Category: news
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Subvert x New Feeling
BBMC recently attended an event co-hosted by Toronto members of the new co-operatives Subvert–a cooperative working to build an online marketplace where artists and labels can sell music and merchandise directly to their supporters; and New Feeling–a co-operative offering a supportive platform where Canadian music writers and community can feel at home, and learn from…
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Statement on Kneecap Travel Ban
The BBMC stands in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people. The decision to ban Kneecap from entering the country due to their support for Palestine is a blatant attack on artistic expression and political dissent. We condemn this censorship and call for the protection of both free speech and the right to stand with oppressed…
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We Are Live in VRChat!
The BBMC has just launched our very first world in VR Chat! Odyssey in VRC is a sister sim to the Odyssey artist worlds in Second Life and NEOS VR. This world was created for us by Mr. Ree of BeeVR and features a gallery space, outdoor amphitheatre, video players, wooded trails, and a collection…
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Congratulations A^^>>>TAO<<<^^A !!
BBMC Members JE Solo and Mike Kean, along with BBMC Associate Dr. Peter Duchemin, are the winners of the 2021 World Telekinesis Competition. Operating as the team A^^>>>TAO<<<^^A, and collaborating remotely from Toronto and Hong Kong, they beat out sixteen other teams in four rounds of matches. About the World Telekinesis Competition: The World Telekinesis…
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Odyssey 2021
Odyssey artists have been working hard during 2020, and our sims continue to provide essential work and presentation space to independent artists around the world. Artists are turning to virtual spaces during these times and Odyssey has seen an increased demand for access. During November and December we have undertaken a big restructuring project and…
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Requiem for MacGrid
macGRID has closed down. BBMC and the Odyssey project have been very grateful to enjoy access to online space on macGRID, multidisciplinary simulation research network and platform — a project of MacMaster University — and are sad to see it go the way of all virtual worlds. Odyssey members enjoyed access to space on the…
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BBMC Collections release – Songs From The Hall
The BBMC have just released another board tape to our Collections page – this time from 1987. “Songs From the Hall” is a selection of tracks from an old cassette board tape of a live show that happened at the LSPU Hall. Though the original recording (the very first live to DAT recording in NL)…
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Solo to receive Stompin’ Tom ECMA
The East Coast Music Association has just announced their 2018 Honorary ECMA Awards. Congratulations to BBMC member and co-founder Liz Solo for being named a 2018 East Coast Music Award recipient. The Stompin’ Tom Award was created in honour of Canadian independent music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors to celebrate the work of pioneers on the…
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New Spaces
Happy New Year! 2018 is here and BBMC are starting off with the official opening of our new studio (the corner of Bathurst and Alcina). Stay tuned here for news about our opening partay! In the BBMC studio we are preparing for the development of a new Odyssey Space in the online world of VR…
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Make Muskrat Right
The Black Bag Media Collective are in full support of the Land Protectors and Hunger Strikers currently engaged in a fight for the lives, land and culture. Muskrat Falls – a disastrous hydroelectic power project in Labrador, Canada – is now threatening the residents of the area with Methylmercury poising and landslides. “Everything Is Leaking”…