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Aug 27

The Art of Being : Yoga in KW|AG

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WOW. Last night I skipped Cinq a Sept to check out “The Art of Being” a Yoga workshop put on by KW|AG and Queen St. Yoga.

I was pretty stressed walking up Queen Street to the gallery – things are a little nutters in my life right now (in a good way) – there’s a ton happening at work, and a HUGE RQ event in the works. Details on Monday i hope! Anyways, the to-do list is out of control and so the idea of trying to chill and meditate seemed like a bit of quality time i may not have had to work with.

I WAS WRONG.

This 2 hour session was unreal!

Meaghan from Queen St. Yoga is awesome, just as a starting point, and you combine that with Kirstie from KW|AG  and how can you go wrong??? The first hour was a lot of relaxation and muscle meditation and traditional yoga stretches. All good times, and much needed.

The second part was more mind/body spiritual and tied in really amazingly to the third part – a silent, self guided viewing of both current exhibits inside the gallery. SO AWESOME. You HAVE NO IDEA what you are missing when you view art in a crowded and noisy space! You miss EVERYTHING! Not to get all righteous on you or anything, but honestly – this was a massively enlightening experience for me. hahaha.

(As an aside, you only have 2 more weeks or so to see the Kissick, Mary Catherine Newcomb & Grand River Installations… i highly suggest you get over there ASAP)

So yes, The Art of Being was awesome, you should look for the next one, or email the gallery and tell them that you’re so sorry you missed the first one and will they please do another one asap because you need a 2 hour reality check that involves amazing art and wicked people and some weird squash fetuses.

Look at how lovely we are!

Thank you so much Meaghan :)

H.

PS. I heard Cinq a Sept was pretty boss too ;)

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Aug 23

Art & Soul – Thursday 6:30!

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AWESOME YOGA EVENT THIS THURSDAY!!!!!!!!! Who wants to Come with me????

The Art of Being

with Meaghan Johnson of Queen Street Yoga

Thursday, August 26
6:30-8:30 p.m.
$25+HST

Queen Street Yoga and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG) have partnered to bring yoga and art together. Join Meagan Johnson, Director of Queen Street Yoga for an evening of yoga, meditation and discovery of KW|AG’s exhibitionsthrough embodied awareness.

This two-hour workshop will begin in KW|AG’s new program space with yoga and meditation practice; stretching, releasing stress and building the capacity to be present in our physical body. Once in a state of embodied awareness participants will explore the exhibitions through a self-guided walk. The evening will conclude with a sharing of experiences.

Mats and props will be provided however participants are encouraged to bring their own if they have them.
Maximum of 15 participants.

Register online now>
or register by phone at (519) 597-5860, in person at KW|AG or via email

H.

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Aug 17

Photography Meetup – Aug 19

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Ramy and the Photo Club have got a meetup on August 19th in Waterloo Park.

If you’re interested in taking photos, looking like you take photos, or hanging out with people that take photos – maybe you’d like to check this out?

All are welcome :)

All the details are HERE!

H.

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May 04

CAFKA event – May 6

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CAFKA is hosting a talk on Thursday of this week at 7pm, held at the KPL.

“spurse” - an open-ended group of individuals and organizations that work towards the development of new forms of engagement, practices and knowledge – will be the guest speaker.

Many of spurse’s projects experiment with the capabilities of existing systems, whether they be urban spaces, garbage, or our ability to listen. spurse has facilitated projects, exhibitions, performances, lectures, seminars and workshops that ask participants to rethink current concepts of knowledge and being.

They’ll be talking about their philosophy and working methods, past projects, current research, and future projects.

The lecture will be followed, on Saturday May 8, by a roundtable session with community stakeholders, intended to facilitate collaboration and inform their upcoming project for CAFKA.

The event is free, contact Rob @ cafka.org if you want more details.

H.

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Apr 27

Ric Young on May 5

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There’s a pretty great talk happening on May 5 at The (children’s) Museum and IT IS FREE.

Come check out Ric Young talking about social media and how to make change in this crazy world we live in.

I don’t see why you wouldn’t come. It’s from 7 – 9pm and you need to RSVP HERE.

It’s about 75% booked up, so register quickly.

And just to be clear … we’re talking about the Author and big-Thinker, Ric Young:

Not the Actor from Seven Years in Tibet and The Transporter Ric Young:

Now that we have that straightened out, go register.

H.

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Apr 15

Arts, Business, Creativity… this Saturday.

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As I’ve mentioned, I attended this event put on by the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre a few years ago  - and it was really interesting.

