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Anna Gutmanis Collection
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"Anna Gutmanis is an award-winning Canadian songwriter, singer and keyboardist who writes and records across musical genres. Her 2014 single release “Lately It’s Cold” won a Global Music Award. Several songs from Anna's critically-acclaimed album "Glimmer In The Dark" appeared on 3 different Australian Indie Radio Charts (Urban, World, and Easy Listening) and on the Roots Music Report 2014 Top 100 Pop Song chart. The official video for "Another Way Out" won the 2014 Best Short Documentary award at QCinema Texas and was used by PFLAG as an educational tool. The song “I Am Who I Am” is an anthem to the LGBTQ rights movement, and has been recorded in rock and dance formats. The rock version won the 2009 Pride Song Award, and the official video for the 2019 Dance Version won several awards at international film festivals. Other recordings include Anna's eponymous debut album, which still receives airplay. Anna is also a street photographer and visual artist, having contributed cover art and design for two of her music releases. Her portrait of Billy Joel can be seen on his website. Anna often performs live in and around Toronto, and has also played across Canada and the United States." - from Gutmanis' <a href="https://annagutmanis.com/biography/">official website.</a>
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My second-favourite poster is the one from the Emily Stowe Shelter Benefit, again because of my being billed alongside awesome people (like Lillian Allen and Faith Nolan). I played at 4 of those annual shelter benefits during the 80s - they were organized by L'etranger.
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paper
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Emily Stowe Shelter for Women Fourth Annual Benefit
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A show poster for a 4-night festival hosted as a benefit for the Emily Stowe Shelter for Women.
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Andrew Cash
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Anna Gutmanis
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1987-01-14 to 1987-01-17
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Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2A2
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Personal collection
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Anna Gutmanis<br /><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a>
Andrew Cash
Anna Gutmanis
Catherine Mackay
Curtis Driedger
Demi/Monde
Emily Stowe Shelter
Faith Nolan
First Man Over
Heratix
Lillian Allen
Maya Bannerman
Plasterscene Replicas
Queen Street West
Rheostatics
Rivoli
Sherry Shute
St. Anne & The Visitation
Taylor Green
The Lawn
Third Man In
Tulpa
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Charlie Brown Collection
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paper
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The poster image is a detail from "The Rhythm," a painting by Nicole Peña. Click <a href="https://www.nicolepena.ca/visualart/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> to view the painting on the artist's website and to learn more about her work.
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Rap 'n Rage Against the Cuts
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Poster for "a fair against poverty, a festival for justice, sounding out strategies for fightback and survival."
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Unknown
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Simon Vickers
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1995-10-01
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Allan Gardens, Gerrard and Sherbourne
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Charlie Brown Collection
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CKLN
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JPEG
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poster
761 Community Development Corporation
Aboriginal Voices
African Canadian Legal Clinic
AIDS Action Now!
All Nations Talent Group
Allan Gardens
Alliance for Employment Equity
Anishanawbe Health
Anti-Racist Action
BASIC
Camp Sis
Canadian Arab Federation
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
Canadian Union of Public Employees
CHFT
Choice in Health Clinic
CKLN
Coalition for Social Assistance Reform
Coaltion for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario
Corriantes Del Sur
Council on Iranian Refugees and Immigrants in Toronto
Cross Cultural Community Centre
Desh Pardesh
Disabled Women's Network
Dixon Hall
Dream Warriors
Educating for a Change
Ethiopian Association of Toronto
Faith Nolan
Groots Canada
Hassle Free Clinic
Hispanic Development Council
Homefront
Homes First Society
International Debt Treaty Movement
Jesuit Centre
Jewish Feminist Sisterhood
Latin American Youth Association
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Toronto
Little X and Black Katt
Low Income Families Together
Maggie's Safe Sex Project
Metro Network for Social Justice
Motion
Na Me Res
Neighbourhood Legal Services
Nicole Peña
NIKINAN
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
OPSEU Lesbian and Gay Action Committee
Parkdale Committee Resistance
Parkdale Resistance
Parkdale Resistance Mural Project
Ramos Entertainment Management Group
Redwood Shelter
Riverdale Immigrant Women's Centre
Sistah's Cafe
Toronto Caribbean People's Assembly
Toronto Christian Resource Centre
Toronto Coalition Against Racism
Toronto Rape Crisis Center
Unemployed Professional African Women's Association
United Tenants of Ontario
Women's Centre at the University of Toronto
WRPM
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Lilian Radovac Collection
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1987-1994
