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PUNK ILLEGAL

Interview with Simon Salabimon

 

Punk Illegal this swedish festival, is not just an annual festival as many people can imagine, they are together envolved in a cause, so there is no doubt about the nice bands, good music, people having a good time and everything we can find in any other punk festival but beyond the fun, there are some serious questions to think about.  The purpose in this case is the support to people in illegal situation through the No One Is Illegal Institution, Punk and  political  actions came together in 2005 when they began with the first gigs,  and the festival was created later during 2008, after four years of festival we analyze the problems immigrants face, how No One Illegal works, the difficulties, the festival directions, and sure, the bands playing .

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  TNOT - Many people just know part of the Punk Illegal work, I mean, they dont know about No One Is Illegal… Can you tell how they work together, and what is the idea behind the festival?


First of all, the No One Is Illegal Network is a network working directly with hidden refugees and people without papers. Among many other things, the network helps pay rent and food costs, help children doing homework and basically tries to make the situation a little easier for so called ”illegal immigrants”. And when using that word, it’s important to keep in mind that “illegal immigration” only exists because the laws regarding asylum and refugees are too strict. And it’s also important to keep in mind that “illegal immigrants” are used for taking shitty jobs for very low – if any – wages. So capitalists benefit from the so called “illegal immigration”.

The network in Gothenburg, where Punk Illegal is based, has been around for 10 years now, and has even gained some mainstream respect. Many people from the network are also involved in different aspects of the movement for the right to asylum. There is for example Aktion mot deportation (Action against deportations) working against the deportations of people not granted asylum or the right to stay, there is Rosengrenska Stiftelsen (The Rosengren Foundation) helping out with free medicine and health care, and there’s a No Border camp coming up in Stockholm in the summer.

Another example of the No One Is Illegal Netork is the campaign Ain’t I A Woman, that succeeded in giving hidden women/women without papers the same right as “swedish” women to get help from women’s shelters. There are also currently campaigns demanding the right to free health care and social welfare for hidden people and people without papers. And the syndicalist union has started anizing people without papers so they can start ing demands on their employers.

 

As for the idea of the festival, it’s as easy as it’s sad. The No One Is Illegal Network is in constant need of money, and Punk Illegal started as a way to finance the important work of the network.

Supporting refugees financially is unfortunately not a concern of the state, but it’s up to civil society and organizations like the network.



  TNOT - Last year the US government got the Arizona immigration law which was something very negative, many Mexicans die trying to reach the US, something like tens of thousands of Central American migrants pass through Mexico to US  every year …

What is the situation about immigrants at Europe and the government? Is there a possibility of actions and new politics to protect immigrants? Are there places where the problem is bigger ?

There’s a very similar situation in Europe actually. Since the European Union opened up its’ internal borders for the freedom of movement for European citizens, it closed its borders to non-European countries. That is what we call Fortress Europe. The European Union has also signed various trade agreements with non-european countries as a way to externalize the border control outside of Europe.

So for example Libya and Turkey have been important in keeping unwanted non-Europeans out of Europe. The border countries of Europe, like Greece and Italy have for obvious reasons lots of immigrants coming from outside of Europe, and they have these horrible immigrant detention centres. There’s also this law saying that the first country an immigrant comes to, that’s the country that has to grant or deny their right to asylum and if they deny it, they can’t apply in another country.

As for new politics, I don’t really have many ideas, but I think it’s important to argue that the state, and not organizations of volunteers, should take responsibility for immigrants. So in that way, it’s important, even for autonomous and extra-parliamentary groups, to demand this from our governments, at the same time as we work in our own groups and organizations in our own ways.

And as mentioned above, the syndicalist union has started organizing people without papers to claim their rights, and I think the Ain’t I A Woman campaign is a great example of success.

  
TNOT - How the Punk Illegal works during the year, when the festival is not running ?

This year we are planning a show in Gothenburg with a few Swedish bands. But I think mostly we all need a break, and need to recruit new people to be active in the group. We have some different projects, like movie screenings and community kitchens, but mostly the activity is kind of low at the moment.

  TNOT - Have you ever got problems with the government or some institution against the Punk Illegal work or ideas? Or something like that with the No one is Illegal…


We haven’t really had any trouble, as in something aimed directly against us. But there is this thing with bureaucracy… To be allowed to have a bank account, which we need in order to be able to sell pre-sale tickets and so on, Punk Illegal has to be a formal organization, which means we have to do lots of paperwork and so on. There has been a lot of work trying to do stuff like that correctly, which takes time from other, more fun things, or things that seems more worthwhile.
 

  TNOT - Can you tell us about the bands, and people interacting. About the music, how was the last festival? Something you really wanted to see ?


There has always been a ton of great bands playing the festivals! But just to name a few bands from last year’s festival: Ruidosa Inmundicia, Confusa, Hellbastard, Dick Tracy, and my friends Life Scars! And the DISCO! It seems like all punks like to dance to cheesy music, and last year there was cheese galore on the dance floor. And I’d like to mention especially The Fight, for being a great band, sweet people and for talking about politics on stage. It might seem silly, but that really meant a lot to me, especially at that time and place. I also liked having Tuna at the festival, even though I didn’t get to see them. They came all the way from Brazil!

I really like how the punk scene is international and you get to meet people from all over the world.

I know one year we had visitors from Japan, not to mention all the european countries. The festival is a great way to meet new people, discover new bands, and giving your old friends another reason to come visit. And for me it’s also important to combine the different elements of punk – for me, it’s about music and politics!


  TNOT - Do you already have something in mind for the next festivals? And how you think is gonna be the festival directions?

We have no plans for next year, we will probably talk about it during the summer. And I don’t really know about directions, but there has been some talk about going in a more hardcore, d-beat, crust-oriented direction. There has also been talk about trying to incorporate more straight edge hardcore to get the straight edge kids to come out to the festival. Whatever happens, it’s going to be very interesting!


  TNOT - What do you think about the occupy movement? Do you think is a new idea of lifestyle emerging?

Personally, I’m torn about the whole Occupy-movement. It’s really amazing that people start criticizing capitalism, but I’m a little afraid that it’s too broad. That it’s lacking a common analysis and critique, and therefore issues like sexism, homophobia and whatnot can pop up and demoralize the movement. But at the same time, broad coalitions are good in the way that people can gather around common issues and organize in a certain direction. But maybe the problem is to know when to stay and when to leave the coalition. As with all trends, I’m suspecting that the Occupy-movement will eventually fade out and something else will take its place. But as is also the case with trends, they leave their mark, and I hope that the critique of capitalism will stay long after this particular movement fades out.

Site:  punkillegal.com/

 





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The Last Young Yugoslavs

 

The Last Young Yugoslavs
Youth, alternative and pop culture in Yugoslavia between 1977 and 1984

 


The Belgrade Chapter
 

The Last Young Yugoslavs examines the production of alternative pop-youth culture in SFR Yugoslavia at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s both within the establishment (cultural centres, official media and youth press) and on the margins (informal social networks through which fanzines and other DIY creations were distributed).  Young artists, heartened by the freedom of expression achieved by the punk movement, introduced new and, compared to earlier times, highly democratic models for self-organisation and subculture activity to the sphere of mass culture.  This became evident in all areas of public life, beginning with the independent music scene, followed by fanzines and other unofficially produced graphic material, youth publications and official media such as Radio Television Belgrade.

 The music scene was the focus for organising new ways to socialise (merging concerts, parties and spontaneous art happenings), various artefacts (fliers, posters and music cassettes, comix, paintings, artist fanzines and magazines) and, most essentially, images, in the sense of looks and appearance.

The socio-political context in which this process developed was dominated by debate about the 1974 Constitution and its ramifications which could be seen, among other effects, in a weakening of federal bodies and the rise of a political and cultural elite within the republics, which had begun to declare themselves along national lines.  This was the time when the integrated Yugoslav cultural space began to fragment and the official and dissident cultural spheres began to degenerate into Serbian, Croatian and so on.

The new community of youth culture was still not part of this process at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s.  Nor was there any inkling of ethnic identification in the subculture which nourished their methods and their style.  In that sense, The Last Young Yugoslavs is a name for the last wave of innovation within the integrated cultural space of Yugoslavia which brought high and low culture together and had a formative influence on several generations of young people who grew up during the final years of Yugoslav socialist self-management.  The source of these cultural innovations was outside the institutions of the time, but they were very quickly recognised and promoted so that, before long, even the marketplace absorbed and exploited them through the entertainment industry

The Last Young Yugoslavs is to do with a period of initiation and institutional recognition of a cultural matrix which, in hindsight, was dubbed “new wave”.  The focus is on a time when improvisation and experiment ruled, a time before emblematic music groups signed deals with big record labels and were absorbed into the Yugoslav mainstream.

In defining the timeframe encompassed by the exhibition, it is important to consider that the mode of expression which characterizes this production had not developed to the point of recognition before 1977 but that, by about 1984, that recognition was transformed into an advertising resource for record labels.  By about 1984, the majority of the figures from the alternative scene had either turned professional or had completely given up on art, so that the initiating element of self-organisation was lost.  The focus on Belgrade here is for pragmatic reasons, given that the quantity of relevant raw material is not even adequate to present all aspects of the Belgrade scene.  This writer’s view of the Belgrade episode of The Last Young Yugoslavs is thus offered as a proposal for further research, which would be possible only through collaboration with other centres of the former Yugoslavia.

