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EVENTS - 2008 Archive ************************** DECEMBER 19, 2008 ************************** ... join us for some great music to end this strange year ... Scott Nolan with Joanna Miller and Paul Balcain Opening - Claire Therese Friesen Friday, December 19 @ 9:00 PM (door 8 PM) @ The CYRK (254 Young St.) Suggested donation $5 BYOB SCOTT NOLAN ... Nearly a decade ago scott nolan penned the tune "famous in texas" in 2008 texas troubadour Hayes Carll recorded and released as a single Nolan's "bad liver/ broken heart for his lost highway debut. Texas cult hero Adam Carroll enlisted Nolan to produce his "old town rock and roll" record and his music lives in jukeboxes across the great state. He is currently considering a follow up titled "famous in the bahamas". Performing at this intimate show with Scott will be Joanna Miller on drums, and Paul Balcain on sax. ************************** DECEMBER 11, 2008 *************************** Here's something special for you to dusk off this crazy year ... The Undesirables Thursday, December 11 @ 9:00 PM (door 8 PM) @ The CYRK (254 Young St.) Suggested donation $10 BYOB http://www.myspace.com/undesirables The Undesirables have been called 'the Coen Brothers meets Hank Williams'. That's a decent attempt, considering that The Undesirables are not so easy to describe. With one guitar and their two voices, they deliver an unbridled, narrative-driven performance that is beguiling, haunting, and infectiously entertaining in equal measure. If you stumbled upon a tavern where Tom Waits, Ray Bradbury, Jim Morrison, and Charles Dickens were huddled in a corner exchanging stories, perhaps eavesdropping on them would give you a better idea of what to expect from this Toronto duo. ***************************** JULY 22, 2008 ***************************** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ... There is some nice buzz about these guys across the country. They happen to pass through Winnipeg next Tuesday, and they will make a stop at the CYRK for their first Winnipeg appearance. See this little preview for how much fun it's going to be http://www.youtube.com/user/djebali ... CLAIRE JENKINS avec BAND Tuesday, July 22 Door 7:30 Show 8:30 The CYRK, 254 Young Street $10 suggested donation BYOB - we do not provide alcohol Check Claire Jenkins out @ http://www.myspace.com/clairejenkins http://www.youtube.com/user/djebali http://www.clairejenkins.com *********************** JUNE 27, 2008 *********************** A couple of announcements first ... 1. Ryszard Hunka, an inhabitant of the CYRK and an amazing CBC TV Director/Producer created this funny spoof for CBC for this year's April 1st ... Check it out, and let your friends know ... Here's the link ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nb4L-DxfA ... Ryszard and some other CBC people are also planning to have a festival at the CYRK showcasing TV material that you can't show on regular TV (oh those subversive CBC people)... Sounds intriguing ... We will keep you in the loop ... 2. Also, a reminder that on Tuesday July 22nd, the CYRK will host a great band from Toronto, Claire Jenkins, in their first Winnipeg appearance. A show not to be missed. Check Claire Jenkins out @ http://www.myspace.com/clairejenkins, http://www.sonicbids.com/clairejenkins, or http/www.youtube.com/user/djebali ... ________________________________________________________ Now to the news of the day ... Join us for the best spoken word show of the year ... The WINNIPEG POETRY SLAM FINAL   where this season's best Winnipeg poets will compete for their chance to represent Winnipeg at Canada's largest and most dynamic spoken word festival - the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (held this November in Calgary) Featuring NEREO unquestionably one of this planet's most talented spoken word artist Friday, June 27 Door 8:00 Show 9:00 The CYRK, 254 Young Street $5-10 suggested donation BYOB - we do not provide alcohol Here's how it works: 1. Marjolaine Hebert, Paul Friesen, PC Miller, Leif Norman, Bonnie Holmes, Tai Pu, and Andrea von Wichert are this slam season's seven best poets who have qualified for the final ... 2. There will also be 3 slots open to any last moment artist who would like to compete - sign-up on first come first serve basis ... 