Jared Paul and friends are back in town for a night of punk rock, hip hop, and getting smart.

Featuring:

BUILDING BETTER BOMBS – http://www.myspace.com/buildingbetterbombs

Prayers for Atheists – http://www.myspace.com/prayersforatheists

Jared Paul – http://www.myspace.com/jaredpaul

Les Gavels – http://www.myspace.com/lesgavels

Plus local spoken word artists & activist groups presenting throughout the night!

@ 7th St. Entry, downtown Minneapolis

Tickets & Info: http://www.first-avenue.com/event/2010/07/substance-presents-building-better-bombs-or-marijuana-death-squad

facebook event here

$7 | Doors: 8pm | 18+

Saturday, May 1st – Exhibit opens at 7PM, Music @ 9pm

Featuring:   Kill The Vultures,  Bouncer Fighter,  Phantom Tails,   and live art

@ Tarnish&Gold
1511 Marshall St. NE
Minneapolis, MN

$7 cover, $5 if you bike!

Come vote on what art submissions are best setup to take on the destructive practices of General Mills and Cargill.  Vote on your favorite piece during the event, the winning art work will be used by Rainforest Action Network’s campaign locally and potentially nationally, posted at a prominent public location in the Twin Cities.

We are still accepting submissions, up until May 1st.  To submit, please send an e-mail to ranart@livewithsubstance.org.  call 763.213.2192 with questions.

More info HERE

Check out the full article on RAN’s youth blog, RYSE, here.

Call for Artists

Deadline: Wednesday, April 28, 2010

RAN • ART – Take Action Against Destructive Agribusiness

Tarnish&Gold Gallery – NE Minneapolis

To submit, please send an e-mail to ranart@livewithsubstance.org

with the following information:

Name of Artist
E-mail
Title (if any)
Dimensions (inches x inches)
Medium(s)
Phone number (optional)

Once we receive your e-mail, we will coordinate uploading the file and transportation of the piece.

More information on the contest and exhibition below:

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For a quarter century, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has aggressively confronted multinational corporations over their destructive practices, exposing their disregard for human rights and the natural systems that sustain life.  Today, RAN takes on big agribusiness corporations to address their responsibility for the vast tropical deforestation undertaken to maximize the production of palm oil, used in 50% of all consumer goods.  New plantations decimate over 2.5 million acres of Indonesian rainforests every year, threatening hundreds of indigenous cultures and releasing a tremendous amount of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.

As part of RAN Rainforest Agribusiness campaign action in Minnesota, RAN is sponsoring an art contest and exhibition culminating in the selection of one image to be used in a billboard or public installation that increases public awareness of General Mills‘ use of socially and environmentally unsustainable palm oil sources.

Artists, illustrators, and designers are encouraged to explore the question, “What is the problem with palm oil?” as it pertains to the negative effects of big agribusiness, especially from Twin Cities giants Cargill Incorporated and General Mills.  All submissions are welcome, keeping in mind RAN’s past campaigns have embraced powerful images, satire, and spoofs of all sorts. The winning concept will put a clever spin on General Mills’ marketing and well-known brand images (such as Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Pillbury, and Hamburger Helper) to make the point.

Other winners will receive awards in the form of cinema tickets and gift certificates to local businesses.

Exhibited work will be for sale at the artists’ discretion, with a modest commission benefitting the gallery and Rainforest Action Network.

The deadline for submission of artwork is April 28.  This contest is open to all artists.  All static, two dimensional art is acceptable, including photography.  Digitally produced work must be vector or created at minimum 600dpi if it to be considered for reproduction on a large scale.

Submit digital images of your work here at http://livewithsubstance.org/ranart

Tarnish&Gold Gallery in northeast Minneapolis hosts the exhibition reception May 1.  Accepted work, originals or prints, must be ready to hang upon drop off.  Through popular vote and an ultimate decision by jury, one piece in the exhibition will be featured by RAN in coordination with campaign action.  This promises to generate considerable exposure for the artist and contribute to a vital campaign against destructive agribusiness.

Direct any questions to ranart@livewithsubstance.org or call Nolan Morice at 763-913-2192.

Rainforest Action Network:  http://ran.org/

The Problem with Palm Oil:  http://theproblemwithpalmoil.org

TARNISH&GOLD:  http://www.tarnishandgold.org

Connect on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=326541619076

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Update! Details on the May 1st Exhibition!

Saturday, May 1st

Tarnish&Gold Gallery
1511 Marshall St. NE
Minneapolis, MN

Featuring live music from:

Kill The Vultures
Bouncer Fighter
Phantom Tails

Doors/Voting Begins @ 7:00 PM
Music begins @ 9:00 PM

$7 cover, $5 if you bike!

For directions, please click here.

From Vices to Verses: A New Era of Hip Hop and Action
Three-day conference at the University of Minnesota to highlight the transformative power of hip hop.

Substance will be facilitating a workshop on April 10th with Guante of Tru Ruts, as well as hosting the V2V show on April 10th (more info below).

V2V show featuring Dead Prez, April 10th at the Cabooze – presented by Substance, sponsored by Voices Merging.

more info below and at www.vicestoverses.com

Vices 2 Verses Hip Hop Show

Concert to accompany V2V Conference

Saturday, April 10^th, 2010

Dead Prez

Toki Wright, Maria Isa

Sabreena da Witch

Guante and Tru Ruts crew, Ill Chemistry

PosNoSys, B Boy Battle, DJ Mix.Well, live art

@ The Cabooze – 917 Cedar Ave S – West Bank – Minneapolis, MN

Sponsored by Substance, The Current, and Voices Merging @ the U of M

www.vicestoverses.com

Conference Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2010

From Vices to Verses: A New Era of Hip Hop and Action
Three-day conference at the University of Minnesota to highlight the transformative power of hip hop.

From April 9 to April 11, the University of Minnesota will be hosting “From Vices to Verses” a conference featuring workshops, performances, discussions and educational events centered on how hip hop pedagogy, activism and culture can educate, empower and transform communities.

Organized by Voices Merging at the U of MN, along with University and community partners, the conference will focus on three central themes:

· April 9: “I Used to Love H.E.R.: Bring Back the Love,” exploring hip hop feminism and women’s roles—past, present and future—in the culture.  Keynote speaker: hip hop activist and former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Rosa Clemente.
· April 10: “Remixing Borders, Transcending Boundaries,” focusing on using hip hop as a tool to create unity and move beyond generational, national and cultural boundaries.  Keynote speaker: hip hop activist and author Bakari Kitwana.
· April 11: “Us,” focusing on hip hop’s power to heal and transform individuals and communities through organizing, activism and youth engagement.  Keynote speaker: educator and multidisciplinary artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Other presenters include filmmaker Rachel Ramist, Chaka Mkali of the Hope Community Center, Sage Morgan Hubbard of Northwestern University, Ruth Nicole Brown of the University of Illinois, poet and activist Tish Jones, rapper/poet/writer Kyle “Guante” Myhre, photographer B-Fresh and many more.

On Saturday, April 10, noted Twin Cities performers Toki Wright, Maria Isa, PosNoSys, Ill Chemistry, the Tru Ruts crew and others will take over the Cabooze for a special concert.  More details TBA.

Registration for the conference is free.  For updates, see http://vicestoverses.blogspot.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Moira Pirsch        |        vicestoverses@gmail.com |        608.772.2597

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Concert Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2010

Vices 2 Verses Hip Hop Show

Concert to accompany V2V Conference

Saturday, April 10^th, 2010

Dead Prez

Toki Wright, Maria Isa

Sabreena da Witch

Guante and Tru Ruts crew, Ill Chemistry

PosNoSys, B Boy Battle, DJ Mix.Well, live art

@ The Cabooze – 917 Cedar Ave S – West Bank – Minneapolis, MN

Sponsored by Substance, The Current, and Voices Merging @ the U of M

www.vicestoverses.com

Vices to Verses Hip-Hop Show A concert celebrating the transformative power of hip-hop, put on by local organizers, starring local acts, and benefitting the international community.

On April 10^th, The Cabooze will be hosting “Vices to Verses Hip-Hop Show” a concert to supplement a conference at the U of M celebrating the ways hip-hop pedagogy, activism and culture can educate, empower and transform communities.

Organized by Voices Merging and the Cypher Coalition, U of MN student groups, along with Substance (www.livewithsubstance.org), and University and community partners, the concert will supplement the From Vices to Verses conference (April 9^th-11^th, @ the U of M) by stepping off of theory and engaging in the scene that motivated the conference to occur originally.

National and well known political hip hop group Dead Prez will headline supported by a line-up of strong local artists including Toki Wright and Maria Isa.  Other performers include PosNoSys, Ill Chemistry, and the Tru Ruts crew will take over the Cabooze for this special concert.  The show will involved other elements of the hip hop community through a B-Boy dance battle starting at 9pm,  live art both on and off stage, canvas and aerosol, as well as spoken word performances by Voices Merging members.

