Mar 15
The Encampment, by Thom Sokolski and Jenny Anne McCowan will take place at Fort York in June with Luminato Festival
Luminato announced its line-up on Wednesday with features ranging from Rufus Wainwright to Laura Secord and the War of 1812. Read more in News.
By: Alex Johnson
I was late to the Gregory Prest party. My invitation got lost in the mail. The man of the hour had been winning audiences over regularly with performances in White Biting Dog, Death of a Salesman, and Ghost, while I sat at home watching Dance Moms – all of them. With his current rendering of Edmund in Soulpepper’s Long Days Journey Into Night, I am at the party, and deep into the free champagne.
Gregory was kind enough to meet me before a Saturday night show and I came face-to-face with Gregory Prest: The Actor’s Actor. Present, eager, aware, quick to laugh and refreshingly at ease with the occasional uneasiness of the actor’s job.
“Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk” – TED Talks.
“I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?” Elizabeth Gilbert – Author known most notably for Eat, Pray, Love.
“How do we survive as an artist? […] In this business, there is very little that will force you to retire. Bad mental health, negativity, and even bad physical health due to stress, substance abuse or whatever it may be are just a few that could and do end a career. Why not find ways to make ours last for as long as possible. After all, it is your passion, your job and your life” Hallie Seline – Your friendly In the Greenroom Co-Creator & Editor.
Read more of my thoughts and musings on this video in The Vision Board
Kathryn Alexandre - Charlotte Goodall in Hart House Theatre's "The Night of the Iguana"
I just had the pleasure of sitting down with recent University of Toronto and Sheridan College grad, Kathryn Alexandre, for an interview about being an emerging artist in Toronto and acting along-side Allegra Fulton and David Ferry in her current show, Tennesse Williams’ The Night of the Iguana. The show runs until March 10th, Wednesday to Saturday 8pm, plus a Saturday Matinee at 2pm at Hart House Theatre. To read her Actor Profile, click here!
By Andrea Leigh Pelletier
As any of my friends will tell you, I am a huge proponent of video art. I fell into it by accident in my final year as photography major. It was a new experience that allowed my mind to explore new forms of visual expression. Then it became a habit—I was filming my friends while they slept, and myself, alone in my apartment. Perhaps my love of video art was born out of my exhaustion with still images, and an inner yearning for a new experience. I started playing with projection and installation; it became my goal to not only produce a visual piece of art, but an immersive, all-encompassing world in which to experience this art.
With still images, I sometimes feel as though “the jig is up,” DSLRs are now commonplace and even your kid brother knows his way around Photoshop. Photographic images have saturated our world like never before because the everyday person understands their construction more thoroughly.
Installation-based video art pulls us in to an ever-changing audio-visual world, not only presenting us with beautiful and enigmatic imagery, but also surrounding us in the world of that imagery. Have I sold you yet? Good. Because right now in Toronto, there is a show I need you to see.
Read more in Artbeats
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