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lu liog zinc r E ad Mur of posiwith tive attention. The win is a tribute to the band’s musicianship and live performance and proves that you don’t need Twitter, Myspace etc. e’re a third of the or even an album to succeed. You way through the can catch them every Wednesday at year here at the The Dominion House. Windsor Scene and we’ve already born witness to Ron Leary is just about set to reseveral great releases, awesome out lease his forthcoming album Depenof town talent, and loads of packed dent Arising but he needs the support shows. Yes, 2010 is shaping up quite of his fans to do it. Literally exhaustwell, quite well indeed. ing every potential avenue of credit, WINDSOR GIVES A FOLK pouring thousands of dollars into the recordings, Leary is a bit short on funds to physically manufacture Big congratulations go out to Kenhis newest work. That’s where we neth Macleod & The Windsor come in. Leary has set up an online Salt Band who took home the best band award at last month’s Jammy account to pre-order the release to Awards, CJAM 99.1FM’s annual raise the money needed to make the listener’s choice awards (dethroning album tangible. As I write this he’s The Locusts Have No King who just about halfway there, so fans and were looking at a possible threefriends of this Windsor ex-pat be sure peat). The most impressive thing to support. The record itself looks to about the band’s win is that they outdo his debut offering The Road don’t even have any recordings and Inbetween with an all-star backing they get absolutely no radio play. In band featuring Windsor greats like an age where bands constantly push Mr.Chill and Dean Drouillard, who themselves through every medium also takes production credits on the possible, it’s great to see that an act project. that only has a half kept-up facebook www.ronleary.com page can still garner a great amount

On the topic of Dean Drouillard, this other talented Windsor ex-pat has been up to much more than just producing Leary’s new masterpiece. He recently completed one of his most interesting projects to date in The Bear Lake, a sonic odyssey two years in the making. He’s also taken up production duties for Christine Bougie’s third album Aloha Supreme, The Run With The Kittens EP Myth In The Sky and a few songs on Royal Wood’s latest effort, who he tours with throughout May before he joins Sarah Harmer’s band for their North American tour in support of her upcoming album that Drouillard also played on. That’s a lot of Dean. www.deandrouillard.com Catch The Magic Hall Of Mirrors, who’ve been playing some great shows as of late with the likes of Pack AD and Amos The Transparent at Phog Lounge on Sunday, May 2nd opening for Yukon Blonde, an act that generated such a huge response in the room just two months ago that they had to come back. Same Latitude As Rome has a major event coming up on Saturday, May 8th at the Black Historical Museum with special guest Jackie Robitaille. The concert is sponsored in support of the “Friends of Bellevue,” a heritage group dedicated to saving a historic building in Amherstburg “Bellevue House.” SLAR also plays the Sandwich Town Arts Festival on Saturday, May 22nd and you can now catch Jackie Rodean drouillard

bitaille every Thursday at The Gourmet Emporium alongside Sara Fontaine as they profile local original artists. www.myspace.com/magichallofmirrors www.samelatitudeasrome.com www.jackierobitaille.com THE HIPPEST HOP IN TOWN Fans of hip hop rejoice! Two great shows in one night! First off, the 4th Annual Windsor Hip Hop Concert hosted by Needle 9:14 at the Hangover on Friday, May 7th. The show features an veritable who’s who of the local scene including stalwarts Academy, Rose City Rags and Jay Braaks among others. Four years running

9:14 promises to bring out some fresh talent for an event that could easily be considered as Windsor’s biggest local hip hop show of the year. Over at The Phog Lounge a slew of touring hip hop artists will take the stage at the Clipped Wings Tour kick-off. Toronto’s Magnolius and Leo 37 team up with Windsor’s Flow & Smooth and Detroit’s United States Of Mind, who were recently named best rap group in the Metro Times best of issue. Between the four performers, hear everything from jazzy hip hop to dubby R&B, explosive bangers and assembly-line style rap from golden era influences. www.windsorhiphop.net www.usmdetroit.com FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO ROCK Tons of loud rock shows going on in the month of May featuring some incredible touring talent, resurgences and hometown favourites. High Mother sneaks a show in at Phog Lounge on Tuesday, May 4th with Mrs.Smith before their singer ships out for work in the west. Fans of the band will have to keep their ears to the ground for these shows if they don’t want to miss a great band of veteran musicians. Catch all out stoner rock with Gypsy Chief Goliath, a newer act featuring Al ‘The Yeti” Bones from Mister Bones and Georgian Skull plays the Coach & Horses on Saturday,

May 8th. Hammerdown, an act who seems to be playing more and more shows as of late, bring even more stoner sound. You can also catch the bluesy grooves of Tyburn Tree opening the bill. With Funnel working the bar and sound this show adds up to a winning combination. Tuesday, May 11th sees some B.C. deathcore as Doom Cannon hit The Chubby Pickle with locally based Faithful Unto Death who recently resurfaced in the scene. On Wednesday, May 12th the touring Calgary post punk outfit This City Defects comes to Phog Lounge playing

alongside the Vancouver trio Manyourhorse. Local support comes in the form of The Bulletproof Tiger who never disappoint. Friday, May 14th has the Christian hardcore act For Today return to the Blind Dog after selling the venue out during their last visit. Faithful Unto Death is opening this bill as well, definitely getting back into the the circle of young metal acts coming through town. All this, and that’s just the first half of the month! www.myspace.com/highmother www.myspace.com/ gypsychiefgoliath www.myspace.com/ doomcannonband www.myspace.com/thiscitydefects www.myspace.com/fortoday Explode When They Bloom continue to play in

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support of their latest album The Ugly (profiled in our April issue). Any music fans who want to keep the live music experience going after Them Crooked Vultures finish up at Caesars can catch Explode play a Sunday night show at Phog Lounge May 16th. On Friday, May 21st the band plays an all ages show at Milk Coffee Bar with EVAN and Welland’s indie rockers Hunters & Anglers, a fantastic band with great live energy we were lucky enough to catch alongside Orphan Choir closing out Scene Music Festival in St.Catharines last summer. There will be a BIG metal show at the Blind Dog on Tuesday, May 18th with the progressive metalcore giants Misery Signals. This Milwaukee act is still riding high touring the globe in support of their 2008 release Controller. Joining in on the madness is Toronto’s Structures, Australia’s Amity Affliction and Windsor’s own tech metal powerhouses Assassinate The Following, a band whose live instrumentation is a sight to be seen. On Saturday, May 29th you can see some old school Montreal punk when Inepsy plays The Coach and Horses. Toronto’s The New Enemy and locals Disco Assault, whose ten minute EP has kept our heads banging to this day, as well as Destroy Thy Will start the night off right. A month filled with loud rock finishes off on a high note on Sunday, May 30th at The

Blind Dog. Dying Fetus headlines an epic metal show with a tonne of great talent in Arsis, Misery Index, Annotations Of An Autopsy and Conducting From The Grave. Much respect to David Silvera at Sinnastarr Entertainment for bring so many respected names in heavy rock through town. www.myspace.com/explodewhentheybloom www.myspace.com/miserysignals www.myspace.com/inepsy www.myspace.com/dyingfetus ON THE ROAD With the warm weather upon us, many Windsor acts are picking up and hitting the road for some touring. Michou, whose CD release show for their latest album Cardona brought out droves of fans to The Blind Dog in March, are spending the month of May throughout eastern Canada. The Locusts Have No King have been playing short strings of dates in Ontario and Quebec for the past couple of months, the next of which kicks off at Phog Lounge on Thursday, May 20th. Richy Nix continues his tour through the U.S. midwest playing some bigger festivals and events. The Miclordz & Sauce Funky have been keeping busy as well. Still playing in support of their latest, Sunset Ammunition, they found a great amount of success in the US in the past few months. May sees the act play a handful of one-off shows around Ontario. Finally we must mention, Aquila, whose latest release Imperium somehow slipped past our radar last month. Having since heard the album we can’t wait until the next show here in town, but we’ll have to because one of the area’s heaviest has a bunch of

business to take care of in western Canada. The band has a string of dates set up throughout the area in both May and June so don’t expect the homecoming show until July. www.itsnicetomichou.com www.myspace.com/thelocustshavenoking www.richynixmusic.com www.myspace.com/miclordzmusic www.myspace.com/aquilametal CAN’T ARGUE WITH FREE This month we leave you with some gifts of free music. Royce Grayer Hill a.k.a. Vex has made a name for himself in the local electronic music scene as an artist defined by redefinition, constantly bobbing and weaving through genres and styles as if he was on the run. Now though, it would seem he’s found a new home in his most recent dubstep project under the name Dstruct-O. His hour long Battle Of The Bots mix is currently available for free download from dubstep authorities, detroitdubstep.com. For the past couple of months we’ve teased at the release of James OL & Villains’ upcoming live album Alive At The Colch. Well, the record has finally available but not for sale. The band decided that they would share their latest project for free with fans, friends and anyone who would listen. The ‘live’ album has a fantastic production value, quirky jams, girlboy harmonies, and a distinct sense of humour made abundantly apparent on the album’s closing track. On the topic of James OL, he’ll be teaming up with the Windsor Scene to provide you monthly download links to a free live tracks from some of Windsor’s finest musicians... It all starts next month! Until then. www.detroitdubstep.com

