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Norman Nawrocki
Norman Nawrocki at Chaotic Insurrection Congress
Norman Nawrocki at Chaotic Insurrection Congress
Background information
Origin Vancouver, Canada
Genre(s) Cabaret, punk rock, post rock, spoken word, Klezmer
Occupation(s) Comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, songwriter, author, actor, producer and composer
Instrument(s) Violin, vocals, viola, cello, tsymbaly, piano, accordion, concertina, percussion
Years active 1985 - present
Label(s) Les Pages Noires
Associated acts Rhythm Activism, Bagg Street Klezmer Band, The Flaming Perogies, Bakunin's Bum, DaZoque!, The Montreal Manhattan Project, Bush's Bum, SANN
Website Les Pages Noires

Norman Nawrocki (born Vancouver, British Columbia), is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, author, actor, producer and composer. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring Comedy, Song, Dance, and Theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue &mdash a Restaurant Post-rock is a genre of Alternative rock characterized by the use of Musical instruments commonly associated with Rock music, but using Rhythms Spoken word is a form of literary Art or artistic performance in which Lyrics, Poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung See also Secular Jewish music Klezmer (from Yiddish כּלי־זמיר kley - instrument and zemer - song etymologically from A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience primarily by making them laugh Sex education is a broad term used to describe Education about human sexual anatomy, Sexual reproduction, Sexual intercourse, Reproductive A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with Speech. The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family, The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ The tsymbaly (цимбали is the Ukrainian version of the Hammer dulcimer. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox A concertina is a free-reed Musical instrument, like the various Accordions and the Harmonica. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Rhythm Activism was a Canadian musical collective revolving around the core duo of Sylvain Côté and Norman Nawrocki. Bakunin's Bum, named after the Anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, is a musical collaboration between Norman Nawrocki and Godspeed You! Black Emperor Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Sex education is a broad term used to describe Education about human sexual anatomy, Sexual reproduction, Sexual intercourse, Reproductive Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring Comedy, Song, Dance, and Theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue &mdash a Restaurant [1] Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of "rock 'n roll cabaret" band Rhythm Activism. Rhythm Activism was a Canadian musical collective revolving around the core duo of Sylvain Côté and Norman Nawrocki. Nawrocki owns Les Pages Noires, through which he has published twenty albums and three books.

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Childhood

Nawrocki was born in East End of Vancouver to Polish/Ukrainian Canadian parents. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal Polish Canadians are Canadians of Polish ancestry According to the 2001 census by Statistics Canada, 817085 Canadians claim full or partial Polish ancestry A Ukrainian Canadian is a person of Ukrainian descent or origin who was born in or immigrated to Canada. Politically aware at a young age, at 14 he wrote an essay Why I am an Anarchist and started an underground newspaper at high school. The phrase underground press is most often used to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the Counterculture of the During his childhood he hated violin lessons; the instrument he would later make his craft, instead Nawrocki daydreamed of becoming a famous tennis player and loved the Ukrainian weddings his parents were invited to. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member Tennis is a sport played between two players ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles)

Journalism and activism

Nawocki’s attended Langara College and Simon Fraser University co-editing the university's newspaper The Peak. Langara College is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has more than 23000 students (full-time and part-time Simon Fraser University ( SFU) is a public university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby and satellite campuses in The Peak is the independent Student newspaper at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, a suburb Bored with study he dropped out to edit a radical neighbourhood newspaper before going on to edit an international anarchist newsjournal, The Open Road and freelance for The Georgia Straight. The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly News and Entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver At around the same time while working various part-time jobs Nawrocki involved himself with labour union organizing and was arrested for aiding striking immigrant workers and given a suspended sentence. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming A suspended sentence is a legal construct Unless a minimum punishment is prescribed by law the Court has the power to suspend the passing of sentence (generally

Rhythm Activism

In 1981 Nawrocki left Vancouver for employment in Montreal within the public relations industry. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Public relations (PR is the practice of managing the flow of Information between an Organization and its Publics Public relations - often referred After a drunken night in 1985 he realized would like to be a cabaret artist and after meeting improv guitarist Sylvain Coté at a poetry reading formed poetry/music ensemble Rhythm Activism. Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring Comedy, Song, Dance, and Theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue &mdash a Restaurant Rhythm Activism was a Canadian musical collective revolving around the core duo of Sylvain Côté and Norman Nawrocki. The duo released DIY recorded cassettes and tour Canada. In 1987 they join infamous Black Wedge Tour with other indie artists, then go on their first of many tours of Europe. In Popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous

1988 saw Nawrocki take up the violin again and Rhythm Activism become a full-fledged, “theatrical rock 'n roll cabaret/rebel news orchestra” with topical high-energy shows including a tour of Poland: Welcome to Capitalism, Poland! Back in Canada, Rhythm Activism played shows in support of welfare & tenants rights, protested the 1991 Gulf War and supported the Mohawks at Oka. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Mohawk ( Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint" are an indigenous people of North America The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between the Mohawk nation and the town of Oka Quebec which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted Nawrocki wrote about his experiences in Rhythm Activism in Rhythm Activism live. Rhythm Activism joined the cause to support the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 with the release of Blood and Mud and were personally thanked by Subcomandante Marcos. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation ( Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed Revolutionary group based in Chiapas Subcomandante Marcos, also known as Delegado Cero in matters concerning the Other Campaign, describes himself as the spokesman for the Mexican rebel Rhythm Activism’s European tours continued and were chronicled in 2003 in The anarchist & the devil do cabaret (translated into French in L'anarchiste et le diable : voyages, cabarets et autres récits (2007)). In 1998 Rhythm Activism’s final album Jesus Was Gay was recorded and released through G7 Welcoming Committee Records. G7 Welcoming Committee Records is a Canadian Independent record label started by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky of Propagandhi, and their friend Regal

