enewsletter - 2009_11.23
November 23 2009
In this enewsletter:
- ~Night at the Indies~ Toronto Celebrates 3-year Anniversary in our New Home!
- ~Night at the Indies~ Vancouver
- Toronto Women's Bookstore & ~Night at the Indies~ Proudly Present: "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you Are!!"
- From Criminality to Equality
- Call For Submissions
- Buy Indie Art -- Support Our Artists
- Our Sponsors
 ~Night at the Indies~ Toronto proudly co-presented by Mayworks Festival
Dear Indies Family, it is with great joy that we welcome you to Celebrate our 3-year Anniversary! Its hard to believe its already been 3 years since we've been showcasing Toronto's finest independent multi-media artists. We are proud to invite you to our new home - the 918 Bathurst Culture, Arts and Media Centre - we're sure you'll fall in love with just as we did when we first walked in. Thank you so much for your support over the last 3 years and we look forward to seeing you on Thursday, Indies Collective.
What: ~Night at the Indies~ Toronto Celebrates 3-year Anniversary!
When: Thursday, November 26 @ 8pm - doors open at 7:30
 Where: 918 Bathurst - Culture, Arts & Media Centre - 2 blocks North of Bloor on the West side. w - 918bathurst.com
Admission: $10/pay what you can
Anniversary Special: Every t-shirt sold come with a FREE Cozmic Cat Indies 3-year Anniversary CD
Showcasing: Stand-Up Comedian, Short Film, & Sketch Comedy
Programmed by: Gurbeen Bhasin ~Night at the Indies~ Collective Director
HOST - Maggie Cassella
 Maggie Cassella has always been a talker. It is a trait born out of necessity really. The youngest in an Italian family of six with three older brothers, it was pretty much talk or be talked over. Being born with original sin didn't help much either. "Maybe," she thought, "if I keep talking I won't burn in hell." What?
After almost ten years as a lawyer (okay, more like 8.5 – but after that hell it is only fair to round up) and dealing with cases involving people with AIDS (at the beginning of the plague years), trans issues around marriage (before anyone even THOUGHT of gay marriage, so if you were trans you would need to be divorced before you could get your surgery), and bringing the test case for gay adoption in Connecticut (they won, they lost, then Maggie quit and the other lawyers kept it up and lost some more, then the legislature came to their senses and changed the law), Maggie had enough and quit.
Well, actually, it is more like Maggie found a sugar mama, which allowed her to quit and move to Toronto. Hey, shut up, she'd been doing stand up for plenty of years by then, so it was no big deal. Hey, shut up! Over the years Maggie has had the privilege of interviewing comedy legends such as Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur, Joan Rivers, and performers such as William H. Macy, Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robert Downey Jr., Laura Linney, Eartha Kitt, k.d. Lang, and too many others to list here. maggiecassella.com
 Pride and Resistance
© 2007 Intervention Video Inc. (16 min., DVD)
Pride and Resistance, is a series of five three-minute videos on queer history created by Nancy Nicol. Pride and Resistance takes a whirlwind tour through forty years of local and national LGBTQ history celebrating the political history of Pride Day in Toronto.
Proudly co-presented by Inside Out Film Festival & Pride Toronto
 Performance by Christel Bartelse
Christel is a dynamic actor, writer, producer, comedian who can be seen performing all around the city. She is a regular performer at the Lunacy Cabaret and recently returned from touring her one woman show CHAOTICA across Canada. She teaches physical comedy at Humber College and currently is working on a new musical for Feb. 2010 and writing her second solo show. christelbartelse.com
 BravoFACT! Proudly Presents
 The Island
Writer/Director/Producer/Performer: Trevor Anderson; Animators: Jeff LeDrew, Rat Creek Design; Producers: Julia Rosenberg, Tyler Levine, January Films (Alberta)
The filmmaker considers, with the help of animation, a piece of fan mail he received. Premiered at the 2009 Berlinale.
 Facebook of Revelations: Heroes
Director: Ryan Keller; Actors: Darryl Hinds, Jim Annan, Karen Parker, Lauren Ash, Marty Adams, Scott Montgomery; Composer: Matthew Reid; Producers: Cullen Fairfield, Gerry Lattmann, Fairfield Television (Ontario)
Based on The Second City’s acclaimed Facebook of Revelations mainstage show, three office workers plot the demise of their manager.
 Pointless Film
Writer/Director: Peter Wellington; Actors: Noam Jenkins, Oliver Dennis; Producers: Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl, The Film Farm (Ontario)
Tensions rise as a man tries to negotiate a much lower price for a futon.
 Scarlett Magdalene
Left on the cold and lonely doorstep of a nunnery, Scarlett began life as a straight-A catechism student, but sensed she was not destined for such a quiet and penitent life. Excommunicated at an early age, she decided to seek her adventure on the high seas. As a sailor, the only thing Miss Magdalene loved more than the thrill of exploration were the opportunities it afforded to fine-tune her wiles as a merciless man-izer. Dishonourable discharge due to on-shift shenanigans with a younger and easily corrupted junior officer left her sad to leave behind the many men whose hearts she broke sailing from port to port, but ultimately ready for whatever life brought her way. Scarlett decided to head to the big city to find fame, fortune, and pursue a PhD in museology.
Ladies and gentlemen... "She's all woman, but she's no lady"... please welcome Scarlett Magdalene.
 DJ Cozmic Cat
Cozmic Cat has been in the biz for over 10 yrs and has rocked dance floors from the US to Australia with her funky blend of mashups, remixes and tight skills. This Canadian DJ and Producer was voted Philadelphia's fav DJ 5 years runnning. Back in Canada, Cozmic Cat is Co-founder of Toronto's most popular girl party Cherry Bomb.
 Sedina Fiati presents Pin Up Party!
The iconic 1950’s pin up and the male equivalent, the beef cake photos remain a representation of sexy and playful. In 15 minutes, we dare willing patrons of ~Night at the Indies~ to come forward and pose in their own pin up shoot. Make up, styling and direction will be provided. Gender bending is welcome.
~Night at the Indies~ Vancouver Announcement
Thank you so much to all those who attended our 1st Anniversary Screening! It was a wonderful event that left the audience moved and inspired.
Started in Toronto in 2006, ~Night at the Indies~ brings together independent artists from visual arts, spoken word, film and music communities. Our motto is think independent, buy independent, be independent.
We are looking for people in Vancouver who would like to be part of our collective and help produce and promote our monthly event. If you have a passion for the arts and would like to become part of our national network we want you, come on out!
For more information contact: indiesvancouver@gmail.com
Toronto Women's Bookstore & ~Night at the Indies~ Present: Come Out, Come Out Wherever you Are!
We are proud to present a collaborative series of short and full length films every 2nd Wednesday of the month at the bookstore. Please join us to celebrate this series.
When: Wednesday, Dec 2nd @ 7:00pm
Where: Toronto Women's Bookstore - 73 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1G4
Admission: $10/pay what you can
Showcasing: Five Ring Circus + Giants Leap
Five Ring Circus
Directed by Conrad Schmidt, Edited by Chantal Morin.
(Running time: 76 minutes)
In 2003 the citizens of Vancouver were promised that the Olympics would transform their city into a world class city. Instead what they got was rising rents, evictions, an ecological disaster, surveillance cameras, erosion of civil liberties, an illegal cleanup operation and spiralling out of control costs.
The "Five Ring Circus" exposes a side to the Vancouver Olympics which has not been revealed before. This film shows how this three week event is changing Vancouver forever. Find out what mayors, activists and residents think of the 2010 Olympic Games. With three years to go before the games, this documentary examines how the commitments to environmental, social and economic sustainability have not been kept and how the preparations for the games are affecting diverse communities. Is Vancouver getting into the spirit of the Olympics?
Giants Leap
Directed and written by: Florence Debeugny and Lynsey Hamilton
Giants Leap/ À pas de géants is a diverse portrait of a changing neighbourhood and the changing values of a society, raising questions of progress, heritage preservation, housing and culture.
Fast development overlooks the social and economic long-term. The development pressures in Vancouver on old structures and heritage are erasing the physical evidence of the past, replacing it with questionable construction choices. The city is becoming one accessible only for the rich and the quality of architecture has been identified as second or third rate. The residents are being driven out of their homes by developers pursuing profit.
 From Criminality to Equality - A COLLECTION OF FOUR FILMS ON LESBIAN AND GAY MOVEMENT HISTORY IN CANADA
This award winning series brings to life a moving legacy, combining rarely seen archival footage with diverse voices of the movement from across Canada, and bonus features including study guide and interview with Nancy Nicol.
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~Night at the Indies~ Call for Submissions
- No submission fee
- All Artists are welcome to submit
- Please use the form on the website nightattheindies.com
- Deadline for the 1st quarter of 2010 is December 1, 2009
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