February 2012
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Broken Arts Fair performance schedule
This Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the McLaughlin Library (65 Bagot St. in downtown Oshawa) will be our next Broken Arts Fair.
We’ve got seven musical acts and seven readers scheduled to perform as follows:
11:20 - Darling & The Bear
11:55 - WHY Blue
12:30 - Hopeless Romantic & Sarah Crookall
12:55 - The Production
1:30 - Harley R. Pageot
1:55 -...
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OshaWhen?
If you haven’t been reading OshaWhat you’re missing out. There’s some stellar folks over there talking film, nature, sports, fashion, and all sorts of other things from an Oshawa point of view. There’s also photos, comics, event listings, and a local directory and something new is posted nearly everyday.
This Friday happens to be the official launch party for the...
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Now Or Never: Spring 2012
The third issue of our zine about the local art scene, Now Or Never: Spring 2012, launches this Saturday at our Broken Arts Fair.
The main bulk of the zine is comprised of 10 pieces on the Top 10 People, Places, & Things Making Oshawa Cool as voted by you in our 2011 year-end poll.
The zine also features:
-cover art by Alex Close
-Event Of The Issue: the launch of OshaWhat by Ashley Perry...
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Video
We are in need of videographers to help us put together some short music videos for online purposes and for projecting at future shows. If you or someone you know is good at that sort of thing, e-mail us.
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Living Culture tomorrow
Tomorrow night Living Culture take their weekly Thursday night showcase over to Murphy’s Pub for an all-ages evening featuring Chris & Cassy, Watershed Hour, the return of HeSaid SheSaid, and more. Free and bands at 8:30 p.m. More details here.
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Horizons turned upside-down.
Our gift to you today comes from your family at Broken Arts in the form of a very special announcement.
We at Broken Arts have been doing our thing for just over two and a half years. Two years, seven months, and four days to be precise. We’ve done quite a bit in that time: concerts, craft fairs, workshops, games, buskerfests… We started Oshawa’s first zine distro in order to...
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WatchHeather Luckhart performing live at Soundtracked 25 this past Friday.
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Sold Out
Tonight is Soundtracked 25 and we are sold out.
If you have a ticket, doors are at 8 p.m. with Darling Meadow going on at 8:15, followed by Heather Luckhart, Stereo Moon, and Julie Doiron.
If you don’t have a ticket, we’ll be capturing live footage of performances from all four artists and making that content available on our Vimeo page over the next few weeks.
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What Blog
Over at our Facebook page we’ve thrown up a poll asking what you would like to see in this space. More interviews and reviews? Art, fiction, and poetry from local folks? Downloadable mixtapes? DIY craft ideas? Or something else? Go over there and vote or add your own option to the poll. If you don’t have a Facebook account you can just comment directly on this post here. Let us...
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Soundtracked 25 is two days away.
Our big 25th Soundtracked show is this Friday evening and there are only two tickets left. If you hope to attend you need to get to Mad Cafe as soon as possible and be sure to snatch them up as we will not be selling any at the door.
The pre-show yoga class that Julie Doiron will be running at Bola! does have a couple spaces remaining as well. Tickets for that are $20 and include admission to...
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All-Ages Venues
If you’re a musician or promoter looking to put on an all-ages show we recommend talking to the following places: Stuttering John’s Bistro Bar
(19 Simcoe St. S.) Mad Cafe
(38 King St. E.) Cocoa & Joe
(44 Simcoe St. N.) The following places are also available for all-ages shows though they tend to run upwards of $300/night to use their spaces: The Music Scene
(1150 Champlain...
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Broken Arts Fair: Table Available
Our next Broken Arts Fair is March 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the McLaughlin branch of the Oshawa Public Libraries. We’ve got 16 vendors, 8 readers, 7 bands, an art show, and a charity raffle confirmed so far.
One table has just become free. If you are interested in selling your crafts, art, fashion, zines, comics, jewelery, or band merch it can be yours for $15 or you...
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OshaWhat 2
Head back to OshaWhat and you can now check out a couple film columns by our friend Patty. Broken Arts’ Erin provides illustrations.
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Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste →
OshaWhat has just posted the first music column by Broken Arts founder Harley. Head over and read his take on the importance of all-ages shows to a community. Why do Broken Arts refuse to do 19+ concerts? Featuring Watershed Hour, Chris & Cassy, and more. Photos by Soundtracked doorperson Mercedes Cant.
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Blog Contributors
We try to update this place every day so that you’ve got good reason to keep coming back but some days just aren’t very newsworthy.
If you would like to contribute to this blog, drop us a line at info@brokenarts.ca
Local show reviews, cool links, band & artist profiles, comics, photography, fiction, poetry… whatever. If it loosely relates to Oshawa, all-ages culture, or...
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Oshawha?
It’s Sunday. You probably slept in. Now you’re thinking of just laying around the house in your pajamas, reading the newspaper, and eating some breakfast. Well, don’t. Put down that newspaper. Do you really care that the local sports team lost another game or that a bridge is being built somewhere or that some kid you don’t know did something cute? Not really. If you...
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Top 10 Reasons The Robert McLaughlin Gallery's...
1. They’re all-ages. All ages. Little kids, senior citizens, and everyone in between.
2. They’re free.
3. They wrap by 9 p.m.
4. Every show has a fun theme, like Hawaii, The 1920’s, or Back To School.
5. They’re always changing up the genres. Jazz, rock, hip-hop, folk, electro, country, and soul are just some of the sounds they’ve had.
6. They always...
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SlowFriday
Tomorrow is Friday, February 3 which means it’s the first Friday of the month.
Come on out to The Robert McLaughlin Gallery for 7 p.m. as they celebrate one year of First Fridays. Gord Richards will croon, Gibbran will provide some soul, some kids from So You Think You Can Dance Canada will dance, Chris Jackson will make you a magnet, and plenty of art. Free and all-ages, yo....
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Living Culture Thursdays
Tomorrow evening Living Culture are back at Cocoa & Joe with their weekly event series. This installment features performances from Elephant Shoes, Darling Meadow, and Johnathan Sloan amongst others. All-ages and only a $2 cover.