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Norman Nawrocki
@normannawrocki.bsky.social
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Anarchist, author, playwright, musician, actor, educator, rabble rouser. Creative resistance & butterflies forever.
https://linktr.ee/normannawrocki
https://normannawrocki.blogspot
https://www.youtube.com/@NormanNawrockiNN
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Celebrate Solstice with 6 amazing non-Xmas music playing indie acts! Sun Dec 21 @ Casa del Popolo, Mtl, 7pm doors, 8pm show! Crazy, wild, enchanting, experimental, some Ukrainian folk, piano, harp, violin, drums, guitars, electronica! #harp, #piano Tix: : tickets.venuepilot.com/e/norman-naw...
A poster with a smiling nawrocki sitting in a chair holding an old fashioned radio announcing the show!
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"A guide for the ways in which everyone can use whatever talents & interests they might have in order to make meaningful change." Tx Ashton Diduck, Montreal Review of Books!
#housing #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #housingcrisis #HousingJustice #montreal
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In Oct 1985 I started my stage career & released albums as a spoken word artist with Rhythm Activism, my first band, co-founded with guitar meister Sylvain Côté. With sis Viv, The Nawrockis will soon release our first spoken word single.
#drums #violin #experimentalmusic #spokenword #ClimateAction
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Sis Viv & I after recording a hot new climate crisis spoken word & music single as The Nawrockis. Launch date coming soon. Meanwhile, hear our last album, ‘Thrunkit!’ on Bandcamp.
normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/music
www.facebook.com/TheNawrockis
#climatecrisis, #climatejustice #ClimateAction
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Thanks to all who came to our 'Squat the City! Toronto booklaunch with
inspirational speakers from the York South-Weston Tenants Union, Parkdale Housing Justice Network, High Park Tenants’ Association, Parkdale-High Park for Palestine, Davenport for Palestine. leftwingbooks.net/.../squat-th....
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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If ya open yer eyes, you’ll find re-stocked
Squat The City! @ Montreal’s Librairie Insoumise, 2033, boul. St-Laurent.
Otherwise, see ya in TORONTO 10.10.25, 7pm, for an amazing book launch event
@ Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, with 6 local activists!
www.facebook.com/events/32466...
October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Hey Toronto! Fri Oct 10th, 7pm, launching Squat the City! with a stellar lineup of community activists also! It's free but you need to get tickets.

www.facebook.com/events/32466...

www.eventbrite.ca/e/squat-the-...

#torontolife #bookstagram #artistic #activist #housing #tenantrights #solidarity
September 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Sis Viv & I released a new non-trad drums & violin CD, Thrunkit! A benefit album for the grassroots Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. On Bandcamp.

normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/album/the-na...

#solidarity #ukraine #postrock #drums #violin #experimentalmusic #improvisedmusic #indiemusician
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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"A brilliant organizer’s handbook"
— rabble.ca
Available @ better bookshops or from: leftwingbooks.net/products/squ...
Upcoming book launches: Victoria Anarchist Bookfair 21.9.25 www.facebook.com/events/32466...
#HousingForAll #tenantrights #arts #activist #solidarity #communityorganising #cabaret
August 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Our new daring drums & violin album coming! Sister & brother housingcleaning music. Infectious. Original. Raw. Explosive. Online listening party launch Mon July 7 on BANDCAMP. But 1st sign up for a fan account.
normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/merch/the-na...
#postrock, #postpunk, #indie, #ukrainian
July 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Tune in to CKUT 90.3 FM, 5pm on Thurs June 26 to hear "Radio Renovictions" interview about my new book, ‘Squat the City! How to use the arts for housing justice.’
Pic: Rhythm Activism (Sylvain Côté & myself) playing our song, 'Condo Vampire', from our housing rights cabaret.
ckut.ca/playlists/RN
June 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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My latest books now also @ Iron Dog Books, 2671 E Hastings St., Vancouver and Massy Books, 229 E Georgia St, Vancouver. For Montreal, Kersplebedeb Books does FREE LOCAL DELIVERY if you order it from their website: leftwingbooks.net/products/squ...

