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Media@McGill presents

Radical Affordances:

Emerging Scholarship, Art, and Activism
at the Intersection of Media and Disability Studies

A free public panel and virtual gallery during McGill’s 2015 Disabilities Awareness Week
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Monday, March 23, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in Leacock 232 [click here for access map]

The event is followed by a reception.


To what extent do media technologies and practices shape our abilities to act and circulate in the world? In what ways might critical disability studies invite us to rethink our understandings of media and their affordances? Inspired by McGill postdoctoral researcher Arseli Dokumaci’s current work on disabilities and affordances, this panel explores the potentials of “radical affordances” in relation to mobility, everyday performance, as well as artistic and activist practices. Featuring six Montreal-based emerging scholars and practitioners, the presentations include projects and case studies that offer new tools to expand the affordances of existing technologies, as well as creative approaches that reveal unsuspected possibilities in familiar devices and media.

Misfires that Matter: Disabled Ways of Affording the Everyday
Dr. Arseli Dokumaci, postdoctoral researcher, McGill University

Wheeling New York City
Laurence Parent, PhD candidate, Concordia University

Art and Design in the Context of Assistive Technologies: Two Projects
Dr. Florian Grond, postdoctoral researcher, Concordia University

Singing Beyond Hearing
Jessica Holmes, PhD candidate, McGill University

Narrative Creations in Sign Languages: The Promises of Image Technologies
Dr. Julie Châteauvert, independent artist and scholar

The Underwater City Project
Aimee Louw, journalist and activist

This event is supported by McGill University’s Office for Students with Disabilities and Concordia University’s Critical Disability Studies Working Group.

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Glenn Greenwald Free Conference @ McGill

Glenn Greenwald to present Media@McGill’s 2014 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture

For its flagship event, the 2014 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture, Media@McGill is excited to announce the speaker as Glenn Greenwald, journalist, constitutional lawyer, commentator, and bestselling author. Mr. Greenwald, who recently broke the NSA surveillance story, joins an impressive roster of speakers who have taken part in this event, which includes luminaries such as Al Gore, Angela Davis, Seymour Hersh, and Peter W. Singer, among others.

The Lecture will take place on Thursday, October 23, 2014, at 6 p.m. at Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec. As always, the Lecture is free and open to the public.

Seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets or preregistration will be done.

In addition, the Lecture will be livestreamed.

Glenn Greenwald is best known for his 2013 National Security Agency reporting during which he was a columnist for the Guardian US (the latter is the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner along with the Washington Post). For his reporting he received the George Polk award for national security reporting; the Gannett Foundation award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation watchdog journalism award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (the first non-Brazilian to win); and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura Poitras, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. His fifth book, No Place to Hide, is about the US surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. His book will be released in May 2014. He has recently developed, along with Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill and others, a new media venture funded by Pierre Omidyar called First Look Media.

Media@McGill is a hub of research, scholarship and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology and culture, based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Canada. It was created and has been sustained by generous funding from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.

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Next Wave Festival of New Musicals

September 25-28

CETM (The Centre for Education and Theatre in Montreal) presents the 7th annual Next Wave Festival of New Musicals, a unique showcase for new musicals in development from Montreal and around the globe.The Festival includes six outstanding shows and events over four days, including free performances. At Centre Calixa-Lavallée (in Parc Lafontaine) and the Lion d’Or. www.cetm.ca

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Unrelated

October 4-5

Dancer/choreographer Daina Ashbee presents the world premiere of her new show, Unrelated. Interpreted by two dancers, Unrelated expresses the struggle of Aboriginal women through a reconstruction of their identities. At the MAI. dainaashbee.wix.com/daina-ashbee

Kafka’s Ape

October 17-30

Infinithéâtre presents the Montreal area tour of Kafka’s Ape. Guy Sprung’s riveting adaptation of Franz Kafka's Report to an Academy will have audiences questioning how ‘humane’ we have become while exploring themes of assimilation, freedom, and civilization. Starring Howard Rosenstein. The tour includes: Forest and Stream Club, Dorval, Oct. 14-15; Theatre Wakefield, Oct. 17-18, Saint-Lambert, Oct. 23-25; Maison de la Culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Oct. 30; Hudson Village Theatre, Oct. 31-Nov. 1. www.infinitheatre.com