Tickets are $15 at the door, $10 for students and conference attendees (a non-profit event).

• · Dead Prez is an American underground political hip hop duo composed of stic.man and M-1. They are known for their confrontational style combined with socialist and pan-Africanist lyrics.  The duo came together in Brooklin, New York and released their debut album in 2000 – Let’s Get Free, which featured a major hit with the song “Hip Hop”.  Dead Prez’s last performance in the Twin Cities was coordinated by Substance as well, during the Republican National Convention, September 2^nd, 2008 (www.livewithsubstance.org/category/ripple-effect).
  · Toki Wright – The first artist in the Rhymesayers Spotlight Series is none other than Toki Wright. Most known as opening act and hype man for Brother Ali, Toki is not only a well established emcee but one of the hardest working community activists in the Twin Cities area. In addition, Toki Wright has received numerous accolades and has a tour history that has taken him from New York to Uganda.

For updates, see www.vicestoverses.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Moira Pirsch        |        vicestoverses@gmail.com |        608.772.2597               |               for conference info

Jim Forrey             |               jim@livewithsubstance.org |               303.910.5111       |               for show info

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]]> http://www.livewithsubstance.org/2010/02/from-vices-to-verses-hip-hop-conference-u-of-m-this-april/feed/ 1 http://www.livewithsubstance.org/2009/06/people-are-pissed-about-tar-sands-mining-watch-out/ http://www.livewithsubstance.org/2009/06/people-are-pissed-about-tar-sands-mining-watch-out/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:57:15 +0000 jim http://www.livewithsubstance.org/?p=237 We are three shows into the Tar Sands Resistance Tour and it is going great.  People in Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago are pissed about the “most destructive project on earth”.  Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere have been amazing to us and are making this opportunity to mobilize so many people happen.  It is great to work with a couple bands that stand behind what they preach.

We will be posting videos and pictures as we go, so check back.  Please send us any footage you have from any of these shows.  Post it on here and/or send it to info@livewithsubstance.org.

Thank you to Rainforest Action Network and everyone that has supported us so far.  Be sure to take action at RAN’s website.  Contact us for more direct involvement – info@livewithsubstance.org.

Here we come Detroit!

Jim – Substance

We’d also like to give a special thanks to Tom Reed from Honor the Earth for partnering locally and for his informative speech.

Keep checking back for reviews, pictures, and video interviews with Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere, and fans from various shows.

For all you internet socialites out there, help spread this like wildfire!

Click banner to check out the official campaign page!

Check back for our soon to be released video series from the tour, and/or click here to sign-up for updates so you don’t miss a thing (less than monthly updates)!

“The most destructive project on Earth…” - Rainforest Action Network

On June 16, Substance is hitting the road with Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere and Rainforest Action Network for 10 days of education, outreach and action against oil sands mining and pipeline development. The “Freedom From Oil – Tar Sands Resistance Tour” will begin in Minneapolis, MN and wind all the way to Toronto, ON.

The tour will bring this regionally significant issue to the forefront of the punk rock community, which has a history of standing up for the interests of the people and against corporate influence in politics.

Substance will be working to educate Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere fans about the impacts of tar sand mining on the environment and indiginous communities, bring energy to the great campaigns of RAN and other organizations, as well as creating a You Tube series from the tour, demonstrating the power of music to affect change.  Come back in July to see the videos from the Tar Sands Resistance Tour!

To fully execute this campaign, Substance and Rainforest Action Network need to raise $2,000 by June 26.

Please support this effort by helping us reach our goal.

For more information on oil sand mining – visit Rainforest Action Network’s tar sands page

Tar Sands Resistance Tour Dates:

6/16/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere, Banner Pilot in Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock – 5pm (all ages)

6/17/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall

6/18/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge

6/19/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Detroit, MI – Magic Stick

6/20/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in London, ON CA

6/22/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Montreal, QC – Club Soda

6/23/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Quebec City, QC – L’Anti

6/24/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Ottawa, ON – Ritual

6/25/09 and 6/26/09 Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere in Toronto, ON  – The Phoenix (two nights!)

More info about the tour at: 

www.propagandhi.com

Presented by Substance and Rainforest Action Network.  Special thanks to Global Exchange, Honor the Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, and all the bands for their support.

To join us on the road – follow this campaign page, and Substance on Twitter

Thank you from all of us at Substance and Rainforest Action Network!

photo credit – Edward Burtynsky