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CWS presents: Open discussion on the legalities of writing, Thurs. Nov. 22, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-12 10:38 - (2472 Reads)
Canadian Writers Society
presents
Eric Lemieux, Entertainment Lawyer.
Open discussion concerning the legalities of writing..

Thursday, November 22nd at 6:45 p.m. in the Panda Room of the Y. 4585 Sherbrooke St. West.

Guests welcome...for further information: 514-707-9396


TRENDS: Print on demand. A tale of self-publishing on the web, by Paul Lima

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-12 03:03 - (1969 Reads)

Print on demand

A tale of self-publishing on the web
Could traditional book publishers be heading the way of traditional music companies, which are heading the way of dinosaurs, thanks to the internet? They could, but for different reasons...


Paul Lima is a freelance writer, communications instructor and self-published author. Visit him online at http://www.paullima.com

GAS, A World Première at the Bain, October 25 to November 18, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-11 10:53 - (3737 Reads)

GAS

The Iraq War Comes to Montréal!
Five young American soldiers are ripped apart by moral confusion as their genuine belief in democracy and freedom is challenged by the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians

MONTREAL, October 2007 - Infinitheatre presents the world premiere of Jason Maghanoy’s GAS, a gritty, up-close-and-personal look at the Iraqi war, opening October 25th (previews October 23 and 24) at the Bain St-Michel on the Plateau.

TICKETS

General Admission: $20
Infinitheatre Members: $15
Students/Seniors:$15
Groups (6 or more)* : $10: *Matinées available to groups during the week
TIMES
Tuesday - Saturday: 8 PM
Sunday Matinées: 2 PM
BOX OFFICE
514.987.1774 x 104
VENUE
Bain St-Michel
5300, St-Dominique, (Corner Maguire)
http://www.infinitheatre.com

Theatre Review, DATING JESUS, Theatre Ste-Catherine, November 6 - 18, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-11 07:16 - (3533 Reads)

DATING JESUS

presented by Unwashed Grape

A new play by Louise Arsenault
Directed by Paul Hawkins
Starring Laura Mitchell, Debra Kirshenbaum, Janis Kirshner and Taylor Baruchel
Theatre Ste-Catherine, 264 St. Catherine East, (Metro Berri-Uqam)
Tues-Sat 8pm & Sat-Sun 2pm
Reserve your tickets today at 514.284.3939 or reservations at theatrestecatherine.com

From left to right, Janis Kirshner (Ocean), Taylor Baruchel, (Elle), Laura Mitchell, (Renée), Debra Kirshenbaum (Sylvie centre).
Photography by Pierre Arsenault

Family life in the war zone


Imagine the feminine mind, body and psyche under assault; the family as battleground—guilt, resentment, jealous possession, desolation and abandonment, sizzling love-hate arsenal flying all around. In the play, ‘Dating Jesus’ there are no heroes, anti-heroes or antagonists lurking on or off stage. Everyone is merely struggling to cope and survive cheek-by-jowl with one another in this excruciatingly tender, painful, searching and revealing, contemporary true-to-life drama. It’s an ongoing mélange of familial empathy, a volatile camaraderie that, every so often, detonates all over the place like domestic Semtex. In other words, family life as many of us may know it...



Theatre Review: Gas, showing at Bain St-Michel till November 18, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-11 03:54 - (1910 Reads)

Gas

Presented by Infinitheatre at Bain St-Michel

From left to right, Karl Graboshas (Andy), Brandon Coffey (Josh), Lucinda Davis (Cole), Omari Newton (Rocky), Ralph Prosper (Trevor) Photo Credits, Chantale Potié

Brilliant stage-set from hell


Imagine a mammoth triptych of projection screens, ceiling probes and searchlights overlooking a rectangular sand-filled pit—and the whole lot bathed in overpowering blackness. This is the imaginative mixed-media stage décor that awaits you at the Bain St-Michel Theatre, located just off ‘the Main’ on the plateau.

As prelude to the drama, entitled Gas, ‘zen-like’ images of ocean waves soon give way to the grueling shocks, blasts and images of a desert war...


