tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520352024-03-13T23:58:15.499-07:00soul food vancouverart with a spiritual flavour | the blog of <a href="http://pacifictheatre.org/">pacific theatre</a>'s artistic directorRon Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.comBlogger2895125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-70261180491486278382023-12-20T00:57:00.000-08:002023-12-20T01:18:05.840-08:00dec 19 | christmas presence set list<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtExTWv9HSh92FNaS84xTK9EkGb0nqXGUTkf-QZZr3IVOqsvIE9493HcEDuxoFsNa0CwIDvhaW8zyQyIQVIlMzry5oouQfnr9s-jy_k3dVNsvspejmxVwliEVNFZBm1M6t19RFc4KGdUOeV5FbZvRoLOvSjJew58mRU6BEmHucpOsG2aaASWq5Ag/s1600/Christmas%20Tree%202023%20apple%20cider%20break.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtExTWv9HSh92FNaS84xTK9EkGb0nqXGUTkf-QZZr3IVOqsvIE9493HcEDuxoFsNa0CwIDvhaW8zyQyIQVIlMzry5oouQfnr9s-jy_k3dVNsvspejmxVwliEVNFZBm1M6t19RFc4KGdUOeV5FbZvRoLOvSjJew58mRU6BEmHucpOsG2aaASWq5Ag/w300-h400/Christmas%20Tree%202023%20apple%20cider%20break.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />singers | michael hart, brett ziegler, thomas colhoun. melody owen</div><div>players | rick colhoun, becca birkner, nelson boschman, zaac pick</div><div>readers | ron reed, kaitlin williams, shona struthers, chy liu</div><div><br /></div><div><b>ACT ONE</b></div><div><br /></div><div>ron | scrooge & nephew, by charles dickens (from a christmas carol)</div><div>melody | may you find a light </div><div>ron | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2007/12/garrison-keillor-seven-principles-of.html" target="_blank">the seven principles of a successful christmas</a>, by garrison keillor</div><div>michael hart | <a href="https://michaelhart.bandcamp.com/album/dulcimer-light-christmas" target="_blank">si nous marchons </a></div><div>kaitlin williams | on buses, by lance odegard </div><div>nelson boschman | <a href="https://mennonitejazzcommittee.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-of-grace" target="_blank">o come emmanuel</a></div><div>shona | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/mehgyver-thanks-everyone.html" target="_blank">thanks everyone</a>, by mehgyver </div><div>ron | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/bill-bunn-away-from-manger.html" target="_blank">away from the manger</a>, by bill bunn</div><div>becca birkner | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv0R_Vi9Msw" target="_blank">always in the season</a></div><div>ron | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/david-waltner-toews-if-he-were-born_20.html" target="_blank">if he were born today: christmas 1974</a>, by waltner-toews</div><div>michael hart | i heard the bells (peace on earth) </div><div>chy | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2013/12/annie-dillard-god-in-doorway.html" target="_blank">god in the doorway</a>, by annie dillard</div><div>zaac pick | <a href="https://zaacpick.bandcamp.com/album/oh-what-night-ep" target="_blank">finding christmas</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>ACT TWO</b></div><div><br /></div><div>nelson | <a href="https://mennonitejazzcommittee.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-of-grace" target="_blank">joy to the world</a></div><div>ron | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/richard-waller-engineers-christmas.html" target="_blank">engineer's christmas</a>, by richard waller</div><div>zaac pick | <a href="https://zaacpick.bandcamp.com/album/oh-what-night-ep" target="_blank">oh what night</a></div><div>ron | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/richard-tillinghast-one-night-in-galilee_20.html" target="_blank">one night in galilee</a>, by tillinghast</div><div>melody | o gracious light </div><div>chy | mary's song (blue homespun), by luci shaw </div><div>ron | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2012/12/ron-klug-josephs-lullaby.html" target="_blank">joseph's lullaby</a>, by ron klug</div><div>michael hart | christ child lullaby</div><div>zaac pick | maybe this christmas</div><div>ron | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2017/12/sheila-rosen-no-safe-place-thoughts.html" target="_blank">no safe place</a>, sheila rosen</div><div>melody | sending you light </div><div>ron | a child's christmas in wales, by dylan thomas</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2006/01/readings-index.html" target="_blank"><b><i>index: christmas readings</i></b></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigS1IgdQFPPknp3IRPJRvqRKgx-Ddz2oMTUBgAO-y7smC3NalFFSSEUVBEu8gLmsR92A8I4f_hEtSJajMAUO73Vz8KefYUGJmS9Ihk8J2i3BlJp87f-rKD6MQEf73t4zyizzu5axCVv_nX1A4KWxPD9Kb_z3ZRjRbXTxziVZiF8cKZP53Zn-0CcQ/s2048/Christmas%20Tree%202023%20%22look%20Mom,%20a%20bounce%20bounce!%22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigS1IgdQFPPknp3IRPJRvqRKgx-Ddz2oMTUBgAO-y7smC3NalFFSSEUVBEu8gLmsR92A8I4f_hEtSJajMAUO73Vz8KefYUGJmS9Ihk8J2i3BlJp87f-rKD6MQEf73t4zyizzu5axCVv_nX1A4KWxPD9Kb_z3ZRjRbXTxziVZiF8cKZP53Zn-0CcQ/w300-h400/Christmas%20Tree%202023%20%22look%20Mom,%20a%20bounce%20bounce!%22.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-86287907607109046852023-12-19T10:08:00.000-08:002023-12-19T10:08:03.357-08:00dec 17 | christmas presence set list<div style="text-align: left;"><div>singers | joellel lush-tatum, leora cashe, zaac pick</div><div>players | mark bender (bass), lincoln tatum (drums), jaye krebs (piano)</div><div>readers | ron reed, heids macdonald</div><div><br /></div><div>ACT ONE</div><div>joellel | please come home for christmas </div><div>frederick buechner | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2006/12/frederick-buechner-emmanuel.html" target="_blank">emmanuel</a></div><div>zaac | maybe this christmas </div><div>leora | sleigh ride </div><div>sedaris | <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/47/christmas-and-commerce/act-two-21" target="_blank">santaland diaries</a></div><div>joellel | i've got my love to keep me warm </div><div>dina donohue | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2007/12/dina-donohue-no-room.html" target="_blank">no room</a></div><div>heids macdonald | there's room</div><div>zaac | christmas song</div><div>mike mason | <a href="https://www.mikemasonbooks.com/commotion-a-brand-new-christmas-story/" target="_blank">commotion!</a></div><div>leora | tidings of comfort and joy </div><div><br /></div><div>ACT TWO</div><div>leora | arias of peace </div><div>zaac | light under the door </div><div>annie dillard | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2013/12/annie-dillard-god-in-doorway.html" target="_blank">god in the doorway</a></div><div>joellel | who would imagine </div><div>david waltner-toews | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/david-waltner-toews-if-he-were-born.html" target="_blank">if he were born today: christmas, 1974</a></div><div>leora | finally christmas day </div><div>annie dillard | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2006/12/dillard-feast-days.html" target="_blank">feast days</a></div><div>joellel & leora | jesus, what a wonderful child </div><div>charles dickens | a christmas carol </div><div>zaac | finding christmas </div><div><br /></div></div>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-84350398769472388322023-12-12T00:38:00.000-08:002023-12-12T00:38:35.314-08:00dec 11 | Christmas presence set list<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ARTISTS</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">jenaya barker | michael hart | stephen thakkar | taylor swindells<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">becca birkner, bass | rick colhoun, drums <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ron reed | maki yi | shona struthers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ACT ONE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">charles dickens, scrooge & nephew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">jenaya | the holly & the ivy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">stephen | (christmas) baby please come home<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dina donohue, no room<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">heids macdonald, there's room - shona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">jenaya | evermore <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">john blase | a little christmas now <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">michael | winter star <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">john f. deane | driving to midnight mass in dublin on christmas eve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">stephen & jenaya | fairytale of new york<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">judy graves | god's christmas party<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">taylor | put the lights on the tree<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">john henry faulk | a child's christmas in texas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">end act one michael | light of the stable <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ACT TWO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">jenaya | in the bleak midwinter <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">richard waller | santa claus: an engineer's perspective <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">stephen | blue christmas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">john lekich | a keen sense of occasion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">michael | three generations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">frederick buechner | don't be afraid, mary - maki<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">michael | christ child lullaby <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">john howison | reverie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">taylor | i wonder as i wander<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">frederick buechner | emmanuel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">michael + audience | joy to the world</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>links to some of the pieces will be added soon</i></span></p>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-26459986278678605622023-12-11T11:19:00.000-08:002023-12-19T10:12:12.401-08:00dec 10 | christmas presence set list<div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SQF777xvQMcwvqhbX6E9nFztqbpwvmW1sr-XXE78fAs9KgWsxOc1q9JZZosmM6eLPRhPh32aUDWzZ6dTiRHm1FTl1ms0KmEE939mtXLPg81k6M-6CAcfrxd2WILjzlkuogcU4c2wdFrnZW6FdFJXAhLVSGEGVf3J99n89ryRJeJiLLFS3N5LsA/s500/picture.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SQF777xvQMcwvqhbX6E9nFztqbpwvmW1sr-XXE78fAs9KgWsxOc1q9JZZosmM6eLPRhPh32aUDWzZ6dTiRHm1FTl1ms0KmEE939mtXLPg81k6M-6CAcfrxd2WILjzlkuogcU4c2wdFrnZW6FdFJXAhLVSGEGVf3J99n89ryRJeJiLLFS3N5LsA/w400-h400/picture.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />shaun | river<br />kira | go tell it on the mountain <br />ron | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2007/12/garrison-keillor-seven-principles-of.html" target="_blank">seven principles of a successful christmas</a>, by garrison keilor<br /> evening : <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-childs-christmas-in-texas-john-henry.html" target="_blank">a child's christmas in texas</a>, by john henry faulk<br />jonno saunders | have yourself a merry little christmas<br />ron | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2007/12/tom-carson-snow-angel.html" target="_blank">snow angel</a>, by tom carson<br />shaun | long distance love <br />heids | <a href="https://oblations.blogspot.com/2023/12/heids-macdonald-theres-room.html" target="_blank">there's room</a>, by heids macdonald<br />ron | christmas drinks party, from 'shadowlands' by william nicholson<br />kira | wexford carol <br />ron | <a href="http://oblations.blogspot.com/2006/12/david-kossoff-seth.html" target="_blank">seth</a>, by david kossoff<br />katie + kira | soul cake <br /><o:p> </o:p><br />ron | the real saint nicholas, by brainstatic etc<br />shaun | jingle bells<br />ron | waiting room, by rudi krause<br />katie | christmas lullaby <br />ron | into the darkest hour, by madeleine l'engle<br />jonno + kira | o come o come emmanuel<br />heids | upon christ coming, by heids macdonald<br />jonno | o day of peace <br />ron | <a href="https://www.mikemasonbooks.com/commotion-a-brand-new-christmas-story/" target="_blank">commotion!</a>, by mike mason<br />katie | beautiful star of bethlehem<br />ron | a new man, from 'a christmas carol' by charles dickens<br />kira | benedictus</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>the afternoon performance featured 'magi' in place of 'there's room' - both by heids macdonald - and garrison keillor's 'seven principles of a successful christmas' in place of 'a child's christmas in texas'</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">THE ARTISTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">becca birkner, bass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">heids macdonald, reader (evening)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">jonno saunders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">katie green<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">kira fondse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">rick colhoun, drums<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ron reed, reader<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">shaun verreault<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">shona struthers, reader (afternoon)</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-77918775048523381882022-12-13T23:21:00.000-08:002022-12-13T23:21:06.785-08:00dec 12 | christmas presence set list<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Jazz Quartet | Joy To The World <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Rober Farrar Capon | Advent<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Joellel | This Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Ian Farthing | David Kosoff, A Donkey's Tale</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Tom | Please Come Home For Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Ron | Caitlin Flanagan, Charlie Brown's Inside Job<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Nelson | Christmas Time Is Here</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Ron | Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Christ Climbed Down </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Joellel & Tom | I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Shauna Johannesen | Annie Dillard, God In The Doorway<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Jazz Quartet | O Come O Come Emanuel <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Tom | Langston Hughes, Carol of the Brown King<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Nelson | Finding Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Ron | Tom Carson, Snow Angel<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Tom | Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Ron | Garrison Keillor, The True Meaning of Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Joellel | O Holy Night<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">*<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Jazz Quartet<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">James Danderfer<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Nelson Boschman<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Mark Bender<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;">Lincoln Tatem<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Joelle Lush-Tatem<br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Tom