I find it nice to hear about indie festivals - film and dance, not just music - helping to fill concert halls with newly excited and involved youth, so figured I’d quickly share this. Check out the Cultural Center of the Philippines:
Never before have so many youths filled all the cavernous spaces of CCP. The [...]
Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old [...]
MAI, the Montreal Centre for Intercultural Arts puts on some really interesting multidisciplinary dance and theatre shows throughout the year. I volunteered on a show last year where the audience followed performers through a darkened basement and up spiral stairs before being lead outside to watch performers walk backwards down the side of the building.
Today [...]