Sheroes was a monthly limited-run art party series that brought together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and cultures of fandom surrounding the "League of Legendary Ladies": Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, Etta James, Marianne Faithfull, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, Dusty Springfield & Nina Simone.
Sheroes is presented by salonnière reeraw (Rea McNamara). Based in Toronto, the series curates specially commissioned performances, sounds, installations & visuals.
All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into fan culture and collaborative content creation.
Virtual Season — our culminating presentation of new and past Sheroes on/offline works & performances — is currently gearing into its first international reunion tour. We will be announcing soon tour dates. (If you would like to book a Sheroes event, please contact us.)
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Sheroic friendz, we’re here to help.
Tickets for our amazing night programming — MANTLER! LAL! KIDS ON TV! HOUSE OF MONROE! COZMIC CAT! — are now available at Rotate This (801 Queen St W.) and Soundscapes (572 College St.). Damage? $10.
But if the IRL is too much, you can purchase $8 tickets ONLINE.
THE ACCLAIMED AND MUCH-LOVED MONTHLY PARTY SHEROES BECOMES ALL-DAY, ALL-NIGHT IDOLATROUS FESTIVAL WITH VIRTUAL SEASON
Herstory finally done right.
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 2PM-1AM in Toronto’s Kensington Market during P.S. Kensington
Co-presented by
SHEROES + WhippersnapperRSVP TO THE FB EVENT / TIX FOR OUR NIGHT PROGRAMME ARE NOW AVAIL TO BUY ONLINE
SHEROES DAY
2-9 PM / 214 Augusta (backlot of El Gordo Foods) / All Ages / Free
[#MúsicaGlamurosaDramática] LIDO PIMIENTA
[#DubPoetry] LILLIAN ALLEN
[#GypsyPunk] THE LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA
SHEROES NIGHT
9PM-1AM / 58 Cecil Street (Cecil Street Community Centre) / 19+ / $8 (ONLINE) / $10 (IRL at Rotate This & Soundscapes starting Wednesday, July 18)
[#EternalHopeInTheFaceOfEverydayDespair] MARKER STARLING (the artist formerly known as MANTLER)
[#ApocalypticallyGay] KIDS ON TV
[#MusicMakingMagicalMushroom] LAL
AND MORE! Click here for our full day & night music & performance lineup.
Virtual Season is an all-day & night art and music festival in the vein of the Ancient Greek theatre festivals or the Latin American Saint Days. Featuring a stellar line-up of local bands and international artists, a frenetic assemblage of performance art, music, GIF and GIF-based video art, DIY projects and various activities will reinterpret and remix the mythic celebrity worship that pervades digital and actual cultures.
OH HAI THURRR SHEROES: VIRTUAL SEASON TUMBLR!!!!11
If you’re keen to keep up with the end of Sheroes, you’ll be excited know that this month will not only culminate with our closing event, Sheroes #12: Nina Simone (Thursday, July 26), but also our massive gala closing all-day and night art & music festival that we’re co-presenting with local Artist-Run Centre Whippersnapper (Sunday, July 29).
We’ll be regularly updating the site, spotlighting musical acts, performers, artists & even delving into the mythic woman power chorus herstory of the League of Legendary Ladies.
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As we gear up for Virtual Season, the art & music festival we’ll be co-presenting on July 29th with Toronto Artist-Run Centre Whippersnapper, we’ll be posting updates & oh-so-necessary announcements in the midst of our regular Sheroic programming. (You can keep up with these updates via our “Virtual Season” tag.)
Hence forth, 3 important Virtual Season updates.
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| 4 notes | tags:[NEW VIDEO] KIDS ON TV - BOBBY feat. DIAMOND RINGS & SNAX
Directed by John Caffery
Single take from the upcoming album Kids on TV album Pantheon (Sept 4, 2012) being released by Chicks on Speed Records (International) & Blocks Recording Club (Canada)
