Arts & Culture

The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.

Arts & Culture

Kazoo! Fest 2014

This year marked the 8th annual Kazoo! Fest in downtown Guelph, which ran from April 9 to April 13. The festival’s aim is to provide an avenue for artists to display and promote their work to the community across different mediums. The Ontarion attended many of these events, visit the […]

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Multimedia Performance: “Foster”

“Foster,” a multimedia performance presented by Kazoo! and Ed Video, was held at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Thursday April 10. The performance was led by Thomas Hammerton, Dan Ross and Dustin Seabrook. This performance used live and prerecorded audio and visuals to show a representation of a small town’s […]

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Kazoo! Fest 2014: Postcommodity & Nihilist Spasm Band

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. On Saturday April 12 from 2-4pm Silence hosted Postcommodity and Nihilist Spasm Band. Postcommodity is comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristobál Martinez, Kade Twist, and Nathan Young – together they form a interdisciplinary group performing experimental noise music and free jazz. Nihilist Spasm Band consists of John […]

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Friday Night Kazoo! Fest at eBar

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. The Kazoo! Festival’s Friday night concert at eBar featured the talents of Adverteyes, Manatee, Petra Glynt and DIANA, providing a night of diverse entertainment with rich visual support by way of trippy .gifs projected behind the bands. As Kazoo! so consistently provided across the weekends events, […]

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A to Zavitz: GOOSNARGH

As defined by urbandictionary.com, “Goosnargh: a special Betelgeusian word used when something should be said but speaker does not know what it should be. From Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.” Between March 31 and April 4, Zavitz Gallery hosted GOOSNARGH, its final show of the school year, […]

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Kim The Lion Set To Release New Album

Lead vocalist talks songwriting and expectations for upcoming release Stephen Pepler, lead vocalist and songwriter for alt-folk band Kim The Lion, is a self-driven musician. From Whitby, Ontario, Pepler started his music career at 17 when he wrote most of the music for Kim The Lion’s self-titled debut album. Dave […]

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Q & A: Multimedia Artist Alexandra Mackenzie

Artist brings art and music to Kazoo! Fest 2014 Toronto-based artist Alexandra Mackenzie’s creative vision seemingly knows no bounds, and her work – including incredibly detailed and imaginative illustrations, lush installations, and experimental yet danceable music – often employs a maximalist aesthetic to form a stimulating, vibrant, incredibly surreal world […]