Pickett</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-24021644061917135612022-12-12T11:29:00.004-08:002022-12-12T11:29:32.545-08:00dec 11 | christmas presence set list<div style="text-align: left;">Ron | Charles Dickens, Scrooge's Nephew</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kwerks | Soak It Up</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron | David Sedaris, Santa's Little Helper</div><div style="text-align: left;">Allen | Bethlehem Light</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kaitlin | C-Section</div><div style="text-align: left;">Peter & Lilia | Mary's Song</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron | Frederick Buechner, Don't Be Afraid, Mary</div><div style="text-align: left;">Garth | Hello Christmas</div><div style="text-align: left;">Rebecca | Dina Donohue, No Room</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron | U.A. Fanthorpe, The Wicked Fairy at the Manger</div><div style="text-align: left;">Garth | God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron | Garrison Keillor, The True Meaning of Christmas</div><div style="text-align: left;">Allen | Bleak Midwinter</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron | Chisholm, Good Shepherd</div><div style="text-align: left;">Peter | Angels We Have Heard On High</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron | Annie Dillard, Feast Days</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kwerks | Carry Me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Readers:</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ron Reed</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kaitlin Williams</div><div style="text-align: left;">Rebecca deBoer</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Musicians:</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Kwerks (Laura & Ryan Koch)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Allen Desnoyers</div><div style="text-align: left;">Peter La Grand</div><div style="text-align: left;">Lilia deBoer</div><div style="text-align: left;">Garth Bowen</div><div style="text-align: left;">Rick Colhoun</div><div style="text-align: left;">Becca Birkner</div><div style="text-align: left;">Chris Hawley</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-53016510794399552682022-12-11T08:53:00.002-08:002022-12-11T09:28:54.375-08:00dec 10 | christmas presence set list, tsawwassen<div style="text-align: left;">charles dickens | humbug!, from a christmas carol</div><div style="text-align: left;">joelle lush-tatum | let it snow</div><div style="text-align: left;">john dowie | three wise men, from jesus, my boy</div><div style="text-align: left;">allen desnoyers | bethlehem light</div><div style="text-align: left;">frederick buechner | don't be afraid mary, from the faces of jesus</div><div style="text-align: left;">liette desnoyers | magnificat</div><div style="text-align: left;">george connell | nan's sweater</div><div style="text-align: left;">allen desnoyers | gifts of the magi</div><div style="text-align: left;">dina donohue | no room</div><div style="text-align: left;">joelle lush-tatum | have yourself a merry little christmas</div><div style="text-align: left;">allen desnoyers | bleak midwinter</div><div style="text-align: left;">david kossoff | shem</div><div style="text-align: left;">liette desnoyers | christmas angel</div><div style="text-align: left;">david kossoff | seth</div><div style="text-align: left;">joelle lush-tatum | o holy night</div><div style="text-align: left;">robert louis stevenson | christmas prayer</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-17671834605609462212021-07-14T16:31:00.002-07:002021-07-14T16:33:53.698-07:00diane tucker | nostalgia for moving parts | three poems about childhood<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three poems about childhood that made me cry. From </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/diane.tucker.1612?__cft__[0]=AZUbmrb9qorfkRWHnIWTsw3lmOg5gTF8_Hhd7Ybv1eRbFsDypR97eetDC-MN-xkwo_sslht5vQImnXeWe7lkGGChq0toaHeNy9JbfsV0joTeuprORuWEI5hWlnlGtF4d_GY&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--accent); cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">Diane Tucker</span></a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s new book, Nostalgia For Moving Parts. So particular, so much compassion. <a href="https://www.turnstonepress.com/books/poetry/nostalgia-for-moving-parts.html?fbclid=IwAR1a9FtOgdDMKdmD_oH88DH76uM4mytQNyupaKrEwGtbaPCyAkZi4PpLisY" target="_blank">Get yourself a copy</a>. I'm not kidding.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C1uI0zzvqEw/YO9zlTZXwmI/AAAAAAAANuI/4afi7oplW0QHl4J3C3Hja43Emg1n8NJQACLcBGAsYHQ/s1548/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-14%2Bat%2B4.27.57%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1548" data-original-width="1028" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C1uI0zzvqEw/YO9zlTZXwmI/AAAAAAAANuI/4afi7oplW0QHl4J3C3Hja43Emg1n8NJQACLcBGAsYHQ/w266-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-07-14%2Bat%2B4.27.57%2BPM.png" width="266" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love the sad men</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The small, huge things that sad men do, sad </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">men wh</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">o build with everything but words. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Build dollhouses, train sets, HO mountains </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">from cereal boxes and plaster of Paris,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">building the mountains they can for their sons.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For daughters they build scroll-sawed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">shelves to hold phalanxes of dolls, blown-glass </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">animals, Barbie barns above the bed’s blue lace.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sad fathers who’ve eluded words carve magic </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">circles in their back lawns for swimming </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">pools. They sieve stones out of the soil circles </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">so nothing will nick the pools’ thin blue skin.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This is the testament of sad men who live </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">starved of words: drywall, carport, pickle jars</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">of nails, lawnmower, farmer’s tan, house paint, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">apple tree, soldering gun, handsaw, wood plane.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wood shavings falling from the vise, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">wooden curls on the cold garage floor, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">wooden curls warm on little girls’ ears.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">*</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Danny</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Skipping ropes at school, their woven heft.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Steel poles around the roofed playground, the rain </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">running down them luminous, metal-melting.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d press my tongue against a pole and drink.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">School was a world of delicious new textures:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">fat crayons, creamy manila colouring paper, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">notebooks, worksheets stacked fat as animal bodies. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tables and chairs with shiny metal tubes for legs.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Even light at school felt stronger than at home. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They showed us filmstrips of marmalade leaves </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">against a blue blue sky, all technicolour-crisp. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">How I loved those glowing celluloid leaves!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then the cloakroom hooks’ imploring curves, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">parallel silences in calm, rectangular shadows, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the pavement tap-dance beat of skipping ropes. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">How I loved school, the sweet order of desks</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in grids. So I wasn’t totally upset when, in grade </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">two, Danny with the French last name tied me to </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">a pole with a skipping rope so he could kiss me, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Danny with the round eyes, a cherub’s mouth,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">curly hair. He was small even among the small, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">as I was. No doubt I’d flirted with him, grade-two </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">style, cute and clueless. I thought myself a lady. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Were kisses procured? I bet there were a few.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Soon the rope loosened and I made a dash.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But Danny pushed me back. A metal pole I loved, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">from which I’d drunk the rain, rushed up</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and struck me in the bone below one eye.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A shiner it was called. I had a shiner. I’d seen</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">them on TV, cartoon-red beefsteaks on faces. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Danny got the strap then, or another time, or both. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He came back to class subdued, his crying</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">eyes swollen. As if a hiding could patch up his </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">love-starved soul. He chased girls, he lifted skirts, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">he stole kisses, and the grown-ups just spanked </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">his ass? Poor Danny, tiny paramour, tiny batterer!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As long as I knew him, Danny chased the girls, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">staring expectantly through big brown eyes. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever makes boys seize girls roiled in him. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That yearning he had, no strap could smack it out.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And no black eye stopped me flirting. I was seven </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and had imprinted on romance like a baby bird.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I followed its Hollywood promises everywhere, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">persistent and imploring as a cloakroom hook.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">*</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Beautiful grade four teacher</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">always wore his shirt half open, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">had dry-look hair and eyes bigger </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">than Donny Osmond’s. Sometimes </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">he used swear words in class.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I fell hard in grade four love.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I remember the day I had to wear </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the hand-me-down dress to school. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Polka dots, pleats, Peter Pan collar.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1974 was bell-bottoms, feathered hair, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Three Dog Night and Doodle Art.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It was neither pleats nor polka dots.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It was in no way a Peter Pan collar.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But crushy teacher, lounging atop a desk, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">fixed me, with round, pale eyes, in his stare. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He grafted two trees to a single rootstock, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">kindness twinned forever with desire.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You look smashing, he said, in that dress.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The world lit up. I clutch that moment, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">talisman still, the heat that flowered when he </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">noticed my smallness, my sadness, and spoke.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Nostalgia For Moving Parts is published by Turnstone Press, 2021. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Copies available through </span><a href="https://www.turnstonepress.com/books/poetry/nostalgia-for-moving-parts.html?fbclid=IwAR1a9FtOgdDMKdmD_oH88DH76uM4mytQNyupaKrEwGtbaPCyAkZi4PpLisY" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">their website</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></i></div></div>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-75002721917144994112021-04-16T23:28:00.000-07:002021-04-16T23:28:00.180-07:00ghost light podcast #11 | set list<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Christ Came Juggling | Eugene Warren | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://books.google.ca/books/about/Christographia_1_32.html?id=sOqxAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y" target="_blank">Christographia</a><br />
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Up Above My Head | Ken Whiteley<br />
from <a href="https://www.kenwhiteley.com/product/up-above-my-head/" target="_blank">Up Above My Head</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to my podcast! A way of "keeping the lights on" while Pacific Theatre's doors (and everybody else's) are closed. <b>"Soul Food: The Ghost Light Season"</b> is like a radio show, all about theatre and movies, music, stories, and life during this strange time we're all going through.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a special edition of the podcast on Easter weekend, </span><b><span style="color: red;">Easter Presence</span></b>. Act One went onstage (virtually) at 8:00 Good Friday, with Act Two taking the stage for a Saturday matinee at 2:00. It's a special edition of the podcast that's just like Pacific Theatre's great tradition, "Christmas Presence" - except, of course, it's not about Christmas. Songs and readings for this essential season.<br />
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</span> Soul Food is also thrilled to be premiering a brand new novel-in-progress by our favourite playwright, <b>Lucia Frangione</b>! <b><span style="color: red;">Grazie</span> </b>is posted in serial form every Monday and Thursday, details and links below.<br />
