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MECCA NORMAL | Jean Smith & David Lester |
| 2002 | 2001
| 2000 | 1999
| 1986 | 1985
| 1979 |
David Lester CV.
David is the editor and
graphic designer at BC Bookworld, a quarterly newspaper that deals
with books published in British Columbia, Canada. David is compiling a
Mecca Normal history -- 1985 onward, including tour diary entries and reviews.
Jean Smith CV.
2007 & 2001: Jean is a two-time recipient of Canada Council for the Arts awards as a professional writer of creative fiction. 2000: Jean was awarded a British Columbia Arts Council grant to write experimental fiction.
1993-present: In 1993 David established
Get To The Point Publishing to put out Jean’s first novel.
In 1999 Smarten Up! (the record label) joined the publishing imprint
to form Smarten Up! & Get To The Point Publishing. Jean became
the editor and a book designer. Smarten Up! &
Get To The Point has published chap-books of graphics and/or poetry
by Bud Osborn, Catherine Owen, Chad Norman, David Lester, Wendy
Atkinson, Jean Smith, David Pritchett, and Norman Nawrocki. Bud Osborn’s
"Keys to Kingdoms" won The City of Vancouver Book Award.
1986-89: The Black Wedge Tours.
Jean and David organized, booked and promoted poets and musicians
from Canada, the US and England for five anti-authoritarian, feminist
tours in those same countries. In 1987, on the first Black Wedge,
Mecca Normal performed in Olympia, Washington and traded their first album for
the first beat happening album with Calvin Johnson of K Records.
1984-present: Mecca Normal
started recording in a Commercial Drive rehearsal space (Bob and Joyce’s garage)
in 1984, and released their first album on their new label Smarten Up!
Records (Vancouver) in 1986. Jean and David are committed to creating,
recording, and promoting musical, visual, and written work dealing
with poverty, housing, capitalism, women’s rights, and relationships
between men and women from an anarchist and feminist perspective.
Mecca Normal is self-managed. They typically handle the
organizing of interviews for print, radio, and TV, as well as coordinating
16 years of readings and performances in North America, Europe,
New Zealand and Australia.
Jean does the Mecca Normal album covers, and posters.
1979-1986: Graphic design and
newspaper production in Vancouver. David was at The Georgia Straight,
The West Ender, and Vancouver Magazine. Jean was at the North Shore
News, The Courier, and The West Ender (where Jean and David met
in 1981). They have both produced art and design for publishers,
theatre companies, record labels, and bands.
* Mecca Normal is available for interviews, shows, and collaborative
projects.
* Jean and David are available to do graphic design work.
* Jean is available for writing assignments -- interviews, articles.
* David’s cartoons and graphics are available for publication
use.
* Jean and David's paintings are for sale.
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