Rock Can Roll Festival 4 Schedule

Behold! The Rock Can Roll Festival Schedule. This is pretty much finalized but check back for updates.

Call for Posters - Got old show posters? New show posters? During the RCR Festival we plan to fill the walls of Eastern Edge Gallery with a history of local rock show posters. If you have copies of show posters to contribute to this Archiving Project please contact us - indieartscoop@gmail.com

 

Fourth Annual Rock Can Roll Festival - Schedule

All Conference Events are Pay What You Can. All Rock Shows and Performances are $7

Thursday October 23

Conference - Eastern Edge Gallery/Second Life
SESSION ONE
Artists in Session One will discuss and demonstrates Virtual Spaces, hybrid-reality performance, Anymation and Transhumanist Ideology. Session One will take place simultaneously at Eastern Edge Gallery and within the online virtual spaces of Second Life.

4 PM - Meet, Greet
4:30 - Welcome from Organizing Committee
5:00 - Second Front - Liz Solo introduces online spaces and discusses how some artists are using them. Featuring an online performance by the pioneering performance art group - Second Front.
6:00 - Second Me - 20 minute film on the real and virtual worlds of Bedix Freutel/Eifachfilm Vacirca, Germany
6:30 - Tom Jantol - Croatia/Second Life - Screening of shorts by Animator or "Anymator" Tom Jantol. The artist will be present live from Zagreb via Second Life to answer questions about his work and approach. Read an Anymation Manifesto
7:30 - Stelarc - Live from Second Life the Australian performance artist Stelarc will discuss his work. Stelarc's work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology.
8:30 - Avatar Orchestra Metaverse - Live musical performance by this International online orchestra. Presentation will feature original musical compositions played on virtual instruments.

Opening Night Rock Show - the Ship


10:30 - Jigger
12:00 - Iron Giant


Friday October 24

Conference - Eastern Edge Gallery
SESSION TWO
Artists in Session Two will discuss and demonstrate unique approaches to community building, art-making and performance.

4 PM - Coffee and Talk Touring with the Class War Kids and Jeffy T of the Brat Attack
5:00 - BlocksBlocksBlocks with Magali Meagher - Performer and musician Magali Meagher is a member of Block Recording Club and will present on their work. Blocks Recording Club is an Artist-Owned Worker’s Co-operative based in Toronto. Their goal is to work together as a musical community to help each other to record and release music.
6:00 - Volatile Works Media Collective - Glenn Gear and Brad Colbourne are both media artists and members of Montreal based Volatile Works Media Collective. They will screen and discus new work from the collective.
7:00 - Noisefold - NoiseFold is David Stout and Cory Metcalfe from Santa Fe, New Mexico. They create interactive visual-music-noise performances that draw equally from mathematics, science and the visual and sonic arts.
8:00 - Errand Boy - Errand Boy will discuss their process creating performance by merging sound and moving images.
The Rock House The Ship Distortion Rose & Thistle Turner's Tavern

10:00 - Two Guitars Clash
11:00 - Lizband
12:00 - the Satans
1:00 - Swords
2:00 - Iron Giant
10:00 -
11:00 - Magali Meagher
12:00 - Ye-Yeti
1:00 - Rhiannon Thomas and Three Mikes
2:00 - AE Bridger
10:00 - Danielle Smith
11:00 - The Late Greats
12:00 - Maggie Meyer
1:00 - The Monday Nights
2:00 - Texas Chainsaw
10:00 - TBA
11:00 - Matthew Hare
12:00 - Amusia
1:00 - Patrick Canning and Band
2:00 - Danny Keating
10:00 - The Phobics
11:00 -
12:00 - Elite Motif
1:00 - Rayfield
2:00 - ...from outer space


Saturday, October 25

Conference - Eastern Edge Gallery
SESSION THREE
Artists in Session Three will screen and discuss their experiments and projects in Video and New Media.

3 PM - Glenn Gear - Animation Workshop and Demonstration with media artist Glenn Gear.
4:00 - Bob Wiseman - Musician, recording artist and filmmaker Bob Wiseman will discuss his multi-media performance work.
5:00 - Danny Keating - Local hero and DIY guru Danny Keating will discuss his recent work experimenting with media.
6:00 - Brittany Traverse - PUNXERCIZING WITH XNASTY BEEX: EXXTREME PUNK LIFESTYLEZZ!! - Brittany Traverse presents her new work-out video and discusses accessibility to new technology in (video) art.
7:00 - Special Event Screening Eastern Edge
Donny Dumphy shorts series of shorts from Nik Sexton, creator of The Motion Show
followed by
The Heart Feature documentary exploring hip-hop culture in Newfoundland. Directed by Colin Browne.
The Rock House The Ship Distortion Rose & Thistle Turner's Tavern

10:00 - Map to Temenos
11:00 - Class War Kids
12:00 - ...from outer space
1:00 - Mercy, the Sexton
2:00 - Pathological Lovers
10:00 - Noisefold
11:00 - The Domestics
12:00 - Errand Boy
1:00 - Johnny Hardcore, Lee Fitz and Radar
2:00 - Sports
10:00 - TyranT
11:00 - MindRip
12:00 - Devastator
1:00 - Weapon
2:00 - Oberon
10:00 - Liz Solo
11:00 - Cara Lee Coleman
12:00 - Bob Wiseman
1:00 - Magali Meagher
2:00 - Colleen Power
10:00 - BNT
11:00 - Blood Shot Monk
12:30 - The Black Bags
1:30 - Black Mask Brigade


Sunday October 26

All Ages Show - Distortion

3:00 PM - Map to Temenos
4:00 PM - from outer space
5:00 PM - Ye-Yeti
6:00 PM - Class War Kids

Golden Rock Awards - The Ship

8 PM
The Second Annual Golden Rock Awards show hosted by Liz Solo and Jen Skywalker with Anthony Brenton, Jody Richardson and more.

Closing night sets
9:00 Bob Wiseman
10:00 the Subtitles