[aha] You're invited: Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull on Thurs, Mar 22

[Chiara Passa]

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> Sheroes presents a remix tribute to the "Grande Dame"
> Marianne Faithfull latest inductee to the "League of Legendary Ladies"
> Featuring headlining performances by U.S. Girls & Ulysses Castellanos
> TORONTO - (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) - Sheroes will be presenting their latest event, Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull, on Thursday, March 22 at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).
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> The monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and offline works that playfully and peformatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the "League of Legendary Ladies" — will be co-headlined by U.S. Girls and Ulysses Castellanos.
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> For Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull, organizer Rea McNamara has commissioned an impressive lineup of local and international artists and performers. Inspired by the Grande Dame's various personas — the convent-educated waif in lace, the Soho junkie aristocrat, the husky-voiced survivor — these performances, digital animations and interactive installations will reinterpret and remix for one night only our current muse.
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> Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull
> Thursday, March 22, 2012. 10PM.
> The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West)
> Contact: Rea McNamara <totallyeffyeahsheroes a gmail.com>
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> Performances
> Above: U.S. GIrls (AKA Megan Remy)
> Headliners include a Broken English-inspired performance by Chicago/Toronto DIY ingenue U.S. Girls (the alluring "Eno of the 2250s" music/persona of Megan Remy, who recently released her third full length “U.S. Girls on Kraak” on Belgian label Kraak), live PA by Toronto performance artist Ulysses Castellanos.
> Support: Adventure Studies (a returning Sheroes music project by artist Derek Aubichon), emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees, Sheroes salonnière reeraw and resident DJ NoLoves.
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> Interactive Installation
> Our popular "nail art bar" by Smack of the Hand (AKA Brittany Bennington) returns, with free Grande Dame-inspired manis.
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> Projections
> Above: a screen grab of a specially-commissioned animated GIF from Italian new media artist Chiara Passa for Sheroes #8.
> Digital Animations by The Global GIF Aristocracy (von Sacher-Masoch Line), a GIF group show projected on the walls of The Beaver. Curated by Lorna Mills, the show will feature the works of A. Bill Miller, Absis Minas, Andrew Benson, Anthony Antonellis, Chiara Passa, Daniel Rehn, Emilie Gervais, Emilio Gomariz, Eva Papamargariti, Francoise Gamma, Gaby Cepeda, Georges Jacotey, Giselle Zatonyl, Grace McEvoy, Haruko Hirukawa, Helen Adamidou, Juan Manuel Morales, Lorna Mills, Manuel Fernández, Oz Melo, Rea McNamara, Rollin Leonard, Sally McKay, Tony Halmos & Yoshi Sodeoka.
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> WATCH: Lido Pimienta's riveting performance at Sheroes #7: Etta James
> Last month, Colombian darling Lido Pimienta — who was recently featured on NPR Music's Song of the Day — headlined Sheroes #7: Etta James. You can now watch her música glamurosa dramática take on Etta's "Woman".
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> Sheroes is committed to doing herstory right — reinterpreting and remixing the mythic woman-power that pervades digital and actual cultures, realizing new works from ephemeral and archival artifacts.
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> Our next inductee into the "League of Legendary Ladies" will be Dolly Parton on Thursday, April 22 at The Beaver. For further information regarding our upcoming events, click here.
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> All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into cultures of fandom and collaborative content creation.
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