Too Close to the Sun

November 4-8

Too Close to the Sun (Australia/Montreal) presents Of the Causes of Wonderful Things by Talya Rubin and Nick James. Immersed in a noir and atmospheric world, Of the Causes of Wonderful Things weaves dark comedy with tones of Faulkner and the Southern Gothic. This otherworldly, deeply human, visionary piece examines the redemptive power of confronting darkness. At Theatre La Chapelle. www.tooclosetothesun.tumblr.com

The Pipeline

December 4-7

Infinithéâtre presents The Pipeline, their annual series of free public readings featuring the top-rated scripts from their Write-On-Q! playwriting competition. At the Rialto Theatre. www.infinitheatre.com

Billy (The Days of Howling)

Why is Talisman Theatre’s Artistic Director and Set Designer, Lyne Paquette, washing 2000 white teddy bears…?

Come see Billy (The Days of Howling) and find out!

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Billy (The Days of Howling)
Written by Fabien Cloutier, Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Directed by Emma Tibaldo

Mark these dates in your fall calendar
Tuesday, October 14- Saturday, October 25, 2014

With Billy (The Days of Howling), Fabien Cloutier releases a tsunami of anger built entirely on prejudices, stereotypes and our ignorance of others. Three characters, who view each other as lesser or wanting, are confronted by the repercussions of unforgiving judgments. Billy (The Days of Howling) makes us reflect on our vision of community and strives to uncover why we are unable to really engage with one another.

With: Davide Chiazzese, Susan Glover and Nadia Verrucci
Set design, Lyne Paquette and Fruzsina Lanyi; costume design, Fruzsina Lanyi; lighting design, David Perrault Ninacs; sound design, Michael Leon

Billy (The Days of Howling)

Talisman Theatre at Théâtre La Chapelle
3700 rue St. Dominique
Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm
Matinee: Saturday, October 25 at 3:00pm
Reservations: 514 843-7738, billetterie@lachapelle.org

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Talisman Theatre produces English-language Montreal premières of contemporary Québécois works.

RUIN PORN at the CCA

Celebrating the reverse side of Napoleon, i.e. the OCCUPY movement of the 1870's that managed to bring down the column at Place Vendome in Paris in view of bringing more ÉGALITÉ to people other than bourgeois militaries / imperialism injustice and abuse. 

THE MOUND OF VENDÔME, a project by Californian History Professor David Gissen who is herein featured in a video interview, can be seen at the CCA from June 19 til September 14, 2014. Check this out!

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CCA 25 Years

The CCA is 25 years old! It's been a centre for exhibitions out of the ordinary as well as for eye- and mind-opening conferences and research.

In a world where submission seems to be the only rule of conduct and obedience, this place is a wonderful resource. Thank you for standing guard and helping those-of-us-who-want-to-know better understand the world which we live in. More : scroll for the video link.

Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director Emeritus

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Interview with Mirko Zardini, Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture regarding the events surrounding the 25th anniversary of the CCA as well as ongoing activities such as the Mellon Conferences and particularly the one from last week entitled Smart Cities where French Harvard Professor Antoine Picon gave a lecture in which he disclosed that just a few individuals could soon be making all decisions for all cities of the world with the help of just a few programs out of Silicon Valley. Looking forward to more outstanding exhibitions and mind-opening lecturers this anniversary year and onward.

Video and Interview : Jacqueline Mallette

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The Memory of Water

Theater 317 proudly presents the Montreal premiere of The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson, directed by Corey Castle, from April 8th - 12th at Theatre La Chapelle.

In The Memory of Water, three sisters, each haunted by their own demons, gather in a highly charged atmosphere on the eve of their mother's funeral. With a storm raging outside, they laugh, cry, rage and bicker as the conflicts of the past and their hold on the present are mercilessly exposed.

Complicating their interactions is the fragile nature of memory; no two sisters remember their childhood experiences in the same way. Yet, they are sisters and must find a way to come together. Unable to connect with each other, they find dangerous, desperate, poignant and wildly funny ways to break through.

Theatre 317 artistic director, Munirah Amra, chose this play because for her, it is about the two most important things in life, memory and love, “The Memory of Water is life affirming and bittersweet, cheeky and profound, gentle and cruel. It offers us an evening of laughter and the opportunity to celebrate what makes us human.”

