My quest to identify the people who actually attend Canadian performing arts productions led me to the Statistics Canada website this weekend. As expected, I was able to find statistical evidence supporting my claim of the senior seat-monopoly. The stats also offered a few reasons why more seats are being filled by very mature viewers. [...]
Although pundits will profess that “the days of black ties are long gone,” a quick glance around the Saturday night lobby of Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre proves to me that the new theatre dress code is a fashion show for the few who can afford it. Those I met, or should I say viewed, during [...]
In a previous blog I stated: … Returning to my questions of who actually attends live performance and who cares about it, a superficial survey of most theatre audiences have indicated a 3:1 ratio of wrinkles to rockers… I must clarify that the two categories mentioned above are neither mutually exclusive nor inclusive. People who [...]
With theatre critics like Peter Birnie writing as aesthetic barometers of Vancouver culture, performance artists don’t need enemies. They need protection… and Prozac. As part of this week’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Italian director Romeo Castellucci is presenting Hey, Girl!, an avant-garde performance art piece that “explores the female body and sensitivity, evoking the [...]
Western Gold Theatre Company, in partnership with Theatre at UBC, presented an adaptation of Honore de Balzac’s novel Old Goriot this week, as part of Vancouver’s 2008 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Although the acting was superb and the production values pleased the audience, critics think that James Fagan Tait, the play’s director and adapter, [...]
My search for truly groundbreaking work at the 2008 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival led me to Kate Alton and Ross Manson’s The Four Horsemen Project, which played at Vancouver’s Scotiabank Dance Centre last weekend. The performance I saw defies categorization. Based on the sound-poetry developed and performed by Toronto’s original Four Horsemen, Alton and [...]
The fourth annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival opened in Vancouver this week promising 19 days of “groundbreaking theatre, dance, music and various hybrid forms of performance art.” The question is: who, save for the city’s artistic community members, cares? And does it matter if no one else cares?
By Tracy Fuller When 93-year-old Kathryn MacMillan fell and hit her head four months ago, she didn’t realize she would fall though a all good things download full film bureaucratic loophole. A widow of 12 years, MacMillan lives alone in her home. When she fell she was hospitalized with a head wound. While there, she [...]
By Tracy Fuller Nurse Next Door is BC’s largest in-home senior care provider. This year, it was the only health care organization to be ranked as a top 10 employer by BCBusiness Magazine. Ken Sim, the co-founder of Nurse Next Door, started his business following his own unsettling home care experience. When his wife was [...]
By Tracy Fuller Private home care businesses in BC are not regulated. Neither large companies nor independent providers need certification or experience to serve the public. Without standards or regulations, seniors cannot assume that a high level of care exists, nor should they expect consistency throughout the industry. As the number of BC seniors increases, [...]
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