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Essay: “Her own kind of absence”

August 26th, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Essay: “Her own kind of absence”)

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Nanaimo’s South End in Great Places in Canada vote

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Nanaimo author breaks silence about horrors of war

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Thank You Nanaimo!

August 20th, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Thank You Nanaimo!)

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We would like to thank everyone who attended the sixth Annual Neighbours Being Neighbours Community Gathering held on August 9, 2014. It was a huge success!

Special thanks go out to all the volunteers. We couldn’t have done it without your enthusiastic support.  We would like to thank our musicians: Trinitude and the Konsorados.

We would also like to thank the following non profit organizations and businesses for taking a central part in the event:

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First-person Bakersfield story explores racial prejudices using comedy

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Les Kurkendaal takes Nanaimo Fringe audiences to Bakersfield, California, where his lover’s family lives in all-white isolation

picture 577What happens when a man brings his male lover home to his family in Bakersfield, California, for the holidays? Oh, but this isn’t really the crux of the problem: the family has recently and grudgingly accepted their son Mike’s sexual orientation. The real problem begins as Les steps across the threshold of the family’s pricey, gated suburban home. Mike “forgot” to tell his family that his lover is an African American. [source: Cincinnati CityBeat] [image: Les at Nanaimo Museum for Nanaimo Fringe 2014]

Christmas in Bakersfield is being performed at the 2014 Nanaimo Fringe Festival, at the Nanaimo Museum venue.

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Erotic comedy explores gender and sexual stereotypes, late twenties angst

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Adult-rated show at Nanaimo Fringe takes the audience into ‘jock boy’ and ‘square girl’ stereotypes, challenging everyone with questions about objectification and relationships

picture 578cSQUARE: A Stage Pornography is an erotic comedy that explores the crisis unattached people face in their late twenties.  Eternal high school jock and big-man-on-campus Thomas Pankratz is in a rut and doesn’t care.  Smug and content in his extended adolescence, he happily goes about his daily business of being lewd, crude and clueless until the warm summer’s night he gets a surprise visitor – the girl he has dismissed for twenty years as dull and “square.”

The play is being performed at the 2014 Nanaimo Fringe Festival, at the Nanaimo Museum venue.

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