Bar le Salon Officiel – Montréal, Québec, Canada

Communiqué de presse – Mecredi le 11, Avril 2007
Vernissage de 17h00 à 19h00
351 Roy E. - 514 510 1733

Le Salon Officiel a été conçu par les membres du groupe La Raza, Joséane Brunelle et Tristan Tondino, sur les lieux de l’ancienne taverne Lupien et plus récemment le Roy Bar au coin des rues Drolet et Roy au cœur du Plateau Mont-Royal.

Le bâtiment construit à la fin du 19è siècle a subi plusieurs rénovations à travers les changements de propriétaires. Il reste plusieurs vestiges des années ’30, du plancher de terrazzo aux poignées de portes, plaques d’angles de métal, corniches, blocs de verre et plafonds en retrait.

Cette adaptation de Tondino et Brunelle s’est inspiréee des salons culturels de Paris et Berlin de la fin du 19è siècle. De grandes reproductions d’œuvres d’art ont été peintes par Tondino et Brunelle ainsi que par l’artiste Scott Macleod, aussi membre du chapitre montréalais du groupe La Raza.

Les toiles reproduites ont été soigneusement choisies de nus classiques de peintres reconnus, de Boucher à Bougureau, en passant par les Impressionistes Manet et Degas. http://www.larazagroup.com/le_salon_officiel.html

Composant une élégante mosaique, toiles, miroirs et papiers peints s’emboîtent harmonieusement, encadrés par des panneaux et moulures peints noir lustré, le tout rehaussé par de longs rideaux de voile et de velours rouge et décoré des traditionnelles chaises de tavernes québecoises et de banquettes de tissu rouge chatoyant, unifiant le vieux monde de l’Europe et le Franco-mulit-culturalisme Montréalais dans une atmosphère de maison close du siècle passé.

Le Salon Officiel est un lieu de rencontre innovateur et unique en son genre au Canada.

Un don de 25¢ sera versé au Centre d’Action SIDA de Montréal pour chaque bière Carlsberg vendue le soir du vernissage.

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez contacter la Raza : larazagroup@gmail.com or 514 989 9995.

Salon Officiel info@salonofficiel.com www.salonofficiel.com 514 510 1733.




The Salon Officiel - Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

For immediate release – Wednesday April 11th, 2007
Vernissage • 5 PM – 7 PM
351 Roy E. - 514 510 1733

The Salon Officiel was designed by La Raza Group members, Tristan Tondino and Joséane Brunelle, on the site of the old Lupien Tavern and most recently the Roy Bar on the corner of Roy and Drolet in Montreal’s Plateau region. The public house was originally built in the late 19th century and renovated at various stages of ownership notably in the 1930’s as some of the remaining art deco motifs are still in place, such as the terrazzo floor, door knobs, stainless steel handles, corner plates and cornice work, glass blocks and recessed ceiling.

Tondino and Brunelle’s adaptation and new design was inspired by late 19th century Parisian and 1920’s Berlin cultural salons. Large format painted reproductions were executed by Tondino, Brunelle and other Montreal member of La Raza Group G. Scott MacLeod. These works are a selection of classic period reclining nudes, by artists like Manet, Degas, Bouguereau, and Boucher.

http://www.larazagroup.com/le_salon_officiel.html

These paintings have been intergrated into a grid design of interlocking mirrors and high gloss black moldings and red anaglypta wallpaper. Each of these wall sections has been broken by large windows, floor to ceiling red velvet curtains and silk veils. Traditional Quebecois tavern chairs and tables face crushed red velvet banquettes merging the old world from Europe with the New World of Franco-multicultural Montreal.

This location is an innovative and one of a kind place in Canada. A must see and experience if you are in the Plateau region of Montreal.

25¢ will be donated to Montreal’s Centre d’Action SIDA for each Carlsberg beer sold on the night of the vernissage.

For more information contact La Raza at larazagroup@gmail.com or 514 989 9995. Salon Officiel info@salonofficiel.com www.salonofficiel.com 514 510 1733.


SYNOPSIS

Rebuilding the Empress is a film about a community driven project to transform a heritage value theatre into a neighborhood Cultural Centre for the fine and performing Arts. Built in 1927, in the Art Deco style, the Empress is the only Egyptian-themed atmospheric theatre in all of Canada.

