THE DECEMBER SHOW: Big in Afghanistan! December 14, 2006

THE DECEMBER SHOW: Big in Afghanistan!
a fun, poetic, ghoulish, plotless little rock show that flies like the Bob Hope Show in reverse

Songs by RYAN KAMSTRA

Theatrical stage show constructed by MARGAUX WILLIAMSON
Performed by RYAN KAMSTRA with TOMBOYFRIEND and “the army”

December 14 2006 @ BUDDIES AND BAD TIMES Theatre

*The Fantastic music and mind of ULYSSES CASTELLANOS opens

Doors at 9:00 PM



TOMBOYFRIEND is MARLENA ZUBER, KARILYNN MING HO, SUSAN BUSTOS, RYAN KAMSTRA and LINDSAY FISHER





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In November 2004, Ryan Kamstra (poet and performer) and Margaux Williamson (painter and video artist) along with 13 other local musicians and artists, decided that maybe the best thing they could do to stop a war well on its way to not stopping was to perform an entertaining, poetic, ghoulish, plotless little rock and roll stage show to 50 of their friends. The result was "The November Show; I want an army" held at Toronto's quietest goth bar on Queen West West.

But things have changed, and that quiet Goth bar is now for married couples to make out in. But since other things don't change, and since at least 18 people demanded more, Williamson, Kamstra, Tomboyfriend and the army have returned with "The December Show: Big if Afghanistan", a one-night reprise of the original
performance. This time held at Buddies and Bad Times, Thurs, Dec 14 2006.



The show’s title plays on the fact that Williamson/ Kamstra’s 2006 YouTube performance video for "The End of Poverty; Take 5" had as its first-ever subscriber a 21 year old from Afghanistan. (we refuse to verify this).



Billed like the first show as "The Bob Hope Show in Reverse," the two long-time collaborators will now demonstrate for Toronto's curio-seekers, wonder-hungered, politically beleaguered and ideologically ambivalent why their own particular vaudevillian creature is Big in Afghanistan.
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LINKS
To Songs - - - - - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=111227784



Ryan Kamstra - - - - - www.ryankamstra.com



Margaux Williamson - - - - - www.margauxwilliamson.com



Ulysses Castellanos - - - - - www.ulyssesdadabase.com/



Performance video - - - - -“End of Poverty, take 5” - Performance at the Katharine Mulherin gallery during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche - - - - - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlae82Yz_xY



Press for Tomboyfriend performance at Wavelength music series - - - - -www.zoilus.com/documents//2006/000917.php