Sex education

Norman Nawrocki's I dont understand women
Norman Nawrocki's I dont understand women

I don’t understand women! (1993) was the first of Nawrocki’s anti-sexist, sex positive, comedy cabarets on the topics of date rape, sexual harassment and violence against women. The sex-positive movement is a loosely defined term that applies to a wide variety of elements that embrace social and philosophical attitudes promoting open sexuality with few limits See also Types of rape The term "date rape" refers to the non-consensual Sexual activity between people who are known to each other either platonically Violence against women is a technical term used to collectively refer to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. With a soundtrack, costumes, masks and giant props Nawrocki played fourteen characters and toured college and university campuses throughout North America. My dick and other manly tales (on homophobia) was Nawrocki’s second anti-sexist, sex comedy cabaret, and saw Nawrocki in costume as an 8 foot tall purple talking & dancing penis; receiving rave reviews, bomb and death threats. BenPhelpsJPG|thumb|right|Westboro Baptist Church picket signs with Ben Phelps grandson of Fred Phelps ‘Sex Toys’ his third show saw again the use of oversized costumes including a 7 foot vagina and singing butt-plug. Over 250,000 people attended the three sex shows.

Campaigns against poverty in Canada

Nawrocki continued to work with G7 Welcoming Committee releasing a benefit CD Fight to Win! (2001) for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OPAC) under the moniker Bakunin's Bum with percussionist Aidan Girt. Poverty in Canada remains prevalent with some segments of society The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty ( OCAP) is a federation of activists in Ontario, Canada, who promote the interests of the poor and Homeless Bakunin's Bum, named after the Anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, is a musical collaboration between Norman Nawrocki and Godspeed You! Black Emperor Aidan Girt (born July 18) is a Canadian Drummer for the Montreal -based Post-rock collectives Godspeed You! Black Emperor

In 2002 CBC Radio’s Montreal Matters commissioned Nawrocki to write a series of six short plays Don’t Call Me Bob ; relating the life of a payphone in one of Montreal's poorer neighbourhoods Côte-des-Neiges. CBC Radio is the Radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Côte-des-Neiges is a Neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located on the west side of Mount Royal.

Experimental musical projects

Instrumental project DaZoque! was formed in 2002 and saw Nawrocki record East European compositions with Minda Bernstein, whom he had performed with in Montreal’s Bagg Street Klezmer Band. Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. DaZoque toured Canada and played at festivals including the Guelph Jazz Festival and at the 50th anniversary of the St. Vladimir Institute in Toronto. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario In 2004 DaZoque! received a Canada Council grant to create a French musical about housing rights in collaboration with the People's Rights over Urban Development. The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an Arts council of

The Montreal Manhattan Project a jazz project is formed in 2004 with a self-titled album released and SANN, saw Chapman Stick bassist Sylvain Auclair and Nawrocki pair in 2005 with a limited edition self-titled album. The Chapman Stick is an electric Musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s

Solo material and spoken word tours

In 2004 Nawrocki wrote, recorded and released his first solo album Duck Work with the continued spoken word exploration of anti-war topics put to looped violins and warm percussion. The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. Nawrocki’s spoken word tours continued throughout 2004 and 2005, firstly writing a show based on the life of Mohamed Harkat, an Algerian and one of Canada's Secret Trial Five and secondly adapting letters from The anarchist & the devil do cabaret to CD with musical accompaniment on Letters from Poland/Lettres de Pologne released in 2006. Spoken word is a form of literary Art or artistic performance in which Lyrics, Poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung Born in Algeria, Mohamed Harkat (محمد حركات has drawn Canadian media attention as being one of several Muslim-Canadians alleged to have ties to terrorism Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's

Teaching and acting

By the end of 2005 Nawrocki was teaching a course at Concordia University's School of Community & Public Affairs on The Arts, Radical Social Change and Community Economic Development. Concordia University is a comprehensive Public university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As well as starring in Uncle Eddie's guide to art appreciation, by Donald Goodes. [2]

Bibliography

Discography

Bakunin's Bum

Bush's Bum

DaZoque!

The Montreal Manhattan Project

Draft 1. AK Press is a collectively owned and operated independent Publisher and book distributor that specialises in Alternative Tentacles is an Independent record label based in San Francisco California and was established in 1979. Bakunin's Bum, named after the Anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, is a musical collaboration between Norman Nawrocki and Godspeed You! Black Emperor G7 Welcoming Committee Records is a Canadian Independent record label started by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky of Propagandhi, and their friend Regal 0 (2004) LPN017C (Les Pages Noires)

Rhythm Activism

SANN : Sylvain Auclair & Norman Nawrocki

Videography

Rhythm Activism

References

  1. ^ Norman Nawrocki Les Pages Noires Accessed 15 October 2006
  2. ^ Norman Nawrocki's biography Les Pages Noires Accessed 15 May 2007
  3. ^ Welcome to Rebel Music Quebec Rebel Music Quebec Accessed 11 May 2007

External links

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