In case you missed its first instalment, Reel Asian’s Retro Summer Series continues at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Thursday, August 25th. In honour of the festival’s 20th anniversary, they are celebrating the achievements of Asian filmmakers by bringing back fan favourites, chosen by festival audiences. READ MORE
The Summer heat continues in Toronto. For those of you who need a break from the heat, or simply want to head to the cinema, I have a list for you this weekend! READ MORE
SummerWorks 2016 was great fun this year. The festival’s array of theatre, music, dance and live art truly showed the diversity in art and artists we have locally, and abroad. The lists of Award Winners and Honourable Mentions certainly proves this. READ MORE
When the words missing and murdered, truth and reconciliation, occupation and resistance are everywhere, how do two Mohawk women stand their ground? Two Indians is a darkly comedic look at the landscape of being Indigenous. READ MORE
Orry-Kelly was a Hollywood legend, his costume designs adored by cinema’s greatest leading ladies – but in his home country of Australia his achievements remained unknown. Now, acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong is bringing the legend home and celebrating the life of this extraordinary Aussie in her new film, Women He’s Undressed. READ MORE
Vancouver-based artist Patrick Blenkarn is inviting us to examine English as a language in his SummerWorks performance piece, Soliloquy in English. This piece is Blenkarn’s attempt to pull this lingua franca back upon itself, to get us talking about how we are talking, and wonder at what it means to share this language today. READ MORE
The Julian Taylor Band has been busy this summer with concerts at Burlington’s Sound of Music Festival, Canada Day Celebrations in Scarborough and David Pecaut Square. Yet they made time in their busy schedule to record new music. The band is releasing two new singles from the upcoming Desert Star double album, called “Fever,” and “Get Loud.” READ MORE
