Our client, NLT, needs your help! See below for info.

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Moving? Summer cleaning? You may be able to help Northern Light Theatre in a unique and exciting way. Next season, Northern Light Theatre is producing a project which requires a MASSIVE amount of paper pornography (magazines, books, poster, post cards etc.).

A HUGE amount of pornography is needed- more than we can afford to buy.

Got a friend with a used book store, a garage sale, an adult superstore or a Playboy addiction? Hook us up! Cleaning out the attic? Donate your dusty boxes of magazines to us.

We’re looking for as much porn and adult content as possible- straight, gay, bi, fantasy, fetish, furry- the more skin the better. Absolutely NO JUDGEMENTS will be made. No questions asked. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

For any questions or to arrange a pick up, please contact:

ELLEN CHORLEY
Artistic Associate, NLT
(780) 471-1586
Nlt.publicity@telusplanet.net

5th Annual Doctors and Derrieres Fundraiser

Doctors and Derrieres is a unique fundraising event in its 5th year where medical students pose nude for talented local artists and sculptors. Art pieces in diverse mediums celebrating the human body are then donated by each artist to be auctioned off at the main event. This years silent art auction event will take place on April 30th, 2010 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Enterprise Square (10230 Jasper Ave).

Money raised from this event goes towards an Emergency Social Health Fund, a community-led grassroots initiative in rural El Salvador that provides health care in underserved areas. Doctors and Derrieres is hosted by Change For Children, Christian Based Communities of El Salvador ( CEB’S ), and UofA medical students. Along with donated support from the Harcourt House.

www.doctorsandderrieres.blogspot.com

Artists participating this year are:

Dwight Allot
Bonnie Bigley
Ross Bradley
Margaret Braun
Chris Chalifoux
Fran Cuyler
Gerry Dotto
Crystal Driedger
Kevin Fagan
Sharon Moore-Foster
Dinorah Garcia
Roger Garcia
Eric Gravel
Edmund Haakonson
Peter Harasymiw
Theo Harasymiw
Sarah Jackson
Robert Millang
Corissa Spring O’Donnell
Bob Prodor
Caitlin Sian Richards
Pedro Rodriguez
Raymond Thériault
David Thomas
Davey Thompson
Keith Turnbull
Jodi Tychkowsky
Darren Woluschuk
Gabe Wong
Amanda Woodward
Jessica Yawnghwe
Hank Zyp

We made this for a contest on veer.com. It lights up and required a truck to transport and photograph! I would imagine there was many, many submissions. Even if we don’t get a prize we had lots of fun working together on it. Also, we finally have a picture of the three of us! I think this is the first time. It only took two years….

Here is our submission text:
Q. What do you get when you take over 500 squares of Veer imagery?
A. A box of ideas sure to provide illumination for your next project.

For our entry we recreated a large scale, three dimensional version of the Veer logo…the catch? Each of the 568 orange colored squares used to ‘color’ the logo were cut from the pages of old Veer catalogues, Veer logos, and Veer Marketplace images. And what good would a 3D Veer logo be if it didn’t shed a little light on your creative project…or your desk. We like to think of it as our own offline Veer ‘lightbox’.

(Photo of Wee Wonderfuls lovely softies)

Both Andrea and Hillary have chatted on their blogs about saving handmade toys in the US. Scary to think that small business owners making good quality softies/toys could possibly be shut down because of the legislation set to go through. This means no more toys on etsy. Even Uncle Jo can’t sell his wooden carved toys without very expensive testing.

Anyone know if this sort of issue exists in Canada?

You can find more info about this issue in the following places:

cool mom picks

handmade toy alliance

change.org