Call: Saskatoon Anarchist Book Fair seeks participants

The 2nd Annual Saskatoon Anarchist Book-Fair is coming, and we need vendors,
workshop facilitators, and volunteers!

The dates have been set as September 28th and 29t h, 2007 at the Cosmo
Senior Citizen's Centre off Broadway, with a potluck supper on Friday the
28th to welcome out-of-towners followed by a party with live music, and a
jam-packed day of book-fair from 10 am to 10 pm on Saturday the 29th. (No
fair on Sunday)

The event will be wheel-chair accessible and all ages, with free admission,
free vegan food, free workshops, and free child-care. Donations will be
accepted at the door to recoup expenses.

If you run a distro, store, collective, or other organization and would like
to register a table to distribute your anarchy-related wares, please try to
confirm with us before September 10th. Tables are free; however we
encourage donations from vendors that profit from the fair to help pay the
bills. If you are travelling from afar, let us know ASAP if you need a
billet (how many people, any allergies, any lifestyle or bedding
preferences) and feel free to ask us about travel subsidies. Also, please
let us know approximately how much table space (square metres) you would
like. Interested parties ask us about adding a non-compulsory $1 Tree Tax
to prices of print materials that we will donate to an appropriate
conservation or reforestation organization (to be determined – any
suggestions?) after the fair.

If you want to lead a free workshop, please get in touch! We are especially
looking for creative and unusual workshop ideas that build community, share
useful skills, are inclusive, and that deal with any of the following:
aboriginal justice, food, community organizing, consensus facilitation,
queer/LGBT issues, feminism, age-ism, social justice, class struggle,
pacifism, armed resistance, permaculture, alternative energy, reducing
consumption, green technology, mental health, science, spirituality,
history/herstory, anarchy in practice/anarchy defined, political theory,
media, language, etc. We can supply electrical outlets,
white-boards/flip-charts, chairs, tables, pens/paper, and quiet space – let
us know what you need. The workshop schedule will be finalized in
September, but let us know right away about any scheduling constraints on
the 29th. Deadline for workshop submissions: September 10th.

If you want to volunteer a couple hours to help out before or during this
fun and busy day, we need you! Let us know before-hand what you enjoy most:
childcare, cooking, cleaning, set-up, take-down, transporting items by bike
or car, planning, or promotion, OR just show up on the day and ask someone
what needs to be done. All contributing efforts are highly valued, and we
encourage drop-in visitors to take a shift washing dishes, sweeping, or
moving tables to lighten the workload for everyone.

More info, including a car-pool registry, coming soon at
saskatoonanarchy.blogspot.com .

Love and solidarity,
The bookfair team

Call: Artist Projects Wanted for 30th Anniversary Issue of FUSE Magazine

Call for Artist Projects for 30th Anniversary Issue of FUSE Magazine


--Please circulate widely--

FUSE magazine is pleased to announce an open call for artist projects to
be included in our 30th anniversary issue, on newsstands Fall 2007.

Our 30th anniversary issue is devoted to assessing the state of our
present, those intersections that we feel are critically in need of
address at this moment in history--indigeneity, occupation and settler
states; security and war; status and migration; the politics of identity;
the workings of institutions; and social and economic precarity. The issue
will consist of a series of conversations about these themes amongst
artists, activists, community organizers and academics internationally and
from across the country.

We are soliciting artists to create work in any medium that would be
suitable for reproduction as a poster and that speaks to one or multiple
themes listed above. Artist projects will be printed and displayed at the
launch event in October, 2007. Limited edition posters will be printed of
each artist project to be sold by FUSE as part of our fundraising drive,
with 50 copies delivered to the artist along with an artist fee of $150.

Technical information: Each poster will be printed at 11 inches wide x 17
inches high. Artists whose submissions are approved will be asked to
supply files as press-ready pdf files for a 4/0 colour printing process.
100 lb paper stock will be used with matte text and a varnish finish.

Submissions Guidelines: Poster submissions should be completed or nearly
completed and address one of key areas mentioned above (indigeneity,
occupation and settler states; security and war; status and migration; the
politics of identity; the workings of institutions; and social and
economic precarity).

By Canada Post:
please send a full-scale colour print of your poster and your
curriculum vitae to
FUSE Posters
454 - 401 Richmond St West
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
Canada

OR

By Email:
please send a 72 dpi jpeg of your design scaled no larger than 398
x 612 pixels and your curriculum vitae to

Deadline: June 30, 2007

About FUSE: FUSE is an arts and culture magazine that provides in-depth
critical analysis of the intersections of art, social change, activism,
politics and mass media.

Callout: Locus Suspectus Magazine

Locus Suspectus Magazine is a non-profit organization that was
founded in Montreal in 2005. Within its first publishing-year, Suspectus
has increased its readership and cultivated a circulation and
subscription-base across Canada and abroad.


Currently planning for our fourth issue, we are seeking submissions from
writers and artists on the topic of 'technology and nature'. The
pervasive presence of new and increasingly sophisticated technology in
our society has affected our relationship to the natural world and to our
own bodies. The editors are interested in exploring these issues through
both the visual arts and articles, which address broader social concerns.


Artist Guidelines: Artist submissions will be considered for profiles,
feature interviews and the gallery section (an exhibition on paper). We
only accept digital submissions. Please include a maximum of 20 images
(jpg, psd, bmp, tiff format), image list, artist statement and cv. In
addition to the above digital formats, we will also accept short video
submissions for electronic publication in our "Featured Artist" section
on www.lsmagazine.ca.


Writer Guidelines: We are interested in the following: profiles of artists
whose work addresses this topic, or articles which address the
socio-economic and/or historical aspects of the changing relationship
between nature and technology. We accept digital submissions in the
following formats: a) near to complete draft (500-3000 words), with a
50 word bio OR b) proposal of no more than 500 words, accompanied by
a publishing resume.


Send To: Email your submissions to submissions@lsmagazine.ca, with
"Nature and Technology - Your Name" in the subject heading.


Deadline: February 28th, 2007