I had the fortune of attending a brilliant talk by Robert Pacitti from London UK. Pacitti gave the keynote for this year’s Industry Series portion of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Pacitti is a performance and live art artist who has a lifetime of experience listed in a long and humourous list during his talk.… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
What does public art mean to a community? We live in a city that has a tenuous relationship with public art. From the commonly despised bell in Waterloo town square, to the misunderstood suitcases in Victoria Park, we have a city with art surrounding us, and little of it has a context that is understood.… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
Seems as though I am often saying “I had the pleasure of sitting down with…” these days. Don’t be fooled by the overuse of this: I have been surrounded by pleasurable people! This time, it was Magnetic North Encounters‘ director, Kris Nelson. Having a festival of theatre means a heck of a lot of fine… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
It is the worst thing in the world for a writer to be locked through their own sense of morality to the task of keeping a secret. I am perfectly capable of keeping the secrets of my friends, and many even consider me as secure as a safety deposit box in the most secure bank,… [Read more…]
June 9, 2010
I had the pleasure of having a lunch with Ken Cameron, the Artistic Director of Magnetic North Theatre Festival on Monday. Ken walks with purpose and buzzes with energy like few people I know. In an extraordinarily animated interview, Ken enlightened me on the nuts and bolts of this amazing festival. Magnetic North, at first… [Read more…]
June 5, 2010
I didn’t know what to expect in hearing that Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Theatre was going to be staging a production of Merchant of Venice. This bit of Shakespeare has really hit the public agenda in recent times. There have been questions about whether or not it should be produced or even studied in school. The overt… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
It is with great pride for my city that I can congratulate on this blog four of our contemporary visual artists have won Emerging Artist grants from the Ontario Arts Council. Sarah Kernohan, Lauren Hall, Gareth Lichty and Barbara Hobot were all grant recipients which now absolutely puts Kitchener on the map this year as… [Read more…]
November 9, 2009
I had the pleasure to be at a wonderful opening of a most whimsical installation at the Cambridge Galleries called "Young Romance". The installation curated by Ivan Jurakic featured four artists who assembled a collection of pieces pertaining to romance and dating in an "self- image obsessed culture". "Young Romance" will be on exhibit till… [Read more…]
June 16, 2010
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