Conversation Starters
- Jacob Zimmer has been exploring the new Canada Council funding structures on the Small Wooden Shoe blog. In part one, he writes about how “change is often vague”
- And in part two, he parses what we could find in the “Explore and Create” stream
- ted witzel is working at the Stratford Festival a few months after working on an indie performance for Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival. He reflects on the “theatre class system” on the Buddies blog: “swordfights vs serial sex murder: have i sold out?”
- Next stop on the Ontario Fringe Tour is the Toronto Fringe Festival, opening July 1
- Catherine Ballachey is currently training in dramaturgy with Laurie Steven at Odyssey Theatre, funded by the Professional Theatre Training Program—and she shares her training and educational experience with their audience on the Odyssey Theatre blog
- To all of the recipients of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, including fina macDonell, winner of the 2015 Silver Ticket Award
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading ted witzel's piece, but couldn't help thinking that all of us, sooner or later, arrive at a stage in life in which our cultural construct becomes more or less rooted and fixed. I think it has to do with the amount of life experience that goes into shaping our worldview, until the vast majority of our experiences finally settle us in a belief system which then becomes increasingly rigid and ceases to evolve or grow. Different people get there at different ages. As a young man, I certainly didn't think of myself as any kind of mover or shaker, but over time my values certainly grew and diverged rather sharply from the ones in which I was raised. My contemporaries who WERE movers and shakers have begun to show signs of the fixity of mindset. I certainly see and hear it in the conversations of my gay contemporaries who ask what's wrong with the younger gay generation! It happens to us all, and I'd love to be privy to the inner workings of ted witzel's mind in later years when he realizes it is happening to him too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for responding Ken. I do think that having a flexible worldview can become more and more challenging over time - but I also think it's an essential skill for artists to try and sustain that flexibility as best we can: it keeps up our empathy, and helps make us better artists.
Delete(And on a digression, there's a nice hook in your write-up of Soulpepper's Eurydice that I'll be sharing in the next Ontario Off Stage column in two weeks...)