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INSIDE THE BOX
The SummerWorks Performance Gallery
@ The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. W
Aug 8 – 17th, 7-9pm |
| SummerWorks has taken over seven rooms and all the space in between on the second floor of the Gladstone Hotel. Artists from different mediums will present short pieces that will cycle every night. Come for 5 minutes or revel for the whole two hours in this artistic funhouse. Be sure to come back for the nightly rotation of special guests.
Pay-What-You-Can
Cash bar
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Tara Beagan
presents
Foundlings
starring Starring Rebecca Applebaum, Paul Chaput and Craig Lauzon
Tara Beagan, creator/director is of Ntlakapamux (Thompson River Salish) and Irish Canadian heritage. She has worked in theatre as an actor, writer and/or director at UnSpun Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Factory, Tarragon, Nightwood, Crate Productions, and currently for Theatrefront. Beagan is the ‘07/’08 playwright-in-residence at Cahoots Theatre Projects. She has been nominated as an actor for a Dora and a Betty award, and won a Dora for playwriting. In media, she has worked with Thomas King, Lorne Cardinal, the CBC and Big Soul Productions. Tara has adapted Strindberg’s Miss Julie; it will premiere as the inaugural KICK productions project at the Theatre Centre in November ‘08.
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Allison Cummings
Aug 10th-17th, 2008
Allison Cummings is a performer/choreographer/director based in Toronto. She has worked as either an actor or dancer for many local indies and companies including, D.A. Hoskins, Michael Trent, DNA Theatre, Kate Alton and Bill James among others. Her choreography has been shown at many venues and festivals including The Theatre Centre (2002 residency program and independently), Hysteria, Edgy Women in Montreal, and Toronto Dance Theatre’s ‘Four at the Winch’. She has produced her own multi-disciplinary shows, most recently ‘Clutch’ in 2006. She was the 2000 recipient of The Toronto Emerging Artist Award in Dance and shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Award in 2006 and 2008. Her first film installation was co-produced by The Moving Pictures Festival and Trinity Square Video in November 2005. Most recent and current projects include directing The Goblin Market at Equity Showcase Theatre, choreographing a piece for Okotobrigya Dance of Ghana, West Africa which was presented by the Canadian High Commission as part of Le Semaine de la Francophonie in Accra, Ghana, March 2008, and Devouring Lions, a solo performance in collaboration with Nilan Perera. She is taking part in the final Goat Island Summer Residency as an invited artist hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this July 2008.
Allison has collaborated with many artists of different disciplines creating work that challenges the segregation of the art forms. |
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Chris Dupuis
presents
I'd like to get to know you better
Aug 8th-12th, 2008
Chris Dupuis is a Toronto-based artist creating video, performance, and text based work that has been presented across North America and Europe. In Toronto, his work has been showcased by Buddies in Bad Times, the Theatre Centre, The Goethe-Institut, the Canadian Stage Company, the Inside Out Festival, and the World Stage Festival. For four years he worked as part of the bluemouth inc. performance collective, creating large-scale site-specific works in porn-theatres, school buses, funeral homes, and other strange places and in 2004 received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production for the company’s five-hour multi-location epic Something About a River. He also works as a freelance arts journalist, contributing regularly to a variety of publications, in addition to writing his own art criticism blog. Upcoming work: The Factory Project, Montreal, The ANTI-Festival, Kuopio, Finland, and the Performing the World Festival, New York. |
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Daniel MacIvor
presents
The 83rd
starring Kirsten Johnson
Daniel MacIvor has been creating new theatre since 1986 and was for twenty years Artistic Director of da da kamera an international touring company based in Toronto which he ran with Sherrie Johnson. His published work includes: See Bob Run, Never Swim Alone, You Are Here, In On It, How It Works and I Still Love You: Five Plays which won the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 2006. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Here Lies Henry, Monster and Cul-de-sac. He received an Obie and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It which was presented at PS122 in September of 2001. Also a film maker he has written and directed the feature films Past Perfect and Wilby Wonderful and co-wrote and stars in Whole New Thing. He was recently Playwright in Residence at the Banff Playwright’s Colony where he was developing his new play Communion as part of a trilogy: Confession which is being procuded by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Nova Scotia this fall and Redemption which he is developing at the National Theatre School. He is also developing a screenplay for Bruce McDonald called 45’s He is represented by Thomas Pearson at ICM Talent. Check out Daniel’s web log at danielmacivor.com. |
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Safiya Randera
presents
Salute/Salaat
Aug 8 & Aug 11-16
Safiya Randera is a multimedia artist who has enjoyed international
acclaim for her films Jangri and Health Status Survey. As a first generation South Asian Canadian, she challenges in her work issues of identity, sexuality, and religion, always negotiating her own
relationship with Islam and examining its place within Western popular culture. The result of her ideas ranges broadly from a dark dystopic future in film My Girl 2012 where the oppressed becomes the oppressor, to a paranoid journey of self-reflection in an examination of Canadian security and civil liberties in the documentary My Father, the Terrorist? (currently in post-production)
Extensive volunteer experience both at home and abroad (UNHCR, MSF, World Vision) ensures that her work is tempered with sensitivity and insight. Randera received her training at the Ontario College of Art and Design and currently lives and works in Toronto.
