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How can Factory Theatre’s World Premiere of Amy Lee Lavoie’s, Stopheart, a play about growing up in a South Porcupine, Ontario possibly resonate in a vast, multi-cultural metropolis like Toronto? We sat down with Lavoie and Garret C. Smith (who plays the character, Bear) to find out.
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Physicist Lawrence Krauss and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins are two of the most famous and respected scientists in the world. They have spent their careers distilling complicated scientific theories down to simple elegant ones helping give insight into some of the most complicated ideas conceived. However, what has thrust them into the international spotlight [...]
Continue Reading →As the Hot Docs film festival enters its final few days, our film reviewer Pauline Dong recaps some of the films she didn't get to review.
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To begin the documentary, the filmmakers issue a warning about the circumstance that this film was made under. Before they could even begin, they spent months petitioned the North Korean government for permission to film at the country's largest film school. After lots of negotiations, they were granted permission to film so long as [...]
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The search for Bigfoot has been a childhood obsession for many young people, but like many childhood obsessions it’s quickly replaced by something else. However, there are some who carry those obsessions into their adult life.
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Rocky Braat set off for India on a self-professed journey of self-discovery. He sought authenticity. What he found changed him forever. He returned to India and made aid work at an orphanage for HIV-positive children his new life.
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The Occupy movement which gripped the headlines just a little over a year ago seems to have fizzled out of mainstream consciousness.
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In a ballroom at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, the world's oldest band has performed nightly for more than 20 years. In 2011, the Peace Old Jazz Band was invited to play at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. The geriatric band members greeted the invitation with glee and excitement.
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