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them crooked vultures’ dave grohl on his return to windsor after 22 years

rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, left to right: John Paul Jones, Josh Homme & Dave Grohl

he summer of ’88: Microsoft released Windows 2.1, Enzo Ferrari died, the Iran– Iraq War ended with an estimated one million lives lost, the Soviet Union and East Germany cleaned up at the Summer Olympics in Seoul and a DC based hardcore band played at the Croatian Center in Windsor. In support of their album ‘No More Censorship,’ Washington, DC’s Scream headlined a gig for about 30 Windsor punk kids. Doug Breault of the Flesh Columns and Mescaline Ritual was at the sound board and a 19 year old Dave Grohl was behind the drums. Within three years Grohl would be hitting skins and brass with arguably the biggest band since The Beatles, Nirvana. After Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain left the group to join the 27 Club, Grohl moved from the drum stool to center stage to form and front the three time Grammy Award winning Foo Fighters and further seal his place in rock and roll history, all while avoiding a return to Windsor.

Suspiciously, it has been 22 years since Grohl has played in Windsor.

Windsor, this time with Grohl in tow and likely with a larger guarantee.

spell are reported to have achieved some formidable success in the 1970s.

“Didn’t Nirvana play there?” In fact, they did, in April 1990, just weeks before Nirvana began working with producer Butch Vig on what was to become ‘Nevermind.’ It was with the band’s original drummer Chad Channing that Nirvana played the Coach

Them Crooked Vultures, (Sunday, May 16th at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor), features Homme’s distinctive guitar and lead vocal reuniting with Grohl’s signature rhythms in aim of “simple, straightforward rock and roll.”

Super-groups are strange things often built with the sole purpose of making money on the notoriety of the membersè former glory, (see: Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band), though Them Crooked Vultures started as more of a hobby band in a studio.

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“I think I can remember Windsor,” says Grohl. “It was a long time ago though.”

We’ve done some killer stuff, but I don’t feel we’ve even scratched the surface.” -dave grohl

& Horses. Within a month, Grohl had replaced Channing, joined Nirvana in the studio and recorded an album that went on to sell over 26 million copies. Even though Grohl acted as drummer for Queens of the Stone Age when they played The Loop on January 30th 1999, (for a mere $500 USD guarantee), Gene Trautmann was behind the kit and Grohl avoided the rose city again. Luckily, Queens of the Stone Age front-man, Josh Homme decided to come back to

Despite the previous successes of Grohl and Homme they appear to have asked someone’s grandfather to play bass. One can only assume that the bassist, one John Paul Jones, owned a suitable touring van or rehearsal space, though further investigation finds that Jones was once in another band. They were a group who despite their lack of knowledge of the insurmountable weight of atomic number 82 in lighter-than-air aircraft and an inability to

The band formed over dinner at Medieval Times at Grohl’s 40th birthday party: “I thought this is so perfect,” Grohl recalls, “our first band meeting is at fucking Medieval Times and I’m wasted!” Later the three met in a studio in Los Angeles. “It was really weird, ‘cause I’d said to Josh and I think I said it to John too, ‘I don’t know how to start a new band, I haven’t done it in 15 fucking years man,’ so we just showed up, plugged in and started playing.” A few weeks later, the

three emerged with a 13 song album and the desire to turn a hobby band into a full-on touring act, who already have plans to get back in the studio to work on a follow-up LP. “We’ve done some killer stuff, but I don’t feel we’ve even scratched the surface,” says Grohl, who despite insinuating a 2010 release for a sophomore Them Crooked Vultures record recently found the stress of a busy schedual too much and landed himself in hospital after a caffeine overdose. “I was doing Vultures stuff at night, Foo Fighters stuff during the day and I had a newborn at home so I was sleeping two to three hours a night on an air mattress in a guest bedroom. We were in the studio making a record and I was drinking a lot of coffee,” says Grohl, “and yeah, I had too much coffee. I started to get chest pains so I went to the hospital and they told me to stop drinking the coffee.” _______________ The decaffeinated Them Crooked Vultures play The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor, Sunday, May 16th. Tickets start at $35 and are available at ticketmaster.ca and the box office at Caesars.

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the international festival of experimental ﬁlm and video art returns

unless otherwise noted all events are at the Capitol Theatre, 121 University Avenue West | unless otherwise noted all screenings are pay what you can, suggested donation $5 indicates artist in attendance Tickets available at the door. | Full festival passes: $20 | more information @ www.houseoftoast.ca

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xperimental, the mere mention of the term sends so many running. Seen as an antonymic prefix that confuses and pretenses otherwise accessible music, art and film, ‘experimentalism’ needs not find the viewer/listener erecting a wall that would make Berlin blush. Speaking of Berlin, while Krautrock’s Neu! and Faust may have been noisy and unapproachable to many, one of the most accessible musicians in history, David Bowie, drew upon their experimental sounds to create his iconic Berlin Trilogy: ‘Low,’ ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lodger.’ Just as the noise obsessed New York no-wave scene birthed Sonic Youth who blended noise and pop, in turn exposing hundreds of thousands to their genesis, many top grossing film makers have taken to name checking the innovators who inspired them. Without avant-garde cinema, commercial film wouldn’t be the same, nor would MTV, as music video is a commercialization of many techniques of experimental film. This is where we arrive at Media City. If the simple fact that Media City is one of the world’s top exponents and most respected festivals of experimental film and video art globally fails to draw you in, instead leaving you fearing hours of time lapse clouds, there are some things you should know. While no festival of experimental film could be complete without time lapse clouds, the number of easily approachable, accessible and simply enjoyable films rolling at the 16th instalment of Media City is higher than ever. Additionally with many of the film makers being flown in from around the world, you’ll have the opportunity to sit and have a pint with some of today’s leading producers of experimental film; try that at Cannes. And while the majority of theatres project from digital prints, all films presented at Media City are presented in the medium the artist intended, be it super 8mm, 35mm or video.

Temps/Travail 11 min, 1999

Tuesday, May 25, 8 pm @ the Burton Theatre (3420 Cass Avenue, Detroit, burtontheatre.com) Tickets $7 US or free with Media City pass

A montage showing the repetitive movements typical of many types of laborious rural, craft and industrial activities in completely different geographical contexts.

Blind Child I 24 min, 1964

Erie Kevin Jerome Everson* USA, 16mm on video, 81 min, 2010 Erie consists of several independent events filmed in black-andwhite in the area around Lake Erie. Each event lasts about 10 minutes, the length of a roll of film, and they are edited backto-back. Hardly any words are spoken, apart from the particularly signifcant dialogue of three workers from a General Motors factory. The factory is soon going to close, like so many major steel and car companies, to the joy of those who think that “untrained” workers are earning too much money. Erie is a major contribution to a central theme in the sizeable oeuvre of Kevin Jerome Everson: the culture of African-American workers. __________________________ Wednesday, May 26, 7:30 pm

Retrospective: Johan van der Keuken

Netherlands, 16mm (Temps/Travail 16mm on video) The prolific career of the Dutch documentary filmmaker JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN (19382001) spans 42 years, during which time he made 55 short and feature-length films which screened at countless venues worldwide, winning several major awards. During his lifetime, van der Keuken was the subject of retrospective screenings at most of the world’s prominent film institutions including the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal, 1975), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 1978 and 1999), the Film Museum (Munich, 1980), the Cinémathèque Française (Paris,1987), Kino Arsenal (Berlin, 1999) and both the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto) in 2000. Media City is pleased to present a selection of five of Johan van der Keuken’s short films, four dating from the 1960s and one, Temps/Travail, that is among the last of his completed works.