Met lots of great people – which was definitely the highlight. Here’s the lowdown on this Saturday’s event… it’s not too late to register – and check out ALL the familiar faces that’ll be presenting some great sessions. If you do something creative – and hope to sell it/make money/apply for grants/have anyone hear about it – you should spend the $49 to check this out:

You can register HERE.

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I HEART VIDEO ART 2

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I’m getting pretty excited about this little shindig tomorrow night.

I’ll be volunteering at the Waterloo Girls Minor Hockey Year End Celebration till 10ish.. .because my mom organizes it and let’s be honest… who can say NO to their mothers?

But right after that – i’m heading to I HEART VIDEO ART 2 at the CRITICAL MEDIA LAB in Downtown Kitchener.

The night features work by:

Liliana Velez Jaramillo, Jenn E. Norton, Manuel Saiz, Kika Nicolela, Heath Faschina, Chris & Keir, John Greyson, Gabriel Graham, Ehren BEARwitness, Thomas, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, and more.

$20 admission
$15 members/students

Tickets are available now at Orange Monkey Music (Princess St., Waterloo), Gen X Video (Regina St., Waterloo), Encore Records (Queen St., Kitchener) or can be purchased online at www.iheartvideoart.com… or at the Door.

Want more info? contact  rob at cafka.org.

See you there.
H.

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Apr 07

TVs wanted!

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The cats over at I HEART VIDEO ART 2 are looking for some Television Sets.

Old, Broken, Abandoned, Unloved TVs can provide 1 last service to humanity before it gets shipped off to some Edward Burtynsky photograph.

Let IHVA2 give it one last hurrah, won’t you?

Then I hope they will give it to Don at the E-waste drop off on Duke St…

If you’d like to donate your TV – they can be dropped off at the Critical Media Lab on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Contact jellis.e@gmail.com for more details & to arrange a drop off time.

H.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

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Mar 31

nü berlin #4: roller girls edition

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It’s going to be a BIG summer for nu berlin.

What is nu berlin you ask? well, it’s a group of people that get together once a month to take in something culturally relevant.

It might be the symphony, a pub/art gallery crawl or even… ROLLER DERBY!

Yes, on April 10th, you can come to the Tri-City Roller Girls’ Season Opener.

Advanced tix are $10 from Gen-X Video, Words Worth Books or Encore Records or… pick up tix at the door for $12.

Doors at 6pm.  Derby at 7pm and hitting up some country bar for a few beverages afterwards.

Oh yeah, it’s in New Hamburg. hahaahahhaa.

Full details and RSVP HERE.

And no bitching about it being out in the country… msg me or leave a comment on Ideas Transform and we’ll get you a ride.

H.

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Mar 30

Ok WOW.

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Holy. Busiest 2 days ever.  I am sorry readers… I wish I would have posted this yesterday. wah-wah.

Yesterday, I was at the Venture 4 Change (Social Entrepreneurship) event, as you know… and it was FANTASTIC and yes, the all caps ARE definitely necessary.

Capacity Waterloo, and specifically Jennifer King, did a killer job pulling together relevant and engaging speakers, as well as pulling it all off without a single issue. Every speaking slot was accompanied by some sort of group discussion and let this be a lesson to anyone organizing anything – if you don’t engage the people listening, you will lose them.


Personal highlight was connecting with local people whose work I have only admired from afar, it was great to be interacting with them in an environment that was 100% welcoming. And then there were the usual suspects ;)

Beautiful day to be out at Whistle Bear golf club in Cambridge… omg i’m sooo badass.

Jerry Greenfield (co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream) was the keynote speaker and was soooooooo interesting. I mean, he’s got a great story to work with – but he really makes you live it, ya know? It’s kind of felt like an Uncle that you’re parents have told you a ton about, but you’d never really met – and then he comes to dinner and he is everything that you imagined he would be.

… and he brought you ice cream.

COME ON. How great is this picture?

Ok, so I’m not going to go on and on and on about it… there’s lots of places you can check out for a lot more details/recaps/photos/tweets:

I will say, that Ramy (thanks for the photos) made a great point – he hopes that by the year 2020, there will be no need for the term “Social Enterprise” – every business will measure their triple bottom line, and every customer will demand that the companies they engage with care about the social impact of whatever it is that they do.

I think that says it all, yes?

H.

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Mar 26

Peter Katz and Jadea Kelly at Maxwell’s

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It’s been a busy week – very much looking forward to chilling out a bit this weekend and doing a whole lot of nothing organized.

If you have never heard of Peter Katz or Jadea Kelly – you should probably give’em a listen on myspace. Definitely worth checking out. I hadn’t heard of them till a couple weeks ago when Ramy mentioned he was Peter’s biggest fan.

