Week 1 at Rhubarb is in full, fantastic swing and the madness has only begun. Be sure to catch video art, artist’s discussions and the raucous karaoke party happening tonight! At 4pm we’ll be diving into body, queerness, multi-race …
You’ve read about them in Xtra!, The National Post, on BlogTO and Torontoist (just to name a few!). Starting tonight, you can be among the first to experience one-to-one performance at Rhubarb. At 5:00 we open the box office at …
From the young blood at Rhubarb we’ve taken two more performance orders. Here we talk to Michael David Lorsch of As In Happy and cassy walker of satan in me. Both artists are members of the Young Creator’s Unit, part …
An imagined First Encounters with you, dear blog reader: Us: Hey, what’s the most exciting thing happening in Toronto tonight? You: Easy question. Opening night of Rhubarb at Buddies, obviously. Everyone is going. That’s right, tonight is the night! The …
Continuing to take performance orders from Rhubarb artists for our blog, we caught Wives (Leah Fay Goldstein, Emma-Kate Guimond and Julia Thomas) rehearsing Sea Foam Blue and took their ultimate performance order. PERFORMANCE ORDER FORM What do you want the dance/performance to be about? Be …
Early on in the curatorial process, it became clear that history—personal history, political history, local history—was going to be a major theme in this year’s festival. Both The Department of Public Memory and The Little G8 That Could explore the …
Marisa Hoicka as Uncle Wink and Johnny Forever work with themes of love and labour through drag aesthetics in their performance, Trust My Gut. Documentation was film at FADO’s 2011 Emerging Artists Series. Hoicka and Forever will find humour in …
This installment of First Encounters is a little bit different. Instead of having two artists interview one another, we’re doing something that we like to call a domino interview. One artist poses a question to another artist who answers it …
Dance and performance artist Keith Hennessy will be here during Week 2 of Rhubarb to present his internationally acclaimed CROTCH, and to facilitate a free 2-day workshop, Performing (queer) Failure, presented in association with Hub 14. Keith works within tensions …
Throughout the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of interviews between artists who we felt shared something in common but might have initially been unfamiliar with one another. Welcome to First Encounters! Today, Bleed’s Adam Lazarus and the …