BIOGRAPHY

A graduate of the Fine Arts and Film Animation program at Concordia University Murat Ariburnu has worked as a photographer and cameraman in various film and TV productions. Murat has developed his talents as Visual artist in numerous projects over the years. He currently works as a multi-media artist and graphic designer. Rebuilding the Empress is his debut documentary.



 


 



 

G. Scott MacLeod and Emmet Walsh– present - FROM BERLIN TO BUENOS AIRES

 

Two Film Fund-Raisers for After the war with Hannelore and Argentina.

 

G. Scott MacLeod and Emmet Walsh request your attendance at their Berlin and Buenos Aires film fund-raiser and exhibition Thursday, July 27th, 2006.  Please bring friends and guests.

 

At The McAuslan Visitor Centre  5080 Rue St Ambroise, Montreal, Quebec

 

Directions macleod http://www.macleod9.com/contact.html

Contact 514. 487 .8766 or macleod_nine@hotmail.com

 

International artist and first time director G. Scott MacLeod www.macleod9.com and director Emmet Walsh have organized this fund-raiser for their two upcoming films, After the war with Hannelore and Argentina. They both have been invited to Berlin this September to lecture and begin shooting After the war with Hannelore and also to Buenos Aires this October to shoot Argentina. So join us on the 27th at the McAuslan Visitor Centre for a night of art, film, food and music.

 

Evenings Program

 

5 :00 - Scott MacLeod – description and synopsis of film After the war with Hannelore.

 

This film is a portrait of Hannelore Scheiber in post-war Berlin. The story line will run in a linear chronology from her birth in January 1945 to her family circumstances around the war and post-war era, contact with Russian soldiers, the Russian blockade, the Berlin Airlift 1948 to 1949, her school years from 1951 to 1967 and the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961. My intention is to film Hannelore revisiting the sites of her memory from this period. The aim of this project is to document her stories in situ through memory and historical context. My goal is to catch the emotions surrounding her experience growing up in post-war Berlin. Emmet Walsh my director of photography will be shooting in 16mm film and Jean Devigne will be doing sound for this project.

 

5 : 15 - Emmet Walsh – description and synopsis of Argentina.

 

Argentina is a road film, with the aim to follow International acclaimed art collective La Raza Group to three different locations in Argentina, (Berazategui, Tucumán and Catamarca) while they create a series of outdoor murals. They will also be captured doing the outreachwork they are known for. They intend to raise funds for orphanages by street performing with Tango dancers in the business sectors of these cities.   The film will begin by documenting La Raza groups mural paintings as well the performances of the Tango dancers.  I will be searching for a parallel story while travelling in Argentina by collecting images and material for the film to complement the documentary material.  The idea is to use a collage approach for the final film which best represents the spirit of  this voyage as well unvailing a contemporary portrait of present day Argentina  -

 

5:30 to 7 :00  Exhibition of G. Scott MacLeod’s recent works.

Preview - http://www.larazagroup.com/pouchcove_scott_ap.html

 

7 :30  ‘Andro/Berlin’ performance by Marjolayne Auger & Karine Rathle.

 

7:45 Featuring screening of "Road to Khan" by director Emmet Walsh.

 

Road To Khan(d. Emmet Walsh, CAN, 18 min) A soul classic in the making, this turbo-charged mini-epic from the mysterious Emmet Walsh chronicles an adventure-packed, booty shaking European tour by the one and only King Khan. With some of the most rapturous black & white concert sequences ever filmed! - Montreal POP Festival 2005-

8 :00  - 8 :30 German and Argentinean buffet

 

8 :30  ‘Dance de Don’ by Marjolayne Auger

 

9 :00 – 12 :00 D.J. Haus Wiemar

 

*McAuslan products for sale to help support the projects.

