Dancers of all ages eagerly participated in a Scottish country dance session held Saturday at the Stratford Festival Discovery Centre, pointing, skipping, whirling and changing partners as instructed. The demonstration of the social form of Scottish dancing, as distinct from more individualistic highland dancing, was staged by the Stratford Scottish Country Dance Group and was […]
Stratford firefighter Steve Ford is hoping a firefighters calendar that’s in the works will raise a substantial amount of money for three worthy causes. The 13-month calendar — January 2014 to January 2015 — will feature one Stratford firefighter for each month and will sell for $15. Ford has been a volunteer for the past […]
Who doesn’t love a juicy confession? Alison Wearing’s Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter has all the insight and honesty a confession demands but it also has a lot of humour and love packed into a 30-page script. The one-woman show is back at the Stratford SpringWorks Festival at Factory163. The show is about Wearing, at […]
After three seasons at the Stratford Festival, musician George Meanwell wanted more than a T-shirt to take with him as a souvenir. Meanwell started at the Festival as a musician for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. “The whole experience has been this unexpected gift,” he said. In his time here, […]
A collaboration between cellist Ben Bolt-Martin of the Stratford Festival Orchestra and INNERchamber artistic director Andrew Chung is bringing a unique musical presentation to Stratford’s Factory163. Lucky is a 40-minute music drama featuring live musicians and actors. The show created by Bolt-Martin was developed following a conversation this past summer with Chung when the INNERchamber founder […]
So where exactly does digital technology collide with art? Last night, it happened at 163 King St. in Stratford. That’s where some photographers, videographers, writers, publishers, filmmakers, theatre technicians and visual artists gathered to discuss how digital media has changed the creative process, and the creative landscape. “We wanted to have a conversation about the […]
Rachel Schieldrop, 8, does an ‘interpretive dance’ with a ribbon outside Factory163 at Culture Days on Saturday morning during a music presentation. Culture doesn’t have to be highfalutin and inaccessible. It could be as simple as a beautifully made cookie or as ethnically significant as Highland dancing or Tai Chi. Culture in all its […]
Organizers of the INNERchamber music series are kicking off the 2012-13 season in Stratford in dramatic fashion this weekend with “The Drama Within”. The Sunday evening concert, to be held at Factory 163, takes place during Stratford’s Culture Days weekend. The Factory Arts String Quartet will join with clarinetist Peter Shackleton for Mozart’s famous Clarinet […]
Want to learn a Scottish dance? How about fly over Stratford? These are just some of the possibilities during Culture Days Sept. 28-30. Fanshawe College students will set up a green screen and take a video that will look like you’re flying over the city. If you’ve never performed a Scottish dance, Culture Days is […]
Llyandra Jones performs a scene from The Bear at the Ontario Trillium Foundation grant announcement last Friday. Alternative Theatre Works is presenting the play at Factory163 September through October utilizing lighting equipment purchased through the grant. The local performing arts community got a boost Friday when a $36,000 Ontario Trillium Grant was announced. The grant, […]
