MARCH, 2004
 

BOFA 2004 competes in the National Tournament of the Canadian Improv Games at the National Arts Centre, April 13 - 17. Semi-finals are April 13-16, Finals are April 17!

Be there, as HAMZA ADAM, COLIN MUNCH, JOSH ISSENMAN, ROBIN TOLLER, TOM HAYS, NEIL SMITH,
CARI LESLIE
and IRIS LAPID play for it all!


KATHLEEN CORNISH clowns with Cirque du Soleil until July..
Catch her on CBC television too, in Solstrum.

ANDREW DILLON and RAE-ANNA MAITLAND sing in the Canterbury Coffee House, March 25.

IRIS LAPID models original designs, and TRISHA ALLISON dances, in the Fashion Show at Canterbury, March 26, 7 pm.

BOFA plays BC, Winnipeg, Alberta and Toronto, April 15, in the C.I.G. national semi-finals, NAC., 7:30 pm.

HAMZA ADAM was nominated for best dancer in the Ottawa Hip-Hop Awards at Babylon Night Club, FRIDAY, MARCH 19 AT 9 P.M., $10, MORE AT THE DOOR!

CONGRATULATIONS to MARTIN GERO who has just become a Story Editor for the new Stargate: Atlantis show.
( MGM Studios.) MARTIN has just moved to Vancouver for the season, where he will also be writing his own script(s) for the show.
 
JESSICA HOMES is Jasmine in the new CBC comedy show XPM.

TYLER WESTERLUND and White Cowbell Oklahoma:
Tour dates for their new album CENCERRO BLANCO
are April 10 at The Underground in Hamilton, and April 24 at Babylon in Ottawa.


You'll want to read JESSICA HOLMES' interview in Uproar, a NewYork - based magazine about stand up comedians:
http://uproarmagazine.com/issue4/riffingwith3.html

HAMZA ADAM and Qwod Skwod have a modern dance performance at the Mercury Lounge, in Ottawa, March 25. The troupe performed in Toronto and Hamilton at the end of February.

JESSICA BESSER-ROSENBERG performed in The Vagina Monologues at McGill University Feb 13, 14, 15. as a part of V-Day. http://www.vday.mcgill.ca/vm/team.html
Congratulations to JESSICA and her group, who raised $19,000. for their cause.

JESSICA HOLMES plays Dina in Welcome to Mooseport, a new movie starring Ray Roamno, Gene Hackman and Marcia Gay Harden.

See MARJORIE MALPASS at Vancouver's TheatreSports on Granville Island. http://www.vtsl.com/players/players1.htm Marjorie takes to the road again with the phenomenal hit, The Number 14, with Axis Theatre, after a two month run in Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre this summer.
http://www.artsclub.com/20032004/onstage/number14.htm


Paul Griffin directs the Canterbury OAC Production, Picnic at Hanging Rock, playing March 3 - 6, Canterbury High School. Curtain 7:30.


MARTIN GERO, KURT SMEATON and Julie Dumais challenge improv troupes at Clinton's, March 1.
HOWARD JEROME has been spotted in the audience!

ROBERT PARKER directs Vampire Cowboy Trilogy
by Qui Nguyen and ROBERT ROSS PARKER
March 5 - 27, 2004 Common Basis Theatre, 750 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor (at 46th Street), New York. $20
Call (212) 696-7806 or email tix@vampirecowboys.com

"Cowboys Theatre Company has a mission towards the creation and production of new works, with an emphasis on Stage Combat, Dark Comedy, and Avante Garde direction. This is not your parent's theatre!"
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/vampire.htm
http://www.vampirecowboys.com/productions.htm


Paul Hopkins goes to the Stratford Festival this month to begin work on Shakespeare's Henry VIII and two other plays for this season.


DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants play in the Vancouver Celtic Festival, on opening day of the six-day festival, March 12, noon to 1 pm in the TD Plaza, outside Pacific Centre.
www.thetownpants.com


JEHAN KHOORSHED plays at the Cock'n Bull in Montreal. March 14, 17 and 18. Shows start at 9 pm, with Rachel Hamilton on fiddle and vocals. (Rachel's a graduate of the Canterbury Vocal Music programme.)


 
 

STILL HAPPENING:

 
JEHAN KHOORSHED plays and sings live on Thursdays in Montreal, at The Cock 'n Bull.
 
BILL SOUROUR hosts and plays at The iNSTiTUTiON
GREG COCHRANE plays accompaniment there…
 
RAOUL BHANEJA, Train 48, Global weekdays
 


VIK SAHAY, Radio Active, YTV.

 

STEPHANIE MOORE, Queer as Folk, SHOWCASE

 
JESSICA HOLMES, a regular on CBC's The Royal Canadian Air Farce, Fridays 8pm, Mondays, 7:30 pm.
 

JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV

 
MARTIN GERO and KURT SMEATON, doing improv big time at Clinton's, Toronto, Monday nights.

Canterbury calling…
If you haven't done so yet, please check out JUDY KIRSH's new website for Canterbury grads. www.cacda.com
Go to the site to register as a grad, donate, buy tickets, get information, join the Alumni Association, and just check it all out!

New CD's to buy:

Tyler Westerlund: White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro Blanco


Tyley Ross: East Village Opera Company, La Donna


Raoul Bhaneja: Raoul and The Big Time, Cold Outside


In the Getting On With Life category, CONGRATULATIONS, to these BOFA babies (and friends):

DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN, JESSICA HOLMES, STEPHANIE MOORE and Shannon Doern, who, each with their respective partners, have all bought their own homes in the last few months. RAOUL BHANEJA and Gitte are the latest to get their own home!

And to MICHAEL VALLIANT SAUNDERS whose lovely baby girl just celebrated her first birthday!

 

 
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