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Minnesota Fringe

evalyn — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:43:00 +0000

Counting down to our departure for Minneapolis, for SPIN’s first US appearance, August 5-15. Excited to be taking part in the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Mark Shyzer’s show Fishbowl (directed by yours truly) will also be there! Watch out, the Canadians are coming….

SPIN plays at At The Ritz Theatre Proscenium 345 13th Ave NE

Thursday Aug 5, 10 pm
Saturday Aug 7, 1 pm
Sunday Aug 8, 7 pm
Thursday Aug 12, 8:30 pm
Sunday Aug 15, 2:30 pm

Buy Tickets Here!

“part theatre, part musical gig, part spoken-word poetry and part documentary…whatever it is, it is brilliant.” The Toronto Star (read the very delightful article about SPIN by Catherine Porter here)

Defintely Not the Opera

evalyn — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:57:18 +0000

DNTO came over to the bicycle studio this morning to tape a little bit of SPIN for the radio! You can hear the podcast here.…you’ll hear “She Rides” played live, plus some bike-instrument samples, plus a little interview with me and DNTO guest host Mio Adilman. Turns out me and Mio both went to the same high school….once again, all roads lead back to Northern….

The road also will soon be leading to St John’s Newfoundland, for the Sound Symposium where we perform July 8th, and then to Minnesota where we perform in Minneapolis, August 5-15th. We perform the full production in March 2011, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto

Spin…a wee video

evalyn — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:00:12 +0000

Breakfast is hot…

evalyn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:48:54 +0000

We’re entering our final week of Breakfast at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre…get your tickets now or never! Closes April 4th. Yes, that’s Easter Sunday. And happy Passover, too, while we’re at it.

Some Very Nice Reviews out (good enough to make an Independent Auntie proud) from the Toronto Star, Eye Magazine and The Globe & Mail..

Thanks to all who’ve come out to see it, and especially you who stick around to tell us your thoughts…

what’s new in the new year

evalyn — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:44:44 +0000

Good things are coming up in 2010. Here are some highlights i’m looking forward to.

#1: a play that I wrote and act in: the remount of the Independent Auntie’s critically acclaimed show “Breakfast” runs for three weeks at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, March 17-April 4.

#2: SPIN goes to Newfoundland, for the Sound Symposium, July 2010! With some stops on the way, to be announced…

#3. I return to the Banff Centre this April, this time to teach at the 2010 Spoken Word program. While I”m out there, also performing in a couple great events as part of the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival.

This month and next, i will be busy directing projects with the Young Creators Unit at Buddies, to be presented at the 2010 Rhubarb Festival. Rhubarb is an amazing three week festival of contemporary performance – my favorite theatre event of the year in Toronto, where you’ll see an array of new work unlike any your likely to see anywhere else. We’ve got a great group of Young Creators this year, and I’m very excited for their presentations. I’m also helping get Fishbowl back up on its feet: Mark is going to New York with the newly abridged version of the show which will play at New York City’s FRIGID Festival this March.

regretfully

evalyn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:36:07 +0000

Evalyn was bitten by a dog this weekend. Her mouth has a lot of stitches in it, and although she is recovering well, it is with great regret she has to cancel her participation in the Toronto Bike Awards this evening.

Igor Kenk gets 4 months?!

evalyn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:51:10 +0000

Unbelievable. Igor Kenk, the man who stole 3000 bicycles from Torontonians…gets sentanced to only 30 months, and those are reduced by the time he has already spent in pre-trial custody, so we’re talking only 4 months in jail. He pleaded guilty to stealing 10 bikes. That’s freakin hilarious. Now it’s not that i’m a big believer in jail as a good solution to anything. But it’s outrageous that his crimes don’t constitute something far more serious. If that was 10 cars he’d stolen (not to mention if it was 3000 cars)….perhaps the punishment might be a little more harsh?

As someone who has had 3 bikes stolen in the last decade in this city…i take the whole thing kind of personal-like.

read the coverage here:

CBC story

Toronto Star story

20th anniversay of L’Ecole Polytechnique massacre

evalyn — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:35:50 +0000

December 6th is a dark building that haunts me…
a number i can’t erase from my memory….

14 reasons to remember: 14 reasons to mourn:
14 reasons to be strong and proud you were born a woman

you can download a free copy of my piece “14 (for Dec 6)” from Borealis Records, available for a few days only, to mark the occasion of the 20th anniversary of this tragic event. Dec 6th is now designated in Canada as a National Day of Rememberance and Action on Violence Against Women.

from an island

evalyn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:04:17 +0000

I’m in the heaven of a west-coast gulf island, at the Poetry Gabriola Festival...played to a lovely, packed-house of islanders and poetry lovers last night, sharing the evening with the marvelous Sheila Norgate, and her “Timeless Tips for Girls Who Have Let Themselves Go” presentation. Hilary Peach performed her inspiring folk opera “Suitcase Local” on Friday night. Then took me and Tanya Evanson for a motorboat ride yesterday afternoon, where we communed with the seals sunning on the rocks off Gabriola. Another highlight of the weekend has to be arriving by float plane on the island on Thursday – the smallest plane i’ve ever flown in (held 3, plus pilot), taking off and landing on water on a shockingly beautiful November day, with an incredible view of the coast, the mountains and the water. i’ve never been out west in November when it rained so little.

here is me getting off the float plane!

gabriola float plane - girl almost lands in the water! pic courtesy of festival photographer Victor Anthony

Looking forward to the show with Alexis O’Hara, Christian Bok and Paul Dutton tonight. And then back to the mainland, to play in Vancouver on Sunday evening.

triumph!

evalyn — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:36:15 +0000

The workshop presentation of Spin was a sold-out, standing-o night of excitement! The audience response was all I could have hoped for, and I am very pleased, as well as being full of ideas and thoughts, edits and improvements and more layers to add for round two…we hope to present it again in Toronto in the spring during Bike Month, and to take it on the road thereafter…more to report before long…in the meantime, check out some images from the technical rehearsal (photos by Omer Yuseker).