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Yesterday, a friend of ours who plays frequently at the Artbar received a $65 ticket for busking on King Street in Hamilton. The police officer didn't know the difference between busking and begging. Many a musician has made a living and raised a family playing on the street. On one of the unsightliest corners in Hamilton, a city where heritage buildings fall down from neglect, Ken brings positive energy and truly beautiful music to a blighted downtown. I guess Hamilton doesn't want artists in the city core after all.
The Mooredale Youth Orchestras play rarely heard gems by a variety of composers on Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3-4:30 p.m. at the Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, 711 Bloor Street East (Castle Frank subway). Tickets are $15; seniors and students, $10, and are available at the door. For information call 416-587-9411 or visit www.mooredaleconcerts.com. More »
I am glad to announce that tickets for my play “Man 2 Man” – Damien and Emmanuel’s love story are now available. The play will be staged at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto on June 18th and 19th. and is directed by Canute Lawrence. “Man 2 Man” stars Frederick O’Neal and Tawiah M’carthy along with Neville Stephenson. The link above will take you directly to the “Totix” where you can purchase tickets on-line. You can also purchase tickets in person at the Totix Booth at Yonge Dundas Square.
http://www.ticketweb.ca/snl/Search.action?query=man+2+man
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This concert marks the 30th anniversary of the No Hot Cargo for Argentina protest in Saint John,NB.
It will be filmed and shown as part of celebrations March 13 in Saint John, where members of the Longshoremen’s Union, represented by Pat Riley, will receive the “Orden de Mayo” from the present government of Argentina, in recognition of their role in the protest.
9 p.m. NANCY WHITE with SUZY WILDE (keyboard), CLAUDIO SALDIVIA (guitar and charrango), and JUAN OPITZ (bombo and small percussion)
10 p.m. MARCELO PUENTE More »
1000 acts-of-art.ca aims to challenge individuals to engage with Etobicoke’s vibrant arts community by committing an act of art.
Whether it’s painting a mural, attending the theatre, playing the piano or making jewelry, 1000 Acts of Art wants people in the community to get inspired, involved and engaged! More »
Nightwood Theatre, Canada’s national women’s theatre, is thrilled to announce Maude Barlow as this year’s Keynote Speaker. National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and recipient of eight honourary doctorates as well as many awards including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment Award, and the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award. Ms. Barlow is also the best-selling author of 16 books including international best seller Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. More »
The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) is betting the month of March will go out like a lion as it launches its exciting new fundraising initiative, Project 31.
Acclaimed members of the university faculty have donated 31 works of art and design, which will be unveiled on a daily basis throughout the month, culminating in a live auction celebration on Wednesday, March 31. More »
Capitalizing on the tremendous sold-out success of The Kreutzer Sonata last season, the Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of founder Andrew Burashko, re-stages this outstanding concert evening inspired by and featuring Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata (Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47) at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre from March 18-21, 2010. More »
The Ontario College of Art & Design’s Faculties of Art and Liberal Studies have partnered to present Art Creates Change: Action – Vodou and Haitian Art, a lecture and community dialogue featuring an exhibition and silent auction on Friday, March 5 starting at 1 p.m.
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, renowned Haitian scholar, and an ‘oungan asowge’, a priest of Vodou religion and spirituality, will present his lecture on Vodou and Haitian Art. More »
Rowers Pub Reading Series at Harbord House
150 Harbord Street, 2nd floor (647) 430-7365
Monday March 1st, 2010
7:30 p.m. Free – a hat is passed
The Rowers Pub Reading Series has as its March features:
Jacob Scheier (More To Keep Us Warm, ECW Press, 2007)
Sonja Greckol (Gravity Matters, Inanna Publications, 2009)
Michael Winter (The Architects are Here, Viking Canada, 2007)
Rebecca Northan in Blind Date (Canada)
Held over by popular demand, Blind Date has been extended for a third week, Mar. 9 through Mar. 12. After a sold-out run in 2009, audiences will have four additional opportunities in 2010 to see Northan’s brilliant improvisational mastery. More »
Open Studio is pleased to present Silence, a solo exhibition by Tampere, Finland-based artist Janne Laine from February 25 to April 3, 2010.
