Great read in this Warsaw music mag. How sis Viv & I make music rooted in our family history & my activist 'cabaret rock 'n roll/rebel news orchestra' (Rhythm Activism) experience. We toured the world & The Nawrockis continue the tradition. #thenawrockis #activistmusic idioteq.com/canadian-exp...

Canadian experimental duo THE NAWROCKIS made "Kapusta" from live improvisation, family history and nearly four decades of Polish connections - IDIOTEQ.com

The Nawrockis recorded most of "Kapusta" with Norman Nawrocki on violin and his sister Vivian on a full drum kit, playing together in the studio and keeping

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Up yours Carbon Carney. The Nawrockis' newest single. www.youtube.com/@NormanNawrockiNN normannawrocki.bandcamp.com #climaterage #climatejustice #climateaction #climatecrisis #climateactivism #climateprotest, #environmentaljustice #nopipelines #stopthepipelines #extinctionrebellion #climateactivism

Pick up copies of almost ALL my books at Montreal's coolest used bookshop, The Word, 469 rue Milton! And/or get 'em and my music from my blog! thewordbookstore.ca/one normannawrocki.blogspot.com

normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/merch/kapust... Folks call our music: Goth, rock, metal, alt-folk, experimental, rock, non-trad trad, etc. Listen yerself & party with us online Thurs July 16th, 5pm in Vancouver, 8pm Montreal, 2am Paris!

Kapusta Listening Party from Norman Nawrocki

Listening Party from Norman Nawrocki.

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The Nawrockis, the Ukrainian-Polish / Vancouver-Montreal genre-bending drums ‘n violin sibling duo of Vivian & Norman Nawrocki launch their exciting new album, Kapusta, with a rare & early FREE show @ Co-op Bar Milton Parc, 3714 ave du Parc, Thur July 2, '26, 7pm. www.facebook.com/events/24866...

Congrats & thanks to the Constellation organizing collective behind yet another (27th annual) great Montreal Anarchist Bookfair yesterday! Thanks also to all who came & supported indie distributors & sellers. My annual bookfair photo op with the ever-charming Jaggi Singh.

When you walk into a high-school English classroom, see copies of your books on a shelf below The Diary of Anne Frank, speak about them, then hear short stories written by amazing 14 year olds who tell you about writing their 1st novels, new play or film script. Hats off to incredible teachers! :)

1986, Rhythm Activism, our ‘cabaret rock’n’roll band’ of guitar whiz, Sylvain Côté & myself, spoken word. “Tyrannosaurus Wrexpo, The Spirit of ’86” my anti-world fair rant broadside poem on a DOA EP & others. On exhibit @ the Surrey, BC Art Gallery as “critical artistic responses to Expo ’86."

"High spirited memoir/auto fiction . . . Nawrocki is the anarchist as Renaissance man." Thank you Tom Sandborn and Rabble.ca! rabble.ca/books/the-ea... #EastVan #vancouver #Fiction #history #solidarity #anarchist #community

"An easy-to-read, memoirish romp about his first twenty-some years of growing up in Vancouver’s East End. His writing is effortlessly droll yet engaging. There’s a lot here and it’s worth reading." — Grahame Ware, The British Columbia Review thebcreview.ca/2026/04/16/2... #eastvan #eastend #anarchy

Our band, The Nawrockis, joins 9 other artists on a new CD, The Oystercatcher Sounds Compilation, celebrating the work of The Oystercatcher, an annual anarcho-surrealist publication from the shores of Sla-Dai-Aich in the wilds of British Columbia. #surrealist Listen here: archive.org/.../oyster.....

With one of Canada’s most respected antiquarian book dealers, Don Stewart in Vancouver's beloved McLeod’s Books. 2 floors crammed with treasure like Mao’s little Red Book & my newest, The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir. Support indie bookshops like Don’s. www.instagram.com/macleodsbooks/

Tonight, Vancouver, 7pm, Spartacus Books, 'The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir' with videos & stories about the rad rad East End in the 1960s & '70s. Working class kids rocking the school & the streets. With Marcy Toms, ex-Templeton teacher. Free, eh. #SFU #eastvan #radical #protest #solidarity

Hear about the years that rocked a generation of Templeton & SFU students from 1967 to 1971, protest to graduation. With former Temp teacher, Marcy Toms. Plus videos! Then read my book, 'The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir.' Sunday March 15, 7pm @ Spartacus Books, 1983 Commercial Dr. Free!

BECAUSE OF POPULAR DEMAND, THE 2PM SESSION IS SOLD OUT! A SECOND SESSION HAS BEEN ADDED FOR THE SAME DAY, SAT MAR 7TH FOR 3:15PM . Free, but pre-registration required. With videos and disucssion about the 'hood in the 1960s & '70s & what politicised me! vpl.bibliocommons.com/.../699f93e5...

Catch you at one of 4 Vancouver launch events! Or in Toronto! #memoir #activism #EastVan #history #Vancouver #radical #anarchist #solidarity #communityorganizing #yippies #workingclass #fiction #blackrosebooks #normannawrocki utpdistribution.com/978155164834...

Join us in Victoria for a fun multi-media booklaunch & discussion Tues March 3rd, Camas Books, 7pm, free! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BE... #thoreau #camasbooks #victoria #anarchism #EastVan #vancouver #activism #SFU #hastingssunrise #anarchists #rebels #radicals #communityorganising #greenpeace

Snippit from an interview. The events, people, influences in East Van that molded & formed me. Thanks to Irwin Rapoport, Westmountmag. My birthday party / book launch / ‘60s & ‘’70s dance party @ the Casa, Sun Feb 15, 5pm. Free! www.facebook.com/events/86913... www.westmountmag.ca/norman-nawro...

My newest book out now from University of Toronto Press Distribution. Canada book tour, eh. Order now: utpdistribution.com/978155164834... #memoir #EastVan #EastEnd #Vancouver #history #fiction #anarchy #communityorganising #workingclass #studentpower #SFU #Thoreau #Greenpeace #Unions #MacLeodsBooks

1960s & '70s East Van/East End Vancouver. Working class heroes, hippies, Yippies, anarchists, rad students & more . . . #EastVan #EastEnd #Vancouver #1960s #1970s #SFU #protest #revolt #antiwar #Greenpeace #studentrights #studentpower #freespeech #freedom #rebels #blackrosebooks #riots

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 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 leftwingbooks.net/products/squ...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

"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

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Check out my interview with @normannawrocki.bsky.social, a long-time activist and prolific musician and writer in Montreal. He talks about housing struggles, strengthening movements through the arts, being inspired by Zapatistas and Palestinian youth, and his new book. mediacoop.ca/node/119300