Events and Shows

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I will be performing next week at this:

Round:About / Pluralism in Performance

Location: Kitchener, Ontario

Organized by: COPA & CPPAMO http://www.mtspace.ca

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, September 24, 2010 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

   * Theatre    * Music

Type of activity: Visit / Demo

Description: Local Musicians, Theatre and Performance Artists from many cultures gather to present unique stories in unique styles representing the regeneration of performance practices and intercultural fusion taking place in Waterloo Region. Presented by the Coalition of Performing Artists of Waterloo Region and The Cultural Pluralism in the Performing Arts Movement of Ontario.

Location: The Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts Kitchener, Ontario

Directions: The Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts is located at 36 King Street West, Kitchener ON next to the Children’s Museum. A map of parking lots in the area may be found here: http://www.kitchener.ca/parking/ The Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts http://kwsymphony.ca/conradcentre/

Contact information: The MT Space 519-585-7763 info[at]mtspace[dot]ca

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Upcoming

I will be performing on

Thursday, August 27, 2015

at House of Freaks: Lips, Lottery, and the Dragging Heels Show Time: 7:30-10:00pm Location: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre One Night Only! Come celebrate the rich talents of our queer Asian community through a series of one-act plays and performances. Thursday, August 27, 2015 Doors open: 7:30pm Show starts: 8:00pm Buddies in bad times theatre (12 Alexander St./Wheelchair Accessible) Sliding Scale/Pay What You Can Suggested Donation $10­-20 * There are no advance tickets * Everyone pays at door (cash only) * No late entry after 8pm Featuring: Aries Cheung Al Donato Leo Liao Chase Lo Brian-Bao Ly Rain Chan Alipung MC Chase T. Ryan Tran Anthony Tran Patrick Salvani Produced by: Vince Ha & Mezart Daulet Poster Artwork by: Aries Cheung For more information, please contact Mezart (Meza) Email: [email protected] Founded in 2013, Rice Roll Production aims to share the untold stories from the Asian community by creating online videos, short films, and web-series. We believe in the power of story-telling. We believe in the importance of community building. By collaborating with local artists and our community, we hope to deliver these stories creatively with unabashed honesty.

facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1626818930892898/

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Lullaby for the Abandoned

(A Staged Reading) written by Rain Chan

An eighty-eight-year-old Chinese woman spent the past forty years picking up abandoned babies from the street. She is now lying in the hospital with kidney failure. While her children recall memories of their lives together, the Nurse who looks after the old woman develops a great appreciation for her strength.

Director: Brenda Darling

Dramaturge: Shaista Latif

Stage Manager: Lisa Polivka

Featuring: Angela Loft Rong Fu Vivian Cheung Miroki Tong Titus Chui Ming Leung Chase Lo

Date: Saturday March 16. 2013 Time: 12 noon

Running Time: approx. 60 minutes + Talkback

Tickets are PWYC, and no reservations will be taken.

Box Office opens one hour before performance, and accepts cash only.

NO LATECOMERS WILL BE ADMITTED.

Special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council

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Glad Day October Spook Wanna share some of your talents with a group of fun supportive audience? Have a song or poem you wrote but were always too shy to reveal it? Now’s the time to let it happen!!  This is the perfect chance to try out new material, or just simply sharing your stories with us and showcasing yourself. Dance, music, spoken word, drag, monologues, stand-up, drag, burlesque, acrobatics, clowning, rants, etc. Even if you’ve never been on a stage before but secretly dream about, give it a shot. Come to the October Spook and be inspired, be expressive, and meet other artists and awesome supportive people!!

Come with a piece under 10 minutes and we will give you a stage, microphones, and speakers for your music.

Open-Mic Night at the Glad Day Bookshop. Date: Saturday October 20, 2012 Doors open at 7. Sign-up begins at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm start.

Suggested price $5, PWYC.

QUEERS, ALLIES, ALL AGES, ALL GENDERS, and all backgrounds are welcome!!

Come show us your fabulous selves! And bring your friends too!

And come in costume if you like!!! Your host will be in costume.

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/525643847449242/

About Glad Day: Opened in 1970 by Jearld Moldenhauer, Glad Day Bookshop is the first Canadian and the longest surviving lesbian and gay bookstore worldwide. The bookstore has been serving the queer community since then and often donates books to organizations such as the Pride Library at University of Wster Ontario. Glad Day specialize in offering the widest possible selection of LGBT literature, both in and out of print. This in addition to a wide variety of media, including videos, periodicals, novelties.

598A Yonge St (North of Wellesley St, on the West side of Yonge St) 416-961-4161

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Blondie

Written by Meghan Gardiner

Directed by Rain Chan

Performed by Mark Augustine

Stage Management Lisa Polivka

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CRASH

“Can’t remember isn’t the same as forget. Forget is, don’t want to remember. Can’t remember is, don’t want to forget” Crash is the fractured unravelling of memory. If we can’t remember there is no justice. If we remember with perfect clarity, it won’t bring back the one we’ve lost.