Janne Laine works primarily in the medium of heliogravure, an intaglio process that produces detail and tones similar to a photograph. The works exhibited in Silence describe idealized landscapes that depict water in all its forms—gas, liquid and solid—as the essence of life. More »
The York Dance Ensemble (YDE), the spirited young repertory company of York University’s Dance Department, leaps into the limelight with patriotic fervour with Strong and Free, running March 4 to 6 at the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre.
Subtitled From Living Legacies to Emerging Forces, this dynamic celebration of Canadian dance features classic and new works by renowned and rising choreographers – a trajectory of Canadian dance accomplishment spanning more than six decades. More »
Celebrating her 32nd anniversary in dance, Denise Fujiwara premieres Lost & Found, a mesmerizing solo that integrates Butoh dance with improvisation as it contemplates impermanence and the self.
DanceWorks presents an Extraordinary Shared Program featuring Denise Fujiwara in Lost and Found and Susie Burpee in Fidelity’s Edge. More »
Canada’s internationally celebrated chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy perform a whole afternoon of splendid concerti by Antonio Vivaldi, including the popular Four Seasons, at Mooredale Concerts, Sunday, March 7, 2010. This is the only Toronto performance by “Les Violons” in their 25th anniversary season.
The concert takes place at 3:15 p.m. in the MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building, (south of the ROM, Museum subway). Tickets, $35; $30 seniors and students, and info are available at www.mooredaleconcerts.com or by calling 416-922-3714. More »
relay
Ame Henderson/Public Recordings
WORLD PREMIERE
Apr. 7-10, 8 p.m., $15 – $30
Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
Description: relay is a collaborative choreographic experiment for 8 performers and 2 musicians. Public Recordings’ Artistic Director Ame Henderson has invited these exceptional artists to come together to make a performance that asks important questions about the politics and possibility of being together.
The Portrait Society of Canada salutes Canada’s top Olympic athletes in an extraordinary, month-long exhibition of contemporary portraits. Canadian Olympic Athletes: A Dialogue in Art will be on display March 2-26, 2010 at the John B. Aird Gallery in the MacDonald Block, 900 Bay Street, first floor, Toronto. The paintings will also be auctioned for sale on eBay (www.ebay.ca) or via www.portraitsociety.ca) during the Olympics. After the exhibition, they will remain on sale through the year at the Portrait Society website.
The Opening Reception is Thursday, March 4, 6-8 p.m., with artists and a number of the athlete subjects in attendance. Brothers Paul and John Craig, track and field Olympians (1976 and 1980) will be guest speakers. The portrait of the two recently carrying the Olympic Torch, by artist Jean Harding, is one of 34 artworks on display and sale. More »
As part of the ongoing Steam Whistle UNSIGNED series, Dinosaur Bones will play their 7-inch release party on March 5th and 100% of ticket sales will be donated to the Artists’ Health Centre Foundation. Steam Whistle UNSIGNED has featured over 30 independent Canadian acts (including Woodhands, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Lioness among others) and raised over $14,000 for local artists to date. More »
During Black History Month, Toronto’s leading black dance company, COBA (Collective of Black Artists) presents Diasporic Dimensions, running Friday, February 26 through Sunday, February 28, 2010 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre.
The program explores the richness of Africa and the Diaspora, from Mali to Haiti as it premieres 3 new works and reprises Maa Keeba, co-Artistic Director BaKari E. Lindsay’s tribute to the late legendary singer Miriam Makeba. More »
Actors Repertory Company is thrilled to announce the Canadian première of Martin Crimp’s celebrated work The City, a deliciously wicked yet profound piece of theatre. Joining the two time Dora Award winning company is Award winning Romanian Director Cristian Popescu, who will lead the audience through Crimp’s fierce and penetrating vision of modern life. Opening March 19, 2010 at The Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs, the show runs until April 3, 2010. More »
Celebrated jazz percussionist, composer and bandleader Barry Elmes, Chair of York University’s Music Department, steps into the spotlight March 2 for the final performance in York’s 2009-2010 Faculty Concert Series.
Elmes leads a group of friends and colleagues assembled especially for this showcase concert, including faculty members Ron Westray, the Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance, on trombone, and Kelly Jefferson on sax, plus Reg Schwager on guitar and Steve Wallace on bass. The playlist will feature new compositions by Elmes plus selections from previously recorded material. More »
