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Alameda Theatre Company's 1st Annual Peņa (a Latin American fundraiser)
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March 20, 2009
Steel Worker's Union
25 Cecil St.
7pm.
Featuring MC, 'Just for Laughs' comedienne Martha Chavez, local Latin American musicians, visual artists, dancers, and much, much more!
A "peņa" is a Latin American social gathering with lots of music and drink. Alameda Theatre Company's "peņa will be a fundraiser featuring local Latin American artists, food, music and a silent auction which will include lots of great prizes. hors d'oeuvres (Emapanadas and traditional Chilean fare) and, ofcourse, a lot of Chilean vino will be available!$50 at the door$40 in advanceTable of 10 for $400Tickets available soon online at www.alamedatheatre.com or by calling
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Alameda Theatre Company featured in Dialogos Magazine!
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Dialogos Magazine is an online forum for communication and exchange between Hispanics and English speakers in Canada. Read the article here!
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Alameda Theatre Company's Quarterly Newsletter
Issue 2, Volume 1 |
Fall/Winter 2008 |
Bienvenidos! Welcome to the second edition of our online newsletter!
 Alameda Theatre Company has had a busy fall, choosing the three new playwrights for our 2nd annual De Colores Festival (April 2009) (see below to find out who they are) and looking ahead to next fall's world premiere production of The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre. We are slowly but surely building upon our successes over the past couple of years to bring you the BEST in Latin American-Canadian theatre.
In this issue we talk to Rodrigo Barreda, Artistic Director of LACAP, Latin American Canadian Artists Project, about why an organization such as theirs is important for Canadian culture. Their 2008 season was launched with the ever growing Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace (September/October 2008). They are also working on making November Latin American Heritage Month in Canada. They are definitely creating more opportunity and access to Canadian musicians, visual artists, performance artists, writers, new media artists, dancers, theatre artists, etc. who have Latin American roots.
I hope you enjoy our Fall issue- soon the snow will cover the ground and before you know it spring will be upon us- along with the emergence of new voices, new ideas and new possibilities! Until then, keep warm and inspired by the world around you for each day is a moment to be savoured, taken in and remembered. Carpe Diem as they say!
Yours,
Marilo Nunez
Artistic Director
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 2009 De Colores Festival of New Works Playwrights Chosen!
The results are in! After a month and a half of deliberations three plays were chosen from across Canada.
After much deliberation and reading scripts from across Canada (Vancouver, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario) Artistic Director Marilo Nuņez and Festival Dramaturgs Stephen Colella and Erica Kopyto finally chose the three plays which will be featured in the upcoming festival.
"It was a difficult decision", says Artistic Director Nuņez, "because this year we had some really great submissions. It was difficult to choose, but I think we chose three plays which will really showcase the incredible talent that is brewing in the Latin American community."
"Now we go to work", adds Colella, who is Company Dramaturg at the famous Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. And work indeed! The chosen playwrights will be working closely with dramaturgs Colella and Erica Kopyto, who has worked at PEN Canada/ARCFest with the Writer's in Exile program, to develop the scripts from first, second or third drafts. "Yes, many of the submissions were ideas, or inklings of plays, so we have quite a bit of work to do in order to develop these ideas into plays which will come alive and make sense to actors, directors and eventually an audience", adds Kopyto, who was actually in labour when the courier arrived at her house with the scripts in early October.
Audiences will be excited to know that one play from last year's festival will return. "We don't end our relationships with the writers once they are done the festival", says Nuņez. "We know that a play takes many, many drafts to become production ready. We decided to give the playwrights the time and space to hone their craft. This year we are very excited to bring back Victor Gomez and his beautiful and touching piece Lizardboy." Unfortunately, only one playwright is chosen to come back but adds Marilo, "We have made sure to maintain a close relationship with all the playwrights and offer them support when we can."
Audiences will have the privilege of peeking into the writer's process when the Festival launches in late April of 2009. The 4 readings will be works-in-progress to showcase where the work is at that moment in time. Professional actors and directors will present the work so that audiences can get a little taste of the many, many colours which flavour a new work.
Stay tuned for more details as the 2009 De Colores Festival of New Works draws near! In the meantime, we will feature one of the playwrights in our next issue of La Calle!
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 Feature Artist: Rodrigo Barreda
Artistic Director of LACAP talks about the beginnings of the Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace and how it has evolved into the Latin American Canadian Artists Project, an organization dedicated to promoting and enriching the lives of our community through arts and culture.
The Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace is like most projects, at first it comes out of a necessity, but then becomes a viable experiment in a specific moment in time. In this sense I think the festival, and how it has evolved, has answered many different and even conflicting needs within our community.
But perhaps I should talk about what it meant to me personally. In my case the Salvador Allende Festival began out of a personal concern regarding how my community, the Chilean community in Toronto, was dealing with its recent history. How we were dealing with our common experiences of political persecution, trauma, exile, marginalization, and in a certain way to our sense of lack of identity and unity with the community. (I include myself in this statement). I think it was around 2002 or perhaps early 2003 that I learned of the experience of the father of a friend of mine who had become ill. In his illness this man began to confront, once again, and after almost 30 years, his experiences as a detainee in Chile after the coup. He would wake up at night screaming and have terrible thoughts of being persecuted. Not only his story, but also the solitude in which he confronted this situation and how alone his partner and family members were, affected me very much. It made me reflect on how much we, as a community, were not doing to help our aging parents and friends deal with a common past. To help them express their experiences, their feelings, and to deal with their frustrations and traumas. In other words to heal.
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About Us
Alameda Theatre Company is Canada's premiere professional Latin American theatre company providing opportunities for Latin American-Canadian theatre artists and playwrights and building audiences for their work.
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Donate to Alameda Theatre Company and receive a Charitable Tax Receipt.
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If you still haven't done so, please make a charitable donation to Alameda Theatre Company in order that we continue to bring you quality, professional productions featuring the best in Latin American-Canadian theatre. We are a registered charity, whose support comes from people like you, those who believe in the arts and the cultivation of a veritable voice in Canadian theatre.
Donate today and know that you have made a difference in the Canadian cultural landscape! Any amount helps- $25, $50, $100, $500- all monies go to paying for our upcoming productions and programs including: The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre, 2009 De Colores Festival of New Works and Nueva Voz: A Latino Youth Initiative. Money raised will pay the actors, the director, the sets, costumes, venue rentals, musicians, stage management, and technicians so that we can create professional theatre.
Donate online safely and securely at Canadahelps.org or send cheques to:
Alameda Theatre Company
392 Winona Dr.
Toronto, ON
M6C 3T5
Registered Charitable Number: 849904594 RR0001
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