Many a Montreal rock poster first sees the light of day in a cramped Centre-Sud workshop. For the past two years, Studio Alphonse Raymond owner Leyla Majeri has been cranking out silkscreened promotion for the likes of Greenland, Foufounes, Le Cheval Blanc and Petit Campus.

The good old ways of the print process—nothing digital in sight—are in the spotlight this weekend as Majeri teams up with a few other artists in Ti-Tof. Her part includes a gang of “plastic dolls with oversized papier maché heads fighting and kicking alongside moveable, paper cut-out printed robots.” Also showing stuff will be notoriously social-skill-less silkscreener Henriette Valium, whose books and posters “will freak you out,” and Nadia Uppal’s humorously self-deprecating work, warningly labelled “Immature subject matter.” Expect, among other things, an image of an “oversized, punctured heart-like organ and its parasitical inhabitants caught in a humanoid octopus’s tentacles.” Fellow silkscreener Nina Logan will also have work on display.

Plus, from Marseilles, the duo behind France’s eminent silkscreen studio, le dernier cri, a strong purveyor of zany art-en-brut, bring more screens and books. The whole thing goes down at Galérie Espace (4844 St-Laurent). Vernissage on Nov. 1, 7 p.m., runs until Nov. 6. : » Matthew Woodley

Is it a bird, a plane, a vernissage, a rave, a cabaret, a renegade art event in the heart of the Plateau? Damn right, it’s all this and more! Okay, maybe not a bird or a plane, but this Friday, the Roy Street Art Collective will be putting on Bats, a “mad indulgence of epic proportions” at their way-cool space at 111 Roy E.

Featuring the work of over 50 local artists, pranksters and dancers, as well as performances from the Rhythm Mercenaries and ’70s retro sensations Estrada—not to mention a cast of circus performers swinging from the ceilings doing some kind of wacky trapeze thing—the Roy Street Collective parties are always unique affairs that attract more people than the space can accommodate. So get there early or get there very late, the action begins at 9 p.m., continues till 6 a.m., and for 10 bucks the organizers are promising a “sexually charged extravaganza.” Just the opportunity to check out the space is worth the price of admission, but if you’re the benevolent type, take comfort in the knowledge that all monies collected will be going to help keep this very worthy non-profit art collective in business. : » Chris Barry

Photographer Julie Marchand continues her tradition of bringing her work to the people outside of a gallery setting. This time she presents Zoom In with the collaboration of Zoom Media (that washroom ad company). The partnership and location are especially apt given that the photographs are voyeuristic shots of people taken through windows at night with a zoom lens—private moments to view during your own private moment.

Unfortunately the strength of the exhibition’s setting is also its weakness. What stands out most, behind the plastic covering of the advertising box in bathroom lighting, is the white text of the graphics instead of the rich colours and details captured in the photos. Check it out in loos around town until Nov. 17. : » Christine Redfern

The Extreme Innocence series continues tomorrow night with another soulful lineup of singers and poets. Julius returns to drop a few original lines, and evening MC Tall-Man describes him thus: “He’s more of a hip hop poet, he has a unique style. It’s nice, it flows.” Other wordsmiths on the bill include Padriac, and first-timer Tara, who says, “I guess my poetry is about different situations, putting a voice to whatever it is I live or whatever it is I see.”

The mostly-acoustic songbirds in the Extreme lineup are headlined by Samara, who’s just been given the nod to appear on CFCF television’s annual Telethon of the Stars. There’s also the acoustic duo Sima & Roula and bilingual songstress Kate. It all happens Nov. 1 at Club Indigo (9394 l’Acadie). Doors open at 8:30 p.m., $10, infoline: 921-0978 (leave a message). : » Vincent Tinguely

Six-pack supplement: The world is full of hangover-cure mythology: coffee, multivitamins, more booze, greasy food, bathing in Pepsi... but by the morning after it’s too late anyway. Enter Jamieson Laboratories. Inspired by Eastern medicine’s focus on prevention, they’ve created a product “based on a traditional Chinese medicine that has been proven effective for thousands of years.” The Anti-Hangover capsule is a 100-per-cent-natural nausea blocker that “works” by neutralizing the “heat-like symptoms” caused by excessive boozing. Simply wash a couple down with your beverage of choice and keep on rocking.

Jamieson’s promotional material may be its biggest downfall, dwelling more on the fact that alcoholic beverages contain formaldehyde (used for embalming corpses) and acetone (a paint remover) than the science behind its own product. Testing by hopeful Mirror staff gave disappointing results. The capsules are available in the vitamin section of drugstores everywhere for about $10 a pack. : »Matthew Woodley

Regarding race: A new book with a self-explanatory title, 13 Conversations about Art and Cultural Race Politics, packs together a variety of recent texts by artists, critics and curators on race in the visual, film and media arts. Launch on Friday, Nov. 1, 5–7 p.m., Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent). • All wet: American artist Jessica Diamond’s painting exhibition, Eros (Rain), “inspired by a 19th-century book of meteorology that compares storms to orgasms,” shows at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1380 Sherbrooke W.) until Jan. 26. • Material world: A couple of new artists move in to Skol gallery this month. British artist Kate Terry’s Diaphanous uses the gallery space as a guide, linking points within with coloured thread, leaving the room “neither full nor empty.” Regula Dettwiler explores the pseudo-natural world of shopping mall vegetation in Histoire naturelle du monde artificiel. It includes artificial plants taken apart and put back together as an illustration and photos of Monet’s garden in Complex Desjardins “presented like film stills of a Sunday afternoon in the countryside.” Both shows run at Skol (372 Ste-Catherine W.) from Nov. 2–Dec. 7. :

Artistat: Number of Lebanese singers and dancers performing in Deux mille et une nuits—the opening show of the Festival du Monde Arabe, a 14-day cornucopia of music, film, dance, debate and more—Sunday, Nov. 3, at Place des Arts: 50 :

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