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/DIY/DIT artists, organizers, facilitators, collectives and community members: we want to hear from you!
Read MoreDIY/DIT artists, organizers, facilitators, collectives and community members: we want to hear from you!
Read MoreAfter the pandemic shut down in-person interaction, Toronto creative agency Somewherelse created HUH, a new platform that lets audiences explore art all over the world, filtered by city and mood.
Read More“Most people don’t want you to know their jobs. Because then you can do it yourself. But that’s not what we want.”
Read MoreWritten, produced and directed as a collective in collaboration with transmedia artist Henri Fabergé.
Read MoreOn Poolblood’s latest offering “My Little Room,” Maryam Said spins an unadorned acoustic rumination cataloguing the feelings and behaviours related to the challenges of interacting with a reduced environment. It’s all just a matter of time.
Read MoreTea Base has emerged as a defiant space holder for members of Toronto’s Pan-Asian diaspora and an incubator for community activism, all while hawking tea curated by local sommeliers.
Read MoreTen years ago, Frosty Valentine left an anthropomorphic mouse-shaped hole in the cartoon industry. Working a thankless grind in the less glamorous recesses of animation recording studios, she burned out on contract work ghost singing for a series of movies and television shows. With no spotlight to call her own, she called it quits, consulted a psychic, and started plotting her return.
Read MoreThe music Anna Yarmamedova makes as Annacetaminophen is automatic and of distant means. Feverish and desolate, the project’s self-titled debut plays out like a horror movie set in a hospital, words and production processed through generative patches Yarmamedova developed on MaxMSP.
While alien bleeps call out as if through featureless hallways and click tracks build tension like leadened IV drips, the words Yarmamedova invokes through detatched gasps of electronic processing land like echoes from visits with doctors and social workers: “rejection,” “panic,” “light-headed,” “dysphoria.”
Read MoreThe Music Gallery is taking a field trip. Heading west of its current base at St. George the Martyr Church on John Street, on March 19, the Toronto centre for promoting and presenting innovation and experimentation in all forms of music joins Long Winter to co-curate its final flagship event of its 2015/’16 season at the Great Hall. That also means going home.
Read MoreEvery edition of this season’s Long Winter, we’re releasing a free split seven-inch, each side featuring a song from one of the night’s featured artists. To compliment the releases, we’ve issued a seven-part questionnaire to each of the artists involved, giving the subjects an inch (about 85 words) of space to answer each of our questions.
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