CFRC is doing their annual funding drive: let’s help our community radio station raise $25,000 this year!  They’ve planned out 10 days of exciting live radio programming and community events.  Concerts with an Apple Crisp connection:

• This is Our Music @ Time to Laugh (Thursday Feb 11) - CFRC’s “The Weave” presents a local indie music extravaganza featuring Music Maul, PS I Love You, Owl Farm, False Face and The Gertrudes
• Henri Faberge & the Adorables @ Mansion, (Saturday Feb 13)

Call to Artists and Writers:

Apple Crisp Records is seeking artists and writers to participate in a collaborative comics-based poster project for the Apple Crisp Zine #5. Artists are encouraged to submit short comic strips or lineart / grayscale illustrations. Writers may submit stories of no more than 250 words. All accepted submissions will be combined by our design team to create a poster for the latest edition of the Apple Crisp Zine.

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Reelout 11 is Kingston’s annual Queer film and video festival, and it’s halfway over.  Don’t miss your chance to see some interesting films you won’t find anywhere else!

Mark your calendar:

• ANAGRAM / METZ / False Face @ Whine Cellar/The Mansion (January 23)
• A Benefit Concert for Haiti @ Chalmers United Church (January 29)
• Henri Fabergé and the Adorables @ The Mansion (February 13)
• Apple Crisp Music Festival - details TBA! (March 12-20)
• Old Man Luedecke (April)
• Skeleton Park Music Festival (June 16-19)

Saturday February 13
@ The Mansion (506 Princess St)
$5 Door

Henri Fabergé and the Adorables (featuring members of The Bicycles, Woodhands, Born Ruffians, Rural Alberta Advantage)

Far out.

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ANAGRAM, METZ and FALSE FACE
Saturday January 23, 8PM
FIRST BAND AT 9PM FOR REAL
$5, All Ages
The Mansion’s Whine Cellar, 506 Princess. (more…)

Pitchfork reviews PS I Love You:

Honest-to-goodness, hard-line indie rock is alive and well in the great white North. “Facelove”– a ferociously catchy single from Kingston, Ontario, duo PS I Love You-- was the hiding on the B-side of a shared 7″ with “All Yr Songs”, last fall’s Best New Music-approved track from Toronto’s Diamond Rings.

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Here’s the ferociously catchy duo playing at NGB:

Dear Arts Friends,

This is a reminder about the Arts Council networking events that are happening in a couple of weeks. I really hope you can attend. When we launch our new (exciting!) website in the spring, we want to have every artist and arts teacher in the performing, literary, design and visual arts represented in the free online directory. There will also be other opportunities available, and we’d love to have your feedback and suggestions about the Arts Council in general.

You are invited to any Networking and Info sessions that will be exclusively devoted to discussing the new Website and Arts Council activities from 7-9 pm on the following dates:

January 13 - Sydenham Street United Church (82 Sydenham St.)

January 18 - Upper Canada Academy. of Performing Arts (260 Brock St.)

January 19 - Queen’s University Grad Club (main level, Barrie and Union)

January 25 - Upper Canada Academy of Performing Arts

Apple Crispers are particularly invited to come to the session for musicians, however if the date is inconvenient please feel free to attend one of the other sessions. If you’re not yet a member - or want to sign up for your free listing online before the meeting - please visit our current website, www.artskingston.com

RSVP’s would be appreciated by THURSDAY, January 14; please send to jlb@artskingston.com