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Continue reading →: SummerWorks preview: A magical, imaginative & entertaining piece of storytelling in Yarn
I spent a lovely evening at the Majlis Art Garden last night, for a preview performance of the SummerWorks production of Alex Eddington’s one-human show Yarn, directed by Tyler Seguin and Helen Juvonen. It’s a covered outdoor space with chairs set up in a semi-circle around a stage that sits…
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Continue reading →: Time lapse video of Lisa Anita Wegner Transformation @ STARDUST: Life on Jupiter? opening night
Hey all – A quick second post to follow up the slide show of Lisa Anita Wegner’s opening night of her STARDUST: Life on Jupiter? Transformation event at The Black Cat Gallery: Wegner’s time lapse video of the evening’s metamorphosis, including GoPro cam footage of stylist Wanda MacRae’s perspective.
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Continue reading →: Transformation, inspiration & glam rock in Lisa Anita Wegner’s STARDUST: Life on Jupiter? opening night
I dropped by The Black Cat Gallery (2186 Dundas Street West) last night for the Transformation at Lisa Anita Wegner’s opening of STARDUST: Life on Jupiter?, on until August 6 (no worries about what it says on the poster – I confirmed the date with Wegner). Described as a Transformation/…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks is coming!
Hey theatre fans! Toronto Fringe may be over, but there’s more provocative, exciting theatre to come. SummerWorks 2014 opens a week from today! A juried festival, featuring theatre, dance, music and art works – often multi-media and multi-disciplinary in nature – SummerWorks is always an exciting arts/culture trip. SummerWorks runs…
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Continue reading →: A reminder to be present
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has…
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Continue reading →: Some sympathy for the devils in StageWorks Toronto’s Assassins
“Attention must be paid!” This line from The Death of a Salesman is used as a major talking point by John Wilkes Booth in Assassins. Not able to achieve recognition by regular means, there are some people who will go to extreme measures to be noticed, undertaking the death of…
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Continue reading →: ‘a swarm of humming birds’
Originally posted on TOpoet: A packed house on a hot July night! Lizzie Violet’s Cabaret Noir is doing something very right. The Central’s bartenders were happy to be rushed of their feet keeping up with the thirsty crowd (which is always good for the cash register.) Sadly Marcy Rogers, noted…
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Continue reading →: Beautifully candid & vulnerable – Angela Saini’s “Something Like I’m Beautiful” music vid
Just released today, Angela Saini’s new music video “Something Like I’m Beautiful” is a lovely visual realization of the song, from her latest CD Leap. It’s one of my favourite songs; beautifully candid and vulnerable, it speaks to a feeling that every woman has had at some point – and,…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Twisted good times with Chelsea Manders in Don’t Tell My Dad
Chelsea Manders will sure have a whole lotta s’plainin’ to do if her Dad ever sees this show. Don’t Tell My Dad, directed by Hayley Gilgan, is Manders’ one-woman explosion of songs and stories, taking the audience on a wacky trip through time, from her supportive middle-class upbringing in Victoria,…
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