DECEMBER, 2006
 

MERRY CHRISTMASHAPPY HANUKKAH!

 

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.


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 arts.

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

CONGRATULATIONS to DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN  on his new son, Elliot, born November 20 in Ottawa! All are doing well!


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

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.

TERI  LORETTO is stage-managing MATT EDISON’s play, The Domino Heart.  Dec 7 - 17. Call 613 - 686-1269 .


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!!!

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


WCO'S Casa Diablo CD is now available! Look for it soon on  ITunes.

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


MATT EDISON IS currently shooting a pilot for CBC in Toronto.


MARJORIE MALPASS : For dates and places to see The Number 14, check out www.axistheatre.com


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.


CHRISTIE WATSON performs in  The Snow Show: East of the Sun, West of the Moon  Jan , Feb, NAC

Click here for more information.

STEVE FISHER is on air Wednesday night, Dec 6, on CHUO, between 11pm-midnight.


Pictures of  TERI  LORETTO in Miss Witherspoon are posted in  Jane Moore's blog.

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. 


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/


JESSICA HOLMES is expecting her baby this month.


GENNA DU PLESSIS is expecting her baby this month


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.


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.


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


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


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.


VIK SAHAY is in Ernie Barbarash's  Stir of Echoes: The Dead Speak.


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


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/


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 Unpluggedhttp://www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/


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
 



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!

 


 

STILL HAPPENING:

 

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.

 

JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV

 
MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver, producing and writing Stargate: Atlantis TMN.
 

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.

 
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/
 

TERI LORETTO is a weather-person for CBC.

 

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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