Events

Friday, December 19, 2008 - after the show!

Calgary

As we all celebrate the final work week before the holiday break, *Lunchbox
Theatre* invites everyone who has not seen the world premiere
production of*The Christmas Tree
* by Norm Foster - or even those that would like to see it one last time! -
to *join us for a complimentary drink*, courtesy the Auburn Saloon,
following the *Friday, December 19 performance at 6:10pm*.

The theatre season has been one filled with change for Lunchbox and we'd
like to share the spirit of of the holiday season with you this Friday. The
final week of *The Christmas Tree* is sold out except the final Friday
evening performance.

Tickets to the Friday 6:10pm performance are $13 - $16, include one
complimentary drink, and can be purchased online or from the Lunchbox Theatre Box Office.

I hope you will be able to join us to celebrate the end of a fabulous 2008
for Lunchbox Theatre!

Martin Fishman
Artistic Director

Tickets can be purchased online at https://tickets.lunchboxtheatre.com or from the Lunchbox Theatre Box Office at 403 265 4292 x 0.

Thursday January 15, 2009

Calgary

San Fransisco artist Amie Dowling has created dance programs for women who have left the sex-trade industry in Thailand and has worked as an artist-in-residence in US jails. In a public talk, Dowling shares her experience of how arts, education and social activism can intersect with marginalized communities.

This FREE event, Thursday January 15, 2009 6:00 pm, at Theatre Junction Grand is a co-presentation between the University of Calgary Urban Dance Project in the Faculty of Fine Arts and One Yellow Rabbit High Performance Rodeo 2009.

Anne Flynn, the Manager of the Urban Dance Project in the Faculty of Fine Arts is thrilled to bring Amie Dowling to Calgary as her extensive experience working in the area of dance and social justice provides parallels to the Urban Dance Project work.

“Since the beginning of the Urban Dance pilot project in 2005, we have developed dance programming in partnership with numerous Calgary organizations such as the Alex Senior's Health Centre, YWCA, Salvation Army and the Calgary Board of Education. Amie was very interested to be a guest at the University of Calgary in order to share her ideas about how dance can contribute to community development, particularly in settings where there is little access to the arts.”

Flynn continues, “In addition to her Artist Talk Ms. Dowling will be guest lecturing at a joint workshop for Dance and Drama students at the University providing U of C students with a great setting for interdisciplinary exchange.”

Amie Dowling: Performing Arts and Social Justice: The Prison Projects
Thursday January 15, 2009
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Rehearsal Studio, Theatre Junction Grand
FREE event but please RSVP

FREE event: Please RSVP (403) 264 3224 or rsvp@oyr.org

Interviews, photos and background material are available. For publicity requests contact: JoAnn Reynolds Communications Manager Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Calgary Ph: (403) 220-4999 Email: joann.reynolds@ucalgary.ca

September 18 - 20, 2009

Events all over Alberta

All Albertans are encouraged to mark September 18-20 in their 2009 calendars as Alberta Arts Day becomes Alberta Arts Days – a three-day celebration of the arts in our province.

Arts and culture are necessary elements of a healthy and balanced society. The province-wide celebration of Alberta Arts Days is designed to raise awareness of the value of arts in our society and provide Albertans with additional opportunities to experience and participate in our province’s culture – an important part of The Spirit of Alberta, Alberta’s cultural policy.

The move from a one-day celebration to a three-day celebration was made based on feedback received from organizations and individuals who participated in the 2008 celebrations.

Community organizations, municipalities, schools, businesses and individual Albertans are encouraged to embrace this opportunity and start thinking about ways they can participate in the 2009 Arts Days celebrations. Creative and unique partnerships are encouraged.

For useful tips and ideas on planning an event or activity for 2009, visit www.culture.alberta.ca/artsdays. Tools to assist communities in planning and communicating their events will be added to this site in the new year. To learn more about The Spirit of Alberta, visit www.culturalpolicy.alberta.ca.

January thru March, 2009

Edmonton - various locations

Based on a theme of ‘light’, Winter Light is a new celebration that showcases Edmonton as a beautiful and interesting winter city, taking joy in our unique sense of place, climate and environment.

The festival deals with the reality of Edmonton’s winter, the climate, the atmosphere, the urban scale. It recognizes winter as a time of both darkness and light – with elements of joy and survival, of isolation and gathering together, of fire and warmth, story telling and celebration.

The Winter Light festival will support the already active spirit - and spirited activities – that thrive in Edmonton - Silver Skate, Ice on Whyte, and Deep Freeze are just a few of the highlights of our 10 week winter season.

The Winter Light Festival will also spark a new series of winter experiences. These events will ignite a new perspective on Edmonton’s winter spirit and festival culture: a bright string of community gatherings and celebrations – welcoming, all-ages events that invite us to meet winter’s challenges with creativity and joy.

By pointing to the ‘light’ of winter in Edmonton, the festival offers a healthy, enjoyable alternative to the dark, potentially isolating aspects of Edmonton’s long urban winter.

