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Saskatoon Rosetown Biggar Candidates Twitterlogue

After a local newspaper article Election has candidates all a-Twitter decided to contact Riding Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar candidates and engage in a twitter Q&A. All candidates had an account (Apr. 30, 2011): @KellyBlockcpc 285 Tweets 280 Following 1,189 Followers 136 Listed @Nettie_Wiebe 55 Tweets 189 Following 201 Followers 23 Listed @vicki_strelioff 135 Tweets 35 Following 29 Followers 4 Listed @leereaney2011 2 Tweets 9 Following 11 Followers 1 Listed Nettie Wiebe (NDP), Vicki Strelioff (Green) & Lee Reaney (Liberal) all started Twitter accounts for the 2011 election. Incumbent Kelly Block (CPC) started an account April 4, 2009 . Usage speaks for itself. Began with a Prologue - introductions and seeing possibilities. Primary intention was to ask a series of questions. Needed to alert that the arts are important. Also posted relevent arts links from page numbers of their particular par

Unfinished thoughts: Part 1

Finished reading, Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski by Giuliano Campo with Zygmunt Molik . My debt to Zygmunt has previously been noted . My thoughts revolve around 'tradition'. Molik: The tradition. Follow the tradition. That's all. And everyone brings something new to the tradition and in this way it goes on. It's very simple. There's nothing more to say. (28) Campo Note: I have to clarify that Molik's idea of tradition relates to research of the sources of each human being rather than the theatrical roots. In fact he created his own techniques and never referred to any other method, whilst still claiming to belong to the tradition. This is indeed the specific approach reveled by the operation of maieutics as an exploration of the self. (188) My acting classes often conclude with a statement to the effect I come from the 'Grotowski tradition' and more specifically the voice work, though completely my own responsib

sun sojo

snow gone so go o o - :: Note :: ... playing with korean word 소조 (sojo) ... as Ae Ran writes her Moscow presentation ...

Saskatoon Rosetown Biggar all candidates forum

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The Riversdale Community Association hosted an All Candidates Debate Forum for the federal riding of Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar on Thursday, April 28th at 7 p.m. Thanks to Community association president Doug Ramage for all his efforts to make this possible. The room was full of maybe a hundred and started with opening statements. Each candidate answered four questions from the chair: 1) The Environment 2) Health 3) Housing and 4) Riding Priorities. Candidates then directed questions to each other followed by an open microphone on far ranging issues: Defense, Treaty obligations, Agriculture, Food and Drugs, Unemployment Insurance, Poverty, Advocacy Rights, Student Tuition & Costs, Water Fluoridation and First Nation University funding. The candidates though reluctant to pose questions to each other answered all constituent questions succinctly with clarity and respect. There was in the room a looming sense of absence - in fact Nettie Wiebe directed her question to the missin

Quilico Awards announced

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Winners of 2011 Christina and Louis Quilico Awards announced Soprano Ileana Montalbetti won the second prize of $3,000. Also performing in The Canadian Opera Company Rossini’s Cinderella ( La Cenerentola ) April 23 - May 24. :: Note :: ... folowing her dream ...

Running Amok

Reprinting an article from the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper The Sheaf. Drama Students Run Amok Year-end project shines light on budget cuts in arts colleges ASHLEIGH MATTERN Editor-in-Chief "We’re a tiny little building, we’re a small student population, but we have a lot of heart.” - Grahame Kent Drama Student A group of 20-odd people run through the halls of the John Mitchell Building, chanting, “Now all the youth of England are on fire!” A fourth-year drama class instigated the ruckus; they’re leading the group through a metaphorical reenactment of the Feb. 17 fine arts and humanities divisional town hall meeting. Art cannot be wholly separate from the world in which it was created, a maxim the expressive movement drama class exemplified with a recent performance. Developed as a year-end project, the performance was born in part out of their frustrations with budget cuts and downsizing planned for the drama department. They were in the first stages of creating

Islander Winds

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under the green-black ocean Sea weed - deep thought murmurs the quake: there are still voice cries beneath the bleached bones. :: Note :: ... searching for the soul of Grass Tomb ... with others ...