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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The SummerWorks Performance Festival returns to Toronto with a wide range of artistic programming that invites audiences to gather together to create new connections with one another and experience the palpable joys of intimacy, ephemerality, and community.
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Flora Le is a storyteller based in Washington DC. She is a lawyer by day, though she has always had the soul of an artist.
I recently connected with Flora, whose one-person show, Sadec 1965: A Love Story, is currently onstage at this year’s Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival. Sadec 1965 is Flora’s first full-length solo storytelling show. One theme is common to Flora’s work: the transformation of pain into beauty.
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Creator/performer Sébastien Heins invites Toronto to a joyous, high-octane, deeply personal adventure story, all experienced at the touch of a button. Video games, theatre and memoir collide in No Save Points as Heins places the control(er) in the hands of the audience, entrusting them to pilot his performance using state-of-the-art motion capture and haptic technology.
Intimate and innovative, the piece is inspired by the real-life story of Heins’ mother being diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease, a rare genetic illness. No Save Points is crafted for gamers and theatre-lovers alike.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) has announced the guest lineup and programming for the second annual MOTIVE, Canada’s largest crime and mystery writing festival. Bibliophiles can come together to enjoy over 40 in-person events at Harbourfront Centre and three free virtual offerings.
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The Sound Inside tells the story of Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, who begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student, Christopher. The two quickly form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, Bella makes a surprising request of Christopher.
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As Aquarians, like myself, continue to celebrate on for the next few weeks, I have compiled a few more events to add to your celebrations.
Winter can be a difficult time to get around, however, this lists includes a wide array of events for your enjoyment.
READ MOREThis installment of In The City features a personally curated list including several events, screenings and exhibits, I wish to attend as part of my birthday celebration. I may not make it to all, but hoping some of you will partake in one, a couple or a few of these.
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Cahoots Theatre presents its third premiere since Spring 2022 with playwright playwright Amanda Lin’s and director Esther Jun’s BETWEEN A WOK AND A HOT POT. While preparing a traditional hot pot onstage, Mandy reminisces about when it wasn’t cool to be Asian, and delves into the complicated topics of identity and appropriation.
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