The feature-length documentary s-yéwyáw / Awaken will premiere at home in British Columbia on Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 4:30PM at the VIFF Centre in Vancouver. The film will screen on multiple dates in Vancouver following this special event screening, where the filmmakers and the film’s Elders will be in attendance for an extended Q&A and Indigenous ceremony.
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Gradient is the latest album by the Jesse Dietschi Trio. The album is an opportunity to travel along a continuum between modern jazz and contemporary classical chamber music, adjusting position as they navigate compositions that blend these styles.
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Colin Boyd Shafer is a Canadian documentary photographer and social sciences educator. I came to know Colin and his work through his previous projects, INTERLOVE which tells interfaith love stories in Ontario, and Cosmopolis Toronto, a project that features someone from every country of the world who now calls Toronto home.
His latest project, the hardcover book Finding American: Stories of Immigration from the 50 States has just been released by Figure 1 Publishing Inc.
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Presented by The Theatre Centre, the 2023 edition of the Comedy Is Art Festival offers five nights of excellent comedy and good vibes curated by comedian and storyteller Liza Paul.
Below is a glimpse at festival offerings including stand-up, music, improv, and sketch. Plenty of ways to enjoy a good laugh.
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Over the course of 4 days, a group of curious and thoughtful artists, filmmakers, critics, and academics engaging with Latin American artistic production in Canada will take part in the First Latin American Media Arts Symposium (LAMAS). The symposium aims to explore questions about how media arts spaces and institutions are or are not supporting the visibility of Latin American media arts and film in Canada. It will also explore the idea of how we can move forward through local and transnational collaboration.
LAMAS includes panel discussions, round tables, performances, and special collaborations with local arts organizations. The symposium is taking place on October 4-7, 2023 at the Friends House in Toronto.
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Hannah Levinson made her stage debut at 5 years old in The Sound of Music and at just 17 she is already a three-time Dora Nominee, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winner.
This week, Hannah returns to Toronto’s Coal Mine Theatre for their production of Brendan Jacob’s Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE.
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As part of the Industry programming, TIFF brought back its TIFF Series Accelerator programme this year. The programme, presented by Canada Media Fund, was set up to provide mentorship for eight emerging Canadian series-creator teams from under-represented communities to refine their pitches and develop a business plan for their projects.
Here I spotlight series creators Cory Bowles and Cazhhmere Downey whose concept series Out of Pocket was one of the eight projects selected to participate in this year’s programme.
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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its award recipients for the 48th edition of the Festival.
This year, the lineup of films did not disappoint jurors and audiences alike. Below are the list of award winners at this year’s festival.
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To entice you even more about attending some of the performances at this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival, I have another instalment of my 5 Questions With… series!
Learn more about SummerWorks from another of the six guest curators, Alison Wong 黃巧文, a director, producer, and performance maker born in Hong Kong and now based in Treaty 13 territory, also known as Toronto.
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In getting you ready for the 2023 SummerWorks Performance Festival, I bring you another spotlight interview with one of the six guest curators.
I return with my 5 Questions With… Series with Aria Evans, a queer, Toronto based, West Coast born award winning interdisciplinary artist who’s practice spans dance, theatre and film.
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