Exhibition curators,
Marina Martić and Stevan Vuković
Belgrade, December 9, 2011
 
Produced by: MIJ, Academic, SKC 
The exhibition last young in Yugoslavia , will be open until 15 January 2012, every day except Monday, from 10 to 16 hours.
The exhibition was realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Information Society of the Republic of Serbia, mass, and Bureau Center Ives.

 BANDS



AUTOPSIA

The theme of Autopsia is death. Their method is repetition. The media in which they work are music, graphic arts (flyer, poster and cover designs), fanzines and books, photography and experimental film. Eclecticism is the basis of their approach to image and sound. Images of heterogeneous origin are manipulated and put into non-hierarchical relations, devoid of meaning, even though their compositions often appear as emblematic.

In music, the basic industrial set is filled with military marches, ambient tracks inspired by folk music, and baroque, minimalist and pop matrices. There is no explicit expression in any of that. An impression of anonymity and depersonalization of production prevails. Thus images of the members of Autopsia don’t appear on their releases.

Autopsia went public for the first time in 1980 via Bank Rot and Prose Selavy fanzines, and had neither official musical releases nor solo art shows up to 1984. They had a negative attitude towards concerts. Their presence is underground. 

 

DEČACI / IDOLI

Dečaci are the essence of Idoli. According to the dictionary of technology, they are not people, only appearances without reality. They are products of technology, and have a fear of living outside an institution. The first traces of them are observed on the street. Messages of them are on the walls, as graffiti. Then they appear in youth media.

They are seen taking walks, emancipating women and giving them presents for the March 8, promoting action outfits and investigating the power of media. VIS Idoli was formed from them, on March 1, 1980. It is made up of Vlada Divljan, Zdenko Kolar, Boža Jovanović, Srđan Šaper and Nebojša Krstić. They play gigs in the garden of SKC and at the Youth festival in Subotica.
 
They release a single in Vidici magazine, in collaboration with Dragan Papić, and then a single for Jugoton records, produced by Goran Bregović.


Discography to 1984:
Singles:
Retko te viđam sa devojkama / Pomoć, pomoć (Izgled, 1980)
Retko te viđam sa devojkama / Maljčiki (Jugoton, 1981)
 
Albums:
Paket aranžman (Jugoton, 1981, compilation)
VIS Idoli (Jugoton, 1981, mini LP)
Odbrana i poslednji dani (Jugoton, 1982)
Čokolada (Jugoton, 1983)


 

DISCIPLINA KIČME


Disciplina Kičme is characterized by self-consciousness, self-identity and self-confidence. In the musical sense, it is the ultimate and non-compromising minimalism, radical and very precise, in which the bass guitar appears as the lead instrument, processed with all available effects.
In the visual sense, all printed matter announcing and following the activities of the band have a strong personal presence of Dušan “Koja” Kojić, which, combined with the band’s highly effective live performances make it into a total work of art.

The cover of their first album is already fully coded as part of New Image Painting, i.e. of that part of the movement which brings back expression and abandons a number of the rules of academic painting. Disciplina Kičme was formed in November 1981, by: Koja, Nenad “Kele” Krasavac and Srđan Đile Marković. During the following year Đile leaves the band, and Kele goes to the Army, being replaced by Srđan “Žika” Todorović. Only a bass and drums remain, but they are enough to produce an extensively rich, full-scale sound. 


Discography to 1984:
Albums:
Sviđa mi se da ti ne bude prijatno, (Helidon, 1983)

 


KOZMETIKA

The first announcement of a Kozmetika concert appeared in June 1977, on the back cover of Izgled magazine. The author of that magazine, as well as of the name of the group, was painter Vladimir Jovanović, one of many visual artists who tried themselves out as R’n’R musicians.

Explaining the name of the band, he spoke about a visual art technique he invented himself – painting with face powder and lipstick. Izgled was a fanzine, self-published, but it was completely different from the punk fanzines made in those days. It looked like Warhol’s Interview, and was under the strong influence of David Bowie’s aesthetics.

Kozmetika was the other face of Izgled, and its members were Marko Pešić, Saša Nikolić, Goran Vejvoda and Slobodan Konjović. Since they were without a formal musical education, they began to work within a band context in order to gain musical experience and investigate the potential of mutual communications through playing in the band. They had no pretentions to great careers, and no desire to be stars in the eyes of the audience – they were already that in their own eyes, even before they started playing. They made only one record, which they worked on for three years.

 
Discography to the end of 1984:
Albums:
Kozmetika (RTLJ, 1983)


   

 

 

 

KATARINA II

Katarina II came out of Šarlo Akrobata, as a band eschewing excess, fully dedicated to playing their music. They are quieter, less forceful, but more poetic, and they rehearse their songs very seriously. They treat music as a universal language, use it to describe specific states of consciousness, and they do not want to be trapped in the framework of any genre.

Key categories for them are openness and self-consciousness, and they strive towards spontaneity, and an intuitive and associative approach to music and lyrics. They tend to break the feeling of numbness and non-participation of the audience at the concerts, to communicate with them on several levels.

They try to link pop music with experiment, and they search for music forms which are less conventional, but generally acceptable. They were formed in February 1982. The band then consisted of Milan Mladenović, Dragomir “Gagi” Mihajlović, Dušan Dejanović and Zoran “Švaba” Radomirović. By the end of that year Margita Stefanović joins them. Dejanović leaves, and the drums are taken over by Branko Kuštrin, and later by Ivica Vd Vdović, while Bojan Pečar replaces Švaba on bass. In 1984 they become Ekatarina Velika.


Discography to 1984:
Albums:
Katarina II (ZKP RTV, Ljubljana, 1984)

 

ŠARLO AKROBATA


The band resulted from a creative clash of three strong individuals, personifying strength, expression and experiment. The band is characterized by a reduced and non-compromising musical and stage performance which falls into the category which Dragan Kremer named emotional realism.

They introduces a new language to local R’n’R, something ultimately raw and rough, playing as an existential challenge and music as energy. It’s a mix of Hendrix, Gang of Four and folk dada, taken from the heritage of Vasa Pelagić, from which the title for their one and only album comes.

They are Milan Mladenović, Dušan “Koja” Kojić and Ivan “Vd” Vdović. With them, on their inaugural performance, in the garden of SKC in 1980, Dragomir “Gagi” Mihajlović also plays. Later he joins them again in the studio to record an album, on which Goran Vejvoda, Jurij Novoselić (Film) and Dejan Kostić (Grupa I) also play. They collaborate with Kugla glumište, and also make music for the movie Dečko koji obećava (The Promising Boy). In 1982 Šarlo splits into Katarina II and Disciplina kičme.

Discography to 1984:
Singles:
Ona se budi / Mali čovek (Jugoton, 1981)
Albums:
Paket aranžman (Jugoton, 1981, compilation)
Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad… (Jugoton, 1981)

 

Srdjan i Draganadecembar 1981 Photo: Goranka Matic

 

The context of youth culture within and outside of institutions

The beginning of the 1980s, the first months of 1980 to be precise, was overshadowed by the impending death of Tito.  Every day, newspapers carried reports on the health of the most loved son of the Yugoslav nation and peoples.  But behind the news bringing reports from the medical team in Ljubljana there were some big things happening, and not just in music.

In Ljubljana, Rijeka and Zagreb there were already punk and new wave bands such as Pankrt, Paraf and Prljavo Kazalište which had released their first albums and singles, and whose early performances had caused a scandal, had become a regular part of the music scene.  Similar-sounding bands began playing in Belgrade a few years later.  Immediately before Tito’s death, Šarlo Akrobata, Električni Orgazam and Urbana Gerila had played their first concerts and the debut single of Idoli, Retko te vidim s devojkama, attracted attention bordering on the scandalous.

Whether youth culture had a non-institutional context and whether youth cultural production developed within that are complex questions.  And that is because socialism did not acknowledge the dissemination of non-institutional production.  Pankrt’s first single was released by ŠKUC, the Ljubljana counterpart of Belgrade’s SKC.  Also the first Belgrade new wave concerts were in SKC and Idoli’s first single was released by the Belgrade youth magazine Vidici.  This means two things: the state wanted to keep an eye on all youth movements while, on the other hand, it must be acknowledged that the youth institutions, like the media, were very receptive to anything new.  As members of the punk band Urbana Gerila, we were also dependent on the existing youth establishment.  Taking the fanzine Pan as a model we launched the self-published fanzine Urbana Gerila.  

We published the first few issues with the help of cash from friends and so that we could eventually ask for help in SKC which printed some issues for us.  Although the material was independent, it was not, of course, dangerous material for the state.  Youthful rebellion was mainly focused on music, so we were harmless.  The role of the institution in the youth culture of the day wasn’t important for me in those years, but I later remembered that some of the concerts in SKC were organised by the Municipal League of Socialist Youth.  However there was no pernicious censorship and even the lyrics of Belgrade bands were apolitical.

One thing is important, however, and connected with youth culture and, one might say, the youth establishment.  During those years, the state youth structure was in one way standing behind what could be called “alternative”.  So the Seven Secretaries of SKOJ Award went to bands such as Šarlo Akrobata and Pankrt.  The youth establishment gave a wink to the new wave.  It even got to the point that the visual imagery for the last Youth Day was entrusted to an art group close to Ljubljana’s NSK or even to NSK itself.  The scandal over the poster for the Youth Day celebration – a replica of a poster from the Third Reich – has still not been forgotten.

