4TheRcrd Mag.

Breakfast for Anarchists is Norman Nawrocki’s newest collection of rebel verse, fantasy, rant, short fiction and anarcho-agit-prop recipes. It is, however, best fitting for you to come up with your own description after you’ve read it yourself. It contains over 30 stirring, provocative capsules of Nawrocki’s trademark wit, passionate rage, love, and reflection. It also includes original artwork & photos by several North American artists including Vancouver’s own David Lester. But, you ask, just who is this Norman character anyways? Well, here’s where the Vancouverite gossip begins. It all starts with a book, its launch, and a lad named Norman.

Norman Nawrocki is an internationally acclaimed, Vancouver-born, Montreal-grown cabaret artist, musician, author, educator and actor. He has several books and over 50 albums (solo & with his bands Rhythm Activism, Bakunin’s Bum, DaZoque!, The Flaming Perogies, The Montreal Manhattan Project, etc.). His last CD: ‘Letters from Poland / Lettres de pologne.’ His last book: ‘The Anarchist & The Devil Do Cabaret’ (Black Rose Books) has now been translated and published in French and Italian. So, you could say, this lad is pretty prolific. I will continue…

By all accounts he’s a spectacular man. He teaches part-time at Concordia University and tours Canada playing music, giving workshops about ‘Creative Resistance’ (how to use the arts for radical social change) and performing funny shows about sex (like ‘Lessons from a 7ft Penis’). Read on for more….

WHAT: Book launch
WHERE: Spartacus Books, 311 W Hastings St., Vancouver
WHEN: Thursday, Sept 20, 2007
WHY: Read above.

Go to this Launch, “Breakfast for Anarchists” is in bookstores now. Just 80 pages, $12, or from Les Pages Noires Distribution, on-line,
http://www.nothingness.org/music/rhythm

PHOTO CREDIT: Rob Maguire’s photostream