6 Oct, 19h/7pm, lancement du livre/book launch! + live show!

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06 Octobre 2016

> Lancement de livre / spectacle multi-media et musique !
> Book launch / multi-media show & music! Gratuit / Free! (English below)
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> L'écrivain, musicien et artiste chevronné montréalais Norman Nawrocki lancera son 14iéme et tout nouveau livre de fiction, The Legend of the Rat King (Les Pages Noires, Mtl.), jeudi le 6 oct, 19h, à la Casa del Popolo, 4873 boul St-Laurent. Admission gratuite.
> Nawrocki jouera de son violon échantillonné lors du lancement alors que le spectacle multi-media mettra en vedette l'artiste serbien Ivan Radencovic. Radencovic a aussi collaboré au livre de Nawrocki en faisant plusieurs images profondes et puissantes, notamment sur la page couverture du livre (en bas). Il y aura en plus une projection d’extraits historiques de la performance de 1990 du 'urban gothic rock opera' par Nawrocki et son band d'époque Rhythm Activism. Le livre raconte l'histoire post mortem d’un prisonnier du Texas Death Row après son exécution.
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> www.facebook.com/The-Legend-of-the-Rat-King-149224418858684/?fref=ts
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> Montreal's veteran big mouth author, musician, actor, Norman Nawrocki, launches his 14th & newest book of fiction, The Legend of the Rat King (Les Pages Noires, Mtl), Thurs Oct 6, Casa del Popolo, 7pm, with a free multi-media show & music.
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> Nawrocki will play his sampled/looped violin for a musical story-telling, and the Serbian / Montreal artist, Ivan Radencovic who illustrated the book with a series of powerful and beautiful drawings, will present his other artwork. There will also be historic video clips from Nawrocki's 1990 performance of this 'urban gothic rock opera' with his legendary band Rhythm Activism. In a series of short fiction pieces the book tells the tale of a Texas prisoner on Death Row, post execution. He meets the Angels of Death, the Devil, then others when he's given a second chance to live. It's a story of hope, compassion & human solidarity.
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> 72 pages, illustrated, 8.5" x 5.5" ISBN 978-2-9805763-8-6 $15 (special launch price: $10)

Norman Nawrocki
http://www.nothingness.org/music/rhythm
www.cazzarola.ca