However it’s still not known whether the state really wanted to open the door to alternatives or whether it was just a matter of chaos in the League of Communists, whose increasing metastasis eventually resulted in the break-up of Yugoslavia itself.  When the state really wanted to impose order, it became reality.  Slobodan Milošević’s rise to power is remembered for its attack on the youth press.  Nevertheless, the Belgrade new wave was apolitical and more a matter of good music, parties and nights out, until it went too far, moving from night life and concert stages to truck trailers with stars of the Belgrade new wave scene getting together in the anti-war protest Rim tu ti tuki.  But by then everything had gone to hell and it was too late for anything, even music.


Branko Rosić Rosa
Then: member of the bands Urbana gerila and Berliner Strasse
Now: journalist



Sarlo 1981 Photo: Goranka Matic   

 


Gleanings  

I was 29 years old when they celebrated Tito’s jubilees – his 85th birthday and his 40 years at the helm of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.  It was 1977.  By then I already had a wealth of memories of friends and acquaintances who had been in prison for verbal assault while others were unemployed or had emigrated.  A good part of my life had been marked by the events of 1968.  From the beginning of the 1970s I had had the feeling that I was living in ever more desperate and dangerous surroundings.  The “leaden times” were not confined to Germany.

Any expectations that Yugoslavia would soon change politically and socially were all the more remote.  After the occupation of Czechoslovakia, it was more than a decade before events in Poland brought new hope.  Rather than direct political commitment, we realized more and more how culture, especially literature and music, could change the world around us.  We were more intelligent, more talented and smarter than our opponents.  Of course that wasn’t enough to win, but it provided a sense of hope and expectation, feeding the spirit and broadening optimism, forging complex social bonds, solidarity and empathy.  And when the first new wave songs appeared, when all at once musicians and poets not only raised new subjects but changed style, the language of gesture and movement, and fashion, we were faced with such astonishment from the political establishment, which found itself unable to make any kind of response, that we suddenly realized there was no longer any going back.
Things had started to roll.  No longer was it only rock’n’roll.  The stone had started rolling long ago but it hadn’t succeeded in breaking through the walls around us.  It was necessary to write new books and music, to make new films and paintings, it was necessary to discuss and argue and to listen as well.

Was it odd that most of the new publishers who were on the same frequencies as the new wave came from the wing of the establishment itself – from the student and youth publishing houses and media?  

 

The first of Brian Eno’s books to appear in Serbia-Croatian was published by Belgrade’s SIC, the Student Publishing Centre run by Žarana Papić.  The federal youth publisher Mladost published its Ideas series of exceptional philosophical and theoretical.  (In 1976 they also published Slavoj Žižek’s book (Sign, Signifier, Message).  The research and publication centre of the League of Socialist Youth of Serbia (IIC) promoted local authors writing about social theory.

Then, for the first time, there came books on anarchism, models of democracy, legal theory, new investigations of our intellectual history and tradition, the first book on the sociology of rock, the magazine Potkulture (Subcultures) was launched.  It was perfectly natural that it was the IIC that initiated and published the almanac Drugom stranom (On the Other Side).  A group of researchers from various fields came together in the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development in an unrestrained and critical search for responses to the new challenges of the time.  Kultura (Culture) magazine was a centre for debate and exciting discoveries.

Intellectually and socially were living on the edge.  Social life was pulsing to a new rhythm which didn’t have its own political and social theory.  Hope took the shape of music, which was often self-ironic.  No, there wasn’t a hint of pathos, but because of that it was rather erotic.

What does a memory look like when it is to be transformed into history?  Like a reminder or a glance through a frosted window.  The clarity which sometimes overtakes our memories may be just an illusion.  Or a way to break free of the present.

I remember: the thirteen-layer Charlotte Russe in the patisserie of Hotel Moskva.

I remember: the sellers of foreign books – Mladost in SKC, Jugoslovenska Knjiga in the Albania building and Prosvete in the SANU building.  Foreign books made the great world seem closer to us than it really was.  Russian tourists looking for under-the-counter copies of Pasternak and Babelj.  For the whole of Eastern Europe, Belgrade was really the World!

Tolkien, Borges and Marquez had been read long before.  Now there arrived in Serbia Emil Cioran and A Short History of Decay.  Salamov, Česlav Miloš, Singer and Pinchon.  We signed the first petition of the legalisation of light drugs (shit).  David Albahari spread the short story as the infection which would finally kill off the novel.

Then the bookshops began to become cultural institutions and booksellers people who had succeeded in life.  The first of these bookshops were Narodna Knjiga in Cetinska Street, Antikvarijat and Matica in Knez Mihajlova Street, Nolit on the corner of Marshala Tita and Birjuzova and then the bookshop in the Yugoslav Drama Theatre.

The world’s elite at Tito’s funeral.  And Jimmy Carter’s mother in sandals.  We’ll never forget that.

In SKC (the Student Cultural Centre) and Dom Omladine they weren’t only playing music.  In fact they did much more talking.  They talked endlessly about anything and everything, but mostly about the past and the future.  There were huge audiences at panel discussions and they went on for hours.  When Solidarnost started up in Poland, it was most widely discussed in SKC.  Friends from Poland even come to explain how to change one’s country.  Not long after they returned, Jaruzelski imposed a state of emergency and most of them were arrested.  In Belgrade, a handful of people tried to hoist a Solidarnost banner at a protest but they were arrested and whisked off to prison in Padinska Skela.  I remember that the mayor of the day was Bogdan Bogdanović and the dean of the Philosophy Faculty, where the students were arrested, was Dragoslav Srejović.

The same year saw the publication of Golubnjača (The Pigeon Pit) by Jovan Radulović, Nož (The Knife) by Vuk Drašković and Zoran Đinđić’s philosophical treatise Subjektivnost i nasilje (Subjectivity and Force) – all in 1982.  After the printers delivered his book, at the front of which was the Klee drawing Exterminating Angel, Zoran returned to Germany.  That year there were about thirty cinemas in Belgrade and Zemun.  We all grew up with Kinoteka.  I remember Bunuel’s Exterminating Angel in the Belgrade Cultural Centre.  We watched the film twice in a row.  We didn’t have a clue.

In 1984, Slobodan Milošević became president of the City Committee.  The same day this was announced, it was a Sunday, they announced the arrest of 28 people connected with what was known as the Free University.  I remember that well because that day we went to Granice to make bricks for Srećko.  That was when I first said: this is no coincidence.

We read everything and we read without pause.

First there was Student.  We wrote for it and we sold it.  It was a heroic age (and decent pay).  Then they choked off Student, closed down Praksis and drove out the academics so that from philosophy and politics they had to flee to culture and the alternative.  Literary magazines which were hardly about literature at all: Književne novine, Književna reć, Književnost, Delo, Savremenik, Vidici, Polja, Bagdala, Gradina.  They launched Omladinske novine in the hope of pacifying the new generation, but they lost control of that as well.  Of course there was also Mladost then short-lived magazines such as Susret, the strangely commercial Čik, and Duga, the serious NIN, with enormous circulation and influence, the foreign affairs and culture sections of the daily Politika.  From every side arose new and new spirits of places to corrupt youth in the way Socrates once did.  It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t simple.

In Strahinjića Bana they played indoor soccer.  Kids played it and older folk too, thirty-year olds.  A lot of people played chess, rummy and canasta.  Preferans was for the older generations.

We were young, but not all the time.  We grew older in a way different from the way our children grew up.  We grew older as living witnesses of the collapse of the world of our parents.  I’m part of the baby boom generation.  I don’t need a census to tell me how and where that leads.  When I speak about youth, I think that we, from our youth, have ended up on the other side.  Ah, if only things had stopped there!  But, just as we have no influence over the time and place in which we will come out into the world, there’s also very little we can do about how long our youth lasts.

 

Velimir Ćurgus Kazimir
Then: editor of the Research and Publication Centre of the League of Socialist Youth of Serbia (IIC); editor (with Milena Petrović) of Drugom Stranom (On the Other Side), Almanaha Novog Talasa u SFRJ (Almanac of the New Wave in SFR Yugoslavia)

Now: director of the Ebart Media Archive 

 


Katarina II 1982 Photo: Goranka Matic   

 

Fashion in Belgrade Youth Pop Culture

1977-1984

To best describe the clothing, image and style of young people in the pop culture of Yugoslavia, I have to turn to sociological rules prevailing among the kids of that time.

Everything was simple.  To find their place in society and among other young people, regardless of the very boring and contrivedimage from rallies and propaganda reports from Filmske Novosti(News on Film), teenagers during those years aligned themselves with particular sets on the basis, primarily, of their cultural and educational affinity.  Hippies, beautiful people, metalheads or rockers.  And then the first punks appeared and with themthe completely authentic “new wave” kids who created their own style and street fashion, shoulder to shoulder with kids in London.

This healthy rebellious determination to create one’s own world and one’s own look and,most of all, to identify as an individual, spurred our imagination and creativity.  The desire to be different from others transformed us, in some way, into our own stylists, designers and tailors.  The same thing had happened in London with the emergence of the Sex Pistols who were visually the creation of Vivienne Westwood, then an ordinary girl outside the fashion industry, who created their whole styling from a combination of second-hand stuff from the 1950s finished off with new pieces of clothing.  Thus the famous image was created: old leather motorbike jacketsfrom the flea market, printed t-shirts with personal slogans of rebellion, ripped jeans and All Stars.

