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New photos from Jeff’s appearance in the charitable Tendre La Main book

A couple weeks ago, you could read on SimplePlan.cz first about Jeff’s involvement with the “Tendre La Main” (“Helping Hands”) book project, for which Dr. Jean-Paul Brutus asked a number of local Canadian personalities to be photographed and document the way these people use their hands to help other people, to work and to communicate.

Jeff, as of course the lead guitarist of Simple Plan, agreed to take part in this project, who’s proceeds will be used to support the activities of the Les Impatients Foundation, which assists people sufferring from mental health issues through artistic expression [more information about the Tendre La Main project can be found here].

We already had one picture of Jeff’s hands from a trailer video, but now in the gallery, you can now check out a number of new photos of Jeff’s face in high quality that were taken for the purposes of this book:

New photos from Get Your Heart On! photoshoot

To celebrate Halloween, Simple Plan released two never-seen-before shots from their famous Get Your Heart On! photoshoot [for the booklet for their 4th studio album] in which they spoofed a couple of 80s bands, such as Wham! or RUN DMC.

Check out the new pictures in the gallery:

Simple Plan peace-inspired art to be featured in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

This coming Saturday, November 5th, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be hosting its 56th annual Ball of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which is expected to be attended by a record number of visitors this year as over 930 tickets have been sold for this event this year.

With this year’s Ball’s theme being “Dessine-moi la paix” (“Draw me peace”), the organizers of the event asked a number of local artists – musicians, writers and actors – to each write a text about peace, which will then serve local visual arts artists as inspiration to create settings for the Ball dining rooms.

Among the artists invited to write their texts about peace were for instance singer and song-writer Rufus Wainwright, presenter and story-teller Boucar Diouf, actress Karine Vanasse, rapper Samian, author Kim Thuy, duo Michel Lemieux & Victor Pilon and also the members of the band Simple Plan.

The yet unreleased text about peace that Simple Plan submitted for the purposes of this event, has been turned into art by Canadian artist Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, who specializes in installation, sculpture and photography. According the the Museum’s press release, the peace-inspired text by Simple Plan inspired Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron to create a “space with interacting lighting grids that are suspended over the guests’ heads and move from one room to the other.”

The Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s Ball will inagurate the Michal & Renata Hornstein “Pavillion for Peace” installation (to be opened to public on November 19th), which is one of the first legacies to mark Montreal’s 375th anniversary. With regard to this anniversary, which is coming up in 2017, Simple Plan have already been named the very first Honourable Montrealers last year.

More information about Simple Plan’s text and hopefully also some photos of the srtistic outcome of this piece should be revealed after the event.

Jeff dresses as Freddy Krueger for Halloween

Just as he mentioned in one of recent interviews, Jeff Stinco decided for an old-school classic when it comes to scary Halloween costumes and went with Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street this year.

Check out his Halloween costume on the picture below: