Subject: The Broken Pencil Fall Tour Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:35:29 -0400 Hello all, My friends at Broken Pencil Magazine are heading out on a promotional tour and Wegway Magazine will be there. It's our latest issue, hot off the press. The BP announcement follows below. If you are not interested in occasional mailings from Wegway, please reply with "remove" in the subject and I'll take your address off this list. Thank you. Steve Armstrong Publisher Wegway Primary Culture www.wegway.com ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Broken Pencil Subs" <brokenpencilsubs-AT-rogers.com> > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:51 PM > Subject: Broken Pencil Magazine's Broken Tour - Coming to a City Near You > > >> **Please forward to your zine and independent art loving friends!** >> >> The Broken Pencil Fall Tour, 2003 >> >> What? >> Broken Pencil is on the road! The magazine of zine culture and the >> independent arts has been chronicling indie activity in Canada since 1995. >> We will be reading from our own creative works as well as reading > highlights >> from the magazine, showcasing zine culture through our travelling zine >> library, and inviting indie creators from the local community to present >> their work. >> >> Why? >> In order to spread the word of indie culture and continue to attract >> readers, writers and interest in the mag. Broken Pencil is an essential >> cultural resource, but in an age of corporate media it is often difficult > to >> find! We want to connect with new communities, meet creators, and > generally >> get out there! >> >> Who? >> Broken Pencil is run by a network of creator-writers across the country. >> However, since we can't take everyone with us, we've settled on three > people >> to represent the mag on the tour. >> >> They are: Emily Schultz, editor of Broken Pencil. Emily took on the job of >> editing BP roughly a year ago. Emily runs the ultra-cool Pocket Cannon >> series of anonymously written chapbooks. She is a freelance writer, and > her >> first collection of short stories is Black Coffee Night (Insomniac > Press), >> an acclaimed work that explores coming of age in an era of sexual > confusion >> and conflicting agendas. >> >> Marc Ngui, graphic novelist, regular contributor to BP. From Windsor > (though >> now living in TO) Marc's bold new graphic novel Enter Avariz, published by >> Montreal's Conundrum Press, explores this up and coming talent's growing >> dread of the monoculture. Bold, outrageous and compelling, Ngui presents a >> parallel world that looks a little too much like our own. He will be >> showcasing his work with the help of slides during the tour. >> >> Hal Niedzviecki, publisher of Broken Pencil. Founder and former editor of >> BP, Niedzviecki is a well known critic, media philosopher and fiction >> writer. An excellent reader and performer, he'll be doing a bit of >> everything on the tour, exploring ideas presented in his books We Want > Some >> Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture, and his novel >> Ditch. >> >> How? >> With a Little Help From Our Friends! This Tour is Sponsored by the Good >> People of Brave New Waves, CBC Radio 2. Also, each city has at least one >> bookstore sponsor. Visit these stores to buy the new Fall issue of Broken >> Pencil and check out the books by the touring authors. >> >> Where? >> All events are FREE and open to all! >> >> The Broken Pencil Tour Dates and Special Guests are: >> >> Saturday, October 25th - Montreal >> Table at the Montreal Zine Fair >> >> Monday October 27th - Ottawa >> Saw Gallery - 67 Nicholas Street >> With special guests: Geoffrey Brown and David O'Meara >> Bookstores: Mags & Fags, 254 Elgin Street >> Collected Works, 1242 Wellington Street >> >> Wed October 29th - Fredericton >> Gallery Connexion- 453 Queen St. >> With special guests: Marc Jarman and Candace Mooers (Maggot Zine) >> Bookstore: Reid's Newsstand & United Book Exchange, 435 King St. >> >> Thursday October 30th - Moncton >> Centre Culturel Aberdeen, 140 rue Botsford >> With special guest: Gary Flanagan (Nightwaves Zine) >> Bookstores: Reid's Newsstand, 985 Main St. >> Imago Artist Run Print Shop and Gallery >> >> Saturday November 1st -- Halifax >> Table at the Pop Explosion independent media festival >> Also: How-to make a zine afternoon workshop presented by Broken Pencil >> >> Monday November 3rd - Halifax >> With special guests: zinester Emily Holton, and the comic/collage >> masterminds A Softer World (Joey Comeau and Emily Horne) >> Khyber Club, Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1588 Barrington St >> Bookstore: Atlantic News, 5560 Morris St. >> >> Wed November 5th - Montreal >> With special guests: Broken Pencil columnists Heather O'Neill and Jonathan >> Goldstein plus indie press maven Andy Brown! >> Venue: Casa da Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent >> Bookstore: Paragraph Books, 2220 McGill College Ave. >> >> Thursday November 6th - Kingston >> Venue: modern fuel Modern Fuel, 21a Queen Street >> Bookstore: Queen's University Bookstore >> >> Monday November 10th - Windsor >> With special guests: writer Darryl Whetter and graphic explorer Gus Morin >> The Grad House, Graduate Pub, University of Windsor, 458 Sunset >> Bookstore: University of Windsor Bookstore >> >> Tuesday November 11th - London >> With special guests: indie impresario Jason Dickson (on the art of air >> guitar), Clare Heslop (Sun Shines On It Twice zine) >> Forest City Gallery >> Bookstore: City Lights Books, 356 Richmond St. >> >> Saturday November 15th - Peterborough >> Artspace, 129A Hunter St. West >> Also: afternoon zine making workshop at the Peterborough Art Gallery, call >> 705-743-9179 >> Bookstore: Speak Volumes, 446 George St. North >> >> Monday Nov 17th - Guelph >> With special guest: zinester Matt Collins >> The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec St. >> Bookstore: The Bookshelf >> >> Questions? Email tour-AT-brokenpencil.com >> >> Hope to see you there! >> > > --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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