For example, Levi jeans and denim jackets could be bought from our export producers, but they had a poor range.  They were usually models for older people and in only one colour of denim.  Even ordinary white or black short-sleeved t-shirts could be bought only, and if you were lucky, in department stores, made by local textile factories.  Jeans were sold in Beko or Kluz, but you could only get the originals from abroad in Komision shops, the only places selling privately imported goods.

Punks and new-wavers were unique in making t-shirts at home and treating them in various ways; the only essential was to wear your favourite idol, group or slogan.  Unfortunately many of them were destroyed after the first wash, but new ones could always be made immediately.

Jeans were a basic clothing item, regardless of which group you belonged to.  Only the cut and the colour changed.  Of course these could also be made at home.  Attacking them with heels or brushes on the floor achieved the threadbare effect, scissors were used to give them a ragged look and sewing on pieces of coarse fabric did for patchwork.  T-shirts and jeans were also hand-coloured, either with boiling dyes or with coloured sprays.

Then we discovered second-hand clothes from the late 1950s and, often, from the beginning of the 1960s, from parents or from the fleamarkets.  With the help of just a few shoemakers, who still had the original lasts from that period, and hatmakers, the ability to sew and a good haul from your parents’ wardrobe, brilliant styling could be achieved.  With no money or status symbols, we were, each in our own way, little artists.

Irena Djurić (Mišović )
Then: model and a muse of the artist Dragan Papic
Now: fashion consultant

 


 


Disciplina kicme 1982 Photo: Goranka Matic
Photo: Dragan Papic

Kozmetika foto Nebojsa Cankovic  

 

The Last Young Yugoslavs 

Youth, alternative and pop culture in Yugoslavia between 1977 and 1984

 

 

Yugoslav  Museum of History 
Boticeva 6
Belgrade 
Serbia
www. mij.rs
Open till  January 15 2012

Photo Credits:
Goranka Matic and Dragan Papic




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MoCa - Exhibition Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981

About the Exhibition

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981

  ” Celebrating California as a turbulent, often anarchic center for artistic freedom and experimentation during the 1970s, this major survey exhibition examines the rise of pluralistic art practices across the state. The years 1974 and 1981 bracket a tumultuous, transitional span in United States history, beginning with Richard Nixon’s resignation and ending with Ronald Reagan’s inauguration. The exhibition borrows its title from the 1982 album by the Los Angeles–based punk band X to suggest that, during this period, the California Dream and the hippie optimism of the late 1960s had been eclipsed by a sense of disillusionment during the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era.

The dystopian atmosphere of the 1970s created an artistic milieu that seemed to include everything under the sun. Across the state, competing social and political ideologies and clashing cultural perspectives resulted in heterodox approaches to art-making. The spirit of questioning and experimentation occurring in and beyond the studio took precedence over affiliation with any art-historical group or movement, and a rich dialogue developed between artists in Northern and Southern California in the absence of powerful regional art museums and commercial galleries. California artists, particularly young, recent art school graduates, embraced a DIY attitude that resulted in the hybridization of media and the breaking apart of traditional forms and genres, freely experimenting in their works with painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video, installation, sound, books, and printed matter…. “



MOCA presents X
with special guests, THE DEAD KENNEDYS, and THE AVENGERS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28; Doors at 6:30Pm SHOW AT 7:30PM
THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA

 

 
Guest DJ Henry Rollins


Linda Montano, Mitchell’s Death, 1978

Strange Notes and Nervous Breakdowns: Punk and Media Art, 1974-1981 


Thursday January 12, 6:30 pm 
Los Angeles Filmforum and MOCA present

Strange Notes and Nervous Breakdowns: Punk and Media Art, 1974-1981
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, Screening 12
Info: alternativeprojections.com and moca.org


Punk and the Do It Yourself aesthetic were born in the late 1970s. Most scholarship on punk film and video has focused on works from New York and San Francisco, but Los Angeles also was home to a rich scene of such media. In conjunction with Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981, Los Angeles Filmforum presents this amazing collection of rarely screened performances by punk bands of the era, performance art, and D.I.Y. works. We’ll be seeing performances from the early days by the Screamers, X, Suburban Lawns, Black Flag, The Germs, Los Plugz, Johanna Went, and more.

Special Thanks for Tonight’s show to Johanna Went, Kristine McKenna, Mark Wheaton, Ian Marshall & Research Video, Rene Daalder, Michael Intriere, EJ Emmons, Amy Halpern, Eugene Timiraos, Eleonora Monacella and Broadway Video Enterprises, Joe Rees, Jackie Sharp, and TargetVideo.

Screening: 

“Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here’s the Bullocks”
Directed by Cynthia Gianelli and Paul Newell (1979, 30 min., b&w video, sound)

An extraordinary document of the early Los Angeles punk scene, largely shot in 1977, with performances by The Avengers, The Bags, The Dead Boys, The Screamers, and The Weirdos, and interviews with many people involved with the scene.

“Gidget Goes to Hell”- Suburban Lawns.
Directed by Jonathan Demme (ca. 1980, 2 min).

An early music video, pre-MTV, last seen on Saturday Night live in 1980.

“I’m going out in the RAIN”
Directed by Richard Newton (1978, 3:30, color, sound, super8mm transferred to video)

“Can’t Make Love” – Wall of Voodoo
Directed by Eugene Timiraos (1980, 3:35, color, sound)

“Can’t Find My Mind” – The Cramps
Directed by Eugene Timiraos & Bradley Friedman (1981, 3:20, color, sound)

“I Wanna Hurt” – The Screamers
Directed by Rene Daalder (1979, 8:49, color, sound)

“Monologue on Camping”
Directed by Eugene Timiraos (1979, 3:00)

“La Bamba” – Los Plugz
Directed by Eugene Timiraos (1980, 3:00)

“Cardinal Newman” – Nervous Gender
Directed by Michael Intiere (1981, 3:00)

And more!

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Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.

Primary funding for Alternative Projections was provided by the Getty Foundation, with additional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque.


Under The Big Black Sun Site
Under The Big Black Sun Site
moca.org/black_sun/
 FEATURED ARTISTS  
FEATURED ARTISTS
 
moca.org/black_sun/artists/





 




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“Black sheep : an unconventional look at good ol’ family values” by Karyn A. Gray


All family matters.

Family has much more influence than we can admit sometimes, whether we like it or not… For some people its something easy, and to others it can be related to conflicts, but finding your own path and being honest to yourself, is maybe the best way to learn that, we are all different, but still remain similar at many points. No matter which concept of family you have, its not always somethingsimple, but it can bring us a brighter life.

With “Black sheep: an unconventional look at good ol’ family values”, Karyn worked compiling great memories about families related to subcultures, to give people the chance to see beyond stereotypes and maybe learn how ”we all have much more in common than we realize”. 


 


 ”
 I’ve never really subscribed to one subculture in particular, but I’ve always been drawn to a variety of them and have participated in a variety of them, especially punk, hardcore, and graffiti. I guess you could say I’ve never been “core” of one, but I’ve been an observer, participant, and supporter of many. ” Karyn G.






TNOT -  Why writing about subcultures and how the book idea started ?

I grew up in a small, wealthy, picturesque suburban town where there essentially were no subcultures. Everyone was expected to look and behave a certain way. If you looked differently than everyone else and went to punk shows on the weekends instead of Joe Schmo’s party, people thought you were on a bad path, or associating with seedy characters, or on drugs. So I know firsthand that most outsiders don’t associate individuals involved in subcultures with positive values, and certainly not family values. I wanted to show a different perspective. The book took me about two years. It was a completely DIY endeavor, so I worked on it whenever I could in between freelance jobs.

TNOT - About underground and alternative scene, “relation” its not one of the first things that come to our minds. Why the family values?

I used to do a lot of band interviews. I would always ask about people’s families. Did their parents come to their shows? What were their holiday traditions? That sort of thing. It was something that no one ever asked about, which I thought was a shame because I thought it was way more interesting than “What bands influence you the most?” or some crap like that. And on top of that, I wanted to educate the “outsiders” of the world — the people who are unfamiliar with subcultures, and who are therefore ignorant about them. I think I summed it up best in the book’s preface:

“This book is for […] all the people out there involved in different underground scenes. This is a chance to celebrate our families, to tell a story about or to present our thoughts on the concept of family, and why it’s so important to us. […] This book is also for the people not familiar with these contributors or the scenes in which they participate. When people are different, they’re typically defined by those differences. But it usually isn’t too difficult to find some common ground. More than anything else, I think that family is what most of us have in common. So instead of noticing your differences, this is a chance to embrace your similarities. To see someone in a different light.”  

TNOT - How was writing the book, was your first experience as a writer ?

You know, when people ask me about “writing” this book, I always joke that I only wrote the preface and acknowledgements. The true credit goes to all the contributors who shared their stories. It was an amazing process, compiling everyone’s quotes and photographs. Every morning when I checked my email it was like Christmas morning. There’s nothing like opening your inbox to see a message from someone you idolized when you were a kid, or someone you really admire, saying that they would be happy to participate in your personal project. It was an amazing experience, full of excitement, stress, elation, disappointment (when someone turned me down) and eventual satisfaction.  

TNOT - About choosing the people you wanted in your book, which was your criteria?

I started by just putting my feelers out. I made my “dream” list of people, and did the best I could to get in touch with them. That’s the hard part. If the person is especially well-known and have a publicist, your job’s way harder, because it’s the publicist’s job to only tell the person about stuff that’ll make them more rich or more famous. If the person is especially underground, like, say, a graffiti writer, your job is harder because their identity is guarded. But for every 15 people who you can’t get in touch with, maybe you reach one, and maybe they say yes.

