July 14 , 2001: The Legion
Pictures from this event:
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS SATURDAY NIGHT? Can't afford or get to the Folk
Fest? Apartment's being fumigated? Anthill erupted in your favourite shady
patch of grass? TRY THE LIVING CLOSET, now upstairs at the LEGION HALL at
2205 Commercial Drive! (Hey... that rhymes!)
That's right - THE LIVING CLOSET is ON THE MOVE! We've replaced our dancing
shoes with our walking shoes and migrated a bit south on the Drive, and I
for one am overjoyed - I don't care how elegant they made fifth position
look; those pointe shoes were KILLING my toes!
It's been a summer of effective experiments and explorations so far with
a
3-Day-Jam and some small successes with the guerilla art attack on the
SkyTrain (I did not tell you this... I was never here) and we're just about
ready to throw our usual assortment of diverse and impressive talents at you!
That's right! This saturday night we'll be bringing you:
* guitars!
* knob-twiddling!
* at least one saxophone!
* some words!
* pictures on walls!
* all singing, all dancing! (well, some singing. And we were kind of
hoping for you to provide the dancing...)
But seriously, folks! Some of the heavyweight talent we've roustered up
to
astound, amaze and inspire you includes:
* A triumphal (and earlier!) set by the enigmatic band Stormwaver, straight
from the third pyramid of Giza!
* Jean-Paul Fiket, international jazzman of mixery, IN TANDEM with Mister
"Portable Rave", Esquire, himself - Mediacore's Bad Feng Shui!
* Getting to the skinny of things with Martin Thin of the Martin Thin band!
* We're going to be taught a thing or to about singing in a modern idiom by
Rodel de Lima!
* the XY chromosome contingent from this year's Vancouver Poetry Slam team!
They don't only have fascinating primary and secondary sex characteristics,
folks - the words of these fine fellows are going forth in August to
represent our fair city and blow the US out of the water in international
competition! Let's give it up for R.C. Weslowski, C.R. Avery, Al Mader and
"The" Shane Koyczan!
* direct from this year's Vancouver Folk Music Festival - the adorable (but
mind their chops!) boys and girls of Insinuating Shank!
* and YOU! (..*me?*) YES, YOU! At our OPEN MIC starter session from 7 to 8
pm! If you don't have anything to say... FIND SOMETHING! ("Hello... I'd
like to lodge a protest against the harrassing techniques employed in the
last Living Closet mail-out..." "Let's give this man a hand! Wooo!")
Hosted by the merry Mayor of Toy City himself, J.P. Lesperance, this event
will keep you warm well into the night - past midnight and later than any
Living Closet in recent memory! At less than a dollar an hour how can you
afford NOT to go? (Wait - don't answer that!)
If for whatever eminently worthwhile you can't make this event (anthill
cleared up?) NEVER FEAR! (I could tell you were worried for a minute there
- you had that glimmer in your eyes) In picking up our feet we're also
picking up the pace! No longer need you wait an entire season to get
another strange e-mail from me promoting an event! Look for us to be
mounting smaller events more often - this August in conjunction with the
Bikesummer festival (www.bikesummer.org) and with the Vancouver Poetry Slam
society, bringing back some of the best the US had to throw against us to
parade through our streets and stages in ignominy!
* * *
The clunketty but strangely effective perpetual motion machine of culture
that is the Living Closet is fuelled entirely by volunteers, tossed
willy-nilly into the furnace! Well, some of them escape its fiery clutches
to do things like make telephone calls and put up posters, which might be
more your pace. If any of this interests you for even a moment, you are
lost. No, wait, channeling Leonard Cohen there. If you're interested in
helping us, working with us or having your organization work in conjunction
with us for a future event (only, until we get that blasted time machine
back in operation), launch or promotion, please contact us!
As well, if you're interested in performing or exhibiting at a future
event
(and really, who wouldn't be? You in the back, put your hand down), our art
wrangler Champ can be contacted at 253-1121 while your humble performance
coordinator Rowan is on the other end at 253-5804.
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If you're interested in independent (and more frequent - updated on a
daily
basis!) announcements of literary events going on in Vancouver, you're
encouraged to investigate the VanLit mailing list at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanlit, subscribable to at
vanlit-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If you're interested in performing at the next Living Closet
event, E-mail us with your
name, contact info, and the type of art you practice.