3. Every poet does 2 poems, no longer than three minutes, on any topic, in any style, no props, its OK to read 4. Judges randomly selected from the audience will give the poets instant numerical feedback ... Four poets with best total scores will represent Winnipeg in Calgary Let your friends know & see you there ... ********************* MAY 30, 2008 ********************* First, as a matter of heads up ... we are very excited to announce that on Tuesday July 22nd, the CYRK will host  a very awesome band from Toronto, Claire Jenkins, in their first Winnipeg appearance. These guys are completely special, and there has been some nice buzz about them across the country lately. It is likely the last chance to catch these guys at an intimate venue like the CYRK (we all know what happened to the Fugitives and CR Avery), so don't miss them. Check Claire Jenkins out @ http://www.myspace.com/clairejenkins, http://www.sonicbids.com/clairejenkins, or http/www.youtube.com/user/djebali ... In the meantime ... join us this Friday for The Winnipeg Poetry Slam - Qualifying Event for the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word   Friday, May 30 Door 8:00 Slam 9:00 The CYRK, 254 Young Street $5 suggested donation BYOB - we do not provide alcohol It has been a very long winter in Winnipeg this year ... And it will be a very short qualifying season for the Winnipeg poetry slam this year (likely a total of three events) ... Which means that there is a better than ever chance for performance artists to qualify to Canada's most dynamic spoken word festival - the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (November 2008, Calgary) ... Even though it has been quiet lately in Winnipeg, Poetry Slams are booming all across Canada, and this year's festival (like every year's festival so far) is bound to a spectacular event ... So if you think you can, here's how it works ... 1) Anyone can participate, up to 12 poets, first come first serve ... 2) Poets need to bring two original spoken word pieces, in any style, on any subject, no longer than 3 minutes, no props, its OK to read ... 3) Judges randomly selected from the audience will give you instant numerical feedback ... best poets go the the second round ... 4) There might be a cash prize for the winners ... Let your friends know & see you there ... ******************* APRIL 5, 2008 ******************* Saturday, April 5 Door 7:30 Film 8:00 The Cyrk, 254 Young Street $5 suggested donation The CYRK is a bring-your-own-beverage venue Winnipeg film director Gary Yates will join us this month with a basket of surprises. Will we get a chance to take a peek at his new  feature length film "High Life" or enjoy his classic Winnipeg noir "Seven Times Lucky" starring Kevin Pollack? You'll find out this  Saturday at the Catacomb microCinema where Gary will share his perspective on feature filmmaking in Winnipeg. Gary's first feature film "Seven Times Lucky" premiered at the Sundance  Film Festival to significant praise. The Toronto International Film Festival describes the film as "Part thriller, part caper flick, but primarily a character study, Seven Times Lucky is reminiscent of underappreciated seventies classics like Robert Benton's The Late Show or Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye." Influenced by the likes of crime novelists Jim Thompson and Raymond Chandler, the film deepens a world and makes it feel so fresh that it's easy to be swindled. This will be the last Catacomb microCinema show for the season where we have surveyed the past and future of locally visioned feature films. We would like to thank the film directors, The Cyrk, William F. Whites for their support. See you this coming fall for a new lineup. ********************************************************** About Catacomb microCinema Catacomb microCinema is a cooperative, interactive, small cinema venue started in 1998 that paused momentarily in 2004. On the first Saturday of the month in an arts house called THE CYRK (254 Young Street), the Catacomb microCinema once again serves up a diversity of filmmakers presenting their films, approaches, ideas, and opinions. The theme for 2007-08 is "Feature Films Made-in-Manitoba by Manitobans" where we will survey the past and future of locally visioned feature films. www.catacombmicrocinema.ca ******************** MARCH 1, 2008 ******************** Here's a spectacular evening of poetry and film ...  Two outstanding Canadian poets & an awesome local feature film ... We do not take reservations before the show ... Come early to reserve your seat ... The night is sponsored by Brandon University, ECW Press, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Winnipeg Catacomb microCinema, and the CYRK ... Poetry - JACOB SCHEIER & EMILY SCHULTZ @ 7:30 (SHARP) Film - 'The Nature of Nicholas' (2002) @ 9:00 followed by a conversation with director Jeff Erbach Saturday, March 1st The Cyrk, 254 Young Street $5 for either event or $8 for both events suggested donation Door open 7:00 pm The CYRK is a bring-your-own-beverage venue **************************************************************** EMILY SCHULTZ lives in Toronto.  Her publications include the short story collection Black Coffee Night (Insomniac), the novel Joyland (ECW), and the upcoming novel Heaven Is Small (Anansi). Her new poetry collection is Songs for the Dancing Chicken (ECW), a meditation on the films of Werner Herzog, among other things.  