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Open Space Saturdays
Summer is a time for relaxation and celebration. And often in New Westminster, a time filled with incredible community festivals. Many of these festivals won’t be able to happen this year.
We present Open Space Saturdays. An outdoor arts and community space activating the outdoor areas around Massey Theatre.
The program has been designed by our Indigenous Cultural Development Director Ronnie Dean Harris who, together with the whole Massey team and Community Partners, will develop a casual, eclectic program for all ages filled with arts, artisans, food and most of all fun.
Open Space Saturdays will run every summer Saturday from 11am to 10pm with programs for all ages starting July 10th.
On Site Activities may include:
- Indigenous and cultural arts and crafts
- Visual Arts and Video projections
- Literary Arts
- Dance, Music and Movement sessions
- Children’s Activities
- Outdoor Mainstage Performances
- Storytelling
- Arts and Artisan Market
- And more…
On Site Food and Beverage options may include:
- Rotating Food Trucks
- Community Food activations
Special pop-up events such as plant sales, seed exchange, positive advocacy, food, dialogue and other community priorities will be incorporated through partnerships with community organizations and groups.
Community groups are encouraged and welcomed to think about getting involved and thinking of good ways of being together in small groups and activities.
This is a time to heal and celebrate together safely and supportively. Open Space is the place to do it.
Interested in becoming involved or putting forward an actvity? Please contact Ronnie at ronnie@masseytheatre.com
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Massey Theatre 2021/2022 Season
We are more than excited. We are overjoyed to be able to announce that the theatre will be opening its doors this fall with a dynamic season! As the Province reopens in a safe and responsible way, audiences will be welcomed to the theatre to come and enjoy theatrical performances, as they are meant to be. Live and in person
The Massey Theatre season reflects the diverse lenses and interests of the community with a variety of exceptional performances. Included are iconic musical performers of contemporary Indigenous, pop, folk, rock and guitar jazz. The range of artists is incredible-from Martha Wainwright to Bill Henderson to International Guitar Night. Folk rock powerhouse band The Fugitives explore the realities and lore of Vimy Ridge in a multi-disciplinary concert with the dancers of Ballet BC and spoken word of Brendan McLeod. Musical artist and storyteller, iskwē, shares her impactful artistry with music, movement, images, poetry and prose.
The return season also promises to brighten our hearts with laughter. Comedy will take centre stage with the former “This Hour has 22 Minutes” star Shaun Majumder and his new show, The LOVE tour. A special two week run of Arts Club Theatre Company’s hit show Noises Off offers one of the largest and most fun productions we will see in the coming season. Massey Theatre has been working with Arts Club for over a year to bring back the 2020 hit to delight audiences in the way only live theatre can do.
Here is the list of the seasons’ performances:
Nov. 16, 2021
Martha Wainwright
Love Will Be Reborn
Martha Wainwright is beginning again. The beguiling performer and songwriter graces the Massey stage as part of the tour of her new album Love Will Be Reborn. Wainwright’s fifth studio album follows recent years of loneliness and clarity in search of optimism and joy. PRESALE for this show starts June 10, sale for general public on June 11
November 2021
Bill Henderson, Solo Tour
In his solo tour, Canadian Rock Icon Bill Henderson of Chilliwack takes the stage like the legend he is. Guitar at the ready. Iconic voice filling the theatre. For those of you who are ready to revisit Henderson’s distinct style of rock…the Massey is ready for you. Tickets on sale soon
January 28, 2022
International Guitar Night 2022
The always exceptional International Guitar Night returns to the Massey Theatre with a dynamic and eclectic lineup of international acoustic guitarists. The next tour features: Lulo Reinhardt, Germany’s Latin Swing master, contemporary classical guitarist Stephanie Jones from Australia, two-hand “tapper” Alexandr Misko from Russia, and Italian jazz guitarist and vocalist Eleanora “Lele” Strino. This show is a celebration of guitar music for new beginnings. Tickets on sale now.
Feb 3, 2022
Shaun Majumder The LOVE Tour
In 2019, beloved comedian and performer Shaun Majumder brought his complex tour de force HATE to Massey Theatre, much of it in response to living amid rampant Trumpism and the rise of hate he was witnessing in the US and Canada. Now, the new dad flips the narrative in with his new show LOVE. Majumder is an absolute comedy star, riveting and hilarious. This show is co-presented with Laughter Zone 101. Tickets on sale now.
