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Nadatodo? Add a dot com and there's no reason to be bored.

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While the site refers to her as a “brazen force”, we found Anastasia Koutalianos quite nice when she visited us at Biz Books to tell us about her online events listing site.


So impressed were we with her presentation that we pledged to spread the word to you so that you are able to avail yourselves of her great service and thereby increase the eager audiences for your screenings, readings, performances, recitals and other happening happenings. There is also tons of stuff listed there that you might want to check out as well. Be sure to check out NADATODO.COM and start filling the pages of that shiny new 2010 calendar!

Posted on December 17, 2009.
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Calling all Fringe (Festival) Fans!!

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Are you a responsible, flexible, organized person with strong people skills? Are you interested in the arts? Would you like to see creative, provocative and often avant garde theatre…for free? If so than you might be a great potential volunteer for the Vancouver International Fringe Festival. The Vancouver International Fringe Festival is currently recruiting volunteers for the 2009 festival. Since performers collect 100% of the ticket money, volunteers are the lifeblood of the Vancouver Fringe. Each year, over 400 people from all walks of life take on a variety of volunteer roles from front-of-house activities to working behind the scenes. For more information about the positions and perks – (like a free t-shirt, show tickets and Aquabus rides!) check out www.vancouverfringe.com/volunteer

Posted on August 11, 2009.
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Hey Bronwen, John Taylor Went to Tuscany

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A few months ago our good friend (and fabulous actor) John Taylor had the opportunity to make a photographic pilgrimage to Tuscany. Bronwen, ever the supportive friend was most surprised when her overtures to John about being “packed in his luggage” and taken along went unheeded. (Well actually, unheeded isn’t quite right for “heed” John indeed did and took every opportunity prior to leaving to make sure Bronwen would be aware of his departure and destination…but I digress….)

Well, the good news is that John is now back and we all have the chance to see him, his photographs, and celebrate his return at his Open Studio Photographic Exhibition which will take place this weekend on Saturday, August 1st and Sunday, August 2nd at his studio, 2146 Yew Street in Vancouver. The show takes place on both days from 1 – 6pm but if you decide to attend on the 2nd, be sure to wish John a Happy Birthday as well! And if you see Bronwen, please let her know that John is back from Tuscany!

Posted on July 28, 2009.
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Rebecca Coleman: Marketing Maven

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Rebecca Coleman, (pictured here with Bronwen) one of our favourite local theatre publicists and arts bloggers, recently stopped in at the store. After a meeting with our own Carrie Ruscheinsky and Melanie Walden, who are producing Christopher Shinn’s Dying City in April at Little Mountain Studios, she dropped by to say “hello” and tell us what she has been working on lately.

“There’s so much great theatre going on in the city this winter and spring,” she said. “I’m really busy, and super excited about the quality of the stuff I’m working on. I see Jay Brazeau was just here—he’s directing Three Viewings at Presentation House, which stars Kevin McNulty (who recently did a show at the Firehall with Cat), Jillian Fargey and Suzanne Ristic. Also, a new company, Zee Zee Theatre, is doing a production of Halifax native Bryden MacDonald’s Whale Riding Weather with Allan Morgan at the PAL from Feb 12-22.”

“There’s lots more—the PuSH Festival, and pieces by Ruby Slippers and Touchstone later in the spring—go see some independent theatre!”

Rebecca’s also really into marketing theatre using online techniques like blogging (check out which groovy bookstore’s blog made it into one of her recent posts) and social media . You can read her most recent marketing ideas here.

Posted on February 2, 2009.
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Jay makes our day!

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“Guaranteed to please!” That is how director Jay Brazeau (seen here with our own Bronwen Smith) describes his current artistic endeavour of Three Viewings. Now that he is wrapped from his much hailed performance in the Vancouver Playhouse’s smash-hit production of The Drowsy Chaperone he had time to visit us at Biz.

During his visit with us today he shared with us how excited he is to be working on this play at North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre, which he described as “the fastest growing little secret in North Vancouver”, with Jillian Fargey, Kevin McNulty and Suzanne Ristic. He applauded the Presentation House’s eagerness to do new and different types of theatre and feels that their approach works well with his personal philosophy that “there should be as many types of live theatres as there are movie theatres”.

Set in a funeral home, Three Viewings (by Jeffrey Hatcher) intertwines three stories of love and loss. There is Emil (McNulty), the mild-mannered mortician who is in love with a local real-estate saleswoman, but can’t bring himself to tell her, Mac (Fargey), a drifter, who is going to her Grandmother’s funeral to get what is rightfully hers, and Virginia (Ristic), who has just lost her husband, Ed, and, she learns, everything else besides.

The show will preview on February 5 at 8 pm and will open on February 6th at 8 pm. It will run Tuesdays through Saturdays until February 21st. Tickets range from $12-24 (which Jay wanted us to remind you is an entertainment bargain especially since there is free parking!) Presentation House Theatre is located at 333 Chesterfield Ave in North Vancouver. Click here for more information.

Posted on January 14, 2009.
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