Friday, September 30, 2005

Lots of infringing this weekend

Some infringement artists playing this wekend/
Quelques artistes infringement qui joue cette fin semaine:

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The Dead Doll Dancers will be performing in Fetish 4 Play with DJ's: Chris (Steelwerks) Beastie Bill and DJ Ryan, a performance by Pierre (Black Sun), NUDE ART Painting Exhibit by Diane Loisel on Friday, September 30th at Le Tube Bar, 1592 Ste-Catherine Est(métro Papineau) $10 in advance/$13 at the door. Check www.attitudes.cc for more.

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Optative Theatrical Laboratories wants you to help save our planet by reclaiming the urban landscape for one day this fall. After touring the international infringement circuit with stops in Ottawa, Buffalo and New York City, Car Stories is coming home for one more show this year, and we're going green!

Three spectators at a time are invited to witness parked cars transformed from gaz guzzlers into vibrant theatre spaces as they are guided through Montreal's Urban Wonderland in a quest to preserve the nature we still have left.

Car Stories runs Saturday, October 1st between 2:30pm and 7:30pm with a new show every 30 minutes as part of Journee de la Culture-JAM. Go to Les Minots (3812 St-Laurent) during showtimes and look for someone wearing coloured sunglasses or call (514) 583-FEST (3378) or e-mail optativelabs@yahoo.ca to reserve your spot. Car Stories is PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN at the end of the show.

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Der Kosmonaut (The Fall of New York) will be one of over 15 contestants participating in Black Theatre Workshop's Poetry Jam at The Green Room (5386 St-Laurent, corner St-Viateur) Sunday, October 2nd at 7pm (doors open at 6pm). Expect a hot night of slam poetry.

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A POESIA présente...LES RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA CHANSON VIVANTE à L'Inspecteur Épingle 4051, rue Saint-Hubert (angle Duluth) [598-7764] 20 h 30.

Isabelle Larrivée accueille...Éric Bélanger, Geneviève Binette, David Portelance. ENTRÉE LIBRE.

Pour suivre les événements essentielsde la chanson québécoise, visiter : http://quebecpop.com/Consulter aussi : http://www.leparolier.org/

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Final Car Stories show this year !!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ONE MORE CHANCE TO CATCH CAR STORIES THIS YEAR


Optative Theatrical Laboratories wants you to help save our planet by reclaiming the urban landscape for one day this fall.

After touring the international infringement circuit with stops in Ottawa, Buffalo and New York City, Car Stories is coming home for one more show this year, and we're going green!

Three spectators at a time are invited to witness parked cars transformed from gaz guzzlers into vibrant theatre spaces as they are guided through Montreal's Urban Wonderland in a quest to preserve the nature we still have left.

Car Stories runs Saturday, October 1st between 2:30pm and 7:30pm with a new show every 30 minutes as part of Journee de la Culture-JAM.

Go to Les Minots (3812 St-Laurent) during showtimes and look for someone wearing coloured sunglasses or call (514) 583-FEST (3378) or e-mail optativelabs@yahoo.ca to reserve your spot.

Car Stories is PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN at the end of the show.

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Videos available online at www.optative.net/carstories (DVD footage available upon request)

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Bury the Dead: Global Anti-War Reading This Month







Montreal is taking part in this global anti-war theatre event. For more information, or to get involved, please click here or on the picture above.

Thanks to all the friends of Car Stories NYC

This weekend's run of Car Stories NYC was great, but it wouldn't have been possible without the support of some wonderful people. Thanks to all those who made played in the show and everyone who helped us out.

Special thanks to Brian, Ross and infringement New York (also thanks to Brian for lending us his car), Michelle, Carrie, Tim & Tomoko, Mike and Max for housing our players, Kasai for showing us the real New York that you won't find in any tourist brochures and ensuring that no one got lost, Nicos, Eric and Matt for getting us there and back in one piece and to Nicos, Kathleen and Roni for running back and forth with updates during the show.

Also thanks to Pete, Dragana, Karen and all those who came out to see the show and played as spect-actors with a special mention to Elaine Dear, who gave the most energetic performance of the run.

And thank you to everyone who helped raise funds to get us there and back.

Car Stories plays next as part of les journées de la culture, so if you can make it out to Montreal the last weekend of September, you're more than welcome to hop in for the ride. Check out www.optative.net/carstories for updates.

We'll be back in NYC for next year's infringement Festival, but if you'd like to keep Car Stories going in the Big Apple before we return, please contact optativelabs@yahoo.ca

Once again, thanks to all, it was a blast !!!

Isabelle au pays de la chanson

Ceci vient d'Isabelle Larrivé, artiste du festival 2005, et ca mentionne certaines autres artistes infringement...

Bonjour à vous, Bien de l'eau a coulé sous les ponts depuis le spectacle du café Sarajevo le 1er août dernier. Voici un petit communiqué pour vous annoncer ce qui s'en vient :

Tous les dimanches à compter du 11 septembre, LA POESIA présentera LES RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA CHANSON VIVANTE à L'Inspecteur Épingle (angle Saint-Hubert et Duluth), à 20 h 30.

Ces soirées de chansons seront animées en alternance par les auteurs-compositeurs-interprètes Louis Royer, Gilles Bernier et Isabelle Larrivée.

Chaque semaine, trois artistes partageront la scène avec l'animateur ou l'animatrice pour un tour de chant d'une demi-heure chacun.

Le récital inaugural du 11 septembre sera donné par les trois animateurs ainsi que par la très talentueuse Annick Bérubé.

Se succéderont au fil des semaines sur la scène de L'Inspecteur Épingle plus d'une cinquantaine d'artistes de la chanson, dont Annie Bujo, Gilbert Gélinas, Paule Tremblay, Myriam Rousseau, Madeleine Royer, Geneviève Binette, Martin Lavoie, David Portelance, Tristan Malavoy-Racine, Claude Prieur, Geneviève Lenoir et Pierre Sarrazin (le Projet Miron), Marie-Nicole Groulx, Amélie Di Foster, Ginette Desmarais, Maurice de Longue Épée, Véronique Bacci, Francis Halin, Monique Paquin, Richard Gingras (Jack Drill)...CE SERA UN PASSIONNANT RENDEZ-VOUS EN CHANSONS TOUS LES DIMANCHES !

Pour infos : lapoesia@sympatico.ca 849-8249

Dans le cadre des Rendez-vous de la chanson vivante, je serai sur scène aux dates suivantes:

11 septembre
2 octobre
30 octobre
20 novembre
11 décembre.

Je serai alors accompagnée par Martin Gagnon au piano, et René De Montigny au saxophone, flûte traversière et mélodica.

De plus, pour ceux d'entre vous qui auraient envie d'un petit dépaysement, je signale à tout hasard que je chanterai au Maroc aux dates et lieux suivants :

20 septembre, Institut Français de Casablanca
22 septembre, Institut français d'Oujda.

Au plaisir de vous accueillir, ici, là-bas ou ailleurs,

Isabelle