February 15-27, 2022
Arts Club Theatre Company’s Noises Off by Michael Frayn
The pre-pandemic hit show is being remounted on the Massey Stage. Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show. With egos, insecurities, and tempers flaring backstage—and forgotten lines, missed cues, and misplaced sardines onstage—this cast threatens to strike the old adage “the show must go on.” Michael Frayn’s dizzying play-within-a-play classic is sure to leave you doubled over with laughter. This is sure to be one of the largest and most fun productions to be staged in the coming season. Tickets on sale now.
March 12, 2022
iskwē
iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (short for waseskwan iskwew, meaning “blue sky woman”) is, among many other things, an artist – a creator and communicator of music and of movement, of pictures, poetry and prose. And through it all, she’s a teller of stories that have impacted our past and will inform our future. Her solo tour brings timely magic and light to the Massey. Tickets on sale now.
Spring 2022
Over The Ridge
Often called the “battle that made Canada,” Vimy Ridge resulted in over 10,000 Canadian casualties. Through direct storytelling, verbatim theatre, live music and dance, Brendan McLeod, folk rock powerhouse band The Fugitives, choreographer Jacob Williams and the dancers of Ballet BC examine misconceptions, personal accounts by the actual young soldiers from the battle. This multi-disciplinary concert is an emotional, powerful and evocative look at our Nation’s past. Tickets on sale soon
Fall 2022
Hot Brown Honey
Hot Brown Honey, the smash-hit, genre defying, firecracker of a show from Australia, that’s taken the world by storm is coming to the Massey Theatre.
Steeped in the Word of the Mother and packing a potent punch of Hip-Hop Politics, the show is equal parts theatrical masterpiece and social activism with a posse of phenomenal women who smash stereotypes in a celebration of our similarities and differences. From dance to spoken word, hip hop to performance art, Hot Brown Honey will make you laugh until you cry, clap until your hands bleed and shake every part of what your mama gave you. Tickets on sale soon
Ticket are on sale for some of these shows already, so don’t wait to be entertained. Not only will you be supporting the arts and artists, you will lift your spirits with the unique joy that only culture can provide.
All safety protocols will be in place and guidelines followed. Less than 50% of seats are being sold until reopening guidelines are in place for each date.
All shows are presented with support of the City of New Westminster and the Province of British Columbia. Additionally, iskwē and Hot Brown Honey are posted with the support of the Vancouver Foundation.
We can’t wait to welcome you back.
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Job Posting: Programming Director
SENIOR PROGRAMMING POSITION SEARCH : APPLICATION DEADLINE JUNE 7, 2021
Massey Theatre Society – Programming Director
DESCRIPTION
Exceptional Art and Community Impact – an activator, a visionary, a lover of all arts, with a track record for making things happen.
Massey Theatre Society was established in 1983 as a venue based arts organization. The Society now operates two theatres and a 35,000 square foot arts complex formerly components of New Westminster Secondary School. The historic Massey Theatre (est. 1949) is a 1,260 seat proscenium theatre within the complex at the corner of Eighth and Eighth in uptown New Westminster. The new Anvil Centre Theatre (est. 2014) is a 360 seat, flexible, contemporary theatre within the multi-functional Anvil Centre on Columbia Street in Downtown New Westminster.
The past five years have brought significant growth in venue activities, organizational capacity and programming development. The organization is now a significant generator of artistic and community engagement programs. It holds a long term lease of the Massey Theatre and Complex and a programming and operating service agreement at the Anvil Centre Theatre. A new digital hub is being launched and the MTS is poised to grow and increase its impact which is broad and inclusive of all communities.
ABOUT THE POSITION
As Massey Theatre Society’s Programming Director, you will be responsible for the artistic leadership of programming taking place in the various venues. Reporting to the Executive Director, the role is accountable for creating and implementing a comprehensive strategic plan and involves working with the Senior Management and staff Team, and overseeing a team of Associate Artists and Support staff.
You will be an experienced leader who understands both the artistic and operational requirements of a not-for-profit arts organization. The ideal candidate will continue to define and raise profile locally, regionally, and nationally, sustaining and improving strategies to secure the centre’s long-term artistic and financial growth, increase organizational resiliency, and ensure its artistic legacy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership
- Lead programming by articulating and advancing the artistic vision of performing arts for the organization that reflects its commitment to excellence for both community and artists.
- Lead a team comprised of the Visual Art and Community Arts and Placemaking staff and Program Support Staff.
