72 stories by "Michael Wheeler"
Frequent Praxis Theatre and Theatre Centre collaborator Laura Nanni is working with The Banff Centre to host a live screening of Civil Debates 4 – Â Climate Change. We’re thril…
Praxis Theatre is proud to provide support to our members taking part isn ‘Sex and Violence Collective’s production of OBJECTIONS TO SEX AND VIOLENCE TICKETS Â WEBSITE Novembe…
Left to Right: Aislinn Rose, Praxis Artistic Producer and Bunker Producer; Michael Wheeler, Praxis Artistic Director; Carly Chamberlain  & Tanya Rintoul, NTS Directing Students…
This April the four #HatchTO 2014 residencies at Harbourfront Centre will begin, taking over their Studio Theatre. Over the course of the next three months, all four #HatchTO projects will t…
Saturday morning I woke up to discover the Federal Minister of Industry, James Moore, took to Twitter to respond to one of my tweets, which he deemed “false”. It started with his…
by Michael Wheeler At every stop along the #G20Romp tour we have provided the same context to our participant detainees – the almost 300 Canadians from across the country who have part…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaFjNDm13k Watch the above video to hear from CCLA’s Abby Deshman Director, Public Safety Program on G20 Toronto, policing at protests and You …
by Michael Wheeler, As moderator of the ‘An End To Arts Funding?‘ debate at SummerWorks, it seems unethical for me to engage in any sort of critique of the arguments presented We…
by Michael Wheeler This week SummerWorks Artistic Director Michael Rubenfeld asked me to moderate today’s debate on the question: An End to Arts Funding? Of course I agreed. It looks t…
by Michael Wheeler The Summerworks Festival has begins today here in Toronto. Already, I am definitely not going to be able to make it to everything I want to see. The lineup of “crazy…
by Jordan Tannahill Below is a Facebook note I wrote several days ago on the ways in which we remember and assign value to plays in Canada. In the note I suggest an 'anti-cannon' of 100 perf…
 Tune in @ 2pm today via #HatchTO to participate in a Live Twitter Chat about Hatch 2013. Tweets about “#HatchTO”
By Michael Wheeler I have been trying to figure out for a while how to explain what my role is on many of the projects I have worked on in the past five years. Although I am usually engaged …
by Michael Wheeler Spring is in the air and creative juices are flowing. Below are three videos created by local socio/political talent taking the world into their own hands and making thing…
by Michael Wheeler Members of two the largest national opposition parties came together to make major decisions over the weekend. In Montreal, the Official Opposition New Democrats continued…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDF3mfeb06g by Michael Wheeler Ok, let us be the first one to get all the bad jokes out there: Theatre has gone to the Dogs, Theatre gets put in the Doghouse, …
by Michael Wheeler I am writing from the privileged vantage-point of someone brought up in a home where talking about feelings and mental health was not stigmatized. (Thanks Mom and Dad.) St…
Text: Â “We were barely there. Our feelings could not be hurt because they lay elsewhere, off-campus, aurora borealis. I drew pictures of it on my binder, a smudge in a heart. A smu…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNC8Nwzx78 by Michael Wheeler RaBIT is a grassroots initiative to change the way we vote in Toronto municipal elections to a ranked ballot. Over the past five…
by Michael Wheeler I haven't seen Terminus yet – going with my Mom next week. I don't want that to stop me from writing about it here though, as we don't do reviews in this space in an…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY This Onion Talk reveals some of the aspects we won’t be looking at in the workshop. by Michael Wheeler, Next week I am leading a workshop wit…
by Michael Wheeler Yesterday, Bill C-427 came up for second reading in Parliament. A private member's bill proposed by the NDP's Tyrone Benskin (previous Artistic Director of Montreal&…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PVsTiNNJio by Michael Wheeler Tomorrow, The Theatre Centre will host an official TEDxToronto viewing party. This is a no-cost event with FREE LUNCH to watch a…
by Michael Wheeler There are two upcoming events I am organizing that emphasize conversation and online interactivity in a performative context. You are invited! One is free and includes …
Surprise! The theatrosphere has been a busy place with a number of interesting conversations to take note of:
The Canada Council is launching "a dialogue about how the arts bring value to…
