DECEMBER, 2006 |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! |
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BOFA Site news:
Have you checked the Bulletin
Board this month?
Check out the Fans and
Fame page, now up.
Do you know that www. bofa.ca has a juke box,
a working bulletin board, and an archive which
contains all the news we have ever put up?
Follow the links to the right on this (the News)
page.
The Canterbury High School page
is part-way up...
JANE MOORE'S blog. |
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CHRISTIE WATSON announces a Party -- a Cabaret
for the Arts in Ottawa, Ha Ha Koo CHIMNEY BANG
BANG CABARET.
Thursday, December 14, at the SAW Gallery, 2 Daly Avenue. Doors open
at 8.
Performances at 9. Free Admission
Come on out for an evening of performance, dancing, drinking, presents
and fun.
We've got a great line up (presented in random order): short pieces
from
Alan Shain, Lisa Twardowska, Inouk, Elizabeth Logue, Annie Lefebvre,
Christie Watson, Importeine, and more!
But that's not all... bring a wrapped present, and take home any
other
wrapped present. And if that wasn't enough, after the performances,
be
prepared to boogie the night away with Superstar DJ AL Connors.
Free admission, cheap drinks, presents for everyone... don't miss
this
party, the first of a series of cabarets celebrating the creative
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See Michael Kennard, Mump, in Puzzle
Me Red, a workshop presentation, written and
performed by Mike and directed by John Turner ( Smoot),
with live music composed and performed by Jerome McPeek. by
Dec 29, 8 pm and Dec 30, 8 pm. PWYC.
BERKELEY STREET UPSTAIRS THEATRE, 26 Berkeley Street
Closest intersection: Front & Parliament |
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CONGRATULATIONS to DENNIS
VAN STAALDUINEN on his new son, Elliot, born November
20 in Ottawa! All are doing well! |
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JESSE GRIFFITHS plays Claudio in Shakespeare's Measure
for Measure, Feb 6 - 15, in his last
Ryerson production. The show will be in the Main Theatre and Michael
Waller will be directing . www.ryersontheatre.ca . Jesse
is double cast in the role so if you are going to see him, doublecheck |
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CHRISTIE WATSON's band, Smoke Judo (" Ottawa's
premiere experimental group") plays a free show, Dec.4 at Zaphod's
( Ottawa) in the market, at about 9.30. |
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TERI LORETTO is stage-managing MATT
EDISON’s play, The Domino Heart. Dec
7 - 17. Call 613 - 686-1269 . |
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AMY RUTHERFORD advertises the Amy
and Amy Show Fundraiser Dec 3,
8 pm., $15.00 at The Supermarket (268
Augusta in Kensington Market) with music by: Buck 65, The
Parkas, Calcu-lator and the Oral Presentation and Elana McMurtry.
Advance Tickets at Soundscapes (College St., Little
Italy.)
This is a fundraiser for a TV series that
I've been working on for the last couple of years with Amy
Stewart. We are shooting a trailer for it in January. Daniel
MacIvor is directing it and we need money. We have
some funds already but we want to have enough to pay people
and do it right. So please, come out to support us and learn
more about the show!
We're talking: magic, dancing elves, tinsel teases, cookies
and so much more!!!
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TYLER WESTERLUND and White Cowbell Oklahoma perform
with Grimskunk, Friday, Dec. 1, in Montreal
at The Spectrum 318, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest. Also
featuring: Les Dales Hawerchuk & Gong Goya.
www.whitecowbell.com
www.myspace.com/whitecowbelloklahoma
www.grimskunk.com
www.myspace.com/grimskunk |
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WCO'S Casa Diablo CD is now available!
Look for it soon on ITunes. |
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Saturday, Dec. 16 : A 3-D Canadian CD release of Casa
Diablo at WCO's annual XXX-Mas
Celebration, Lee's Palace, Toronto, 529 Bloor
St. With special guests Grimskunk. Tickets
on sale now.
First 200 lunatics get free 3D glasses!!
www.whitecowbell.com
www.myspace.com/whitecowbelloklahoma |
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MATT EDISON IS currently shooting a pilot for CBC in
Toronto. |
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MARJORIE MALPASS : For dates and places to see The
Number 14, check out www.axistheatre.com |
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MARTIN GERO is shooting his movie, Young
People Fucking, in Toronto. MARTIN co-wrote
the movie (with Aaron Abrams., Slings and Arrows.) MARTIN is
directing it, and also helping produce it. |
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CHRISTIE WATSON performs in The Snow
Show: East of the Sun, West of the Moon Jan , Feb, NAC
Click
here for more information. |
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STEVE FISHER is on air Wednesday night,
Dec 6, on CHUO, between 11pm-midnight. |
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Pictures of TERI LORETTO in Miss
Witherspoon are posted in Jane Moore's blog. |
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JAMIE FRANKLIN announces her show at Rose
Buford College in England:
http://www.myspace.com/eta3_2006
We're about to put on our final show, a collectively
devised piece which will take place throughout the whole
grounds of our school....
