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SUMMARY:Retro Film: MARCH BREAK MOVIE: Chicken Run (2000)
DESCRIPTION:When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm\, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.
URL:https://uptownsj.com/event/retro-film-march-break-movie-chicken-run-2000/
LOCATION:Imperial Theatre\, 12 King Square S.\, Saint John
CATEGORIES:Free,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Imperial Theatre presents The Crow’s Theatre production of As You Like It\, or The Land Acknowledgement By Cliff Cardinal
DESCRIPTION:The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests this is a play to please all tastes. Is that possible? \nCalled “sly\, funny\, and charming” by the Toronto Star\, As You Like It Or The Land Acknowledgement by cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal\, is a devastating yet laugh-out-loud examination of land acknowledgements as cultural and political practice. A timeless tale of mistaken identities\, banishment\, and forgiveness takes on an entirely new meaning in this subversive update of the Bard’s classic. Cardinal’s Cree and Lakota heritage deeply inform his take on the play\, which is acerbic\, mischievous\, and fearlessly deals with difficult subject matter. \n“The Canadian arts surprise of the year” (The Globe and Mai)\, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It\, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal was the recipient the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama and was shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Book Award. \n“One thing’s certain: this As You Like It is unlike any other production of the play\, past or future.” NOW Magazine \nAges 14+ \nCliff Cardinal – Creator and Writer\nNamed by The Globe and Mail as a Canadian Cultural Icon in 2022\, Cliff Cardinal is a polarizing writer and performer known for his black humour and compassionate poeticism. His AS YOU LIKE IT\, A RADICAL RETELLING has been performed across Canada\, was shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Book Award\, and was the recipient of the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Other solo theatre productions including Stitch\, Huff\, Cliff Cardinal’s CBC Special\, and (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them) have toured across Canada and won numerous awards. He is an associate artist at VideoCabaret where he develops his new work. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation\, he studied\nplaywriting at the National Theatre School of Canada and fronts the hilarious and nefarious Cliff Cardinal and The Skylarks. \nCardinal’s first multi-character play\, Too Good To Be True\, opened VideoCabaret’s 2019 season at The Busy Street Theatre in Toronto with Cardinal himself directing. A workshop version of the script debuted at Summerworks ’13\, where NOW Magazine said\, “This captivating tale of an off-grid mother and her desperate children solidifies Cardinal as one of the most talented and intriguing writers in the country.” Prior to premiering AS YOU LIKE IT\, A RADICAL RETELLING\, Cardinal was best known for his one-man play Huff\, which he has performed over 200 times. This harrowing yet hilarious show about youth who abuse solvent\, at high risk of suicide won the Buddies in Bad Times’ Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation\, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Outstanding Performance\, Outstanding New Play)\, RBC’s Emerging Playwright Award\, The Lustrum Award (which recognizes the greatest moments at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and was shortlisted for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award. The production garnered a five-star review in The\nGuardian Observer titled “a hard-hitting tour de force.” Huff has been published\, translated into French\, continues to tour\, and was released as a podcast by the CBC. \nCliff Cardinal’s CBC Special\, a songwriter/storyteller performance\, toured festivals in Ottawa\, Calgary\, St. Catharines\, through Canada’s North starting in Yellowknife with a stint at Theatre Kingston and won the Jon Kaplan Spotlight Award for the top performance at Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival. Cliff Cardinal and The Skylarks’ first recording\, This is Not a Mistake was released in 2016 and their follow up Gonna Be Fine was released in 2020\, both are available online. The band’s third album Suicidal Valentine is out on Merlainen Music. The title track has risen to number six on the Indigenous Music Countdown. \nChris Abraham – Co-Conspirator\, Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director\nCrow’s Theatre Artistic and General Director\, Chris Abraham has been the driving force of Crow’s since the 2008.09 season. He has successfully led the company through several major milestones: the 25th\, 35th\, and 40th anniversaries of the company as well as building Streetcar Crowsnest\, a pioneering\, state of the art facility with three venues in the east end of Toronto. At Crow’s\, Chris has directed numerous award-winning plays including Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, The Master Plan\, Uncle Vanya\, MixTape\, As