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And Thelma Schoonmaker edited a nice little trailer for our First International Earth Day Film Festival, which happened April 22nd, coincidentally enough. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Earth Day Film Festival trailer </span><span style="color: red;">which you can find on</span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-YKHGqm6i8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">YouTube</a></span>. There's a nice little interview with Thelma early in Episode 12.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ron Reed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Artistic Director, Pacific Theatre</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>WHERE TO FIND SOUL FOOD...</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>as a podcast</b>: downloadable, streamable, or subscribe-able...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://soulfoodghostlight.podbean.com/">soulfoodghostlight.podbean.com</a> or pretty much anywhere you get your podcasts </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>on YouTube</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">here's a playlist of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhuCecvyqe8nb7GxmUHc2HIiZRpwZPR_2" target="_blank">all the episodes</a> in order</span>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-68371661209917932222020-04-24T08:53:00.001-07:002020-04-24T08:53:14.944-07:00loren wilkinson | hot cross buns 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Teacup's Jazzy Blues Tune | Taj Mahal with the Pointer Sisters<br />
from <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/oooh-so-good-n-blues/1446246477" target="_blank">Ooh So Good 'n Blues</a><br />
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sometime during eternity | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42860/sometime-during-eternity-" target="_blank">Coney Island of the Mind</a><br />
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I Am One | Miriam Jones<br />
from <a href="https://miriamjones.bandcamp.com/album/being-here" target="_blank">Being Here</a><br />
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Samaritan Woman | Sheila Rosen | read by Rebecca deBoer<br />
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Strange Man | Ken Whiteley<br />
from <a href="https://www.kenwhiteley.com/product/up-above-my-head/" target="_blank">Up Above My Head</a><br />
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Kwuz | David Kossoff | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/0816160414/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=book+of+witnesses+david+kossoff&qid=1586620238&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Book Of Witnesses</a><br />
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Heal Me | Cheryl Bear<br />
from <a href="https://music.apple.com/ca/album/heal-me/253887935?i=253888051" target="_blank">Cheryl Bear</a><br />
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The Christ Of Charlie Edenshaw | Loren Wilkinson<br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/195362306" target="_blank">Vimeo</a><br />
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By The Mark | Gillian Welch<br />
from <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/revival/79773890" target="_blank">Revival</a><br />
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The Sighting | Luci Shaw | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Glass-Luci-Shaw/dp/1602260176" target="_blank">Sea Glass</a><br />
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What Love Looks Like | Carolyn Arends<br />
from <a href="https://carolynarends.com/discography/seize-the-day-and-other-stories/" target="_blank">Seize The Day and Other Stories</a><br />
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Jeremy's Easter Egg | author unknown | read by Nicola Shannon<br />
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How Can I Keep From Singing | Julee Glaub<br />
from <a href="http://www.littlewindows.net/shop.html" target="_blank">Fields Faraway</a><br />
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Open | Luci Shaw | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://www.lucishaw.com/books_poetry.html" target="_blank">one of her books</a><br />
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I Am The Man, Thomas | Viper Central<br />
from <a href="https://www.vipercentral.ca/music" target="_blank">Live At The Street Church</a> (out of print)<br />
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Food For Risen Bodies | Michael Symmons Roberts<br />
from <a href="https://symmonsroberts.com/work/corpus/" target="_blank">Corpus</a><br />
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Where Shall I Be<br />
from <a href="https://www.kenwhiteley.com/product/up-above-my-head/" target="_blank">Up Above My Head</a><br />
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I Want Jesus To Walk With Me | The Nelson Boschman Trio<br />
from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Time-Vol-Nelson-Boschman/dp/B003CZCMRE" target="_blank">Keeping Time, Volume 2</a><br />
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Jesus Was An Only Son | Jon Ochsendorf<br />
recorded for this podcast<br />
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Mr Prediction | Ira Glass & David Rakoff<br />
from <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/241/20-acts-in-60-minutes" target="_blank">This American Life #241: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes</a><br />
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Touch The Hem | Ken Whitely<br />
from <a href="https://www.kenwhiteley.com/product/up-above-my-head/" target="_blank">Up Above My Head</a><br />
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Jesus Christ Superstar | Lucy Grealy | read by Chantal Gallant<br />
from "My God," found in <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Joyful-Noise-New-Testament-Revisited/dp/0316579955" target="_blank">Joyful Noise</a><br />
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I Don't Know How To Love Him | Laura Koch, of The Kwerks<br />
recorded for this podcast<br />
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Judas | J.D. Salinger | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769487" target="_blank">The Catcher in the Rye</a><br />
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Judas | Peter La Grand<br />
from <a href="https://peterlagrand.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Duende</a><br />
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The Cast of Christmas Assembles | Steve Turner | read by Ian Farthing<br />
from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-We-Will-Fake-Love/dp/0859470008" target="_blank">Tonight We Will Fake Love</a><br />
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All My Tears | Leigh Ann & Ryan Howarth<br />
Rick Colhoun recording<br />
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Six Feet | Kirsty Provan<br />
recorded for this podcast<br />
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The Cost of My Cure | Allen Desnoyers<br />
unreleased<br />
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Jesus Checks In For the Flight Home | Luci Shaw | read by Ron Reed<br />
from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602260176/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_W6rQBb4VF7V9N" target="_blank">Sea Glass</a><br />
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I'm Headed For | Michael Hart<br />
from <a href="http://michaelhart.ca/orderform.html" target="_blank">Desire</a>, reissued on <a href="http://michaelhart.ca/orderform.html" target="_blank">So Far So Good</a><br />
