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BUZZ is the forum where audiences and plays develop together from the ground up. BUZZ challenges the existing relationship between audience and story, presenting work in its infancy and asking you to follow and participate in the development of new works: by answering questions, by asking questions or by simply being engaged.

Launch party Monday, March 9th with exclusive, one-night-only vignettes from FIVE HOLE: Tales of Hockey Erotica: a sizzling show that brings together Canada’s two favourite pastimes – hockey and sex. More »

PERFORMANCE ART & PRINTMAKING ENGAGE IN BATTLE AT OPEN STUDIO

Snowball: Kyle Bravo, Jenny LeBlanc & Claire Rau
March 5 – 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6 pm-9 pm (artists will be present)

Open Studio is pleased to present Snowball, a print-based performance project and “printstallation” by American artists Kyle Bravo, Jenny LeBlanc and Claire Rau from March 5 to 28, 2009. As Toronto-based writer and artist Andy Fabo points out, performance art often incorporates other traditional visual art media such as sculpture or drawing, but it is rare that printmaking and performance art intersect. More »

Award-winning theatre company Volcano and Theatre Passe Muraille proudly present the Exchange Rate Collective’s Appetite, a collectively-created physical theatre show that was the hot ticket at the 2007 Toronto Summerworks Theatre Festival. One of NOW Magazine ‘best of the fest’ picks for Outstanding Production, Direction and Ensemble, Appetite opens this spring at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Mainspace from April 17-26 (preview April 16). More »

March Break Workshops for Ages 8 – 12

Poetic Art – Creative Expression through Words and Images
Wednesday, March 18, 2 – 4 pm
Workshop Leader: Roxane Tracey
Have fun creating inspirational poetry and creative artwork on wood.  Poetic Art workshops stimulate creative expression through art and poetry and enhance literacy skills.  Participants will take home a Poetic Art piece to hang up for inspiration.
Fee $60, includes all materials. More »

Dancemakers Presents:
Antonija Livingstone
The Part

“The world of The Part is a place in which the subtle twisting of normative conventions has spun completely out of control, in which all the re-invention of a lifetime is uncomfortably crammed into one hour, never quite fitting, always threatening to collapse inwards upon itself or outwards towards the audience. More »

Sara Diamond, President of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), welcomes Dr. Marie Battiste as the third keynote speaker in the President’s Speaker Series, on Thursday, March 5 at 6:45 p.m. Admission is free.

Battiste, a Mi’kmaq educator from Potlo’tek First Nations of Unama’kik, Nova Scotia, has worked actively with First Nations schools and communities as an administrator, teacher, consultant, and curriculum developer, advancing Aboriginal epistemology, languages, pedagogy, and research. More »

DanceWorks, Toronto’s leading presenter of independent dance, presents the world premiere of Frames, from Zata Omm Dance Projects, choreographed by its Artistic Director William Yong, one of Canada’s most creative dance artists. This imaginative, multi-disciplinary work for five dancers runs at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre from March 19-21. More »

Celebrating 80 years of cultural exchange and relations between Japan and Canada, AKA Dance  presents White Moon Dance Nights: four evenings of contemporary dance showcasing both Canadian and Japanese dance forms and their points of interaction. More »

TITLE:           KRIMA! …what a shame
Directed, conceived, choreographed by Maxine Heppner
DATES:         March 1, 2009     3 shows only
TIMES:         4:00pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm
VENUE:        The Young Centre for the Performing Arts
55 Mill Street Bldg 49  Distillery Historic District, Toronto, M5A 3C4

BOX OFFICE:     416.866.8666 or visit www.youngcentre.ca for more info
Ticket prices:  $15, $25 More »

Suitcase Theatre is thrilled to present The House That Jack Built, an engaging new musical for the whole family based on the timeless nursery rhyme of the same name. It will run March 16-21 at 3pm daily all through March Break at the Church of the Redeemer in the heart of downtown Toronto at Bloor and Avenue Road.

