MIDSUMMER ROCKSHOWCASE with Jim Guthrie’s Sword & Sworcery

8pm on Thursday, June 30th 2011 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

As it turns out, it’s actually super tough to put together an event for the launch of a videogame project, mostly because there’s an awful lot going on right before & for a few weeks after launch… and then it takes a good few weeks, or months, just to recover.

Now that we’re over two months out from the launch of the record + videogame project known as Sword & Sworcery, the time has finally come to put on a show & cap the project off in style… but the event we’ve dreamed up has become more than just that.

Next Thursday, June 30th 2011, with the help of the lovely people at TIFF (you know who you are), we’ve secured a cinema for an audiovisual presentation we’re calling a ROCKSHOWCASE – half of this’ll be a rad showcase of some of what Toronto’s DIY videogame community has been up to lately, the other half will be a rock show –  a live set from Jim Guthrie & his all-star seven piece band who will, for the first time ever, be peforming songs from Jim’s recently released record Sword & Sworcery LP, the musical companion to the videogame project.

After the show we’ve secured a space to hang out at the nearby Elephant & Castle, where beer will happen.

We’d loooooove to see you at the event, so how about it? Here’s the link.

A few more words:

The members of The Hand Eye Society, on whose board I humbly serve, have played an essential role in establishing a supportive, inspiring ecosystem in which to create & collaborate on strange, experimental things. Appropriately enough, Sword & Sworcery – a locally made, unusually collaborative project – made its first public appearance at the first Hand Eye Society social of 2010. The positive response at this event helped sustain the S:S&S EP team in the long, challenging months to follow… and we are immensely grateful.

As mentioned above, with this MIDSUMMER ROCKSHOWCASE event we’re looking to cap off the S:S&S EP project & help shine a light on a few other local projects & initiatives. While this year’s event might well end up being a one-off, we’ve been imagining it as (potentially) a precedent-setting first in an annual series. Next year there’ll be a whole new crop of projects & initiatives to showcase, and with more music-driven projects like Sound Shapes, Dyad & They Bleed Pixels on the horizon there’ll probably be at least one musical act ready to put on a rock show twelve months hence.

Also: If you’d like to volunteer & help out on this one, just hit up hello@superbrothers.ca

 

When?

• 8pm on Thursday, June 30th 2011, with an after-party starting at around 10:30pm.

Where?

• The show will take place in cinema two at TIFF. Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West, Toronto.
• The after-party will be happening at Elephant & Castle, 212 King Street West, Toronto.

Got tickets?

• For more information & tickets, please stop by the event site here http://rockshowcase.eventbrite.com

Note: We’ve chosen to set up an admission fee to offset a percentage of the costs (eg: the venue & the band), although we’ll still be operating this event at a loss. If you’d prefer to pay less or more than the general admission then hop on one of the remaining pay-what-you-can COMMUNITY tickets, intended for folks in Toronto’s DIY videogame communities – if you’re reading this then that’s probably you, so feel free to grab one!