A Night of Performance and Video by National and International Artists

Curated by Natasha Bailey

Performances will be streamed live online throughout the night.

Artists include:

Sam Belinfante
Natasha Bailey and Junko Otake
Fransisco-Fernando Granados
Holly Slingsby
Danielle Williams

Guest Appearance by Jeremy Bailey

Live Streams will take place at:
Natasha Bailey and Junko Otake’s performance can be viewed at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/from-t-to-t-canada
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/from-t-to-t-japan

Fransisco-Fernando Granados’s performance can be viewed at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fragments

More About the Event:

The manner in which we use language determines the success of a conversation. In Points
of Conversation the art of communication becomes synonymous with the relationship of Art
and language. The performances and videos explore our daily frustration and love of
using language(s); the incompatibility and compatibility of language(s) and the anxiety
that we sometimes experience when we cannot properly connect words into a comprehensive
flow.

Technology has allowed for fast and easy access to communication. Dialogue travels
across oceans and continents connecting people and places through digital media. The
traveling of pixels and sound waves can results in the straining and fragmentation of
information and language. The communication of digital code along its journey can become
miss-sequenced and abstracted resulting in a message from a broken telephone. At its
destination the message is reassembled into a digital conversation of human speech.
Artwork that is being streamed online allows the artist access to a global audience
directly from their studio.

Bill King’s The Singer & The Song Part II

A continuation of Bill King’s popular performance class – welcome to beginners!
Course Dates: 10 weeks, Thursday evenings, 7-9pm, from January 13 to March 17

Registration EXTENDED to January 12

This ten week session will be an intensive work-out with producer/pianist/arranger Bill King. It’s all about how to deliver a song convincingly without gimmicks and finding one’s voice. Everyone gets a chance to sing and work through material. Criticism comes honestly with explanation. This is an open session where everyone participates. Bill will start from the beginning – the basics of performing and build to a final performance night. Through the weeks each person will build a repertoire that speaks of themselves.

Bill has been music director for Janis Joplin, Linda Rondstadt, the Pointer Sisters, Martha Reeves, Craig Russell, – produced and arranged Liberty Silver, Sophie Milman, Shakura S’Aida, June Garber, Priscilla Wright, Kinga, Sophie Berkal-Sarbit, Josephine Biundo, Lauren Margison, Real Divas and many others.

His Real Divas projects have included established performers – Jackie Richardson, Emile Claire-Barlow, Dione Taylor, Eliana Cuevas, Heather Bambrick, Suzie Vinnick, Lori Cullen, Karin Plato, to name a few.

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The event runs from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Dec. 4-5. at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education. For more information, visit www.918bathurst.com/artmarket.

918 Bathurst Centre will be hosting its second annual Holiday Art Market, Dec. 4-5, featuring a wide variety of unique, handmade arts and crafts from all over Ontario. The show is being curated by a jury of artists, collectors, dealers and related professionals.

After the success of last year’s event, we’ve expanded to include pottery, ornaments, puppets, illustrations, paintings, toys, sculptures, jewelery, fashion accessories, beauty & wellness products, festive gifts and more.

We focus on the quality of the vendor over the quantity of booths.

Situated in the heart of the Annex, 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary culture and arts community centre that produces programming and other unique initiatives that serve the artistic, creative, intellectual and professional development of individuals in the arts and cultural industries and many other fields.

One night only Saturday December 18th. Doors open at 7:30pm, show starts at 8pm. Tickets are $12

918 Bathurst Presents the music of: The Thing Is and Alex Samaras’ Grex

Alex Samaras’ Grex

“It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge them sane or insane…”
– Anne Carson

A vocal ensemble featuring Alex Samaras,Tova Kardonne,Shannon Kerr,Tyson Kerr and many more!

The Thing Is

Tova Kardonne – Voice and Composition
Amy Medvick – Flute
Christian Overton – Trombone
Mike Wark- Alto sax
Trevor Falls – Drums
Chris Kettlewell – Double bass
Ted Quinlan – Guitar
David Atkinson – Piano

http://www.myspace.com/thethingismusic

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Get your tickets in advance, courtesy of TO Tix! Click the link to the right…

So you can sing better than Streisand or Dion, or you can play rings around Peterson or Clapton.
SO WHAT!!!!!