 

BIOS

 

G. Scott MacLeod Multimedia Artist - Director

 

Born in Red Deer, Canada, Scott received his BFA at Concordia University, his D.E.C. at John Abbott College. In 1986 he was awarded a residency at The Banff Centre of Fine Arts on the Tevie and Arliss Miller Scholarship, in 1988 he attended the Uffizi Print and Drawing Room in Florence on the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation to study Master drawings and prints. In 1992 he was awarded a residency at the Leighton Artist Colony at The Banff Centre for the Arts to produce work for his Owe Canada Owe Quebec series, in 1993 Scott received a Canada Council Explorations Grant for his Black ’47 Irish Famine painting and video installation, in 1999 he received the William Blair Bruce Fine Art Travel Scholarship and a Canada Council Travel Grant and for his Ancestral Homes project in Norway. In 2005  he produced his Sacred Feminine and Masculine photo/video installation on a Conseil des arts et des Lettre du Quebec A Grant. Recently he was awarded a Main Film production grant for After the war with Hannelore and the SAGAMIE digital photo residency for his Goddes and Gods/Contemporary Archetypes video installation. Scott has presented his work in Mexico, Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic, and the USA. His work has been collected by, National Gallery of Canada, Musée de Québec, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Guinness Corporation, Air Canada, The Royal Bank of Canada, Pratt and Whitney, Readers Digests, Claridge, Velan Valves Inc., The McAuslan Brewery, London Life, CP Hotels, and Lotto Québec. He is a member of La Raza Group and is represented by the Jens Thielsen Gallery in London, Ontario, the Darrell Bell Gallery in Saskatoon and AXIS Contemporary Art in Calgary Alberta. He is presently the artist in residence and the McAuslan Visitor Centre. His work can be seen at www.macleod9.com

 

“I have made it my life’s work to explore history, mythology and story telling in my art making process whether it be painting, photography, music or film in the hope to better understand where we have come from, who we are and where we are going. Joseph Campbell believed it is our myths that define us and I have defined myself in my work and created my own ‘myth’ or life path through my work. Art has made me humble, it has fed and sheltered me, given me a voice, and enabled me to do the same for others, through mentoring and fund-raisers. And as a result of this work I have better understood humanity’s place on this planet and have tried to be a positive influence for political and social change.” 

 

Emmet Walsh Director – Director of photography

 

Emmet Walsh is an independent filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada. Road To Khan (2005) is his first independent film.  He has also worked as a director of photography, including Skin Horse (2005), a film which continues to play in festivals internationally.  He has just completed his second independent short The Last Days of Castro ; a fictional film about a photographer in Havana killed by the CIA.  His films explore different approaches in narrative, as well as mixing genres within the same film.  Upcoming projects include Planète Direct a feature film to be shot in Montreal at the end of August 2006, to be directed and photographed by him from his original screenplay.  In September he will travel to Berlin to work as director of photography for G. Scott Macleod’s Hannelore after the war.  In October he will travel to Argentina with La Raza group to commence work on another film to be shot in the same style as Road To Khan and The Last Days of Castro.  Further experiments where location photography, personal testimony, and fictional story elements are all treated with a collage approach to challenge the notions of fictional and documentary film.

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

La Raza Group Presents – CHE ARGENTINA! 

A Fund-Raiser for La Raza Group’ s Argentinean 

Mural and Orphan project in Buenos Aires. 

Canadian Art Collective La Raza Group requests your attendance at their official Montreal-Argentina project launch on Friday, March 24, 2006.  

5:00 pm - 9:00 pm.  

Please bring friends and guests.  

Featuring; Tango Performances by: Marjolayne Auger and Elias Navas, plus music from Argentinean pianist Victor Simon and also a premiere showing of the La Raza Group documentary film "La Raza : Full Circle" by director Tom Tobin. 

At The McAuslan Visitor Centre 

5080 Rue St Ambroise,

Montreal, Quebec  

Directions http://www.macleod9.com/contact.html  

International Art Collective La Raza Group www.larazagroup.com have organized this fund-raiser for their public mural and orphan outreach program. They have been invited to Buenos Aires this October to create a series of outdoor murals and participate in a series of street performances with Tango dancer Marjolayne Auger www.tangoyalgomas.com to raise funds for Argentinean orphans. This initiative is also designed to encourage art and music exchanges between Montreal and Buenos Aires.  

