TOPIC LINK: Stella Duffy: 4 ways to make the arts for everyone, not just the chosen few

Show Notes

Things in the week

• The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is the play that opened.
• Ghost River Theatre made it in collaboration with
• Alberta Theatre Projects who are hosting the
• Raucous Caucus
• Toronto Arts Council Cultural Leaders Lab is what Jacob was working on with.
• Banff Centre Peter Lougheed Leadership Institute
• Major Matt Mason Collective is a theatre group hosting a party and is younger than us.

Stella Duffy and "Everyone an artist."

• Stella Duffy wrote the article, and blogs.
• Joan Littlewood was a theatre maker. This is the
  • Guardian Obituary
• Cedric Price was the architect who worked with Joan on the
• Fun Palaces

Some Toronto "Neighborhood Theatres"

• Hub 14 is at Bathurst and Queen.
• VideoFag is in Kensington.
• Aluna Theatre is in the "Junction Triangle".
• The Storefront is at Bloor and Ossington.
• SideMart Theatrical Grocery is Queen East and Greenwood
• Coalmine Theatre on the Danforth near Pape Station.

Vancouver Regional touring

• Arts Club Theatre touring in the region.
• Shadbolt Centre

Massey Commission

• Overview
  • Full Text

The sentance that causes questions:
"The report describes arts audiences as overwhelmingly middle class and white. It says that the wealthiest, best educated and least ethnically diverse 8% of society make up nearly half of live music audiences and a third of theatregoers and gallery visitors." - The Guardian on the recently released Warwick Report on culture in the UK.