[Ste-Em] This SATURDAY's skillshare: "Noise with Toys" - Summer Skillshare Series - Sign Up!!!

[ste. emilie skillshare]

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Oh yes... its business time. We're back with a million kazillion skillshare
and workshop ideas, all neatly packaged into one little summer. Workshops
are on Saturdays at 2pm. Please RSVP if you can and cancel in advance if you
must - otherwise, show up and take a chance

TO RSVP - EMAIL MTLSKILLSHARE at GMAIL.COM WITH YOUR NAME + PHONE NUMBER AND
SAY WHICH WORKSHOP+DATE YOU ARE ATTENDING.
SUMMER SKILLSHARE SERIES!!! Saturday the 24th, 2pm - NOISE WITH TOYS

*DESCRIPTION:* Turn children's toys into instruments for sound art and
NOIZZZE a la circuit bending! We will playfully go step by step in
dissecting toys, figuring out the range of their sounds, and soldering (i.e.
fusing together) connections on their circuit boards, to create (and maybe
record!) whacky noise jams. You will also learn how to make an output jack
to amp the crap out of it!! Noise for everyone!! Bring a battery operate toy
if you wish. We can not guarantee it will ever return to it's original
and less-interesting form.
*BIO: *Meagan Wohlberg loves noise and circuit bending because there is no
way you can really go wrong. It is totally fun and participatory and
everyone should do it. She wishes everything in life was like that because,
except for brain surgery and space missions, most things could be.
*REGISTRATION: *limited to 10 people only. Please RSVP at *
mtlskillshare at gmail.com* if possible and cancel asap if you can’t make it.
We ask $10-$20 sliding scale (Includes the cost of the bent circuit you'll
make and keep)
Saturday, July 31st, 2pm - PHOTOSHOP TIPS AND TRICKS

*DESCRIPTION:* Learn basics and advanced techniques of photoshop, tips and
tricks for manipulating images and text. This session will be perfect for
screen printers and non-screen printers alike. Learn how to make good
selections, modify colors, dispose text and more... Pascal will answer any
questions that you may have on Photoshop. Bring your laptop with Photoshop
on it if you can.
*BIO: *TBA - Presented by our own Sidetracks volunteer, Pascal.
*REGISTRATION: *Spaces limited! We’re gonna try our best to bring as many
computers as necessary, so please RSVP at *mtlskillshare at gmail.com* if you
can and cancel asap if you can’t make it. We ask for $5-$10 sliding scale.
In honour of Pervers/cité:
Saturday, August 7th, 2pm- STREET SELF-DEFENCE & COUNTER-ATTACK – with
Em(ber)

*DESCRIPTION: *An interactive workshop for women, queer and trans folks,
exploring strategies for self-defence against gender-based and homophobic
violence on the street. You are encouraged to bring ideas, information and
experience to share.*
BIO: *From a young femme boy in a bad neighbourhood to life on the road,
from big bad bouncer to transgenderqueer bulldagger, Ember has been
defending herself and her loved ones since 1982.*
REGISTRATION: *Please RSVP at *mtlskillshare at gmail.com* and cancel asap if
you can’t make it. FREE. Feel free to bring snacks to share. All shapes,
sizes, abilities and skill levels welcome.
Saturday, August 14th - no workshop cuz its Pervers/cité!

We’ll be at the Queer Bookfair instead. (Open Studio cancelled too, btw)
Saturday, August 21st, 2pm - TBC

Description to come. We're thinking VJing or Play Piercing.... will be
announced soon.
Saturday, August 28th, 2pm - GRAFFITI AND STENCILING

*DESCRIPTION: *Ok, so you saw an article about banksy, and instantly wanted
to make your own stencil, right?But how are you going to go about it? Well
here we go; I'm going to try to explain everything you need to know about
stencilling, from start to finish. Motives: Some people stencil to convey a
political, social, or religious message, some stencil because it looks
pretty, and others do it simply to beat the system. Before you begin looking
for an image, you must understand your own motives. Are you trying to put
forward a message? Are you trying to make people smile? Are you trying to
shock? Etc. Once you are sure of what you want, you must focus every aspect
of your stencilling on it, be it colour schemes, location, subject matter,
or text; everything must suit your motives. Why? Because a shocking anti war
slogan doesn't look good in baby blue with a stencil of a chicken.
*BIO: *About Ache1 - Stencil graffiti has always been a huge part of my
life. Although I stopped painting illegally last year, I learnt a lot in the
years that I did paint the streets. After solidifying my position in the
online stencil graffiti community I decided to write an article on
stencilling for beginners
*REGISTRATION: *Please RSVP at *mtlskillshare at gmail.com* and cancel asap if
you can’t make it. FREE. Feel free to bring snacks to share. All shapes,
sizes, abilities and skill levels welcome.
Already Happened: Saturday the 17th, 2pm - MAKE YOUR OWN CONTACT MIC

*DESCRIPTION: *Wanna make your own contact mic? In this workshop, you'll
solder and build your own contact microphone, a small flat disc of a
microphone that responds to vibrations, and is easy to make and use. We'll
check out some artists that use contact mics in their sound art and
performance work, discuss the basic mechanics of microphones and
electronics, and experiment with live sound once our mics are soldered up.
No experience necessary. If you have access to a soldering iron, please
bring it. There will be soldering irons provided if you don't have one.
*BIO: *Kandis Friesen is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in
Montreal, Quebec. Working predominantly with sound, video, animation,
drawing, electronics, and installation, her practice examines notions of
translation, memory, migration, and the body. Having completed a college
degree in Audio Recording and working in the field of sound, she is now
completing her degree in Intermedia Arts at Concordia.
*Don't Forget!*

*Open Studios* - still every Saturday from 1-6pm for you to drop in and use
our studios, by donation/PWYC.
*Reading Rainbow Read Aloud Club* - going strong - every Sunday at 3pm -
currently reading zines from our zine distro and "Rethinking Katrina" - the
newest *yet-to-be-published* book by *Butch Lee* (Night Vision) and *J.
Sakai* (Settlers)

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