So join us at the McAuslan Visitor Centre for a night of Art from La Raza Group, Tango from Marjolayne and Elias, and music by Argentinean pianist Victor Simon http://www.victor-simon.com/ and his band Ensemble Montreal Tango http://www.emontrealtango.com/.  

Evenings Program  

5:00 Introduction by Scott MacLeod - history of group and upcoming project in Argentina.  

5:30 Marjolayne and Elias (Contemporary Tango Dancers) will present three Tango vignettes.  

6:00 Gallery tour of La Raza Group’s work 2nd floor.  

7:00 Film “La Raza – Full Circle”. *Filmmaker Tom Tobin will present his film on La Raza Group the following night Saturday the 25th for a second screening at 7:00 p.m.  

7:30 Cocktail with Argentinean food and wine accompanied by Ensemble Montreal Tango.  

*For more information contact Scott MacLeod at 514 487 8766 or therace@larazagroup.com  

BIOS 

La Raza Group Art collective - Francis Caprani, G. Scott MacLeod, & Gerald Pedros

http://www.larazagroup.com/history_timeline.html http://www.larazagroup.com/commitment.html 

“each still adheres to the principles of artmaking they originally believed in.  Conformity, art programs, and museology have reduced the terrain of independent art collectives like La Raza Group.  They were open-minded, exhibited wherever they could, even in pool halls, and internationally.  They had no agent or exclusive dealer.  They were free to organize activities independently, always with a public mind.”    

- John K. Grande 

Marjolayne Auger - Tango Dancer www.tangoyalgomas.com 

Mon désir est de m'affranchir et de repousser mes limites personnelles. À travers les voyages, l'apprentissage de nouvelles techniques de danse, je me déstabilise, me sors des paramètres que j'ai d'abord connus, afin de revisiter l'essence de la vie, de mes valeurs et de cerner le coeur de ma recherche. Ainsi, j'espère maintenir le sentiment d'ouverture, de curiosité de l'enfance et du débutant pour éviter de m'enliser dans un cadre fermé. C'est pourquoi je renouvelle les défis.Optique de recherche : en Asie, le même mot est utilisé pour les deux, c'est-à-dire qu'un acteur est aussi danseur, il n'y a pas de séparation entre ses deux professions. J'ose espérer qu'en plus, je deviendrai d'autant plus humaine, accessible et ouverture d'esprit au fil des ans.

Victor Simon - Musician http://www.victor-simon.com/ http://www.emontrealtango.com/

Victor commence à gratter la guitare à l'âge de cinq ans. Deux ans plus tard, lors d'une visite chez des amis de son père, il découvre le piano. Victor se souvient avoir commencé à pianoter nonchalamment et d'avoir joué tout naturellement quelque chose qui pouvait ressembler à une Chacarera (musique folklorique argentine) ; il était sans doute influencé par le genre privilégié des musiciens de sa famille. Ce moment fut le départ de sa passion pour le piano. Son bonheur d'enfant ne pouvait être complet sans qu'un piano ne vienne garnir leur maison. Ce qui fut fait quelques temps plus tard. Cet engouement pour la musique l'amènera à faire des études dans cette discipline. A l'école, il étudie le répertoire classique. Mais c'est en autodidacte qu'il acquiert et perfectionne ses connaissances du folklore. 

TOM TOBIN - Filmmaker 

Growing up in the small town of St. Thomas, Ontario, Tobin had several local artists as mentors. While studying fine art and photography as a teenager, he discovered foreign cinema, awakening his perception of the potential of film as a medium. As Tobin's love of cinema grew, so did his attraction to the unconventional and the surreal, influenced by filmmakers Buñuel, Godard, Bergman, Jeunet and Gilliam. Tobin's works tend to deal with issues of the subconscious, interconnectivity, dimension theory and perspective. He has worked in film and television for over ten years and has been fortunate to mentor under such talented Canadian directors as Bruce McDonald (Hardcore Logo, Dance Me Outside) and David Wellington (Long Day's Journey Into Night, I Love a Man in Uniform.) With a feature-length surrealist/narrative film in development and several short projects in production, Tobin continues to explore and experiment with the medium. La Raza : Full Circle is Tobin's first documentary. 

