A culture vlog
July always starts with a bang in Toronto due largely in part to the Toronto Fringe Festival - the annual tradition when thousands of people descend upon the Annex Neighbourhood and surrounding areas. Hundreds of artists vie for your attention with flyers, posters, costumes, PR stunts and more. And for only $10, you could see the next big hit to grace the stages of Toronto. The Drowsy Chaperone is probably the best and most quoted example of the little Fringe show that could - making its way from its humble beginnings here in Toronto to the bright lights of Broadway and beyond!
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Photo taken of Future’s Bakery at Bloor and Brunswick by Blair Francey
Once a year, the theatre, dance and opera community come together to celebrate their achievements over the past year at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Produced by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), the Dora Awards have been celebrating excellence on Toronto’s stages for the past 29 years!
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Photo taken from the CN Tower by Blair Francey
It’s the beginning of July and that can only mean one thing … that the Toronto Fringe Festival is kicking into high gear!
Katherine and the good folks of Cow Over Moon Children’s Theatre have a show in the festival called “The Three Magic Wishes” at the Palmerston Library. After the performance on Thursday afternoon, we’re going to go check out some of the sites and sounds of the Annex and run from venue to venue to find the next big show to come out of the festival!
If you’re around, be sure to find us in the beer tent at the Tranzac Club later on in the evening. If you’ve got a tip on a great show to check out, let us know!
See you there!
Hey everyone,
We’re in widescreen! I figured out how to film on the video camera in 16:9 ratio … yay!
Last Thursday Katherine and I headed out on the town to see if we drink up some more culture in Toronto. We had it all planned out and it started off really well at Prefix. We grabbed some food and then chaos ensued …
Okay, not really chaos, but we certainly had to improvise. You’ll have to watch the episode to figure out what happens!
We’re really ecstatic about the response we’ve had from our first episode. There are so many events coming up in the summer, I doubt we’ll have any trouble finding new events to attend. But if you know of an event coming up that you think we should take a look at, contact us and let us know! We’ll try and fit it into our schedule!
Our first vlog!
Katherine and I are really excited to show you our first attempt at putting our first video blog together!
On June 10, 2008, we began our night at the Mille Femme exhibit at Brookfield Place, biked up town to see Black Watch at Varsity Arena, stopped off at Hart House to observe Slow Dance, grabbed a bite to eat at Queen and Spadina before rockin’ out at The Horseshoe Tavern with Sebastien Grainger And The Mountains.
Here’s how much we spent tonight: approximately $47.
Unfortunately we couldn’t take any footage of the Black Watch performance - lucky for us though, there’s a great preview on YouTube - check it out here:
We hope you enjoy the first of our vlogs about culture in Toronto. Do you know of an event or exhibition or show we should check out? Give us a shout!
Did you see one of the events we saw? What did you think of it? Leave a comment!
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