North of Nowhere Expo
Multidisciplinary Festival of Independent Media & Underground Art
Sept. 16-30, 2005
NoN Expo Summary Statement:
The North of Nowhere Expo is a non-profit activist-arts festival which is committed to fostering the awareness of the arts as tools for positive social change. The NoN Expo includes:
- 8 components to an international anti-war art exhibition consisting of over 350 prints and posters, and 14,000 peace cranes commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings
- an underground comic art exhibition (prints, paintings and comix/zines)
- 5 live music/performance cabarets (3 theme events)
- 15+ videoactive & independent film screenings
- a 2-day small press, fair trade & social justice fair
- D.I.Y. workshops & skillshares
The NoN Expo waters 2 flowers with one cup as the ESPA's contribution to the 2005 Humanitarian Arts Manifesto:
The North of Nowhere Expo is dedicated to ESPA Members & Supporters Marilyn Damman & Helen Folkmann (who named the Expo). Both remain an inspiration and are with us in spirit.
Admission:
Admission to all individual cabarets & film screenings is a suggested donation of $8.00*
You can also purchase a NoN Expo Passport and take away an amazing souvenir:The Passport gets you in to all NoN Expo music/performance cabarets & film
screenings. The Passport is actually a small hand-assembled
book to which a piece of art is added at each event; it grows over
the festival, leaving holders with a perfect anthology of the NoN Expo,
including wearable and interactive art. Passports are only $25.00
each and will be available at all events, on-site only (sorry, no
advance Passports due to time limitations). Anyone
anticipating attending 4 or more events is encouraged to buy a Passport.
(* Free admission to low-income folks-no one will ever be turned away from
an ESPA event for lack of funds).
Inspirational Credit for the Passports is given to Daccia Bloomfield & The
Scream Literary Festival (Toronto) www.thescream.ca
