Sunday, December 4, 2011
4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Renaissance Event Venue
285 Queen Street
(corner of Barrie & Queen Streets)
Kingston, ON
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Fair Favourite: Vincent Perez
Vincent Perez is the proprietor and pressman over at the Everlovin’ Press. Check out his top pick for this year’s fair:
Jeff Woodrow of Joy T-Shirts:
Full disclosure: I’ve known Jeff since we attended art school together about a decade ago. Jeff’s curiosity about the inner lives of strangers and his experiments in encouraging empathy were active even back then, so when I ran into him again a couple of years ago, it made buckets of sense that he’d founded the Joy T-shirt project.
For those who haven’t come across Jeff and his tees (and he’s had some pretty great hype behind these things - Stuart McLean of The Vinyl Cafe has been downright effusive about them), this is how they work: “Every face on a Joy T- Shirt has been inspired by a real person. When you wear your shirt you are encouraged to think about that person and how your everyday actions can affect others and the world we live in.
After you purchase a shirt you may then [provide] a photo of your own visage … to have your face drawn by hand and worn on the hearts of others.”
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I proudly wear the portrait of a smiling girl from Taiwan named Irene and, as Jeff hoped, sometimes I think about her. I wonder if she senses it? But a better question is: How many graphic tees can claim to psychically unite the world?
