New Mail Art Show

"The MOOP and Labspace Studio present;

SPRING Mail Art Show
in concert with Hot Soup

Theme; Spring Colour

All works to be displayed in March at the Museum and then a one night gallery show at Hot Soup http://www.labspacestudio.com/ April 1st in Toronto.

Hot Soup is a monthly series serving up some of the city's finest innovators in sound and performance in jazz, experimental sound, contemporary dance and theatre.

Mail your entry to;

Museum of Ornamental Post
457 Craven Road
Toronto, ON
Canada M4L 2Z5

Deadline March 31st, 2010.

Book works welcome for the MOOP artists library and send us your mail art calls, the show will also have a list of suggestions for those interested in taking up mail art.

Documentation to all participants with return address."

HELENE LACELLE aka NEON MATISSE mail & art show

come on down to Starbucks, 1124 BANK street from Now to March - a tiny MAIL ART show of international mail art with details of how to participate in this international art - also, for ur viewing pleasure HELENE LACELLE aka NEON MATISSE has a tiny exhibit of her amazing collectione of LADIES of the DAY & NIGHT with animals... a sight for ur eyeballs.. come on down!

HELENE LACELLE @ THE GREEN DOOR

HELENE LACELLE aka NEON MATTISSE invites all to her new art opening at the GREEN DOOR, 198 Main Street from 07Jan. to 06Feb. Also LACELLE will host/show a community MAIL ART exhibit with information how all artists can participate in this modern international 'art movement.

HELENE LACELLE is not only a recognized artist but also an actor/co-producer of several feature films and host/originator of the ONE&ONLY art FAIR which held it's 3rd annual fair last November at the Sandy Hill Comm. Centre. As well, she has illustrated several books and is the co-creator of the on-line publishing 'empire' bookshandmade.com

MMX !

CHEERS FROM CAR !

New Show at the MOOP

The main gallery of the Museum of Ornamental Post is proud to host the Toronto leg of the Goddess Mail Art show. New works by Chantal Laurin ( curator and fellow SMALL member who runs the CAR, Canada ), Helene Lagache (France), Ivana Rezek (Croatia), Servane Morel(Belgium), Genevieve Chausse (Canada) and Alietee Couette (France).

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Not a member ...

... but definitely one of our kindred spirits ... I have heard from many a poet and self publisher that this Ottawa poet has an amazing library.

.... reprinted with permission of the author.

Sorry for the mass email all, Ottawa poet and small press collector John Curry is in a bit of trouble and making an interesting offer. also check out his 1 cent series.

Cheers,
David

Help Save Room 302 Books

john curry, certainly a world class poet living in our community, is
presently facing almost certain eviction.

Stephen Brockwell alerted me of this precarious situation, by phone, and
asked if I would get the word out, most recently at the TREE Reading
Series on September 22, where we were able to scare up enough to cover one
of his 5 months owed rent & save his telephone service.

curry's been in constant production of his own and hundreds of others work
since 1979. hes mainly ineligible for grants. His bookstore is mainly an
unused resource. His archive documenting the growth of avant-garde writing
in Canada is one of the key collections in the country. Nicky Drumbolis
has said: curry and his work are the best-kept secret in Canada.

Since time is of the essence, if curry's to avoid eviction, there are a few
ways you can help:

Start to use his goddamn store!

Room 302 Books is the only bookstore in Canada ever to focus
specifically on the avant-garde and overlooked outsiders, specializing in
concrete/visual/sound poetries (mainly Canadian) with a stock of over
20,000 mainly rare titles, including elusive ephemera, and probably the
only source of most of jwcurry's various imprints and titles (which number
in the thousands). curry's current lists finally focus on his own work as
artist & publisher, virtually the first time everything thats (still)
available has been made commonly available. You can purchase bookstore
IOUs (or set up an account) today in any amount for those who'd like to do
that.

Subscribe to Curvd H&z, curry's serial imprint. donor subscriptions
(please indicate) of $100 or more get « the stash in a sampling of available
titles from various of his imprints immediately, the remaining « put on
account for forthcoming titles.

Donate outright.

I would like to encourage you to donate something so as to keep this
excellent bookstore, publisher, archive and artist alive, and at the same
time help prevent curry's eviction from his apartment. For those who'd like
to purchase bookstore IOUs, Id ask you to write (#302-880 Somerset Street
West, Ottawa Canada K1R 6R7) or call him at (613) 233 0417. Please
contribute as you can.

Roland Prevost (with collusions with curry)

MAIL ART exhibit at LANTERNA PATIO shifted to 20thSept

Howdy MAIL ART likers, lovers and haters: illness in the family has caused a shift in our next MAIL ART show and EXHIBIT at the LANTERNA PATIO GALLERY from this SUNDAY to next SUNDAY the 20thSept - all welcome to come to the LANTERNA gallery SUNDAY from 3-6p.m. and feast on the beautiful MAIL ART show and info session - ALL WELCOME to this new, total planet involvement of the world's great MAIL ART ARTISTS and ur opportunity to BECOME ONE with them!! COME ON DOWN!! 19 Hurdman Road in Sunny Sandy Hill, Ottawa, Canada