Archive for January, 2013

Jowi Taylor

Jowi Taylor is a writer, cultural entrepreneur and former CBC broadcaster. He’s a recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award as well as the Prix Italia, the New York Festivals Medal, the Gabriel Award, the Third Coast Audio Festival Directors Choice Award and various other international prizes. He is also the creator of Six String Nation […]

Arthur Renwick Gigs This Week Jan. 23-26

WED – HOLE IN THE WALL – 9:30-2AM; THUR – NOT MY DOG – 11:30PM; FRI – Red Revue at THE SISTER – 9:30-1AM; SAT – THE LOCAL – 5-7:30PM15

Brian Litvin

South African fingerstyle guitar player and songwriter. Plays Maskanda – Zulu style guitar Photo credit: Lola Davidson ..

Brian Litvin and Jabulani

Friday, Feb. 15 – 9-11pm Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West

Reggae or Not Photography Exhibition

Reggae or Not: The Birth of Dancehall Culture in Jamaica and Toronto Friday Feb 1 to Thurs Feb 28, 2013 Exhibition Hours: 12-5pm daily Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor Gallery, 1214 Queen St. West Opening: Friday Feb 1, 7pm-10pm – featuring deejay Everett Cooper aka King Culture

Trane Studio 10th Anniversary

The Trane Studio 10th Anniversary Event Saturday January 26, 2013 PRE-KUUMBA Warm up Concert!! Waleed Kush and The African Jazz Ensemble Live @ Zemra Bar & Lounge 778 St. Clair Ave West, phone: 416-651-3123 info@zemrabarlounge.com Cover: $10

The Trane Studio 10th Anniversary

Feb. 2, 9pm Harbourfront Centre – Waleed Kush and The Freedom Live Ensemble (Toronto) Neil Brathwaite (saxophone), Alexander Brown (trumpet), Aaron Ferrara (Drums), Michael Shand (Keys), Waleed Abdulhamid (Bass, Percussion) The Concept of The Freedom Live Ensemble was put together in 1998 by Frank Francis as a Caliban Arts Theatre musical project. The band originally […]

Theatre

Ghana-born Toronto-based Theatre Artist

Andrew Timar

Andrew Timar is an internationally recognised suling (Indonesian bamboo ring flute), gamelan musician and composer, he is also a concert organiser, teaches gamelan workshops and master classes, and a music journalist. One of the co-founders of the Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Canada’s first gamelan group (est. 1983) Andrew performs regularly with ECCG, as a soloist, […]

Ali Kazimi

(India) Ali Kazimi is an award-winning Toronto based Director/Cinematographer/Filmmaker, visual artist and  author of “Undesirables”Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru”

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