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Scene & Heard: The Hunger

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May 24, 2012
Hansel house

The Hunger, an immersive performance installation devised by architect Margaret Krawecka, and with Mal Nowacka (The Chimera Project), Ulysses Castellanos and Richard Windeyer (bluemouth inc.) The Hunger tells the original fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. Audience members walk through a 500 sq ft installation made of vacuum-sealed bread, and are lead by performers...
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Scene & Heard: IFOA ’11

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November 8, 2011
IFAO

Well, yet another edition of the International Festival of Authors has come to pass. This year’s edition, the 32nd, was undoubtedly much like the 31 others that preceded it: authors came to read their words, usually with a copy of their most recent work in tow, schlepping themselves shamelessly in the hopes of garnering...
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Toronto’s SoundClash Music Award

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June 25, 2011
Toronto’s SoundClash Music Award

This summer Harbourfront Centre is inaugurating The SoundClash Music Award. TheSceneinTO recently caught up with the Harbourfront music programmer, Dalton Higgins, to get the low down on the Centre’s first major prize that honours local independent musicians. Higgins, considered one of Canada’s foremost experts on hip-hop culture, noted that the intent of the award...
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Summer reading and countdown to IFAO

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June 25, 2011
books

Here’s one final reminder to all literary types about the final reading event at Harbourfront this month. Closing out the season next week will be Descant magazine’s landmark celebrations, Descanting for Forty Years, on June 29. If you can’t attend the event (or don’t want to), don’t pout. The Authors at Harbourfront Centre have...
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The Harbourfront hot spot

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June 10, 2011
Portrait of a boy with the flag of Colombia painted on his face

The Toronto Harbourfront and The Toronto Port Authority are bringing the world of dance and theatre to you all summer long and the line-up is incredible.  It’s time to dust off your dancing shoes because every Thursday evening from June 23 to September 1 you can learn to jive, salsa or samba right by...
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More writers reading

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May 26, 2011
Merilyn Simonds reads from A New Leaf: Growing with my Garden

Are you still in the mood for a story? If your appetite for being read to isn’t yet sated, we thought we’d pass along some more info on upcoming June events where writers will be reading their good words. The “Authors at Harbourfront Centre” series closes its 37th season will a gaggle of impressive...
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Theatre Review: Hatch Festival

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April 25, 2011
The One Block Project

I attended the final performance of the Hatch Festival which took place at Harbourfront’s Studio Theatre.  The festival is in its eight year and four companies presented shows during the festival.  The show I got to see was an offering of  UnSpun Theatre’s One Block which explored the stories and histories of several Toronto streets through a delightful and...
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Ahoy Mateys

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June 23, 2010
Ahoy Mateys

Attention Torontonian pirates! Here’s yer chance to sail the great lakes. The Toronto Brigantine has a summer program which teaches youth 13-18 years old how to sail and explore horizons. Julian Schroer Captain of the Pathfinder, says what he loves about the summer program is how everybody on board becomes your family for that period of...
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