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A short piece I wrote for AOLnews about why Peep culture trumps privacy online. http://bit.ly/bQECsC
2009,
20:15 GMT
Canzine: Festival of Zines and Underground Culture THIS SUNDAY
Posted by: Hal
THIS SUNDAY in DOWNTOWN TORONTO. Don’t Miss It!
Canzine 2009
Hundreds of zine creators sell their wares along with readings, workshops, art rooms, and more! Not to be missed. Complete info at http://www.brokenpencil.com/canzine
Sunday, November 1, 2009
1pm - 7pm
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto
Feel the Burn! This Year’s Theme: Olympics!
$5 admission comes with a free copy of the Fall issue of Broken Pencil Magazine - issue 45 - “Olympics”
Here’s the lineup:
1-7pm Giant Zine Fair! Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale!
3:00-4:00pm - Canzine Olympics: Indie culture mavens will battle for the gold medal in underground creativity! Featuring: The Zine Lift, Speed Zining, Word Relay Race, and Competitive Speaking. 
2-3 pm. The One-Two Punch Book Pitch. Live on our mainstage in front of a crowing crowd, you get two minutes to pitch your book to our panel of judges. They get one minute each to tell you why you’ll never get published in a million billion years (or why they want to see your manuscript asap!). With host/judge writer/BP fiction editor Hal Niedzviecki, plus judges literary agent Sam Hiyate (co-founder of the Rights Factory) and Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox.
5:00-6:00pm Readings from Can’tLit – That’s right, it’s finally here: the long awaited anthology featuring the best fiction from the last 12 years of Broken Pencil Magazine. This event will feature writers from the anthology Joey Comeau, Jessica Faulds, and Greg Kearney. Introduced by the editor of the anthology, associate fiction editor Richard Rosenbaum. 
1-7pm Hotel Room Installations
Canada’s brightest and weirdest will be creating one day unique environments to explore in five of the Gladstone Hotel’s Rooms. Featuring: Jim’s Arcade: The Best of Indie Video Gaming as Selected by Jim Munroe, The Toronto Comic Jam Room (all day long sequential art), the City of Craft General Store (cool indie crafts), and The Lost Window: Toronto Mannequin Window Displays 1930-1950 (a provocative found-photo exhibit).
4-5pm Workshop: Screen Printing for Beginners
Learn how to screen print your own t-shirts, posters, zine and book covers and more! A hands-on workshop led by Michael Morton, mastermind behind the screen-printing business Crime League.
Hotel Canzine is made possible by grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Hotel Canzine also is supported by the following most excellent sponsors: Open Book, Mint Records, Insomniac Books, Magazines Canada, Movieola, Book Ninja, CIUT 88.1, Now Magazine and the Gladstone Hotel.
2009,
19:41 GMT
Peep Comes to Guelph
Posted by: Hal
I’ll be speaking and signing copies of The Peep Diaries in Guelph, Ontario Thursday night! The event is free and open to all. Come on by if you can!
Why We Like to Watch: Privacy in the Age of Peep Culture
Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm Holiday Inn Guelph
601 SCOTTSDALE DR., Guelph, ON
Citing phenomena as disparate yet connected as reality TV, Facebook,
surveillance cameras, and Twitter, writer and culture commentator Hal
Niedzviecki suggests that a well-established fascination with celebrities is gradually shifting toward a growing obsession with watching ourselves and our neighbors. As pop culture morphs into peep culture, what are the implications for individuals and communities? Niedzviecki will also address and take questions on how the rise of Peep Culture is effecting the business sector.
This is a free event open to all. For advance admission, you can reserve your ticket online at http://guestlistapp.com/events/4791
Organized and sponsored by ODScore
2009,
19:36 GMT
Extras Needed for Tomorrow
Posted by: Hal
Wanna be in the movie? We’re looking for some volunteers to come over to my place tomorrow (Wed.) and watch me eat a sandwich. It’ll be a scene in Peep Culture, the documentary in production to air on CBC TV. If you’re interested and are free tomorrow from 11 to 1 (lunch will be provided) please email Marissa at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and let her know you want to come! She’ll hook you up with the details. I live in the Ossington/Queen area of downtown Toronto.
2009,
15:47 GMT
Peep Show is Tonight - in Person and Online
Posted by: Hal
Hi everyone. The interactive International Festival of Authors party “Peep Show” is tonight. I will be your host for this weird and wacky and, with your help, wonderful, event. Doors open at 9:30 at the Brigantine Room. If you don’t already have a ticket, you can get one at the door. So I hope to see as many of you as possible tonight.
But if for some sad sad reason you can’t make it out, we will also be live broadcasting the event online starting at 10pm est. If you want to watch and participate from a cyber-distance, you can also tweet about what you are seeing and have those tweets be shown live as they come in on our big screen at the show. Just make sure you hashtag your tweet by typing #IFOAPEEP
So see ya tonight! And make sure that iPhone is all charged up and ready to go. Hal.
2009,
16:21 GMT
Help Us Kill CanLit Tonight
Posted by: Hal
Tonight we kill CanLit. It’s the launch of Can’tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine. http://ping.fm/TvpSW
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Hey, I’m Hal Niedzviecki. I’m a writer/thinker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife and daughter. Up till now I’ve always considered myself a private person. But at the same time I’m fascinated by people who effortlessly open themselves up to the whole world. So I’ve… more...
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