You Like It\, Julius Caesar\, Stars: Together\, The Wedding Party\, True Crime\, Boy in the Moon\, The Assembly\, The Watershed\, The Seagull\, Winners & Losers\, Someone Else\, Eternal Hydra\, and I\, Claudia. In 2003\, Chris directed the film adaptation of Kristen Thomson’s award-winning hit I\, Claudia for which he won a Gemini Award. A graduate of the National Theatre School’s renowned directing program\, Chris served as co-director of the program from 2006 to 2010\, In 2013\, Chris was awarded the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for Directing. Chris’ artistic practice spans the spectrum of solo work\, documentary\, highly lauded Stratford and Shaw productions\, hybrid music theatre concerts\, opera\, and filmmaking. This summer\, Chris will direct One Man\, Two Guvnors at the Shaw Festival. \nLogan Raju Cracknell – Lighting Designer\nLogan Raju Cracknell is a Toronto based theatre artist specializing in lighting design and live stream creation. Their work has taken them across the country\, and they are truly excited to see what journeys lie ahead. Recent works include: Prodigal (The Howland Company\, Crow’s Theatre)\, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal and Orphans for the Czar (Crow’s Theatre)\, The Extinction Therapist (Theatre Aquarius)\, Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre)\, BLACKOUT (The Musical Stage Company)\, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Theatre Calgary)\, Dixon Road (The Musical Stage Company\, Obsidian Theatre)\, As You Like It (Canadian Stage Company)\, and Concord Floral and Casimir and Caroline (Theatre Sheridan)\, and Fairview (Canadian Stage Company\, Obsidian Theatre). \nJennifer Stobart – Stage Manager\nA veteran of live theatre\, having stage managed over 175 professional productions\, in theatres both grand and modest\, Jennifer has toured coast to coast in Canada and the United States several times\, to Dublin\, Ireland\, London\, England\, Sydney\, and Perth Australia\, and Edinburgh\, Scotland. Most recently\, she stage managed (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them) with Video Cabaret\, The Chronicles of Sarnia with Blyth Festival Theatre\, The Christie Pits Riots with The Hogtown Collective\, The Land Acknowledgement with Mirvish\nProductions & Crow’s Theatre\, As You Like It\, a Radical Re-telling by Cliff Cardinal in Toronto\, Vancouver\, Edmonton\, Peterborough\, Ottawa\, and New York City\, our place with Cahoots Theatre & Theatre Passe Muraille\, huff with Neptune/Prismatic Theatre in Halifax\, Dreaming Roots with The Yukon First Nations Arctic Arts Summit\, in Whitehorse. As always\, she sends her love to her Mom\, her adventuring travelling companion. \nSherrie Johnson – Crow’s Theatre Executive Director\nSherrie Johnson began her tenure at Crow’s Theatre (Toronto) in February 2019\, becoming Crow’s first Executive Director. Sherrie brings a wide range of experience as an arts leader to her role at Crow’s Theatre. Sherrie was a member of the leadership team at Canadian Stage (Toronto) from 2013-2019. Prior to joining Canadian Stage\, Johnson’s artistic career includes serving as founding Artistic Director of Outside The Box in Boston\, MA; Senior Curator at the highly esteemed PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver\, B.C.; and Co-Founder/Artistic Director of the Six Stages Festival in Toronto\, Prague\, Berlin and Glasgow. An active producer and agent\, she’s worked with Germany’s internationally renowned triumvirate Rimini Protokoll\, Antwerp based artists Bart Baele and Yves Degryse of Berlin\, filmmaker and installation artist Srinivas Krishna\, and visual artist Stan Douglas. Sherrie successfully led the indie company da da kamera with Daniel MacIvor from 1993-2007. Sherrie was the inaugural recipient of the John Hobday Award for outstanding achievement in arts management from the Canada Council and the recipient of the 2019 Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award. \nCrow’s Theatre – Producer\nFor 40 years\, Crow’s Theatre has been a leading force in the Canadian theatre landscape\, recognized for provocative and award-winning new theatre works that premiere in Toronto often followed by national and international tours. Crow’s Theatre is distinguished as a preeminent cultural destination for its far-reaching imagination\, ideas\, exchange\, diversity\, and grassroots belief that the arts are essential to healthy and thriving communities. In January 2017\, following the completion of a $12 million capital campaign\, Crow’s Theatre\nopened the doors to its first permanent home\, Streetcar Crowsnest\, at the corner of Carlaw Avenue and Dundas Street East. Led by Artistic and General Director\, Chris Abraham and Executive Director Sherrie Johnson\, Crow’s Theatre is located at the corner of Carlaw Avenue and Dundas Street East in Toronto’s east end. Our home at Streetcar Crows nest is comprised of four venues for dynamic cultural and community programming: the Guloien Theatre (200 seats); Studio Theatre (80 seats); the Nada Ristich Studio Gallery (80 seats); the full- service Lobby Bar; as well as an onsite restaurant which can accommodate 60 seated indoors and 75 on the outdoor.
