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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Winnipeg Branch of the “Department of Culture” is Ready to Make Some Noise!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Department of Culture (Winnipeg) Contact:
Milena Placentile, departmentofculture [dot] winnipeg [at] gmail [dot] com
September 27, 2008 -- (Winnipeg, MB) -- The Winnipeg Branch of the Department of Culture is a growing community of Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals, and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation in the face of a Federal Government that is aggressively undermining the values that define Canada.
We are you: the painters, architects, dancers, writers, actors, designers, filmmakers, sculptors, performers, photographers, ceramicists, directors, curators, musicians, archivists, fashion designers, producers, weavers, choreographers, videographers, editors, librarians...
But we’re not organizing as arts and cultural workers protesting cuts to the arts. No! There’s so much more to it than that!
We’re arts-minded people protesting the irresponsible and unfair government that has dramatically reduced quality of life in Canada for all Canadians. That irresponsible and unfair government is Stephen Harper's gang of CPC MPs -- an aggressive and regressive alliance of ultra-right non-progressive Conservatives and members of the former Reform.
We are part of a national network of concerned citizens who don’t buy their lie that supporters of the arts live in an elitist bubble unaffected by the destruction of health care, public services, safe food and water, child care, labour laws, women’s rights, public education, the environment, thoughtful culture, and everything else the Conservatives seem to hate. We’re fighting for economic, social, and political justice for all.
The CPC has done a shocking amount of social, economic, and political damage in such a short time, so it’s a good thing Harper decided to call it quits when he did -- we’ve had enough and we’re working to ensure he’s unemployed by Oct 14!!
We encourage all Canadians to vote strategically to unseat Conservatives -- We don't want 'em, we don't need 'em, and we’re going to send ‘em packing!
These are just a few of the DoC-initiated and DoC-friendly events that will allow fellow citizens the chance to rally together, gather information, and shout out against Conservative bullying!
- Gone in 30 Seconds Video Making Party – Sun, Sept 28 – 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. – 300-100 Arthur Street (DoC-initiated)
- Why Women Count in the Federal Election (a public debate, not including a CPC candidate because they rejected the invitation!) – Wed, Oct 1 – 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. – 515 Portage Avenue (DoC-friendly)
- The Winnipeg Wrecking Ball (Theatre night) – Mon, Oct 6 – Box office opens at 7:00 p.m. - Unit Y300 – 393 Portage Avenue (DoC-friendly)
- Not a Conservative Party! (Musical rally) – Wed, Oct 9 – Starts @ 7:00 p.m. - 120 King St. (DoC-initiated) (More info coming soon!!)
- All Fired Up! (a cabaret night celebrating National Coming Out Day) – Sat, Oct 11 – Doors @ 8:00 p.m., Performances begin @ 10:00 p.m. - 441 Main Street (DoC-friendly)
We are also starting a communications campaign that will involve circulating posters and handbills, and canvassing, as well.
It's not enough that we vote against the Conservatives on Oct 14, we need to inform our fellow Canadians -- who see a decline in quality of life, but haven't yet correlated it as the impact of Conservative and neo-liberal policies and actions -- about the need to vote strategically to unseat Conservatives, wherever they may be.
Winnipeggers wanting to volunteer for this cause are welcome to contact: departmentofculture [dot] winnipeg [at] gmail [dot] com.
Department of Culture (Winnipeg) Contact:
Milena Placentile, departmentofculture [dot] winnipeg [at] gmail [dot] com.
The Winnipeg Branch of the Department of Culture is joining the fight against the social, economic, and political tyranny of the CPC.
Join us!
http://www.departmentofculture.ca
http://department-of-culture-winnipeg.blogspot.com
The Winnipeg Branch of the “Department of Culture”
is Ready to Make Some Noise!
is Ready to Make Some Noise!
Department of Culture (Winnipeg) Contact:
Milena Placentile, departmentofculture [dot] winnipeg [at] gmail [dot] com
September 27, 2008 -- (Winnipeg, MB) -- The Winnipeg Branch of the Department of Culture is a growing community of Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals, and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation in the face of a Federal Government that is aggressively undermining the values that define Canada.