La Raza : Full Circle candidly explores the working dynamic of a small, close-knit group of visual artists. It documents the group at work as well as the complex interactions between its members. The setting is Montreal 1995, where the impending vote on Quebec’s potential separation from Canada is mirrored by underlying questions of separation within the group. The voyeuristic, cinéma vérité style, captures these artists as they move from creators to promoters to salesmen in order to survive and succeed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Scott MacLeod

The Sacred Feminine and Masculine: Labyrinthina

by John K Grande

Scott MacLeod’s The Sacred Feminine and Masculine: Labyrinthina show deals with the sacred and spiritual. While the sources may be ancient, as is the dual yin-yang nature of masculine and feminine MacLeod captures, the exhibition functions as a total environment.  Multi-media effects include video projection, and digitally manipulated photographs of men and women reflect the stages of life from birth to old age. MacLeod reinvigorates our interest in the symbolic sources for our own culture, long buried for many. Inadvertently we are reminded of how our culture has lost its sources, may not understand the sacred signs and symbols. As the paintings, photo-works, and videos in this show suggest, our belief systems are rooted in the world around us the cosmos and nature.   

Video projections of wave and water patterns could reference the ancient belief that all life has its origins in water (and it does), while labyrinth and mandala symbols reference ancient views of the life process. A yin-yang symbol references the animus-anima duality of our unconscious thought processes. As Carl Jung has written:  

   “Though the effects of anima and animus can be made conscious,     they themselves are factors transcending consciousness and     beyond the reach of perception and volition.” 1

A ceiling projection of the Big Dipper at night, from which the yin-yang originally derived, in part due to its prominence in the night sky, again draws allusions to the way our cosmology is based in the real world, and responses over generations and centuries to these effects. And so ultimately, MacLeod’s Sacred Feminine and Masculine, is a homage to our place in the universe, which may be precarious, as our ancestors were quite aware of. 

On either side, placed in the upper sections of the walls, we see elongated ships that suggest a great journey or the voyage of life itself. Ships are likewise symbolic of emigration, and of a mid point between home and away. The images recall the journey of life, how life builds upon life, seizes life only to dissolve before new lives come into being. The life cycle is represented in a variety of ways throughout this exhibition. We see two sets of six vertical digitally manipulated photographs transferred to canvas of men and of women. They are presented at various stages of life from childhood to old age, and integrated within each tableau above and below are symbols that indicate the cycle of life and death; a Douglas-fir tree, an acorn, a maple seedling, the ancient sacred geometry, a raven, a dragonfly, a butterfly. 

Seen as a whole Scott MacLeod’s presentation combines aspects of human and natural history (of which we are a part). As a totality, the piece is conceived like a hagiography or theatre dedicated to life. The exhibition is a site that reifies a cosmic vision of the world, with natural and human references. We live in a world where our memory of the past is ironically vanishing at the same time as we have advanced information and data storage systems. This presentation has sources that are ancient, reflect our collective origins, the way our various tribal and geo-specific identities all draw on unconscious stimuli that links and builds its meaning with reference to nature. While the techniques and multi-media approach Scott MacLeod uses are wholly contemporary, this environment is about our origins and the fragile and ongoing process of life, its mystery, the impossibility of decoding or explaining it entirely.  

Footnote

1. C. G. Jung, Aspects of the Masculine / Aspects of the Feminine, trans. R.F.C. Hull, MJF Books, New York, p. 177.    

- John K Grande


 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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PRESS RELEASE

 

Three Montreal painters exhibit at the MAA

[Laurie Campbell], [Scott MacLeod], [Sharon Ramsay] , [MAA Exhibit Invitation]

 

Opening-Vernissage Thursday, September 25th

From 5:00 to 7:00 pm

At Montreal Athletic Association,

2070 Peel

Montreal, QC

H3A1W6

 

Tel: 514.845.2233

 

Exhibition goes from September 25th to October 5th, 2003.  


 

Laurie Campbell  [top]

BIO

 

Laurie Campbell was born in Montreal in 1969. She studied fine art at John Abbott College and architectural illustration and design at Dawson College in Montreal. In 1991, she pursued her interest in illustration at Toronto's Ontario College of Art where she received the Herb McCarthy Award and the Robin Cumine Scholarship for her work.

