Montreal Fashion Week 2010
my dress pick of the week. luv it in every colour
image courtesy of SMM18
FULL SET of Montreal Fashion Week Runway Photo’s via SMM18 >> CLICK ME
Montreal Fashion along with it’s hospitality is first class.
I’ll keep this breif and let the pros handle this one.
Montreal Fashion week was outstanding.
The venue was divine. Models were stunning. The bubbly and cupcakes delicious.
I cannot stress this enough, ’Montrealers’ are so friendly and warm,
they offer up such great hospitality.
And of course THE FASHIONS… ooolala!
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Great coverage, info and commentary via:
Montreal Gazette >> CLICK ME
Fashionista514 >> CLICK ME
Vitamin Daily >> CLICK ME
Miss Sly >> CLICK ME
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Late Night in the Bedroom Featuring Freedom
I just wanted to thank everyone for coming out to Episode 8 of Late Night in the Bedroom which happened on March 3 @ Whippersnapper Gallery featuring the below artists. Who you should all check out!!
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!
Vangel on (SDFM) Swim.Drink.Fish.Music
Swim Drink Fish Music is an online music and audio experience developed by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper in collaboration with other Waterkeeper organizations across Canada.
The Swim Drink Fish Music Club brings together artists, activists, and citizens who care about clean water. By celebrating the Club’s exclusive and rare music, you are contributing to the fight for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water in your community.
We’re proud to announce Vangel’s contribution to SDFM! Artists that have contributed to SDFM in the past jnclude: Broken Social Scene, Sarah Harmer, Chris Brown, Ohbijou, Kate Fenner, Stars, Bruce Cockburn, Pete Seeger, Gordon Downie (The Tragically Hip), The Sadies & more.
Check out Vangel’s appropriately entitled tune, “Cold Rain” ( off the Biblio EP ) + an original audio story, which plays for Swim Drink Fish Music Club members just before the song.
“Vangel is a fantastic addition to the Swim Drink Fish Music roster” says Mark Mattson, Waterkeeper & President of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. “The remix audio story captures the spirit and philosophy of the project perfectly, plus Cold Rain is a great track.”
Life Drawing Session #01: PILOT
Wednesday, February 24th at 7pm – 8.30pm
Join us for a life drawing workshop!
Amy, our model, will be decked out in Pilot gear ready to be your next muse. All you need to bring is your sketchbook and supplies!
$8 admission.
Questions: arts.freedomcc@gmail.com
More info here.
Late Night in the Bedroom Episode 7
Hi Everyone!!
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
FEATURED DESIGNER
SONA SAFAEI
SAFAY clothing
Sona was born in Tehran, the capital and largest city in Iran. She now lives and breathes in Toronto. Sona is an artist. A daughter. A granddaughter. A niece. A friend. She holds close family ties, citing ‘memories, childhood, photographs, anything my grandma has given to me’ as some of her favorite things.
Safay clothes bring original artworks to cloth. As an urban dweller, buildings inspire her: houses, apartments, places she’s lived. The pieces currently featured at Freedom depict a sketch of Sona with arms wrapped around a Tehran tower.
twitter.com/sonasafaei
www.etsy.com/shop/sonasafaei
sonasafaei@gmail.com
Artists, Artists, this is a shout out for you!
Freedom is currently accepting submissions and proposals from emerging local artists for the 2010 program of exhibitions.
SPECIFICATIONS
We welcome all forms of media; being innovative and thinking outside the box are quite mandatory!
Submission Requirements:
- Brief artist’s statement
- Medium-high res images of all submitted works (file name is to correspond with work title)
- A detailed list of all submitted works to specify their dimensions, value, and medium
Please send in your submission package to arts.freedomcc@gmail.com with “GENERAL SUBMISSION – (ARTIST’S NAME)” in the subject line. Please include your name in the file names of all attached documents.
No submission fee is applicable, however selected artists are subject to an exhibition fee of $20. All works sold in the premises will be subject to 30% commission.
APPLICATION DEADLINES
FEBRUARY 8th, 2010
MARCH 8th, 2010
APRIL 5th, 2010
Looking forward to get to know you! If you have any inquiries, feel free to direct them via e-mail: arts.freedomcc@gmail.com.
-Marsya
Full Page Spread in Ming Pao
www.mingpaotor.com
This past week Freedom_CC had a full page spread in
the Ming Pao Daily News.
During our Boxing week sale the inquisitive Grace Tsoi (reporter) stopped by our little shop to take some pictures and collect some info on Freedom_CC.
Big thanks to Grace for the beautiful layout and coverage, outstanding!
Mid page, one of our special customers is trying on some of our new arrivals, looking très spicy chic.
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Designer Saturday’s ——— three in a row
Below are 3 fabulous local women making fabulous design pieces.
All designs can be found at Freedom Clothing Collective
and are perfect as Christmas gifts. Or indulge and get them for yourself.
You’ve been good this year!