- Work collaboratively with the Senior Management Team to lead and implement a long-term strategic planning cycle for the organization that identifies short and long-term performing arts artistic goals.
- Act as spokesperson for the company with members of government, public funders, trade and professional organizations, corporate sponsors, major private supporters, and the media.
- Participate in Senior Management Leadership Team of Indigenous Cultural Development Director, Operations Director and Marketing and Communications Director and Executive Director.
Programming Vision
- Oversee the performing arts support team.
- Oversee the programming seasons’ professional and community performing arts’ productions in collaboration with the Senior Management Team to ensure a sustainable balance between the Society’s artistic direction and financial stability.
- Support outreach to artistic networks to bring the perspectives, talents and visions of new artists to enhance the company’s creation, programming and production of new work.
- Implement the three-year performing arts programming plan developed by the Executive Director and Performing Arts Consultant
- With the team, develop, a Community Engagement plan, and oversee its implementation.
- Collaborate with the Marketing team in the promotion of performing arts activities.
- In collaboration with the Executive Director, approve and select producing partnerships and creative teams for the development and production of projects.
- Ensure programming reflects cultural diversity and gender balance.
Production and Logistics
- Be responsible for the performing arts programming and production activities undertaken by at both Massey Theatre and Complex and Anvil Centre Theatre.
- Write, negotiate, and sign contracts.
- Manage an annual budget of approximately $400,000 in programming expenditures and ticket sales between $100,000 and $400,000, providing reforecasting during the year.
- Communicate program activity space booking, technical, artist and audience services needs to the rest of the team.
- Prepare portion of quarterly and annual reports related to programming.
- Be accountable for overseeing the development and execution of productions to meet the artistic standards of the organization.
- Build and maintain positive working relationships through effective influence with industry partners, stakeholders (public and private funders) and producing partners (venue partners, coproducers and presenters).
Grants and Fundraising
- Lead the process of timely performing arts grant application preparation and reporting in collaboration with the Senior Management Team.
- Identify sponsor proposals with team.
- Identify and research new funding sources.
- Track and report on grant allocations to programs.
- Track grant expenditure timelines.
- Oversee qualitative and quantitative data collection.
CONTACTS
This position will interact with members and officers of the following groups:
- Canada Council for the Arts
- Department of Canadian Heritage
- BC Arts Council
- BC Touring Council
- New Westminster Arts Council
- Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Association (GVPTA)
- BC Alliance for Arts and Culture
- Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC)
- Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (Equity)
- Executive leadership of local theatre companies
- Local and national peers (CAPACOA, CINARS, North American Folk Alliance, etc.) Local, national, and international artists in various areas of the performing arts.
- Historic users of the Massey Theatre including Royal City Music Theatre, New Westminster Symphony Orchestra, Royal City Youth Ballet, The Maple Leaf Singers, Mushtari Begum Festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance, New Westminster Family Place, Pride New West and School District 40 Fine Arts Program.
WORKING CONDITIONS
- This position typically operates in an office environment, as well as overseeing work taking place in theatres, scene shops, studios, and other external locations, dependent on the nature of the artistic work being presented or considered.
- Hours of work: On average, 37.5 hours per week, but periods of higher than normal work volume should be expected during the season.
- Evening and weekend work required, particularly when during the runs of performances, festivals, celebrations and other events. An averaging agreement will be put in place.
- The position may require some travel after the Covid-19 quarantine and travel ban is lifted. Typically, this will be no more than 3 weeks per year.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES REQUIRED
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a senior leadership position in the arts, not-for-profit or entertainment industry or a related sector.
- Proven track record of successfully leading the operations of an organization artistic success.
- Visionary artistic leadership with significant experience as a performing arts professional.
- Outstanding leadership skills.
- Superior strategic planning skills.
- Strong collaborative decision making abilities.
- Exceptional and inspiring communications skills, both written and oral.
- Effective delegation skills and ability to hold staff accountable to high standards of professionalism.
- Strong skills as a mediator and negotiator.
- A passion and commitment to the performing arts and their value to society.
- Familiarity and ability with computer skills including Word and Excel.
