Download 300 TAPES Media Kit (pdf) – click here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLEASE ADD TO LISTINGS THROUGH TO DECEMBER 12, 2010
Media Contact: Ruth Waters, The Theatre Centre, 416-534-9261 ruth@theatrecentre.org

300 TAPES by Public Recordings

Co-produced by Public Recordings with Alberta Theatre Projects and The Theatre Centre
Developed as part of The Theatre Centre’s Residency Program

Opens Wednesday December 1- Sunday 12 December, 2010 at The Theatre Centre

Co-created by Ame Henderson and Bobby Theodore with
Performers Joe Cobden, Frank Cox-O’Connell and Brendan Gall
Sound artist Anna Friz
Scenographer Trevor Schwellnus
Dramaturg Vicki Stroich
Stage manager and archivist Gillian Lewis

Imagine recording your life on 100 tapes. Record. Rewind. Play. Listen. Stop.

Three men recorded their lives onto 100 tapes each for this intimate archive of fact and fiction that explores how our memories and identity are shaped (and warped) by time, our own ideas of ourselves and the eyes (and ears) of others.

With a groundbreaking sound design, a choreography of our everyday twitches and three performers revealing everything, this bold experiment in storytelling thoughtfully and playfully provokes questions about authenticity.

300 TAPES was developed collaboratively over 2 years as part of The Theatre Centre’s Residency Program. The three performers’ recordings of their own personal memories are used as the source material for 300 TAPES.

“It is thrilling to present Public Recordings’ 300 TAPES at The Theatre Centre, in the very space the piece was developed as part of our Residency Program. We’re also delighted to join forces with Alberta Theatre Projects in introducing this groundbreaking new work to audiences in Calgary.” Franco Boni, Artistic Director, The Theatre Centre

The Theatre Centre’s 2-year Residency Program supports independent artists to create new work. Artists are provided with space, funding and mentorship to explore and develop an idea and create new work that is both provocative and innovative.

Public Recordings supports and promotes the works of dancemaker Ame Henderson and her collaborators. It is recognized for its distinctive style that incorporates ideas and aesthetics from other disciplines and questions recognized performance models.

Following the premiere of 300 TAPES at The Theatre Centre, it will premiere at the 25th Annual Enbridge playRites Festival of new Canadian Plays, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary, in February 2011. www.ATPlive.com.

LISTING INFORMATION: 300 TAPES by Public Recordings at The Theatre Centre
Co-produced by Public Recordings with Alberta Theatre Projects and The Theatre Centre
DATES: 1-12 December, 2010. Tuesday – Saturday, 8pm. Sunday 2pm.
LOCATION: The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M6J 1H3
TICKETS: $22. Student/Senior/Artworker discounts $15. Groups 10+ $12
BOX OFFICE: 416-538-0988
MORE INFO: www.theatrecentre.org
Supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Ontario Arts Council. The Toronto Arts Council, George C Metcalf Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation.

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Posted: October 22nd, 2010 under 300 TAPES, Press Releases 2010-2011.
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Media Contact: Ruth Waters ruth@theatrecentre.org 416-534-9261. Please add to listings through to July 18, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Theatre Centre in partnership with Cooking Fire Theatre Festival presents

Z’s by the C

a radical crafting and public napping project

By Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton + You!
Saturday July 17 – Sunday July 18, 2010

Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!

The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city. By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art - just sweet public dreams!

Z’s by the C is a project in art and social engagement that playfully, but critically, aims to destabilize public and private space by performing a highly intimate act - napping in the city. Increasingly, neoliberal economic and cultural policies have led Western cities to implement social strategies that prohibit loitering and consequently limit public sleeping. Rushton and Moschopedis perceive this criminalization of everyday behavior as not only an affront to our society’s marginalized and fatigued citizens, but also as an attack on public dreaming. As a public intervention, Z’s by the C seeks to rectify this situation, if only temporarily.

This is the first presentation of Z’s by the C in Toronto, following presentations in New York City, Zurich in Switzerland, Ottawa and Calgary.

Mia Rushton is a printmaker, crafter and collector. By combining the elements of silkscreening, sewing, knitting, and drawing, Rushton is among a new generation of do-it-yourself, indie artists who have embraced handcrafting as a way out and a resistance to the overly technocratic art industry. A graduate from Alberta College of Art & Design, Rushton has shown her work at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Choose Yer Own Fest and in Truck Gallery’s CAMPER.

Eric Moschopedis is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. A graduate of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. He also maintains a performance practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, performative work, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.

Since 1979, The Theatre Centre has been Toronto’s home for experimental performance. Serving as an arts incubator, the centre provides emerging and established artists with the facilities, funding, mentorship, profile and sense of community to enable new work to be created, explored and developed. www.theatrecentre.org

Z’s BY THE C LISTING INFORMATION

COST: FREE. DATES: Saturday July 17 - Sunday July 18, 12-4pm
VENUE: At the proposed park located at Lisgar Street, south of Queen Street West, Toronto

MORE INFORMATION: www.theatrecentre.org / www.birdwatcher-yyc.ca

The Theatre Centre is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Ontario Arts Council. The Toronto Arts Council, George C Metcalf Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation.

The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and The McLean Foundation.

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Posted: May 28th, 2010 under Press Releases 2010-2011, Z's by the C.
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