    TNOT - Do you have favorites testimonials?

I don’t have any favorites. I think all of the contributions are really special in their own way, just as the contributors are all special to me in their own way. Some I’ve been good friends with for years, some I admired so much when I was a kid and I couldn’t believe how lucky I was that they said yes to participating. Others, I was just extremely curiousto know their thoughts on the subject matter. There were some funny, light stories, and other powerful andemotional stories. Together, it all worked.
 
 

 TNOT - How would you define all these families in one positive word to people who dont know anything about subcultures or sometimes have the wrong idea about it..

Familiar. All the families in the book are totally different, but just the fact that family is the common denominator makes is all seem a little familiar. We all have much more in common than we realize.

 

TNOT - Adults that are still into subcultures sometimes have to deal and reject some stereotypes sticked to them while teenagers, do you think that it happens often ?

Yeah, but by the time you’re an adult, you don’t care. You realize that you’re being true to yourself, which is far more than most judgmental people can say about themselves.

        TNOT - There´s a new documentary called “The other F word” talking about fatherhood, have you seen it?

I haven’t seen The Other F Word, but, yes, I’m familiar. I got lots of emails from people telling me about. In fact, I got in touch with the director a while back to say congrats on the project.

    TNOT - How was your family reaction with the book, before and after with the project finished?

My parents were really proud. They came to Montreal for the book launch and were thrilled to meet some of the contributors. To them, I think the book made a part of me make sense to them, so that was satisfying.   

     TNOT - You´ve said there were two reasons for writing the book, to people who like underground  and people who dont know about it, after finishing the book, how was the answer from people who read it, collaborators and outsiders ?

 

 As for “outsider” feedback, I think the best was an email I received from my childhood pastor who I hadn’t seen in a million years saying that he had gotten his hands on a copy and felt it was an excellent subject matter. I also made sure to send a copy to my favorite childhood teacher, Mr. Newkirk, who was a big advocate of individualism. I strongly believe that everyone should give the amazing teachers of this world props!!  I’ve received some lovely feedback from all sorts of people, but it was especially gratifying to hear contributors say how proud they were to be a part of it. When it was released, I received a deluge of mail, some of which was quite emotional. Not only did many of the contributors come to the book launch, but many of their families came as well. People’s parents, children, siblings, aunts and uncles. And a lot of people traveled a long way to be there. It was the proudest moment of my life. 




Karyn Gray Interview Montreal 2010
hardtimes.ca  

 

Black sheep: an unconventional look at good ol’ family values
/ compiled & edited by Karyn A. Gray

Published by GraySide Projects Montréal, Québec
graysideprojects.com 





 




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Costumes and kids. The childhood portrayed as subcultural characters. Locked Illusions interview


Found their work a time ago, but never thought writing about them, now Im really addicted for knowing more about these really creative works I find on line, so there it goes.
Brittany just answered some questions, she and her husband, Benjamin, have a really nice work with kids and families, a dark and different view of family portrait,
 but still lovely.. really focused in the subculture atmosphere:

    TNOT - How and why have you started photographing kids?
I actually started out as a custom photographer shoot more every day type shoots and boutique work. I then began to realize what style I really did want to shoot and started to shoot some of my ideas.


   TNOT - Who decide how they are going to dress? Their parents or you?
I have many ideas that I offer up to the parents according to there style be it darker or more towards the fantasy realm. I also point them to several wardrobe designers or wear to get the items or ideas for the session.

   TNOT - About  the make up, do you try to make kids look grown up wearing it?
   TNOT - Are you, who decide the way the kids should be alike ?
No. As for as makeup goes it is usually a collaboration between the stylists, parents and I. In some of the sessions if the child is not into the makeup we dont do it we leave it up to good ole post processing work.
 

   TNOT - How is working as a couple?
Its fantastic! Ben handles rates sells and scheduling and I handle the photographic artisty.
 

   TNOT - How do the kids react seeing their costumes?  Did you ever get any problems with a scared kid?
The kids absolutely LOVE it! The kids have a lot of fun as to them it is a day all about them filled with fun dress up makep. No we havent had any scared children. Sometimes children can be shy but warm up.
 

   TNOT - While you´re shooting, how is the interaction between you and kids?
Its great we have a lot of fun. I spend a lot of time trying to make them feel right at home and the parents and I make every effort to make sure that we are all having a great time.
 

  
 TNOT - What is the coolest thing about working with kids?
I love kids. I have my own but I couldnt imagine a career that would be more fun then working with children. Also when photographing them they are very real and themselves.

   TNOT - Do you have a favorite shoot?
This is hard to answer as I have a great memory and favorite moments with every shoot. However I do have favorite photographic art shots. My favorites would have to be the dark mermaid, Sweeney Todd & dark Marie Antoinette.
 
   TNOT - Tell me some funny moment you can remember about…
Well at the shoot with the girl and the solid white horse nearing the end of the shoot decided she was done and it was time to eat lol Its one of those things you would had to be there to laugh Im sure.

   TNOT - How do you see the relation beetwen subcultures and your work as photographer? Are you into any subculture, and how it reflects on your work? 
I dont know.. I mean if anything just the goth/at styles I mean it varies greatly so it would be rather difficult to pigeon hole. 

 

 

 

Site: lockedillusionsphoto.com/ 

 




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crystalfountain

~SUBMIT TO MY ZINE!~

crystalfountain:

I’m making a zine. All you have to do to contribute is write a list about anything you like! Decorate it as much or as little as you want. Scan it,then send it to me via my email which is nicolette@nicoletteclara.co.uk  




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hauntingolivia

hauntingolivia:

hallooooo:a lovely person has expressed interest in receiving a copy of my mini zine. i originally made it for myself and a few friends so i did not expect anyone wanting a copy! :) if you’re also interested, i’d be happy to post you one (US only as i can’t afford to post things for free internationally).the mini zine is 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in (so it’s tiny!) and features six original poems/prose by me and includes a couple dinky doodles from private comics that i posted on my old blog.send me a message in my ask with your name and mailing address and i shall post you one! *the front and back covers are above.x

hauntingolivia:

hallooooo:

a lovely person has expressed interest in receiving a copy of my mini zine. i originally made it for myself and a few friends so i did not expect anyone wanting a copy! :) if you’re also interested, i’d be happy to post you one (US only as i can’t afford to post things for free internationally).

the mini zine is 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in (so it’s tiny!) and features six original poems/prose by me and includes a couple dinky doodles from private comics that i posted on my old blog.

send me a message in my ask with your name and mailing address and i shall post you one! *the front and back covers are above.

x




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Rebellion 2011 By Martino





Depois de muitas horas de viagem até Blackpool, na costa Noroeste de Inglaterra, ali estávamos na fila à espera de entrar nos Winter Gardens para mais um (e o meu primeiro) Rebellion.
 Eram cerca das 11.00 da manhã do dia 4 de Agosto de 2011 e algumas centenas de punks, skinheads e afins alinhavam-se à entrada do maior centro de espectáculos de Blackpool para quatro dias que prometiam arrasar, com bastante punk rock, ska, hardcore, oi!, psychobilly e muito mais. Enquanto esperávamos, apareceu um par de indivíduos que conseguiram por toda a gente bem-disposta: enquanto um levantava bem alto um cartaz onde se liam frases como “Jesus is the light and the truth!” ou “Jesus saves!”, outro subiu a um banco e começou a pregar aos punks – “eu também já fui como vocês, mas depois descobri a luz em nosso senhor Jesus Cristo!” – enquanto toda a gente se ria e alguém atrás de mim atirava com o célebre slogan dos Crass “Jesus died for his own sins, not mine!”. Estávamos portanto bastante divertidos quando finalmente entrámos nos Winter Gardens para dar início ao festival.

 

Alguém atrás de mim atirava com o célebre slogan dos Crass “Jesus died for his own sins, not mine”!


 

O espaço, bastante requintado e amplo, tinha tudo para proporcionar um óptimo festival. Para além de bastantes bares e um restaurante, podíamos encontrar várias bancas de venda de merchandising, uma exposição de arte punk, um cinema (onde foram projectados ao longo dos dias vários filmes dignos de nota, como o clássicoSuburbia ou o American Hardcore) e seis palcos diferentes: Almost AcousticBizarre Bazaar, Arena, os dois palcos do Olympia (que apenas abriram no dia seguinte) e o grande palco principal no Empress Ballroom. Com tantos palcos e mais de 200 bandas em quatro dias, com concertos em simultâneo nos vários palcos, tivemos pois de fazer muitas escolhas (algumas bem difíceis). Assim, esta review será apenas sobre uma parte do festival, aquela que pudemos presenciar; muitos concertos certamente notáveis irão ser deixados de fora, infelizmente.
 

4 de Agosto

 


Para mim o festival começou com Kings of the Delmar no Arena, num concerto do trio que foi uma grande maneira de abrir as hostilidades, com bom punk rock. Seguiram-se os Hotwired, desta vez punk rock com voz feminina, numa performance também muito empolgante, terminando com a vocalista empunhando dois chicotes e usando-os (gentilmente) nos restantes músicos da banda. Depois foi a vez do ska dos Spanner, num concerto onde se destacou sem dúvida o carismático trompetista, com um estilo que não podia deixar de lembrar o grande Olga dos Toy Dolls. Infelizmente não assisti ao concerto dos Noise Agents (a fome falou mais alto), mas estava de regresso ao Arena para ver os Angry Agenda, com um punk das ruas que fazia lembrar Cock Sparrer ou algo do género (uma das atracções do festival, mas cujo concerto, no dia 6, não assisti; quem os viu, contudo, diz que foi festa com casa cheia).