This searing comedy exposes the patterns and strains of family life in a way that will be familiar to all. Winner of the British Laurence Olivier Award in 2000 for Best Comedy, The Memory of Water promises to be one of those great elucidating nights at the theatre, holding a mirror up to anyone with a sibling.

The cast includes Katherine Cleland, Mylène Dinh-Robic (from the hit new TV series 19-2), Milan Duchêne, Anais Kassardjian, Azeddine Kettani, Jéromine Lorre-Déjoie and Ani Shahbazian. Lighting design is by Marie-Reine Corvellec and set design by Olivier Donohue.

About Theatre 317

Theatre 317 was born in Montreal over twenty years ago in a classroom at Collège Marie de France, room 317, when a group of bright students were first introduced to the stage by an inspiring teacher, Munirah Amra. Today, many of these original students, some of whom are now professional actors, have formed Theatre 317 helmed by Munirah Amra as artistic director, and continue to produce wonderful plays for loyal audiences.

The Memory of Water, first presented in London in 1998, received unqualified rave reviews and moved from its off-West End theatre to the West End for an extended run. The London Sunday Times said, “Shelagh Stephenson’s writing is barbed, lyrical, witty & full of a rare emotional intelligence”; the Independent called it, “Wickedly funny and moving.”

The Memory of Water (5 shows only)

Theatre 317

Playing at Theatre La Chapelle, 3700 rue St. Dominique

Tuesday, April 8-Saturday, April 12 at 8:00pm

Tickets: 25$ regular, 20$ students
To purchase tickets: 514-989-1336

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What's On in Montreal - Theatre

Unseamly

“You’re like this beautiful sexy chick that has every guy in your class whacking off to you...” – Ira Slatsky

Oren Safdie, one of Montréal’s best known playwrights across North America, finally gets a world premiere in his home town. Infinithéâtre is proud to present Unseamly, directed by Sarah Carlsen & Guy Sprung, from Feb. 11-Mar. 9 at Bain St. Michel. This unsettling piece focusing on the fashion world stars Arlen Aguayo Stewart, Howard Rosenstein and Jonathan Silver. Inspired by a variety of sexual harassment allegations brought against well-known clothing companies, Unseamly focuses its attention on an industry that has become synonymous for pushing the boundaries on sexuality while inflaming debates as to what is ethically acceptable.

In Unseamly, a young woman seeks legal advice to initiate charges of sexual harassment against her former boss, Ira Slatsky, the CEO of an international clothing company known for its risqué billboards. Female sexuality confronts male corporate power. Who is telling the truth? Who is manipulating whom? How far should/can a young woman go to take down a predator?

Is it possible that sexual harassment, undermining women, taking advantage of innocence, and the inherent corrupting influence of power and wealth may never be eradicated? Unseamly is based on a variety of events and journalistic allegations that are in the public domain. These news articles include both false accusations and stories of people being paid off. Truth is elusive and too often written by the victors. In Unseamly, the characters present their point of view and audiences get to decide what they think. Weekly post-show ‘Talkback Tuesdays’ offer an opportunity to do this in public.

For Safdie, the kernel that created the play came from having a daughter, “Suddenly, I started seeing the world differently. Victoria’s Secret for 10 year olds, the highly suggestive ads, they all made me feel that there has to be consequences to this; I saw a perfect metaphor for the time we live in. Malina, the main character in the play, is a product of this world. She is supposed to be as desensitized to casual sex as her boss, but that's not exactly how it plays out.” Is Malina using her sexual powers to orchestrate a shakedown, a spiteful lover acting out in revenge or is she being taken advantage of? He continues, “Personally, I fear that there is a breakdown of human morality, which is what keeps me writing every day.”

Infinitheatre’s mandate is to tackle issues and themes that are important to our contemporary world. From Artistic Director and Unseamly Co-Director Guy Sprung: “This is a gutsy, provocative play that is certain to elicit serious thinking and heated discussion on the genesis of, and responsibility for, sexual harassment in the workplace. For him, a co-directing team for this production was the only way to go, “A male playwright and a male director as the sole voices staging a play about female exploitation in the workplace? I don’t think so! Thanks to Sarah Carlsen who had the guts to jump on board as the co-pilot of this project.”

