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Oct 11
CANZINE Toronto is back!
This Sunday, October 23rd CAROUSEL will be participating in Canzine Toronto, Canada’s largest festival of zine culture and independent arts, hosted by Broken Pencil Magazine.
Now in its 16th year, Canzine is a prime opportunity to mingle with talented writers, artists, publishers and performers from across North America and search out new local (and non-local) gems. This year’s Canzine will include an underground food market, a 2 minute on-stage book pitch session, a VJ workshop and lots more. Whatever your genre, Canzine truly has something for you.
>>> For more info, go here
Canzine Toronto:
Sunday Oct. 23 / 918 Bathurst Centre, 918 Bathurst St. 1-7pm
Canzine Vancouver:
Sunday Nov. 13 / Ukrainian Hall, 805 Pender St., 1-7pm
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Oct 11
♥ Canadian Mags! Buy 2, Get 1 Free offer
It’s that time of year again: CAROUSEL is participating in the latest “Buy 2, Get 1 FREE Offer”, a fabulous deal on Canadian magazines.
A wide range of Canada’s magazine publishers have come together to bring you this remarkable offer, which you won’t find anywhere else. Subscribe to any 3 of the nearly 200 magazines offered, pay for only 2! Your free subscription will be your lowest-priced subscription — you pay only for the other two magazines (the shopping cart will do the math for you). And to save you even more money: if you pay today, we’ll pay the taxes. (Offer only valid in Canada. Offer only valid on NEW subscriptions.)
Know someone else who would loves magazines? You can easily order one or more magazine subscriptions as a gift by filling out a different shipping address for each of the magazines purchased.
… So what are you waiting for? Go subscribe right now to CAROUSEL, then choose from tons of other titles. Need a good match? We’d suggest complimentary titles like BORDER CROSSINGS, BROKEN PENCIL, THE FEATHERTALE REVIEW, PILOT POCKET BOOK or WORN.
>>> Browse the entire 3-for-2 selection / get more details here
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Oct 11
Liisa Ladouceur’s ENCYCLOPEDIA GOTHICA Toronto Launch
Liisa Ladouceur is a Toronto-based music and unpopular culture journalist, a poet and a Goth. She has examined the subculture for various publications, has been called upon as a recognized Goth expert for television like MuchMusic, CTV, TVO, and Newsworld, and hosted the sold-out Gothic Toronto literary event for the Luminato Festival. She is currently known as the Blood Spattered Guide music columnist for Rue Morgue magazine, the world’s leading publication on horror in art and culture, and also can be heard weekly on the all-horror podcast Rue Morgue Radio. CAROUSEL readers will note that Ladouceur’s poem “Warren Ellis’ Violin” appeared in CAROUSEL #25!
Ladouceur’s newest project, Encyclopedia Gothica (released by ECW Press) is launching tonight (Tue Oct 04) at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St W, Toronto) from 7- 10pm. This free event will feature music, art, prizes and will be focused around an author interview by Russell Smith — author, Globe and Mail columnist and sharp dresser. Should be spooky.
Encyclopedia Gothica is a 200-pg guide through that shadowiest of subcultures: modern Goths. It collects and defines more than 600 words and phrases used by these children of the night so that you too can engage in conversations about deathhawks and rivetheads and who is more übergoth: Bela Lugosi or Robert Smith.
>>> To learn more about Encyclopedia Gothica: go here
>>> To purchase CAROUSEL 25: go here
>>> For more info on Liisa Ladouceur: go here
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Sep 11
Fausta Facciponte’s SLEEPY EYES Exhibition
Do you know the work of Fausta Facciponte?
Fausta Facciponte is an emerging artist who uses a variety of photographic techniques, including traditional film-based and modern digital processes. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. A portfolio of Facciponte’s photographs appears in CAROUSEL 27, our most recent issue.
For our readers in Toronto, note that Sleepy Eyes, Fausta’s newest exhibition of large-scale photographs, is opening at Stephen Bulger Gallery on Sat Sep 24 from 2-5pm (the exhibition runs Sep 22 — Oct 29, 2011).
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Aug 11
TOR LUNDVALL’s cover for “The Cruellest Month”
Tor Lundvall is an artist and musician living and working in New York — we interviewed him back in CAROUSEL 24.
Congrats to Tor, whose beautiful cover artwork graces the cover of “The Cruellest Month”, the latest album by UK neofolk group Sol Invictus (their 17th studio album).
>>> To purchase CAROUSEL 24: go here
>>> For more information on Tor Lundvall: go here
>>> For more information on Sol Invictus: go here
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Jun 11
gustave morin: 3 Books Now Available
Currently, in the CAROUSEL Superstore we have several wonderful books by author/artist gustave morin — available in limited quantities!
