March 28th: The Sun, Fun and Slavery tour
The SUN, FUN and SLAVERY TOUR
featuring:
KINGDOM SHORE (Ottawa)
NELSON ROSS LAGUNA (Ottawa)
Wherein the band Kingdom Shore covers the earth w/ their contemporary string music from an anxious world, before (or after) author Nelson Ross Laguna launches his book Sun, Fun & Slavery: How the South Became the North’s Playground (Exile Press) by leading a discussion about the neo-colonial practice of the South American tourism industry.
After covering traveling costs, all proceed go toward the continuing existence and operation of AKA. This stop on the tour will also feature the Exile Infoshop Traveling Bookstore of radical books and zines.
When: Sunday, March 28, 2010
Where: AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St., Unit 1
Start: 7:00pm
Admission: $7 suggested donation for the gainfully employed
$4 for the under-waged/under-employed/student
Otherwise, pay what you can. No genuine interest will be turned away.
ALL AGES
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About NELSON ROSS LAGUNA (Ottawa)
Union leader and activist Nelson is a founding member of the Exile Infoshop (http://www.exilebooks.org/) workers co-operative in Ottawa, along with being an author, ex (?) musician, and heavily underrated street hockey goaler.
ABOUT Sun, Fun & Slavery: How the South Became the North’s Playground (Exile Press)
“Most of us never stop to think about the footprints we leave after we have left the areas we claim to explore. Our attempts at helping the global south with tourist dollars is another attempt to have white man’s privilege save the poor from becoming poorer, all the while reinforcing racist stereotypes and the histories of slavery on a continuing path of imperialism. In our attempts to invent our own little paradise in someone else’s backyard, we have created a system that bears a striking resemblance to the one we were determined to destroy. Sun, Fun & Slavery is a short exploration of this phenomenon, with a focus on the intersection between modern-day tourism and terrorism.” –AK Press (http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/sunfunandslavery)
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About KINGDOM SHORE (Ottawa)
Dear friends, hawsers holding fast on the grim perimeters of this pinchbeck holding company, Kingdom Shore was formed in the ruck and warrens of March 2006, beneath the long shadows cast by the punk rock that grew out of 1980’s hardcore, avant and art rock, electro-acoustic music, noise, old world Gospel, and contemporary and left-field music, to take turns at watch so that we may fail well to stave off the malevolent, the narrow of heart, the analogue tastemakers, the dissociate, the ruder forms that survive slackjawed and willfully ignorant at hoarse latitudes, to take pleasure in twilight, to rejoice in waves standing at 19Hz, to refuse the world as a justification of interests in a strategy of slaughter as sold to us, to defy the open nerve of dispossession, to hum quietly among the hares at free elections under threat of the gun, to resist inheriting numbness, to give back what little we have received that is good, to rise up and get down, and to draw toward the hearth those who know that the light in this world is not its final ash, and that if you believed in anything, you could not kill another.
This is not a bid for relevance. This is not modern. This is not chamber music. Museums are for education, and active forgetting, and are not prisons for the children we are and are ours. It is too soon to relegate ours goals to incompleteness. There is so much left to do. Despair young and never look back. Bend closer children. Let us go.
The current line-up includes Nathan Medema (pedals, found-sounds and field recordings, laptop, electronics, samples, processing), and Simon Guibord (laptop, electronics, Korg MS-20), Ryan Hough (violin), Jasmine Landau (violin), Gerg Horvath (Double-Bass), and Mark Molnar (cello, loops, and electronics).
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For on-line information please see:
Kingdom Shore – www.kingdomshore.ca
Exile Infoshop – www.exilebooks.org
Black Bough Records – www.blackbough.ca
Sul pont – www.sulpont.ca