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Holly Skinner
Aug 9th and 10th
For the past four years, Hollyrock has been DJing and
producing/promoting parties around Toronto while maintaining
residencies at numerous venues around the city. Known for playing
high energy dancehall and a blend of old school and new school hip
hop, Hollyrock understands what it takes to make people move with her
ability to read the crowd's vibe. From her gigs at Circa to Wrongbarr
to The Drake, she's been known to rock a party. Most recently,
Hollyrock has been selected to be featured in NOW Magazine's DJ
Spotlight (June 5th, 2008 issue).
2003-2005
Juicy @ El Mocambo (producing, promoting, DJing)
2005-2008
Hump Day Bump @ The Gladstone (DJing)
Sticky Fingers @ The Beaver Cafe (producing,
promoting, DJing)
Bush Party @ The Beaver Cafe (producing,
promoting, DJing)
2007-2008
Big Primpin' @ The Stones Place (DJing)
Guest Spots at:
Circa, The Drake, The Beaconsfeild, Andy Poolhall,
Wrongbarr, Sweaty Betty's, Levack Block, Straight, 751, and numerous
corporate parties
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Rebecca Singh and Chad Dembski
present
Singhski: At the hotel garden
Aug 10th-17th
We went away for awhile. In fact, a very long time. But now we’re back and want to show you something. Words have failed us. The theatre is dead. Join us to give life to a new language. We have some songs and some other stuff. We are excited to be here…with you…are you ready?
Singhski is Chad Dembski and Rebecca Singh
Chad Dembski is Artistic Director of surprise performance, who recently mounted “save us!! [Hamletown]” at the HATCH Harbourfront residency series. He is also is creator and performer with Public Recordings (Manuel for Incidence and /dance/songs/) and Small Wooden Shoe (Dedicated to the Revolutions).
Rebecca Singh is an actor. She was also the Creative Director of The Montreal All-Star Cheerleaders. She likes to work with choruses and also sometimes writes stuff. Her favorite colour: Blue. www.cheerleaderchronicles.com
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Sarah Stanley
presents
Press(inc.)
Starring Nick Carpenter, Patricia Summersett, and Michael Leon
Aug 12th-17th
She co-founded Die In Debt Theatre (DID) and the Baby Grand Theatre, She is the former Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. She was an Associate Director of Factory Theatre, on the Artistic Advisory of Nightwood Theatre, She was the inaugural Artistic Associate of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Is it any wonder She still searches? Lately directing: Forever Yours Marie Lou and Glorious! at Centaur Theatre, The Retreat from Moscow at Neptune Theatre, My Name is Rachel Corrie with Teesri Duniya/Neworld Theatre/PuSH Festival, Stones in his Pockets and Kingfisher Days at Thousand Islands Playhouse, andIsadora: Fabulist with Imago Theatre. Other Now-ish Stuff: Press in Residency at The Theatre Centre, She co-helms the directing program at NTS. She is making Corduroy Pants with Michael, Judith and Caleb. DID associate produces Artistic Fraud’s Fear of Flight, and She was in Regina curating the SPC Spring Fest and in Vancouver for the Magnetic North Theatre festival with cool Concordians and hot tea. At this point my mother would say “who’s She?” |
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