August 8th, 2023 · Comments Off on ARTS: Diorama Dramas displayed at photography exhibition (May/June 2023)
The light box pictured here in Martha Davis’ garden allows children to discuss difficult subjects with trusted adults. COURTESY MARTHA DAVIS
Since retiring from her career teaching elementary school five years ago, photo artist and independent filmmaker, Martha Davis, has found opportunities to work with children outside the classroom. This May, she joined the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival with her Diorama Dramas. Read more
August 8th, 2023 · Comments Off on FOCUS: Porch View Dances returns (May/June 2023)
12th annual Seaton Village event runs Aug. 9 to 13
Choreographed by Karen & Allen Kaeja, dancers Jim and Owen Adams perform during 2018’s iteration of PVD: Real People Dancing. COURTESY 2018_PVD_SV PHOTOGRAPHY
May 17th, 2022 · Comments Off on ARTS: A corridor of possibilities (May 2022)
Photography festival explores the shocking and the everyday
Vista, 2021, by Alison Galley from the Lifescapes: Through the Lens exhibit at the Dignam Gallery is part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. COURTESY ALISON GALLEY/THE DIGNAM GALLERY
February 4th, 2022 · Comments Off on ARTS: Getting on line with the Japan Foundation (Jan. 2022)
An artistic movement to counter Omicron: beauty, simplicity, constraint
The Japan Foundation boasts over one hundred woodblock prints by Horoshige, depicting Tokyo in the 1850s. Enjoy the meticulous sophistication of these prints when the gallery reopens. The Foundation is located on the 3rd floor of the Hudson’s Bay Centre on Bloor Street. (Pictured: Flower, 1857). COURTESY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION
November 11th, 2021 · Comments Off on ARTS: Get other-worldly at the Toronto Reference Library (Fall 2021)
Fall of 2021 is as good a time as any to escape planet earth
Science fiction writer Judith Merril in the Spaced-Out Library, then located at 566 Palmerston Ave., 1975. Courtesy Toronto Star Photograph Archive from the Toronto Public Library website
September 8th, 2021 · Comments Off on ARTS: Space, the local frontier (Aug. 2021)
Locally-made film Sound of Space lifted off at Toronto Fringe Festival
By Joshua Chong
Hilary June Hart in Sound of Space. COURTESY TYLER MORGAN.
The premiere of Tyler Morgan’s Sound of Space was a meta-experience. The 12-minute film, which streamed virtually at this year’s Toronto Digital Fringe Festival, had a private in-person screening on July 20 at Seaton Village’s Proxima Command Escape Room—the very location where Morgan’s sci-fi flick was filmed. Read more
August 16th, 2021 · Comments Off on ARTS: Culture and community outdoors and free (July 2021)
When a museum is more than a building
The sculpture, “Cracked Wheat,” by Shary Boyle, is included as part of the Gardiner Museum’s audio walking tour of the Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Plaza. BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS
June 11th, 2021 · Comments Off on ARTS: Enjoy Annex-based opera online (May 2021)
From ‘park and bark’ to click and stream – opera is evolving locally
Don Alfonso (Alex Bowie) and Despina (Bahar M. Harandi) plotting and laying bets on what will happen with the young couples whom they serve. From the Long Reach Opera Workshop’s 2018 production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. COURTESY ANDY WRIGHT ONLY1ANDYWRIGHT.COM
May 12th, 2021 · Comments Off on ARTS: Cream cheese and Covid Culture (Apr. 2021)
Your May 2021 Arts Brief
In Dream Scenes, photographer Martha Davis allows seniors to fulfill their wildest fantasies thanks to the magic of green screens.
By Meribeth Deen
May 16th, 2021 is a Sunday, and in all likelihood, you will not be going anywhere, certainly not to a museum or concert. Maybe, maybe… you will go to a park. Read more
The Toronto research team managed to isolate insulin, free of toxins, in January 1922. As spring approached it was clear they had a major medical breakthrough on their hands. COURTESY THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY
March 5th, 2021 · Comments Off on ARTS: Annex is still film set central (Feb. 2021)
Strict COVID-19 protocols being followed
Rebecca Breeds, as the heroic Clarice Starling, and her fellow FBI Agents after catching a killer on Walmer Road in the TV series Clarice. COURTESY MGM TELEVISION AND CBS STUDIOS
