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94th Annual Graduate Exhibition
Main Campus
Thursday May 7, 2009 to Sunday May 10, 2009

OCAD presents the work of the class of 2009
The transformative power of creative and critical thinking — that’s what you’ll experience at OCAD’s 94th annual Graduate Exhibition. Join us for a unique showcase of innovative next-generation art and design.
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Beach Studio Tour Spring 2009. Enjoy a self guided Studio Tour in Toronto’s original cottage country. On May 1, 2 and 3, you are invited into the homes and studios of local area artists for the 16th Annual Spring Beach Studio Tour. The Tour offers the work of 23 artists for sale in a variety of media including paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour as well as hand-woven fashion, ceramics, photography, sculpture, jewellery, lamp-work glass, textile art, handbags, home décor and metal garden art. No Admission fees. Each studio will offer refreshments and a prize draw for a piece of work donated by each artist at the 12 locations.

For more information visit www.beachstudiotour.ca
Or call 416-691-5195

Alumnae Theatre Company is inviting non-union directors to submit proposals for any of the four shows in our 2009/2010 season:

A Delicate Balance, by Edward Albee
September 25 – October 10, 2009 (Mainstage) More »

“REG HARTT is what living in a metropolis is all about. He personifies the city as a meeting place of ideas, as a feast of experience and discussion and debate, as a triumph of the original and provoking over the banal and soporific.”—THE GLOBE AND MAIL.

The Cineforum, 463 Bathurst Below College Across From The Beer Store.
416-603-6643.  $20. $10 under 24.

Reg Hartt Speaks On Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS
7pm Saturday, May 2,  9, 16.     More »

Open Studio is pleased to present the first of two 2009 Visiting Artists’ Exhibitions featuring London, England-based artist Tine Bech and Toronto, Ontario-based artist Suzanne Nacha, April 30 to May 23, 2009. Each year Open Studio selects four professional artists with or without printmaking experience to create traditional and/or experimental works in the print medium of their choice, working collaboratively with a print media artist. These exhibitions by Bech and Nacha are the result of this intensive work period.

Artists’ talks to accompany the exhibitions will take place at Open Studio on Thursday, April 30, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, followed by an opening reception from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

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Event Horizon Dance presents Dust…, a stimulating evening of choreography from Artistic Director Miranda Abbott that explores the intersection of movement and philosophy, mathematics and science.  Dust…, through movement, sound, video illustrations/animations and text, examines some of the most influential theories and ideas that have led us to our present being.  More »

Nightswimming presents, for the first time ever, the entire seven-play theatrical cycle City of Wine by Ned Dickens. The cycle -  about the ancient Greek city of Thebes from its founding to its collapse, the city where wine was born but best known as the home of Oedipus – will be presented twice in sequence over five wild and wonderful days, beginning with Harmonia at 4pm on Tuesday May 5 and ending with Seven at 8pm Saturday May 9. An unprecedented event in Canadian theatre history, almost 15 years in the making, the City of Wine marathon will be an event to remember. More »

Praxis – Truth and Beauty
Inaugural Salon of Classical Realism in Canada

Showcasing Canadian graduates of Florentine Academies and Professional Canadian Classical Realist artists.
Curators: Rosa Graci and Gary L. Roy ISA
Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
For further information contact Rosa Graci at 416-789-7011 ext 300
www. carriergallery.com
View the show online: www.underthemood.ca.

Known for the presentation of world-class, pan-Asian dance that ranges from unusual traditional forms, to cutting-edge contemporary, the eighth CanAsian International Dance Festival, under the Artistic Direction of acclaimed dance artist Denise Fujiwara, showcases outstanding artists from across Canada and around the world.  The 2009 CanAsian International Dance Festival runs at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre from May 6 to May 9 at 8 pm, with two different programs running on alternate evenings. More »

Coney Island of the Mind

A photography exhibit by Lynsie Roberts.
Featuring images from a recent visit to Coney Island, New York, by Lynsie Roberts, an up and coming Toronto based photographer
Apr 30, 2009  7-11pm
Lens Factory, 1040 Queen St West, Toronto
http://www.lynsieroberts.com/