Winter Light encourages us to share winter’s beauty, the fire’s warmth and our shared humanity.

>> Visit Winter Light online at www.winterlight.ca

New Years's Eve! Jan 31 at 5:30, 7:00 and 8:40 pm

Sherwood Park - Festival Place

Join us on New Year's Eve for some Circus-Vaudeville for the whole family! Firefly Theatre and Circus will perform an assortment of death-defying & laughter-inducing entertainment for one and all. This fun-filled event features spectacular performances on the breath-taking aerial silks, spinning aerial hoops and solo trapeze, along with comedy, hula hoops, juggling, and more.

Strathcona County and Sobey's present KERFLUFFLE at Festival Place in Sherwood Park.
Showtimes are 5:30, 7:00 and 8:40pm.

For more information or tickets call 780-464-8013

January 5 to 31, 2009

Calgary

One Yellow Rabbit presents
The 23rd annual HIGH PERFORMANCE RODEO - Calgary's International Festival of the Arts

January 5th to 31st, 2009
Artist-in-Residence: Philip Glass
Featuring: Scott Thompson, Peggy Baker, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, One Yellow Rabbit, Kronos Quartet, Catalyst Theatre, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Germany's Theaterlabor, and many, many others...

Patron - His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond

One Yellow Rabbit/High Performance Rodeo
BIG SECRET THEATRE
EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts
#21, 225 - 8th Ave. SE
Calgary, Alberta
Canada, T2G OK8
vox: 403-264-3224
fax: 403-264-3230
www.highperformancerodeo.ca

Monday, March 30, 2009

Calgary

 Urban Curvz Theatre's annual fundraiser, CURVILICIOUS 2009, is going to be
the hottest evening this winter and will be an exclusive one night only
event that you will not want to miss! We have an incredible program planned
featuring female performers from varied disciplines and experiences never
before seen on the same stage together. This stunning showcase will feature
the hilarious antics of emcee Cory Mack, the musical stylings of Jamie
Konchak, Simone Saunders, Janelle Cooper, Ksenia Thurgood and the talents of
Ann Barrett, Valerie Planche, Vicki Stroich, Shawna Lori Burnett, Karen
Johnson-Diamond, Ellen Close, Kristi Hansen, Brieanna Blizzard, Kathryn
Waters, Julie Orton and Ella Simon.

In case you haven't heard of us, Urban Curvz Theatre is a Betty Mitchell
Award winning company with a mandate to tell women's stories. We are
entering our fourth season and we advocate a Calgary theatre ecology that
celebrates the work of women artists. Our community is teaming with
intelligent and talented women such as the women joining us for
CURVILICIOUS, who are looking for consistent creative challenges. As we
endeavour to provide these opportunities we are the only theatre company in
Calgary with this mandate and as such we are filling a very important niche!

An important part of CURVILICIOUS 2009 will be the silent auction and
reception for which we are currently seeking donations at this time. If you
are able to make a donation, we will be happy to advertise for your business
at our fundraiser, as well as in our program for our April/May production of
Essay and The Russian Play by Hannah Moscovitch. Urban Curvz is also a
registered charity and if you wish instead, we can issue you a tax receipt
for the cash value of your donation. All the proceeds of CURVILICIOUS go
directly into our next production and into paying the artists working on our
creative team. Please note that absolutely NONE of the proceeds from
CURVILICIOUS go into administrative costs for running the organization or
any other channels that do not directly support the tenets of our mandate.
At Urban Curvz we have always made supporting and paying our artists a
professional rate, our main priority. Your donation helps ensure we can
continue to produce plays of high artistic merit by paying our artists a
living wage.

Thank you for your consideration. Please email me at koehler7@telus.net if
you have any questions or gifts.We look forward to hearing from you soon.

If you have any questions, or if you would like more information about Urban
Curvz Theatre, please contact us at jessica@urbancurvz.com or go to
www.urbancurvz.com for more information about us.

Friday, January 9, 2009 - 7:30 pm

Timms Centre for the Arts

Join us for an intimate and interactive conversation with Jim Mezon, Guest Director for Studio Theatre’s upcoming production of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara.

Jim will deliver a one-hour public lecture:
23 Years at the Shaw Festival – presenting the Shavian Argument to Canadian Audiences

Q & A moderated by Department of Drama Professor David Ley.

Jim Mezon has been a member of the Shaw Festival Company for 24 years where he has acted in and directed over 40 productions, Including Arms and the Man, Candida, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara, Getting Married, The Philanderer, John Bull's Other Island, Too True to Be Good, Widowers' Houses, Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra, You Never Can Tell, Back to Methuselah and Devil's Disciple.

He has directed and taught at the University of Northern Colorado, Brock University and the National Theatre School. He can be seen in Paul Gross’ film Passchendaele.

All are Welcome. Free Admission.
Light Refreshments. Cash Bar.