REMUNERATION
- Salary – $70,000 plus benefits
- Six month probationary period
- Benefits – Extended Health, Dental, LTD, Life Insurance, Matching 3% RRSP contribution
- Vacation – starting with 3 weeks, after 5 years 4 weeks
- Travel – budget for travel to showcasing conferences
- Expense Budget for Tickets and Mileage / Transit
COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Massey Theatre Society exists and operates on the unceded traditional territories of Hul’qumi’num speaking Coast Salish peoples of Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem and Katzie. We are committed to providing access to the space to those peoples and to contributing to their efforts toward cultural resurgence through our work. Consultation and direct employment of Indigenous people is a priority in these and other efforts.
The Society is influenced by, and of service to, a broad range of communities, world views, ways of working and lived experiences. With conscious intention we are seeking a candidate whose identity may not have been equitably included in our organization, or the professional artistic sector historically. We encourage applicants to articulate their personal connections and perspectives, in relation to systemic barriers, so that we may advance creating a more equitable and inclusive workplace.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Applicants are required to submit a professional resume and a maximum two page letter expressing their interest. Candidates should describe their related skills, experience and special qualities and characteristics that will add to the selection committee’s understanding of their qualifications. References may be submitted at the time of application, or it is acceptable that they be added upon request.
A Selection Committee comprised of Executive Director –Jessica Schneider, Arts Consultant – Gary Cristall, and associates will identify candidates to be interviewed. Interviews may involve additional Leadership staff members and a member of the Board of Directors.
Interviews will be conducted via online conference during the week of June 14. We will endeavour to complete shortly thereafter. The position will start as soon as possible.
Application Deadline:
June 7, 2021 at midnight
Submit Applications to the Selection Committee via email to: Jessica@masseytheatre.com
Reference material:
Massey Theatre Programming and Organizational Structure pdf
City of New Westminster 2016 Census Info
City of New Westminster Arts Strategy
Tourism New West
Immigrant Lessons Artist Residency at Massey Theatre
We are thrilled to introduce a new dance company in residence with Immigrant Lessons led by Artistic Director Kevin Fraser. This residency is part of a larger, multidisciplinary program called We Are Multitudes which has been developed by the Massey through the work of Artistic Associates Justine Chambers and Khari Wendell McLelland.
Kevin Fraser is a prominent and revolutionary figure in the Vancouver dance, fashion, film, and theatre communities. He is a multi-faceted performer and creator whose work has been seen all around the world in festivals and showcases. In addition to Immigrant Lessons, Kevin is a cofounder of the Vogue collective The Coven (with Ralph Escamillan and Ross Wirtanen). He is an established dancer in the styles of Vogue, Waacking, House dance, Contemporary, and Jazz, to name a few.
Immigrant Lessons has been working in the Massey Theatre since January developing new productions which will be performed later this year. The Massey provides fees, funding to artistic mentors and advisors, technical and equipment support, access to the stage and support for a series of community activities which will kick off this month. Three artists have been selected, including Fraser. The details of the other artists will be released in the weeks to come.
As part of their residency, Immigrant Lessons is sharing FREE workshop opportunities prioritizing BIPOC and marginalized youth under 21 beginning on March 15th.
These workshops include:
Grooving Foundations with Sophia Gamboa (Hip Hop) starting March 15th
Salu/Salo with Sophia Gamboa (Gathering) starting March 24th
Breaking Lessons and Sessions with Josh Cameron starting April 6th
Philosophy and Dance with Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd starting April 15th
More information on the workshops can be found on our website.
About Immigrant Lessons
Established in 2016, Immigrant Lessons is a Vancouver- based, international multidisciplinary art collective/platform utilizing: dance, theatre, music, fashion, visual media, and visual design. This collective creates, plays, and currently is based on the on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As underground artists and street dancers, they like to express deep love and gratitude for the innovations of black people and black culture. The collective is directed/founded by Queer Black multidisciplinary artist, Kevin Fraser. It’s current interpreters/company members are Sharon Lee, Sophia Gamboa, Josh Cameron, Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd, Tegvaran Singh, Simran Sachar, and Hayden Pereira. With a shared love of movement and art, Immigrant Lessons incorporates their extensive street dance background, experimental practice, contemporary ideology, multidisciplinary skill set, and the investigation of societal norms and intersections to give voice and visibility to marginalized and oppressed communities/individuals.
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Happy International Women’s Day 2021
Giving Tuesday
Today is Giving Tuesday
A day when community, business and more give back to not for profits and charities. This year, we’re asking for your support. We are fundraising for a bright Massey future. A future that is bright with more spaces to engage the community and the arts. Space to grow and learn. Space to heal.