 




The Fiend: um dos melhores da tarde

 



Os senhores que se seguiram foram os The Fiend. Apesar de não conhecer a banda, tinha alguma curiosidade dado o grande número de pessoas que falavam desta banda, que toca um hardcore que namora o d-beat e o metal. E, efectivamente, o concerto não desiludiu, tendo para mim sido um dos melhores da tarde, onde a banda mostrou uma energia e entrega incríveis em palco, em particular o vocalista. Para a memória fica-me em particular a introdução, que termina com uma voz a proclamar “Government is not the solution for our problem. Government is the problem!”, dando o mote para um concerto memorável. Depois foi outra vez altura de punk no feminino com os Girlfixer que, apesar de não se poder dizer que tenha sido um mau concerto, pessoalmente também não me fascinou por aí além. Foi o último concerto que assisti antes de jantar e o último do dia que assisti no Arena, já que depois do jantar

desloquei-me para o palco principal no Empress Ballroom.

 

Aqui assistimos à inauguração deste palco pelos norte-americanos Tyranosaurus Alan. Com um som que mistura ska, punk e rap, esta banda composta por dois saxofonistas, baterista, trompetista, guitarrista/vocalista e um trombonista/vocalista fez a festa no Empress Ballroom, com um entusiasmo que se estendeu ao público, resultando num espectáculo de mosh frenético entre a multidão. Seguiu-se o concerto dos Pipes and Pints, também norte-americanos, banda que mistura hardcore e gaitas-de-foles. O início do concerto foi marcado por dificuldades técnicas, num momento caricato em que os membros da banda, já todos em palco, pediam aos berros que desligassem a música de fundo para puderem começar a tocar e ninguém os ouvia – o mesmo problema vir-se-ia a verificar mais tarde no concerto dos OFF! de Keith Morris. Quando finalmente puderam começar a tocar provocaram grandes circles pits entre a multidão, com o tipo da gaita-de-foles (sem dúvida o membro da banda que mais dava nas vistas) a fazer crowd-diving em abundância. Apesar da boa receptividade que tiveram, não posso dizer que tenha sido propriamente o meu concerto preferido do dia.
 


World/Inferno Friendship Society: o concerto que mais me deslumbrou no primeiro dia do festival

“O tempo todo numa batalha épica e furiosa com a bateria – das melhores bateristas que vi passar pelo festival”


 

Pelo contrário, os World/Inferno Friendship Society, que se seguiram, foram talvez o concerto que mais me deslumbrou no primeiro dia do festival. Como não conhecia a banda, posso ainda afirmar que para mim foi mesmo uma das maiores surpresas e descobertas deste Rebellion 2011. O espectáculo foi montado à volta do vocalista Jack Terricloth, um verdadeiro showman, rodeado por uma baixista com uma voz formidável, um teclista, um guitarrista, uma saxofonista, uma violinista e uma baterista genial, que esteve o tempo todo numa batalha épica e furiosa com a bateria – das melhores bateristas que vi passar pelo festival. Vestidos como se tivessem saído da série Mad Men, o engravatado Terricloth empunhava um microfone à anos 50 e com ele montou uma performance que misturava o punk com soul, jazz, muito humor e sabe-se lá que mais, num espectáculo musical verdadeiramente irrepreensível.

 

No concerto seguinte a sala encheu-se (principalmente de skins) para ver os Old Firm Casuals, a nova banda de Lars Fredrikson, guitarrista dos Rancid. Apesar de não ser muito a minha onda, o concerto foi bastante bom, com Lars a por a multidão a cantar em uníssono, no concerto com mais afluência do dia, e que terminou com um dueto com o vocalista da banda skinhead Last Resor

 

Finalmente chegou a vez da superbanda de Keith Morris (fundador dos Black Flag e Circle Jerks), os OFF!, uma das bandas que mais queria ver neste primeiro dia. Apesar das minhas expectativas e de o concerto não me ter desiludido (de todo), também não posso dizer que as tenha superado. O concerto começou após as já referidas dificuldades técnicas. Keith Morris, se no início se apresentava algo mortiço, mudou radicalmente assim que começou a gritar para o microfone as novas malhas. Num concerto que se caracterizou por um hardcore rápido e contundente, as novas músicas deste ícone do punk foram disparadas uma atrás das outras a uma velocidade incrível, acabando com as magistrais Panic Attack e Upside Down.
 

Fizeram jus ao seu slogan OTMAPP – “Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly”


The Meteors:
 “Ave Satanus






Por fim, faltavam os cabeças-de-cartaz da noite, as lendas vivas do psychobilly – The MeteorsPaul Fenech, empunhando a sua Stratocaster personalizada com um “Ave Satanus”, deu um grande concerto a fechar a noite, com alguns momentos de destaque, como quando se começaram a ouvir os primeiros acordes da magnífica Wreckin’ Crew. Pode-se resumir a prestação destes senhores dizendo que fizeram jus ao seu slogan OTMAPP – “Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly”. Era o fim do primeiro dia do Rebellion e, a julgar por esta primeira amostra, o festival prometia ser algo de verdadeiramente mítico.

 

 

5 de Agosto

 

O segundo dia do festival começou, para mim, pouco passava das 4 da tarde do dia seguinte, assistindo no Arena ao final do concerto da Chocking Susan, concerto esse que terminou com uma cover do grande hino do velhinho Iggy, “I wanna be your Dog”. De seguida dirigimo-nos para o Olympia, onde assistimos no palco principal ao concerto dos The Duel, mais uma banda com vocais femininos. Após o final do concerto, e de espreitar ainda o início do espectáculo dos Hooligan no palco 2 do Olympia, fomos ao bar onde estava o palco Almost Acoustic para ver os italianos Los Fastídios em formato acústico.

 

Se já gostava da banda no formato tradicional (e que viriam a tocar no dia seguinte), esta inédita aventura acústica não desiludiu, com a audiência em peso a bater palmas e a cantar em coro “Come on, come on!, Antifa Hooligans!”.

 

Regressámos ao Olympia ainda a tempo de apanhar metade do concerto dessa grande senhora que é a Texas Terri. O concerto dos Texas Terri Bomb! arrasou, literalmente, e a vocalista mostrou o porquê as comparações que tem sido feitas entre ela e grandes lendas como Iggy Pop ou Wendy O. Williams. O final apoteótico ao som da “I Wanna Be Your Dog” nem pelos imprevistos técnicos foi estragado (o microfone desligou-se enquanto cantava no meio do público, levando-a a exclamar “So much for the fucking clímax!”), terminando com a saída de palco parcialmente despida.








“Bus Station Loonies Infelizmente, revelou-se para mim a maior desilusão desta ida ao Rebellion” 


Após mais uma pausa, voltei ao Olympia para assistir ao final do concerto dos Drongos for Europe, a banda hardcore de Birmingham, enquanto esperava a actuação dos Bus Station Loonies no palco 2, uma das bandas que queria mesmo ver neste festival. Infelizmente, revelou-se para mim a maior desilusão desta ida ao Rebellion, já que os membros da banda apenas conseguiram chegar ao recinto 20 minutos antes da hora marcada, tempo que o stage manager não considerou suficiente, substituindo à última da hora o concerto dos Loonies por uma outra banda (de que não apanhei o nome) e, daquilo que ouvi, não gostei.

Para curar a desilusão dirigi-me ao Empress Ballroom, para ir ver os grandes Anti-Nowhere League. Um concerto genial que tive a sorte de assistir na primeira fila, onde o psicótico Animal levou o público ao rubro com canções como “I Hate People”, “Streets of London” ou “So What”. Uma fusão perfeita entre punk e metal motoqueiro, definitivamente um dos melhores concertos do festival. Exausto mas satisfeito no final, e já com a desilusão dos Bus Station Loonies atrás das costas, passei brevemente pelo Arena, para espreitar o hardcore dos Varukers, que parecia estar em forma, voltando ao Olympia, onde tocavam os Dead Class no palco secundário.





 



De seguida, no palco principal, chegaram um dos maiores nomes: G.B.H. carregaram sobre o público em Blackpool, no seu street punk em modo hardcore, furioso e ininterrupto. Justificaram o seu estatuto, pondo a assistência num estado caótico ao som de clássicos como “Maniac”, “City Baby Attacked by Rats” ou “Sick Boy”. A este concerto brutal seguiu-se uma nova desilusão no palco secundário do Olympia, com a não- comparência dos Drunken Balordi. Deu pelo menos para recuperar mais energias para o último concerto da noite, dos icónicos The Damned, autores do primeiro single punk britânico (New Rose, uma música obrigatória no alinhamento do concerto) e uns dos pioneiros do gótico. O vocalista Dave Vanian apresentou-se vestido como se de um agente secreto se tratasse, de fato, óculos escuros e luvas negras, oferecendo todos os grandes clássicos num concerto relativamente longo a uma plateia em êxtase, que enchia todo o espaço do Olympia. Um final de luxo para o segundo dia, enquanto o palco     principal era encerrado pelos Exploited.