Dating Jesus, at Theatre Ste-Catherine, Nov 6-18, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-11 00:17 - (4633 Reads)
Unwashed Grape presents

Dating Jesus

A New Play by Louise Arsenault

Starring Laura Mitchell, Debra Kirshenbaum,
Janis Kirshner and Taylor Baruchel
Directed by Paul Hawkins

Montreal, October, 2007- Unwashed Grape is proud to continue establishing itself as a groundbreaking Montreal Anglo theatre company with a strong interest in dynamic new work. Its all-star fall production of Dating Jesus is a new play by Montreal playwright Louise Arsenault. This is a rollicking comedy-drama about a single-mother-sex-obsessed poet who is looking for salvation while losing her mind: whew!

Dating Jesus By Louise Arsenault
November 6-18, 2007
Theatre Ste Catherine, 264 Ste Catherine St. East (Metro Berri-UQAM)
Evenings: Tues-Sat 8:00 p.m. Matinees: Sat. & Sun. 2:00 p.m.
Reservations: 514-284-3939 or reservations at theatrestecatherine.com

Invitation from the PSC Community Theatre, November 9 - 18, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-10 16:07 - (1760 Reads)
The PSC Community Theatre would like to invite you to our presentation of,

Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer

As the play Black Comedy opens the stage is in total darkness. Brindsley Miller an avant-garde artist and his finance Carol Melkett are decorating his flat with furniture from their camp and fussy neighbor Harriet Gorringe. The purpose is to impress Carol’s father the bombastic Colonel Melkett and a French millionaire who is interested in Brindsley’s work. Then a fuse blows and the building is plunged into darkness at this point the stage is finally lit.

Brindsley’s foreboding that the whole evening is going to a disaster. “An A-one copper-bottomed, twenty-four-carat disaster!” is not far off the mark. With the unexpected arrival of Brindsley’s ex-girlfriend Clea and Harriet whose furniture was illicitly borrowed the whole evening moves from one chaotic moment to another. Fun prevails in all the confusion!

Nov. 9,10,16,17 At 8p.m

Nov. 11,18 at 2p.m

Please reserve as space is limited

514-935-3769

http://www.psccommunity.com
The play is a fundraiser for the YMCA Youth Theatre Program.

The cost is a donation

Theatre Review: CROSSROADS, Centaur Theatre, Oct. 24 -November 11, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-11-02 00:58 - (1701 Reads)

CROSSROADS, A modern-day musical Odyssey

Attention everyone! An invitation is extended. For the next two weeks you are invited to take part in a unique and universal journey entitled CROSSROADS. Unique, since each of us treads our own particular life-path with its share of bumps, snares, no-entries, dark alleyways and misty mazes; universal, because the essential human experiences are those which are common to all...

Holly Arsenault's accompaniment at the piano creates mellow mood music, atmospheric, and eminently listen-able...

Playing at the Centaur Theatre
October 24 – November 11, 2007
http://www.crossroadsshow.com
http://www.barbaralewis.com/Video.html
DATES:
October 24 to November 11, 2007
Tuesdays to Saturdays - 8:30pm
Sunday Matinées - 2:30pm
LOCATION:
Centaur Theatre
453 St. François-Xavier St.
Metro Place D'Armes
RESERVATIONS: 514-288-3161
INFORMATION: 514-487-8779

The Diary of Anne Frank, Saidye Bronfman Centre, October 18 – November 4, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-31 12:03 - (1990 Reads)
First Class Theatre
The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre & BMO Bank of Montreal
Present

The Diary of Anne Frank

By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Marcia Kash
October 14 – November 4, 2007
“…I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart,” Anne Frank

MONTREAL October 2007- The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre is excited to open the 2007-08 theatre season with this universal and important work This powerful new adaptation for a new generation offers a more gritty and authentic portrayal than the more sanitized 1955 original.

Box Office:
(514) 739-7944
http://www.segalcentre.org
Admission
(514) 790-1245
Segal Centre for Performing Arts at the Saidye
5170 cote St. Catherine Rd.
Metro Cote Ste-Catherine

Theatre Review: Diary of Anne Frank, at Saidye Bronfman, Oct.18 – Nov. 4, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-31 07:00 - (2464 Reads)

View from a Dutch Garret…a window in time


John C. Dinning’s stage setting for this production of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ is intricate and life-like, yet with the compacted air of a doll’s house topped by a garret. From day one of the family’s seclusion, it becomes a background character in its own right, breathing its inhumane restrictions over 8 war-time Jews gone into hiding, holed up, literally, in its imprisoning cocoon of fragile safety and fear. Devoid of natural light, the 'verboten' view from their garret hiding place is a blacked-out window in time...