Emily R and I checked them out on Wednesday night at Maxwell’s and it was soooo great.

Here’s Jadea doing a cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” complete with chorus sing-a-long. Amazing.

Here’s Peter Katz doing his thing.

Both extremely witty, talented, comfortable, genuine and super earnest Canadian individuals, who warm the ice cold cockles of my heart.

Thanks for the reco and the photos Ramy.

H.

PS. Did you know that you can stream some local and semi-local music in the foooter of this blog? Bet you didn’t… but now you do.

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Mar 24

Speaking of Theatre…

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Karl from Cute Gecko has organized the gang hitting up Theatre on the Edge tomorrow after cinq a sept!

Looks like a crazy cast of characters at this little Improv show that happens every Thursday in Uptown.

Starts at 8pm. $5 to get in.

If you wanna come with us, drop me a note!

H.

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Mar 18

Cinq a Sept tonight!

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Forget you St.Patrick’s Day ~ Cinq a Sept is on tonight!

(as if there was any doubt in your mind)

H.

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Mar 10

Dragon’s Den – IN WATERLOO

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Seems like a natural fit, doesn’t it? With all the innovation in the air? or so we say….

Dragon’s Den is coming to KW to do some open auditions on Monday, March 22nd from 11 am – 6 pm at the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology, Accelerator Building, UW Research & Technology Park, 295 Hagey Blvd. on the 2nd Floor, Suite 240 (please use the north entrance facing Sybase).

No experience is necessary – hopefuls just have to be ready to pitch their business in under five minutes. If you can convince producers you’re ready for the limelight, you could be invited to face Dragons when the upcoming season is filmed in Toronto.

SLIGHTLY COOL IMPROVEMENT TO THE SHOW: As extra incentive this year – entrepreneurs with an eco-friendly business, invention or idea could qualify for a $100,000 Greenvention prize from Sun Chips. (WTF? Sun Chips? OH! because of their new “eco friendly” bag? sounds like green-washing to me.)

If you’re interested in auditioning, apply online  HERE and bring the completed application form to the auditions.

H.

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Mar 04

IMAGYN Film Festival – this weekend.

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There is an excessive amount of things I need to post about right now!

Here’s something important you need to know about:

The Imagyn Film Festival – March 5-7th
Full Details are HERE.
THIS is the link to the schedule.
Totally encourage you to check this out, the festival focuses on making our community a better place to live in… the theme is specifically anti-violence resistance and engagement.
H.

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04

IGNITE WATERLOO 2 – recap!

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Photo by Sean M Puckett, 2010

After all my anticipation for last night, it did not disappoint.
So many thoughtful and interesting talks, and so many new people to meet. So great.
Philip Bast took video of each presenter, so I am anxious to see those in 2 weeks or so!
In the meantime, you may want to search #ignitewaterloo in twitter – there was an awesome amount of tweeting going on.
Here’s my recap/extremely long post about the evening:
Night started off with some chatting, lego building and awesome apps by the Museum Cafe. The quesadillas were Deeee-licious.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Alex and Ramy were the hosts for the night, hilarious as usual.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

First speaker – Angela Pause – Such a great way to start the night. She spoke about uhmmm… genitals? Seriously. The correlation between a species genital size and their level of promiscuity.
Amazing.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Vince Jelenic – His main focus was on small business using online means to connect to their community… both geographically and topically. Would have loved to chat with this guy after, i wonder if he knows about IdeasTransform?
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Renjie Butalid talked about misconceptions about the UAE. So interesting to see the comparison photos of Dubai in the 90s compared to now.
Lisa Farlow gave us 5 mins on why bloggers are wicked – i can’t disagree with that ;)
Jeff Henry – I’ve met Jeff a couple times and he always impresses me with his clear and witty conversational skills. His talk about influencing government was no exception. Note to selves: Politics are Generalists, they look for experts to guide them. Get involved!
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Alex Matan – Learn to play the accordion in under 45 seconds. Uhmmm…. amazing. I cannot WAIT for the video of this one to be available! Totally hijacks Alec on me, didn’t see that coming AT ALL! So funny!
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Kyle Mackie talked about Conferences Sucking… this was my favourite slide of the night!
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010
Erica Waugh – Roundabouts. thank you.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Tom Skazinski talked about a project he’s working on with the Zeitgeist movement. Definitely want to know more about this.
Me – hahahaha. Hungry like the wolf. Love it. About 75% of the crowd howled – so awesome. The only person who “dropped an F-bomb” on stage last night. hahahaha. my mom is SO proud, lemme tell ya.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Sunshine – Such an amazing storyteller. I love his comparison of the Mona Lisa to the images of tradespeople who work in endangered trades.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Ramy – Engineering Pranks – and pulls out Alec Baldwin and pranks me! Amazing! Crafty Bastards!
Peter Huang – Talking about geek music, super interesting. We chatted at the after party and he’s friends with my brother! weird! God, i love this town so hard.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Schien Dong – Gave us the low down on the advertiser’s dilemma… anyone that uses steak and sizzle in their presentation takes the cake.
Brendan Lowther - this guy 100% stole the show by having all his slides messed up. He was talking about geocaching, but really it was practice for using your imagination – the best thing about Ignite? the extremely supportive audience.
Photo by Kevin Hansen, 2010