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Lilian Radovac
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8.5 x 11
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<p><span>This statement provides context for a gig poster that was briefly posted in the Alternative Toronto Facebook group in the summer of 2020.</span></p>
<p><span>The poster was for a show held at the Purple Institution on October 20, 1989, which was headlined by W.Pig and also featured our band, Mourning Sickness, as one of three supporting acts on the bill. The others were Cottage Industry and Kevin Cook.</span></p>
<p><span>The poster was created and signed by the artist Urania235, and includes a stylized black and white rendering of the Aunt Jemima brand character. We did not consent to the poster design or see it before the show and hate everything it represents. As white women it is our responsibility to speak about why.</span></p>
<p><span>Mourning Sickness was a feminist music collective that was part of Toronto's industrial music scene in the late 1980s. This scene was almost exclusively white and predominantly cis-male, as it remains today. Industrial music artists sometimes used decontextualized visuals and other content drawn from racist, anti-Semitic and misogynist sources, which we discussed in <a href="https://bit.ly/2NQevtb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviews</a> </span><span>and challenged in our performances. We would like to address this poster now.</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>Art historian Dr. Cheryl Thompson explains the historical lineage of the image of Aunt Jemima, and we recommend her <a href="https://bit.ly/2XQxZjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online essay</a> to anyone who wants to learn about this history. The image is steeped in both white supremacy and patriarchy, and the long struggle against it (see the <a href="https://bit.ly/2DZy6Sg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Revolution</a> archive for one early example) has finally resulted in its being retired as a corporate logo by Quaker Oats.</span></p>
<p><span>Toronto also has a history of white supremacy, which is an important part of the poster's context. Beginning in the late 1970s, a series of highly publicized police shootings of Black residents occurred in waves that continue to this day. Two of these shootings, of Lester Donaldson and Michael Wade Lawson, occurred the year before the Purple Institution show. A third, of Sophia Cook, happened exactly one week later.<br /><br />These shootings led to the formation of the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) in 1988, which had been active under different names since 1978. BADC was among several Black-led organizations that organized against police brutality in Toronto, and their struggle was widely covered in the local and alternative press. Their efforts led to the Yonge Street Uprising in 1992 and are echoed in the Black Lives Matter movement today.</span></p>
<p><span>We will not comment on the artist's intent but want to confront the wider social context in which this poster was created. At the very least, its appearance reflects the deep racial segregation that existed in the city's music and art scenes, which we and other white artists benefitted from even as we opposed it. We acknowledge this history and it's why we support community archives and #BlackLivesMatter.</span></p>
<p><span>*****</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>To learn more about racism and sexism in industrial music, see the fan blog <a href="https://bit.ly/2DHywwU" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Industrial Anti-Oppression</em></a>.</span></p>
<p><span>For a discussion of how the Aunt Jemima logo was received by Black communities in the early 1990s, see Karyn Berry's essay in <a href="https://bit.ly/3aut10F" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Undefeated</em></a>.</span></p>
<p><span>To learn more about the BADC and the Yonge Street Uprising, read Chris Harris' essay in <a href="https://bit.ly/2PJ4wU3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Upping the Anti</em></a> and watch <a href="https://bit.ly/2XRwl0K" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>It Takes A Riot: Race, Rebellion, Reform</em></a>.</span></p>
<p><span>To learn about the racial segregation of Toronto's music scenes during this period, read Ron Nelson's <a href="https://bit.ly/3h0SKA4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oral history</a> of hip hop shows at the Concert Hall.</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>For an example of how industrial music artists have taken social context into account in their work, see the discussion of Laibach in "<a href="https://bit.ly/33PuSfh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subversive Affirmation: On Mimesis as a Strategy of Resistance</a>."</span></p>
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All day event with musical performances by Faith Nolan, Nu Black Nation, Killer Queen, The Travellers, Dirty Bird and Mourning Sickness.
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Paper
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York Festival of Students
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York Federation of Students
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1992-07-11
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Lilian Radovac
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Poster for the York Federation of Students BBQ and Music festival.
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Lilian Radovac collection
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Poster
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York University, The Underground, 4700 Keele Street
1992
Dirty Bird
Faith Nolan
Killer Queen
Mourning Sickness
Nu Black Nation
The Travellers
The Underground
York University