Snapshot of the week ending : 2009-08-24

What a week.

After waiting and waiting the arts and culture community of BC has finally received the news everyone dreaded to hear. The cuts are coming, and the cuts are BIG. Here we are less than six months to the Olympics and the cultural fabric of the province is being shredded. Over the the next several weeks we’ll be hearing what organizations and events might survive. Which puts into question VANOC’s Cultural Olympiad. What will it look like if the organizations making up its programming go out of business?

Out On Screen, which was a WHOLE lot of fun as the finale to a month of queerness. I saw some good and some ugly. A lasting legacy of that event for me is the number of people asking me about the spit trail. Really people, I was talking about Star Trek Deep Space Nine! I didn’t realize any of it would end up being part of the trailer!

• RT@ajkeen Can high cultural organizations (contemporary composers, museums or avant-garde pop musicians) use modern tech to their advantage?

• OutOnScreen: on my way to see Bandaged… Hope there will still be tickets left. No zombies for me afterwards though!
• Open Source Footwear by Fluevog …. http://www.fluevog.com/files_2/os-1.html go design yourself a shoe.
• I can’t seem to find my sleep anywhere… Same location as my missing socks? I wonder…
• Sometimes I feel like I have vitiligo on the inside… or progressive pigmentation. Skin? Behaviour? Can I just be human?
• OMFG – #TurtlePorn courtesy of @Mollena. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSA_BV6FT_g A scene from bedrooms around the world…
• Extra set (complete all 4) of the Marketplace series to give away. Want it? Laura, if yer reading, when will the 5th appear?
• South African runner improves time by 8seconds over last year, and now must undergo gender testing: http://bit.ly/jq5Uf . Your thoughts?
• Call for submissions 2010 CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival (Black History Month) http://bit.ly/zBjgX focus on African-Canadian filmmakers
• Looook… Translink has more PR problems… http://bit.ly/nrM9C I’ve had experiences with drivers working me over in this regard. have you?
• Love this double bill concept: “The Girlfriend Experience” http://bit.ly/afBrZ Female director looks at johns, male looks at escorts. Going?
• OutOnScreen: Saw an early cut of the Portside http://bit.ly/xMfDN; part of the Queer History Project. Shows this Friday.
• My silver-haired bootblack butch stands at a distance where I can watch her. Something about the shoulders… The hands…*smile*
• A “faux” call just saved me from an awkward/creepy convo with a stranger-dude chocolate-chaser. What has it done for you lately?
• Need to be kissed deeply. Need sweetness on my lips ’cause my computer just crashed and I’m dropping “F-bombs” all over the place.
• OutOnScreen: just did the Artists’ Salon. About to do the Coast is Queer – full house. Keepin up the gay quotient. What you doing?
• Trying hard to be impressed at the RAV opening. There ain’t nothing fast about this ride…
• If twiiter goes down or has API issues, that’s fine. but could you post an announcement pls?

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