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Mousetrap pop-up artist bazaar · Kvetch & Release

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  Try me late, folks. We're back John Leake here on an eight hundred
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  ckl W. It is eleven forty seven. There's an event that's coming up
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  this weekend, one year anniversary event, quite frankly, and it's the first
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  event of twenty twenty four for the mouse Trap Artist Bizarre. That is that
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  pop up which takes place this time. It is going to be happening on
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  June the eighth at the dh It's a big event. I don't need to
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  go through the rundown right now. That would take away the benefit of having
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  a in studio guest joining me right now is the organizer of the mouse Trap
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  Artist Bizarre, marad Or zinch Leoglu, who's the organizer. As I said,
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  he's in studio right now. He's also the owner of Tragic Fate.
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  How you doing, Marad, I'm great, Thanks for having me on the
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  show to the chat mouse Trap with you. Absolutely anything Artist Bizarre is like
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  right up my alley. So this is a fun conversation to be having a
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  year into it. Congratulations. It's incredible when an organization or an endeavor get
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  started to make it to that milestone, because quite frankly, a lot don't
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  get to that point. Unfortunately, what was what is? What is this?
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  What is the Bizarre? For people who don't know, well, The
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  Mousetrap Artist Bizarre is a series of pop up events. We did our first
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  just about a year ago at Windsor Eats. We did a follow up there
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  a little later in the summer, we did a big one at the Cabodo
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  and now we're here. We are at our fourth installment, and the Mousetrap
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  Artist Bazaar is really about creating a space for underground artists, independent artists,
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  outsider artists to have a space to share their working and create a selling opportunity,
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  but also an opportunity for the community to connect with the artists in maybe
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  a more casual way. We try to set up the pop ups at places
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  where people can have food and drinks and sit down and hang out. That
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  it's not as much of the hustle and bustle going from tent to tent to
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  tent, and it's more stop, have a drink, chat, have a
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  bite to eat. You know, it's a real opportunity to connect with the
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  artists and ask questions and learn about all the great things that they do.
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  Well that's yeah, you know, I love Art in the Park. It's
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  an incredible event, but sometimes it does get a little bit overwhelming and the
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  amount of people that are there and you really have a short interaction period with
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  the artists that are there. This sounds like it's a lot more like come
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  hang out and like actually get to know someone. You can talk to them
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  about why they make their stuff, how they make their stuff, what their
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  inspirations were. Yeah, I mean this is the the Artists Bazaar is free
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  and open to the public, and adjacent to it is an even larger event
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  which is ticketed, and so people will be able to like come and go
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  and hang out in the yard beside the dh But if they want to stick
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  around even longer, I mean, they can go inside and see a bunch
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  of great bands that are playing. We really wanted with this one to kind
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  of create a reason for people to stick around all day long, and that's
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  why we partnered up with Sheila and Emon at Cassette's Records. They came to
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  us saying, make your mouse trap a part of our cookout, and it
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  seemed like just like kind of like a match made in heaven. It really
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  does. And so you've got a lot of artists we're going to be taking
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  part. Yeah, we've got twenty different vendors, very diverse. We're not
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  like an application based event like something like Art in the Park. We're curated
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  and I try very specifically to get artists who again are a little bit more
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  outside of the box, but then within that scope of artists to make sure
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  that there's a ton of diversity. So when you come to the event,
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  we've got original art in the form of paintings and illustrations and prints. We
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  have pins, we have vintage stuff. We've got accessories and stationery and edible
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  items and sculptures, and the list goes on and on, and it's very
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  specifically tailored to represent a very very wide swath of different mediums of art.
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  Well, I'm looking right now at one of the exhibitors who's gonna be taking
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  should I say, exhibits, one of the artists who's taking part. Of
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  the artists, exhibitors, vendors, you know, we all identify in slightly
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  different ways. I'm looking at cinnamon bats right now is Instagram page and some
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  pretty cute looking pins that I would hope would be available for sale. Oh
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  yeah, at the event, what was the inspiration for having something like this,
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  I mean, I would imagine that, you know, you could go
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  take part in a different event that's taking place, or try to sell your
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  wares through a retail store. Why go out of the way to build something.
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  What I do, specifically with my own art brand, Tragic Fate,
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  is very strange and like it's it's it's yeah, it's it's weird. We
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  celebrate superstition, we make fun of misfortune. It's very macabre, it's very
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  dark humor, and it doesn't fit in in every place that does this type
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  of things, and people have been encouraging you should do art in the parking.
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  I don't know, what do you mean. You don't think that selling
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  pins that say best of the worst or a fan scarf that says nothing matters,
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  everything is meaningless, isn't wide based appeal? Well yeah, it's yeah,
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  pretty misanthropic. Yeah, it's just again something that is so weird,
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  Like what we do doesn't necessarily translate to a lot of the craft fairs and
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  arts events that go on around the city. Some do, and we're very
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  happy to participate, but we really wanted this one to be a place where
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  it made sense for us to be there and then bring in a lot of
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  the other artists that we respect and enjoy and make them part of the community
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  as well. And like I said, just to have something that is a
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  little bit more curated, to have something that is a little bit more chill
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  and more of a hangout than just an art sale. And so, yeah,
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  I was lonely. I was doing pop ups all by myself, and
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  I said, you know what, let's get some people together. And I
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  have a long history in the city as like an event organizer, putting on
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  art shows and festivals, and I like to bring people together, and this
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  is kind of that latest endeavor. I like some of your products a lot.
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  I have to ask, have you found a restaurant, Chinese restaurant to
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  partner with to put out the fortune cookies that you have? You know,
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  there's a couple of shops in town that carry our fortune cookie H and Vco
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  out in Essex and Wolf and Rebel here in Windsor. Yeah, we have
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  misfortune cookies. So we have fortune cookies that say mean things inside of them,
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  like nobody ever loved you, or I'm looking at one that says people
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  find you lacking in most every way. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah,
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  just a little bit of I think honesty is important and that's what we're kind
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  of trying to Honesty coming through definitely, you know it is, it's very
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  different. I can appreciate why having your own space to do something like this
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  to sell at would make a lot of sense. It sounds like a lot
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  of fun. It's taking place June the eighth at the Dominion House, which
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  is hosting the Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic event. So this is gonna be an all
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  day. Yeah, this is all day. So we start at two pm,
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  the market starts and there's gonna be an eat and greet with or Patrick
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  Roach from Trailer Park Boys, and then at five pm the music kicks off
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  inside. So there's a bunch of great local bands case the Joint here Onlines,
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  also a visit from London band called Pro Wrestling, And to me an
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  absolute Canadian treasure, Julie Doron from the East Coast is coming. And people
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  may be familiar with her work from like pretty seminal Canadian rock band called Eric's
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  Trip, but she's done so much great work as a solo artist as well,
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  and I couldn't be more excited to be like running an event that is
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  a part of an event that she's a part of because she's just really one
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  of Canada's best songwriters in my opinion, should be a really good good day.
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  Well, it definitely sounds like it again. This has taken place this
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  June the eighth, coming up just in three days at the Dominion House.
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  You're going to want to go out. Mouse Trapped pop up artist Bizarre first
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  one of twenty twenty four. It's the one year anniversary. It's gonna be
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  a lot of fun. Organized by murrad Or zinchley Oglu who