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MDR and the WWW Everything written about us on the web. |
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We need your chedder The great work we do needs great people like you to donate a bit of coin now and again. Help out and get a tax receipt, eternal gratitude and a back rub from producer Natalie De Vito. |
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Time Management for Anarchists The amazingly talented, tireless and prolific Jim Munroe and Marc Ngui have written a comic for anarcho-activists who are tired of the grind. It features an illustrated interview with Darren, his first starring role in a comic. Take a look at Jim's website and download a free copy. |
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Carl Wilson writes article about us for Toronto Life
Master music critic, blogger and Celine Dion expert, Carl Wilson has written an article about us for the December issue of Toronto Life. |
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Augusto Bastos Slam Dunks
After Augosto Bastos' recent talk at the Power Plant, it became clear that an hour and a half is an incredibly inadequate amount of time for Augusto to tell his incredibly compelling life story (thus far). In December we will be hosting a five-course meal and a five-part talk by Augustos for the duration of an evening. Augusto will talk, we will eat, he will talk, we will eat, he will talk, we will eat, he will talk, we will eat and then, finally, we will all party This event is by invitation only except for the first 3 people to send us an email - we want to see if anybody actually visits this website. It's an incredible story about the postcolonial struggles of the 60s, panafricanism, the Angolan revolution, basketball, CIA, exile, torture and kidnapping; it is set in Anglola, the Congo, America, Sweden, Italy, France, China and Canada and stars Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Chairman Mao, Dan Heaps and Tony Silipo. Food will be prepared by Darren, Natalie, Sarah and Eva. |
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The Children's Choice Awards - Melbourne The Children's Choice Awards was a decisive intervention into the Melbourne International Arts Festival: a group of the city's brightest kids from the suburb of Footscray were chauffeured from event to event; they checked out the art and offered brash, incisive and audacious opinions. And then they handed out a few awards. You could have seen the young jury as they crawled all over the festival, their tender knees protected from the evils of the world by the thinnest of red carpets and then you might have pulled your finest attire out of the laundry basket to attend the award ceremony and heard their pronouncements. THE WINNERS:
Take a look at the the young jury's adventures on the Children's Choice Awards Blog From Pauline Cady, mom of jury member Sweeny:
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Haircuts by Children in Terni, Italy
Es Terni, International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Terni, Umbria Italy starring Ms. Giovanna Del Vitto's grade five students at Scuola Elementare G. Matteotti. hair supervision: Samuele Petrucci directed by Darren O'Donnell produced by Natalie De Vito salon STUDIO SAMUEL
In futuro ad ogni bambino sara dato un paio di forbici e sara invitato a ritagliare i nostri destini. In futuro ad ogni bambino saranno concessi tutti i diritti di cittadinanza; sara invitato a votare, mettersi in lizza per una posizione e guidare il tram. In futuro i bambini insegneranno e gli adulti impareranno; un campo giochi sara costruito in ogni campo di battaglia; le caramelle saranno gratis ed i denti rovinati saranno rimpiazzati senza spese per te consumatore.In futuro i bambini saranno potenti creature capaci di attraversare la strada senza guardare in entrambe le direzioni, e trattenere il loro fiato sottacqua per sempre. Mammalian Diving Reflex con sede a Toronto e un atelier di ricerca artistica designato ad investigare la sfera sociale, sempre all'erta alle contraddizioni per precipitarsi in esperienze esteticamente scintillanti, producendo eventi straordinari, spettacoli teatrali, testi teoretici ed eventi di comunita. |
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[boxhead] book launch
A young geneticist wakes up to discover a box secured to his head; he finds all thoughts come from God, all his actions come from the devil and his desire for love a habit acquired from the movies. Sound familiar? Don't be so hard on yourself. [boxhead]: a bedtime story for your brain. Coach House Books launches their full fall line-up at Stones Place (1255 Queen Street West) on October 9th at 8 p.m. Featuring a night of short readings of [boxhead], Mike Hoolboom's The Steve Machine, Michael Blouin's Chase & Haven, Margaret Christakos's What Stirs, Jeramy Dodds's Crabwise to the Hounds, and Kyle Buckley's The Laundromat Essay. Coach House Books 2008 Fall Launch
"[boxhead] is an audacious, thought-provoking and frequently hilarious attack on reality in life." -Kamal Al-Solaylee, Eye Weekly |
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MDR short-listed for Toronto Arts Award - 2 years in a row! Mammalian Diving Reflex has been short-listed for the Toronto Arts Award's Arts for Youth Award. A $15,000 cash prize established by Martha Burns, Jim Fleck and Jim Pitblado, this award celebrates an individual, collective or organization that has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to engaging Toronto youth in the arts. We are very excited by this nomination, believing that incorporating young people into the Creative City antics - by making work that appeals to and involves both kids and adults alike - manages to nicely conflate Capital's drive to use culture to grease the economic wheels with the States drive to use culture to glue the social fabric. Greasing the glue and gluing the grease is what we're all about here at MDR. Darren O'Donnell's essay Greasing the Glue and Gluing the Grease can be downloaded here.
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Darren O'Donnell speaks at Portland Univerity Darren will be discussing his work at a public event as part of the Portland University's Social Practice Programs's MFA Monday Night Lecture Series. The event is open to all and free. When: November 3, 2008. 7:30PM
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The Monster Makers The Monster Makers is an event for young audiences currently in development. It is an interactive experience dealing with responsibility, power, anarchy and control. The children make a monster, they take it outside for a walk, the monster escapes. Oh shit, what now? There's control, and then there's outta control. Conception and social co-ordination by Darren O'Donnell
Phase Two of the Monster Makers development process occurred with the support of Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. |