Carlito Delceggio has got something up his sleeve. The nomad artist has a flair for the magical, most recently seen in his Montreal launch for a new scent from Christian Dior. Girls dressed like angels stood in a pond of candles and rose petals, periodically squirting the fragrance in the air, their silhouettes dancing on the wall as a wash of live electronic cello filled the purple-tinted room. He promises that tonight’s event will be equally over the top and enchanting.

Secret Alphabet is Delceggio’s “mystic, grandoise display of new paintings created in a total amount of devotion in several points surrounding Mexico City, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Huesca and Montreal.” How the grandiosity will manifest itself, he wouldn’t say, alluding only to some kind of live music and abstract painting interaction, a “blender culture mix” and “a furious homage to colours.” But he’s clearly been having fun in preparation. “Painting is the most erotic act in the world,” he says. “I’m eating colour. I put blue on my sushi.” Oct. 17, 6 p.m. at Lufthaus (6250 Hutchison, 2nd floor), 278-1548 for info. : » Matthew Woodley

As the 31st annual FCMM slides into its last weekend, local Web and multimedia artists are well represented on the New Media menu. First up, homegrown multi-talent Nelson Henricks has been awarded the Bell Canada Prize for excellence in video art. A retrospective of Henricks’ poetic and often musical works spanning over a decade screens Oct. 18, at 10:40 p.m. in Ex-Centris’s Cinéma Parallèle.

An interactive road-trip CD-ROM, Camille Lavoie’s Les Quatres Saisons Picaresques shows as part of the Poursuites judicieuses evening (Oct. 19, 8:30 p.m., in the Fellini room at Ex-Centris). Michel Lefebvre, Julie Lapointe and Guy Asselin’s multimedia work, Vilanova, is a portrait of local collective Fovea’s urban photo exhibit from Sept. 2001 entitled the Villeneuve Tour (part of La Cité Utopia, Oct. 17, 8:30 p.m. in the Fellini room).

Finally, if a party of futuristic proportions tickles your fancy, check out (or log on to) the Interactive Project Lab’s Interactive Party (Oct. 18, 9 p.m., Fellini room or at www.iplab.ca), where live painting and DJs collide with Webbie conspiracy theories and dancing (preceded, at 7 p.m., by Ancrage/Anchor, a multimedia “living buffet”). For more info call 847-1242 or visit and peruse the Internet Gallery (www.fcmm.com). : » Genevieve Paiement

Think about saliva much? Toronto choreographer Jenn Goodwin certainly does. The Concordia grad’s work, Suck & Spit, is inspired by all things oral. With words, movement and video, she examines the everyday actions of spitting, sucking, chewing and swallowing. Goodwin herself performs in Suck & Spit, part two of a work entitled the Fluid Trilogy.

From fluids to shipwrecks, local choreographer Tony Chong goes solo in Le Naufragé, with the voyage towards old-age as its central theme. Both pieces are part of Tangente’s Émergence series. Check them out Oct. 24–27, $10–12 at 840 Cherrier. : » Marites Carino

What do Julie Doucet, Blood Sisters, and Véhicule Press have in common? They’ll all have tables at Montreal’s first annual small press and zine fair, Expozine. This Saturday’s bilingual event boasts 65 tables, playing host to a broad swath of the city’s publishing strata. “We wanted to have a mix of zines, comics and small press, we think all of those are equally valid publications,” says co-organizer Andy Brown (of conundrum press). “It’s an attempt to mix the Westmount Gazette crowd with the Plateau hipsters with the francophones.”

Saturday evening, Words and Music Master of Ceremonies Ian Ferrier hosts the launching of two (count ’em) Todd Swift projects. “Todd Swift is in from Paris,” says Ferrier. “And he’s the co-editor of Short Fuse, this huge anthology with poets from all over the world. Plus he’s half of Swifty Lazarus with Tom Walsh, who are launching their CD, The Envelope, Please.” Along with a performance by Lazarus, the evening spotlights a number of local Short Fuse contributors, including Catherine Kidd, Victoria Stanton, Stephanie Bolster, Corey Frost, Fortner Anderson, David McGimpsey and Jason Camlot. Out-of-town contributors include Short Fuse co-editor and former Chicago slammer Phil Norton, leading Australian spoken word phenomenon Tug Dumbly, and recent FENCE poetry competition winner Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy from the USA. With music by The Wild Lawns.

Both shows Oct. 19 at Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent). Expozine runs from 11 a.m.–6 p.m., free. Words and Music at 8 p.m., $5. : » Vincent Tinguely

9-11 bumper crop: The Sept. 11 attacks have spawned a small army of profiteers from the tragedy, hawking T-shirts, mini WTC replicas and the like. Calgary-based August Inc. has jumped aboard, launching a line of bumper stickers created “in the hope to change attitudes around the world.” What evildoer wouldn’t reconsider their plot if they found themselves in traffic facing ultimate truths such as, “It’s not about money, it’s about life” or “Never let a just cause do an unjust act”? :

Inch by inch: An exhibition incorporating sound installations, musical performance, visual art, video and writing journeys into the life of Canadian author Elizabeth Smart, who wrote By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Each and every inch… is at Usine C (1345 Lalonde) from Oct 22–26, $20/15. • Cheap goods: Art en masse and bargains galore are to be found at the fourth edition of the photo garage sale, showcasing the work of over 20 local artists. The sale will be divided into two sides; the first features more than 2,000 works selling between $2–100 and the other has framed and bigger works up to $1,500. It runs from Oct. 18, 6 p.m.–Oct 20, 6 p.m. at 305 Bellechase, metro Rosemont. • On the road: Last chance to catch the Bookmobile, a travelling library of independent publications, Oct 17–18 at the Tyndale St. George Community Centre (870 Richmond Square), from 2–5 p.m., zine-making workshops at 3 p.m. :

Artistat: Number of countries whose commercials are featured in the 100% Pub, a five-hour-long ad-fest running from Oct. 17–19 at Place des Arts: 42 :

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