A bit about us and Uptown Live
We were thrilled to be able to host Uptown Live 2020 back in August. Each of the full concert performances are available on their website if you are interested in checking them out.
Our Executive Director Jessica Schneider did a short video with the event producers that showcases our space, our incredible artists and partners and the Uptown New West neighbourhood that we are so proud to be part of.
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We want to hear from you!
We’re missing all the artists, community activators, producers and audience members that come through our doors every day, sharing experiences, thoughts and joy in our space. We know that we’ll all be able to be together again eventually, but we’re adapting so we can still engage our audiences and support the people who create and produce on our stage.
We’ve begun programming small activities in our spaces as well as working with local producers on the filming of events that will be live-streamed. However, we want to ensure that we are providing and supporting what the audience and community wants.
We’ve collaborated with the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance on a short survey for our patrons, partners, artists and collaborators.
The purpose of this survey is to help us and other arts and cultural organizations plan for reopening and to understand your needs as we plan for the future. The survey focuses on your arts and cultural activities and how you feel about options for a safe return to these activities.
Your responses will be kept confidential and anonymous. You will not be asked for your name, contact details, or any other information that could identify you. Only aggregated data will be publicly disclosed.
Thank you for taking the time to let us know how you want to experience arts, events and programming at Massey Theatre. We look forward to welcoming you back very soon in an environment where we can collectively enjoy the magic of the performing arts and community.
To fill out the survey, click on this LINK
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to email us at info@masseytheatre.com!
There is also a similar survey running for the Anvil Centre Theatre if you’d like to fill that out as well.
This is #JustAnIntermission
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Reflections on Pride from Allan Morgan
We’ve had the honour and pleasure of working with the incredible Allan Morgan for over a year…a relationship which we hope continues forever. As we enter a completely different New West Pride week, Allan had some reflections on Pride and how his relationship to it has changed.
He did an amazing recording of the piece which we are happy to share with you, in addition to the script.
We hope it moves you as much as it did us.
Happy Pride New West.
THE JOURNEY THUS FAR
Whenever I go for a drive or a trip with a friend I enjoy following along on a map. Not necessarily navigating, but wanting a visual narrative perhaps to help me understand where we’re at.
I think it is much the same with life. As I get older I look back on this map of my life thus far and of the story which I have created that goes along with it. The path to Pride both personally as a gay man, and as a gay man in a community seeking radical liberation is a big part of my map, my story, my artistry. I write about my sexuality and pride and my life thus far in order to understand it a bit better and to help to shed some of the unwanted baggage gained growing up in a world where gay and proud were not anything to celebrate.
The first political action I ever did as a gay man, a proud gay man, was to march across from the church where Anita Bryant, a right wing Christian heading a campaign to deny rights to gays and lesbians was speaking in Scarborough Ontario when I was living in Toronto in 1976, and like many of us that political activity has never stopped since. How could it stop? Once I had accepted that I was gay, born that way, and that it was an intrinsic part of what makes me human I knew that society’s opinions and laws about homosexuality had to change.
The road to Pride has been long. For every victory there was a setback, for every setback another setback. Google it all. Scroll through year by year, check it out.
We lost a decade and far, far too many friends and lovers and artists and loved ones and brothers and sisters to the last pandemic, HIV- AIDS. We remember them and we lift up their names.
After that storm – eventually the rainbow, and the movement for gay & lesbian civil rights gained momentum here and much of the western world. Rights were enshrined and closet doors closed as community beckoned.
PRIDE MAP
We can now marry and divorce, adopt and foster children and live our lives as full citizens in many countries of the world as a direct result of the hard work and bravery and conviction of so many who knew we were right and that more love is never a bad legacy. I am proud of these achievements and happy to experience the profound sea–change in the public perception of who we are.
Although Gay pride has become huge and ubiquitous with a season of gay prides in various cities throughout the world, our country and our province, I consider it an important and essential celebration. Well, I used to.
A few years ago cracks started to appear in the wall of Pride. Discussions and conversations began to appear, questions of who should be involved in our celebrations. At the pride parade in Toronto a few years back Black Lives Toronto stopped the parade with a counter protest.
A demonstration by mostly black women protesting the racism and exclusion of Pride and the parade, as well as the presence of the police in the parade.
That demonstration engendered a conversation not only within our community but across the country. Like many of us I had a firm narrative of Pride – the story I told over and over again about the events and politics that happened and how we got here from there and some fairly firm opinions about inclusion in our celebrations and, like many also felt my activism gave me a stake in these decisions and licence to opine about them.
