The project, in its first year, invites those affected by mental illness to share their experiences through visual art and has organized two workshops with complimentary art supplies for participants. The collection will be displayed at a reception at the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House for anyone to enjoy.
Drawing from a wide range of influences and having no formal musical training, Tavares likens her songwriting process to cooking. “I learned a couple of chords on the guitar, I practiced a bit – I just let it flow."
Throughout the show, however, one person remains standing, treading in a sea of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion. This individual moves in time with the composition but her dance is different. It hasn’t been choreographed in order to flow in tandem with the music. It is the music.
When the lights came back on and the clapping had died, there was an immense feeling of exhaustion that permeated the theatre after seeing The Amish Project. The play is a one-woman act of 60 minutes with no intermission, and in that time it will take its audience on an intense, funny and often harrowing journey through Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania in the fall of 2006.
The finale was the aforementioned Shostakovich, and it was excellently done, thanks to the superb and amazingly entertaining conducting of Girard, who rather than limiting himself to his baton, directs his orchestra with his whole body, becoming as much a tool of expression for the work, as any other instrument.
Personal experience with mental health was not necessary for artists to participate in the event. Some artists still desired to address issues that pertained to discussing mental health even if indirectly.
Opera has the ability, over straight theatre or musicals, to be over-dramatic without compromising the legitimacy of the performance or storyline. Of course falling in love in the space of one song is ridiculous, but the sold-out audience of opening night were swept along with the comedy, romance and excitement.
According to tradition, the first performance of tragedy at the Dionysia festival was by the playwright and actor Thespis in 534 BC in ancient Athens. His award was a goat. Today, while there aren’t any goats involved, members of the UBC Players club have created their own Festival Dionysia.
“The book isn’t so much about religion but is about the Jewish experience or one aspect of the Jewish experience and looking at the experience of Jews in Canada,” he said on the topic, which he notes was overlooked for large periods of Canada’s history.
“I had a lot of young women [in Seoul] coming up to me saying ‘Oh I feel like that character’ and I couldn’t believe it because it’s a different language [and] culture," she said. "But maybe certain things there are universal like heartbreak [and] feeling lost.”
So maybe leave the car once in a while on your way to campus, or venture into any of the trails around UBC. This Movember, in addition to the glorious array of beards that will start to pepper the campus, we might start to start to see accompanying spandex and sneakers in show of support for men’s health.
The cards are thrown up into the air at the beginning of the performance, and the actors take a random card from the pile of 52 cards on the ground and act out the scene. When that scene is finished, the actors then select another card from the deck randomly and act that one out. This process is done until the end of the program and eventually all the cards come together to form a story.
It spoke to how music is a universal language and how integral music is to us all across the different seasons of life. This night was indeed a portrayal of music and dance – where it did not move our bodies it certainly did move our hearts.
For a play with such a (perhaps) off-putting title, Cock is surprisingly PG. Sex happens, yes. It’s very passionate, but at no point do clothes come off, there is very little man-to-man or man-to-woman contact, yet the tension and passion in the scenes is electrifying.
Fast, healthy, and cheap: the trifecta of student food that too often goes unfulfilled. (Of course, these terms are all relative, especially with food: what is quick for one person might be more involved for another, and budgets and diets vary from person to person.)