URL:https://uptownsj.com/event/the-imperial-theatre-presents-the-crows-theatre-production-of-as-you-like-it-or-the-land-acknowledgement-by-cliff-cardinal/
LOCATION:Imperial Theatre\, 12 King Square S.\, Saint John
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Maryna KRUT
DESCRIPTION:Maryna KRUT (pronounced “kroot”) is a Ukrainian singer and virtuoso of the bandura\, a stringed instrument unique to Ukraine that looks and sounds like a hybrid of lute and harp. At 28\, KRUT is an assured performing artist; her compelling\, soulful performances evoke both folk traditions and modern sensibilities\, with pop and jazz flourishes. A Eurovision finalist\, she often represents Ukraine at official events and performs for soldiers in the current war zone\, and she has appeared at the Edinburgh International Culture Summit\, Andalucia Big Festival\, Montreal Ukrainian Festival\, and on other international stages. \nKRUT (pronounced “kroot”) is a Ukrainian singer and virtuoso of the bandura\, a stringed instrument unique to Ukraine that looks and sounds like a hybrid of lute and harp. At 28\, KRUT is an assured performing artist; her compelling\, soulful performances evoke both folk traditions and modern sensibilities\, with pop and jazz flourishes. A Eurovision finalist\, she often represents Ukraine at official events and performs for soldiers in the current war zone\, and she has appeared at the Edinburgh International Culture Summit\, Andalucia Big Festival\, Montreal Ukrainian Festival\, and on other international stages. \nThe bandura’s harpsichord-like sound is both delicate and assertive. KRUT’s instrument has an astonishing 64 strings stretched over a single piece of wood\, with 13 bass strings stretched along a short\, fretless neck\, and the remaining treble strings stretched across a large soundboard. She plays the bass set with her left hand\, while the right plays across the prodigious treble array. In addition to being a masterful instrumentalist\, KRUT’s striking\, powerful voice soars in an acoustic setting\, whether with a string quartet or solo. \nEarly bandurists were male balladeers who travelled from village to village; early in her career\, says KRUT\, “I dyed my hair pink\, painted my nails black\, wore leather jackets and started to play the bandura in a more modern\, jazzy and funky way” (Vogue Australia). Now she’s stretching her style back toward the bandura’s folk roots. “[Her music] represents the DNA of Ukrainian culture\, in all its styles\, classic and very modern” (Ouest France).
URL:https://uptownsj.com/event/maryna-krut/
LOCATION:Imperial Theatre\, 12 King Square S.\, Saint John
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Choir! Choir! Choir!
DESCRIPTION:“Why see a show when you can BE the show!” \nChoir! Choir! Choir! is the fully interactive\, participatory show that turns audience into performer! So get ready to laugh\, dance and SING! your hearts out with hundreds of other music-lovers just like you. It’s like a big birthday party for the greatest songs of all time and you’re invited! \nSo grab a friend (or ten)\, and come out ready to GIVE IT ALL YOU’VE GOT! – all voices welcome\, no experience necessary. They Teach\, You Sing! Everyone Wins! \nThis time\, Choir!Choir!Choir! Presents: We Will CHOIR! You!: An EPIC QUEEN Sing-Along \nWhen it comes to EPIC anthems\, it doesn’t get BIGGER than Queen! And nothing feels better than belting out their biggest hits with a room full of Queen fans! So unleash your inner Freddie Mercury\, grab your best friends and frenemies\, and create harmonies that will blow the roof off the place! We Will CHOIR! You! will be the most fun you’ve had in years… \nSince 2011\, Choir! Choir! Choir! directors Daveed Goldman + Nobu Adilman have blurred the lines between performer and audience\, traveling the world to create harmony with strangers and friends alike. They’ve collaborated with renowned artists like Patti Smith\, David Byrne\, Brandi Carlile\, Rick Astley\, Rufus Wainwright\, and even Kermit The Frog at New York’s Lincoln Center\, creating memorable videos that have garnered views in the millions. Now it’s your turn to SING!\, so grab your friends\, get your tickets and we’ll C! you there! #NeverStopSinging
URL:https://uptownsj.com/event/choir-choir-choir-2/
LOCATION:Imperial Theatre\, 12 King Square S.\, Saint John
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Theatre
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