This week's show Oonagh Duncan from Oyster Productions and I interviewed comedian Peter Fullerton who performs tonight at the Laugh Resort.



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This week, I had a one on one conversation with new media artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. We talked about his recent return from Germany, how to make it as an artist in Canada and Europe and what inspires his current video work which is part of the group show Auto-Emotion at the Power Plant this summer.
This Saturday, he is the main feature of Power Plant's Play List Series. Admission is free and you can lounge around and watch his work from 2 - 9 pm today.


This Arts Now Podcast is sponsored by Theatreworks Productions' Stone Circle Project



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This week's show I got quite the treat, not only did I co-host with Oonagh Duncan from Oyster Productions but we also received a live in-studio performance from acclaimed slam poet Spencer Butt who will be performing August 12 at the Rivoli. www.myspace.com/thirtysecondblurbs

We also spoke with the producers from Theatreworks Productions'about Creon, a new rendition of Antigone that is opening next week. Plus, Oonagh & I talked about Cathy Gordon's eight hour crawl through Toronto in her wedding dress August 13 and Ross Manson's Wrecking Ball Series that's happening tonight at Theatre Pass Muraille starting at 10pm.


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This week I had a lot of laughs with my guest co-host James Binnie and our interviewed guests Richard Lee and David Yee from Fu-Gen Theatre Company who joined us to talk about their upcoming show 'The Paper Series' in the Summerworks Festival running from Aug 2 - 12 at the Factory Theatre Main Space. In addition we talked about my love for Kozyndan's Bunnyfish and the mass Michael Jackson Thriller dance phenomena happening in Toronto and around the world.

This Arts Now Podcast is sponsored by Theatreworks Productions' Stone Circle
Project



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This week Amil & I chatted about our gallery hopping plans and interviewed Siya Chen, Curator of the No Pandas Exhibit at XPACE Gallery about the "New New" generation of artists coming out of China. Runs July 20 - 29. 56 Ossington Avenue.



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This week Amil & I talked on the upcoming Toronto Fringe Festival from July 4 - 15.

We interviewed Oonagh Duncan from Oyster Productions about her upcoming show 'Talk 30 to Me.' Plus we chatted with Jacob Zimmer from Small Wooden Shoe about the laws of Newtonian physics and his upcoming piece 'I Keep Dropping Sh*t'



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Image care of Small Wooden Shoe featuring Frank Cox-O'Connell, Brendan Gall. Photo by Trevor Schwellnus