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by Buddies
on January 15th, 2013
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Montreal-based dance artist [color]Priscilla Guy[/color] returns to The Rhubarb Festival this year with another public space intervention, [color]Moving Installations[/color]. Since she’s as close as we’ve got to a resident expert, we asked for her thoughts on the idea of Performance …
by Buddies
on January 14th, 2013
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Festival Director Laura Nanni weighs in on some of the responses to Sunday’s post about critic-free spaces After Sook-Yin’s post about critic free spaces went up on-line yesterday I’ve received alot of interesting questions from people in the community regarding …
by Buddies
on January 13th, 2013
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We knew we wanted someone to talk about what it means to perform in a critic-free space, and after chatting with her we knew that [color]Sook-Yin Lee[/color] would probably have some very interesting thoughts. And we were right. Here’s what …
by Buddies
on January 11th, 2013
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Without giving away too much about his one-to-one project [color]All Good Things[/color], we can say that learning how to hold your breath can be a very useful skill. So we asked [color]Vertical City’s Bruce Barton[/color] to get you in the …
by Buddies
on January 10th, 2013
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This year, Rhubarb is partnering with Kensington’s queer performance venue Videofag on [color]Vigil(ance) [/color]a Mobile Works project that names and reclaims unsafe spaces in our city. For today’s blog post, we asked Vigil(ance) co-creator [color]Jordan Tannahill[/color] ‘Where do you feel …
by Buddies
on January 9th, 2013
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Today, we’ve got the first in a long series of posts from Rhubarb Festival artists. Over the next six weeks, you’ll be hearing from someone involved in each of the 35 projects in this year’s festival as they discuss the …
by Buddies
on January 7th, 2013
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Remember our interns? We gave them a camera and a word processor and set them loose at our photo shoot to document all of the goings on. On November 16th I spent an evening in the pitch-black darkness of …
by Buddies
on December 27th, 2012
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Our Research Intern Spencer has been very busy lately, compiling information on every single show that’s ever happened at Rhubarb. Not a small task to say the least. Being the new expert on the subject, we invited him to share …
by Buddies
on December 20th, 2012
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Organizing a 10 day festival with over 100 artists takes an entire crew. This year, we’ve got a great group of interns working very hard to make this happen. You’ll be hearing from them a lot over the next couple …
by Buddies
on December 16th, 2012
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We asked Festival Director [color]Laura Nanni[/color] to talk a bit about how she programs the festival and what we can look for at this year’s Rhubarb. Just something to keep you on the edge of your seat before the full …