as dancing about architecture

Sunday's Grey Cup game left me with a dull ache in my bones (and a minor one in my head, yes indeed) plus a lumbering cold in my chest. Damn you Argos! Damn you my misfortune!

Hope I'm feeling better tomorrow becuz there's still tix available for the incomparable Neko Case appearing at our beloved Commodore Ballroom. That's the good news....

Check out Ticketbastard's eyeball-popping 33% surcharges... why the general public has not yet boycotted this despised organization and driven them into oblivion, I don't know:

Ticket Price (Base):$19.50
Building Facility Charge: $1.00
Convenience Charge: $5.50
Will Call Service Charge (aka 'Delivery Method'): $3.25
Total: $29.25 CAD

Feck me. Convenience charge? Delivery method? Shouldn't they pay me $8.75, if they're gonna force me to pick-up my ticket at the club? That's the bad news alright. Bastards!

For six meaningful bucks, you can attend this cool gathering of idea-oriented volks at the Contemporary Art Gallery. Talking about music is almost as much fun as listening and dancing to it - right? Right you are. Neko's special guest, Dexter Romweber, hits the stage at approximately 9:30pm.

The Contemporary Art Gallery Presents

Music Appreciation Society

Listening Event & Panel Discussion

Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street, Vancouver
Thursday, November 25, 7-9pm

Free admission with society membership: $6 at the door

The ever-changing relationship between contemporary art and popular music, particularly with respect to appreciation, is the impetus for the Music Appreciation Society.

The Music Appreciation Society is a music listening event and panel discussion, featuring Clint Burnham, Rodney Graham, Sydney Hermant, Narduwar The Human Serviette, Kathy Slade and Althea Thauberger, moderated by Brady Cranfield.

Each panelist will introduce and play a song of their choice, and then briefly discuss the reasons for their choice, whether personal, political, intellectual, historical, musicological or somewhere between. While the appreciation of popular music comes easily and almost intuitively, contemporary art more often inspires a complicated and even sometimes guarded response.

However, the recent history of art has been marked by a steadily increasing engagement with popular culture in general and with popular music in particular, complicating this apparent difference. In addition, peoples' everyday relationship to popular music has also changed, through technology and consumption patterns. The Music Appreciation Society seeks to explore this joint transformation.

Clint Burnham is a literary theorist and author. Rodney Graham is an internationally known artist and musician. Sydney Hermant is an artist, musician, and curator at the Or Gallery. Narduwar The Human Serviette is a musician and media personality. Kathy Slade is an artist and curator. Althea Thauberger is an artist. Brady Cranfield is an artist, curator and musician.

The Contemporary Art Gallery is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, The Province of British Columbia and the BC Arts Council, its members and volunteers.

For more information, contact:

Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson St
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 6R5
tel: 604.681.2700
email: info@contemporaryartgallery.ca
website: www.contemporaryartgallery.ca