<br />Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-76526989648281915522020-03-31T13:16:00.000-07:002020-04-03T11:03:57.033-07:00ghost light podcast #5 | garth bowen | covid wars<i>Garth Bowen is a long-time friend, and a long-time friend of Pacific Theatre. He was in our first production of Cotton Patch Gospel at the Richmond Gateway Theatre in October 1989, and has played nearly twenty years worth of Christmas Presences. He posted a video of this brand new song on Sunday, March 29, on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/garth.o.bowen/videos/10158041138635751/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.</i><br />
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Lock the gate shut all the doors<br />
It’s time to face the Covid Wars<br />
A battle fought without a gun<br />
Where falling back is how its won<br />
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A viral menace fills the air<br />
Another burden comes to bear<br />
It’s not against the foe we fight<br />
Not by power not by might<br />
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The markets fell just days ago<br />
A life of saving doesn’t show<br />
Things on end and upside down<br />
The spirit’s gone in Vancouver town<br />
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<i>There’s a dozen notes upon my wall<br />
From friends who live in protocol<br />
warmest thoughts and funny shares<br />
sent with love and heartfelt prayers<br />
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And still beside the checkout stand<br />
Those glossy pictures bronzed and tanned<br />
What once amused us seems so trite<br />
The simple things are the best in life</i><br />
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Social distance, seems so strange<br />
I’ve got my dear ones on my brain<br />
How long like this, maybe a year<br />
How can I guard my heart from fear?<br />
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Sometimes it’s wise to plan ahead <br />
The dreams we once held close seem dead<br />
With so much time to think at home<br />
And the coming storm has barely blown<br />
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<i>There’s a dozen notes upon my wall<br />
From friends who live in protocol<br />
warmest thoughts and funny shares<br />
sent with love and heartfelt prayers</i>Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-8944039347980982702020-03-18T08:21:00.001-07:002020-03-19T07:18:57.669-07:00'no show tonight' | behind the scenes at pacific theatre: coronavirus edition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my favourite PT audience members sent me a thoughtful, inquisitive email, and I think our correspondence may be something worth sharing with other folks who may have questions about the practical challenges theatres and theatre artists are facing right now.<br />
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THINKING ABOUT HOW AND WHERE I WILL MAKE DONATIONS AT THIS TIME. PLEASE TELL ME:<br />
ARE YOU OBLIGATED TO PAY THE ACTORS FOR THE FULL RUN OF BEST OF ENEMIES?<br />
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We are. Plus the stage manager, and a few remaining costs - settling up play royalties, truck rental to return set pieces and props, that’s mostly it.<br />
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WHAT ABOUT, SAY, THE ARTS CLUB 'DA KINK IN MA HAIR' WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO GO INTO REHEARSALS LATER THIS WEEK?<br />
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If they signed the contracts with their Equity actors before first rehearsal, they will have to pay a certain amount of the actors’ and stage manager’s salaries, I think maybe two weeks’ worth? But it’s common practice to sign those contracts on first day of rehearsal, so the Arts Club may have no legal, contractual obligation there. But for whatever loss of expected revenue the artists themselves will now face, they will just have to hope that the financial compensation the government is putting in place for self-employed workers will apply to freelance artists.<br />
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The artists collective who were putting together our next production, Love/Sick, will actually break even on what they’ve already had to spend on front-end costs to mount their show - IF most of the people who bought advance tickets turn their ticket purchases into donations, which PT will of course pass along to those artists. We’re still proceeding to move toward our mid-May production of Trip To Bountiful, and even if we end up having eventually to cancel it, we will pay the designers proportionately for the work they will have done by the time we cancel; the set designer has done much of her work, I’m meeting (remotely) with the music/sound designer and the costumer today, and that will mean we’ll be committing to pay at least a portion of their contracts regardless of what happens. We’ll keep moving resolutely toward that production, and incurring whatever costs are involved, until we reach the point where it’s evident the show cannot go on - in the hopes that we find a way, that the community finds a way, for shows to go on. And if we can’t produce Trip To Bountiful this spring, we’ll put it in next season, so that the actors who’ve already invested time in learning their lines won’t have wasted that work - and because I’m dead set on producing that show! And we have already guaranteed the Love/Sick artists that we WILL present their show as soon as the doors are open again.<br />
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As for the Pacific Theatre artists who were touring Kim’s Convenience - which may have the dubious distinction of being the first show in BC that had performances cancelled? - I’m not sure what their Arts Club contract involves. They may be guaranteed pay right through to the end of the run, even though it’s not going ahead, or they may only have been paid for a week or two of their remaining run. I need to look into that.<br />
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It may be that larger theatres like The Arts Club have cancellation insurance. I really hope they do, for their sake as well as the sake of the artists. But Pacific Theatre doesn’t, and I’d be surprised if other smaller, indie theatres will have that protection in place.<br />
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I'M WORKING ON A NOVEL WAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DONATE, AND THEN HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BROADCAST THE "CHALLENGE". <br />
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You are the best! Truly, the people in Pacific Theatre’s audience astonish me, time and time again.<br />
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<a href="https://tickets.pacifictheatre.org/TheatreManager/1/login&donation=0" target="_blank">Here's a link to the Pacific Theatre website</a>, for anyone who wants to make an online donation.Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-48555327269725799532020-03-13T14:04:00.003-07:002020-03-13T14:45:46.984-07:00 best of enemies cancellation | covid-19<div align="left" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Dear PT family,</div>
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In light of rapidly developing measures to limit the impact of the Coronavirus in our community, <strong>Pacific Theatre has made the difficult decision to cancel the remaining performances of <span style="font-style: italic;">Best Of Enemies</span></strong>, which had been scheduled to close March 21. While authorities have not mandated the closing of venues under 250 seats, their recommendations for social distancing would be difficult to guarantee in our theatre space, which is known and valued for its intimacy.</div>