 

6 de Agosto
 


Logo a seguir ao almoço voltei ao recinto para voltar a ouvir Los Fastídios, desta vez no formato tradicional. Este grupos de skins (que odeiam o fascismo tanto quanto amam o seu clube de futebol, o Verona) deu um concerto que não defraudou em nada as expectativas que levava. Levaram os seus hinos anti-fascistas ao Empress Ballroom, enquanto apelavam à união da classe trabalhadora, punks, hooligans e skinheads, sempre num ambiente de festa e de proximidade com o público. Definitivamente uma banda a rever mal haja oportunidade.


E com skinheads anti-fascistas continuámos no Olympia, onde o palco principal foi ocupado pelos alemães Stage Bottles. Oi! a sério com metais, estes rapazes ocuparam e dominaram o palco, tocando a sua cover exemplar do clássico “Solidarity” dos Angelic Upstarts, terminando com os seus êxitos “Dead but not Forgiven” (festejando a morte do Ian Stuart Donaldson, vocalista dos Skrewdriver, banda icónica do neo-nazismo inglês e europeu, que por acaso nasceu na zona de Blackpool – ouvir esta canção tocada nesta cidade foi dos momentos mais perfeitos a que já assisti) e “Sometimes Anti-Social but Always Anti-Fascist”
. 


Após mais um intervalo em que aproveitei para conhecer as redondezas, voltei aos concertos, para ver a actuação a solo de Nick Cash, vocalista dos 999 (que tinham actuado ao mesmo tempo que Stage Bottles), onde voltou a reinterpretar os clássicos da sua banda, desta vez num registo algo mais intimista mas que não deixou de contagiar o público, resultando bastante bem, especialmente quando acompanhado por uma boa pint de cidra.

 

Estive depois no Empress Ballroom a tempo de apanhar ainda um pouco do concerto dos The Boys, um dos introdutores do pop-punk no final dos anos 70, mas que sinceramente não me entusiasmou. As coisas ficaram mais quentes quando os Filaments subiram ao palco principal do Olympia e nos mostraram o que é skacore a sério, com guitarras e trombones.


Os rapazes do Essex mostraram sem sombra de dúvida porque eram uma das bandas mais

 aguardadas pelo pessoal que acorreu ao Olympia. Antes de jantar ainda deu para espreitar ligeiramente o ska americano dos Have Nots, no Arena, que parecia estar a contaminar o público. A seguir ao jantar espreitei o concerto dos Pennywise (que, confesso, não é uma banda que me agrade particularmente) e vi parcialmente o concerto. Apesar de não ser muito o meu estilo, o show parecia estar a resultar para o público que enchia o Empress Ballroom.

 

Para fechar a noite voltei ao Olympia para assistir a mais três concertos: The Red Eyes no palco secundário e Vice Squad e The Subhumans no principal. O concerto dos Vice Squad ia já a meio, mas deu para constatar que a banda da prodigiosa Beki Bondage continua com a garra toda, inundando o público com o seu punk rock em estilo motard. 

 

Imediatamente a seguir entravam em acção os Red Eyes no palco 2, banda punk escocesa que não conhecia, mas cujo som me agradou. Por último, enquanto os Cock Sparrer provocavam uma enchente no Empress Ballroom, o Olympia enchia-se também para receber o anarco-punk dos britânicos Subhumans, encabeçados pelo inconfundível Dick Lucas (que mesmo antes do concerto já tinha conquistado a simpatia do público, ao trazer pessoalmente uma fan que estava em cadeira de rodas para o palco, para que ela pudesse assistir ao concerto, apesar de todos os obstáculos levantados pelos seguranças de serviço).


Enquanto no sul Londres ardia, Dick e os seus rapazes incendiavam o público em Blackpool com os clássicos desta notável banda, intercalados com críticas aos mass media e ataques aos grandes grupos financeiros. Uma prestação de grande nível que não só fechava com chave de ouro a penúltima noite do festival como deixava ainda antever um bom concerto da outra banda de Dick Lucas, os Citizen Fish, que iria acontecer no dia seguinte.

 

 

7 de Agosto

 

Infelizmente lá chegou o último dia do festival. A meio da tarde cheguei aos Winter Gardens, apanhando o início do concerto dos Goldblade no Empress Ballroom. A banda de Manchester liderada por John Robb apresentou um espectáculo onde se misturava (literalmente) com o público (ou melhor, com a parte feminina dele), trazendo uma série de miúdas (de todas as idades) para o palco durante a maior parte do concerto (e um pequeno garoto também, que se mostrou particularmente inflamado enquanto gritava “Riot! Riot!”). Um espectáculo bem conseguido.

 

Já o concerto seguinte, do Glen Matlock (sim, o baixista dos Sex Pistols antes do Sid Vicious) e a sua banda The Philistines não me convenceu. Se aqui há uns anos vi Sex Pistols e o concerto não tinha sido particularmente brilhante, este não o foi de todo. Matlock não conseguiu entusiasmar o público, faltava vivacidade e energia em palco, e mesmo os dois momentos altos do concerto, quando interpretou “God Save the Queen” e “Pretty Vacant”, pareciam ter mais empenho por parte do público do que por parte da banda. Tenho de confessar que foi dos concertos do Rebellion 2011 que menos me agradaram. 






O que vale foi que, quando voltei para mais concertos, esperava-me o Stza Crack (conhecido por ser o vocalista dos Choking Victim e dos Leftöver Crack) no palco secundário do Olympia. Apresentava-se sozinho, apenas acompanhado apenas pela sua guitarra acústica e harmónica, numa mistura de ska-punk acústico, anarco-folk e muito humor. Cativou o público tanto com as suas tiradas hilariantes como com as reinvenções em molde acústico e minimalista de músicas conhecidas de todos, tal como a “Fucked Reality” dos Choking Victim.

 

O final do concerto ficou marcado pela troca amigável de provocações e elogios com os Citizen Fish, que ocupavam o palco vizinho, à espera de começar o seu espectáculo.

 

Dick Lucas estava completamente recomposto da brutalidade que tinha sido o concerto dos Subhumans na noite anterior (pelo menos assim parecia) e entrou em grande forma. Infelizmente não pude ver o concerto na totalidade. Digo infelizmente porque, para além de gostar muito da banda, o início do concerto estava a ser de alto nível, tal como acredito que tenha sido até ao fim. Mas as lendas que são os UK Subs preparavam-se para subir no palco principal, pelo que me vi obrigado a ir para o Empress Ballroom.

 

Foi a primeira vez que vi a banda de Charlie Harper ao vivo, essa grande instituição do punk rock, num momento sem dúvida marcante. O público vibrou ao som de temas imortais como “Down on the Farm”, “Stranglehold”, “Warhead” ou “C.I.D.”, a fechar o concerto. Pelo meio, Harper ainda agradeceu às pessoas de todas as partes do mundo que se tinham em deslocado ao festival, provocando uma reacção calorosa de um grupo de brasileiros à minha frente, quando mencionou o pessoal que tinha vindo da América do Sul.

 

Depois de UK Subs voltei ao recinto do Olympia para os meus últimos concertos do festival. Enquanto jantava fui espreitando o concerto dos grandes mestres do ska/2-tone que são os The Beat, que puseram todo o recinto a saltar, homenageando pelo meio os míticos Clash com uma cover de “Rock the Casbah”. A hora alta da noite aproximava-se e, enquanto esperava que oJello Biafra viesse encerrar o festival, ainda deu para ir espreitando o concerto dos Red Alert no palco secundário (concerto com uma recepção muito boa por parte do público).
 

  

“Jello Biafra encheu o Olympia ao máximo, como ainda

não tinha acontecido neste festival.”


 




























Finalmente chegou a altura de Jello Biafra, antigo vocalista dos Dead Kennedys (e para muitos de nós o único verdadeiro vocalista desta banda seminal do hardcore norte-americano, permito-me acrescentar), invadir o palco com a sua nova superbanda, The Guantanamo School of Medicine. Ao mesmo tempo, no palco principal, tocavam os Adicts,

pelo que tenho de agradecer à organização do Rebellion esta escolha cruel. 
Apesar da concorrência de peso, Jello Biafra encheu o Olympia ao máximo, como ainda

 não tinha acontecido neste festival. Fez uma entrada apoteótica ao som da “Terror of Tinytown”, envergando uma bata ensanguentada, dando início a um concerto mais curto do que o planeado (por imposição da organização, que impediu inclusive que a banda interpretasse o último tema, “I Won’t Give Up”), mas ainda assim absolutamente memorável. Centrado nos temas do primeiro álbum da banda, apresentando também algumas canções do E.P. deste ano, Jello não deixou de revisitar sons dos Lard (“Forkboy”) e dos Dead Kennedys (“California Über Alles”, na sua nova versão dedicada a Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Police Truck” e a inevitável “Holiday in Cambodia”, no encore).

 

Em comparação ao concerto dos Guantanamo School of Medicine a que assisti em 2009, em Portugal, assinala-se a menor presença de músicas dos Dead Kennedys (sendo que o concerto do festival foi também muito mais reduzido, o que poderá explicar este facto) e uma aposta muito mais forte nas músicas de produção própria, o que, podendo desiludir alguns, se justifica plenamente.

