November 28th: Critical Convictions, Picked On + Bad Skin
Archive for October, 2008
November 2nd: Markus
FREE LIVE CHILDRENS’ MUSIC!!!
November 2nd, 2008 @ 4:30 PM
AKA Social Centre (75 Queen Street)
Pay What You Can; All Welcome!
Bring the young ones to see Toronto-based Markus, winner of the 2008 Songwriter Award in Childrens’ Music, the U.S. Parents’ Choice Award, and the Early Childhood Educators’ Gold Award. This intimate concert will start promptly at 4:30pm… this one’s fun for the whole family!
November 1st: Ground Noise and Static
Screening “GROUND NOISE AND STATIC” followed by Q+A w/ filmmaker FRANKLIN LOPEZ
Saturday, November 1st at 7:30pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre
75 Queen Street (@ Wellington)
FREE Admission
After our attempt to bring the RNC Welcoming Committee to Kingston was thwarted by the U.S. Government, we finally got our shit together and bring you: Ground Noise and Static.
Ground Noise and Static is a video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. While corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”
Ground Noise & Static is a joint effort of Franklin López of subMedia and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.
Filmmaker Bio: Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lopez has been media jamming since he started subMedia in 1994. His CrimethInc inspired films have been screened worldwide and translated into several languages. His post-Katrina music video ‘George Bush Don’t Like Black People’ has been downloaded over one million times and counting. Lopez’s work has been featured and/or written about in The New York Times, Wired, Contour, BET, Current TV, Free Speech TV, the Georgia Straight and Creative Loafing to name a few. More recently he worked as TV producer for Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” In the works is a VLOG called “It’s the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine” and issue #2 of subMedia’s Zine “Molotov!” You can view Lopez’s work on his web site http://submedia.tv