I am thrilled to welcome a 1868 cabinet containing 18 stunning song birds. Preserved with arsenic, their plumage retains exceptional colours, even though the case is 150 years old. At least twice a year we, visit Hofmann’s Flea Market on Gore street in Perth, Ontario. Eli Hoffman, with the face of Mr. Dressup and the calm demeanour of Mr. Rogers, always has darling trinkets and treasures to offer. This case is of exceptional museum quality and will probably be the last piece I buy before I start grad school in the fall. 18 new creatures would quiet even Noah’s obsessive tendencies.

An old fashioned summer road trip up north has left me tan and with a new creature to add to the menagerie. Christopher was charming enough to bestow a coiled preserved snake to The CZC. Species identification unknown. Expert knowledge welcomed.

I  have been proclaimed  a rule breaker by Nadja Sayej, host of Artstars* and Toronto socialite, in the latest issue of Sketch magazine. To find out what rule I dare to break, pick up the latest copy of this national quarterly. Yo can find The CZC and rule # Three on page 18

It Kills & patrons of the arts

The Contemporary Zoological Conservatory is delighted to annouce It Kills will be shooting a music video for their self titled  debut album. Lisa Lipton, Solomon Vromans and Will Robinson,  long time collaborators formerly of I See Rowboats will enchant the neighbours and rouse the dead with their evocatively haunting  music and hymnal howls.

from left, albino caribou, bald eagle, moose.

The new donations have been hung and the walls are slowly filling up. I still won’t be happy till a horse fills the floor space and a narwhal hangs from the ceiling.