I WANT TO GO TO AFRICA
and Other Tales of High Adventure
a celebration of travel, cultural confusion & identity

Featuring: k-os, No Dynamics, Robert Munsch, Knock Knock. Who’s There? Comedy.
Velcrow Ripper, Sook-Yin Lee and more!

This year I traveled to Senegal and the Gambia on a journey that was beautiful, frightening and inspiring. I took photos and gathered field recordings. From that came the idea of I WANT TO GO TO AFRICA and Other Tales of High Adventure.
The money raised from the sales of the photos will go to the villages of the people who graciously allowed me to photograph them. Proceeds from the event will go to grassroots Senegal NGOs Solutions Direct and KEO.

From Dec. 13-17, I’ve invited my favourite creators to contribute their ideas on travel, cultural confusion and identity—a wildly diverse group of people including beloved kids author Robert Munsch, k-os, punk insurgents No Dynamics, filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, performance artist Mariko Tamaki and my friend’s
Dad, Mr. Comilang who’s a Filipino Elvis impersonator.

My dream is to create an explosive art happenin’ that upturns cultural assumptions—a utopian arts environment that encourages debate, entertains, and gets people going, where we can think, drink, and dance. It’s pretty much a wing-ding-ethno-freak-fabulous festival with a social conscience—a big beautiful
mess.

In the mad rush of the consumer-Christmas season, I WANT TO GO TO AFRICA and Other Tales of High Adventure is an opportunity to explore another world view. It’s gonna be good!

xox!
Sook-Yin Lee

ITINERARY:

ART OPENING Tues. Dec. 13 (Free)
I WANT TO GO TO AFRICA
photos, field recordings and stories by Sook-Yin Lee
A love letter written in Senegal and the Gambia.

Music by Gambian djembe drummer Saikou, Palestinian noise explorer John Kameel Farah on laptop/keys and SYL on vocals. Selector: A Man Called Warwick

Other Tales of High Adventure

FILM NIGHT Wed. Dec. 14 (directors in attendance!)

John Price: Making Pictures
Richard Fung: Sea in the Blood
Andrea Dorfman: There’s A Flower in My Pedal
Marney Isaac & Julius Hagan: Ribbon
Charles Officer: Short Hymn, Silent War
DJ General Eclectic

STORY TELLING Thurs. Dec.15

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Comedy.
Andrea Dorfman
Mariko Tamaki & Lisa Ayuso
Velcrow Ripper
RM Vaughan
Robert Munsch
SYL
Nick Purdon
Musical Guest: Gentleman Reg
DJ General Eclectic

SPECTACLE SPECTACULAR Fri. Dec. 16

Filipino Elvis
Lydia Klenck’s Fêtards Sauvages
Vanité Vanité: Lady Fag, A Love Story
John Caffery
Saikou, John Kameel Farah & Sook-Yin Lee
No Dynamics
DJ Will Munro

MUSIC Sat. Dec. 17

Laydeez Quire: Christine Duncan, Naila Keleta Mae, Nirmala Basnayake,
Elisha Lim,
Bob Wiseman, Kristin Moss Theriault, Sook-Yin Lee

Shawn Hewitt & the National Strike
k-os
Selector: A Man Called Warwick

Doors open FOR ALL SHOWS@ 7:30 and begins 8PM SHARP! (over by midnite).

XPACE 303 Augusta Ave. 416.849.2864
$20 for a week pass $5-7 per night
Tix available at XPACE, Soundscapes & Rotate This!
(photo exhibit runs daily Dec. 13-23 at XPACE)
www.xpace.info

For more info contact:
Tania Natscheff
tel: 416.205.5733
pagan123@gmail.com

Sook-Yin Lee
tel: 416.205.5510
notdougholmes@yahoo.ca