What Are You Doing BACK There?! Winter Arts Festival 2012!

Back Burner Productions presents
WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK THERE!? Winter Arts Festival 2012!

February may be cold and grey but it's anything but in the cabaret space in the back of Dominion on Queen! Come in and shed the cold off, raise your spirits and celebrate the arts with us on this 6th anniversary of the festival!

Join poets and playwrights, musicians, muses, dancers, dreamers, comics and artists of all kinds for two weekends, Thursday through Saturday: February 9 - 11, and February 16 - 18, 2012

Featuring!

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9

MCs Josh Dennis and Aaron Lobb!

Zita Nyarady - Lucinda: Old Flames and Other Secrets
Evelyne Russell – Homeless Teen Comedy
Leonia Thames and Alfred Chow - Songs and a Guitar
Steven Michael Berzensky ( Mick Burrs) – About Swans
Socratic Theatre Collective – Wrong Number
Natalie Frijia & Robert Cochrane - 27yrs
Guy Doucette & Zita Nyarady - Songs to Dance To


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10
MC Kristian Reimer!!!

Zita Nyarady - Lucinda: Old Flames and Other Secrets
Jannine - Poetry
Evelyne Russell – Homeless Teen Comedy
Steven Michael Berzensky ( Mick Burrs) – About Swans
Socratic Theatre Collective – Wrong Number
Natalie Frijia – Stories from the Road
Guy Doucette & Zita Nyarady - Songs to Dance To


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11
MC Matt Shury!

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Mike Lipsius - Poetry
Steven Michael Berzensky ( Mick Burrs) – About Swans
Guy Doucette
Natalie Frijia – Stories from the Road
Annette Bochenek – When the TTC Will Charge $5
Evelyne Russell – Homeless Teen Comedy
12 HOUR ARTS PROJECT SHOWCASE!


THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16
MCs Josh Dennis and Aaron Lobb!

Evelyne Russell – Homeless Teen Comedy
Alana Sambey & Järvi Raudsepp (Writter Aaron J. Sambey) - Ballet Parody
Jako Raudsepp - The Jolly Jive Trio Minus Two
Steven Michael Berzensky ( Mick Burrs) – About Swans
Zita Nyarady - Lucinda: Old Flames and Other Secrets
Kristy LaPointe - Those Bitches We Hate
Socratic Theatre Collective – Wrong Number
Guy Doucette & Zita Nyarady - Songs to Dance To


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17
MCs Josh Dennis and Aaron Lobb!

Patrick Szanjer - Poetry
Xenia Vakova - Piano
Steven Michael Berzensky ( Mick Burrs) – About Swans
Jeremy Murphy - Songs and Music
Patrick Szajner - Music
Alana Sambey & Järvi Raudsepp (Writter Aaron J. Sambey) - Ballet Parody
Joel Pettigrew - InVerse
Guy Doucette
Socratic Theatre Collective – Wrong Number
Lane Argue & Hal Rodriguez - Mother Science (acoustic duo)


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18
MC Matt Shury!

Patrick Szanjer - Poetry
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Joel Pettigrew - InVerse
Patrick Szajner - Music
Steven Michael Berzensky ( Mick Burrs) – About Swans
When the TTC Will Charge $5 – Annette Bochenek
Guy Doucette

ALL SHOWS START AT 8 PM!
$5 - 10$ Sliding Scale at the Door

MANY MORE ARTISTS TO COME!
CHECK WEEKLY FOR ARTIST UPDATES!

All at the DOMINION on QUEEN this February, 2012!

Guy Doucette and Natalie Frijia Festival Curators
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12 HOUR ARTS PROJECT!!!

Participating artists will meet at 8 AM, Saturday February 11, team up at a location to be announced at the first and second nights of the festival! From the TBA location artists will depart and have 12 Hours to develop a short arts project - Theatrical? Use of Poetry? Painting? You'll decide - but you've only got 12 hours to do so!

Groups will present their arts projects as part of the festival that night in a celebration that is sure to bring surprises!