This Windsor, ON visual poet’s compelling work has appeared within the pages of CAROUSEL on numerous occasions (in issues 17, 18, 19, 20, 23 and 25, for those counting). Here’s an apt description of him, taken from the Ditch Poetry website: “a para-literary agent provocateur since his teens – published widely, if obscurely – (morin) has been working the associated fields of composition & performance, plying his various written works, graphic constructions & reluctant performances on the page, on the stage and in white cubes above ground and below since the late eighties.”
Rare Sheet Music (a two-colour silent symphony), A Penny Dreadful (a large volume of works that straddles the terrain of artist book, poetry and graphic novel) and A Psychowestern (a kind of paper film, released in conjunction with an experimental film festival) are 3 very different book projects, and each offers a unique set of challenges to both the eyes and mind — yet all allow the reader to witness the works of a major contemporary voice in the literary sub-idiom of concrete poetry. These books are beautifully printed, often utilizing strange colour choices that add to their lush physicality — we guarantee you’ll want to own copies of these paper gems. Highly recommended.
Note that further descriptions, prices and previews for each book are available by following the links below (our store prices already include shipping).
>>> For more info on Rare Sheet Music: go here
>>> For more info on A Penny Dreadful: go here
>>> For more info on A Psychowestern: go here
>>> To order all 3 books together, bundled at one super-low price: go here
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Jun 11
SMALL PRESS OF TORONTO Spring Book Fair!
The mega-chain bookstores are okay for catching up on Oprah’s latest picks and grabbing a copy of Gweneth Paltrow’s latest cookbook, but what if you want something a tad more unique? Something local, perhaps? The Small Press of Toronto (SpoT) Book Fair is just what the bibliophile ordered. The spring fair will feature zines, graphic novels, children’s books, magazines, chapbooks, and comics from local and cross-Canada authors and publishers.
Come out to Hart House (7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto), Sunday June 19 from 11am to 5pm and check out what is happening in the small press and indie arts scene! Note: paid parking is available on Hart House Circle — a full day is only $7.
Participants: Burning Effigy Press / Tania Press / Brick / Sisterhood Press / Anchor Grapes / Guernica Editions / The Porcupine’s Quill / 52 Clouds in the Sky / Iron Rabbit Bindery / Karen Dales / Broken Arts Zine Distro / learn/yeats & co / Broken Pencil / Pop Sandbox / Mark Koning / Ken Turner / Toronto Guqin Society / Eastbound Books / Biblioasis / Aeolus House / Chizine Publications / Window Press / Bits of String Press / Into the Void / The Science and Art of Selling / Wooden Rocket Press / Bongo Beat Books / Fayemous Books / Philippa Dowding, Children’s Author / Red Claw Press / Ray Margulies / Benjamin Rivers / Uyugomiak / Anchorless Press / The Workhorsery / The Mammalian Daily / Great Worm Express Distro / Sherwood Press / Mary Huang / Love Child Books / XOXO Publishing / Descant / Our Liner Notes / Jasmine D’Costa / Female of the Species / Jackson Creek Press / Sparrow Press / Sea Garden Press / Joshua Martyr of Damnation Books / Scrapper Art
>>> For more information on SPoT: go here
>>> RSVP to the Facebook event: here
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May 11
MISUNDERSTANDINGS Magazine final issue Launch!
After 7 1/2 years of publishing, Toronto’s Misunderstandings Magazine is ceasing publication, as its editors move on to other projects. This little publication, which straddled the line between zine culture and Toronto’s more mainsteam literary community, positioned itself as a playful journal striving to introduce and foster emerging writers and showcase them alongside some of Canada’s best talents. Despite limited resources, MM’s editorial team of Jim Johnstone, Vicki Sloot and Ian Williams nevertheless were able to create a reliable publication that captured the vitality and quirkiness of Toronto’s diverse literary scene.
On Thurs June 02, beginning at 7:30pm, livewords hosts the launch party for Misunderstandings Mag 16: The Final Issue. This special event, hosted by Edward Nixon and Jim Johnstone, takes place @ Black Swan Tavern (154 Danforth Ave, Toronto) — it will be a night to celebrate the contributors in MM16 and all the writers and artists who have been part of the magazine’s 16-issue run. Come and help to put a gilded fork in it! Complimentary snacks, cash bar.
Readers include: Al Moritz, Paul Vermeersch, Blaise Moritz, Robin Richardson, Sam Cheuk, Claire Caldwell, Mathew Henderson, Mat Laporte, Rob Taylor and other surprise guests.
>>> For more information on livewords: go here
>>> RSVP to the Facebook event: here
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