The Girl. The Room. The River.

April 27th to May 13th

Produced by Theatre Passe Muraille

Written and Performed by Pamela Mala Sinha

Directed by Alan Dilworth

Set and Lighting Design by Kimberly Purtell

Sound Design by Debashis Sinha

Stage Management Kat Chin

Choreography Monica Dotter

Assistant Director Rain Chan

Production Assistant Jeny Nikolova

Mahadevi Choreography Rubena Sinha

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a staged reading of

REM

by Rain Chan Dramaturgy and Music by Gein Wong

Canada’s hottest all-girl electropop band makes a stop at Buddies in Bad Time Theatre on their first North American tour. Come see them perform their smash hit single – that is, if they manage to get through the whole song without deciding to break up….

Featuring: Vivian Cheung, Rong Fu, Inx B. Incubury, Jenny Raven, and Jeff Yung.

Tuesday November 23rd, doors open 7pm, reading 7:30pm.

Buddies in Bad Time Theatre, 12 Alexander St PWYC, tickets will be available at the door.

On this evening, there will also be a presentation of My Baby’s Got a Secret: the Drag Musical presented by Asian Arts Freedom School with guests Ill Nana, Chase Tam, and LAL.

Supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and in partnership with fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company

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playGround Festival

Join us in February for some exciting New Works in Progress at the playGround Festival!

The playGround Festival is an annual juried festival of York University’s Theatre Department that takes place in mid-February of every year.

Reaching its 17th year, playGround is a student-produced seedbed for the next generation of theatre artists. Well-known for its uncurbed spirit and risk-taking mindset, it showcases original, cutting-edge student works, plays-in-progress and promising performance pieces. The works are conceived, written, performed and produced by up-and-coming playwrights, directors, designers and actors from all levels of York’s undergraduate theatre program.

Our mandate is to foster the development of new works in progress from emerging theatre artists.

Festival Dates: Series A Tuesday, February 9 – 7:30pm Wednesday, February 10 – 7:30pm Friday, February 12 – 1pm

Series B Wednesday, February 10 – 1pm Thursday, February 11 – 7:30pm Friday, February 12 – 7:30pm

Location: Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre Centre for Film and Theatre

Ticket Price: Regular, Student, Senior $7 Group Rate $7 School Group Rate $5

Box Office: 416-736-5888

Website: http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/theatre/theatreyork/playground2010.htm

Theatre@York2009/2010 Brochure (includes map and directions): http://www.box.net/shared/ahqirxiyrs

Artistic Directors: Rain Chan & Sylvia Vuong

Theatre @ York 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON

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I will be reading an except of my play

 at this festival on Halloween! Oct. 31, 2009

The 4th Annual Lab Cab Festival

Saturday October 31st & Sunday November 1st, 2009

FREE!

Factory Theatre 125 Bathurst St. (at Adelaide)

http://www.labcab.ca Media Contact: Aviva Armour-Ostroff [phone] [email protected]

The Lab Cab Festival is a two-day multi-disciplinary arts festival set in and around Toronto’s historic Factory Theatre.

Music, dance, theatre, spoken word, poetry, visual art, film, comedy and clown are performed in the stairwells, bathrooms, theatres, lobbies, parking lot, courtyard, rehearsal hall, basement, dressing rooms, bars and every nook and cranny of the 138-year old Factory Theatre. Audiences choose their own schedule from pieces ranging anywhere between two and thirty minutes. The Festival is an event the entire family can enjoy. Special attention has been placed in involving at-risk youth to participate in the festival, giving young actors, photographers, directors, musicians and writers the opportunity to perform in a professional yet pressure free environment.

And it’s all FREE FREE FREE!!!

Lab Cab was founded and produced by actor and photographer Aviva Armour-Ostroff as a monthly multi-arts cabaret at the Factory Studio Theatre in 2001. By the time Lab Cab retired after five successful years, it had become a staple in the independent arts scene, a venue where both new and established artists from any discipline could experiment in a safe and supportive environment. In September 2006, Lab Cab successfully expanded into the Lab Cab Festival, an annual event unifying diverse artistic communities under one roof.

Curated by Aviva Armour-Ostroff and co-produced with Andre du Toit, the Lab Cab Festival features many artists.

Contact producer Aviva Armour-Ostroff to find out more about her curating process.

Lab Cab Festival Saturday October 31st and Sunday November 1st, 2009 Factory Theatre 125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide) 12pm-1am Saturday and 12pm-4pm Sunday each day FREE!

Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Artistic Director Andre du Toit, Artistic Producer Nausheen Currington, Volunteer and Front of House Manager Andrea Cheng Baker, Development Coordinator Gina Collymore, Marketing Coordinator