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<strong>Ticket holders for cancelled performances will be contacted directly by our staff to make arrangements</strong>, offering a variety of options with regard to their tickets. We ask that ticket holders please DO NOT call the Box Office regarding your tickets until you hear from us, in order for our small staff to handle the complexities of the situation as smoothly as possible. You are welcome to e-mail tickets@pacifictheatre.org with broader ticketing questions, and we will respond as quickly as we can.</div>
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Though we believe this decision by our Board of Directors reflects the company's values of serving our community with artistic, relational, spiritual, and financial integrity, it was a difficult one, involving both concern for public well-being and regret at the loss of such a substantial and significant piece of theatre. It has been a high water mark in our season, and <strong>we recognize the disappointment this abrupt closure will cause for those who have not yet seen the play, and for the artists who have invested such heart and passion into the work</strong>. But we respect the proactive stance being taken in our province to address the much more dire potential threat to the health of our community, and wish to play a role in that initiative.</div>
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We strive to care for Pacific Theatre staff and artists with the same intention we direct towards our patrons and our neighbours. Though ticket revenues will be significantly impacted by this decision, Pacific Theatre has committed to paying our <span style="font-style: italic;">Best Of Enemies </span>artists for the duration of their contract.</div>
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<strong>While this closure is right for the health of our community, it creates profound financial hardship, not only for non-profit arts organizations which operate on very narrow margins, but also for individual artists whose employment may be compromised in coming days.</strong> We will need your help. If it is within your means, please consider making a <a href="https://tickets.pacifictheatre.org/TheatreManager/1/login&donation=0">financial contribution</a> to help sustain our people and avoid lay-offs in this uncertain time.</div>
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Ron Reed & Ian Farthing<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Artistic Director & Executive Director</span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01646802736674646866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-6797329064288475412020-03-11T06:59:00.003-07:002020-03-11T06:59:40.577-07:00mar 14 | emily carr: small wonders | allen desnoyers<i>Allen Desnoyers founded Pacific Theatre with me back in 1984, he plays pretty much every year at Christmas Presence, and he'll be back on our mainstage next season! Meanwhile, here's a chance to see Allen's work as a playwright, composer, and performer, this Saturday in Tsawwassen.</i><br />
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<br />Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-56519891000708142132020-03-09T11:10:00.000-07:002020-03-14T10:00:56.481-07:00best of enemies | responses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">All we can say is wow! We saw Best of Enemies last night and </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>we were blown away</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> by how great it was. Everyone and everything was fantastic. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Such a powerful story</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">, too. ... We are so grateful that PT staged this excellent play. Each of the actors was just marvellous. We still rave about Robert Salvador in “Jesus Hopped the A Train”—one of the most amazing productions in PT history in our humble opinion— he was just incredible in this, too. Celia perfectly captured the spirit of the strong African-American matriarchs that we have known who hold their communities together and fight for their children, yet display amazing tenderness, too. The final scene was </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>wonderful beyond words</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">. Anthony was completely believable as Riddick, and his interactions with both of the main characters were stellar. And Rebecca did such a beautiful job with Mary—understated in all the best ways which highlighted both her strength and her vulnerability.<br />
I apologize for this long email, but we have spent a lot of time thinking about the show and talking about it since we saw it last night, and I wanted to thank all of you all. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>We truly need more stories like this. It reminds me of what Golda Meir said in a different fraught situation: Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us. Thank you for producing this wonderfully hopeful, yet realistic play about a true story of redemption.</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">"<br />
<i>audience member</i><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">“The elements that really m<span style="font-family: inherit;">ake Best of Enemies worth seeing are</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"> the relevance of the play’s themes and the excellence of the acting. U</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">nder Ian Farthing’s direction, this Pacific Theatre production is excellent. Informed by a deep — often furious — undertow, Celia Aloma’s performance as Atwater is always wary, always listening. As Ellis, Robert Salvador manages to humanize the racist without apologizing for him. Playing the Department of Education employee who brings Atwater and Ellis together, Anthony Santiago delivers a sophisticated portrait that combines wit and compassion. And Rebecca deBoer will make you feel the exhaustion — and fight — of Ellis’s wryly funny wife Mary.</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">”</span> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>Colin Thomas</i></span><br />
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</i> </span> <span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">“Do yourself a favour and see this </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bolder;">slow burn to brilliance</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">, with stunning performances. Deftly directed by Ian Farthing.” <i>audience member</i></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">“</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bolder;">Feels like a balm for our times right now.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> Really hoping it gets the buzz it deserves. A beautiful show.” <i>audience member</i></span><br />
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“There are moments in this production where you know <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">everyone in the audience is holding their breath</span>.” <i>Monika Forberger, </i><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Entertainment Vancouver</em></div>
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“Exceptional in all respects…<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">powerful performances, great overall design, brilliant direction.</span> Loved it!” <i>audience member</i><br />
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“Ann (Celia Aloma) takes out her frustrations on white racists like Ellis with a quick tongue and wicked sense of humour […] <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Rob Salvador gives a marvellous performance</span> as C.P. Ellis.” <i>Jerry Wasserman, </i><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vancouver Sun</em></div>
