Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Cum and meet the makers! (Fairs galore!)




Hi y'all,

Just a quick note to say that tomorrow Lickety Split smut zine will be on sale during McGill University's Sexuality Fair! The info on the Lickety Calendar is incorrect: the fair is taking place in the Brown Student Services Building, 3600 McTavish. Come check out the new Lickety Split pins and Pure Sex pins!

Also, Lickety Split smut zine will be in Ottawa this weekend for Ladyfest Ottawa. I'm so pumped for this! I've always wanted to attend a Ladyfest.

I hope to have fun questionnaires all ready for folks who drop by the table.

See you guys there,
Amber

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Tomorrow is the deadline for your ideas and creations!




Tomorrow, Monday September 25th, is the submission deadline! We want your proposals, story ideas, or finished works of all kinds in before 12 midnight! You can send you work to a (at) licketysplitzine (dot) com . Tell your friends and check out the Lickty Split's website for more details.

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Been a bit of a crazy time around here! Sean is almost finished the website (he's waiting for me to complete the links page content), and the Friday before last I handed in the CALQ grant application that had been giving me heck. Last Sunday, I walked with Head & Hands in the annual Walk for Life and it was fun! My buddy T-Y and I dressed up in costume as "Lickety Split's Tools Fer Change" and were basially sexy, dirty blue collar workers! We raised some cash-money, but if some people wanna do the credit card thang, our page is still up and available! At the walk I was impressed to see the women over at Stella cheering and raising a fuss so early on a Sunday morning! The beautiful Seska, was walking with them, so maybe that had something to do with it.

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I have some lovely newspaper-reading friends and sometimes they keep me up to date on sex in the news- thanks to Jess and Anita especially.

First off, an interesting talk:

Wed., October 25, 2006


"Boy or Girl? The Making of the Heterosexual Body in
Sex Education, 1900s-1970s"

3:30 PM to 5:30 PM | Lutz Sauerteig - University of
Durham, Center of the History of Medicine and Disease,
UK
Sponsor: Department of Social Studies of Medicine
[calendar for this unit]
Location: 3647 Peel Street [map], Don Bates Seminar
Room 101
More information: Heike Faerber, 514-398-6033

And Colombian Gangsters Face a Sex Ban!

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In not-so-great news, I will not be giving a erotic writing workshop on McGill University's Sexuality Fair Day- it was pulled for it's potential for contraversy in light of recent media tarnishings of McGill. Also, my business plan proposal (cleaned up of course as a "journal of sexuality, gender and the arts"!) was pulled from the pile being offered to John Molson School of Business students. The premise of the project was that YES and Concordia's business school were working together to hook-up young entrepreneurs (such as myself )with graduating students in order to devise viable business plans. Students would have the opportunity to select which projects they would, or would not, like to work on. Unfortunately, this option was not offered to the stud's in my case as some folks on Concordia's side decided to pull it. This was not a particularily contraversial propsal- I mean YES approved it for the project in the first place. I suppose this gives the zine more street cred? I may write an article about this soon.

More later,
Amber

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Filmmaker GUY SHERWIN in Montreal!



Dear Friends,

UK film artist GUY SHERWIN will make his long-awaited debut appearance in Montreal for a series of performance, screenings and lectures beginning on September 19, 2006. A key figure in British experimental cinema for more than three decades, Sherwin continues to make films that offer glimpses into a stunningly beautiful and poetic universe through the quintessential properties of cinema: light moving in time.

Guy Sherwin's films have been widely exhibited in England and abroad, as part of 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4; also shown on BBC2, Channel 4 and Arte TV France. Solo shows include San Francisco Cinematheque, LUX London, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Image Forum Tokyo.

September 19 (Tue.)
Artist Talk
Venue: Concordia University's EV Building 1-615
1515, rue Ste-Catherine O. (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Time: 6:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the general public.
Sponsored by Concordia Studio Arts Visiting Artist Program (SAVAP).
Info: (514) 848-2424 poste 4213 (Eliza Griffiths)

September 20 (Wed.)
Live Film Projection Performance (with Lynn Loo and guest musicians)
Preceded by: Jerusalem In My Heart with film projection by Karl Lemieux, member of the Double Negative Collective.
+ PEOPLE FOR AUDIO!

Venue: La Sala Rossa
4848, boul. St-Laurent (Metro Mont-Royal or bus #55)
Time: 9 p.m.
Ticket: $8

PROGRAM
Optical Sound Films:
Cycles #3 (1972/2003, 9 min.)
Live projection for two 16mm projectors, two loudspeakers.
Vowels and Consonants (2005, 12 min.)
With Lynn Loo and guest, for six 16mm projectors, three with optical sound.
Newsprint #2 (1972/2006, 10 min.)
Live projection for two performers, two 16mm projectors, two loudspeakers.
Railings (1977, 9 min.)
16mm for vertical format projection and optical sound.
Live Performance:
Man with Mirror (1976/2006, 9 min.)
Live performance for super 8 film and hand-held screen.
Urban Spaces:
Station. Camden Road (2004 [from The Train Films], 8 min.)
Three screen 16mm projection, silent.
Bay Bridge from Embarcadero (2006 [from The Freeway Series], 6 min.)
Three screen 16mm projection, silent.

For tickets call: 514.284.0122 or email: info@casadelpopolo.com
http://www.casadelpopolo.com/salaconcert/home.htm

September 21 (Thu.)
Film Screenings
Guy Sherwin : 16mm Films (1975 - 2003)
Short Film Series / Animal Studies / Prelude / Messages

Venue: Cinema Parallele (Ex-Centris)
3536, boul. St-Laurent (Metro Sherbrook)
Time: 4 p.m. / 9 p.m. (artist in attendance for Q&A)
Ticket: $7

PROGRAM
Selections from Short Film Series and Animal Studies
(16mm / total approx. 30 min. / b&w / silent / 1975 - 2003)
Short Film Series - Eye, Tap, Cycle, Breathing, Metronome, Chimney, Portrait with Parents and Tree Reflection.
Animal Studies - Swans, Coots, Tree & Cloud, Cat Sleeping, Fish & Fly, Web and Gnats.
Prelude (16mm / 12 min. / b&w / sound / 1996)
Messages (16mm / 35 min. / b&w / silent / 1981-3)

Total running time: 75 min.
All films projected on 16mm.

Box Office: 514.847.2206
http://www.ex-centris.com

Organised and presented by the Double Negative Collective with support from the British Council, SAVAP (Studio Arts Visiting Artist Programme at Concordia University) and Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.

For more information on the artist and his work, visit:
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin/index.html

Hope to see you there!

Double Negative Collective

Thursday, September 07, 2006

www.licketysplitzine.com

Check out the new site! It's stll under construction, but will be fini soon! Check back for web launch detals!!!

We're in Venus!




Check out the fall issue of Venus for a review of the latest Lickety Split!

Go to www.venuszine.com for more details; they're sold thru Chapters/Indigo.

-A