From left to right top, Nicholas Rice (Otto Frank) Sally Singal (Edith Frank) James Downing (Mr. Van Daan) Felicia Shulman (Mrs. Van Daan). From left to right bottom, Brian Wrench (Mr. Dussel) Natasha Greenblatt (Anne Frank) Gianpaolo Venuta (Peter Van Daan) Susanna Fournier (Margot Frank). Photographer, Randy Cole.

EXPOZINE 2007, MONTREAL’S SIXTH ANNUAL SMALL PRESS, COMIC AND ZINE FAIR!

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-26 13:05 - (2030 Reads)

EXPOZINE 2007, MONTREAL’S SIXTH ANNUAL SMALL PRESS, COMIC AND ZINE FAIR! Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007

Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press, comic and zine fair, will take place on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro). Free admission. Visit: http://www.expozine.ca

The Juggling Act of Life, with Hans Bongers

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-20 11:08 - (2090 Reads)

Announcing our new web site: http://www.happyyouthcreations.com


"Professor Hanstein" is looking for a theater, library, coffee house or other great spot to host his new and pectacular presentation of /The Juggling Act of Life/ ("Wellness in a Complex World"). It is an unique mixture of conference, great juggling show and relativity workshops. He brings spirit uplifting relativity in all aspects of daily life and juggles relativity into any subject that is brought up, including complex and delicate topics. Please see attached brochure for complete details.

CLICK HERE FOR PDF BROCHURE:
http://www.invisiblecitiesnetwork.org/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=10

Any suggestions, ideas, potential contacts are welcome. Thank you very much! Hans Bongers
mailto:in-the-zone@sympatico.ca

Jehanne of the Witches, playing at Geordie Theatre, October 17-21, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-06 22:39 - (3591 Reads)
MONTRÉAL, OCTOBER 2007—

Tableau D’Hôte is proud and pleased to present Sally Clark’s Jehanne of the Witches, which makes its Montréal debut at Geordie Theatre. Clark’s play, possibly the most radical and provocative examination of the Joan of Arc legend, breathes life into the familiar story by offering a look behind the icon, and by extension, a look inside her. Since its inception in 2005, Tableau D’Hôte has committed itself to producing noteworthy Canadian works that have never seen the light of day in Montréal. Jehanne of the Witches, by Chalmers Award-winning playwright Sally Clark, falls into this category. Bold and stirring, Clark’s examination of the legend of Joan of Arc is sure to excite and enrapture Montreal audiences. Brutal and bawdy, fearsome and funny, the deftness of her vision is at once entertaining and thought-provoking, breathing new life into a miraculous character we all know but have never really met.

Dates and Times: Ticket Prices:
Opening - October 17 General Admission: 15$
Closing - October 21 Student / Golden Age: 12$
Evenings: Wednesday to Sunday at 8PM To Purchase Tickets
Matinees : October 20th and 21st at 2PM By Phone: 514.848.9696
Venue Online : tickets at tableaudhotetheatre.com
Geordie Theatre, 4001 Blvd. Berri. http://www.tableaudhotetheatre.com

Theatre Review: Unity (1918) at Monument-National, till October 7, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-02 01:18 - (8618 Reads)

Apocalypse Revisited, Saskatchewan 1918

Persephone Productions has done it once again with yet another exquisite piece of theatre. Their latest show, Unity (1918), is the award-winning play by Kevin Kerr: an often lyrical, sensitive and humane reflection on, surely, one of the bleakest epochs in Canadian history. The resulting mise en scène, however, is anything but—under Gabrielle Soskin’s direction, a gifted cast of actors rises to the challenge with exuberance and style...

From left: Jessica Rose as Sissy, Kathleen Stavert as Bea and Eleanor Young as Mary. From top: Stephanie Chapman Baker as Sunna and Chris Moore as Stan. The photographer is Daniel Harwood Farkas.

