 residencyPrinting Skillshare Tonight! (Sunday, October 23rd)
Please join our Resident Caroline Paquita at Roberts Street for a potluck and fire (weather permitting) this evening at 7pm. All printing geeks (meaning anyone who loves printed matter) are encouraged to attend, in order to have an informal, larger discussion about the mediums and techniques that are used to get work out into the larger world. Think of it as a very relaxed skillshare and a nice way to spend your Sunday night, after a long weekend of music and zines.
Lo-Tech Sound Events with our Artist in Resident Anne-Francoise JacquesThe Sound Garden, Friday, October 7th, 5-7pm & Saturday, October 8th, 2-5pm Cassette Loop Fun! Friday, October 7th, 7pm
Anne-Francoise Jacques (Montreal, QC) will use homemade microphones, cassette recorders and homemade cassette loops to record sound samples around Roberts Street and create an ephemeral sound installation in the garden. Anne-Francois is co-founder of the sound art collective les-son 666 and makes sound pieces for radio and experimental animations.
Upcoming events!Our current residents are Marlaina Buch & Ross Macauly (Victoria, BC), and they've got some awesome events coming up soon! Mariana will develop her performance music project Hunter Rapper which humourously and critically explores food politics and systems, while Ross will produce a zine of recipes from memory with hand drawn lettering. Both of them will look specifically at lobster and fisheries, celebrating and examining local food knowledge. Backyard Bro Down and Wiener Roast, Sunday, September 18th, 5pm(ish) Boiled Alive! Show & Tell/Culinary Throw Down, Friday, September 23rd, 7:30pm ======== Plus we currently have an Ink Storm resident too! Print First, Ask Questions Later Ink Storm Workshop, Monday, September 26th, 7pm Some fabrics, inks and equipment will be available for general use, but participants should expect to bring along a few items for the workshop, too. Further details upon registration.
Ana Armengod zine release! Wednesday, September 7th, 7pmAna is our current resident and she has just finished a zine about her experiences in Mexican punk and radical communities! Get a copy of the zine fresh off the photocopier, eat vegan Mexican food, and watch two Mexican documentaries about punks (one about an urban permaculture project). Ana is from Mexico, organized Ladyfest Mexico for several years, and is an artist who contributes to zines and magazines.
Welcome to our new resident Ana Armengod (Mexico)Ana is going to work on a graphic and written zine about experiences in Mexican punk and radical communities. She organized Ladyfest Mexico for several years, and is an artist who contributes to zines and magazines. She's also cleaning up and organizing our kitchen, for which she gets our eternal gratitude.
Resident Claudia Tremblay’s Potluck Zine Party!Out current resident, Claudia Tremblay (Quebec, QC), is holding a potluck zine party to share their new zine Celestial things have fun. People are welcome to bring their favourite food and zines to share with others. The same as human and terrestrial elements, celestial things have important and serious things to do, but also they can have fun. Celestial things have fun, is Claudia Tremblay’s new art zine, with some drawings that are inspired by the new age aesthetic and The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 science fiction short story collection written by Ray Bradbury. Thursday, August 25th, 5pm.
Simon Rabyniuk is our New Shed Resident and Explorer!We're half way through our residencies for 2011, and so far they've all been awesome! Our latest resident is Simon Rabyniuk (from Toronto, ON), who'll be here until the 14th of August. Simon will go on a series of daily walks through Halifax, recording movement in a journal that will be used to create a hand drawn map of the city. Simon is a visual artist who has worked on several projects relating to walking, and exploring how individuals become aware of their surroundings.
Shed Resident Welcome and Events!As we try to deal with the heat, our new shed resident Coral Maloney is spending her time in Halifax working on The Preserving Project (I Love You This Much), a participatory performance that uses traditional food preserving techniques to transform non-food stories and objects, providing a space to talk about food, nature, memory, nostalgia, and colonization. Coral is an artist, theater-maker, and urban farmer. Coral is organizing two different events. On Tuesday, July 26th from 6-8pm there is a fun workshop called Basic Theatre for Everyone. On Thursday, July 28th there will be two interactive peformances of The Preserving Project, at 2pm and 7pm (post-performance chit-chat & BBQ dinner to follow). We hope to see you there!
DIY Zine Libraries release and dinnerFriday, July 1st, 6pm Shed resident Cheyenne Hohman is wrapping up her time here with us. Join her to celebrate the release of her new zine about DIY Zine Libraries! Zine Release: DIY Zine Libraries
Welcome to shed resident: J. Cheyenne HohmanWelcome our current shed resident, Cheyenne from Lexington, Kentucky. Cheyenne will be here until July 3, and is compiling interviews with folks who run zine libraries and archives for a zine that will become both a resource for existing zine libraries, and a guide for folks who are interested in starting one themselves. Cheyenne has a zine distro called Copy That! and has made several zines including Neckmonster, OllyOllyOxenFree, Ask First and Empower Your Sexy Self.
Comics Consortium Day! Saturday, June 18th Our resident Walker Mettling is putting on this awesome event!
Click "Read more" to see the full poster and find out about the event, or check out the facebook page.
Welcome Walker Mettling, our third shed resident of the year!Our second shed resident (the awesome Shannon Willmott) has just left, so it's time to welcome our newest resident! Walker Mettling (hailing from Providence, RI) is here until June 19th. Now Accepting Residency Applications for 2011!We are now accepting applications for our residency program. We are interested in proposals for projects that embody the same sort of do-it-yourself spirit as the Social Centre, and that contribute in some way to the community and/or the space. See more on the Residency page.
Riot Grrrl Relived; the spirit of grrrl zines, next generationSunday, October 24th, 1-5 pm
Two Call Outs! Resident Event!Donate your stuff to the Roberts Street Yard Sale! Shed resident Katie Haegele is writing her zine, White Elephants, about yard saling and her love of all things old and unwanted. She sneaked in a little linguistics lesson on the word nostalgia and related words in other languages, too. To celebrate the launch of her fourth issue she’s having a yard sale!
Make the Wind Blow Zine Launch
A message from our shed residents:
HEY HALIFAX! We are launching our zine & we’d love to come celebrate:
Make the Wind Blow… a zine on music & resistance. Where? 5684 Roberts Street (Roberts Street Social Centre)
Ice Cream Social and Zine Launch with Maranda Elizabeth, Roberts Street zinemaker-in-residence!Friday July 16, 5pm. Roberts Street Social Centre, 5684 Roberts Street.
Natural Dye and Shibori Skillsharewith Shed resident Nancy Anne McPhee Saturday July 3rd 4:30-7:30 Several dye pots, including Indigo, will be set up for experimentation and experience. Possibly also a yellow and a pink.
Mental Health and the Concept of Home workshop announcedOne of our upcoming shed residents, Maranda Elizabeth will be facilitating a discussion on the concept of home and how our mental health affects where and how we live. Questions to consider might be: Where do you feel the most at home? How do mental health and personal income dictate how you live? Do you ever feel homesick?
Performance of The Custom of Killing Rabbits on Friday, June 18The Custom of Killing Rabbits
A one-woman show by shed resident Alessandra Naccarato
workshop performance by candlelight
in the garden of Robert St Social Centre
Friday June 18th at dusk | 8 pm | Free
(Rain date Saturday June 19)
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