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THE YES MEN
(ANDY BICHLBAUM AND MIKE BONANNO)
LOST FILM FEST w vj Scott Beibin
SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS
ABORTO SIN PENA: ABORTION WITHOUT SHAME AND PENALTY
ART IS A WEAPON: with Eric Drooker
DISPATCHES FROM REBEL MEXICO: with Greg Berger
GRASSROOTS PR AND PUBLICITY FOR FILM AND BANDS
GUERRILLA AND VIRAL MARKETING FOR MISCHIEF MAKERS
GUERRILLA POSTER ART with Robbie Conal
ILLEGAL PUBLIC ART IN UNDER 5 MINUTES! with Monochrom
INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY
THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL ROAD SHOW
OBAMA'S IRAQ hosted by Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films
PANDEMIC PREVENTION: BIRD FLU AND OTHER EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES with Dr. Michael Greger MD.
PUBLICITY AND PR FOR SOCIAL CAUSES with Mahdis Keshavarz
RHIZOME COLLECTIVE: A WORKING MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY
RUST - RADICAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRAINING with Scott Kellogg
SELF-DISTRIBUTION FOR INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS, MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS
THE BRICOLEUR EXPERIENCE with Shrine
THE HOW AND WHY OF EFFECTIVE ETHICAL MASS CAMPAIGNS with Scott Beibin
THE LATEST IN HUMAN NUTRITION with Dr. Michael Greger MD
THE LIFELONG ACTIVIST with Hillary Rettig
THE SECRET BASES: EXPLORING THE PENTAGON'S "BLACK WORLD" with Trevor Paglen
TRACKING THE CIA'S TORTURE PLANES with Trevor Paglen
USING YOUR WITS TO WIN with Alan Abel
VEG MY RIDE with Rob Del Bueno
BEYOND THE WALLS: THE BATTLE FOR IRAQ'S FUTURE
BRAD: ONE MORE NIGHT AT THE BARRICADES
HOT AND BOTHERED: FEMINIST PORNOGRAPHY
POPAGANDA: THE ART AND CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH
SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS
STOKED: THE RISE AND FALL OF GATOR
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
4.18.09
Finally the long awaited hour is upon us that we can announce the addition of some new super exciting offerings on the Evil Twin Booking roster [ Booking now for summer and fall 2009]
SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS
http://eviltwinbooking.com/events.cfm?view=PERFORMERS&artist_id=180
An ALL NEW live multimedia spectacle hosted by VJ Scott Beibin of the Lost Film Fest which explores the fuzzy and quarky lines between hard science, social science, and metaphysics with hands-on examples of environmentally sustainable art and technologies. [The SATNR official launch is in Fall 2009, however a special preview is available as part of the Lost Film Fest VJ program.]
MR. LIF
http://eviltwinbooking.com/events.cfm?view=PERFORMERS&artist_id=179
Tired of clichés, a culture in crisis, and a floundering economy, Lif stands apart as a new breed of MC appealing to listeners wary of the trivialities of hyper-consumerism and egomania that have infested hip hop culture and society.
AMERICAN HARDCORE ROADTRIP
http://eviltwinbooking.com/events.cfm?view=PERFORMERS&artist_id=181
Picking up where the documentary film AMERICAN HARDCORE left off, filmmakers Paul Rachman and Steven Blush hit the road with a multi-media event featuring rare film clips, audio samples, slide shows, and unseen material from the golden era of Hardcore (1980-1986). Included in the presentation are stories and Q+A's as well as a "show and smell" of early punk rock artifacts.
get in touch!
Scott + Liz + Sara
Evil Twin Booking Agency
ps. Soon we'll be launching a new version of the Evil Twin Booking Agency website designed by Scott, Peter, and Fluffy which will enable you to better plug in and get involved with the project. yay! Stay tuned...
3.31.09
The Evil Twin Booking Agency is pleased to welcome a bevy of new speakers, artists and films to the roster. In recent weeks, we've added WE LIVE IN PUBLIC and director Ondi Timoner, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD for college screenings, KING CORN and THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE and directors Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, OBAMA'S IRAQ by war journalist Rick Rowley, BOMB IT, and director John Reiss, The Mountaintop Removal Road Show, the Bricoleur Experience presented by Shrine, and vegan Ironman triathlete Brendan Brazier.
2.16.09
Evil Twin Booking Agency speaker Bill Ayers in this week's NY Times Magazine:
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED, CONDENSED AND EDITED BY DEBORAH SOLOMON
In your new book, “Race Course: Against White Supremacy,” you and your wife, Bernardine Dohrn, describe your long struggle against racism and social injustice. Do you think Obama’s victory has put America on a new course?
The election of Obama is an important strike against white supremacy. On the other hand, if you claim we’re in a postracial society, how do you explain the fact that 40 percent of black kids under 5 live in poverty?
As a ’60s militant-turned-academic living two blocks from the Obama homestead in Hyde Park, you became newly famous last year, after Sarah Palin accused Obama of “pallin’ around with terrorists.”
I did send her a note after the election. I suggested that we have a talk show together called “Pallin’ Around With Sarah and Bill.” I haven’t heard back.
Were you surprised last month when customs officials in Toronto refused to allow you into Canada and put you on the next plane back to Chicago?
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it’s like being in a Days Inn; it’s very clean and very nice. I said, “I’m an American, where are the chains and whips?” But they don’t do that in Canada.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15wwln_Q4-t.html
1.14.08
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD premiering at Sundance 2009!