We are you: the painters, architects, dancers, writers, actors, designers, filmmakers, sculptors, performers, photographers, ceramicists, directors, curators, musicians, archivists, fashion designers, producers, weavers, choreographers, videographers, editors, librarians...
But we’re not organizing as arts and cultural workers protesting cuts to the arts. No! There’s so much more to it than that!
We’re arts-minded people protesting the irresponsible and unfair government that has dramatically reduced quality of life in Canada for all Canadians. That irresponsible and unfair government is Stephen Harper's gang of CPC MPs -- an aggressive and regressive alliance of ultra-right non-progressive Conservatives and members of the former Reform.
We are part of a national network of concerned citizens who don’t buy their lie that supporters of the arts live in an elitist bubble unaffected by the destruction of health care, public services, safe food and water, child care, labour laws, women’s rights, public education, the environment, thoughtful culture, and everything else the Conservatives seem to hate. We’re fighting for economic, social, and political justice for all.
The CPC has done a shocking amount of social, economic, and political damage in such a short time, so it’s a good thing Harper decided to call it quits when he did -- we’ve had enough and we’re working to ensure he’s unemployed by Oct 14!!
We encourage all Canadians to vote strategically to unseat Conservatives -- We don't want 'em, we don't need 'em, and we’re going to send ‘em packing!
UPCOMING EVENTS HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE & OUR ALLIES
These are just a few of the DoC-initiated and DoC-friendly events that will allow fellow citizens the chance to rally together, gather information, and shout out against Conservative bullying!
- Gone in 30 Seconds Video Making Party – Sun, Sept 28 – 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. – 300-100 Arthur Street (DoC-initiated)
- Why Women Count in the Federal Election (a public debate, not including a CPC candidate because they rejected the invitation!) – Wed, Oct 1 – 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. – 515 Portage Avenue (DoC-friendly)
- The Winnipeg Wrecking Ball (Theatre night) – Mon, Oct 6 – Box office opens at 7:00 p.m. - Unit Y300 – 393 Portage Avenue (DoC-friendly)
- Not a Conservative Party! (Musical rally) – Wed, Oct 9 – Starts @ 7:00 p.m. - 120 King St. (DoC-initiated) (More info coming soon!!)
- All Fired Up! (a cabaret night celebrating National Coming Out Day) – Sat, Oct 11 – Doors @ 8:00 p.m., Performances begin @ 10:00 p.m. - 441 Main Street (DoC-friendly)
We are also starting a communications campaign that will involve circulating posters and handbills, and canvassing, as well.
It's not enough that we vote against the Conservatives on Oct 14, we need to inform our fellow Canadians -- who see a decline in quality of life, but haven't yet correlated it as the impact of Conservative and neo-liberal policies and actions -- about the need to vote strategically to unseat Conservatives, wherever they may be.
Winnipeggers wanting to volunteer for this cause are welcome to contact: departmentofculture [dot] winnipeg [at] gmail [dot] com.
Department of Culture (Winnipeg) Contact:
Milena Placentile, departmentofculture [dot] winnipeg [at] gmail [dot] com.
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The Winnipeg Branch of the Department of Culture is joining the fight against the social, economic, and political tyranny of the CPC.
Join us!
http://www.departmentofculture.ca
http://department-of-culture-winnipeg.blogspot.com
Friday, September 26, 2008
PWYC EVENT: Election ’08: Green Plan vs. Rain Man -- Or: Harper Hates Minorities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Winnipeg and National Wrecking Ball Media Contact:
Michael Rubenfeld, 416-830-2559, rubenfeld@yahoo.com
The writ has been dropped, and, too lazy to bend down and pick it up, our Prime Minister has decided to call an election. And so, The Wrecking Ball swings into action to bring you a one-night-only event (Monday, October 6, 2008) of bracing political theatre from some of the county’s hottest artists!
Come witness the throw-down between Harper’s haircut and Dion’s personality-like public interface. Come find out why Jack Layton’s moustache and Elizabeth May have never been seen in the same room. Come and thrill to the sounds of the third round of parliamentary musical chairs in four years. Most of all, come and find out why in this election the stakes are higher and the consequences more fraught than ever before.
