Bloor St. Culture Corridor participates in strategy consultations By Heather Kelly The diverse arts organizations that make up the Bloor St. Culture Corridor are playing an active role in setting the province’s cultural priorities by participating in a series of town halls and online forums, and by responding to requests for comment. The consultation process […]

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A local literary line-up for the holidays By Annemarie Brissenden Annex publisher Coach House Books, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year and operates out of bpNichol Lane, boasts a bevy of award-winning reads: Fifteen Dogs gain human consciousness and language in André Alexis’s Giller Prize- and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize-winning novel; editors John […]

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Frankenstein Live emphasizes language over spectacle By Annemarie Brissenden How does one reckon with the horror of one’s own creation? It’s a question posed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and one asked of the audience in Frankenstein Live premiering this month at the Walmer Centre Theatre. “[Frankenstein] was so obsessed with creating […]

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Heritage Toronto plaque honours poets MacEwen and Acorn By Annemarie Brissenden He was large, gruff, almost a bully, and an ardent Marxist who used poetry to foment revolution. Equally passionate, she was a fey little thing who decided in her teenage years that she would live for poetry. And for a brief, explosive time, Milton […]

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Seven notorious twentieth-century women come alive in solo show By Annemarie Brissenden It turned out that Zelda was most comfortable in the bathtub. For Elizabeth Smart, it was doing dishes in the kitchen. Or so Dora-award winning actress Nicky Guadagni discovered as she rattled around a big, old farmhouse, coming to grips with the seven […]

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Porch View Dances bridges art and audience By Axile Gerona Local porches will come alive with dance once again this summer, when Porch View Dances returns for the fourth year to Seaton Village. “From Aug. 19 to 23, choreographies by real-life professional dance couples Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja, Michael Caldwell and Louis Laberge-Côté, and […]

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Trip marks 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Canada By Beth McKay Toronto’s Esprit Orchestra is fearless when it comes to musical innovation, and its brave musical style has recently landed them on the opposite side of the world. In late May, 30 Esprit musicians left Toronto for the orchestra’s debut tour of China. Esprit’s […]

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Collection of photographs captures spirit and character of the area By Annemarie Brissenden Gerald Pisarzowski leafs through a series of platinum black and white prints bound into a beautiful book that is a work of art unto itself. His face quirks into the hint of an expression as he alights on a fresh image, each […]

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Artist was fascinated by Yorkville and hippie culture By Joan Tadier It was 1967: the year of Expo in Montreal, the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury was in full swing. Love was in the air and flowers were in our hair. Yorkville Village was abuzz with music, hippies, Blow-Up, The Penny Farthing, The Purple Onion, the […]

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Gildiner explores literature, memory, and the passage of time in final memoir By Annemarie Brissenden, With Coming Ashore, the third instalment of her memoirs about finding her own place in a tumultuous world, Catherine Gildiner brings her Bildungsroman trilogy to a close. On the surface, the narrative picks up Gildiner’s story as she departs her […]

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$6.2 million renovation to make Carnegie Library performing arts centre By Ryan Saundercook After 33 years of a somewhat unstable nomadic existence, the Theatre Centre has broken ground on the renovation of its first permanent home – the Carnegie Library, a 104-year-old heritage property located at 1115 Queen St. West. The $6.2 million renovation project […]

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