Daniel Roher’s deeply personal story of the Canada’s Robbie Robertson, a Crave Original Documentary, will open the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Thursday, September 5th.
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Outside the March (OtM) celebrates its 10th season with their newest immersive experience The Tape Escape — Created by OtM’s Founding and Artistic Director Mitchell Cushman, Vanessa Smythe, and Nick Bottomley, The Tape Escape will unwind in an installation of over 5,000 VHS tapes (designed by Anahita Dehbonehie and Nick Blais) being staged at the former Annex Queen Video location on Bloor Street West.
To find out more about this immersive experience, Mitchell Cushman took time away from the video story to answer my 5 Questions With… series.
The Tita Collective, an all Filipina collective of multidisciplinary artists in Toronto, will present Tita Jokes as part of the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival. Tita Collective is Ann Paula Bautista (Disenchanted US Tour), Belinda Corpuz (Prairie Nurse), Isabel Kanaan (CBC’s Air Farce), Alia Rasul (Generally Hospital), and Maricris Rivera (A New World Being Born). The Collective took a moment to answer my 5 Questions With…
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Franco-Fête de Toronto, Toronto’s biggest Francophone music and culture festival presents its 37th edition from July 5th to 7th. The festival will offer three days of events celebrating the abundance of Francophone heritage and showcasing the very essence of Francophonie.
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It’s that time again! Time to make your way to the Toronto Fringe Festival, and enjoy some excellent local and non-local theatre fun. I’ve been way overdue in curating my picks list this year. Without further ado, read below for what I think will be a great time at the Fringe this year.
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Prominent Canadian playwright George F. Walker (Order of Canada, Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award, five-time Dora Award winner) brings his many years of experience to Toronto’s indie theatre scene to direct his acclaimed 2010 dark comedy And So It Goes for Kyanite Theatre.
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Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. The documentary Push sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unlivable cities, and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster.
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In My Blood It Runs by Maya Newell, in collaboration with the Arrernte and Garrwa Indigenous communities, captures a young, talented healer named Dujuan as he and his family find their voice as an oppressed Indigenous family in the Northern regions of Australia.
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