YEAH! Carousel Magazine is out and Chlamydia Is Not a Flower is in it!!!
Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!!!
Wonderfest Poster!!!
I am very excited to be part of the Wonderfest week long festival. It will be my 3rd Wonder Women as a feature!
There is one helluvah amazing line up performers. (more details to come)
Check out the Wonder Women blog for all the details! wonderwomenworld.tumblr.com
MARCH 4-8, 2013 is International Women’s Week, and LMG Productions celebrates by presenting Wonder Women VI: WonderFest, a weeklong series of workshops and concerts to spread empowerment through art. This International Women’s Week edition of Wonder Women will be the largest Wonder Women event yet. With fourfree workshops and two concerts involving approximately 50 wonder women and super men of varied media, WonderFest is certain to make a positive artistic impact on the community.
At LMG Productions we truly believe that we are in this together, and we would be honoured if you would join us in our passion towards encouraging and empowering individuals through art.
Introducing our new blogsite:
www.WonderWomenWorld.tumblr.com/
WONDERFEST SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Monday March 4, 2013
Workshop: Business Planning for Artists; Heather Hill
7:00pm at The Central, 603 Markham Street
FREE
Tuesday March 5, 2013
Workshop: Playing With Music; Collaboration/Jam/Open Mic
7:00pm at The Central, 603 Markham…
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As promised, here’s the interview with Christian D and the Hangovers frontman Christian DeArmond. I first met Christian in the Twitterverse – then eventually in person while he and the band were playing a gig at The Cadillac Lounge. Performing with powerhouse vocals and driving guitar riffs, Christian D has a charismatic, compelling and – I won’t lie to ya – sexy stage presence. Recently, I fired over a bunch of questions over email – and here’s what he had to say:
LWMC: Hey, Christian – thanks for coming onboard to do this interview for cowbell. If it’s okay with you, I’d like to take it from the angle of folks who may not be all that familiar with you and your music.
CD: Perfect, since most people aren’t familiar with me at all…
LWMC: Your music has been described as rockabilly, cow punk and “psychobilly.” How would you…
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It’s pretty obvious to me that people are now fully in the swing of the new year. Even as the weather remains unpredictable and decidedly un-typical-winter-like, the temperature has been gradually building in the spoken word and poetry slam community of the Greater Toronto Area. It all comes to a head this weekend in an explosion of poetry events rarely seen around these parts in a 72-hour period. But before that happens there are a plethora of quality performances and open mic opportunities for you to sink your teeth into this week. Here’s what’s on the radar over the upcoming seven days:
Monday
The crew at R.I.S.E. Poetry host their weekly open mic event at Tropicana Community Services (670 Progress Ave. near McCowan) from 6:30-9:30pm. All poets, singers and MCs looking for someplace to share work need look no further! Admission is $3 at the door.
Meanwhile in south…
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Big fun times with amazing artists and friends at The Central on Saturday night for LMG Productions’ Super Wonderful New Year Kickoff fundraiser for the upcoming Wonder Women 2013 festival in March. Organizers and hosts Arlene Paculan and Kat Leonard (aka Musedy Tag Team) treated us to some tunes, including their new Michael Jackson mash-up, and some kick-ass raffle prizes, including CDs from participating artists and tickets to the upcoming Wonder Women concert on March 8.
This was one incredible party – and we were moved, rocked and amazed by feature acts of Wonder Women and, for the first time, Super Men – check them out:
It was a reunion of sorts, and I got to see folks I hadn’t seen in a while, including some of the incredible open mic guests: Angela…
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BuDa (Beautiful & Damned) kicked off 2013 with a dynamic January show, hosted by Philip Cairns, with three features who left me wanting more – sadly time restraints at Glad Day force us to wrap the show by 9:40 or all of them would have been called on for encores.
First feature Faye Guenther read Hostage Spaces – a short story told from the ‘You’ point of view. It opens with an almost clinical description of a building’s white marble lobby: “smooth dove-coloured leather couches that never hold a body, standing in illuminated pools of white on white” The descriptions move into a more personalized sense of the space, of the You addressed, “the soreness begins to explore your face”; of the life You lives, then brings other people into that life – a lover, a coworker: “you lifted your head and recognized someone…. Her eyes were the color of trees this time of…
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SUPER WONDERFUL NEW YEAR KICKOFF
This Saturday AND this girl is a feature!!! Hot girls, hot boys, one stage. You really shouldn’t miss this!
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LMG Productions presents…
SUPER WONDERFUL NEW YEAR KICKOFF
SATURDAY JANUARY 12TH, 2013!
At The Central in Toronto!
