The Arts Now has gone to video! After a short hiatus, Amil & I bring you a special video edition of the Arts Now. It's short and sweet featuring an interview with Sasha Von Bon Bon from the Scandelles who talked to us about her latest burlesque show Who's Your Dada running from Jan 23 - Feb 9 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.



Warning: Nudity and silly sex talk.

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This week Amil took the mic and interviewed the artists from Xspace Gallery's latest show Found and Crafted - Explorations in Furniture.

Had I been able to be in the studio that day, I would have totally plugged Heather Goodchild's upcoming show at the Katherine Mulherin Gallery, opening this Thursday and told everyone to check out the Block on the Spot Event at the Theatre Centre, Friday November 30th. It's an art party/cabaret featuring a visual art, contemporary dance and performance art mash up that will become a wicked dance party DJed by artist Ulysses DeCastellanos, word has it to bring your bathing suits. Last year's event turned into a pretty wild night and will end promptly at 1am, doors open at 7:30pm.



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This week Amil and I got back in the studio to talk about some of the great art exhibitions happening around the city, including a beautiful show by Olena Kassian going on at the Mittica Gallery and Kent Monkman's exhibitions at MOCCA and the ROM.

We enjoyed two great interviews with Ana Serrano the Director & Founder of the CFC Media Lab, plus we also spoke to contemporary dancer Susie Burpee and choreographer Serge Bennethan about how Japanese anime has influenced their latest performance called Manga happening at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre opening November 22.

This week's podcast is sponsored by the CFC Media Lab.



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Photo of Susie Burpee and Linnea Swan taken by Ella Cooper.

Friday November 2, the Emerging Arts Professional Network will be presenting a new interactive speakers series called Artsmash at Gallery TPW.

The EAP Network, who recently made blogTO's Top 50 Most Essential Facebook Groups, is a not-for-profit organization and community network of over 1,500 arts administrators, managers and artists at the start of their careers from across Canada.

Artsmash, an event open to everybody, mixes it up with two speakers from the arts community and one from another industry. Each speaker is given twenty minutes to share the inside story behind an innovative project that they were part of.

Tomorrow night features:

Nuit Blanche - Carole Boughannam, Programming Director & Mike Brown, Sponsorship Manager

SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Collective) - Haema Sivanesen, Executive Director

WWF-Canada (World WildLife Fund) - Tara Wood, Public Relations Manager

It's the EAP Network's first public event so you can expect it to be a bit of a celebration as well.

Doors open at 6:30, Event starts at 7, everything is all said & done by 9:30pm.
Tickets $10 sold at the door.

This week Amil & I had a great show talking about everything from Halloween costumes, to the Toronto International Art Fair, the Hysteria Festival and more.

We enjoyed two really interesting interviews. One with Jason Goodman, who is both CFC Media Lab Alumni and president of Cieo Creative a new interactive toy company that grew out of a group project initially created at the CFC.

Plus Malgorzata Nowacka, Artistic Director & Choreographer of The Chimera Project came into the talk to us about her piece in this weeks Hysteria Festival North America's largest multi-disciplinary showcase of work by women that is happening at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre through til November 3rd.

This week's podcast is sponsored by the CFC Media Lab.



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On this week's show, SLS Singing teacher, Brandon Brophy, joined me on the mic in place of Amil. We talked about upcoming shows like the Kaeja's MADance Screen Salon at the Drake Hotel Friday October 26 and Clay and Paper Theatre's upcoming Halloween procession Night of Dread October 27 at Dufferin Grove Park.

We enjoyed an interview with choreographer and dancer Laurence Lemieux from the acclaimed dance company Coleman & Lemieux, who talked about her upcoming show Interiors premiering at the Harbourfrontcentre Enwave Theatre from Oct 25 - 27, shows at 8pm.

This week's podcast is sponsored by the CFC Media Lab.



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The Arts Now is a weekly podcast all about the Toronto arts scene hosted by Ella Cooper & Amil Niazi.

Contact us with feedback, upcoming shows or anything in between at artsnow [at] blogto.com

Image -Laurence & Juliette Lemieux