She is a former editor of broken pencil and This Magazine.  The Globe and Mail recently included Emily Schultz in their list of Tomorrow's Atwoods and Ondaatjes."   For two interesting short poetry videos featuring her work, go to her website, www. joyland.ca. "Emily Schultz's titles alone are enough to make you have to buy this book: 'New Rats,' 'Double-Double and Hell on Earth,' and 'The Night You Were Making Love to Me and Opened a Window in my Back to Fling a Bowl of Goldfish Out.' If the apocalypse is coming, let it come like this: heartbroken, open to light, reaching for joy." -Di Brandt "Emily Schultz is not content to describe the darkness she so loves from the shoreline. Why should she, when she could wade in and taste its current? A roadside truck fire becomes an oddly ecstatic event, a failing convenience store, a tilted phantasmagoria. Schultz's voice is completely contemporary, but in the shadows the old stories lurk, the old dreams and terrors, unnervingly strange in the retelling. Yet for all their sudden sadness, these poems also invoke the hard-won, joyous and necessary consolations of love and art. Straight-up lyricism with teeth-what a welcome surprise." -Kevin Connolly "Schultz's best poems have claws, and they dig in." -Toronto Star "One might add Schultz to the group of neo-surrealists in the tradition of Dean Young for the way her poems make surprising leaps and turns." -Canadian Literature ********************************************************************** JACOB SCHEIER is finishing his BA in Religious Studies at York University.  His first poetry collection, More to Keep Us Warm (ECW), has just been released and has been garnering rave audiences in Toronto.  Jacob is the former editor of existere and was the winner of the 2003 Art Bar Discovery Night. Jacob's poems chronicle and confront the experience of loss through bereavement and romantic failure, and explore the nature of hope and love in the absence of an inherited belief system that might mitigate the experience of grief in these circumstances. With humour, sardonic wit and conversational charm, the poet explores the intimate possibilities of faith in a secular, and multicultural, world. "If, as Randell Jarrell has said, 'it is bitter earnest that makes beauty,' these poems re-engineer one's astonishment.  Scheier introduces a confessionalism that disarms with the stark truth. Not a word is wasted. There are homilies here for the broken-hearted, meditations for the wilderness, and a gentleness that resurrects hope for the civic animal.  All in all, a powerful feast, and one of those rare compasses in our postmodern bewilderment."  -  Pier Giorgio di Cicco "Schcier wrestles with angels and he can 'fight dirty if necessary' over the toughest of subjects:  God/prayer, love/the absence of love, and the living ghosts among us.  When a poet is willing to scrape this deep, the result is a true offering, a glimpse inside ourselves.  More to Keep Us Warm  is elegant, conflicted and damn funny, too.   It will keep you warm, I promise."  - Myna Walli ********************************************************** JEFF ERBACH will be screening his first feature film "The Nature of Nicholas" (2002), an eerie and haunting coming-of-age story about the tumult of budding sexuality and a boy's struggle to reconcile his desire with what's expected of him. "Never quite tipping scales into outright horror, pic maintains an ambiguous, queasy hyper-real tenor that sustains the deliberate pacing ... Flat agricultural landscapes outside Winnipeg are strikingly used by d.p. Brian Rougeau, while soundtrack almost entirely void of music ... adds further to atmosphere on the cusp between daydream and nightmare." (Variety) ********************************************************** About Catacomb microCinema Catacomb microCinema is a cooperative, interactive, small cinema venue started in 1998 that paused momentarily in 2004. On the first Saturday of the month in an arts house called THE CYRK (254 Young Street), the Catacomb microCinema once again serves up a diversity of filmmakers presenting their films, approaches, ideas, and opinions. The theme for 2007-08 is "Feature Films Made-in-Manitoba by Manitobans" where we will survey the past and future of locally visioned feature films. www.catacombmicrocinema.ca ************************ FEBRUARY 2, 2008 ************************ Join us for another installment of Winnipeg's microCinema ... A chance to see local feature films and meet local film directors ... "Downtime" (1985) - Greg Hanec Saturday, February 2nd The Cyrk, 254 Young Street $5 Doors open 7:30 pm, Showtime 8:00 pm The CYRK is a bring-your-own-beverage venue Join us for an intimate conversation with Greg after the screening of his film. "Made long before the indie shoestring budget miracles of Slacker (1991) and El Mariachi (1992), Downtime is one of the best feature films ever made in Manitoba; subtle, gentle, and witty, a hidden treasure that needs to be rediscovered" -John Kozak, Take One Magazine __________________________ About Catacomb microCinema Catacomb microCinema is a cooperative, interactive, small cinema venue started in 1998 that paused momentarily in 2004. On the first Saturday of the month in an arts house called THE CYRK (254 Young Street), the Catacomb microCinema once again serves up a diversity of filmmakers presenting their films, approaches, ideas, and opinions. The theme for 2007-08 is “Feature Films Made-in-Manitoba by Manitobans” where we will survey the past and future of locally visioned feature films. www.catacombmicrocinema.ca    ********************** JANUARY 19, 2008 ********************** JEM ROLLS hardly needs introducing ... See the attachment for his 10 page CV ... But there is news ... Jem has moved to the Peg (or sort of moved to the Peg, or maybe moved to the Peg - nobody knows) ... Here's your chance to welcome him to our land of secrets and sleepwalkers, hear some of his poetry, and so on ... CYRK u later ... ____________________________________________________ Welcome to Winnipeg JEM ROLLS Poetry Show   Saturday, January 19 @ 9:00 PM @ The CYRK (254 Young St.) Suggested donation $10 BYOB “Who knew poetry could be this dynamic hilarious and riveting?… combines a rapid-fire verbalism with a kinetic stage presence that will amaze … politically pointed and astute verse … the very definition of good word of mouth … a charismatic common man with an uncommon ability to give energetic expression to the everyday, whether politics, love or history… A high performance master… has single-handedly made verse a hot ticket on the Canadian fringe circuit”, Winnipeg Free Press ***** 2003, ***** 2004, ***** 2005, ***** 2006.  ***** 2007 “An absolute master of performance poetry ... infinitely detailed and artistically layered monologues... sharp stand-up … hilarious... Bravo”, Vancouver Sun   “Jem Rolls is a spoken-word artist and poet of the highest calibre. remarkable presence... an unforgettable experience... Genius” *****. (five stars)  Montreal Gazette  "Dynamic, funny, sharply political, a fine example of the new poetry… The Godfather of Scottish Performance Poetry …Go see", Scotsman.   “An out-and-out charmer … The best thing to do is submit to the tide of his eloquence”, Toronto Star “Blistering verbal rollercoaster”, Guardian “BRILLIANT FUNNY ANGRY POETRY  …  a remarkable performance poet... his word wizardry is tasty enough to be bottled and sold ... clever and hilarious, smart and infectious”,  Edmonton Journal ******************************* JANUARY 5, 2008 ******************************* All the best in this New 2008 to you all from all of us @ the CYRK ... Here's third installment of Winnipeg's microCinema ... A chance to see local feature films and meet local film directors ... __________________________ On the first Saturday of the month in an arts house called THE CYRK (254 Young Street), the Catacomb microCinema once again serves up a diversity of filmmakers presenting their films, approaches, ideas, and opinions. The theme for 2007-08 is “Feature Films Made-in-Manitoba by Manitobans” where we will survey the past and future of locally visioned feature films. Doors open at 7:30 pm with the show starting at 8:00 pm. Suggested donation is $5. The Cyrk is a bring-your-own-beverage venue. Catacomb microCinema is a cooperative, interactive, small cinema venue started in 1998 that paused momentarily in 2004.    SCHEDULE ... November 3, 2007 “Barbara James” (2003) - Winston Moxam December 1, 2007 “Lucid” (2005) -  Sean Garrity http://www.lucidthemovie.com January 5, 2008 “East of Euclid” (2004) - Jeff Soylo http://www.eastofeuclid.com http://www.myspace.com/undesirableshttp://www.youtube.com/user/djebalihttp://www.myspace.com/clairejenkinshttp://www.youtube.com/user/djebalihttp://www.clairejenkins.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nb4L-DxfAhttp://www.myspace.com/clairejenkinshttp://www.sonicbids.com/clairejenkinshttp://www.youtube.com/user/djebalihttp://www.myspace.com/clairejenkinshttp://www.myspace.com/clairejenkinshttp://www.sonicbids.com/clairejenkinshttp://www.youtube.com/user/djebalihttp://www.catacombmicrocinema.cahttp://www.catacombmicrocinema.cahttp://www.catacombmicrocinema.cahttp://www.lucidthemovie.com/http://www.eastofeuclid.com/shapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2shapeimage_6_link_3shapeimage_6_link_4shapeimage_6_link_5shapeimage_6_link_6shapeimage_6_link_7shapeimage_6_link_8shapeimage_6_link_9shapeimage_6_link_10shapeimage_6_link_11shapeimage_6_link_12shapeimage_6_link_13shapeimage_6_link_14shapeimage_6_link_15shapeimage_6_link_16shapeimage_6_link_17
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