The Theatre Centre Residency Company KITCHENBAND PRODUCTIONS will be performing their piece DETROIT TIME MACHINE in association with The Theatre Centre as part of this year’s Rhubarb Festival.

Called ‘music for the undead to dance to,’ Detroit Time Machine melds original music, playable sculpture art and video imagery to explore the rise and fall of industrial Detroit. This piece brings together some of Canada’s top indie musicians with award-winning visual artists and theatre makers to create an apocalyptic tribute to the era of mechanization and the future of the industrial world.

Kitchenband are currently developing DETRIOT TIME MACHINE as part of The Theatre Centre 2-year Residency Program . The current Residency Program which supports up to 4 independant companies to develop new work begin in June 2010.

MORE INFO: Rhubarb Festival / KitchenBand Productions
DATES: February 16 – 19 @ 9:30pm
WHERE: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre as part of the Rhubarb Festival
HOW MUCH: PWYC – $20.00 depending on the evening
TO BOOK: 416-975-8555

Posted: January 13th, 2011 under Jan 2011.
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Saturday February 5 – The Music Gallery presents:
Emergents II featuring Stephanie Chua + Tim Francom

Our new Emergents Series shines the spotlight on two next-gen performers

Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets $10 regular, $5 members, seniors + students (available at the door only)
197 John Street, Toronto

Supply is often outstripped by demand, especially when describing opportunities for creative artists; this applies even to the well established, but is especially acute for those just starting out. The Emergents series at the Music Gallery gives a voice to promising early-career performers and ensembles. It aims not only to help emerging artists, but also connect us with their fresh, evolving perspectives.

In electroacoustic music, electronic technology is used to access, generate, explore and configure sound materials. Acousto-electric music is perhaps the antithesis: music in which acoustic instruments are used to mimic and explore electronic sound. Pianist Stephanie Chua explores this idea in her Emergents set. The evening opens with a set by Toronto percussionist Tim Francom, joined by Dean Pomeroy, who will present an all-Canadian programme including works by Linda Smith.

For more, visit www.musicgallery.org

Posted: January 12th, 2011 under Jan 2011.
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We highlighted FEAST at the end of 2010 but we wanted to send a little reminder as it’s happening this coming weekend, Jan 16, 2011.

For those who need reminding… WHAT IS FEAST?

A sliding scale dinner and funding event, FEAST invites artists and groups to propose projects taking place in the Toronto community. For only $20-25 or $10 for students (with valid student card) you will get a 3 course vegetarian dinner, beverages, beer (for those of legal drinking age), and a ballot.

Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of the dinner, the artist or group whose proposal receives the most number of votes will be awarded funds, collected through the entrance fees, to produce their project. The artist or group will be invited back to the next FEAST to present their completed
project.

While the recommended ticket prices are between $20-25 regular price and $10 for students, the event works on the basis of the more that people can share, the larger the grants we can provide. FEAST Toronto is in its infancy. With your support we hope to see this event continue to grow.

How it works:

1. Buy a ticket for dinner on Sunday, January 16th, 2011 at XPACE Cultural Centre
2. Enjoy dinner and conversation with all of your friends and community
3. Over the course of dinner artists present project proposals for your consideration
4. Everyone votes for which project they would like to fund
5. The project with the most votes is funded from the money raised from ticket sales. (As well, the student project with the most votes will be awarded with the XPACE student grant.)

FEAST is generously co-presented by XPACE Cultural Centre, sponsored by A Space Gallery and Amsterdam Beer, and supported by Fuse Magazine.

MORE INFO: click here
TICKETS ARE LIMITED.
Contact: XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Avenue, or email Amber Landgraff and Deborah Wang at feast.toronto@gmail.com. Accept cash only.

Posted: January 10th, 2011 under Jan 2011.
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FADO Performance Art Centre present
they perform on friday and on saturday they respond to friday

January 14 + January 15 8PM
$10/PWYC (you pay only once)
at 213 Sterling Road Toronto

Artists Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Yumi Onose and Simon Rabyniuk perform on Friday and the next night they present a new work in response to the previous evening. This situation challenges the artists to work directly and immediately with site, a changing and repeating audience and to consider the impact and influence of working side by side over a duration of time. This project is also about the role of the audience in performance and visual art. Audiences are often understood as entities that are separate from the art work that they are experiencing, and this paradigm is quite strongly embedded in our ways both to produce and to receive art work.

Curator: Claudia Wittmann

MORE INFO: click here

Posted: January 10th, 2011 under Jan 2011.
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January 26-29, 2011 at Fleck Dance Theatre
Questo Buio Feroce (The Wild Darkness)
Compagnia Pippo Delbono (Italy)

Italian director Pippo Delbono pushes life to the edge in a joyful, cinematic and courageous theatrical portrait, inspired by a collection of essays by Harold Brodkey, an American novelist who died of AIDS. With a cast that includes former street peddlars and those with physical or mental handicaps (one of whom he saved from an asylum), Delbono’s work carries an authentic edge and realness.

At once whirling funeral then strange carnival, Questo Buio Feroce comes like a dream, reaffirming the desire and passions of life, and revealing the humility of our common humanity.

Performed in English and Italian with English surtitles.

MORE INFO: click here
TICKETS: $49
TO BOOK: 416-973-4000 – www.harbourfrontcentre.com

Posted: January 10th, 2011 under Jan 2011.
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De-Shelter In Development – a workshop presentation

Saturday January 15, from 8-10pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
at Theatre Passe Muraille (main space)
PWYC

Commissioned by Project: Humanity and developed through the company’s De-Shelter Initiative, PH invites you to an informal showing of new works-in-progress from creators Marie Beath Badian, Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman, Catherine Murray, and Jordan Tannahill. Directed and dramaturged by Alan Dilworth and Andrew Kushnir of Project: Humanity.

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PH’s De-Shelter Initiative Phase 2 had artists assisting with weekly drama workshops at Covenant House and Youth Without Shelter (in Rexdale) – they were then commissioned to create pieces of theatre inspired by their interface with the shelter community.

Posted: January 10th, 2011 under Jan 2011.
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