That’s just your ticket into the business. Now you have to learn the toughest
lessons…..how to get up on stage and Entertain The Folks so that at the end of whatever it is you
are doing, they Stand….Clap Their Asses Off……and shout “More! More!”.

Take part in this Master Class led by a guy whose career spans over 4 decades of concert
production and staging. He has worked with the likes of Anne Murray, Natalie Cole, Eric
Clapton, the BeeGees, Murray McLauchlan, Bruce Cockburn, the National Ballet of Canada,
Peking National Acrobats, Monty Python, Frank Mills, Mireille Mathieu, Deep Purple
and …….Franklin the Turtle, Maurice Sendek’s Little Bear, Polkaroo, and Clifford the Big Red
Dog.

Learn how to build (write) a show whether you are a single or a band. It’s not just about singing
the songs, but what you do between them.

This Master Class is interactive, so if your are going to attend be prepared to get involved and
learn some neat stuff.

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Open Readings for Creative Writers & Creative Writing Group Launch

WHEN: Saturday September 25th, 7-10pm

WHERE: The 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education (1 light north of Bloor St. in the former Buddhist Temple)

COST: $0 – FREE to ALL!

www.918bathurst.com

Next week, the 918 Bathurst Centre will be hosting an Open House for all of our programming and partners during the days from 12-5pm. In addition, that Saturday evening, we’ll be launching a creative writing group in our main performance space/theatre and we’re celebrating this by putting on an Open Reading. If you have prose, poetry, scripts or anything else creative you’d like to read or perform, you are invited to do so!

This event will be a great opportunity for creative people to come together and share some exciting work. Who knows what could come of it – perhaps new writing partnerships? Perhaps a couple of actors will meet a writer/director? We hope that this nucleus of attendees will grow into a regular writing series and performance group at the Centre. There’s so much possibility – and that’s why we’re excited to put this on.

Readings will be interspersed with music and discussions! Live band TBA. Some basic refreshments provided.

All you need to do is register by emailing us at info@918bathurst.com. Describe the kind of work (i.e., short story, play, poem, etc.) and how much time you’d like for your reading. Even if you just want to come, hang out and get inspired, you’re welcome to as well!

Note that this is not an “all ages” event. There’s already some heady and controversial work on the list.

Want to finally pursue your dream job? Learn how to break into the travel writing market with professional travel journalist Ilona Kauremszky.

This 10-week introductory course will highlight the fundamentals and what it takes to become a successful travel writer. A weekly travel columnist, co-producer of mycompass.ca, Ilona regularly writes on travel for leading publications across North America and also appears on CBC News Now as a travel commentator. Follow her on Twitter + YouTube @mycompasstv.

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Come to the 918 on September 25th and catch a screening by award-winning filmmaker and course facilitator at the 918, Stephen Smith

Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist is the award-winning, critically acclaimed motion picture, based on the life and times of the last century’s most famous portrait painter, Italian master Pietro Annigoni.

This is the first and only film to tell the story of Annigoni. From his artistic birth in Florence, to the height of his fame and fortune Annigoni pursued his own path, standing alone against the forces of modernism in art. Annigoni was a bohemian, a drinker, a fighter and a womanizer, yet the world’s most powerful and celebrated people sought him out for portraits. Pietro Annigoni was once called the painter of beautiful women but chose instead to be the painter of beggars.

Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist reveals many of Pietro Annigoni’s previously unseen paintings as well as unveiling a lost masterpiece for the first time!

“Annigoni was not only the greatest painter of the twentieth century but his works rank with the most celebrated paintings of all time” ~ Bernard Berenson.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Stephen Smith brings an Introduction to Filmmaking and Digital Capture to the 918

Price: $295 + HST
Course Dates: 10 weeks, Thursday evenings, 7-9pm, from October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16

This ten week filmmaking workshop is a basic introduction to digital video production. The focus is to introduce the main elements of filmmaking, from research and writing, to camera operation and sound recording, to editing. The class will make a short scripted drama or a short documentary. It will be a fun and informative workshop for all levels.

The instructor is Stephen Smith who is the writer/director and co-producer of the critically acclaimed, award winning feature film, Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist. Smith is also an award winning photographer and cinematographer, and a gold award winner of the SATW Bill Muster Photography Competition.

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