The Wrecking Ball is an event of fresh and steaming new political theatre that has been matching playwrights and performers with world events for the past five years. And, for the first time (and not a moment too soon), Winnipeg joins a single night of Wrecking Balls swinging right across the nation!
Wrecking Ball events are scheduled to happen on the same night across the country in cities (or 'niches', as Harper might say) from Halifax all the way to Victoria. They will be linked up through the most sophisticated (that is to say, cheapest) technological means available, which will create a tide of political inspiration and action from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast! To coast!
Cities include Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax, where playwrights will all face the only two Wrecking Ball rules:
1) PLAYS MUST BE BASED ON CURRENT WORLD EVENTS--RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
2) PLAYS MUST BE WRITTEN IN ONE WEEK. THEN REHEARSED BRIEFLY AND THROWN RAW BEFORE A HUNGRY AUDIENCE.
A hand-picked coterie of Canadian playwrights will create brief, explosive plays inspired by the election: the candidates, their policies, and which party hasn’t bought enough carbon offsets for their belching campaign buses and piggish jets. The playwrights have complete free rein over what they choose to write – The Wrecking Ball’s only goal is to challenge and provoke. Each city will present plays from local artists as well as those from their national brethren. Or sisteren. And, all the plays will be no more than a week old, so you know the theatre’s gonna smell fresh!
Proceeds from these PWYC events will support the Department of Culture. Check them out (or oot, as we say in this country) at www.departmentofculture.ca.
The Winnipeg event includes plays by Judith Thompson, members of The Royal Liechtenstein Theatre Company , Ellen Peterson, and Michael Nathanson. Check it out on Monday, October 6, 2008 at the Prairie Theatre Exchange’s Colin Jackson Studio (Unit Y300 – 393 Portage Avenue) at 8:00 p.m. PWYC.
The Wrecking Ball was founded in Toronto in November 2004 to address a nagging imbalance: too much theatre in our politics, not enough politics in our theatre. There have been six Wrecking Balls cabarets to date, all of which sold out, proving there is an undeniable appetite for politically charged work in this fine land!
Past writers for The Wrecking Ball include: Jason Sherman, Judith Thompson, Karen Hines, Norm Foster, David Young, Michael Healey, Morwyn Brebner, Daniel MacIvor, Hannah Moscovitch, Andrew Moodie, Claudia Dey, Morris Panych, d’bi.young, Linda Griffiths, and many others. COLDAX, a series of political play readings at the Tarragon in the spring of 2004 was such a hit that The Wrecking Ball presented The Silencing of Rachel Corrie at the Tarragon’s Spring Arts Fair in 2005. Check out the website for more information about political theatre throughout the world: www.thewreckingball.ca.
The Winnipeg Wrecking Ball: Election ‘08 is ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE
Join us on Monday, October 6, 2008
Box Office opens at 7:00pm
Show starts at 8:00pm
Prairie Theatre Exchange, Colin Jackson Studio
Unit Y300 – 393 Portage Avenue
3rd Floor, Portage Place
Prices: Pay what you can (no advanced sales)
All proceeds will go to the www.departmentofculture.ca
Winnipeg and National Wrecking Ball Media Contact:
Michael Rubenfeld, 416-830-2559, rubenfeld@yahoo.com
For information about other Department of Culture (Winnipeg) events, contact:
Department of Culture (Winnipeg)
Milena Placentile, departmentofculture.winnipeg@gmail.com
The Winnipeg and National Wrecking Ball presents...
Election ’08: Green Plan vs. Rain Man
Or: Harper Hates Minorities
Election ’08: Green Plan vs. Rain Man
Or: Harper Hates Minorities
Winnipeg and National Wrecking Ball Media Contact:
Michael Rubenfeld, 416-830-2559, rubenfeld@yahoo.com
The writ has been dropped, and, too lazy to bend down and pick it up, our Prime Minister has decided to call an election. And so, The Wrecking Ball swings into action to bring you a one-night-only event (Monday, October 6, 2008) of bracing political theatre from some of the county’s hottest artists!
