New Music Festival and Beyond

My short xperimental 2007 film 412222 will be shown at this years New Music Festival here in Winnipeg. This film was made entirely on 16mm film for my instalation component at PlugIn ICA's group show Scratching The Surface: The Post Prairie Landscape. The film is four and a half minutes long and will be show in between the two main performances for the evening.

Two stills from the xperimental 412222

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SAYSOME issue No.5
is available now in selected locations in Winnipeg and now in Montreal at Monastiraki.
....and remember, it's FREE! 

If you would like to carry Saysome in your store or other locale, please write me. Back issues are available. Each issue contains vatious ARTicles of ink drawings with regular installments of Super Secret Abstract Gadget Man, a comic strip called Meanwhile..., the Abstract Page  as well as other viewing devices. Each issue is 8 pages.

MONASTIRAKI and Billy Mavreas

A NEW BOOK

A collection of poems by Andrew Vaisius

I have had the great pleasure to produce a book collecting a small sampling of poetry by my friend and fantastic poet Andrew Vaisius. I cannot believe that even though his poetry has been printed in countless literary publications as well as having reviewed hundreds of other peoples books and writings that this is his first ever book collecting his poetry.

I generally only make books containing my art, for myself, to varying degrees of technical might, man hours of assembling the large or few number of copies,  but I offered up this idea to Andrew to produce a chapbook of his poetry and this is the first time I have done this. I love how it turned out.

The cover for this volume reproduces a piece of art that Andrew chose from my "Ground" series and I created an original piece of artwork for the inside of the book that doubles as an art note card to send out to someone or an art print to frame or tape up to your fridge.... or you can even leave it in the book where it belongs so that it can appreciate in value for some future nest egg.

There are 18 poems collected within these 32 pages and there is a special numbered art card also included in each copy. The book measures 4.25 inches x 7 inches, so it will easily fit into your vest pocket or purse for your traveling pleasure.

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Come and help celebrate this event by coming out to
An evening of Sight and Sound......and Poetry
Friday, September 13th
7:30 pm
Winkler Library,  Winkler Manitoba

The original art for this cover will be on display along with many other pieces from this series & Paul Bergman will be performing some of his fantastic music and song!
.... and of course, Andrew will read from his new Book.

NUIT BLANCHE - Culture Days

My experimental film 412222 which originally premiered in my installation Component For A Mechanical Landscape at Plug In ICA will play at The CUBE in Old Market Square with 11 other fantastic experimental films along with new LIVE original soundtracks by the eXperimental Improv Ensemble on September 25th at 8:30 PM.  the Winnipeg Film Group has organized this event as part of Winnipeg's first Nuit Blanche. it's FREE