New and Noteworthy - Archive

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  January, 2010
  "Expressionists in the Melting Pot"
  Quintimacy is an esemble of young Toronto musicians, presenting 20th century chamber music in an intimate setting.
• XEXE Gallery cordially invites you to join Brad Copping at the opening reception of his new solo exhibition, Housework. "As nature reveals, change is the only constant. Lakes become swamps, which become meadows, which become forests; plants and animals die and decay. From those transitions, from those changes comes something new, a rebirth. But that too is subject to change. Much of what man does is with the belief that it will be permanent, but all that man does and is, is subject to change. The marks that man makes, the structures he builds, and the societies that he established, all are subject to change. Seeing these moments of transition reminds me of our ties to the natural world. I want to reaffirm these ties by highlighting these moments. These thoughts have continued to be an underlying premise of the work that I have made and they continue to resonate in 2009. I am someone who has worked with glass as one of my primary materials for many years. It is a substance which requires a great deal of energy to make it malleable, and when physically manipulated by the artist, requires a focus on one’s hands, hence connecting directly to the process of making. As a society we seem to be facing another moment of transition created by the current combined crises of finance and climate change. Is this enough momentum to truly consider how we actually live our lives? I am very grateful for the generous support my work has received from the Ontario Arts Council." (Copping, 2009)
• Missed Matthew's opening reception? If you haven't already seen Bad Weather, now is the time to do so! We invite you to join us at the closing reception for a cup of coffee and his artist talk, Saturday, February 21st, 2009, 2-5PM at XEXE Gallery.
• C.O.C. productions of Dvorak's Russalka and Beethoven's Fidelio
• The Dragon Review of Books (what we're reading and what we recommend)
• Open House, Wednesday, February 18, 6-8 p.m.

• Tom Stoppard's travesties is in production through March 21 at Soulpepper Theatre http://www.soulpepper.ca/performances.aspx. We think Stoppard is one of the greatest living playwrights, and this play imagines the dialogue between three of the great rebellious spirits of the twentieth century--James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara-- through the lens of a British consular official who also mixes in a little history and a little Oscar Wilde.
• Don't miss Ubuntu, (January 21-March 1) at The Tarragon Theatre tarragonnews@tarragontheatre.com This is a magical production, created by The Ensemble, an theatre collective including both Canadian and South African actors, using dance, music and storytelling, in which a man and a woman, half a world apart, are drawn together by the ghosts that haunt them, and the secrets they discover about their past.