Images Festival – This Magazine https://this.org Progressive politics, ideas & culture Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:27:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://this.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-12.28.11-PM-32x32.png Images Festival – This Magazine https://this.org 32 32 Day Two: Answer to win a pair of tickets to Toronto's Images Festival! https://this.org/2010/04/06/images-festival-giveaway-2/ Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:27:22 +0000 http://this.org/?p=4346 Images Festival tickets2010 Images Festival LogoAs part of our partnership with Toronto’s Images Festival, we’ve got a week of free tickets to give away for festival screenings and other events. Every day this week we’ll have a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky winner, and all you have to do to be that person is correctly answer our skill-testing question of the day. Simply leave a comment on this blog post answering the question below, and we’ll select a winner at random at 5 pm. The tickets we’re giving away are good for screenings and live events any time during the festival, so you can pick a time and event that suits your interest. Take a look at the full festival program on the festival’s website to see what’s playing.

As of the time of publishing this blog post, you’ll have about three and a half hours to answer our fearsomely difficult question: What was the title of This Magazine poetry editor Stuart Ross’ most recent book of short stories?

Leave your answer below and you could win!

Make sure you use either your real email address (no one will see it but us, and we won’t spam you later, promise), or a Twitter or Facebook login, so that we can contact you if you win. Good luck!

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Toronto! We've got Images Festival passes to give away. Enter and win! https://this.org/2010/04/05/images-festival-giveaway-1/ Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:28:24 +0000 http://this.org/?p=4324 Images Festival tickets2010 Images Festival LogoThis Magazine is pleased to offer, as part of our partnership with Toronto’s Images Festival, a week of free tickets to festival screenings and other events. We’ll be giving away a pair of tickets every day this week, and all you have to do to win is correctly answer our skill-testing question of the day. Simply leave a comment on this blog post answering the question below, and we’ll select a winner at random at 5 pm. The tickets we’re giving away are good for screenings and live events any time during the festival, so you can pick a time and event that suits your interest. Take a look at the full festival program on the festival’s website to see what’s playing.

As of the time of publishing this blog post, you’ll have about an hour and a half to answer our fearsomely difficult question: In what year was This Magazine founded? Leave your comment below!

Make sure you use either your real email address (no one will see it but us, and we won’t spam you later, promise), or a Twitter or Facebook login, so that we can contact you if you win. Good luck!

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Toronto: Tell us your favourite Joy Division song to win tickets to Friday's documentary screening! https://this.org/2010/02/02/toronto-tell-us-your-favourite-joy-division-song-to-win-tickets-to-fridays-documentary-screening/ Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:02:48 +0000 http://this.org/?p=3757 Tell us your favourite Joy Division song to win two tickets to Friday's screening of "Joy Division" from Images Festival.

Tell us your favourite Joy Division song to win two tickets to Friday's screening of "Joy Division" from Images Festival.

Our friends at Images Festival have very nicely given us two passes to the screening of Grant Gee’s documentary Joy Division, screening this Friday, February 5, 2010 in Toronto. So, in order to make sure the swag goes to a true JD fan, we’re asking you to leave a comment below naming your favourite Joy Division song. We’ll collect all the entries and pick someone at random to get the tickets. The Guardian called the documentary “a must-see” in their 2007 review:

This is a very powerful and moving film that perhaps goes deeper than Control in exploring the full reasons for [Ian] Curtis’s suicide…. There are no actors or recreations. There are no twists for dramatic effect. It’s all vividly real. […] Two full days after seeing Joy Division, the documentary, it’s difficult to shake off the impact of some of the interviews, or the feeling that this story is ongoing, in all of us, in the lives of people left behind, many of whom are only starting to understand what happened with the benefit of age and experience.

We’ve seen it, by the way, and it is every bit as fantastic as it sounds. And now you can see it on us! Click through to leave your comment and enter. The Rules:

  1. To enter, leave a comment below naming your favourite Joy Division song.
  2. One entry per person — in other words, multiple comments don’t get you more chances to win. That said, feel free to advocate for your song or convince others of its awesomeness. Banter!
  3. The draw will close on Thursday, February 4, 2010, at noon, EST. We’ll draw the winner Thursday afternoon.
  4. Make sure we have a way of contacting you — in other words, sign in with Twitter or Facebook, or make sure you leave your real email address (which won’t be visible to, or shared, with anyone else!)
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