 

Jello não abandonou nunca as suas características intervenções políticas, nem a sua distinta performance teatralizada em palco. Os restantes músicos voltaram igualmente a deslumbrar-me, com especial destaque para o guitarrista Ralph Spight(conhecido como vocalista dos Victims Family e dos Freak Accident), Billy Gould (baixista dos Faith No More), Jon Weiss (dosSharkbait e Horsey) e Kimo Ball (Freak AccidentCarneyball Johnson ou Mol Triffid) também não desapontaram em nada a multidão. Multidão essa sempre muito activa, com mosh pits constantes, inúmeros crowd-surfings (alguns dos quais do próprio Jello) e stage-divings (um dos quais acabou com um rapaz a partir a perna, ao cair no fosso). No final, era uma horda cansada mas satisfeita aquela que deixava os Winter Gardens de Blackpool, animada por quatro dias de um festival inesquecível e, certamente, cheia de vontade de voltar em 2012.

                      
Martino

 Coimbra, Portugal 




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Um dos espaços mais democráticos de circulação de informação, o fanzine, vai ganhar uma discussão especial de hoje (30) a terça-feira (6). Trata-se do fórum Cabeças de Papel 3 que vai abordar com leitores, gestores públicos, educadores e fanzineiros o tema Zines como patrimônio material e imaterial. O evento, que este ano vai discutir estratégias de conservação do acervo de fanzines de Fortaleza, reúne oficinas, feira e debates que acontecem no Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste e no Cuca Che Guevara.

Ao longo do evento, serão discutidas propostas para a criação da Zineteca de Fortaleza, um espaço para conservação do acervo, visitação pública e promoção de encontros. Entre os convidados, representantes da Fanzinothèque de Poitiers (França) vêm a Fortaleza para contar a história da primeira zineteca do mundo. Em conferência virtual, Law Tissot também conta sua experiência com a Fazinoteca Mutação, fundada em 2009&#160;em Rio Grande (RS). A programação inclui ainda oficinas gratuitas de fanzine, fotografia lambe-lambe, documentário e HQ/caderno artesanal. No encerramento, será realizada a terceira edição do Zine-se, feira de troca, venda e distribuição de exemplares, que vai contar com a exibição do documentário Zine-se: Mensageiros de Papel, de Gladson Caldas, e apresentação do VJ francês Nyktalop.

Criado como uma plataforma para divulgação de ideias livre de padrões e formatos, os fanzines já encontraram leitores pelo mundo inteiro. No Brasil, ele foi muito usado nos anos 1980 por bandas que não contavam com apoio financeiro para divulgação. Segundo a organizadora do evento, Fernanda Meirelles, Fortaleza é reconhecida como um polo importante de criação e divulgação desse tipo de literatura. “Existem fanzines feitos ao longo de mais de 10 anos que foram se acumulando e hoje chegou a um volume de mais de cinco mil exemplares. Esse acervo conta a história da cidade de uma forma espontânea, com um olhar bem pessoal”, explica.

Para ela, o objetivo do fórum é fazer o público enxergar os fanzines como um “tesouro linguístico sobre aspectos cotidianos” mas que, ao mesmo tempo, é frágil e feito com tiragem bastante limitada. Para ela, mesmo que os fanzines já tenham sido reconhecidos até em editais públicos como um importante instrumento de educação e informação, ainda é necessária a criação de um mecanismo de conservação e divulgação. “Existe uma história da Cidade que esta guardada em caixas e uma demanda por onde as pessoas podem achar esses fanzines”, alerta Fernanda.
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Onde: CUCA Che Guevara (Av. Presidente Castelo Branco, 6417 – Barra do Ceará) e Centro Cultural BNB (Rua Floriano Peixoto, 941 – Centro) 
Quanto: gratuito
Outras info: 8713&#160;2734, 9656&#160;3587
Programação 
Hoje (quarta)
14h (Cuca): Início das oficinas de zine, lambe-lambe, documentário, HQ/caderno artesanal 
Amanhã (quinta)
14h às 17h (CCBNBCuca): Segundo dia das oficinas
18h30: Publicizando Arquivos Particulares – O que os zines guardam e para que guardá-los? com Douglas Utescher (SP), Fernanda Meireles (CE) e Juliana Buse (CE)
2/12 (sexta-feira)
14h (Cuca): Final das oficinas
18h30 (CCBNB): Histórias de Duas Zinetecas: Fanzinothèque de Poitiers e Fanzinoteca Mutação (RS) com Cécile Guillemet (França), Stephane Le Garff (França), Anne Gerárd (França), Paulo Amoreira (CE) e Law Tissot (RS)
3/12 (sábado)
9h e 14h (Cuca): Fórum sobre a Zineteca de Fortaleza
6/12 (terça-feira)
18h30 (CCBNB): Feira Zine-se!, exibição do documentário “Zine-se: Mensageiros de Papel” e apresentação do VJ Nyktalop (França). 
Marcos Sampaiomarcossamapaio@opovo.com.br
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Um dos espaços mais democráticos de circulação de informação, o fanzine, vai ganhar uma discussão especial de hoje (30) a terça-feira (6). Trata-se do fórum Cabeças de Papel 3 que vai abordar com leitores, gestores públicos, educadores e fanzineiros o tema Zines como patrimônio material e imaterial. O evento, que este ano vai discutir estratégias de conservação do acervo de fanzines de Fortaleza, reúne oficinas, feira e debates que acontecem no Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste e no Cuca Che Guevara.

Ao longo do evento, serão discutidas propostas para a criação da Zineteca de Fortaleza, um espaço para conservação do acervo, visitação pública e promoção de encontros. Entre os convidados, representantes da Fanzinothèque de Poitiers (França) vêm a Fortaleza para contar a história da primeira zineteca do mundo. Em conferência virtual, Law Tissot também conta sua experiência com a Fazinoteca Mutação, fundada em 2009 em Rio Grande (RS). A programação inclui ainda oficinas gratuitas de fanzine, fotografia lambe-lambe, documentário e HQ/caderno artesanal. No encerramento, será realizada a terceira edição do Zine-se, feira de troca, venda e distribuição de exemplares, que vai contar com a exibição do documentário Zine-se: Mensageiros de Papel, de Gladson Caldas, e apresentação do VJ francês Nyktalop.

Criado como uma plataforma para divulgação de ideias livre de padrões e formatos, os fanzines já encontraram leitores pelo mundo inteiro. No Brasil, ele foi muito usado nos anos 1980 por bandas que não contavam com apoio financeiro para divulgação. Segundo a organizadora do evento, Fernanda Meirelles, Fortaleza é reconhecida como um polo importante de criação e divulgação desse tipo de literatura. “Existem fanzines feitos ao longo de mais de 10 anos que foram se acumulando e hoje chegou a um volume de mais de cinco mil exemplares. Esse acervo conta a história da cidade de uma forma espontânea, com um olhar bem pessoal”, explica.

Para ela, o objetivo do fórum é fazer o público enxergar os fanzines como um “tesouro linguístico sobre aspectos cotidianos” mas que, ao mesmo tempo, é frágil e feito com tiragem bastante limitada. Para ela, mesmo que os fanzines já tenham sido reconhecidos até em editais públicos como um importante instrumento de educação e informação, ainda é necessária a criação de um mecanismo de conservação e divulgação. “Existe uma história da Cidade que esta guardada em caixas e uma demanda por onde as pessoas podem achar esses fanzines”, alerta Fernanda.

SERVIÇO 

Seminário Cabeças de Papel 3

O quê: fórum de discussão sobre a criação de um acervo de fanzines em Fortaleza, contando ainda com feira e oficinas 

Quando: de hoje (30) a terça-feira (6). Sem programação no domingo e segunda-feira

Onde: CUCA Che Guevara (Av. Presidente Castelo Branco, 6417 – Barra do Ceará) e Centro Cultural BNB (Rua Floriano Peixoto, 941 – Centro) 

Quanto: gratuito

Outras info: 8713 2734, 9656 3587

Programação 

Hoje (quarta)

14h (Cuca): Início das oficinas de zine, lambe-lambe, documentário, HQ/caderno artesanal 

Amanhã (quinta)

14h às 17h (CCBNBCuca): Segundo dia das oficinas

18h30: Publicizando Arquivos Particulares – O que os zines guardam e para que guardá-los? com Douglas Utescher (SP), Fernanda Meireles (CE) e Juliana Buse (CE)

2/12 (sexta-feira)

14h (Cuca): Final das oficinas

18h30 (CCBNB): Histórias de Duas Zinetecas: Fanzinothèque de Poitiers e Fanzinoteca Mutação (RS) com Cécile Guillemet (França), Stephane Le Garff (França), Anne Gerárd (França), Paulo Amoreira (CE) e Law Tissot (RS)

3/12 (sábado)

9h e 14h (Cuca): Fórum sobre a Zineteca de Fortaleza

6/12 (terça-feira)

18h30 (CCBNB): Feira Zine-se!, exibição do documentário “Zine-se: Mensageiros de Papel” e apresentação do VJ Nyktalop (França). 

Marcos Sampaio
marcossamapaio@opovo.com.br

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F**k yeah, Sonnets in English!: Mini literary journal- Rose+Croix

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I’m making a literary journal, and I want tumblr-ites to contribute to it. The journal is called Rose+Croix. It will be beautiful, it will be small, and it will be sharp.

I want poems that are maximum 14 lines long. Less would be more, but writing in the sonnet form gets extra points with me….




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…with an e. (24-hour zine)

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I have copies of my first 24-hour zine (…with an e.) all printed. Woot! If anyone wants to do a zine trade or buy, just let me know. :)

cover of ...with an e., showing the bottom of a dress and heels

Zine Reading/Skimming Group folks: I’ll be bringing copies for you when we meet in January.