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Music to his ears
Curtis Barlow likes to eavesdrop every once in a while -- at least when the topic of conversation is a musical at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.
Alternative art
"Smoke your Children" -- not quite the warning label you're used to seeing on the side of a cigarette package, but then this is no ordinary cigarette package. It's part of an exhibit at the artist-run Struts Gallery, in Sackville, New Brunswick. The gallery's coordinator, Donna Wawzonek, says this message may disturb people and that's the point.
Pondering Canada's quirky culture
Canadian popular culture is a quirky thing -- it's everywhere but it's hard to define.That is unless you're CBC broadcast columnist Alan Neal, BJ/95. Neal, 26 makes his living dissecting the various elements of our pop culture to find out why we do the things we do.
Art emporium
The Art Bank is run by Carleton alumna Victoria Henry, MA/93, a friendly, energetic woman with an extensive network of contacts in the artistic community and impressive credentials as an arts bureaucrat.
A Canadian storyteller
For Canadian author Patricia Morley, writing a biography is an "act of faith, the triumph of hope over experience."For the last 30 years, Morley, MA/67, has triumphed over good times and bad to write about Canadian art and literature and the lives of Canadian creators.
A starring role
Michele Maheux is a living lesson that you can do what you love as a career and do it so well that the world measures your work as its gold standard.Maheux, BA/80, BA/Hons/83, is the managing director of the Toronto International Film Festival, acknowledged by many international experts as one of the world's best.
True to his roots
Kevin McMahon says he's a "completely passionate believer in Canadian culture." Yet, despite a decade of success as a documentary film maker chronicling distinctively Canadian subjects, he admits he's frustrated at "being pushed out of my own culture by the changing demands of the marketplace."
In living colour
Technology may be transforming traditional art forms, but the director of the Art Gallery of Ontario says people still want to experience art first hand."At a time when museums might easily find themselves replaced by representations of art so comfortably
presented to us on computer screens at home, the material experience of art seems more powerful than ever," says Matthew Teitelbaum, BAHons/79.
Child's play
It's Friday night. Do you know where your kids are?Patrick McDonald might. McDonald is the artistic director at Green Thumb Theatre for Young People in Vancouver.
By the books
Keeping kids entertained is big business in Canada. Just ask Michael Caroll BA/76, the managing editor of Vancouver's Beach Holme Publishing. Carroll says young adult fiction is one of the reasons the publishing business is booming like never before on the west coast.
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