Press Release
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The rock.paper.sistahz festival is back for its 8th year and promises something for everyone! Beginning May 4, 2009 the festival launches with a sampling of it’s new works by Black women artists, so expect to mingle with some of the most creative dance and visual artists, filmmakers, creators and performers from the city and beyond.
– Harold Awards, Monday May 25, 2009 at 8pm
– Canadian Corps Legion Hall (201 Niagara Street)
– Tickets $12 and available at www.totix.ca
Can’t find an active website (the one from last year is down), but the poster is below.
On May 14 there is a fundraiser for the Toronto Burlesque festival, but they’re short one balloon girl! Help is needed urgently!
Okay, well, that might have been a bit melodramatic, but there’s a group of people in need, and maybe you know someone who can help.
Here are the details from Canadian Wolfman on Facebook:
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By Olya Ryabets
House of Many Tongues at Tarragon, written by Jonathan Garfinkel and directed by Richard Rose, is probably one of the biggest theatrical surprises I’ve had in a long while.
Given the subject matter (Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and the director (Rose is the guy who brought us ‘Scorched’), I fully expected a drawn-out family saga, ripe with preachy sentimentalism aimed to mollify our white liberal guilt. What I got instead, though, is a pleasing (if naïve) evening of magical realism and laughs.
By Crystal Wood
After watching a reading of ahdri zhina mandiela’s who knew grannie? on the final day of the CrossCurrents festival, my first thought was “AMAZING.”
My second thought was “now, how the heck do I write about it?”
The play, which celebrates the life of Grannie as told by 4 cousins (her grandchildren), is written in “dub.”
What’s dub? Well, that’s what I said.