Category: shows and events

Performer Profile: We’re From Out West

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artists:

Jesse Byiers and Thomas McKechnie are hetrosexual life partners who make plays together with [elephants] collective and Katzman Contemporary Working Group and also play in this shitty band called We’re From Out West that they created in the first lonely depressing winter together in Toronto.

abstract:

Shitty Songs for Shitty Kids is a music-play that uses the music that Jesse and Thomas have written together, their semi-autobiographical accounts of a road trip through eight of the ten provinces in this country, Jack Keraouc’s semi-autobiographical novel On the Road and whatever else is at hand to explore how we create ourselves as individuals. You have to get out and to come back in.

extras:

These are some pictures of Jess or [us] doing shit that may or may not be in the play. I (Thomas) took both.

portals:

https://werefromoutwest.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/WereFromOutWest/?fref=ts

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Catch Shitty Songs for Shitty Kids at:

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Performer Profile: Brian Passmore

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artist: 

Brian Passmore is a working songwriter and guitarist based in Toronto. He has opened for the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, Jerry Leger, Sarah Jane Scouten, and Randy Bachman and the Sadies. Currently he has been making the rounds as a solo performer and is starting to collaborate with theatre artists, including Ximena Huizi of [elephants] collective.

abstract:

I will be doing an acoustic performance of a handful of original songs that will be mostly comprised of my latest compositions. I’m hoping for some audience feedback and criticism to help shape the songs as I continue to develop them.

portals:

http://brianpassmore.com

https://www.facebook.com/Brian-Passmore-272132299469100/

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myth, n.

myth

A person or thing held in awe or generally referred to with near reverential admiration on the basis of popularly repeated stories (whether real or fictitious).
– from OED definition, “myth”

Myths are specific accounts of gods or superhuman beings involved in extraordinary events or circumstances in a time that is unspecified but which is understood as existing apart from ordinary human experience.

While the outline of myths from a past period or from a society other than one’s own can usually be seen quite clearly, to recognize the myths that are dominant in one’s own time and society is always difficult. This is hardly surprising, because a myth has its authority not by proving itself but by presenting itself.

[…]it is clear that in their general characteristics and in their details a people’s myths reflect, express, and explore the people’s self-image.
– from Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, “myth” (emphasis mine)

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With this in mind, I’ve assembled a diverse collective of artists (teacher/actor Michael Reinhart, dancer Colleen Snell, musician/writer/performer Alex Eddington, actor Ximena Huizi and myself) to lead two workshops this Saturday, Sept. 26th as part of Etobicoke Lakeshore Culture Days.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOUR STORIES! YOUR STORIES OF LIVING, WORKING AND PLAYING IN ETOBICOKE.

The goal of the day is to take these stories, extract their essence and form them into the contemporary MYTHS of your town.

The day will culminate in a FREE PERFORMANCE at (around) 2PM @ the HUMBER HOTSPOT (Lakeshore and Kipling).

So please, come on out; take part in our FREE WORKSHOPS from 1am-1pm and check out what kind of thing we’ll have made with your help @ 2pm. You can also participate from afar by using #mythsofmytown on twitter or instagram!

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