If you were unfortunate enough to miss last year's inaugural Vancouver Wrecking Ball at the Stanley, ask anyone who was there how awesome it was and then stand back and watch them explode with volcanic enthusiasm. It was a clear and resounding proclamation that a group of impassioned artists joined together can generate serious shock… Continue reading The Wrecking Ball rolls again
NOW! youth sustainability announces National playwriting competition
The NOW! Organization was founded in 2006, and it "...bridges people from diverse backgrounds to sculpt innovative, holistic solutions toward social, environmental, and economic sustainability". And further: "We implement interdisciplinary grassroots programs to creatively inspire, engage, and empower youth, pique ideas and discussions, promote interdisciplinary, holistic thinking and problem solving, and spark action." So essentially… Continue reading NOW! youth sustainability announces National playwriting competition
PuSh 2010 line-up announced
Vancouver's very own PuSh International Performing Arts Festival drops next year on January 20, running to February 6. The official site has just released the shows that will be on display for your consideration and discussion. Here's a grab bag of copy from the listings section: An enormous scale model of Auschwitz fills the stage,… Continue reading PuSh 2010 line-up announced
Switching baskets: growing a sustainable funding model?
A comment just popped up from Jon Stancato, Co-Artistic Director of NYC's The Stolen Chair Theatre Company, on this recent post about the Open Up and Let Them In concept of Indie Stage, that discusses a recent initiative towards a new funding model that bears examination. I think I love it. There's an essential point… Continue reading Switching baskets: growing a sustainable funding model?
…and another Stop the Cuts PSA for your linking pleasure
Open up and let them in, continued…
I am an artist in process. We are an industry in process. I am of the opinion that our particular industry is in its entirety process, and nothing more. And I think I'm starting to get an inkling of what that word means. My process thus far has gone something like this: discovered theatre at… Continue reading Open up and let them in, continued…
“This guy is going to be a star”
Checked out Zee Zee Theatre's Nelly Boy at the PAL tonight in Coal Harbour. Local Playwright Dave Deveau's new play discussing the marginalization of non-specific gender identity, it's an intimate and language-driven work that spotlights the work of an actor about whom Colin Thomas writes in the opening line of his review: Remember the name… Continue reading “This guy is going to be a star”
This One Goes to Eleven: Marci T House
Please meet the unstoppable force that is Actor Marci T House. Marci relentlessly works on her craft all over Vancouver stage, TV and film, seemingly popping up in something everywhere I turn. And she finances her habit by doing a little architecture on the side. She is onstage right now as Viney in the Playhouse… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Marci T House
The 10th Making a Scene Conference hits Granville Island this week
This coming Thursday, October 29 marks the kick-off of the 10th Making a Scene Theatre Conference, the annual performing arts think tank hosted by the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance. The conference has a new slogan this year: "Theatre Matters", presumably in response to the current Liberal governments contention that it doesn't. Indeed, many of… Continue reading The 10th Making a Scene Conference hits Granville Island this week
New BC Arts Cuts PSA
Battery Opera re-prices remount tickets at $267.67 each
At the beginning of this year, Battery Opera sold out 40 straight shows of Artistic Producer David McIntosh's East Side literary walkabout Lives Were Around Me. Plank Magazine's Rachel Scott began her review thusly; Battery Opera’s production event Lives Were Around Me is an intimate and startling theatrical experience. Although I have little idea of… Continue reading Battery Opera re-prices remount tickets at $267.67 each
Stella Adler clears up any confusion
Tom Waits on Art
Jim Jarmusch once told me fast, cheap and good...pick two. If it's fast and cheap it won't be good. If it's cheap and good it won't be fast. If it's fast and good it won't be cheap. Fast, cheap and good...pick two words to live by.
Solo Collective announces new project with video promo
The Solo Collective is now in its tenth year of developing original Canadian work, bless them. Co-Artistic Directors Aaron Bushkowsky, Rachel Peake and Johnna Wright dropped the following video on their blog to announce the upcoming The Project, which opens November 4 at Performance Works. It looks like a theatrical presentation about a Hollywood company… Continue reading Solo Collective announces new project with video promo
Stop the Cuts
Click here to join the Facebook group Organizing Against Campbell's Cuts to the Arts PSA courtesy of Jenn Griffin and Alberta Mayne
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