It will be a fantastical night that’s sure to warm the cockles of your heart even if it’s a blistery day—or blustery even.
LMG is proud to debut their first lineup of SUPER MEN along with splendorous WONDER WOMEN!
It will be hosted by the Musedy Tag Team of
Kat Leonard and Arlene Paculan!
www.katleonard.com
www.arlenepaculan.com
The fun happens at
The Central
603 Markham St. Toronto, ON
7:30pm!
$10!
We’re raising funds for our amazing event “Wonder Women” which will be a week long event during International Women’s Week in March 2013!
The goal of Wonder Women is to spread empowerment and positive self-esteem through female artists.
Here’s who you get to see at this awesome event!
Asleep in the Machine
http://www.asleepinthemachine.com/
Ellie Anderson
http://www.ellieandersonmusic.com/
Dread Eye
http://facebook.com/dreadeyew
Matt Gerber
http://www.myspace.com/thedeadlyvenoms
Linda Inthahack
http://www.lindaint.ca/
Miquelon Rodriguez
http://mrminddump.wordpress.com/
Candice Sand
http://www.candicesand.com/
Supertash
http://www.supertash.com/
Lizzie Violet
https://lizzieviolet.wordpress.com/
And there will be open mic spots for you to join in on the fun!
Space is limited! Sign up is at 7:30pm!
There will be door prizes!
See you on January 12th, 2013!
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CANADIAN TALENT!
When one door closes…
Imagine the opening scene of Get Smart. Agent 86, walking down that long tunnel, doors slamming down behind him. Now imagine you’re Agent 86, this is a dream and you wake up in a cold panicked sweat, realizing it’s times to start closing doors. Doors you are terrified to close. Dreams are a funny deal, you can either try to analyze the shit out of them or take them for what they are, your subconscious smacking you in the ass. In my case, this wasn’t so much a dream, as an epiphany, time to close doors.
My biggest issue is I’m a fixer. It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, friendship or a broken object. I refuse to give up till all avenues are exhausted, all scenario’s played out, the final straw has been broken. In doing so, I leave doors open a crack, refusing to believe things can’t change or get better. The morning I had that dream, I realized I need to stop leaving those doors open. I need to shut all the partially open doors, move on, get the fuck over it! I was stagnating myself by letting issues, people and problems hang on. I couldn’t write, my creative juices had dried up. I was frustrated, depressed and feeling an overwhelming despair. I’m a writer who couldn’t write, I’d given up on love for my craft and ever finding love again in my own personal life and this terrified me. That morning, I took a very deep breath and then I closed all the doors. Every, last, one. No one should give up on their dreams and no one should EVER give up on love.
Then it happened. The awakening. The opening of the new door. The excitement. It’s been 6 months since I’ve actually been able to write more than just a few lines and now I can’t write fast enough. I’ve revived a project I had a huge hard on for before all this happened. I’m finishing off odds and ends that were pushed aside because I’d lost my desire. I’ve found my will to write again.
Since I’ve started creating again, I’ve started working on my TV series project I’d been conceptualizing. It’s based on my own life as a single woman. I figured much of my life is a sitcom anyway, so why not create a TV series about it. I’ve played with the idea for a few years, the Gods know I have enough fodder in my life to fill a few solid seasons, so… write what you know, know what you write. I don’t remember the last time I was this excited, exhilarated, had such a huge boner for a project. And my boner is massive right now.
I feel like I’m in control again. Though I don’t know what might be on the other side of the door, I’m walking through it anyway. I’ve found the ambition that is needed to make my dreams come true and am ready to see if love comes my way. This girl has opened the door wide and is no longer afraid to leave it all the way open!
Happy New Year, all!
Here are a bunch of upcoming events/performances/productions to watch out for – and there’s a little somethin’ for everyone here:
Tin Star Orphans open for The Strumbellas at The Dakota Tavern on Tues, Jan 8.
The next edition of The Beautiful & the Damned poetry cabaret, hosted by Philip Cairns and featuring trivia on dead celeb of the month James Dean, is on Thurs, Jan 10 – 7 p.m. at Glad Day Bookshop.
Queen Milli ofGalt, written by Gary Kirkham and directed by Victoria Shepherd, opens at The Village Playhouse on Fri, Jan 11 and runs until Sat, Feb 2.
Theatre Brouhaha’s Toronto Fringe 2012 hit production of Kat Sandler’s Help Yourself runs at Red Sandcastle Theatre Fri, Jan 11 – Sat, Jan 19 – if you missed it at Fringe, be sure to check out this remount. Check out the rest…
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Lizzie Violet 