 

Upon returning to Montreal in 1994, she began focusing on painting through which, she depicts timeworn neighbourhoods in Montreal and abroad. Laurie has always had a strong interest in portraying city life-corner stores, taverns, and all that lends itself to the city's unique character. With every new year, modern structures replace the neglected storefronts and landmarks ofyears past. Her work documents these forgotten treasures and will remain historical reminders of Montreal's former greatness and charm.

 

Laurie has worked as a freelance illustrator for The Globe and Mail, Homemaker's magazine and MacLean- Hunter Publications. She has also illustrated the book Outsmarting your Karma by Barry Neil Kaufman and the cover of Des livres et des coups de foudre by editions Lacombe. In 2002, Laurie became an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours (CSPWC).

 

The artist continues to produce work in both watercolour and oil and is represented by A.H, Campbell Gallery in Montreal and Roberts Gallery in Toronto. Her paintings are in private collections in Canada, the U.S., Austria, France, Switzerland and England.

 

www.campbellpictureframing.com

 

 

G. Scott MacLeod  [top]

BIO

 

Scott MacLeod grew up in Montreal and has worked as a professional artist and musician since 1987. MacLeod received his D.E.C. in Fine Arts at John Abbott College and his BFA with a specialization in printmaking from Concordia University. He has won awards to attend The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico on two occasions, also

Le Symposium de la Nouvelle Peinture at Baie Saint Paul, La Socieda Mexicana de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City to study muralism, The Uffizi Print and Drawing room in Florence to study master drawings and the Atelier Realization Graphic de Quebec. His experiences in these cultures gave him the opportunity to witness great works of art and refine his own artistic

and lyrical skills.

 

In his music he write songs in both English and French that describe the history of Canada, by illuminating men, women and events in our collective multicultural heritage. He has performed this project, titled, A Brief Canadian History in schools, theatres, community and cultural centers across Canada.

 

He actively promotes culture, education and activism, and has been involved in projects involving fund-raising for the homeless, food banks, AIDS hospices, Amnesty International, orphanages, the developing world and Dr. Jane Goodall.

 

His current artwork on the Viking period was funded by The Canadian Scandinavian Foundation and exhibited in Chicago at The Swedish American Museum and in Seattle at the Nordic Heritage Museum. His earlier projects have dealt with the Irish Famine of 1847, the decimation of the plains buffalo and landscapes of the American Southwest and Eastern Townships.

 

His work are in the collections of The National Gallery in Ottawa, Museo de la Estampe in Mexico City, The Museé de Quebec, Claridge, Guinness Brewery, Air Canada, Pratt and Whitney, Reader’s Digest, Royal Bank of Canada, London Life, Lotto Quebec and CP Hotels.

 

“After traveling and exhibiting in Europe, North American and Latin America, I sensed feelings, sounds and images I wanted to portray both on the canvas and in song... I felt that time was full of meaningful experiences and therefore an invitation to art and music. I believe it is my responsibility as an artist and human being to use art as a vehicle for change and

education.”

 

www.macleod9.com

 

 

Sharon Ramsay  [top]

BIO

 

Born Edinburgh, Scotland 1970

EDUCATION: Received BFA (Honours) 1993

Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

My fascination with large ciites began in 1989 when my family immigrated to Canada. I had grown up in Loanhead, a small coal mining village in Midlothian, Scotland, surrounded by little other than hills, valleys and farmland. In 1988 I was accepted to study fine arts at Edinburgh College of

Art and left Loanhead to move to Edinburgh, which at the time seemed a huge city; so I was ill prepared for the skyscrapers that greeted me in North America the following year. I visited my family during school vacations over the next four years, eventually joining them in 1993 after gratuating. On each return to Edinburgh I would dream of the huge cities I had visited in

both Canada and the United States; becoming fixated on the never ending streets, bumper to bumper traffic and hoards of people that were so far removed from my life in Scotland.

 

Initially I found the cities both claustrophobic and overwhelming, yet I could never get enough of them. For years I worked in bars and nightclubs, often leaving work as the sun was coming up, and it was during these hours that I came to love living in the city. Walking home I would not