Briarpatch Announcements

“If human equality is to be forever averted, then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
George Orwell

Briarpatch Magazine and On Edge ‘Zine (and their sibling editors) are collaborating to produce a dynamic September/October issue of Briarpatch focused on mental health.

As the global and national political picture continues to worsen, depression and other mental illness diagnoses and psycho-pharmaceutical prescription rates are at record levels.

Coincidence? We think not!

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“All over the world, autocratic-minded rulers [...] have learned that de facto control of the political content of television is perhaps the most important lever of power in our day. They have learned that it does not matter politically if 15 or even 25 percent of the public is well informed as long as the majority remains in the dark. The problem has not been censorship but something very nearly censorship’s opposite: the deafening noise of the official megaphone and its echoes—not the suppression of truth, still spoken and heard in a narrow circle, but a profusion of lies and half-lies; not too little speech but too much. If you whisper something to your friend in the front row of a rock concert, you have not been censored, but neither will you be heard.”Jonathan Schell, The Nation, August 14, 2006

Media concentration. The manufacture of consent. Canadian content. CBC cutbacks. Shock-jock talk radio. The blogosphere. Embedded reporting. The indymedia movement. The recent folding of Clamour, LiP, and the Independent Press Association south of the border….

Briarpatch Magazine invites submissions on the above and much more for its June/July “focus on the media” issue. Read the rest of this entry »

Come out and help us launch the “Briarpatch does gender” issue in style at the Infringement Cabaret this friday!

Oooh la la…

(Please forward to interested parties.)

Burlesque! Commedia dell’Arte! Hoola Hoops! Sketch Comedy! And More!

Artistree Productions is pleased to present:
‘The Infringement Cabaret: Twisted Love’

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Check out the third installment of Briarpatch’s occasional podcast, The Dispatch.

Note to techie allies: you can link to the dispatch on your own site by swiping the source code for the following image/link:

Briarpatch magazine invites contributions to our March/April 2007 issue focusing on the politics of gender. We are looking for feature articles, op-eds, investigative reports, news briefs, interviews, profiles, reviews, poetry, and artwork that explore how gender intersects with other social issues and affects the lives of individuals and of society.

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Get your ya-yas out at the Briarpatch karaoke party!

Wed. November 1, 2006
at the Exchange
2431 8th Ave., Regina
$5 cover after 8 pm

Prizes for best performance,
silent auction,
special guest appearances,
all proceeds to support Briarpatch Magazine.

This event is being held in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour convention.

Job Title: Publisher
Publication: Briarpatch Magazine
Job location: Regina, Saskatchewan
Competition closes: September 22, 2006

Briarpatch Magazine invites applications for the full-time position of Publisher. Based in the Regina office, the Publisher works collaboratively with the Managing Editor and reports directly to a volunteer board of directors.

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Help Briarpatch tackle tourism

It is with great sadness and a keen sense of loss that Briarpatch marks the passing of board member and long-time supporter Patsy Gallagher.

Activist served as role model

Will Chabun
The Leader-Post (Regina)
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Patsy Gallagher’s voice still rings in the ears of her old pal, Barb Byers: “Barbara! We’ve got to do this!”

And what Gallagher was usually doing was working for a better deal for the workers and women of Canada in general, and Saskatchewan in particular.

Sadly, the veteran labour and social activist died Monday.

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Art at Work

Work in the hustle and bustle of the now is central to the human experience, yet rarely do we sit back and think about how work has come to define our being. In an attempt to explore this notion we are challenging experienced and beginner poets to submit poetry that captures their worklife experiences. We