In 2005, unbeknownst to almost everyone, theatre and dance artists Ame Henderson, Chad Dembski, and Jacob Zimmer spent a summer at Hub 14 making a “play”. Six years later, after more than a dozen shows and national and international tours, they return to spend another August at Hub 14.
Perhaps in a Hundred Years is a tender science fiction story about three friends stuck in outer space, waiting for the future to arrive. Despite an almost overwhelming pessimism for the long term future, which many of us share, Perhaps in a Hundred Years endeavors to keep it upbeat, or at least tenderly, militantly, hopeful.
Rebecca Buttigieg is the playwright behind Fierce Monsters, which The Pop Group presents as a staged reading, featuring Margaret Evans, Laura Nordin, Keith Barker, and directed by Jody Hewston.
Sunday, July 31st at 7pm
The upstairs bar at Victory Cafe (581 Markham St.)
Greek schoolchildren had to learn the Seven Wonders, not because those were the only ones, but because they seemed to be the greatest.
But today we should not be able easily to select the seven greatest. We should have seventy times seven, and then seventy times seven again.
It is not hard to name seven wonders in the modern world; it would be very much harder to name seven things not wonderful. One of our poets has said that he has seen “nothing common” on this earth.
We ask “Why?” very early in our life, and we ought not to stop asking “Why?”. Nothing will ever become common; everything will be full of wonder, if we keep our eyes open and our minds wide awake.
Eleanor Hewlings plays Cassie in the site-specific production of HORSE at the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Written by Dora-Award winning playwright Ned Dickens and directed by Leora Morris, HORSE takes 15 people at a time into a Kensington Market alleyway to meet two street kids and watch them negotiate homelessness, police corruption, trauma, and addiction. Every night July 6th-17th @ 7pm. 12 Kensington Avenue.
“John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change.”
Every year, Ross Manson, Artistic Director of Volcano Theatre, brings together a group of nationally and internationally-acclaimed artists to teach at the Volcano Conservatory.
Explore the Alternative: The Volcano Conservatory seeks to provide professional theatre and dance artists with the tools to reinvent performance. For emerging and experienced actors, dancers, directors and theatre-makers.
When: July 22 – 31, 2011 in Toronto
Volcano: “The explosive company from Canada” – The Independent (UK)
For more information click here.
Courses include (but not limited to): Physicalizing Thought with Daniel Brooks Movement with Peggy Baker Fitzmaurice Voicework with Noah Drew Something From Nothing with Quinn Bauriedel from Pig Iron Theatre
There will be music, food, a cash bar, and a communal creative activity. The activity will be a surprise, but they promise it won’t be hard and that it will be a ton of fun. Meet fellow female artists from other practices and disciplines and expand your creative circle. RSVP to winterbirdarts(at)gmail(dot)com so they know how many surprises to make.
One Block examines how each of us is shaped by our physical environments, by the people who have surrounded us, and by the histories that swell under our feet. Unspun Theatre imagines an investigative romp that explores a convergence of ideas about landscape and story. Part of the Harbourfront Centre HATCH season.
Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH season continues with Mrtvolka from Daniela Sneppova and Penn Kemp. Exploring the space between light and darkness, between presence and absence, Mrtvolka presents a multimedia phantasmagoria that will travel the obscure borderlands separating recorded and live performance. Click here for ticket into.
FIXT POINT is proud to present Philippe Gaulier in Toronto:
OPEN CLASS OBSERVATION – On the final day of the Bouffon Masterclass with PHILIPPE GAULIER
January 7th, 2011 from 2 to 4pm at Canadian Stage, Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley Street Toronto). Tickets are $20 PURCHASE TICKETS IN ADVANCE HERE – Limited Space
“After the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations, we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good.”
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