What is reality? A leap across an abyss. To gather material for Blind Child, van der Keuken spent two months at a Dutch Institute for the Blind. The major theme of the film is perception; the secondary themes are communication and the never-ending struggle to be in contact with reality.

Four Walls 22 min, 1965 A reflection on the relationship between physical and mental space. In 1965, Amsterdam underwent a severe housing crisis. Welcomed into a tiny apartment occupied by a large family, the director undertook a meticulous dissection of “inhabitable space.”

“Film has its origins at the fair and it should stay that way. But is that fair not situated in the marshy country behind the church, the temple and the mosque? Just past the warehouse and the town halll? Not far from the concert hall, the theatre, the the police-station and the disco, yes, the whole community full of homeopaths and psychopaths, who all run around or are stuck in a traffic-jam, restless in search of the meaning of life. The filmmaker is there, I think, to make something of this confusion visible, but also something of that meaning.” —Johan van der Keuken __________________________

its ache are, to borrow a phrase, “not capable of being told unless by far-off hints and adumbrations.”

Oral History Volko Kamensky* Germany, 35mm, 22 min, 2009 A report from the land of the Brothers Grimm: the story of a sleepy German hamlet presented in twenty-two images. The voices of its inhabitants guide the audience through the rural environment. But the impact of the film owes as much to what is concealed as to what is shown and said. The crucial distinction between story and history becomes increasingly flimsy.

One Bright Day

Wednesday, May 26, 9:30 pm

International Program 1

Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2 29 min, 1966

Lullaby Robert Todd* USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2009

The second film on blind children follows one young boy in particular. Upon reaching puberty, Herman Slobbe needs to struggle against his environment in order to carve out a path for himself.

Sleepy... waiting for something to happen, with a camera in the dim, in a playground, quiet and colourful. Swinging away, and slowly drifting off.

Jem Cohen USA, video, 18 min, 2008 While out shooting for a different project altogether, I encountered two men sleeping on a Manhattan street. A short time later, I was standing in front of Penn Station when one of the men suddenly reappeared. He stepped in front of my camera and began to speak. __________________________ Thursday, May 27, 6 pm

Regional Artist Program

New film and video from here or hereabouts. Program includes:

Rihla Gerbrand Burger Netherlands, video, 11 min, 2009

A Moment’s Silence 10 min, 1960-63 The incessant coming-and-going of cars slows to a crawl, the passersby stop and the city of Amsterdam comes to a standstill. This film is one of the first that van der Keuken made on his own, freely, and without the constraints of anecdote, storyline or script

The imaginary journey of a man who travels from east to west. His character is composed of a collection of literary fragments dating from the 14th century until today. The original texts are largely written by Arabs travelling to Europe. The word “rihla” means “journey in search of wisdom or knowledge”.

Sleeping Bear Jack Cronin Detroit, 16mm on video, 10.5 min, 2009 Filmed at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan over the course of three years, this work, which loosely follows the cycle of seasons, is a study of the landscape and an attempt to represent the unique character of this region.

Distance Julie Murray* USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2010

Controller Ed Janzen Kingsville, video, 2 min, 2010

Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland. Notions of home and

A fly compresses time and captures itself on video by triggering a motion-activated surveillance webcam.

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The Use of Movement Christopher McNamara Windsor/Ann Arbor, video, 15 min, 2009 Each scene is an incomplete narrative, with monologues in Spanish, German, Bengali and Italian creating occasional dissonances with the images.

Ice/Figure Michelle Tarailo Windsor, video, 4.5 min, 2008 A meditation on the movement of the Detroit River and the industrial landscape it flows through.

See/Saw Charlie Egleston London, 16mm, 5 min, 2010

Hanging upside down in the branches Ute Aurand* Germany, 16mm, 15 min, 2009 A montage of brief recollections filmed before the death of my mother in 2000 and the death of my father in 2007. I stand as an adult in the midst of childhood feelings, gazing at the disappearance of my family home and the changing relation to my parents.

… and more new films from Windsor and Detroit TBA on houseoftoast.ca

Thursday, May 27, 7:30 pm

International Program 2 Toads Milena Gierke Germany, S8 to 35mm enlargment, 6 min, 2008

The once-grand 19th century structures built into the limestone cliffs at the seashore in Plymouth, England are now cracked and crumbling. This space between land and sea is a site for rites of passage for modern day Plymouth youth, who gather here at high tide throughout the summer months.

Images of a stream in southern France: it‘s the toads’ mating season. Movement on the water surface distorts the toads, sometimes making them unrecognizable, bringing two different levels of perception into the action at hand.

Frost Table documents dawn and sunrise on January 1st, 2008, a cold morning on a French hillside. Tholos looks at an excavated Mycenean tomb in Messenia, Peloponnese, set amid olive groves, but with patches of shade close by where flowers grow. Jasmine Tea unfurls itself from a white screen to an infusion which is ready to drink. Garden looks at a corner of my garden which is both sombre and joyful.

Thursday, May 27, 9:30 pm

Through Some Trick of Nature It Appears Bruce McClure* USA, 3 x 16mm, 16 min, 2010

International Program 3 Atlantiques Mati Diop* Senegal/France, video, 15 min, 2009 By nightfall, around a campfire, a young man from Dakar tells his friends his clandestine odyssey.

A new live performance by Brooklyn’s Bruce McClure, employing sync sound and three 16mm projectors bipacked with film loops taken from an obsolete educational film, Birds of Northern Places. __________________________ Friday, May 28, 3 pm (@ the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West)

Life is like a speck of dust. A camera as a microscope, nosing about in a world on a different scale. The sensitive instrument does not perceive objects, but dives into the empty spaces between them. The focus shifts to a new world filled with structures, grit and dust barely perceptible to the naked eye.

Frontier Harriet McDougall England, video, 13 min, 2008

Present Participle Shirin Sabahi Iran/Sweden, R8mm on video, 25 min, 2009 A film inspired by the artist’s chance discovery of three reels of silent 8mm footage shot by Ellis Edman (1899-1988), a prominent Swedish journalist. The researcher (the artist), the filmmaker (Edman) and the archivist (Edman’s son) each have a “voice” in interpreting the images.

Lake Aliki, Cyprus. For centuries, countless flamingos have

Fifteen short films by the Austrian filmmaker, spanning her career from the late 1960s to the present day. Accompanied by a discussion with the artist. “Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) has a mulitfaceted relation to photography and film. She is not only an artist working with (these) media, she is also a psychoanalyst who uses her camera in order to study psychic processes... she considers herself an artist who ‘thinks psychoanalytically’.”— Mika Elo Program includes: Erwin, Toni, Ilse 35mm, 9 min, 1968/69 Graf Zokan (Franz West) 35mm, 3 min, 1969 Neuffer’s Gegenstände 16mm, 6 min, 1971

Secret Identities of a Psychoanalyst 16mm, 6 min, 1995-2005 Eugen Bavcar 16mm, 3 min, 1999 Spucken 35mm, 2 min, 2000 Le Baromètre 35mm, 3 min, 2004

Organized by Media City to coincide with a retrospective of the films of Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka), the three series of Yearportraits (from 1977-78, 1997-98 and 2003-04) exhibited at the AGW represent but a tiny fraction of the artist’s ongoing photographic project spanning nearly forty years. Since 1972, she has taken a self-portrait every day and organized them into a calendrical system. The result is tens of thousands of photographs coolly documenting the passage of time. In one sense, the photos could be seen as a film, running at a rate of one frame per day. Along with the Yearportraits, also on view at the AGW is vom Gröller’s photograph Venzone (1975) and a selection of photo books and monographs about the artist and her work.

Aliki Richard Wiebe* USA, video, 5 min, 2009

Friday, May 28, 7:30 pm

Retrospective: Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka)*

Ohne Titel 35mm, 5 min, 1981

Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne’s 1658 text HYDRIOTAPHIA Urne-Burial Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in NorFolk are superimposed with the stone faces of grave markers and burial urns. This image-text bookends a series of objects framed in the ancient glass window panes of a tiny shop in a tiny snow-covered town on a mountain top in Colorado. Yearportraits: A Discussion with Friedl vom Gröller* (Austria)

Groundplay Robert Todd* USA, 16mm, 12 min, 2009

Four Little Films Nick Collins England, 16mm, 10 min, 2009

wintered here from Iran. The Greeks represented them in poetry, the Romans slaughtered them for their tongues. Today, a man sings: Pharmacist, oh pharmacist, oh pharmacist, I want medicine for myself, I want medicine for myself, My heart, my heart, my heart is beating like this, My heart is afflicted be cause of you.

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come David Gatten* USA, 16mm, 9 min, 2010

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Sea Front Stuart Moore & Kayla Parker England, S8mm on video, 5.5 min, 2009

The senses act simultaneously as receptors and filters, both enabling us to make sense of our surroundings and preventing us from fully doing so. In Frontier, two layers of imagery (shot in a continuous 15 hour take from dawn to dusk) are interlaced and compressed. Transient effects of light and colour confound expectations of visual depth and space within the frame. __________________________

for more Friedl vom Gröller , see page 11 Yearportraits opens at the AGW on April 10 and continues until July 4.

Paris June 2009 16mm, 3 min, 2009 Boston Steamer 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Passage Briare 16mm, 3 min, 2009 Delphine de Olivera 16mm, 3 min, 2009

Hen-Night 16mm, 3 min, 2009 Wedding 16mm, 3 min, 2009 Der Fototermin 16mm, 3 min, 2009

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Refraction Series Chris Gehman Toronto, 35mm, 8 min, 2008

Friday, May 28, 9:30 pm

International Program 4 Loutron Barbara Meter Netherlands, video, 17 min, 2009 A day in the life of an old Ottoman bath, from dawn till dusk, where the light, the mirroring in the water and the visitors figure alongside the protagonist: the bath itself.

Daylight and the Sun Karen Johannesen* USA, S8mm, 5 min, 2009

An experimental approach to optics, using simple materials and techniques to generate a range of pure light and colours in motion.

Prolegomena Cédric Gaul-Berrard* France, 16mm, 11 min, 2008 Thirteen fragments studying time using various film techniques such as step filming, matte-boxes and superimposition.

Point Line Plane (for PP) Simon Payne* England, video, 8 min, 2010 A multidimensional video in which shifting grids continuously reframe perspective and increasing layers illuminate the viewer. (Multidimensional cinema = luminance, the x and y axes + an illusionary axis consisting of depth, time, sound and the auditorium.) __________________________ Saturday, May 29, 6 pm

Recent Canadian Film and Video

#5: In-camera experimentation as the sun set in a beautiful part of the world with loved ones close at hand. #7: Watching a ferry disappear into the horizon on a frigid winter day.

Burning Bush Vincent Grenier* Canada (QC)/USA, video, 9.5 min, 2010 “In Eastern Orthodoxy a tradition exists that the flame Moses saw was God’s Uncreated Energies/Glory, manifested as light, thus explaining why the bush was not consumed. Hence, it is not interpreted as a miracle in the sense of an event, which only temporarily exists, but is instead viewed as Moses being permitted to see these Uncreated Energies/Glory, which are considered to be eternal things; the Orthodox definition of salvation is this vision of the Uncreated Energies/Glory, and it is a recurring theme in the works of Greek Orthodox theologians.” —New World Encyclopedia

If I were silent, I’d hear nothing. But if I were silent all the other sounds would start again.

The locations chosen for this portrait (a desolate apartment and a wasteland littered with abandoned machinery) are indicative of the condition of someone potentially as vulnerable as the insects that collect on his windowsill.

In the Park and A Walk Ute Aurand* Germany, 16mm, 6 and 4.5 min, 2008 In the Park of the Rietberg Museum in Zürich, with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art. A Walk through the winter of Engadin and Bergell in Switzerland. __________________________

International Program 6

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis Daïchi Saïto Montréal, 16mm, 10 min, 2009 A collaboration with musician Malcolm Goldstein. Patterns, variation, and repetition, using trees in a park as the main visual motif.

Dissonant Manon de Boer Netherlands/Belgium, 16mm on video, 11 min, 2010 The dancer Cynthia Loemij improvises for about 10 minutes to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Three Sonatas for Violin Solo. The camera follows her movements. The 3-minute duration of one 16mm film roll interrupts the recording. During the moments that the image is in suspense, a game with the audience’s memory is being played.

I Know Where I’m Going Ben Rivers England, 16mm, 30 min, 2009 A drive way off the beaten path on an automotive pilgrimage, seeking out hidden trails and solitary places of autonomy and concealment. En route to the Isle of Mull, we encounter geologists, beekeepers and forest clearers, as well as confronting the elements of bad weather and daily surprises.

A mother breastfeeds her child. A woman peels an orange.

n. M; shortened form of striptease. From strip, to remove, to take away, and tease, to entice, to tempt. And then all this in plural.

Sometime. Somewhere. Zohar Kfir Montréal (Israel), S8mm on video, 6.5 min, 2009

Gregor Alexis Jana Debus* Germany, 16mm on video, 20 min, 2009

Saturday, May 29, 9:30 pm

The Wheel Pixie Cram Ottawa, 16mm on video, 3 min, 2009 Strips Félix Dufour-Laperrière Montréal, 35mm, 5.5 min, 2010

A visual and sonic commentary to La Bohème. __________________________

monumental Lumphini Park. Although it may give the sense of an on-site, sync-sound audio recording, the sound arises from visual information on the film’s optical track, the result of directly printing each still photo directly to the full frame of 35mm motion picture film. “Lumphini” is derived from the Sanskrit word for the birthplace of the Buddha; 2009 is 2552 according the Buddhist calendar.

International Program 5

Sea Series #7 and #5 John Price Toronto, 35mm, 3.5 and 5 min, 2010

A hot and quiet summer once again arrives. Only 20% of ants actually do any work.

Puccini Conservato Michael Snow Toronto, video, 10 min, 2008

Saturday, May 29, 7:30 pm

Light itself comes in packages, and is emitted and absorbed not continuously, but in small units of quanta, traveling through space at high velocity.

Summer Grass 2/10 Mie Kurihara Japan, S8mm, 10 min, 2008

and space, imaging the possibility of being two places at once.

Piensa en Mi Alexandra Cuesta* Ecuador/USA, 16mm, 15 min, 2009 j. Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose Halifax/Montréal, 16mm, 6.5 min, 2009 A dig into the orphaned trash cans of cinema archives, transposing old celluloid into a poem on need, affection and solitude.

Moving from east to west and back again, the windows of a bus frame fleeting sections of the urban landscape of Los Angeles. Images of riders, textures of light and fragments of bodies in space come together to weave a portrait in motion. Isolation, routine and everyday splendour create the backdrop of the journey, while the intermittent noise of traffic contructs the soundscape.

Simultaneous Contrast Chris Kennedy Toronto, 16mm, 5.5 min, 2008

Lumphini 2552 Tomonari Nishikawa Japan, 35mm, 3 min, 2009

Spatial oscillations provide a permutating play of figure, ground

All images were shot in with a 35mm still camera in Bangkok’s

Vampire(s) Arnaud Gerber France, 16mm on video, 29 min, 2008 In the late twenties in Düsseldorf, terror had a name: Peter Kürten, the Vampire. Today, the confessions of the serial killer that inspired Fritz Lang’s M (1931) are still haunting the streets of the city. Today like yesterday, society has only one answer: “He is not human!”

Dining Cars Arianne Olthaar* Netherlands, S8 to 35mm enlargement, 15 min, 2010 Interiors of dining cars from the 1960s and 70s, shot on Super 8. Having dinner here must have been very cosy once, but today the rolling interiors have become rocking time capsules.