Come witness the throw-down between Harper’s haircut and Dion’s personality-like public interface. Come find out why Jack Layton’s moustache and Elizabeth May have never been seen in the same room. Come and thrill to the sounds of the third round of parliamentary musical chairs in four years. Most of all, come and find out why in this election the stakes are higher and the consequences more fraught than ever before.
Montreal, meet Victoria; Winnipeg, meet Halifax.
Artist, meet artist. Let the coalitioning commence!
Artist, meet artist. Let the coalitioning commence!
The Wrecking Ball is an event of fresh and steaming new political theatre that has been matching playwrights and performers with world events for the past five years. And, for the first time (and not a moment too soon), Winnipeg joins a single night of Wrecking Balls swinging right across the nation!
Wrecking Ball events are scheduled to happen on the same night across the country in cities (or 'niches', as Harper might say) from Halifax all the way to Victoria. They will be linked up through the most sophisticated (that is to say, cheapest) technological means available, which will create a tide of political inspiration and action from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast! To coast!
Cities include Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax, where playwrights will all face the only two Wrecking Ball rules:
1) PLAYS MUST BE BASED ON CURRENT WORLD EVENTS--RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
2) PLAYS MUST BE WRITTEN IN ONE WEEK. THEN REHEARSED BRIEFLY AND THROWN RAW BEFORE A HUNGRY AUDIENCE.
A hand-picked coterie of Canadian playwrights will create brief, explosive plays inspired by the election: the candidates, their policies, and which party hasn’t bought enough carbon offsets for their belching campaign buses and piggish jets. The playwrights have complete free rein over what they choose to write – The Wrecking Ball’s only goal is to challenge and provoke. Each city will present plays from local artists as well as those from their national brethren. Or sisteren. And, all the plays will be no more than a week old, so you know the theatre’s gonna smell fresh!
Proceeds from these PWYC events will support the Department of Culture. Check them out (or oot, as we say in this country) at www.departmentofculture.ca.
At the Wrecking Ball Nearest You...
The Winnipeg event includes plays by Judith Thompson, members of The Royal Liechtenstein Theatre Company , Ellen Peterson, and Michael Nathanson. Check it out on Monday, October 6, 2008 at the Prairie Theatre Exchange’s Colin Jackson Studio (Unit Y300 – 393 Portage Avenue) at 8:00 p.m. PWYC.
About The Wrecking Ball
The Wrecking Ball was founded in Toronto in November 2004 to address a nagging imbalance: too much theatre in our politics, not enough politics in our theatre. There have been six Wrecking Balls cabarets to date, all of which sold out, proving there is an undeniable appetite for politically charged work in this fine land!
Past writers for The Wrecking Ball include: Jason Sherman, Judith Thompson, Karen Hines, Norm Foster, David Young, Michael Healey, Morwyn Brebner, Daniel MacIvor, Hannah Moscovitch, Andrew Moodie, Claudia Dey, Morris Panych, d’bi.young, Linda Griffiths, and many others. COLDAX, a series of political play readings at the Tarragon in the spring of 2004 was such a hit that The Wrecking Ball presented The Silencing of Rachel Corrie at the Tarragon’s Spring Arts Fair in 2005. Check out the website for more information about political theatre throughout the world: www.thewreckingball.ca.
The Winnipeg Wrecking Ball: Election ‘08 is ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE
Join us on Monday, October 6, 2008
Box Office opens at 7:00pm
Show starts at 8:00pm
Prairie Theatre Exchange, Colin Jackson Studio
Unit Y300 – 393 Portage Avenue
3rd Floor, Portage Place
Prices: Pay what you can (no advanced sales)
All proceeds will go to the www.departmentofculture.ca
Winnipeg and National Wrecking Ball Media Contact:
Michael Rubenfeld, 416-830-2559, rubenfeld@yahoo.com
For information about other Department of Culture (Winnipeg) events, contact:
Department of Culture (Winnipeg)
Milena Placentile, departmentofculture.winnipeg@gmail.com
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