Guest Post: A Photographic Journey into Iranian Youth

With a focus on young women, Your Veil is a Battleground looks at the lives of Iranian youth. In summer 2010, I made a trip back to Iran to work on a project on immigrating teenagers. While I was in...

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E.E. Cummings On the Big Screen

Diane Wiebe is a Toronto-based writer and director that is bringing E.E. Cummings to the big screen. Transferring poetry to film is not easy. So I wanted to learn more about her approach to filmmaking...

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Making a Canadian Album, Making Love in a Canoe

Making Love in Canoe is a revue of Canadian musical theatre that has been performed in Toronto, Stratford, and Regina. Featuring the music of 14 Canadian writers, Canoe entertains, touches, inspires...

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RocketHub and CIRAA Partner To Bring Crowdfunding To Independent Recording Artists In Canada

We are excited to unveil our partnership with The Canadian Independent Recording Artists' Association (CIRAA), Canada's only national non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian independent...

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From Toronto to the World, Lindy Rocks RocketHub

Lindy is a musician’s musician. Just ask any of Canada’s most beloved indie darlings. Leslie Feist, Ron Sexsmith, Hayden, Tegan & Sara, Serena Ryder, and Luke Doucet are not just aware of Lindy’s...

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The David Barrett Trio Rocks Out, With a Little Help From Rush's Alex Lifeson

David Barrett is a stellar guitar player who in 2010 took the opportunity of a lifetime. Guitarist Alex Lifeson of Rush offered to produce the David Barrett Trio. They recorded three progressive rock...

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Capturing the Live Experience - Big Rude Jake Goes to the Crowd

Jake is a composer, blues shouter and musician with a diverse set of influences. The Big Rude Jake band successfully meshes the sounds of traditional jazz, jump blues, rockabilly and punk. The lyrical...

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Re-Seeing the Everyday - How Ainsley Boyd Turns Photos Into Emotions

Ainsley Boyd gives motion to still images. The resulting films merge photographic and filmic ideas, playing with the idea of time and memory. She plays with some of my most beloved themes: nostalgia...

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Multicultural, Multinational, Lacerda Crowdfunds a Music Video

Lacerda is the epitome of the new music industry - a multicultural, multinational band that doesn't fit any established molds, proactively connects with fans, and engages their community for financial...

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From Toronto Success, MONARITA Tours Canada

MONARITA is a new play by Toronto poet Shannon Bramer that features actors Sara Tilley and Ruth Lawrence with Mark White, and is directed by award-winning film and theatre director, Sherry White. The...

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