This week Tapestry’s Ernest Balmer Studio is home to Nabaz’Mob, a free visual arts event for Luminato.

A Nabaztag is a nine-inch-tall Wi-Fi-enabled “ambient device” in the shape of a stylized rabbit. Artist, programming engineer, and designer Antoine Schmitt and composer, film director, multimedia author, and sound designer Jean-Jacques Birgé bring together one hundred of these quirky little creatures – each equipped with flashing lights, moving ears and a built-in speaker – to perform a musical and choreographic score for three voices.

Click here for more info on Nabaz’Mob at Luminato or here for the full site.

Come by during one of these times:

Tuesday, June 15: 12:30PM and 6:00PM (special performances)

Wednesday, June 16: 12:30PM and 6:00PM (special performances)

Thursday, June 17: 12:30PM and 6:00PM (special performances)

Friday, June 18: 5:00PM – 10:00PM (drop-in viewings)

Saturday, June 19: 12:00PM – 8:00PM (drop-in viewings)

Sunday, June 20: 12:00PM – 6:00PM (drop-in viewings)

The Ernest Balmer Studio at Tapestry is located in the Distillery Historic District
55 Mill St. Bldg. 58. Studio 315
Toronto, ON

Great News! We’ve been touring Get Stuffed, a new opera for children set in the school cafeteria for 2 years in schools across Ontario. We’ve been trying to find the best way to bring this super fun show to a larger, public audience and we are thrilled to partner with the Distillery Historic District to end the 2010 tour on May 15, 2010 with a free family day including 3 outdoor performances and fun food workshops and activities. Visitors will also have the opportunity to help fight hunger by dropping off a non-perishable food donation to support the Daily Bread Food Bank and to collect information and parent resources from ChildFind Canada who assist in the search for and prevention of missing children.

May 15, 2010
PEFORMANCES
11:00am, 1:00pm and 3:00pm in Trinity Square in the Distillery Historic District
55 Mill Street (north east of Parliament St. and Lakeshore Blvd) Toronto, ON.
An onsite indoor location will be available in case of rain.

Written by Toronto composer Richard Payne and Montreal writer Alexis Diamond for 5 singing actors and 2 musicians, Get Stuffed is about a timely message, making healthy food choices. Developed with Words in Motion and the Canadian Diabetes Association, Get Stuffed promotes environmentally-friendly, healthy food choices inspired by the Canada Food Guide, with special prominence for fruits and vegetables grown in Ontario.

Includes a food fight!!!

Get Stuffed is supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ministry of Health Promotion, Ontario Agri-Food Education Inc. and Loblaws Canada.

For more information on Get Stuffed and the 2010 company please visit getstuffed.ca

Artist Pictured: Christopher Ryan. Photo © Meghan Hall

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s annual New Creations Festival presents the best in contemporary orchestral music, pushing the boundaries of sound with premières from today’s hottest composers. One of the ‘Festival Extras’ is free pre-concert lobby performances and for the Azul concert on Thursday February 25th, Tapestry will be entertaining audience members with three 5-minute Opera Briefs.

Purchase an “$8 ticket to the concert then come to the lobby of Roy Thompson Hall at 7:20pm and enjoy:

What is She? (from Opera Briefs 9)
Anna Chatterton, librettist / John Harris, composer

The Sermon (from Opera Briefs 9)
Bernard MacLaverty, librettist / John Harris, composer

Betty Box Office (from Opera Briefs 8)
Ken Gass, librettist / Jack Perla, composer

These ‘briefs’ will be performed by soprano Carla Huhtanen, tenor Keith Klassen, baritone Peter McGillivray and pianist Christopher Foley.

For $8 Tickets to the New Creations Festival visit:

www.tso.ca/weboffers

Use the Promo. Code : TANGO

A new operatic allegory La Senorita Mundo opens tonight (August 7 at 8pm) at The Theatre Centre in Toronto.

Composer Njo Kong Kie and librettist / director Kico Gonzalez Risso met in 2004 at Tapestry’s Directors’ Lab, both already graduates of Tapestry’s annual LibLab.

Kico stage directed a piece composed by Kong Kie in LibLab that year (the first 5 min of what became knotty together with a libretto by Anna Chatterton). Kong Kie also music directed a piece which Kico stage directed. Such is the collaborative process here at Tapestry…

Subsequently, Kong Kie wrote a song for Kico for his radio cabaret musical Ghost in Love, which was performed in Vancouver.

La Senorita Mundo is the latest collaboration from the pair.  Running 50+ minutes it is part of Toronto’s Summerworks festival and features Tapestry regular Keith Klassen (tenor) and Vilma Vitols (mezzo).

Click here for full schedule and ticket info on the Summerworks website or call .

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