#housing #art #activist #bookstagram #books
June 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Heads up: July 7, 2025, The Nawrockis (sis Viv & I) launch a new full length album online. Experimental. Epic. Exciting. Fun. Like us. Polish/Ukrainian roots, eh.
www.facebook.com/TheNawrockis
#drums #violin #duo #indiemusic #experimentalmusic #soundscape #ambientmusic
June 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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With the ever genial proprietor of Vancouver's beloved MacLeod's Books, Don Stewart, selling my Squat the City! How to use the arts for housing justice. MacLeod’s is one of Canada's top used & antiquarian bookstores, 455 W. Pender. #HousingForAll #thearts #tenantrights #macleodsbook #activism
May 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Re-stocking cool East End indie bookstores with my new "Squat the City! How to use the arts for housing justice." Spartacus Books, 101 - 1983 Commercial Drive; People's Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Dr & with Nena of Cross & Crows Books,
2836 Commercial Drive. leftwingbooks.net/collections/...
May 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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"Squat the City: How to use the arts for housing justice”, launching Sat May 24, 7pm @ Vancouver's Spartacus Books. With film, music & speakers. Fun!
www.facebook.com/events/98963...
Book trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwn...
leftwingbooks.net/collections/...
#tenantrights #thearts #activism
May 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Music, poetry, art, theatre, cassettes, protest, history/lessons/strategies to fight for tenants' and housing rights for all. leftwingbooks.net/products/squ...
#tenantsrights, #housingrights, #squattingmovement, #music, #poetry, #theatre, #protest, #resistance, #montreal, #rentstrike
Cassette cover of my single song, the Overdale Rag, about the late 1980s historic protest to save Montreal's inner-city Overdale neighbourhood. A huge fight! Image: myself singing and playing kazoo with other tenants on steps of a historic home before being arrested.
May 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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My exciting new book, Squat The City! How To Use The Arts For Housing Justice. Non-fiction. Mtl launch 15/4/25, BMP, 5-7pm
Book trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwn...
www.facebook.com/events/54131...
Distributed by Leftwingbooks ISBN 978-1-989701-41-6 leftwingbooks.net/collections/...
My book cover for my new book, SQUAT THE CITY! HOW TO USE THE ARTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE. Gold and yellow text on a purple blurred downtown cityscape. Distributed by Leftwingbooks
April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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We had a great run, 18 years long, but here’s my article about the end of the Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival. Get yer copy of the ever-fab Detroit-based Fifth Estate, Spring 2025

www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-...

More info: www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com/en/about
March 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Thanks to all who came to our POETS FOR THE MONTREAL TENANTS' UNION benefit reading! (SLAM-MATU). And to the amazing poets who shared their work! The power & magic of poetry to help tenants organize and defend their rights.
linktr.ee/slam.matu
#poetry #tenantsunion #tenantsrights #montreal #poets
March 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Tomorrow / Demain! Thurs / jeudi March 6 mars, 12 hot poets / 12 poétes chaud! Reading in solidarity with Montreal Tenants’ Union SLAM-MATU / Une bénéfice bilingue en solidaritié avec le Syndicat des locataires autonomes de Mtl. 7pm/19h, Bar Milton Parc Co-op.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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4 more of Montreal's finest reading to help the Montréal Tenants' Union, SLAM,defend tenants' rights, 6.03.25, BMP Co-op, 7pm. 12 poets in a night of solidarity poetry! Kelly Norah Drukker, Hubert Gendron-Blais, Marilou Craft & Nawrocki. www.facebook.com/events/13799...
#poet #poetry #tenantsrights
March 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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In solidarity with the Montreal Autonomous Tenants' Union. With/avec:
Ahmad Al-khatat
Alex Sadeum
Bryan Sentes
Darby Minott Bradford
Deanna Radford
George Slobodzian
Hubert Gendron-Blais
Kelly Norah Drukker
Laura Doyle Péan
Marilou Craft
Norman Nawrocki
DJ Swan (CKUT's Free Kick Radio Show)
plus +!
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A benefit night of poetry & music for the Montreal Autonomous Tenants' Union / Syndicat des locataries Mtl (SLAM-MATU).
Une soirée de poésie et de musique au profit du Montreal Autonomous Tenants' Union / Syndicat des locataries Mtl (SLAM-MATU). linktr.ee/slam.matu
February 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Not even a 50 vehicle pile up on Highway 10 yesterday could stop ‘Big Mouth’ from delivering copies of his book & speaking to high school English lit classes east of Montreal. Part of the 'Culture in the Schools' Quebec program. Teaches can invite me. Snowstorm or not.
Author standing in snowstorm in front of Cowansville, Quebec high school with copy of his book, The Anarchist & The Devil Do Cabaret in hand. Long line of mashed up cars and trucks in a pileup on Highway 10 in the snowstorm.
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM