January 22, 2014
I have a confession to make. Until the preparation for The Quiet Volume, I hadn’t borrowed a book from the library for 10 years. I discovered this two weeks ago when I was doing a […]
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2014
Curating a season is always a balancing act at The Cultch. We want to appeal to as diverse an audience as possible and I am always trying to reach as broad a community as I […]
Read MoreJanuary 09, 2014
There’s just so much to look forward to during the 2014 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival! It seems like only yesterday I wrote the week one of PuSh Festival round-up, and already we are only FIVE […]
Read MoreJanuary 09, 2014
We are a lonely city and we want to talk to each other. That’s what become clear through the tremendous success of last year’s Human Library. We have a hunger to talk to each other, […]
Read MoreJanuary 01, 2014
Have I No Mouth is a first for the PuSh Festival. But it’s not a first to be proud of: it’s rather embarrassing, and actually long, long overdue. It’s the first time we’ve had a […]
Read MoreJanuary 01, 2014
There are some projects that simply capture your imagination and seize it immediately at first hearing. Nanook of the North with a live score featuring Tanya Tagaq was just that. Take Robert Flaherty’s problematic (arguably […]
Read MoreDecember 26, 2013
One hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Over six billion hours of video are watched each month—reflecting almost an hour for each human in the global population. And that’s up 50% […]
Read MoreDecember 26, 2013
We are on the verge of leaving 2013 behind. Many of us are taking stock of the past year, how we’ve succeeded and failed, what we’ve accomplished or not, and how we might resolve to […]
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