40 performers take you on a journey through the night and our darkest
fears. Combining intimate confessions and half remembered dreams Nightwalks blurs
the line between sleeping and walking, between hope and despair, between
performance and life. Nightwalks is an immersive experience
lasting one and a half hours, with four entry times each evening. The
work has been collaboratively devised by European Theatre Arts, Level
Three.
Performances are at Rose Bruford, http://www.bruford.ac.uk ,in
Sidcup - (BR Zone 5 London, UNITED KINGDOM) on December, Wed. 6 - Fri.
8. There are four shows each night, but tickets are *very* limited.
The first show is at 6pm. |
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AMY RUTHERFORD performs in Crow’s
Theatre’s Directors Cut,
Factory Theatre, Nov 21- Dec 10. Tues-Thurs, $21., Fri, Sat., $25.,
Sunday, PWYC. 416 504 9971 http://www.crowstheatre.com/ |
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JESSICA HOLMES is expecting her baby this month. |
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GENNA DU PLESSIS is expecting her baby this month |
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TRISHA ALLISON dances in LADMMI's
3rd year winter show, Cru d’automne 2006,
December 19-22 at Theatre la Chapelle in Montreal. For tickets, visit
the website at www.lachapelle.org. |
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LEVON HENDERSON is cinematographer for two U.S.
feature movies shooting in the States after Christmas, one entitled That
One Night.
You can see Levon’s work as cinematographer on the movie, Crossed, now
available on DVD. |
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MATTHEW EDISON’s The Domino
Heart is being produced in Ottawa, by New
Theatre of Ottawa, directed by Peter Froelich, starring Mary
Ellis, Kris Joseph, David McCallum. Dec 7 – 17,
Academic Hall, $20.00.
And look, you can buy his play! At Playwrights Canada Press.
www.playwrightscanada.com/html/catalog2A.htm
Read this article about Matt and his play. From Toronto’s Eye
Weekly. www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_03.20.03/arts/dominoheart.php |
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ROBERT PARKER is currently working as assistant
director on High Fidelity, one of the most
eagerly awaited shows to open on Broadway this season. The new musical
comedy will begin previews at the Imperial Theatre on November 20.
The musical has set an official opening night of December 7.
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=535534
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DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants have
a show Dec.30, 2006 9:00 pm., Limerick Junction - Night
b4 New Years Eve Party! Vancouver, BC. |
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VIK SAHAY is in Ernie Barbarash's Stir
of Echoes: The Dead Speak. |
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CHRIS COCHRANE and HAMZA ADAM play
together in Studio 58's next production - A
Perfect Wedding, Nov. 23- Dec. 10.
http://www.langara.bc.ca/studio58/future.html |
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BILL SOUROUR ( BILL SPARKS)
has a blog of fun at http://myspace.com/billsparks, and another for
his photos, taken in Paris and the Dominican Republic, at http://billsparks.deviantart.com/ |
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TYLEY ROSS and the East Village Opera
Company, play two shows at Joe's Pub, New
York, NY, Dec. 20:
Sketches of the Season, Intimate and Unplugged. http://www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/ |
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DAVID NUGENT is at Stratford, as Writer in Residence
at the Conservatory, writing the musical he has been commissioned
for. http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/pdf/NR412006.pdf |
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CHRIS FRASER has made lovely magnets
to sell at $2.50 each.
Here's what she says: They are up
for sale if anyone is looking for funky & original Christmas
gifts! They're $2.50 each or $2 if you buy more than a couple. They
are half the size of a business card, and flat, so they
mail easily!
Click here for some images of
them.
NATHAN HAUCH is a T.A. for a first-year
Religion course, ( "Christianity is not the same
thing as Daoism." : ) and he is the
Administrative Coordinator for the Carleton Disability
Awareness Centre (www.cusaonline.com/cdac), and
he just had a week's holiday in Berlin!
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STILL HAPPENING:
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STEPHANIE MOORE in G-Spot,
Showcase. MAUREEN WELCH hosts Design
U, Mondays, HGTV. VIK SAHAY,This
is Wonderland, CTV. JESSICA HOLMES on CBC's Royal
Canadian Air Farce. |
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JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV
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MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver, producing and writing Stargate:
Atlantis TMN. |
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STEVE FISHER emails his list and recommendations
for what's on in Toronto, Gracing The Stage, to
anyone who asks for it.
steve@gracingthestage.com. |
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DEREK CARKNER sends out Idol
Chatter every week, a commentary on the week's reality televison, by
Derek and his friend, Jason. http://www.idolchatter.org/ |
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TERI LORETTO is a weather-person for CBC. |
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CD's to buy:
Tyler Westerlund:
White Cowbell Oklahoma, Casa Diablo.
http://www.whitecowbell.com
Jessica Holmes, 25 Laughs
To The Gallon. http://www.airfarce.com/info/25laughs.html
Duane Keogh:
The Town Pants, Weight of Words
www.thetownpants.com www.maxmusic.ca/home.php
Tyler Westerlund: White
Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro Blanco
www.whitecowbell.com/
Tyley Ross: East Village Opera Company, La Donna
www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/store.html
Raoul
Bhaneja: Raoul and The Big Time, Cold Outside
www.raoulbhaneja.com
Tyley Ross: East
Village Opera Company, East Village Opera Company
www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/store.html
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