson Perry (6-9pm), 16 Wharf Road London N1 7RW (has a nice terrace...)

Various Vyner street openings in the East End

Friday, 16th
Laure Genillard, Group show, 2 Hanway Place, W1T 1HB (6-10pm)
Hotch Potch party, K II, 71-75 Powerscroft Road E5 0PT

Saturday, 17th
Vilma Gold, Stephen G Rhodes (6.30-8.30), 6 Minerva Street, London E2 9EH

xN

Spot-le-fy

This is all very exciting! Can someone please invite me to Spotify? (h.stokesy@gmail.com). Don't be shy.

A fifth

For the local contingent of comics fans, there will be a lecture on Osamu Tezuka which I will be attending the afternoon of November 8th.

A Few

1 - My girlfriend (visiting from Montreal) and I are off to see Made in Jamaica at the ICA on Oct. 23rd at 8:45pm. If you share my love of dancehall, soca and so on, it should be a good time. Or perhaps you're morbidly curious as to who can put up with me for over two years of their life.

2 - Pontypool: Oct. 23rd-29th, 31st at the ICA. It's a claustrophobic zombie film occurring in a small radio station in North Ontario. I've actually had the misfortune of being in Pontypool, and can say that it's even terrifying without zombies. If any Canadians or lovers of zombification were interested, I'd be down.

3 - Brian Eno is holding a discussion on creativity at the ICA on November 2nd. I know Christopher's going too, not sure if anyone else has tickets yet.

4 - Slavoj Zizek is lecturing at the ICA on November 23rd. Christopher and I both have tickets already.

Kick-off

Hi everyone.

This is a new blog for us all to air any non-course-related thoughts or social events. Feel free to use if you would like.

I will kick things off by saying:

1. I am keen to go to this. Looks very silly but fun. Does anybody fancy joining me? How about doing it on Halloween?

2. This is a great video. Maybe someone can relate it to the course in some way, in which case I apologise for inappropriately putting it on this social blog.