Posts Tagged Culture-Jams

Back at my alma mater

Posted by Jason in My Acting, Politics on June 2, 2010

For those who don’t know, I went to Concordia University back in the day. I was a journalism student and not much of an activist at the time. My how times have changed…sort of. You see, I still write for sites like Forget The Box and occasionally get a paying writing gig, but I’m considerably more of an activist these days.

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The Toxicity of Gold

Posted by Jason in Commentary, Imported Posts, My Acting on November 12, 2008

A little over a year ago, I was proud to take part in a culture-jam alongside the FAO, a group of jammers from Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico in front of the main CIBC branch in downtown Montreal. We were protesting

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Some culture jams

Posted by Jason in Imported Posts, My Acting, Politics on January 11, 2008

I’ve talked about some of the culture-jamming I’ve participated in here, but never posted any of the videos. Here’s a recent jam of Chartwells, the company that has monopolized food service at both Concordia and McGill universities…

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Playing with a changing script

Posted by Jason in Commentary, Imported Posts, My Acting on March 11, 2006

Other players affect any actor’s performance. When some of the players are playing by a different script, things get interesting. When their script can change at any moment, the outcome of the scene is anyone’s guess. On the morning we were set to culture-jam American Apparel, we didn’t have any clue how things would turn out.

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