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Photographie de Johan van der Keuken, Johan et Ysbrant, 1955

pictures for the blind: Johan van der Keuken

ohan van der Keuken (19382001) began his experimentation with photography at the age of twelve. Five years later, in 1955, his first book of photographs was published. “We are 17” included 30 portraits depicting his unhappy classmate at a Montessori School in Amsterdam. It is important to note that Johan first trained his eye through the viewfinder of a Rolleiflex, carefully developing his singular vision in the “documentary style”. Photography was no doubt a significant factor in determining his lifelong path as an “image-maker”, and the observational tool through which he first began to record the world, one frame at a time. In 1956, van der Keuken accepted a scholarship from the Institute of Cinematography in Paris (IDHEC); “There were no scholarships for photography at the time, but there were for filmmaking. Film was far more serious.” In 1957 his second book Behind Glass was published and coincided with photo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Paris and Milan. That same year he embarked on a prolific filmmaking career beginning with the collaborative short Paris l’aube, made with James Blue and Derry Hall. Over the next forty-four years, van der Keuken produced more than fifty-five short and feature-length films. “I am very anxious about, well, perfection…I would like to be able to show something with utter clarity. Yet, I am completely aware that I am a filmmaker working with approximation…Yes, you might say that there is an element of

playfulness in my work…but at the same time, there are things that are so real and so powerful that they cannot be mastered. Hence, we enter the realm of approximation. I cannot accept the perfect “shot/reverse angle shot as the “truth” of a film. Something in me despairs over never being able to “say the right thing.” During his lifetime, van der Keuken taught filmmaking seminars in Geneva, Hamburg, Brussels, Annecy, Beaconsfield, Stuttgart, Berlin, Ludwigsburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Mülheim, New York, and Denmark. His films have screened at various institutions internationally including the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 1978 and 1999), the Film Museum (Munich, 1980), the Cinémathèque Française (Paris, 1987), Kino Arsenal (Berlin, 1999) the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto) in 2000. His first retrospective was held in Canada at the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal) in 1975. Media City is grateful to the EYE Film Institute (Netherlands) and Medici Arts International (Paris) for making this screening possible.

This is a rare chance to see work by one of the greatest documentary filmmakers of the 20th century. Featured in this program will be a selection of the director’s short films produced during the 1960s, and Temps/Travail (2000) one of his last completed films. ___________________ Wednesday, May 26th 2010. Screening at 7:30 PM Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave. W www.houseoftoast.ca Tickets Pay What You Can!

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Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka)

riedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) was born in London in 1946 and spent her childhood in East Berlin and Vienna. She made her first films in the late 1960s while still a student, asking her models to look into the camera for the duration of one reel of film: “I want to see something that has never before been seen in this form.” Her films have screened at venues such as the Munich Film Museum, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Austrian Filmmuseum to name a few. In 1971 she graduated with a diploma in industrial photography from the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute in Vienna. In 1997 she completed her psychoanalytical training, employing themes concerned with the human psyche, humor and shame. Perhaps best known for her serial photographs (the Year, Month, Week and Day Portraits) Kubelka has had solo exhibitions of her photographic works at museums and galleries including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), Galerie Fotohof (Salzburg) and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. In 2005 she was awarded the Staatspreis für Photographie, Austria’s most prestigious photography award. She is founder of the Vienna School of Artistic Photography (1990) and the School for Independent Film (2006). She currently teaches photography in Salzburg and Vienna.

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“Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) has a mulitfaceted relation to photography and film. She is not only an artist working with (these) media, she is also a psychoanalyst who uses her camera in order to study psychic processes... she considers herself an artist who ‘thinks psychoanalytically’.”—Mika Elo (artist and researcher in Helsinki) Media City 16 offers a rare chance to view 15 short films by the Austrian filmmaker, spanning her career from the late 1960s to the present day. These silent black-and-white films were edited in the camera only, and therefore convey an intensity and intimacy stemming from the shooting process and the tension that builds between Kubelka and those portrayed. The retrospective series of 33mm and 16mm films, ranging from two to nine minutes plays on Friday, May 28 at 7:30 pm, accompanied by a discussion with the artist herself. At the Capitol Theatre (121 University Ave. W) Tickets are available at the door on a pay what you can basis.

still Over the past decade Media City and the Art Gallery of Windsor have presented collaborative installation programming featuring works by renowned international artists such as David Claerbout (Belgium), Sharon Lockhart (USA), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), and Mircea Cantor (Romania),

alongside some of Canada’s most prominent media artists including David Rokeby and Mike Hoolboom to name a few. In 2010 the tradition continues with Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka). Organized by Media City to coincide with the retrospective of her films, the three series of Yearportraits (from 1977-78, 1997-98 and 2003-04) exhibited at the AGW represent but a tiny fraction of the artist’s ongoing photographic project spanning nearly forty years. Since 1972, she has taken a self-portrait every day and organized them into a calendrical system. The result is tens of thousands of photographs coolly documenting the passage of time. In one sense, the photos could be seen as a film, running at a rate of one frame per day. Along with the Yearportraits, also on view at the AGW is vom Gröller’s photograph Venzone (1975) and a selection of photo books and monographs about the artist and her work. Yearportraits continues at the AGW until July 4, with an discussion with Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) on Friday, May 28, 3 pm at the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West. ___________________

Full Media City schedual avaliable at houseoftoast.ca or on pages 8-10 of this paper, program guides are available for free at the festival and at Phog Lounge, Milk Coffee Bar and other downtown locations.

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the best words in the best order burning on the southern border

Robert Earl Stewart

obert Earl Stewart does not wear a beret on a regular basis. He also does not carry a set of bongo drums under one arm at all times. He doesn’t seem to use the words o’er, ne’er, or whilst in conversation and he doesn’t publish to livejournal. Despite all this, Stewart is a poet, and an acclaimed one at that. His first book of poetry, Something Burned Along the Southern Border, has recently been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, which honours the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian. His work combines language play and translation with laugh out loud humour, and striking imagery with conversational language. This allows Stewart to bridge the gap between academia and accessibility, a difficult line to walk, along which Stewart balances comfortably. Many people hold the view that poetry was something that happened exclusively in the 1800s (think Wordsworth and daffodils), or the 1960s (berets, bongos, beatniks). In any case, in the views of many, poetry is dead today, and it isn’t much of a loss. For those who are aware that somewhere someone is still writing poetry, the stereotypes of elitist academics, or over-emotional high schoolers pouring their hearts out on the Internet remain. The beauty in Stewart’s work is that it breaks down all these expectations, and grabs hold of any audience, regardless of their past experience with poetry. Poets like Stewart have the power to convince the public that poetry is still relevant and, amazingly, entertaining as well. A latecomer to the poetry scene, Stewart began as a writer of fiction, after studying American fiction, film and television in the English Department at the University of Windsor and later at Montreal’s McGill University. Windsor music lovers may remember him from his work singing with the band Elephant in the early ‘90s. While he has a novel in the works, a project he has been chipping away at since 2001, Stewart began writing poems when he saw the appeal in poetry’s immediacy. “I started writing poetry in 2004 in a moment of inspiration,” he says. “A poem arrived in my head, wholly-formed. All I had to do was reproduce it on the page. It took about 20 minutes. There was immediacy there and the thing that really attracted me to poetry was how quickly I could get results. Where the novel was chugging along in fits and starts, sometimes I could write a really good first draft of a poem in two minutes.” Beyond the quicker pace of his poetic inspiration, Stewart also saw a more positive critical reception to his poems. “The poems were getting published in the U.S. And England. That wasn’t happening with my fiction,” he explains. “I couldn’t help but be encouraged to write more poetry by this.” Following on his success with poetry in literary journals, Stewart published Something Burned Along the Southern Border with Mansfield Press, and launched it at Milk Bar downtown Windsor in 2010. His success continued as the book was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, for best first book of poetry published by

