Sheroes

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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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Animated GIF by Steph Parrott for Sheroes #7: Etta James.

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Animated GIFs by Steph Parrott for Sheroes #6: Erykah Badu. Event GIFs by Lorna Mills.

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Global GIF Authority: Erykah Badu Chapter

Global GIF Authority: Erykah Badu Chapter title sequence by Rollin Leonard and Lorna Mills (mostly Rollin Leonard) for Sheroes #6: Erykah Badu.

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‘The Global GIF Authority - Erykah Badu Chapter’ Releases Sheroes #6 PSA

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Sheroes #6: Erykah Badu Event Line-Up Announcement

http://fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com/post/15524267685/meet-bizzarh

“Dare you to find a tolerable party series like this somewhere else.”

— The Grid’s Paul Aguirre-Livingston

TL;DR? The 140 version: “#sheroes @fatbellybella remix @beavertoronto tribute line-up announced http://bit.ly/yhBFg6 ft-ing @bizZarh, int’l group #GIF show & more!”

On Thursday, January 26, 2012, Sheroes will be kicking off their 2012 programming at a new downtown Toronto location with a stunning sho nuff line-up of multidisciplinary artists offering up one-night-only “remix tributes” to the Analog Girl In A Digital World, Miss Erykah Badu (AKA @fatbellybella, DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown, midwife Badoula, etc.)

The TO-based performance series — a free experimental on/offline monthly jam celebrating the “League of Legendary Ladies” — said goodbye in 2011 to “DuWest” hotspot NACO Gallery & Cafe (RIP), and is moving on to Queen West’s “alt-cultural oasis” The Beaver in 2012.

In keeping with our reputation for curating thematic performances, sounds, installations & visuals in tribute to the month’s Shero, we’ll be honouring Miss Badu with the following line-up:

Performances

Sounds

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Group GIF show co-curated by Lorna Mills, featuring the projected original GIF works of HELEN ADAMIDOU, ANTHONY ANTONELLIS, JENNIFER CHAN, JOSEPH CHIOCCHI, EMILIE GERVAIS, TONY HALMOS, JEANETTE HAYES, ISAAC HICKS, ROLLIN LEONARD, SALLY MCKAY, REA MCNAMARA, GRACE MCEVOY, OZ MELO, LORNA MILLS, STEPH PARROTT, DANIEL REHN, YOSHI SODEOKA & GISELLE ZATONYL. 

For more info, please visit our site. To get in the loop, join our Facebook group or add us on Google+. 

Wanna get involved? Email us! totallyeffyeahsheroes (@) gmail (dot) com.

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