Last year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an event generally described as the beginning of Gay Liberation. As I read literature about the riots I began to realize that my story of Pride and our journey was incomplete, white washed. The role of black transgender women at Ground Zero of Stonewall was indisputable and indelible. I made edits to my map and began to look for more.
Which brings us to now. 2020. The year everything changed, the year of the pandemic.
As it was unknown territory there are no maps, nothing to assist us in navigating our way in a world unknown to us.
For many of us there was no work, we were to stay at home, wash our hands frequently, wear gloves, masks, not venture out trying to flatten a curve so as not to overwhelm the healthcare system and to protect those vulnerable among us. In one of the greatest act of solidarity and love in human history we did just that.
It became our new reality and the combination of no work amidst an event unprecedented in our lives we had time to think ( and bake bread, sew masks, spend quality time with our families, help neighbours and bang pots of thanks for those in harm’s way.)
We also became very aware at this time of the huge inequities in our society of the path walked by black, indigenous and people of colour as opposed to our own path. Here in Canada the need for reconciliation with the original indigenous Sovereign Nations whose land our ancestors appropriated from them with no recompense, grew bigger. Black lives matter both in the United States and here took to the streets to shout their outrage at the continuing systemic racism, and at the continued murders of black citizens by the police.
Cracks in the narrative now seemed to be happening everywhere, not just to Pride, but societaly as well.
We worried that the whole thing might collapse, but as Leonard Cohen says in his song ” Anthem” the cracks are where the light gets in.
Pride 2020 for the most part is a virtual celebration meaning that there are no huge parades,no blocks long shutdown as we have in New Westminster, no coming together in person because of the virus. So we have watched online celebrations and activism around the world. We have been able to see more clearly I think the plight of so many in our community around the world.
Personally I came to understand that my narrative, my map needed to be rethought, redrawn and retold. That liberation meant liberation for all, not just some of us. I also came to understand that there is much reading and listening and hearing and questions that need to be asked by us, that there is much work to do to be as inclusive as we can be, to help give ownership to others in the movement that have fought racism and hate and deserve to have their say in helping to move us all forward.
THE PATH FROM PRIDE
The future Has no map. We have to draw it. I don’t know where we go or how we get there oh, but I do know that my sense of “we” is different now. It has grown. We is now bigger, more diverse, more inclusive, more colourful and more powerful. That fuller definition of ” we” will be even more unstoppable and more undeniable. Within that “we” are many new leaders and people of vision who will take different roads different routes and I for one am looking forward to that adventure.
Happy Pride to everyone of you Beautiful Creatures, wherever you are on the gender River, and to all of us in our sexualities and our queerness and our colours, and to all of our allies that march with us.
Let’s put our maps together and find a new route, but let’s keep moving forward. That’s the only path that really matters.
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Summer 2020 Plaskett Unlimited Musician Residences
The Massey Theatre is thrilled to be presenting a series of week-long artist residencies aimed at providing safe and healthy opportunities for artists to work and for the public to enjoy performances in the Plaskett Gallery space.
Artists will be present three times in the week, with a schedule as follows: Thurs, Fri 1pm-4pm; Sat 5pm-7pm. This will be an extension of the existing Gallery program, with groups booking 30-minute slots to see the gallery show and the performers.
Click HERE to book a Plaskett visit time. Viewings are limited to 30 minutes at a time. Visits are available on a first-come, first-served basis. A maximum of 10 people will be allowed at a time. Your party will be asked to state that you have assessed yourself for Covid 19 symptoms before entering. You will all be required to provide contact information for the purposes of contact tracing by the government if that is needed for any reason.
All artists will returning to participate in a showcase event on Sunday August 30th at 7:30pm in the Massey Theatre All artists will perform, and all will share some reflections about their experiences as an artist during the pandemic.
Schedule
Aug 6-8
Krystal Morrison and Erin MacDonald
Classical Duo
Aug 13-15
Cassius Khan and Amika Kushwaha
Indian Classical Music
Aug 20-22
Tomoyo Yamada
Contemporary Dance
Aug 27-29
Eddy van Wyk
Multidisciplinary
Performance times
Thursdays and Fridays: 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Saturdays: 5:00 pm-7:00 pm*
*Saturday Aug 29 will be 6:30pm-8:00pm
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