Brent Hirose brings “The Sucker Punch” to Nanaimo, new shows to Vancouver, continues living and learning on the fringe circuit
A new technology allows you go to back in time… for five seconds. Just long enough to take back a misplaced word or action. Brent Hirose’s hit five star one man show examines how this technology affects the lives of four people and their chance to live without regrets.
The play was performed at the 2014 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.
Quiet debut of theatre gem part of the fringe experience as Nanaimo writer-director William Anderson introduces an exploration of life and relationships in “When the Stars are Right”
Ellen, a successful novelist, is content with her world, until the intrusion of a new neighbor forces her to confront her fears and unexpectedly changes everything she thought she knew about herself and her world. Will she accept it? Or will she turn away from herself?
The play is being performed at the 2014 Nanaimo Fringe Festival, at the Nanaimo Museum venue.
The 4th annual Nanaimo Fringe Festival will run August 14th – 24th, 2014 and 8 companies will perform for live audiences that might love, hate, be transfixed or even startled…it’s perfect for developing, emerging and experimenting artists
Nanaimo’s annual Fringe Festival is about to begin, and it offers 48 plays in 8 days—plus free shows every night. The plays are selected by lottery, including 4 local companies as well as some national and international touring artists, as part of the thriving Canadian Fringe circuit that brings a wave of innovative artists west each summer. Your price of admission goes straight to the artists.
The “Lord of the Fringe” was in Nanaimo to present his latest monologue Marathon as a fundraiser for the Nanaimo Fringe Festival
Acclaimed fringe theatre veteran TJ Dawe performed his latest show, Marathon, in mid-July in Nanaimo as a benefit for the city’s Fringe Festival. Weaving together varied interests and relentlessly pursuing self-discovery, TJ creates intimate and engaging shows that always leave his audiences with something to chew on.
Creative nonfiction story Tilly: a Story of Hope and Resilience captures spirit of hope, recovery
Monique Gray Smith, an accomplished consultant, writer and speaker, was at the Gabriola Island Public Library earlier this year discussing her new book about a First Nations woman’s journey to sobriety.
The book is called Tilley: A Story of Hope and Resilience. “It’s the story of one woman’s journey from early addiction and alcoholism to discovering who she is as a mixed heritage person,” Gray Smith told the Nanaimo News Bulletin. “Even though it’s a story based on First Nations people and history, it really is a story of common humanity around recovery and the ability to move past early obstacles in life.”
Inspiration for the clubhouse-based program came from Radio La Colifata of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which broadcast their shows from a psychiatric hospital
Radio-UP is an important part of Donald Berman UP House—a “clubhouse” affiliated with the international mental health clubhouse movement. The emergence of these clubhouses around the world demonstrates that people with mental illness can successfully participate in society through education, employment and other social activities.
