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Letter from Chicago

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Visiting the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

by Marianne Ackerman
16.01.2012

The age of national culture is over. Forget about tired nation-states, their ineffective governments and surly citizens. Great art is to be found in cities with strong flavours. At the top of my list is Chicago, just over an hour from Toronto by air, where a vibrant theatre scene is offering the best play I’ve seen in years.

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OCCUPY CHRISTMAS

Occupy the Future

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Resistance is futile

by Marianne Ackerman
01.01.2012

There’s a great line in one of George Walker’s plays about growing older. A character – somebody’s crusty mother – remarks that as we age, we either get more like ourselves, or less. “I’m going for the more,” she snaps. Me too. Is there really any other choice?

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STAGE

Slicing and Dicey

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Dave St. Pierre, Le cycle de la boucherie, at Théâtre La Chapelle, through December 17

by Marianne Ackerman
13.12.2011

If Vincent Van Gogh were alive and creating dance theatre in Montreal, he might well make work like Dave St. Pierre’s. Both artists display sure flashes of genius embedded in frantic energy, and a voracious will focused unflinchingly on the creation of terrible beauty.

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ROVER ART FAIR 2011

An Address to Remember

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Learn more about Rover Art Fair 2011

by Marianne Ackerman
28.11.2011

The Van Horne Terminal Iron Works is a graceful brick block dividing northern Mile End from the railroad tracks. It started out as the name of sculptor Glen LeMesurier’s storefront studio at 135 Van Horne, but has since become synonymous with the whole fabulous building, just east of avenue du Parc.

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ART

In-demand Man

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Popular Ottawa artist Michael Harrington paints the meaning of man

by Marianne Ackerman
24.11.2011

As artist studios go, Michael Harrington’s is vintage man-cave. An arch between two yet-to-be-gentrified houses on an unfashionable Ottawa street leads into a weedy courtyard. At the back, a cinderblock building on its last legs. The windowless two-room suite on the second floor is crammed with guitars on stands, various packing crates, iffy furnishings, paint-splatted [...]

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ART

Zine-o-philia

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The tenth anniversary edition of Expozine expects to draw hundreds of small press publishers to one-of-a-kind event

by Marianne Ackerman
23.11.2011

For most of the 20th Century, authors were blissfully removed from the means of production. A vast enterprise of publishing and media undertook (and profited from) disseminating writing. Now all that’s collapsing. Expozine helps fill in the cracks in the architecture. Founded by novelist, publisher (the pioneering zine Fish Piss figuring prominently), musician and Distroboto [...]

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ART

Creation Theories, Quebec-style

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The Musée des beaux arts plays host to expansive, and free, Big Bang exhibition featuring the likes of Denys Arcand, Pierre Lapointe, Marie Chouinard, Collectif Rita and many more A-list Quebec creators

by Marianne Ackerman
11.11.2011

Like peering through the windows of a stylish bar on a Saturday night, Safari 1 invites viewers to become voyeurs. A seven-minute video co-directed by filmmaker Denys Arcand and visual artist Adad Hannah follows the dream-like actions of eight bar habitués, projected on six TV-sized screens suspended from the ceiling. In the centre, the bar [...]

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