For more information please contact Kathleen Weiss, kathleen.weiss@ualberta.ca , 780.492.8721 or Salena Kitteringham, salena@ualberta.ca , phone: 780.492.8710

Visit the Department of Drama webpage at www.drama.ualberta.ca

January 20-February 8, 2009

Vancouver BC

Tickets are now on sale for all the shows in the 2009 PuSh Festival.

Save big bucks and get yourself a PuSh Pass--four or six flexible vouchers good for any show. (Some restrictions apply. Read about 'em here.) They're going like hotcakes. This year, you can order and pay online--all at once, or come back to pick your shows. Hooray! We're figuring out that internet thingie!

And just in case the above doesn't make this blazingly obvious, we've announced all of our programming for the coming festival. Visit our show pages and read up.

And if you'd like to get more involved, we'd love to have you as a volunteer or donor.

See you in January! In the meantime, we'll be in touch (oh yes, we'll be in touch). Don't forgot to read our blog for your regular fix of the wonderful world of PuSh.

Our poster boy this year is Taylor Mac, appearing Jan 27 & 28 at Club PuSh at Performance Works. Photo by Drew Gerasi.

Venues all over the city,
Artists from all over the world.

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 20-February 8, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Monthly through to May

Red Deer

You're Invited!

To come and see Red Deer's first all Improv, Sketch Comedy Show Bull Skit! It's a brand new event happening at The Matchbox on November 29th, running throughout the next 7 months. Confirmed dates include December 20 and January 17. A Comedy Night inspired by Saturday Night Live, Carol Burnett, Die-Nasty, and Loose Moose Theatre. Attached is any information you need, if you have questions or want to get involved my contact information is also listed.

Against the Wall theatre is a brand new company that will be opening its season in the 09/10 year. Against the Wall theatre is a company that wants to create diverse and provocative theatre that challenges both the artist and the audience. This company fosters the growth of emerging artists from multi-disciplinary backgrounds (such as theatre, music, or fine arts). The company encourages the artist to take risks, stretch their boundaries and continuously go beyond their expectations. The company will expose the audience to compelling stories that have dynamic themes that unleash and explore the human condition.

If you know anyone that would be interested in Bull Skit! or Against the Wall or would like more information, please contact Amy (see below).

Amy Erlandson    anerlandson@hotmail.com

403 872 7497 or 403 343 3750

February 27 – March 1, 2009

Fort McMurray

Fort McMurray will once again host the Peace Country Regional Adult One Act Play Festival with the intention of selecting a play for the 2009 Provincial Festival being hosted in Medicine Hat. Hot Acts & Cool Plays is the name of the regional one acts which is part of a larger event called the WinterPLAY Festival hosted at the Clearwater Campus of Keyano College.

We have three evening showcases scheduled in the 194-seat Keyano Recital Theatre from February 27 – March 1. All productions will have the opportunity to perform their show on multiple evenings with adjudication planned for the final evening.

Russell Vincent Thomas - President, interPLAY Festival

Email: russell.thomas@keyano.ca      Website: www.interplay.ca      Phone: 780-791-4805

Monday, April 6, 2009

Edmonton

Save the date - more details to follow.

www.pacedmonton.com

The 3rd Wednesday of every month

Edmonton - The Blue Chair Cafe, 9624 - 76 Avenue

The Bunker Projects presents
Story Slam: The 3rd Wednesday of every month (except August)
at The Blue Chair Cafe, 9624 - 76 Avenue
Sign up: 7 p.m. Showtime: 8 p.m.
No reserve seating for Story Slam.
10 writers. 5 judges. 5 minutes. 5 bucks (suggested donation)

The Story Slam stage is open Wednesday, July 16, for 10 writers to perform their own original works at the Blue Chair Cafe. Sign up at 7 p.m. Stage opens at 8 p.m.
Muster the courage to get on stage and experience the thrill of five minutes of creative freedom. Dazzle five audience judges and become the first writer to become eligible to compete in the 2008-2009 Slam Off.

After a thrilling semi final round in June, the six Story Slam winners eligible to compete September 17 in the Grand Slam finals are: Tyler Enfield, Jacki Rudko, Jadon Rempel, Vern Wishart, Roxanne Felix, and Marina Michaelides. They will bring you two of their strongest five minute stories to vie for the Slam title.
Thank you to all who have supported Story Slam and made it a vital and lasting event in our community. Thank you to our talented writers, our enthusiastic audiences and our sponsors, The Blue Chair Cafe, Vue Weekly and Tracy Kolenchuk (photos).
All are welcome to our stage and our audience.
Sincerely,
Susan Hagan, on behalf of our crew: Lisa Gregoire, Alison Hagan, Roxanne Felix and Harold Wollin.

For rules and further information, please contact Susan Hagan: email thebunkerprojects@hotmail.com or call 780-682-2559.

The last Monday of every month

Edmonton - email Ryan for location

Pay-what-you-can admission

Ryan Hughes 780-297-3675 or language.and.content@gmail.com for more info