> > “The Sheroes raison d’être, and the reason it succeeds, is that it’s cerebral > while remaining fiercely emotional.” — The Grid’s Night Shift > Is this email not displaying correctly? > View it in your browser. > > Sheroes presents a remix tribute to the "Grande Dame" > Marianne Faithfull latest inductee to the "League of Legendary Ladies" > Featuring headlining performances by U.S. Girls & Ulysses Castellanos > TORONTO - (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) - Sheroes will be presenting their latest > event, Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull, on Thursday, March 22 at The Beaver > (1192 Queen Street West). > > The monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and > offline works that playfully and peformatively explore the iconography and > fan culture surrounding the "League of Legendary Ladies" — will be > co-headlined by U.S. Girls and Ulysses Castellanos. > > For Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull, organizer Rea McNamara has commissioned > an impressive lineup of local and international artists and performers. > Inspired by the Grande Dame's various personas — the convent-educated waif in > lace, the Soho junkie aristocrat, the husky-voiced survivor — these > performances, digital animations and interactive installations will > reinterpret and remix for one night only our current muse. > > Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull > Thursday, March 22, 2012. 10PM. > The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West) > Contact: Rea McNamara <totallyeffyeahsher...@gmail.com> > > Performances > Above: U.S. GIrls (AKA Megan Remy) > Headliners include a Broken English-inspired performance by Chicago/Toronto > DIY ingenue U.S. Girls (the alluring "Eno of the 2250s" music/persona of > Megan Remy, who recently released her third full length “U.S. Girls on Kraak” > on Belgian label Kraak), live PA by Toronto performance artist Ulysses > Castellanos. > Support: Adventure Studies (a returning Sheroes music project by artist Derek > Aubichon), emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees, Sheroes salonnière reeraw and > resident DJ NoLoves. > > > Interactive Installation > Our popular "nail art bar" by Smack of the Hand (AKA Brittany Bennington) > returns, with free Grande Dame-inspired manis. > > Projections > Above: a screen grab of a specially-commissioned animated GIF from Italian > new media artist Chiara Passa for Sheroes #8. > Digital Animations by The Global GIF Aristocracy (von Sacher-Masoch Line), a > GIF group show projected on the walls of The Beaver. Curated by Lorna Mills, > the show will feature the works of A. Bill Miller, Absis Minas, Andrew > Benson, Anthony Antonellis, Chiara Passa, Daniel Rehn, Emilie Gervais, Emilio > Gomariz, Eva Papamargariti, Francoise Gamma, Gaby Cepeda, Georges Jacotey, > Giselle Zatonyl, Grace McEvoy, Haruko Hirukawa, Helen Adamidou, Juan Manuel > Morales, Lorna Mills, Manuel Fernández, Oz Melo, Rea McNamara, Rollin > Leonard, Sally McKay, Tony Halmos & Yoshi Sodeoka. > > > > > Join our Facebook group > > > Forward to a Friend > > > WATCH: Lido Pimienta's riveting performance at Sheroes #7: Etta James > Last month, Colombian darling Lido Pimienta — who was recently featured on > NPR Music's Song of the Day — headlined Sheroes #7: Etta James. You can now > watch her música glamurosa dramática take on Etta's "Woman". > > What is Sheroes? > Sheroes is committed to doing herstory right — reinterpreting and remixing > the mythic woman-power that pervades digital and actual cultures, realizing > new works from ephemeral and archival artifacts. > > Our next inductee into the "League of Legendary Ladies" will be Dolly Parton > on Thursday, April 22 at The Beaver. For further information regarding our > upcoming events, click here. > > All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at > fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time > audiences in an ongoing exploration into cultures of fandom and collaborative > content creation. > > Visit the Sheroes Archives for the catalogue of our past events. > > > > > follow us on Tumblr | add us on Google+ | join our Facebook group | forward > to a friend > > This work is licensed under a Creative Commons > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 Generic License. > You are receiving this email because we thought you'd be interested in the > latest emerging on/offline artistic practices that engage technology & > community-building. > Our mailing address is: > Sheroes > 51 Margueretta Street > Toronto, ON M6H 3S4 > > Add us to your address book > > unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences >
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