UNITY (1918) Monument-National, September 27-October 7, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-10-01 01:53 - (4089 Reads)
Persephone Productions
Presents
Kevin Kerr's Governor General's award-winning play

UNITY (1918)

Directed by Gabrielle Soskin
September 27-October 7, 2007
Now it’s here where people are wounded in the heart and mind, and need you to help them get their peace back. Bea

Monument-National, Studio Hydro-Québec
1182 St. Laurent
Thursday, September 27-Sunday, October 7
BOX OFFICE (514) 871-2224
9 shows only
Tickets: $25 Adults $17 Students $16 Groups
Evenings: Wednesday to Saturday 8:30 p.m.
Matinées: Sunday 2:00 p.m.
http://www.persephoneproductions.org

Random Acts of Poetry (RAP) October 1-7, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-09-30 11:24 - (1771 Reads)
Random Acts of Poetry (RAP) is a celebration of poetry and literacy that takes place across Canada October 1-7. You are invited to an informal launch of the event at the Atwater Library auditorium on Tuesday, October 2, from 5:30 to 7 pm. where you will be greeted by this year's Montreal RAP poets, Angela Leuck, Élizabeth Robert, and Anne Cimon. There will be readings, refreshments, a raffle, and information on poetry and literacy.
Info: (514) 766-3782.


A new Novel FOREVER AGAIN by Trevor Lockwood

Author: Christina - Published 2007-09-27 13:28 - (1823 Reads)

For Ever Again

by Trevor Lockwood
ISBN 978-0-9557008-1-1

A novel about three men, of a certain age, facing change, yet again, in their lives. Linked together by drugs, diamonds, murder and women, they stumble along.


Don't take it seriously, it's meant to be an enjoyable read.

For interviews or more information contact sales at braiswick.com
Paperback, 181 pp, published by Braiswick, manufactured on demand by Lightning Source, obtainable through any bookshop worldwide, trade enquiries through Gardners or Bertrams
For more information go to http://www.braiswick.com

Unraveling Herstory, Cazalet Theatre, September 27, 28, 30, 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-09-20 23:47 - (1426 Reads)
COMMON THREAD PRODUCTIONS presents:
(in partnership with The Herstories Project)

UNRAVELING HERSTORY

A performance of 9 women's journey through the mirror of the past and the ancestral legacies that lie beneath the fabric of contemporary Montreal

Who are your ancestors? What legacies do you carry in your bones? How have their struggles and achievements affected your life and identity?
Thursday September 27, 7 pm.
Friday September 28, 7 pm.
Sunday September 30, 2 pm.

CAZALET THEATRE (this space is not wheelchair accessible)
Loyola campus, Concordia University (under Loyola Chapel, F.C. Smith Auditorium)
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
metro Vendome, bus 105 west
metro Snowdon, bus 51 west

Tickets: $15 (reduced rate $5-$12)
Group rates available

Call 514-488-4124
E-mail: clairjia at gmail.com
Website: http://www.commonthreadproductions.org

8-week workshop in writing, led by Ann Diamond, through October 2007

Author: Christina - Published 2007-09-16 17:45 - (1608 Reads)

INCREDIBLE EXPLODING LIT FORMS!! WRITING IN AND FOR A CHANGING WORLD

An 8-week workshop to help writers explore the rapidly changing world of print media as well the array of new possibilities available today including, of course, the internet.

In addition to sharing our writing, we will also explore different kinds of writing projects and how they can be adapted to the brave new world on line.

Evolving prose forms e.g. stories/novels/monologies/performance/memoirs/blogs/on-line/diaries/ezines/newsletters

Self-publishing options for writers: journals to websites to POD companies

Participants will be required to (a) complete a writing project by workshop’s end (b) share their writing and publishing ideas and experiences from week to week (c) develop a strategy for bringing it to life.

Criticism can and will be provided, on request — but this workshop is about CONNECTING. We will harness our creative intelligence to explore new ways of using writing for personal/social/spiritual growth.

Location: Montreal
8 sessions: $80
Through OCTOBER 2007
For more information, call Ann Diamond 514 772 1116

MY COLD WAR by Ann Diamond is now at:
http://www.lulu.com/diamondback

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