a Canadian. With a prestigious list of previous winners, including Di Brandt, Rosemary Sullivan, and most recently Katia Grubisic, the award recognizes some of the best in Canadian poetry. “I’m fortunate enough to have been published by a press that takes care of their authors,” Stewart says. “Mansfield Press publisher Denis De Klerck, my editor Stuart Ross and editorial assistant Leigh Nash did all the legwork (submitting the nomination forms and the required number of copies of the work) on my behalf for all the awards for which I was eligible.” While Stewart is published by Toronto-based Mansfield Press, he maintains strong ties to Windsor. He grew up in Walkerville and still lives in the city, which continues to influence his writing. “Windsor’s proximity to Detroit and the American Midwest ethos has also had a big influence on my work. I focused on American literature all through my schooling. I had some great mentors who were American, including the late John Ditsky who was a life-long Detroiter,” Stewart explains. He adds, “I’ve also spent a lot of time out in the county, working for the Windsor Star and Lasalle Post, and I find the county fascinating—just as a place to be alone in. I think I write more about the county than I do about the city. It’s like the protective rind that forms a border between Windsor and the rest of Canada, with the river being all that separates us from Detroit—a wet, fertile, fullypermeable membrane that promotes some kind of vibrant, intangible exchange.” Stewart sees Windsor as a community with a reputation that doesn’t quite suit its reality. “Windsor has this reputation of being a strictly blue collar, salt-of-the-earth kind of town and I think that’s more of a media perpetuated myth than anything else,” he says. “With the exception of two years spent living in Montreal, I’ve lived in Windsor all my life and my experience simply isn’t the one that most people across Canada hold up as being the typical Windsor experience. This is not to say that Windsor is an arts Mecca, but I think there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye.” While Stewart says he is not extremely in-tune with the Windsor arts and poetry scene, he sees poetry in Windsor as a tough gig. “I’ve been going to the Juice poetry nights at Phog in recent months, and I’ve seen a few people read who I think are very good, and when I talk to them, they don’t seem very confident or serious about what they’re doing. I don’t think it’s an affectation. I think it’s genuinely uncertainty as to what’s going on in poetry because poetry is such a tough in Windsor—tougher than it is in most places. There aren’t a lot of poetry venues or events,” he says. On top of Juice nights, which occur the first Wednesday of every month at Phog Lounge, Stewart offers up a couple other events for those wishing to experience the poetry that is going on in Windsor. Stewart will read May 20th as part of the Live Poets reading series at Paula’s Gallery (Wyandotte St. East), and is conducting a poetry workshop all day on June 26th at Mackenzie Hall (Sandwich St.). “There may not be a very big arts community in Windsor,” Stewart says, “but I see a lot more individuality here, and a lot more acceptance of people for who they are.”

beautiful woman covered in paint splatters poses for a live photo shoot. Make up artists work their magic on models in hallways as crowds watch. Flashing lights and giant screens project over the catwalk, while six foot tall women in four inch heels teeter near the bar. It’s [FAT] Alternative Fashion Week in Toronto, and independent designers from Canada and around the world are here to give Toronto’s fashion savvy crowd a look at some bold new wearable art. Among these designers are Windsor’s Vanessa Hughes and Meaghan Biddle, better known as design duo Petey the Troll. Hughes and Biddle have been part of Windsor’s DIY fashion scene for several years, participating in and planning the Grandstand and Eye Candy series of fashion shows at Milk, Phog and the University of Windsor. Petey the Troll moved out of the local venues, travelling to Toronto April 24th, to present their new line, Petey Couture, at Toronto Alternative Fashion week. Petey Couture was part of the final day of the four day festival, which for the last five years has featured “inventive, pioneering, and contemporary expression.” Hughes and Biddle were among 200 designers from around the world to participate in the runway shows at [FAT] (Fashion. Art. Toronto.), which also featured performance art, independent film, photography, and music. “We heard about [FAT] from other local Windsor designers who had been involved, including Jen Lopez, Robin Angell and Amy Snook. We thought it would be a great stepping stone to build a reputation in Toronto,” explains Hughes. Having applied twice to the show with no success, Hughes and Biddle were ecstatic to be accepted to this year’s event. While the Windsor designers raced around backstage before the Saturday night show, themed “Joy,” Halifax’s Rich Aucoin did his best to work the crowd up with his participation heavy and incredibly fun indiedance music and sing-a-long visuals. Unfortunately, most people at [FAT] were a bit too cool to get excited about good music. As Aucoin’s set wound down, the seats on either side of the runway filled up with industry professionals lining the front rows with an eye out for the next best designers and models. The audience in the packed studio, some with elaborately painted faces, sleek black dresses, and hundred dollar geometric haircuts, had all eyes on each other, picking some looks apart and whispering approving comments about others in their neighbour’s ear. When the panicked looking

women with headsets and clipboards finally disappeared from the runway, the crowd hushed as electro music pumped into the studio. Petey Couture was set to hit the runway third out of five designers in the second runway segment of the evening. Models with severe expressions in incredibly high heels hit the catwalk in jersey neutral-coloured dresses for Jamaica’s Anuna by Tami and Lubica, followed by a set of sleepwear and cozy knits in lux colours from Calgary’s Colleen Booth. Finally, it was Petey’s turn to rock the runway. The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” faded through the speakers and mohawked models hit the catwalk in Petey Couture’s decadent red velvets, brocades and earth tones. Couture impressed with exquisite tailoring on jackets, corsets and gorgeously fitted trousers. “Our collection was primarily inspired by our background in costume design for theatre,” says Hughes. “We used a lot of historical influences and added some Sgt. Pepper details, which resulted in bright colours and military elements such as epaulettes and vintage insignia.” Windsor-based models Clarese Thomas (cover of WAMM February fashion issue) and Maggie Yoell stalked the runway confidently toward an intimidating wall of flash photography for the Petey show, while Windsor-born model Naiya Panayiota walked for several designers on all four days of runway. “We found it comforting having some familiar faces with us, but we also made new connections with models from the Toronto area,” notes Hughes. “Maggie and Clarese fit in beautifully with the others and everything went very smoothly.” Expanding into menswear for the first-time, Petey Couture blends the gendering of clothing, featuring women’s jackets and feminine skirts in sharp suiting and plaid, and men’s blazers with touches of velvet and brocade. “[Menswear] definitely proved to be the most challenging aspect, but we were more than pleased with the outcome,” says Hughes. Petey Couture’s set closed as Sergeant Pepper started to play with the re-emergence of the stunning red frock coat featured on the cover of WAMM’s fashion edition. Hughes and Biddle followed their collection out onto the runway to great applause with their usual modesty, but they must have known that the Windsor contingent at Toronto Alternative Fashion Week would make our city proud. Hughes and Biddle had only positive things to say about their first experience with [FAT]. “The organization of the organizers was stellar. The models were great and very enthusiastic. We were overall very impressed with the way everything went backstage,” says Hughes.

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alternative fashion week If you had to miss all the fun at [FAT], you can still get your Windsor fashion fix. Hughes and Biddle are hosting Runway for Rosie on May 28th at Mackenzie Hall. “The Runway for Rosie show is paired with an art show called The Art of War,” explains Hughes. “The event was conceived as a benefit for Windsor Feminist Theatre, a local theatre company we work for on the side. We decided to take the opportunity to create a collective arts event that we hope will transcend generation gaps and mediums in Windsor’s arts community.” The event will feature local models strutting in not only the new Petey Couture collection, but lines from six other independent designers from the Windsor area. Dee Dee Shrkeli, recently returned from her big break showing her Dilly Daisy spring line in London, England, will show off her brightly-colured vintage-inspired pieces, while Jen Lopez, who has shown her collection at [FAT] in past years, will showcase her line usthemwe. Also featured will be Designs by Ana Stulic, a Windsor-born designer schooled in fashion in Milan, and recently returned from fashion adventures in Europe. Rachel Gray will show her NeverHopeless collection and Tamara Kimmerly, co-founder of Kingsville’s rEvolution gallery and studio will also have her theefamily fashion line on display. “We’re building a full-length runway with DJ (wh)y.m.e.(??),” says Hughes, noting that in keeping with the theatre influence, the show will also conclude a showing of a set of costumes from the feminist theatre’s upcoming productions.

Hughes and Biddle are well on their way to making a name for themselves in the DIY fashion world and have no plans to slow down their pace. “The very first thing we thought of when we finished the [FAT] show was the many things we could do the next year,” says Hughes. “As for Petey the Troll, look out for a full men’s line [and] lots more women’s clothes and accessories!”

Runway for Rosie and the Art of War runs May 28th from 6pm until 1am with the fashion show starting at 8pm. The door is $10 by donation and there will be a cash bar, food, and an art and clothing sale after the show.