Coming of age, Co-Director Carlsen realized the effect her body, femininity and youth had on the world around her, “Our society adores youth, particularly female youthfulness. We are obsessed with chasing youth, preserving youth, touching youth.” For her, Unseamly captures that moment where a young woman is invited to sit at the table with the big boys and thinks she can handle it. She is seduced by the power, money and unique charisma of Ira Slatsky, a fashion tycoon whose clothing brand and marketing techniques define the lifestyle of a particular generation of young women and men. Carlsen continues, “Youth and money are a heady combination. They accessorize each other so fantastically.” Carlsen is drawn to this script the way she would be drawn to an accident scene in front of her house, “The collision has already happened and now people are gathering around to see just how gruesome it is. You think to yourself, ‘That could have been me or my friend’.”

“What finally emerges as truth is less a function of what actually happens than who holds the power…” 

- Adam

Unseamly

Infinithéâtre at Bain St. Michel, February 11 – March 9

5300, rue St-Dominique (corner Maguire)

Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday matinee at 2:00pm

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Tickets: Regular: $25, Students/Seniors: $20, Groups: $17, Infinithéâtre 6Packs available (6 tickets for $75)

Box Office: 514 987-1774 ext. 104, online at www.infinitheatre.com with PayPalTicket sales at the door are CASH ONLY

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The Rat Pack Jazz

FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 9PM: Dick Powell’s In the Mood for Jazz - $20An irreverent, satirical take on Hollywood's Golden Age. Black & white comes to life in this absurd spectacle of music and celebrity. Dick Powell returns to the stage after a twenty two year hiatus. Featuring: Dick Powell, Laura Thornton, Buck Wheaton (drums), Paco Bertolucci (guitar), Sandy Beaches (double bass), Shorty Benton (piano) and Buster Nelligan (alto sax, flute).
Rat Pack comedy/jazz show- In the Mood for Jazz
Written and created by Patrick Costello and Graham Cuthbertson with the help of Angela Galuppo and The Buck Wheaton Trio. Bar service an hour before the show.

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None of the Above

Written by Jenny Lyn Bader
Directed by Trevor Barrette & Michelle Lewis

Mark these dates in your fall calendar
Tuesday, November 26 – Saturday, November 30, 2013
Only seven performances!

Jamie, 17, a sophisticated New York City private school student, answers the door one day expecting her drug dealer - and instead finds her SAT tutor.

Things degenerate from there. But as the play progresses, Jamie and Clark negotiate an unusual pact. 

With Lily MacLean and Scott Humphrey

None of the AboveKaleidoscope Theatre MontrealAt MainLine Theatre,
3997 St-Laurent, Nov. 26-30
Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm, Tuesday and Saturday matinee at 2:00pm
Tickets for the preview, Tues. Nov. 26 at 2pm, are $12
Tickets for Saturday matinee, Nov. 30 at 2pm are 2-for-1 (at the door only)

Tickets: $20, $15 (students/seniors), $12 (groups)
Reservations: 514 849-3378
or online:www.mainlinetheatre.ca/en/spectacles/none-of-the-above-by-jenny-lyn-bader

Kaleidoscope Theatre Montreal was founded in 2011 by actor, director and playwright Trevor Barrette. The company’s mission is to work with emerging and young professional artists in the Montreal community to produce visually dynamic theatre focusing on storytelling. The company is accessible to all, but most importantly, encourages a young adult audience.

Kaleidoscope Theatre Montreal’s first production, presented in the summer of 2011, was a post-modern dystopian retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone set in a war-torn Thebes, featuring a cast of twenty. The following year they created ‘a brave new world’ with their steam-punk version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The Canadian premiere of Jenny Lyn Bader’s None of the Above, a contemporary two-hander almost-romantic comedy about the things people do for money, grades and love, is their third production.

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If We Were Birds

Fabulously written, fabulously interpreted.

Purposely destroying innocence or happiness for self blood-pleasure should be a crime. Because it is a crime.

This play is extremely strong, yet entertainingly displayed. The words and the destructive actions described   are to the utmost powerful while the manner in which the outrageous manners are depicted and brought to the consciousness of the public is smoothly chewed up.

Everything in If We Were Birds is simple and effective. From the set to the images used, and the setting in Ancient Greece.

Almost religious and jazzy
All actresses and actors are great in their respective roles, especially so the young girl played by Amella Sargisson who masters the expression and feelings of skin dirt and desperation, the cries and finally the acted upon idea to get herself out of the abusive situation. ''It's my blood'', he claims screamingly while locking her up in order to leave her no way for her cries to be heard. You can't help but think of so many women locked up in so many ways that are left totally uncared about by male-driven worlds, be they religious or other blood-ridden variables. The five-women chorus - each representing different daily life or male war abuse situations - is jazzy in beat, nature and sound.