For the past few years you may have seen short clips by The Yes Men and hints of what was to come in the Lost Film Fest with vj show. Finally the new feature documentary THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD will premiere Sunday Jan 18th at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. At the premiere we will have a ton of special surprises awaiting. Yay! The new film is full of loads of great culture jamming including the fake New York Times 'special edition' prank which both Scott Beibin and Liz Cole from the Evil Twin Booking Agency participated in (yay!), Dow chemical's Bhopal debacle, Halliburton's Survivaball, The HUD scandal in New Orleans, Vivoleum and so much more. The film should be in theaters later this year.
Scott Beibin from Evil Twin Booking Agency / The Redefinery is the publicist for the film, so if you're with the press and would like to interview Mike Bonanno or Andy Bichlbaum from The Yes Men, or cover some of the other shenanigans we have planned in Park City, please contact us. Additionally we're halding an evening party for the premiere on Jan 18th so if you're in Park City, try to track us down. We may be able to help you out with an invite.
If you're interested in booking Andy or Mike from The Yes Men to appear at your school or festival or club or cave or wherever please get in touch with us asap as open dates for 2009 are filling up fast. If you're interested in screening the film later this year, or you are looking to help out with the grassroots outreach for the film get in touch, so we can figure something out.
~Scotty and Liz
Enjoy the preview/sneak peek here:
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (dir. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, 2009) is a film for our times. Part screwball comedy about the Apocalypse, part call to arms, it follows two hapless hucksters as they find out how funny the unregulated free market can actually be... and then find the fix.
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can't take no for an answer. They have an unusual hobby: addressing big business conferences as the corporations they hate the most. Posing as representatives of Halliburton, Exxon, and other big baddies, they parody their corporate nemeses in ever more extreme ways. In quick succession they deploy an exploding golden skeleton, stinky human-flesh candles, and a giant six-foot orb meant for saving corporate CEOs from the fruits of their depredations. The speeches in which they present these inventions are as excruciatingly silly - and disturbing - as the inventions themselves.
But the truly disturbing thing in the picture is how the business people react. Trying to make sense of this, the two burrow deep into the twisted underworld of the free-market think tanks, finding unexpected (and raucous) comedy in the bowels of the mindset that's destroying our planet.
Those who watch documentaries in order to learn something won't be disappointed. As our heroes appear on the BBC before 300 million viewers, or before 1000 New Orleans contractors alongside Mayor Ray Nagin, the layers of lies that we're used to are unpeeled to reveal the raw heart of truth - a truth that gives hope as well as pause.
Hope explodes at the end of this film with a power that may take audiences straight out of the theater and into the streets. A word of warning to theater owners: make sure your seats are securely screwed down.
(Note: this film has one of the very few underwater ballet scenes you will ever see in a vérité documentary.)
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For press inquiries and speaker booking for Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno of THE YES MEN please contact Scott Beibin and Liz Cole from the Evil Twin Booking Agency and The Redefinery.
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Tel: 215-473-0308
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
ARTE FRANCE / ARTICLE Z / RENEGADE PICTURES UK / BRITDOC / CHARNY-BACHRACH / PRESENT
WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano
CO-DIRECTOR
Kurt Engfehr
PRODUCED BY
Doro Bachrach
Ruth Charny
Laura Nix
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Patrice Barrat
Alan Hayling
Jess Search
Juliette Timsit
SPECIAL APPEARANCE
Reggie Watts
EDITOR
April Merl
ANIMATION
Patrick Lichty
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Neel Murgai
Noisola
PUBLICITY
Scott Beibin
Liz Cole
Evil Twin Booking Agency speakers William Ayers and The Yes Men in the news:
Educator, author and activist William Ayers is enjoying the last laugh, greeted with an overwhelmingly positive media blitz and packed houses in support of his reissued book "Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist". Ayers on Good Morning America:
And, The Yes Men continue to make headlines with the spoof NY Times forecasting real hope and change. Clip from CNN prime time:
11.12.08
The Yes Men, Evil Twin Booking and headlines of real Hope and Change.
It's been a very eventful month for Liz Cole and Scott Beibin of the Evil Twin Booking Agency. We kept mum while deluged with hate mail over Bill Ayers. When Obama won, we were overjoyed at the historic significance and danced in the streets. Rather than publicizing the pre-election attention, we decided to focus all of our energy on a project that we believed would really inspire a sense of true Hope and Change. That project, of course, was to work in coalition with dozens of organizations and thousands of volunteers to blanket US cities with 1.2 million copies of a hopeful, albeit fake edition of The New York Times with fantasy headlines like "Iraq War Ends", "National Health Insurance Act Passes" and "Public Relations Industry Starts to Shut Down".
Today was the big day, and we've made headlines. The success shows what can be accomplished when a lot of people we respect and love think big and work together. It is interesting that so many people are pointing the finger at The Yes Men - and, why not? Their brilliant antics and pranks have captured the imagination of a generation that believes another world is possible.
* PDF of the fake New York Times: http://www.nytimes-se.com/pdf
* Ongoing video releases found here: http://www.nytimes-se.com/video
(be careful - if you blink, you might miss Lili Taylor talking about her "compassion muscle")
* The New York Times responds: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/pranksters-spoof-the-times/
Oh the hilarity...
Much love,
Liz Cole and Scott Beibin
10.9.08
It's been a blessing to have the current flurry of attention for our speakers bureau, the ever so fabulous, sexy, and sleep deprived Evil Twin Booking Agency.
Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn't your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don't get him started on sustainability. "I don't like the term," he says. "It's not evocative enough. You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning." Efficiency doesn't cut it, either: "It just means less bad." Even zero emissions falls short. "This table does zero damage," he says, thumping the one in his office. "No VOCs, no carbons. Whatever. It doesn't do anything positive."