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t’s always a bit daunting when Rob Tymec offers me a role in one of his shows, not so much because he’s an intimidating person, but simply because, when you’re cast in one of his plays, you have no idea what kind of bizarre things you may be required to do in front of a theatre full of people! Just off the top of my head, I can think of shows where I got buckets of water dumped on my head, had to prance around half-naked in a cupid costume, took a smack in the face that hurt so badly it made my ears ring and, worst of all, had to actually kiss Rob full on the lips! Since forming his company Monkeys With A Typewriter in 2002, Tymec’s gained the reputation of being a producer who’s not afraid to take chances. This is partly due to the fact that the company’s primary mandate is to produce nothing but original works by local playwrights. Given how twisted the minds of some people in this town can be, he gets some pretty weird stuff submitted to him! The company also seems to have a sort of unwritten mandate and that is that Monkeys With A Typewriter enjoys producing the sort of scripts that other companies would never dare to touch, the type of material that really crosses the line. I do not mean just in terms of “being edgy” but also in terms of artistic merit. Scripts produced by the company, oftentimes, do not fit under any kind of specific genre or are such an ecclectic blend of genres that it takes twelve hyphenated words to label them! The latest play coming from the company is certainly no exception to the rule. “It’s called The Patient In 709,” Tymec explained to me when he offered me a part in it, nearly six months ago. “Probably the best label we could attach to it would be medical drama since three of the main characters are medical proffessionals and a fourth, of course, is a patient in a hospital. Also, it’s not so much a romance as it is a play about failed romances, a “break-up play,” I suppose. Oddly enough, it has also got a bit of a soap opera feel to it, too. And then there’s a strange supernatural element to the whole thing that seems to defy all labels.” Intrigued by his description, I decided to take a look at the script and he was accurate in the way he presented the play to me; Patient In 709 requires at least a paragraph to categorise it properly. The plot is even more elaborate. The story chiefly concerns a nurse by the name of Sara Jamieson (played by the attractive and talented Kim Burgess). Sara is intrigued by a patient (currently residing

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in Room 709, of course) who is being kept under strict isolation. Although she is prohibitted from seeing him, Sara begins to visit him secretly. The two of them form an odd bond between them that has very farreaching consequences. While this relationship is going on, there’s also a lot of outside turmoil affecting Sara’s life. That’s where my character comes in. I play Brad, an on-again-off-again boyfriend who she just can’t truly let go of. I’m the closest there is to an actual villain in the play. Although, I do have some competition in that department from another character named Julie (played by the equally attractive and talented Kylee Sawchuck), a fellow nurse who is also Sara’s best friend. Julie sees Sara as far more than a friend. The turmoil these two relationships in Sara’s life generate seems to be having a strange effect on this mysterious Patient in 709. “I’m basically using the Patient to deliver a very simple message to my audience,” Tymec told me one day during rehearsals, “and that’s the idea that every decision we make has either a negative or positive consequence on our soul. We either enhance ourselves or destroy ourselves in the actions we choose to take. The Patient In 709 was just a way for me to visually illustrate that idea.” Indeed, if you observe the play with this message in mind, you’ll see what Tymec’s going after. Throughout the first act, the Patient remains onstage at all times but watch what sort of things the Patient goes through as storylines develop in the life of Sara. See what her decisions start doing to him... But why is the Patient being affected in such a way by the things Sara does? To find out, you’re just going to have to go see the show. Even if I wasn’t cast in the play, myself, I would still recommend you catch this one. _________________ The Patient in 709, a medical drama by Rob Tymec, runs May 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th at Korda Zone Theatre (2520 Seminole Road, one block east of Walker and Seminole). The show begins at 8pm, and tickets are $15 fot adults and $10 for seniors or students. This show contains course language and mature subject matter. For more information or to reserve advance tickets call 519-9772852 or email robtymec@hotmail.com.

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WEEKLY

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SATURDAY 1

MONDAYS

Clash of the Titans WSO Masterworks Concert. Schumann and Chopin with guest Daniel Wnukowski Chrysler Theatre windsorsymphony.com

LIVE MUSIC

Open Mic w/ Tara Watts Phog Lounge Open Mic w/ Clinton Hammond The Manchester Open Mic The Whiskey TUESDAYS Open Mic w/ Andrew MacLeod The Dominion House The Last Trio (7-9) Mr.Chill & Greg Cox (9-12) FM Lounge Open Mic w/ Stephanie Saraﬁanos The Mill Open Mic w/ Jamie Reaume Twig & Berries

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RaGael Mick’s Irish Pub Travis Reitsma @ May Day Rally (4:30pm) City Hall Square Black Russian The Gourmet Empourium SUNDAY 2 Yukon Blonde w/ Magic Hall of Mirrors Phog Lounge TUESDAY 4 High Mother Phog Lounge THURSDAY 6

Open Mic The Basement (U of W)

Karyn Ellis w/ Janine Stoll Phog Lounge

WEDNESDAYS

FRIDAY 7

Kenneth MacLeod & Associates The Dominion House

EVL Coach & Horses

L&M Jam Night FM Lounge

Kenneth MacLeod & the Windsor Salt Mick’s Irish Pub

THURSDAYS Huladog FM Lounge Jackie Robitaille & Sara Fontaine The Gourmet Empourium Open Mic w/ Mike Hargreaves Milk Toast & Jam The Whiskey Lonesome Lefty Mick’s Irish Pub SATURDAYS Splatterday w/ Chad & Joey FM Lounge

Unity in the Community BBQ (12-5pm) featuring music by Kero & Flow Print House/ Pelissier Street Gallery USM w/ Magnolius & Leo37 Phog Lounge Windsor Folk Society Coffee House & Acoustic Stage Mackenzie Hall SATURDAY 8 Joan Charette The Gourmet Empourium

SUNDAYS

Meadowlark Five w/ Dirty Nil & Bulletproof Tiger Phog Lounge

Open Mic FM Lounge

Al Bones Coach & Horses

listings

The Johnstones w/ Street Pharmacy, The Classix, Abm & The Treehouse Kids The Blind Dog Kenneth MacLeod & the Windsor Salt Mick’s Irish Pub Charo Colosseum at Caesars Windsor WEDNESDAY 12 This City Defects w/ Man Your Horse & Bulletproof Tiger Phog Lounge

FRIDAY 21

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Stereo Goes Stellar w/ The Archives & Tim Davidson Phog Lounge

Willy Wonka (8pm) Chrysler Theatre windsorlight.com

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Aladdin Capitol Theatre riverfronttheatrecompany.ca

Assassinate the Following w/ Hunter City Madness & Educare Coach & Horses SATURDAY 22 Chicago Colosseum at Caesars Windsor Surdaster Phog Lounge

THEATRE SATURDAY 1 Get Smart Theatre Windsor theatrewindsor.com Thunder from Down Under ‘male revue’ Colosseum at Caesars Windsor SUNDAY 2 Get Smart Theatre Windsor theatrewindsor.com

Willy Wonka (8pm) Chrysler Theatre windsorlight.com

THURSDAY 6

Aladdin Capitol Theatre riverfronttheatrecompany.ca

SUNDAY 23

ASK w/ James-OL and the Villans Phog Lounge

David Simard w/ Erin Lang & Kevin Echlin Phog Lounge

Mark Crampsie Mick’s Irish Pub

TUESDAY 25

Love Bombing After the Earthquake (8pm) Mackenzie Hall breathearttheatre.com

FR Coach & Horses

Perilelle w/ Brzowski Jesse Dangerously & HW Phog Lounge

Get Smart Theatre Windsor theatrewindsor.com

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THURSDAY 27

FRIDAY 7

Jetset Motel w/ Great Diviners & Black Unicorn Phog Lounge

Rude City Riot w/ Credible Witness & That’s the Spirit Phog Lounge

Love Bombing After the Earthquake (8pm) Mackenzie Hall breathearttheatre.com

George Thorogood and the Destroyers Colosseum at Caesars Windsor

The Patient in 709 (8pm) Korda Zone Theatre kordaproductions.com

Trish Wales The Gourmet Empourium SUNDAY 16 Explode When They Bloom Phog Lounge Them Crooked Vultures Colosseum at Caesars Windsor For Today w/ Faithful Unto Death, Immanuel, What’s Left & Cyreene Blind Dog TUESDAY 18 Misery Signals w/ Structures, Amity Afﬂiction, Assassinate The Following & Desertion The Blind Dog WEDNESDAY 19 Kalle Mattson w/ Kevin Echlin & Tim Davidson Phog Lounge THURSDAY 20 The Locusts Have No King (family tree show) Phog Lounge

FRIDAY 28 Brothers w/ Tyburn Tree & Seven Out Coach & Horses Yellow Wood w/ Courtney John & Jon Epworth Phog Lounge SATURDAY 29