Extremely well done!

If We Were Birds is currently playing at the Montreal Centaur Theatre. Here are the details:

If We Were Birds

An Imago Theatre production, Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks selection for 2013

At Centaur Theatre, October 9-19

453 St. François-Xavier, Montreal
Wednesday to Saturday at 8:30 pm,
Saturday and Sunday matinee at 2:30pm

There will be a talkback after each performance.

All matinees, October 12, 13 and 19, are pay-what-you-can (Suggested donation $10)
Tickets: $25, $18 (students/seniors/Centaur subscribers/artists)
Box Office: 514 288-3161 or online: http://www.centaurtheatre.com/tickets.php
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Kafka’s Ape

Based on Kafka’s short story, A Report to an Academy
Adapted from the original German by Guy Sprung
Directed by Guy Sprung

Captured on the Gold Coast and imprisoned in a cage, Redpeter’s only escape route is to become a walking, talking, spitting, hard-drinking member of the Peace Industry, the entrepreneurial world of mercenary soldiers. In detailing the journey of his enforced evolution from apedom to humandom, Mr. Redpeter is a living embodiment of the irony that perhaps now he is more animal than he ever was as an ape.

Starring Howard Rosenstein, with Alexandra Montagnese

Kafka’s Ape
Infinithéâtre at Bain St-Michel
5300, rue St-Dominique (corner Maguire)

Thursday, November 7 – Sunday, November 24, 2013

Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday matinée at 2:00pm
Tickets: $17-$25, Infinithéâtre 6pack available
Sunday, November 10 is pay-what-you-can
Tickets: 514 987-1774 ext. 104 or online at www.infinitheatre.com

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Other upcoming Infinitheatre shows:
The Pipeline, Dec. 4-8
Infinithéâtre’s annual series of free public readings, presenting three new Québec plays
Hanafuda Denki (The Dance of Death), Jan. 13-18
A Goth-Manga-Kabuki-Pop gender-bending musical treat for the senses

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If We Were Birds, Imago Theatre at Centaur Theatre

Written by Erin Shields, Directed by Micheline Chevrier
Wednesday, October 9 – Saturday, October 19, 2013


How do you move on, move through, move past inflicted heinous violations? Can vengeance lead to hope? Imago Theatre is honoured to present Erin Shield’s If We Were Birds, winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Award for Drama, from October 9-19 at Centaur Theatre. This moving, funny and unsettling play, with an all-star Montreal cast directed by Micheline Chevrier, gives voice to women forced into silence through violence. Continuing their mandate to encourage dialogue, the company will hold a talkback after each performance.

If We Were Birds springs from the deep bond between two young sisters, characterized by their playfulness, romantic innocence and budding sexuality. An ingenious adaptation of the myth of Tereus, Procne and Philomela from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the play features a diverse chorus of contemporary women, each a survivor of a 20th century conflict. The text draws on testimonials of survivors from Nanking (1937), Berlin (1945), Bangladesh (1971), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-95) and Rwanda (1994). The play is a strong indictment against the culture of war and its cycle of violence. It exposes the silence and shame that so often surround sexual violence, whether in times of conflict or in our everyday lives. It asks us to listen to those whom we refuse to see or hear, whose language often offends, whose stories always disturb.

Chevrier has always been attracted to Greek mythology and fascinated with the consequences of war, “The myths beautifully reveal what lurks within each of us; the conflict of human nature, and the battle between reason and passion, order and chaos.” For her, Shields has captured this paradox brilliantly, “The characters are at the same time violent and tender, beautiful and ugly. Shields is incredibly adept at mixing humour and the gut-wrenching, often injecting comedy into tragedy.”
In this visionary retelling, Procne, daughter of Athenian King Pandion, marries war hero King Tereus and sets sail with him for Thrace. Despite the happiness she feels in her new life with her husband and newborn son, she aches to see her beloved sister, Philomela. Procne pleads with Tereus to travel to Athens and bring her sister to her side. But the moment Tereus sets eyes Philomela, his blood is stirred into violent passion. The horrors of war bleed into the family, turning love into rage, rage into revenge, and revenge into incredible personal loss. Here, moments of humour blend with fury, compassion and sobering self-examination. Shields’ work is rich in content and form, with language ranging from heightened to modern vernacular, daring everyone to venture into the land of extremes.

