[Sethreports] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Montreal activists and artists to perform live documentary

[Seth Porcello]

*MEDIA ADVISORY


*For Immediate Release
Friday December 1st, 2006




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LIKE TWO RIVERS INTO A COFFIN
Instruments of sound and disquiet in Palestine
A Recollecting the Document Project


WHEN:
Tuesday, Dec. 12th, 2006 at 8pm

WHERE:
La Sala Rossa
4848 St-Laurent
Montreal (Metro Laurier)




Through a live reconstruction of documentary objects in quadraphonic  
sound, silent video, moving sculpture, and multiple live music  
performances the Recollecting the Document collective seeks to  
explore the cultural space in which documentary lives and is live.


Recollecting the Document is a collective of media and social justice  
activists, documentarists, musicians, artists - in short: community  
members from Montreal engaged in active struggle for autonomous  
media.  We seek to confront and oppose the dominant politics of  
representation, whose images and sounds are consistently complicit to  
a bankrupt foreign policy and a genocidal national program on Turtle  
Island.   We seek to redefine and overthrow institutional definitions  
of so-called journalistic bias in favor of an open and transparent  
advocacy journalism.  We reject our role as passive consumers of  
vanguard media, and are instead authors and listeners, responsible to  
our local communities and global citizenship.
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WHO:
Four speaker Sound Compositions by:
Seth Porcello, an independent journalist with CKUT.  Recently  
returned from a trip to Palestine where he lived and worked as a  
documentarist and news editor with the International Middle East  
Media Center or IMEMC.org.
and
Alden Penner, an independent musician living in Montreal who has  
scored music to the films "The Hamster Cage" and "Surfing the Waste:  
a musical documentary about dumpster diving", as well as performed  
with many bands, including The Unicorns and Please Don't Put Charles  
On The Money. He will be performing additional sounds using a Jupiter  
4 synthesizer.


Simultaneous video translation by:
Brett Story, documentary filmmaker, director of "Going Condo: the  
gentrification of St. Henri", is also active in community news with  
CKUT. She is currently working on a film about the industrial town of  
Sarnia, Ontario.


Piano performance by:
Tadamon's Stefan Christoff.  Tadamon! (Solidarity!, in Arabic) is a  
Montreal-based collective of social-justice organizers & media  
activists, working to build relationships of solidarity with  
grassroots political movements for social and economic justice  
between Beirut & Montreal.


Documentary sculpture by:
Long-time Montreal artist and activist Freda Guttman whose works  
examining the lessons of the 20th century have been displayed  
worldwide. She has also been very active with the IMEMC.

Opening Act:
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART, a music project by Radwan Moumneh paying  
tribute to various middle eastern singers. He has played with the  
bands Cursed, Ire, and The Black Hand.



COST:
$5-10
The proceeds will go to a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign,  
a broad coalition of palestinian solidarity groups aiming to  
sensitize the public regarding israeli apartheid.






For more information please contact:


Recollecting the Document:
Alden Penner -
514-937-3744
aldenpenner at gmail.com
OR
Seth Porcello -
seth at resist.ca

  
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