This heartwarming musical combines the magic and allure of masks and puppetry with live singer-actors playing four characters – the Man All-Tattered-and-Torn (Doug Price), the Maiden All Forlorn (JoAnn Brooks), the Cow with the Crumpled Horn (Bie Engelen) and the Priest All Shaven and Shorn (Robert Naismith). They perform with colourful masks, costumes and extraordinary miniature and oversized puppets. More »

Remembering FORREST J ACKERMAN.
Thursday, February 26, 2009.
The Cineforum, 463 Bathurst, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 416-603-6643.
2:00 pm: An Into to Forrest J Ackerman. Rare vhs documentary film.
4:00 pm: The Best SF Convetion ever. More rare vhs documentary footage.
6:00 pm: The Sons Of Famous Monsters Interviews with the some of the folk in fluenced by 4SJ and the 8mm films they made as kids. More »

Nymphs and shepherds cavort in song when The Musicians In Ordinary perform Saturday, February 28, 2009, 8 p.m. at the Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. (north of Scollard Street in Yorkville; Bay St. subway).   Tenor Darryl Edwards joins soprano Hallie Fishel and lutenist John Edwards in a concert titled Fair, Cruell Nymph: Songs and Dialogues from 17th Century England.

Tickets are $20, $15 seniors and students, and may be purchased at the door.  For information, call 416-535-9956, e-mail musinord (at) sympatico (dot) ca or visit www.musiciansinordinary.ca.    More »

The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) Professional Gallery presents Roger Ballen: Boarding House from March 5 to May 31, 2009. This landmark exhibition honours the launch of photographer Roger Ballen’s eighth book, Boarding House (Phaidon). More »

DanceWorks, Toronto’s leading presenter of independent dance, presents Vancouver’s acclaimed Lola Dance in the Toronto premiere of the award-winning work Provincial Essays (2007), Friday March 6 and Saturday March 7 at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre. Choreographed by dance icon Lola MacLaughlin, Provincial Essays is an eclectic collection of choreographic landscapes for five dancers, infused with a movement vocabulary inspired by observations of the natural world. More »

Come to CARIBBEAN HEAT and warm up!
Wondering when you will have the sun dance on your face? Cannot make it to the warmth of the tropics this winter?
Ballet Creole has created a night with you in mind. CARIBBEAN HEAT is a night of interactive
- Dance
- Music
- Art
- Food/Drink/Cash Bar
- SILENT AUCTION (with collector’s quality prints)
- and Poetry, to warm your heart. More »

You are invited to an afternoon concert of
JAZZ MUSIC by WOMEN
To celebrate International Women’s Day
KYE MARSHALL (on cello) and ANDY SCOTT (on guitar)
Sunday March 8  at THE ANNEX LIVE (Toronto’s newest jazz club).
296 Brunswick Ave. W (at Bloor)
Sets at 3.30: and 4:30 pm,   Cover charge $8 More »

Special Black History Month exhibit “Self-Portrait”
Featured Artists: Rosslyn Berot-Burns, Opal Dunbar-Adams, Charly Palmer, Freddy Sanchez

There will be a draw for a painting.
You can get tickets at the gallery from now until the night of the event.

Reception: Saturday, February 21, starting at 6 p.m.
Exhibit runs to February 28
600 Markham St. (Mirvish Village – Bathurst and Bloor)
More information at: www.spencegallery.ca

OMO Dance Company presents their 2009 Community Access Program ~ The Urban Project. The Urban Project program features two works by choreographer Debbie Wilson, Hell’s Kitchen and Genesis; Africa Unites Me by guest company Aya Dance Collective and a new work featuring wheelchair dancer Spirit Synott.

The OMO Dance Company Community Access Program offers all tickets at Pay What You Can prices. Call (416) 516-5262 or email contact (at) omodance (dot) com to reserve tickets. More »

Hi from Nancy White!
Roger James and I are doing a double bill at The Tranzac Club on Feb.15.  For information about the show, scroll down to pretty much the very end. I usually write, as I was trained, in Canadian Press style (what, when, where, why, who, whew and what th?? all in the first paragraph because you know they’re going to cut it), but sometimes I just don’t have the strength. Saving it for the shovelling, doncha know! So- BABBLE ALERT!

This is my only Toronto gig this winter – and  I’d love to see you, and Roger is fabulous. More »

Andrea Menard, a multi-talented Metis actor, singer/songwriter and screenwriter. With a voice that chills your spine, she dazzles on stage and screen, bringing audiences to tears. Her voice is lyrical, raw, and reminiscent of the jazz and blues singers of the 1940′s, yet she captures the simplicity of the great folk artists. More »