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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 »

Film historian and critic Tom Waugh, director of graduate film studies at Concordia University, presents a screening of the recently re-mastered 1974 Canadian classic, Montreal Main, followed by a Q&A.
When: February 25, 2:30pm
Where: The Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, York University 4700 Keele Street [map]
Admission: Free
Information: 416-736-2100 ext. 33592 or www.yorku.ca/finearts/film
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Peggy Baker Dance Projects presents
confluence
a fascinating collision of science and art

Award-winning dancer and choreographer Peggy Baker unveils confluence – a triptych of dance works inspired by the work of Montreal visual artist Sylvia Safdie and by the science essays of Lewis Thomas in his ’70s classic, The Lives of a Cell. More »