A. Gaboury

Improv Jam: On and On and On

TOES for dance and a field of crowns host “On and On and On”, A community improv jam for the creatively curious! Come and join us around our “camp fire” to sing, talk, draw, play music, dance and explore!

ALL ARTISTS WELCOME!

This night is not just for dancers; if you are an artist of any kind who – just like TOES for dance – loves to collaborate, connect and create with like-minded people, this informal event is for you!

Bring instruments, monologues, songs, slam poetry, your sketchbook, iPod, or just yourself and JOIN US in an evening of spontaneous creativity!

This month TOES is partnering with a field of crowns, featuring artistic director Andrew Gaboury; theatre artist, playwright, artistic director and faciliator of multi-disciplinary theatre projects. Andrew will add new elements of creative and spontaneous expression to the jam, through creative writing and collaborative movement exercises.

$10 admission!

All proceeds go to supporting and maintaining TOES for dance’s 2015 season.

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happy birthday hub14

Art and performance incubator hub14, of which I am one of the current co-artistic directors along with Aria Evans and Kate Nankervis, is celebrating its birthday this weekend. Since the beginning of the year, Aria Evans and board member Helen Yung have been crowd-sourcing and curating photographs from the past 10 years of rehearsals, classes, performances, & events that have happened at, or began at our small but mighty space at 14 Markham St. This weekend those photos are on display: we have turned hub14 into a gallery to celebrate this milestone. It’s been a wild ride, with a wonderful opening reception Friday night attended by many of the past Artistic Directors and supporters of hub.

Below is a selection of the photos you’ll see at the exhibit. It truly is breathtaking to see in person. There’s such history here.

2015 hub14 retrospective layout 12 x 18 v7 (1-3,5,11,17,19,21,23,50-52 SMALL)39

Today is the last day to come out.

We’ll be open 12pm – 5pm.

There’s an amazing raffle to partake in with 17 different prizes ranging in value of $30 – $350, including photoshoots, videoshoots, memberships, workshops and classes, soap and gift cards. $5 gets you one entry / $10 gets you 3. It’s a real good deal.

Hopefully I’ll see you there.

UPDATED – CALL FOR ARTISTS: Seasonal Activities, v. ii

CALL FOR PERFORMERS

Seasonal Activities is a bi-monthly series of theatre, dance and music as a platform for refinement and conversation. Each volume will include a selection of performances ranging from 5 – 20 minutes in length. Volume II will be curated by Andrew Gaboury.

I am looking for new or pre-existing pieces and encourage you to play with and challenge spatial dynamics, audience-performer relationships and intimacy. I am looking for proposals from different artistic disciplines, and/or pieces that blur lines between these disciplines. Theatre, dance, music, poetry, clown, all live performance styles will be considered. It is important that each submission have a strong visual element; performances, however, should be relatively low-tech to ensure smooth transitions.

I also welcome pieces that can only be performed during certain seasons, or can be adapted to incorporate seasonal variation.

Volume II will take place Friday, June 5^th @ hub14 (14 Markham Street, Toronto, ON)

UPDATED DEADLINE: Please send in applications by Friday, May 1st @ 11:59pm

Click here for the application guidelines: Seasonal Activities, v.ii – call

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Off the Wall 2015

Today I bring exciting news. My friends and collaborators over at Frog in Hand (if you don’t know this company, check them out. They are a multi-disciplinary group co-directed by sisters Colleen Snell and Noelle Hamlyn doing amazing things out in Mississauga and beyond) have announced a call for artists to participate in the 2015 instalment of OFF THE WALL. This was, personally, one of my performance highlights from last year.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Off the Wall is an exciting, multi-disciplinary project with Frog In Hand and the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga.

If you’ve ever wanted to work alongside musicians, actors, dancers, visual artists, writers and performance artists

-or-

if you’ve ever wanted to challenge yourself with site-specific performance in a short, but intense creation period

click the link below (or the image above) to find the application form.

Be part of something fun.

http://colleensnell.wix.com/off-the-wall