CHILDREN’S PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOPS with the PUPPETMONGERS
At Puppetmongers’ Studio 1110 Dundas Street East (at Logan)
Starting Next Saturday – for 8 to 12 years olds – Four Saturday Afternoons from 2 to 5 p.m.
April 25th: Toy Theatre – May 2nd: Shadow Puppetry – May 9th: Rod Puppetry – May 16th: Marionettes
Please pass this information on to your friends with children. More »

Hamilton Jewish Literary Festival
From Sinai to the Shtetl and Beyond: Where is Home for the Jewish Writer?
June 5 – 7, 2009
Temple Anshe Sholom, 215 Cline Avenue North
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4A1, 905-528-0121
http://www.anshesholom.ca/aboutus/directions/ for directions More »

Ten Green Bottles – Te-Amim Music Theatre presents the stage premiere of the harrowing, true story of a Viennese Jewish family that escapes Nazism to the turmoil of wartime Shanghai, and ultimately to Canada.  Directed by Mark Cassidy.  Based on the award-winning memoir by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan.  May 14-24 at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue.  Official opening: May 16, 7:30 p.m.  Daytime and evening shows.  Tickets: $10 (schools performances); $20-25 (evenings and weekends).  416-924-6211 (evening and weekend shows only). Info at www.Te-Amim.com.

Gala performance Saturday, May 23, 7:30 p.m.  Details at www.Te-Amim.com, or call 416-642-0430.  Limited seating available for $25.

Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, winner of the 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award, will perform the music of Ann Southam in memory of visual artist Aiko Suzuki and in recognition of the work of The David Suzuki Foundation.

The concert features music from Petrowska Quilico’s 22nd CD, Pond Life, and takes place at the Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W., Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 p.m.  At a reception following the concert, the Canadian Music Centre launches the CD, her sixth on the Centrediscs label. More »

World Stage at Harbourfront Centre
Of All The People In All The World presented by Siemens
Stan’s Cafe

Since 2003, Stan’s Cafe has brought this show to over 40 cities around the world, including Europe, Australia, and North America – this marks the first visit to Toronto. The show adapts to its setting: the country, city and building in which it is performed. From 15-tonnes of rice, the team of performers carefully weighs out quantities of rice, each grain representing a single person, to elucidate various human populations and statistics. More »

Stan’s Cafe (pronounced kaff) brings their bold and ominous theatrical piece The Cleansing Of Constance Brown to World Stage. The audience is seated at the mouth of a specially constructed corridor and watch as only seven performers play 73 characters. With only six words of dialogue, the players run through a barrage of entrancing and alarming scenes. From mysterious office scenarios, to allusions of Guantanamo Bay, the ever changing characters in the corridor reflect images and stories across centuries. More »

York University’s Department of Dance caps its 2008-2009 season with Dance Innovations: SpringLoaded, a dynamic two-part program running May 7 to 9 in York’s McLean Performance Studio. The concert, featuring 16 world premieres, is directed by acclaimed indie dance artists and York instructors, Terrill Maguire and Julia Sasso. More »

The York University Jazz Festival features15 large and small ensembles directed by leading lights of the Canadian jazz scene. With midday and evening performances running four consecutive days, May 5 to 8, the festival offers fans an opportunity to catch the next generation of jazz artists, right here on campus – and with no cover charge! More »

The World Music Festival makes a stop in the Caribbean on its global sonic tour spotlighting musical traditions of five continents. From Klezmer to Cuban ensembles, from Balkan songs to West African drums to classical Chinese orchestra, the festival presents a sampling of the 20+ international cultures represented in York’s world music program. Produced by Matt Vander Woude, it packs 14 free concerts into two full days April 30 and May 1. Concerts are scheduled back-to-back from 10am to 8:30pm in the Martin Family Lounge (room 219) and Sterling Beckwith Studio (room 235) in the Accolade East Building. More »

The York University Gospel Choir directed by Professor Karen Burke brings an evening of inspired singing melding traditional gospel with edgy, contemporary Caribbean rhythms in Gospel from Classics to Reggae on April 28 at 7:30 pm in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall. More »