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Melissa Clemente Designs
Pretty Kitty
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laurajean, laurajean
www.laurajeanlaurajean.com
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Come by and witness these designs being made first hand at our Designer Saturday’s workshops!For dates and lists of upcoming designers check our events page! Can’t wait to see you!
all photos are curtisy of Tsar Kasim. Check out more of his shots at
He Shoots ... — http://tkshoots.blogspot.com/
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Screen Printing with Ewa
Our Screen Printing workshops have started!
During the workshop you get to learn how to make a screen and print with it. The fee of $160 includes all of the supplies for making the screen and a sheet of transparency to print your image on. All you need to do is e-mail me the image a few days prior to the class and show up with something to print on! The workshop takes about five hours with a break in the middle. If you are interested e-mail us at freedom.clothing@gmail.com.
Tell your friends!!
The workshop takes place in the basement studio of my shop Freedom Clothing Collective. 939 Bloor Street West.
Cheers,
Ewa from Freedom.
Ludo And Pig ————– Designer Saturdays with
Nov 14th Designer Saturdays with Robin Angell from Ludo & Pig. — see full photo set here
gorgeous images by Tsar Kasim –He Shoots
http://tkshoots.blogspot.com/
Piecing it Together ——— Aaron Li-Hill
Stop by our Neighboorhood’s Funktion Gallery to see some outstanding art by Aaron Li-Hill
the show runs from Nov 6- 27th at Funktion Gallery 1244 Bloor St. W (TTC- Lansdowne station)
www.FunktionGallery.com
Aron Li-Hill at the age of 17 was arrested and charged for 120 counts of mischief (graffiti related). The Crown agreed that for punishment he was to paint a mural in a cathloic school. Through this community service
Li-Hill learned the joy of murals and found his true passion. Since then he has painted hundreds of canvases and hundreds of walls. Come see the joy of public art and the beauty inside graffiti.
@R4Fashion a Sustainable Fashion Show — FriNov20
http://www.r4fashion.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1
From a young age, we are taught the 3 R’s: reduce, reuse, and recycle. We reduce water and energy consumption, reuse materials until worn, and recycle paper and plastics. Fashion has never played an important role in following the 3 R’s, so we introduce to you R4: the next dimension of fashion.
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R4 Fashion is an initiative of the Sustainable Technology Education Project(STEP) at the University of Waterloo, a non-profit student organization that promotes sustainable design, technology, and lifestyle to the community.
Pics from the first Designer Saturdays
Ooodles of thanks to Jane (of Black Circle Industries) for headlining the Designer Saturday series,
the first of many!
And thanks a million to @TsarKasim for the fabo pictures, once again, AMAZING!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsarkasim/sets/72157622762022362/
Designer Saturdays @ Freedom
Come check out Jane Haselgrove sew some fresh clothes
right infront of your eyes!
This Saturday at Freedom Clothing Collective Jane will set up shop from 1-7pm and show you how its done.
http://www.myspace.com/blackcircleindustries
For more info on other Designer Saturdays at Freedom check out -
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164152019145&index=1
Blogging a blog – this feels illegal
Cityscape Ideal group show.
Fellow twitterer/blogger @TsarKasim graced us with his presence. We met in confusion but sprouted to delight, he sent us these lovely vivid images of the show. Check-em out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsarkasim/sets/72157622637526042/
Vandana Shiva
“You have three chances a day to make a difference” Vandana Shiva about food
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/
Green Journalist at Large! — Amy Snook
Eight’s not enough
Regarding My Easy 8-Step Power Saver (NOW, October 8-14), I noticed Paul Terefenko’s list had a glaring omission.
He, among many others, fails to realize that energy and water resources are inextricably linked.
Municipalities require huge amounts of energy to pump and treat water – not to mention that about 20 per cent of the world’s electricity is hydroelectric.
Thus, any effort to conserve water also conserves energy.
Residential water-saving fixtures (such as dual-flush toilets) as well as behaviour changes (such as taking shorter showers) can lead to significant energy savings, too.
And, yes, renters are often limited by the fixtures we can replace, but we can certainly work to modify our behaviours.
Everything is connected in this ecosystem of ours. And when we throw something away, well, “away” is getting nearer….
Amy Snook
Toronto
For full article go here — http://www.nowtoronto.com/letters/
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Ethan Rilley Artshow
Here is a video of the Ethan Rilley Art show. It is part of a new series we are trying to do of all the art and music shows that we do.
Enjoy!!
Untitled from amanda sissons on Vimeo.
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the beautiful Blair Nadeau on behalf of Freedom Clothing Collective
www.BlairNadeau.com
UV Studio
www.uvstudio.ca/About_UV_Studio.html
info@uvstudio.ca
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Funtimes at 52 McCaul
So, late last week, I was helping to disassemble an installation at 52 McCaul. I was there with the three artists who created the installation Piotr,(adas.com) Adrian, (Adriandilena.com) and Josh,(joshuabarndt.com), and as we were tearing up this installation that could weeks to create, we got inspired to utilize all the debris to create something new. We started grabbing supplies and combining random pieces, throwing dirt and saw dust around and, surprisingly, we created something that we all really like. I thought I would share the fruits of our labour.
New episode of LNITB!!!!
Hi friends,
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