Literature

CrimePays features a Poetry Brothel ($5 gets a sexy stunner to read you a love poem) and an auction of dates with Vancouver's hottest Guys and Dolls, including Fearless Supporter Kris Krug and our own Fearless Leader, Irwin Oostindie!

City of Vancouver Poet Laureate
Call for Expressions of Interest

The City of Vancouver would like to hear from poets interested in
becoming the City’s second Poet Laureate. The call for nominations and
submissions  <http://www.vancouververse.ca/2ndPoetCall.html> is open
until March 11, 2009.

Nominations/applications are invited from published poets who are
currently resident in the City of Vancouver and who have either an
established body of work or have been recognized for notable
contributions early in their career.

The Phones for Fearless campaign is underway! We have a plan of action, the first phones are in hand, the bloggers are talking and we're ready for prancing through the snow with a sack of wintery libation to the good kids with extra phones to donate.

We'll be out and about Dec. 23rd from 1~4 to gather phones and spread cheer.

A few answers to the queries:

How do we get on the pickup list?

Send a message NOW via:
Twitter: FearlessCity
E-mail: info (at) fearlessmedia (dot) ca
Phone/SMS: 604.644.4349
Voice mail: 604.682.3269 xt 8320

Can i come along?

Yes you can come along to help! Bring a rucksack and your media making device to capture photos and videos of the shenangins. Meet at Raincity Studios HQ at 10:30 to head out into the wilds of Vancouver to harvest mobile phones in rag-tag bands.

Can i donate my phone without a power supply?

Sure. Coincidentally enough, Fearless City's trove includes many power supplies without phones - we'll pair them together for fun. Accessories, power supplies and batteries are all encouraged. Keep your SIM cards though we'll clear the phones first.

How about standard old office landline handsets?

Umm, we do like extra digital cameras but not other office equipment so much, we are hauling rucksacks so nothing heavy please ;-) But ... if you have something great, we'll make arrangements - whatcha got?

I am a DTES artist/resident or non-profit organization, how do i get my hands on a phone(s)?

Come to Fearless City's Wednesday meetings from 1-3 at Lori Krill Co-op, 65 W Cordova, to get peer training and find out how to get access to a phone and participate in Fearless City campaigns.

I am writing a blog post, uploading Flickr photos and videos, can i get some tags?

Sure, thanks, here's a copy and paste string to get you started: fearlesscity fearless dtes homeless artists donation cellphone phonesforfearless (or with commas) fearlesscity, fearless, dtes, homeless, artists, donation, cellphone, phonesforfearless.

Please add you photos to the FearlessCity Flickr group. Huzzah!

Grant Writing Information Sessions
November 10-15, 2008

Victoria, Richmond, Surrey, and Vancouver

The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to invite the public to participate in free grant writing information sessions for professional artists.

During these sessions, we will explain:
• how to complete application forms;
• how to submit your support material; and
• how applications are assessed.

The following Canada Council for the Arts staff will be conducting these sessions:

Marianne Heggtveit, Acting Head, Arts Services Unit
Melisa Kamibayashi, Information Officer, Arts Services Unit
Nancy Guertin, Program Officer, Theatre
Peter Schneider, Program Officer, Writing and Publishing
Pao Quang Yeh, Program Officer, Visual Arts

IMPORTANT

• Please inform Melisa Kamibayashi if you wish to attend.  Make sure to include which information session, the date, and in which discipline you will participate. 1-800-263-5588, ext. 4033 or at melisa.kamibayashi@canadacouncil.ca.

• We encourage you to bring your résumé (curriculum vitae). This will help program officers determine your eligibility.

• We encourage you to read up on the listed grant programs in advance of the information sessions so that you may ask the program officers questions that are more specific. Application guidelines and forms are posted on our website at www.canadacouncil.ca.

Canada Council for the Arts – Free Grant Writing Information Sessions

SESSION 1 – Victoria
Monday, November 10, 2008
6:00 to 9:00 pm
Open Space Gallery
510 Fort Street

SESSION 2 – Richmond
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
6:00 to 9:00 pm
Richmond Art Gallery
180 – 7700 Minoru Gate

SESSION 3 – Surrey

Starting on Monday, November 3rd, Fearless City will get a BRAND NEW feature.  The continuing stories of KITCHSPER THE FROSTY GHOUL!  Some of you now reading this might have gotten the comic book already and are waiting for the next EXCITING installment.  You have but only part of the story.  I know, waiting is hard, but, dear readers, IT IS WORTH IT!  Every Monday from now to DOOMSDAY will have an installment.  This is indeed a proud day for Fearless City Media.

     For those who do not know the background already, Kitchsper the Frosty Ghoul was born Mark Henry in 1890 and went to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 with his parents.  While getting too ingrossed in the then new newspaper feature "The Yellow Kid" he was not watching where is was going and became a ghoul after being struck dead by a street car.

Yesterday I helped work at the Fearless/W2 table at the library. We were located at the Big Library, the one that looks like a Roman Ampitheatre and I always wondered why it was built that way.. I guess it attracts alot of public interest by the shape of the library.  Perhaps parents and their children get a sense of Europe right in our own backyards.  

I arrived late with my two new laptops as I had abit of car trouble.  I had a late night, the evening before as I played a gig with my duo partner Jim. We're called Landslide and we mostly play Rock, Blues and Country. The older folks like to get up and dance in front of us reliving their childhood.  It's nice to see that happiness in people. Sometimes there's the odd drunk that comes up to us and starts yelling at us his requests for a particular song... sometimes we play and sometimes we don't... it depends if we have it on hand to refer to.  

April came to film us play last night, and unfortunately, she got punched out by a fat drunk named Barney from behind who was bothering us all night... I guess when April ignored his drunk advances as she was filming us.. he felt ignored, got mad and lashed out at her...We got off the stage real quick and made the guy leave and April was really shaken up and in shock.. she was worried about the camera and it even recorded the whole scene on audio.. lots of shaky camera motion... But she's pretty tough and fearless.. she makes a good field journalist.. I guess her working in bars makes her pretty resilient.

The Fearless/W2 table was the first one you see when you walk in through the main doors.  Irwin had his laptop there already, and we set up my two laptops also.  There were two that were playing the W2 stories:Building a Legacy and one that had Movino set up with the Nokia N95 cameraphone... it is supposed to show live performance and live streaming over bluetooth.