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MNN:
April 25, 2008. Mohawks surrounded at the quarry in Tyendinaga. Ontario
Provincial Police OPP fully armed with guns drawn. They are yelling
through blow horns ordering the Rotiskenrekete to come down with their
hands up, or else they are going to take them out.  read more »

A cool mock ad campaign apparently is spreading across canada: fake pharmaceutical ads on bus shelters, billboards and inside bus ads are featuring a drug called 'Obay' for kids!

I saw one on the kipps lane bus and on a giant south-facing billboard on wellington road near south/grey street (west side) or nearer to the river. I found this online:

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7426/img5521hi4.jpg

and a weird website:

http://www.obay.info/ 

and a short discussion:

http://creativebits.org/obay_ads 

Miss Chief Eagle Testickle in the R.O.M. Crystal

Last evening I visited the new wing of the Royal Museum of Ontario for a performance by Winnipeg-born artist Kent Monkman. The event was part of the imagineNATIVE annual media festival, and it was f@#$ing brilliant. The performance was called a séance and consisted of Monkman lecturing on painting by summoning the spirits of 3 dead painters such as Eugene Delacroix and Paul Kane, with a 50 ft high projection of slides on the gallery wall. Monk did this as Miss Chief Eagle Testicle in 3 feathered headdresses with matching panties, bras and stilettos (inspired by Cher’s campy “Half-breed” performances no doubt). She came out onto the stage in the 4-story Crystal gallery three times, in grand puffs of smoke, first in a striking black headdress, and invoked the spirit of Eugene Delacroix, beckoning him to “…come talk to Miss Chief.”  read more »

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http://thelondonbridge.ca/home.html

Hey this looks like it will be good:

Start As You Will Go On, PT II
Curated by Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman
Museum London
421 Ridout Street North
Thursday, October 18, 2007 @ 7:00 PM
Admission:  $5.00

Program

Lot 63, Grave C.   2006.  10:00 Minutes
Directed by Sam Green

The name of Meredith Hunter, the man killed in front of the stage at Altamont, has been almost totally forgotten. Filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) seeks out what may be the final reminder of Hunter’s existence, an unmarked grave.

In Order Not to Be Here.  2002.  33:00 Minutes
Directed by Deborah Stratman

An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect us from people not like us). A fear of irregularity (eat at McDonalds, you know what to expect). A fear of thought (turn on the television). A fear of self (don't stop moving). By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals peculiarly 21st century hollownessÉ an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind.

Original electronic music by Kevin Drumm.

RE:  THE_OPERATION.    2002.  27:30 Minutes
Directed by Paul Chan

Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's administration as wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, RE:THE_OPERATION explores the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the lives of the members as they physically engage each other and the "enemy". 

INTERKOSMOS.  2003.  71:00 Minutes
Directed by Jim Finn

Jim Finn has made a name for himself in recent years as a short film maker, thanks to his feeling for irony and his capacity to shape something new from propaganda, news and other historic images. Not to forget his very dry sense of humour. Two years ago, he was given a grant for a short musical film about a secret space project in the early 1970s involving an attempt by East German cosmonauts and their allies to establish socialist colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. As Finn got on with building his models and the shooting days approached, his project started to grow. He couldn’t complete it alone, however, so he received help from various different quarters. The result is his first full-length film, filled with plot theories, guinea pigs and beautiful miniature sets, unique visual and above all sound material: hip choreographed musical numbers in which you can see that the makers have wrestled their way through the entire oeuvre of Busby Berkeley, with retro 1970s music that makes it difficult to stop tapping your feet. There are also moments of tranquility in the almost abstract scenes about the infinity and banality of German-language space travel." - International Film Festival Rotterdam

I don't know when this was posted but the Mary Campbell Housing Coop downtown is looking for a coordinator, looks like a good job. I used to tlive there and it's a good place.

http://mc.lweb.net/opportunity.htm 

I'd like to start a group for review blogs. When the new londoncommons.net goes up I can start the group officially, but I thought I'd put the idea out early. I wrote reviews on local plays for theatrenemesis.com over the past few years but I am turning my focus to art and film/video. If anyone wants to contribute reviews or comments they are welcome. Music, art, speakers, festivals, performances of any kind.

We need to form/strengthen a critical base that supports and engages with work that is produced locally (as well as what comes to town), as there is a noticeable lack of criticism of the Arts in London (a city boasting over 3 major public music festivals yearly). If anyone wants to challenge me on that note, many writers have offered to do reviews free for the London Free Press and almost never receive a reply. Much of that paper's content comes from Canadian Press. We have Artscape and Scene mags but most artists and intellectuals don't like or respect them all that much. I will be posting reviews of films etc. and please feel free to do the same at your leisure!

Hey Hey! 

There's a show everyone should watch on TvO tonight: the Agenda with Steve Paikin is on The Ambiguity of Afghanistan. Also airs at 5am.

I just watched an interesting discussion on TVO’s The Agenda about the “University Crisis”. They spoke to two Western profs; James E. Cote (who wrote Ivory Tower Blues http://www.ivorytowerblues.com/)
and Rebecca Coulter as well as a younger guy who wrote a book about the university experience and the president of St Thomas University (New Brunswick).

For more info see:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779015&...

So my first question for you is: Why will/should/did you go to university?  read more »

 It is profoundly disturbing that Stephen Harper, George Bush and Mexican president Felipe Calderon are able to shape North America as if it were their own personal clubhouse with an overwhelming majority of dissent among their own people. North America IS run by the Corporation, headed by three of the worst human beings on the planet. 

I want to say thanks to the people at Montebello today and the Londonners who are drawing attantion to the SPP here at home.
We must all become active citizens to ensure that these governments do not remain in power in the near future. The US and Mexican elections were stolen. If all of the brilliant and passionate protesters and activitists would want power enough to go into politics and "smoke em out" of their own holes then we could stop this awful regression into neo-conservativism.