Oct 9, 2009: Lets have a forum meet for the SUPERCRAWL James North Art Crawl
 

Hey Everyone,
I am going to be coming down to Hamilton this Friday Oct 9, 2009 for the James North Art Crawl. This Art Crawl is going to be bigger with a music festival, etc.
Anyway I am going to have Coldayman in from Ohio, and I have to confirm with him yet, but I am going to try to get him to come to the art crawl also, along with other Toronto people.

I thought it would be nice if we had a mini forum meet, and maybe grabbed a pizza or something before the art crawl.

Anyway if you are interested in meeting up even for a little while, post here or PM me.

Would be nice to get some forumers together for this event.

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Glad you're coming to Hamilton for this event. Art crawl meetups have been sketchy in the past because of mixed schedules, obligations, the staggered beer effect and maybe just the overall effect of beer. However if you name a time and place I'll do my best to make it.

The most organized meet-up was at Pepper Jacks just before they closed, and then we didn't get to see any Art.

i'll be all over the place that night. w/ time & place, i'll try.

We're coming with some friends but will try to meet up if there's a time and place.

I'll try my best to attend. Though I'm not much of a beer drinker.

it's not about the beer, it's about the company! it'd be nice to meet you.

likewise!

There's just getting to be too much going on during art crawl to even think about meeting up the same night, especially with this month being 'Supercrawl'. How about a meetup the Friday following the crawl, or on some other evening that works well for others?

time and place? perhaps pre or post-crawl?
I'll be busy during, and have some friends coming from out of town, but i like the meetups.

these things always fall on a nite that I have my kids. sorry dudes. Besides Kuruc banned me for heckling one of his poetry readers. *He was really bad and deserved it*

I will be arriving at the Hamilton GO Centre at about 6:25 PM. If anyone wants to meet up at that time and come join my friends and I for a pizza in downtown Hamilton, let me know.
Otherwise we will start the crawl around 7P.M. And people can meet up in route or even just to say "hi" for a couple minutes.

So if you want to meet up at the GO Centre, than be there for 6:25 PM give or take a couple minutes. If you do want to meet there, post here or PM me, so I know to wait for you.

Otherwise if you want to meet up along the crawl than post or PM and let me know.
My cell for this event is 647-216-4562 if you want to meet up along the crawl or anything like that.

Heartbeat on the street
Supercrawl celebrates explosion of art and music on James North

October 08, 2009
Graham Rockingham
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/Entertainment/article/649546

Downtown Hamilton is in the midst of a cultural explosion.

This statement may seem laughable to those suburbanites who long ago gave up on the city core as a place of decay and depression.

But rather than spending their entertainment dollars in Toronto, these folk should give the core another try, take a stroll beyond Gore Park, north on James. Take in both sides of the street, past the stump of the old Tivoli, Cannon Street, the armoury and the cathedral, keep going right down to Murray.

Among the ethnic eateries, you'll find a new community of galleries, boutiques, studios, clubs and cafes. It's been growing for the past few years. Lately, though, things seem to be happening at an almost exponential pace.

Which is why all those suburban skeptics should come down to James North tomorrow night to watch local art and music scenes merge for the first annual Supercrawl. It's an extension of the Art Crawls that have been taking place the second Friday of each month for the past four years.

Dozens of galleries and studios have been taking part in the crawls, holding openings and special exhibitions, sometimes featuring musical acts. Satellite venues such as The Pearl Company have been connected by the well-known art bus.

The Supercrawl will be all that and much more, closing down James North between Wilson and Cannon with three stages of live music.

Stage 1 will be in the parkette in front of the Tivoli Theatre with four high-profile acts starting at 7 p.m. with John Ellison, the longtime Dundas soul singer who wrote one of the most enduring hits in pop music -- Some Kind of Wonderful. Also onstage will be Jeremy Fisher, a Hamilton-born folksinger nominated for two Junos last year. Closing out the night on the mainstage will be Ohbijou and The Hidden Cameras, two of the top art-rock bands in Toronto.

Stage 2 at James and Cannon features four local acts -- singer-songwriters Annie Shaw and Terra Lightfoot, as well as Cowlick and Marble Index.

Stage 3, located behind Dr. Disc on Wilson Street, will feature Hamilton hip-hop poet Lee Reed, Dundas electrobeat master Koushik, as well as Juno-nominated world beat band Eccodec and Olenka and the Autumn Lovers.

In between the stages, there'll be plenty of art in the form of a wide range of wondrous street installations.

There will be people projecting art onto buildings and others riding around the streets on bicycle trains.

The night doesn't stop at 11 p.m., though. There are three after-parties, including the C+C Music Festival at This Ain't Hollywood, the new rock club at James North and Murray. C+C is a joint production of the city's two campus radio stations 93.3 CFMU (McMaster) and 101.5 FM (Mohawk). This Ain't Hollywood will feature four local bands including S.G. Sinnicks and Sandman Viper Command. (The C+C Festival will also sponsor two acts -- Matt Henderson and Kingdom Shore -- earlier in the evening at Christ's Church Cathedral.)

There will also be an electro-oriented after-party at Sky Dragon Centre on King William Street, and another, featuring Said The Whale and Hannah Georgas, at Silver Reed Studio at Sonic Unyon on Wilson Street.

All in all, Supercrawl is a pretty big deal, put together on a small budget by an extraordinary coalition of arts groups and individuals who share a commitment to making Hamilton's vibrant cultural scene the best it can be.

Just about every business on the street is involved. Among organizers and sponsors are Jeremy Freiburger of Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts, Tim Potocic of Sonic Unyon, and Dane Pederson and Courtney Lakin of Loose Canon Gallery.

They're expecting somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 people at Supercrawl tomorrow.

Can you think of anything better -- for free! -- on a Friday night? Sure beats going to Toronto ... or sitting at home in the suburbs watching TV.

We are going to dinner at Thai Memory around 5:30pm. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join, for dinner or around 6:30 - 6:45pm as we get ready to head out on the street.

At 8pm we are going to meet-up with others at Artbar on Colbourne.

We won't have our act together by 5:30. Too bad. I love Thai Memory. We'll definitely see you at Artbar if not before.

Do try to make it to Artbar for 8pm. It will probably just be a quick drink before we part ways. You're right. There's too much other stuff happening, especially this time.

A dedicated meet-up would be fun. Our first artcrawl meet-up was a de facto dedicated meet-up. We gabbed at Pepperjack's till after 10pm and only managed to crawl over to the Skydragon. I would definitely be up for something similar.

:previous: You too, Steeltown.

Looks like it's going to be a craptacular night with the rain and fog.

Where's a good place to get an umbrella downtown, or should I start a new thread for that?