Norman Nawrocki

Norman Nawrocki

Norman Nawrocki at Chaotic Insurrection Congress
Background information
Origin Vancouver, British Columbia
Genres Cabaret, punk rock, post rock, spoken word, Klezmer
Occupation(s) Comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, songwriter, author, actor, producer and composer
Instruments Violin, vocals, viola, cello, tsymbaly, piano, accordion, concertina, percussion
Years active 1985 - present
Labels Les Pages Noires
Associated acts Rhythm Activism, Bagg Street Klezmer Band, The Flaming Perogies, Bakunin's Bum, DaZoque!, The Montreal Manhattan Project, Bush's Bum, SANN
Website Les Pages Noires

Norman Nawrocki (born in Vancouver, British Columbia), is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, author, actor, producer and composer.[1] Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of "rock 'n roll cabaret" band Rhythm Activism. Nawrocki owns Les Pages Noires, through which he has published twenty albums and three books.

Childhood

Nawrocki was born in the East End of Vancouver to Polish/Ukrainian Canadian parents.

Journalism and activism

Nawocki’s attended Langara College and Simon Fraser University co-editing the university's newspaper The Peak. Bored with study he dropped out.

On 25 February 2010, Norman Nawrocki has signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid.[2]

Sex education

I don’t understand women! (1993) was the first of Nawrocki’s anti-sexist, sex positive, comedy cabarets on the topics of date rape, sexual harassment and violence against women.

Campaigns against poverty in Canada

In 2002 CBC Radio’s Montreal Matters commissioned Nawrocki to write a series of six short plays Don’t Call Me Bob ; relating the life of a payphone in one of Montreal's poorer neighbourhoods Côte-des-Neiges.

Solo material and spoken word tours

In 2004 Nawrocki wrote, recorded and released his first solo album Duck Work.

Teaching and acting

By the end of 2005 Nawrocki was teaching a course at Concordia University's School of Community & Public Affairs on The Arts, Radical Social Change and Community Economic Development. As well as starring in Uncle Eddie's guide to art appreciation, by Donald Goodes.[3]

Bibliography

Discography

Bakunin's Bum

Bush's Bum

DaZoque!

The Montreal Manhattan Project

Draft 1.0 (2004) LPN017C (Les Pages Noires)

Rhythm Activism

SANN : Sylvain Auclair & Norman Nawrocki

Videography

Rhythm Activism

References

  1. Norman Nawrocki Les Pages Noires Accessed 15 October 2006
  2. Tadamon!: 500 Artists Against Israeli Apartheid
  3. Norman Nawrocki's biography Les Pages Noires Accessed 15 May 2007
  4. Welcome to Rebel Music Quebec Rebel Music Quebec Accessed 11 May 2007

External links

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