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.)
Ask A Sheroes Stan: Chris A. Cummings Finally Answers Super Important Nina Simone Q’s
Earlier this year, we were proud to launch our Sheroes Stan residency, a program that connects aca-fan knowledge and wisdom to the vastly growing motley crew of international and local artists that are regularly involved with Sheroes each month.
For Sheroes #12: Nina Simone, we were so glad to invite Toronto-based indie songwriter Chris A. Cummings (AKA Marker Starling, the artist formerly known as Mantler, who will also be headlining our arts & music festival Virtual Season.)
Originally a home-recording project, Marker Starling has become a regular presence on the local indie music scene for his indie-meets-R&B chunes.
He has released 4 albums: Doin’ It All (Le Systeme, 2000), Sadisfaction (Tomlab, 2002), Landau (Tomlab, 2004) and Monody (Tomlab/Tin Angel/Blocks Recording Club, 2010).
Click below for the full interview, in which Cummings illuminates on the unfairness of “Supper Club Songstress For The Elite”, Nina’s rep as a sublime interpreter, what freedom means, & more.
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.
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).
Starting this week, our Wurlitzer electric piano playing, internationally recognized dude — he just toured Russia and is one of the headliners for our all-day music and arts festival, Virtual Season! — will be answering any Nina Simone questions you might have in the lead up toSheroes #12: Nina Simone. (In fact, he’s a pretty awesome artist in his own right!)
Consider him a far more resourceful Yahoo Answers humanoid at your disposal for anything-related to our High Priestess.
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": 
![Meet our fourth and final “Sheroes Stan”, Chris A. Cummings (the artist that will very soon be formerly known as Mantler).
Related: [sheroes stan] Ask A Sheroes Stan: Jeanette Lynes Finally Answers Super Important Dusty Springfield Q’s
Earlier this year, we were proud to launch our Sheroes Stan residency, a program that connects aca-fan knowledge and wisdom to the vastly growing ragtag crew of international and local artists that are regularly involved with Sheroes each month.
Starting this week, our Wurlitzer electric piano playing, internationally recognized dude — he just toured Russia and is one of the headliners for our all-day music and arts festival, Virtual Season! — will be answering any Nina Simone questions you might have in the lead up to Sheroes #12: Nina Simone. (In fact, he’s a pretty awesome artist in his own right!)
Consider him a far more resourceful Yahoo Answers humanoid at your disposal for anything-related to our High Priestess.
Got any burning q’s? Ask ‘em here. (Or simply join our Facebook group for Chris’s Nina-ness.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70kdruAcO1r8m0qko1_500.png)