Involved with Imago since 2009, this is Chevrier’s inaugural show as Artistic Director of the company. For her, as long as sexual violence still makes the news, this play is a conversation that has to start now, “One has only to look at what is happening in Juarez, Mexico, where a vigilante woman has taken justice into her own hands, avenging the rape of working women by the local bus drivers; or what has been happening in Egypt- men carrying off women who have come to the public square to make their voices heard, then raping them. Last spring, the mayor of Osaka defended the use of ‘comfort women’ by the Japanese army in the Second World War; pro-rape chants were proudly sung by fraternity members at Yale.” Chevrier continues to be struck by the silence and apathy of governments in bringing the perpetrators to justice, “I have always believed that the greatest crime is to silence someone or a people; in doing so, we effectively kill them.”

For Amelia Sargisson, who plays Philomela, the play raises the disquieting fact that we are all participants in, and victims of, a culture of violence, “I hope this production will inspire people to make small changes within their own lives to resist and help reverse the trend towards social values which not only accept but lionize violence.” According to the play, the effort to do so - to comprehend and even surpass ourselves - is inherent in us.

The well-known company of actors includes Lauryn Allman as Procne, Chip Chuipka as Pandion, Nico Racicot as Tereus, and Amelia Sargisson as Philomela. Playing the chorus of ravaged women who have been transformed into birds are: Deena Aziz, Stefanie Buxton, Shiong-En Chan, Clare Schapiro and Warona Setshwaelo.

Creating the trapped world of the play, complete with perches, rich textures, shadows, and evocative sound and props, are lauded designers Diana Uribe, set and costumes; Rob Thompson, lights; and Peter Cerone, sound. The stage manager is Kira Maros. Chevrier is thrilled with the wealth of talent, varying in age and background, coming together to explore this challenging piece of theatre.

Imago Theatre produces plays that address current issues and represent women’s experiences, perspectives and stories. For the past 26 years, Imago Theatre, along with an active, thinking and opinionated audience, has fostered conversation, encouraged reflection and provoked change.


If We Were Birds

An Imago Theatre production, Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks selection for 2013
At Centaur Theatre, Oct. 9-19, 2013
453 St. François-Xavier, Old Montreal
Wednesday to Saturday at 8:30 pm, 
Saturday and Sunday matinee at 2:30pm

There will be a talkback after each performance.

Tickets for the preview, Wed. Oct.9, are $15
All matinees, October 12, 13 and 19, are pay-what-you-can (Suggested donation $10)
Tickets: $25, $18 (students/seniors/Centaur subscribers/artists)

Box Office: 514 288-3161 or online: http://www.centaurtheatre.com/tickets.php

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This year three Montreal companies join together to offer modern adaptations of classic tales at a great price (4 tickets for $40/students, $60/adults): If We Were Birds, Imago Theatre; The Aeneid, Talisman Theatre; The Iliad and The Odyssey, Geordie Productions. Call Geordie Productions at 514 845-9810 for this package.

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Wonderful Kathleen Turner

Tonight was the tribute to Kathleen Turner at the Montreal World Film Festival. Michael Douglas and Danny De Vito as well as Kirk Douglas and Kathleen Turner's daughter were present, either in person or on video.

Movie scenes were selected for the occasion, from some of her best movies including The War of the Roses and Body Heat.

Kathleen Turner at the Montreal World Film Festival Tribute
Photo Jacqueline Mallette

Kathleen Turner is a wonderful actress, still working and still in demand. Still adored, loved and appreciated by her public.Still chic on stage: all those stitches from her own stunts are long gone, her performances are the best.

Kathleen Turner has also been an activist for over 26 years in some cases, and she believes women's health is most important for the world's health at large. Watch this video from Kathleen Turner at the Montreal World Film Festival press conference and the second video from the tribute at the Imperial Cinema (Videos Jacqueline Mallette):

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Montreal First Peoples Festival : Nuestramericana

A beautiful family event downtown Montreal!

Starting with the parade of participating representatives from many nations on 3 continents, dancers, musicians, flag holders and the crowd all gather on Place des Festivals for shows until evening bands take over. With specialty food tastings and corn on the cob.

Such a peaceful happy moment!

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