The 6th annual Kazoo! Festival – happening in Guelph, ON — includes the KAZOO! PRINT EXPO this Sat Apr 06 from 11am-3pm … come join us @ 99 Woolwich St, Mitchell Hall, (Beside St. George’s Church) in sunny downtown Guelph! The event is also an advance public launch of CAROUSEL 31, our brand new issue (it’ll be out in stores and sent to subscribers in mid-May). This year’s Print Expo includes: Marc Bell / Nathan Campangaro
By far some of our favourite shots of the evening were these blurry ones … so we thought we’d post them! Catriona Wright Lizzy Violet Nico Mara-McKay Sonia Di Placido
In association with National Poetry Month and in collaboration with the Livewords reading series, please join us for the Toronto advance launch of CAROUSEL 31 —a free event taking place on Thu Apr 04, 2013 beginning at 7:30pm at Black Swan Tavern (154 Danforth Ave, 2nd floor) Featured Readers: Colin Brush, Louise Carson, Sonia Di Placido, Nico Mara-McKay, David Reibetanz, Mary Rykov, Lizzy Violet, Liz Worth, Catriona Wright SPECIAL EVENT OFFER — support our fine
Michael Kleiza Sonia Di Placido Shane Neilson Forest Prospect Julia Griffiths Robyn and The Batmans
March 24th, 2013 is the date for the third annual Mini-Comics Day, celebrating the art of cartooning and creating hand-made comic books (the first event was held April 9th, 2011). On Mini-Comics Day, participating cartoonists from around the world will write, draw, and print copies of a mini-comic, completing the entire process from start to finish in a day or less. Anyone in the world can participate.
The next issue of CAROUSEL (featuring a cover image by Souther Salazar) will be in stores in May, 2013 An 80 page bi-annual hybrid literary/arts magazine representing new and established Canadian artists (with a selection of international contributors), CAROUSEL highlights a comfortable merging of textual and visual content, presenting work across many genres … if it is original and engaging, we aim to see it in print. C31, our forthcoming issue, features new poetry, fiction
Canadian poet, publisher & anthologist derek beaulieu is a writer obsessed w/ the upscaling of lowercase gestures; we interviewed him about the state of his practice back in CAROUSEL 27. beaulieu’ first major solo exhibition, ‘How To Read’, is opening this Fri Mar 22 at Niagara Artists Centre in St. Catharine’s, ON — it runs in the Showroom space until May 10, 2013. ‘How To Read’ moves beaulieu’s work from print into the gallery, where
TRANSLATION March 01 – 30, 2013 @ O’Born Contemporary (131 Ossington Ave, Toronto) Featuring: Alex Fischer / John Monteith / Petrina Ng / Callum Schuster Curated by: Rachel Anne Farquharson Rachel Anne Farquharson is a Toronto-based essayist and curator, whose writings appear regularly in the pages of CAROUSEL; for our current issue, she profiles and interviews Toronto pixel-pusher Alex Fischer. She is also a feature contributor to C Magazine, having published an interpretive essay on
: : : : download the free CAROUSEL 30 Mixtape NOW! As an accompaniment to our Winter 2013 issue, we present Make Room For Change, a 19-track continuous MP3 Mixtape (1hr19m28s / 182 MB). We hope you will choose to enjoy our new issue while listening to this suggested soundtrack. : : : : See the tracklist / download the CRSL30 mix: here : : : : Purchase CAROUSEL 30: here
We’re a Canadian art magazine; they’re an American pop band. Listen up: Carousel is an electro-pop duo based in Brooklyn, NY. Jackson Phillips and Kevin Friedman, two Berklee College of Music graduates, create a unique sound that combines the drive of electro with the melodic sensibilities of pop … recommended! : : : : Download Carousel‘s debut EP ’26 Alliston’ here
Have you been paying attention to our 4PANEL website? You should be … there is a new strip posted every Monday! So far in 2013, we’ve published delightful original works by: Sarah Scope. Larry Eisenstein. Marc Ngui. Michael DeForge. Mark Laliberte. Jessica Fortner. Fiona Smyth. And remember, 4PANEL appears as a full-colour section in the pages of each new issue of CAROUSEL. : : : : Check out the 4PANEL.CA web project now : : : : Buy the
Jen Mann is an artist from Toronto, ON, whose work is profiled in CAROUSEL 30, our current issue. She attended OCAD U from 2005–09, receiving her BFA in printmaking. Since then she has focused on painting and developed a large body of work, which explores the subconscious, and focuses on ideas of freedom, perceived beauty, identity and home. Mann’s latest Toronto exhibit, Strange Beauties, is running from Feb 20 – Mar 23, 2013 at Neubacher
Looking for copies of CAROUSEL in downtown Toronto? It’s already available at better bookstores around the city; and now, we’re happy to announce that you can also pick up the new issue of our magazine at MAGIC PONY (680 Queen St W) — one of our favourite go-to spots when we want to see pop culture, design and fine art flawlessly mixed in a retail environment. Visit them today!
Fiona Smyth Feb 07 – Mar 09, 2013 (opening Sat Feb 09, 4-8pm) @ Robert Kananaj Gallery (1267 Bloor St W, Toronto) Toronto artist and 4PANEL participant Fiona Smyth (who we profiled/interviewed back in CAROUSEL 25 — our Spring-Summer 2010 issue) has a new exhibit at in Toronto. A retrospective look at 10 years of production, the exhibited works include paintings and drawings from the series Bride of Gene (2002) and The Virtuous – Rise of the
After thirty-seven years as one of Canada’s cutting edge experimental poetry, prose and arts magazines, Dandelion ceased publication, at the close of 2012 — R.I.P. : : : : More info here
Brian Eno, artist and musician, discusses a-r-t and the reasons we make it; we like his “farmer” vs “cowboy” analogy … which one are you? : : : : Listen here
OMD: “ABC AUTO INDUSTRY” — live
Please join us for the Toronto launch of CAROUSEL 30, a free event taking place this Sat Jan 12, 2013 from 1-4pm at O’Born Contemporary — 131 Ossington Ave. An 80 page bi-annual hybrid literary/arts magazine representing new and established Canadian artists (with a selection of international contributors), CAROUSEL highlights a comfortable merging of textual and visual content, presenting work across many genres … if it is original and engaging, we aim to see it
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