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August 15th, 2019
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closed from Aug 25 to Sept 11, 2019
July 29th, 2019
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private event, Wed April 24
March 16th, 2019
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December 2018, January 2019, in London, England
December 18th, 2018
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Artword Artbar closed to Feb 6, 2019
December 10th, 2018
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Steel City Jazz Festival 2018, Heather Bambrick Quartet, Wed Oct 24
September 20th, 2018
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Steel City Jazz Festival, 2018. Wednesday October 24, 8:00 pm. Smordin Law Artist-in-Residence Series – Heather Bambrick Quartet. Join vocalist Heather Bambrick (JUNO / ECMA Nominee) and her all-star quartet (Adrean Farrugia, Ross MacIntyre, and Colleen Allen) for this show that will be musical, funny, and highly entertaining. https://www.heatherbambrick.ca/
Artword Artbar, $15/$10 for students.
https://steelcityjazzfest.com/
Water Bear: songwriters Tom Dusome & Alex T. Wed Oct 10
August 16th, 2018
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Wednesday October 10, 2018, 8 pm, $10/pwyc. Our friends Water Bear (songwriters Tom Dusome & Alex T.) are back. “We write songs about resistance, resilience, and home.”
https://waterbear.bandcamp.com
Plus a guest set by The Do-Gooders: Dan Murray guitar/vocals,
Stu Gritter guitar/vocals, and Geoff Ball guitar/vocals.
closed for August, back Sept 12
August 1st, 2018
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closed July 12 for Fringe rehearsals
June 27th, 2018
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closed Wed&Thur, May 9&10, for private function
April 10th, 2018
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closed Easter weekend Mar 28 to April 1
March 1st, 2018
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Hamilton Fringe AGM, Tues Mar 27 at 7 pm
February 27th, 2018
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Tuesday March 27, 2018, 7 to 10 pm. The Annual General Meeting of the Hamilton Fringe Festival.
closed Wed Mar 14 and Wed Mar 21 for private events
February 20th, 2018
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closed Dec 17/2017 to Feb 2/2018
December 14th, 2017
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‘Langston Hughes vs. Joe McCarthy’ should be touring the country: review by Doreen Nicoll
July 20th, 2017
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Review by Doreen Nicoll on rabble.ca
‘Langston Hughes vs. Joe McCarthy’ should be touring the country
Doreen Nicoll, July 30, 2017
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/change-gonna-come/2017/07/langston-hughes-vs-joe-mccarthy-should-be-touring-country
There’s no doubt about it, history is cyclical. Those well versed in history see the proverbial writing on the wall. Unfortunately, those who choose to remain ignorant, or perhaps worse, those who believe they are untouchable, can set the world on a path that is well worn, all too familiar, and often dangerous.
July 29th, the curtain went down for the final time on the Hamilton Fringe production Langston Hughes vs. Joe McCarthy: Is Poetry Subversive? Set at the height of McCarthyism when, as director Ronald Weihs writes in his director’s statement, “There was a massive effort underway in the United State to communicate a crude vision of ‘The American Way,’ and to brand ideas ‘Un-American.’ People were taught to be frightened of their own thoughts, to repress them or keep them hidden.”
During the 1920’s and 30’s, Harlem became a beacon of hope for freedom of expression to African American scholars and artists. This newfound voice was demanding civil liberties and political rights. Hughes was an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance which gave birth to jazz poetry. It was this poetry that would make Hughes a person of interest.
On March 24, 1953 James Mercer Langston Hughes, African American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist was called before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. And so the play begins.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and attorney Roy Cohn originally interrogated Hughes, but Weihs successfully embodies the men in one domineering character. The interrogator, clearly Hughes’s intellectual inferior, tries unsuccessfully to get Hughes to admit his poems contain subversive political messages. Read more…
“A fine play, well staged, with a powerful message” review by Brian Morton, Langston Hughes vs Joe McCarthy
July 19th, 2017
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REVIEW: ‘LANGSTON HUGHES VS. JOE MCCARTHY’
at the 2017 Hamilton Fringe Festival
Ron Weihs’ play, ‘Langston Hughes vs Joe McCarthy,’ now gets a full production as part of the 2017 Hamilton Fringe Festival. This two man play digs deeply into a very dark period of American History that remains shameful to us today, although with the polarization and division in the United States in the era of Donald Trump, its relevancy is clear.
The script itself is based upon actual testimony given when Harlem poet Langston Hughes was called to testify before Congress during the Communist ‘witch hunts’ of the early 1950s. Read more…
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- The art of politics August 6, 2019 Ron
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- RSC: Kathryn Hunter’s Timon of Athens January 9, 2019 Ron
- RSC: Tartuffe in Birmingham January 8, 2019 Ron
- Richard II at the Almeida: the real Beale January 5, 2019 Ron
- Tate Modern Photo-ops August 19, 2018 Ron
- Gallery 46: Photos of homeless in 1970s London August 12, 2018 Ron
Best 35 Jazz Venues in Canada
Wed May 17, 2017. We just received notification of this honour! Artword Artbar selected as one of the 35 best jazz venues in Canada.