Lost Dog Dating (8pm) Mackenzie Hall 519-255-7600 The Patient in 709 (8pm) Korda Zone Theatre kordaproductions.com

FRIDAY 14

Murray Andrew Mick’s Irish Pub

SATURDAY 15

Get Smart Theatre Windsor theatrewindsor.com Willy Wonka (8pm) Chrysler Theatre windsorlight.com SATURDAY 8 The Patient in 709 (8pm) Korda Zone Theatre kordaproductions.com

SUNDAY 16 Willy Wonka (2pm) Chrysler Theatre windsorlight.com Aladdin Capitol Theatre riverfronttheatrecompany.ca FRIDAY 21 Aladdin Capitol Theatre riverfronttheatrecompany.ca SATURDAY 22 Lost Dog Dating (8pm) Mackenzie Hall 519-255-7600 Aladdin Capitol Theatre riverfronttheatrecompany.ca Dot Com City of Dreams Chrysler Theatre chryslertheatre.com

DJ SharShar Phog Lounge

Get Smart Theatre Windsor theatrewindsor.com

Inepsy w/ Destroy Thy Will Coach & Horses

Willy Wonka (8pm) Chrysler Theatre windsorlight.com

Aladdin Capitol Theatre riverfronttheatrecompany.ca

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WEDNESDAY 26

Willy Wonka (2pm) Chrysler Theatre windsorlight.com

To Kill a Mockingbird (11am & 2am) Capitol Theatre actorstheatreofwindsor. com

Dying Fetus w/ Arsis, Misery Index, Annotations Of An Autopsy & Conducting From The Grave Blind Dog Styrofoam Ones w/ The Darcys, Donlands & Mortimer & The Bulletproof Tiger Phog Lounge

Get Smart Theatre Windsor theatrewindsor.com FRIDAY 14 The Patient in 709 (8pm) Korda Zone Theatre kordaproductions.com

SUNDAY 23

THURSDAY 27 To Kill a Mockingbird (11am & 2am) Capitol Theatre actorstheatreofwindsor. com

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FRIDAY 28 Drag Korda Zone Theatre kordazone.com To Kill a Mockingbird (11am & 2am) Capitol Theatre actorstheatreofwindsor. com SATURDAY 29 Lost Dog Dating (8pm) Mackenzie Hall 519-255-7600 Drag Korda Zone Theatre kordazone.com To Kill a Mockingbird (10pm) Capitol Theatre actorstheatreofwindsor. com For Love of Isis Scottish Club of Windsor faydn.com/loveoﬁsis SUNDAY 30 Drag Korda Zone Theatre kordazone.com _________________________

ARTS _________________________ SATURDAY 1 Windsor Fights Back! (opening reception) [Leesa Bringas, Blake Fall-Conroy, Lucy Howe, Ezekial Moores, José Seoane & A.G. Smith] Artcite Inc. artcite.ca Building Bridges (BBQ opening reception | 12-4pm) Common Ground Gallery at Mackenzie Hall hanakaeye.com

Jackie Zimmer (art opening) Phog Lounge SUNDAY 2 Artist Trading Cards’ Big Trade (2-4pm) Ten Thousand Villages Kaya and Christiane Muller (readings) Hilton Windsor 72angels.ca WEDNESDAY 5

MONDAY 17 Anit-Homophobia Day events: postcard project Artcite Inc. poetry slam Milk TUESDAY 18 Comic Book Syndicate (ﬁlming) Phog Lounge THURSDAY 20

Juice Open Mic Poetry Phog Lounge

Broken City Lab: How to Save a City details @ brokencitylab. org/savethecity.

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SATURDAY 22

Last Train Home (2009 | Canada/China/ UK | director: Lixin Fan) (7pm) Capitol Theatre windsorﬁlmfestival.com A Town Called Panic (2009 | Belgium/France/ Luxem | director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar) (9pm) Capitol Theatre windsorﬁlmfestival.com FRIDAY 7 Unity in the Community BBQ (12-5pm) featuring new works by D3N!@L Print House/ Pelissier Street Gallery SATURDAY 8 Art Sale @ Riverside Library (10am-4pm) (Mia Kerr, Stella’s Works, Anne Spadafora, Kathryn Tisdale, Jane Barlow & Marie Wellwood) Riverside Library Radical Slam; open mic poetry (7pm) Windsor Workers’ Action Centre

Artists’ Parade (starts at 9am) Olde Sandwich Towne.

SATURDAY 29 Media City 16th Experimental Film and Video Festival (full details on pages 7-10) Capitol Theatre SmogFest (last gasp closing reception) (7:30pm) Milk

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Live Grafﬁti Painting (125pm) (The alley behind) Print House/ Pelissier Street Gallery Sandwich Towne Art Festival, art show (11-6pm) Sandwich Towne SUNDAY 23 Sandwich Towne Art Festival, art show (11-6pm) Sandwich Towne WEDNESDAY 26 Media City 16th Experimental Film and Video Festival (full details on pages 7-10) Capitol Theatre THURSDAY 27 Media City 16th Experimental Film and Video Festival (full details on pages 7-10) Capitol Theatre Materials Trade. ReUse. ReCyle; MayWorks Stitch & Bitch and Artist Trading Cards (6:30-9pm) Windsor Workers Action Centre

Art Sale @ Riverside Library (10am-4pm) (Patrick Stevens, Marie Wellwood, Sue Marentette, Elaine Woods, Gulnaz Turdalieva, Debbie Grant, Denise Parent & Jane Barlow) Riverside Library

Resonation II; Installation by Dong-Kyoon Nam and Paul Breschuk, Remorse; Text work by Amin Rehman (reception 7-10pm) 400 block of Pelissier Street

SmogFest (opening reception) Milk

SATURDAY 15

Media City 16th: Yearportraits: A Discussion with Friedl vom Gröller* (3pm) Art Gallery of Windsor agw.ca

Art Sale @ Riverside Library (10am-4pm) (Sandi Wheaton, Rebecca Draisey & Tracy Paterson) Riverside Library

Media City 16th Experimental Film and Video Festival (full details on pages 7-10) Capitol Theatre

Mystical Sedona by Victoria Snelgrove The Grove Gallery, Essex thegrovegallery.ca

Runway for Rosie fashion show (8pm) and the Art of War (Windsor Feminist Theatre beneﬁt) Mackenzie Hall windsorfeministtheatre.ca

FRIDAY 28

Young Rival / Young Rival Sonic Unyon E

2. Cobblestone Jazz / Modern Deep Left Quartet E 3. Drive-By Truckers / The Big To-Do / ATO 4. Bonobo / Black Sands / Ninja Tune 5. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is / Lost Highway 6. Awesome Color / Massa Hypnos / Ecstatic Peace! 7. Plants And Animals / La La Land / Secret City E 8. She & Him / Volume Two / Merge 9. Hannah Georgas / This Is Good / Hidden Pony E 10. Rafter / Animal Feelings / Asthmatic Kitty 11. Mark Sultan / $ / Last Gang E 12. Archie Bronson Outﬁt / Coconut / Domino 13. Slow Club / Yeah So / Moshi Moshi 14. Dum Dum Girls / I Will Be / Sub Pop 15. Jason Collett / Rat-A-Tat-Tat / Arts & Crafts E 16. The Bambi Molesters / As The Dark Wave Swells / Dancing Bear Glitterhouse 17. Lovers Love Haters / Lovers Love Haters / self-released E 18. Patrick Keenan / Washed Out Roads / Naneek Of The North E 19. Brad Mehldau / Highway Rider / Nonesuch 20. The Locusts Have No King / Come One, Come All / self-released E y 21. James O-L and The Villains / Alive At The Colch! / self-released E y 22. Pack A.D. / We Kill Computers / Mint E 23. The Whigs / In The Dark / ATO 24. Parallels / Visionaries / Marigold E 25. Mi Ami / Steal Your Face / Thrill Jockey 26. Growing / Pumps! / Vice 27. Jackie Robitaille / Take A Step Closer / selfreleased E y 28. Mose Allison / The Way Of The World / Anti29. High Places / High Places vs. Mankind / Thrill Jockey 30. Christina Maria / Straight Line / Vissen E compiled by

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album charts are arranged according to number of plays on CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor over a four (4) week period prior to the publishing of this issue. (E) denotes canadian,(y)denotes local artist.