Kareem Shehata talked about lessons learned from flying. You gotta watch out for problems that come in 3’s… they can create something that is worse than 1 huge problem.
Here’s a couple links to read more about the event last night:
More Photos and links to come this afternoon.
NEXT IGNITE WATERLOO: JULY 7th, 2010.
BE THERE!
Wanna talk about something at the next event: apply HERE. (Do.It.)
H.
PS. Love Love Love Love this photo from Sean – totally captures the moment of my parents getting SNAPped by Erich!
Photo by Sean M Puckett, 2010

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Feb 26

CAFKA talk – Big Ideas in Art and Culture by Spencer Finch

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The Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area + UW Fine Arts are presenting a lecture with artist Spencer Finch.



“Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004).”

Thursday March 4th, 7-9pm
Arts Lecture Hall, UW
FREE.
RSVP Here.

This is what CAFKA says about Finch:

“Spencer Finch, in truly revolutionary fashion, manifests traditional ideas in shockingly new ways, employing scientific method to a poetic end. In a tradition that leads back to the Impressionists working in the late nineteenth century, artists have strived to depict the light surrounding objects, instead of depicting the objects as they are. A contemporary mash-up of Monet’s Water Lilies and Dan Flavin’s fluorescent tubes, Finch’s installations are neither purely pictorial nor conceptual but more like nature itself – beautiful and fascinating.”

Should be good.
H.

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Feb 25

TED recap.

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So TED was unbelievable.

That's all I have to say.

OK, no it's not. I have a TON to say. It was so great.

A couple of the highlights, for me :

- Marty Avery's tale of a recent near death experience and how we need to make a point to connect with other souls. Holy. So moving and really made sense to me. I will say that her belt was near-blinding under the lights, but it was worth it.

- Paul Saltzman… Hung out with the Beatles in India and photo-documented their Ashram experience. Has just released a documentary that he made with Morgan Freeman about Charleston… And the fact that they still have 2 proms… One for white kids, one for black kids. He spoke a lot about Humility and understanding you're part of a BIG universe.

Those were my two personal highlights. I also found the topic of Restoration Ecology by Madhur Anand really fascinating and Terry O'reilly is always a thought-provoking speaker.

Quantum Computing made my brain explode, Prosthetic legs are cooler and hotter than real legs and Reaction and Creation have the same letters in them. Whoa.

Amazing event, few technical glitches but come on!

Free event with 350 people, great technology donated, a huge venue, free snacks and top knotch speakers? I can wait for 30 mins for all that.

TED team – thank you. You surpassed all expectations and put on a life altering event. Congrats!

Now. I need a drink.

H.

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About to start!

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It's about to start!
We're second row centre and I'm sitting behind Ray LaFlamme! Amazing!!!

Hanging out with Natalie from www.shetakesontheworld.com
And the cute geckos!

Sidenote:
The woman behind me just said 'everyone in this town has a bachelors degree… Well, anyone worth knowing'.

Please leave now. Hahaahahaha.

H.

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Feb 22

Food For Thought – Social Entrepreneurship

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Little bit last notice on this, but just saw it online.

“Food for Thought” re: Social Entrepreneurship.
Seven Shores Cafe
Tonight, 6:45pm
Screening of a short, thought-provoking talk, and then discussion over a coffee.
Tickets are free, but register HERE.
H.

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Feb 19

Drink for Cancer?

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RQ reader Ramy Nassar is participating in a 200km bike race from Toronto to Niagara Falls in a couple weeks, in support of Cancer Research. His team of 3 needs to raise at least $7500.

That’s a lot of fucking money.
So, they’re hosting a “kegger for cancer” olympic-themed party this Saturday Feb 20 at:
103 Huck Cr. Kitchener.
It’s $15 min donation to consume all the drinks that you can possibly consume. And all in the name of life saving research! Yes please.
Want more details?
Lemme know,
H.

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