I think now is a great time to post about the biggest project in my life right now.
When i first moved to Ottawa in 2009, i kept hearing from so many people how terrible the arts scene was or how weak the music scene was. And even today for some people in the city, it still may seem to be. However, I have been fortunate enough over the last 3 and a half years to meet some incredibly talented people who are there pushing the arts forward despite the challenge that lay before them. My goal has been to contribute to this thriving scene and help these people bring ottawa arts to more people in the city and outside of it.
This is what motivated myself, along with my friends Stephanie Vicente and Steve St-Pierre, to start Herd Magazine. Herd Magazine is Ottawa’s newest Arts&Culture magazine, providing the city with high quality and provocative content on a quarterly basis. Our publication is unique to the region as we value exceptionally progressive writing and design equally. We are proudly unconventional and naturally alternative. Herd Magazine aims to stimulate the young adults of our city with bold words and intrepid visuals. Content is developed to reflect and endorse the capital`s creative professionals. We are not superficial. We are about the intellectual and creative livestock that fabricate local culture. Our contributors are strictly Ottawa natives or Ottawa residents who are active in the arts and culture community. We’ve put bread and bones behind our magazine because we believe in the revival of quality printed press. Now we invite you to share this passion.
I am confident in Ottawa’s arts community. I believe we have some of the most talented individuals in the country and we want to provide them with the stage to display the art they want to create and not what they have to create for money (although we can still show that too if it’s rad as fuck).
We want to work with as many people as we possibly can. We are still really small and as of right now it is a labor of love to benefit Ottawa’s artistic and cultural roots. We are also currently accepting submissions here with all of our guidelines to doing so.
