In this episode we featured the amazing avant garde fashion designer Heidi Ackermann, Comedian Rob Hawke, theatre group One Reed Theatre, and musical guest Hooded Fang!!

Enjoy!!

ROB HAWKE – creator of hit play “Fuck You Cancer” which cancer responded to by crying like a whiny little girl, and which the rest of the world responded to with a resounding EFF YEAH

http://www.fuckyoucancer.com/

HEIDI ACKERMAN – Designer of sustainable-yet-sexy-as-all-heck fashion

http://flightheidiackerman.blogspot.com

EVAN WEBBER AND FRANK COX-O’CONNELL – Playwrights who prove that it’s not all playing and writing in the theatre game

http://www.smallwoodenshoe.org

Plus an exclusive report with Devon Ostrom on what’s up with the BEAUTIFUL CITY BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN

http://beautifulcity.ca

HOODED FANG is going to make your shoes smell soooo bad when you take them off later because you’re going to be dancing like a feral child who has tasted Mountain Dew for the first time
www.myspace.com/hoodedfang/

Also we made this video about the peeps involved in LNITB :

enjoy!
PS Freedom is featuring in the part where I am talking.
pps Thanks to Freedom for being awesome!

The seventh episode was hosted by the lovely folks at Show & Tell Gallery. Lucky members of the packed audience enjoyed hilarious interviews with Jay and Matt of the sensational online comedy series Nirvana the Band the Show as well as with the five man art collective Team Macho. To top the evening off, Everything All the Time got the windows all fogged up with their soulful synth pop stylings. If you missed out on the live event, we’ve got you covered.  Try not to drool on your keyboard.

www.latenightinthebedroom.com

LNB – Episode 7 from Late Night in the Bedroom on Vimeo.

I just came back from seeing Vandana Shiva talk as part of Food Week at U of T, and it was truly amazing. Not only did I meet up with an old friend who I hadn’t seen in a while, but I also got to see Vandana talk, and she is seems like an old friend in some way.

So, just to give some context, Dr. Shiva is a former quantum physicist turned Environmentalist, she coined the term Earth Democracy. The talk that she gave today covered a history of the Green Revolution in India, and this green revolution has nothing to do with the helping the environment. In the 1960’s more fertilizers and irrigation techniques were being introduced to Indian farmer’s in a hope that it would help crops yield more and help feed starving families. Yet, along with the fertilizers and irrigation practices came major use of pesticides and later on GMO seeds which wrecked havoc on the farmers soil.

India formerly had a very strict law against the patenting of seeds, yet after the WTO came into fruition India was forced to accept GMO’s into its towns and it’s farmer’s hands.  With the influx of GMO seed farmers were promised higher yields and the ability to make much more money. But there was a catch, to use GMO seed they have to buy the seed for much more than regular seed and they must buy different fertilizer.  Due to these stipulations many farmers took out huge loans and subsequently went into deep debt.

Not only are the land and soil destroyed by these practices but many farmers are unable to produce yields that can provide enough income to pay back their debts and feed their families. The sad irony is that this technology that was suppose to relieve famine has lead to soil that can not produce nourishment leaving even more hungry.  The debt that many farmers have incurred from using GMO seeds is so astronomical that it has forced hundreds of thousands of farmers to commit suicides over the years.

In response, to these issues Vandana has created a group called Nine seeds which aides farmers to go organic and have crops that are bio diverse to help preserve the soil.  It has been found that not only do organic crops yield more than GMO’s but they also sell for more on the market.Yeah earth!!

Sorry this is very broad overview of the issue and I hope you read more about it, she words things much more poetically than I do.

You can check out way more info at her website:

http://www.vandanashiva.org/

Untitled from amanda sissons on Vimeo.

The LNITB crew has been non-stopping filming, editing and planning!!

We had the great pleasure of filming this episode at 52 Mccaul street, which a beautiful building that was used for Manifesto.  The installation that we are filming in is the product of three amazing artists Adrian Dilena, Joshua Barndt, and Piotr Adas.

This episdoe features the amazing and talented Tim Moxam, whose CD you can purchase at Freedom.

Roadsworth, Elicser, Steve and Lisa of the Well and Good Arts Organization and Piotr Adas.

www.latenightinthebedroom.com

Gravity Wave, and Elicser

You can hear Gravity Wave here:

www.myspace.com/gravywave

and here is some of Elicser’s work, he is the creator of the famous and beautiful tree on Queen and Soho:

You also check out more of his work at www.elicser.com

Episode two is up for Late night in the bedroom.

In this epi we got the fabulous Zeesy Powers who creates amazing performance art and drawings, which were once showcased at Freedom Clothing.

Also, we have an interview with Director Peter Stebbings and actress Charolotte Sullivan who are in a movie in TIFF entitled Defendor, starring Woody Harrelson.

And there is more, we also interview Extermination Music night!! The amazing duo who organize events around the city in the most obscure and interesting environments, like under a bridge or in a abandoned building

Lastly, we have the amazing and the beautiful Whale Tooth. I really want to carry their album in the shop so keep pestering them to bring it in, because, as you will see it is AMAZING!! OMG!! Please watch their full set if you have the time, listen to the pipes on Elise!!! so  unbelievable.

Without further ado: episode 2