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“<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Aloma and Salvador have great on-stage chemistry</span>, and their flawless southern accents will truly transport you to North Carolina, circa 1971.” <i>Erin Jane, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">R</span></i><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">eview Vancouver</em></div>
Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01646802736674646866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-47224514682795068612020-02-25T17:35:00.003-08:002020-02-25T17:37:10.786-08:00best of enemies | AD NotesArtistic Director Ron Reed's notes for Best of Enemies:<br />
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"Some years ago I visited the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Long enough ago that I remember only one thing from the visit: a row of red lunch counter stools. A few Mondays ago when we gathered on the partially built set for the first reading of Best Of Enemies, my eyes immediately picked out one detail from the visual clutter of construction materials and tools, props and scripts and lighting instruments and people. A row of red lunch counter stools.<br />
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Greensboro, North Carolina is 54 miles down Interstate 85 and US Highway 70 from Durham, just under an hour if you drive the speed limit. That distance and eleven years were all that separated the historic Woolworth department store sit-ins from the less well remembered civil rights battle reconstructed here on our stage.<br />
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Why do those red stools in particular have such power for me? A few things preoccupied me in my growing-up years in suburban Calgary, that stood in vivid contrast to a pretty near idyllic childhood of banana bikes, Batman comics, Monkees records and kick the can. Nuclear bombs, and stories of people surviving the end of civilization. The Holocaust. And the American chaos I saw on the TV: black people beaten and lynched, Watts and Detroit burning, angry students swarming college campuses, bodies coming home from Vietnam. Perhaps those images and stories gripped my attention precisely because they were such a surreal contrast to my quiet, safe daily life. But it did seem like the world was ending.<br />
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Only as I write these notes does it strike me how these things eventually manifested themselves in my art, and in my artistic direction, decades later. Remnant, and The Top Ten Thousand Of All Time. Refuge Of Lies, The Quarrel, even Talley's Folly in the shadow of anti-Semitism. That quintessential Pacific Theatre show Cotton Patch Gospel grew out of the soil of the Civil Rights Movement, from Koinonia Farm's quiet, costly stand against racism in rural Georgia. We're not an issue-based theatre, so I'd never say these themes have been constantly front and centre. But as this play takes shape on our stage, I instantly trace a direct line back to my childhood nightmares, and a suburban white kid's quiet obsession with trying to come to grips with unthinkable evil. <br />
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As the Watts riots raged, Noah Purifoy gathered the detritus of a city breaking down - neon signs, the metal from ruined vehicles, shards of wood and brick from broken buildings, a busted, hollow TV set - and made art. These assemblages were a way to mark what had happened, to re-member what had been dismembered. To create something like beauty, or perhaps just to ensure that the story of what happened would not be forgotten.<br />
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Set designer Sandy Margaret seeks to honour Purifoy's work as she assembles a world where this particular story can be lived out in our midsts, lunch counter stools and all. North Carolina was on the other side of the country from Watts, and their traumas seemed the other side of the universe from my suburban childhood in Calgary, or our safe Vancouver vantage point half a century later. But once a thing has happened, it leaves a story. And those stories must be remembered. And when artists remember, they make art.<br />
And as far away and as long ago as these stories may be, the terrible realities they manifested are still entirely with us, even here. The past hasn't really passed, and perhaps re-membering our old stories might reshape the stories we are living now."<br />
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Get Best of Enemies <a href="https://tickets.pacifictheatre.org/TheatreManager/1/login&event=0">tickets here.</a> Runs Feb 28-Mar 21.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01646802736674646866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-10412781457386236372020-02-25T16:04:00.002-08:002020-02-25T16:04:37.832-08:00meet the crew | best of enemiesIntroducing our incredibly talented crew for <em>Best of Enemies</em>!<br />
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<em>Ian Farthing</em> – Director<br />
<em>John Webber</em> – Lighting Designer<br />
<em>Sandy Margaret</em> – Set Designer<br />
<em>Julie White</em> – Costume Designer<br />
<em>Rick Colhoun</em> – Sound Designer<br />
<em>Ariel Slack</em> – Properties Manager<br />
<em>Sammie Hatch</em> – Stage Manager<br />
<em>Nicola Shannon</em> – Assistant Director<br />
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See their hard work come to fruition on stage starting Feb 28! <a href="https://tickets.pacifictheatre.org/TheatreManager/1/login&event=0">Get tickets here</a>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01646802736674646866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-71181721782297581772020-02-24T11:04:00.002-08:002020-02-24T11:04:56.529-08:00meet the cast | best of enemiesWe asked our remarkable <em>Best of Enemies </em>cast a few questions about themselves and the show – check out their answers!<br />
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Celia Aloma</span><br />
<b data-stringify-type="bold">Do you have any personal connections with the content of the play?</b><br />
Best of Enemies talks about race relations and unfair treatment of African American and low income families in the public school system among other things. Racial discrimination in school isn't a thing of the past, though we have come so far since segregation it's still prevalent in our society. I've had many experiences through schooling where teachers have tried to keep me from achieving above my socio-economic status. In middle school, for example, my teacher refused to give me documents to go to an arts school that was mostly white. She told my mom that's not a place for me and referred me to my local high school in the black community which had one of the lowest grade averages in the Toronto school board district. She eventually gave me the document but many weeks after she had given it to a white student and the application deadline had passed. Going into high school, again, I was told by my music teacher when I expressed my intent to transfer to said school. He told me I wouldn't cut it there, and I will be back within the month and this is just the tip of the iceberg. If the spirit of a child is crushed, then the sky is not the limit when all they can see is the ceiling.<br />
It's not often the conversation of institutional racism is brought to the forefront. I'm not the only one who has faced this and I will not be the last. The resolve is speaking about it and starting a conversation and forcing change.<br />
<b data-stringify-type="bold">What excites you about this show?</b><br />
I feel excited and empowered by Ann’s story, one single act of defiance can change the course of h(er)istory. As a black woman, often times I feel like I have to lower my voice and play into the nice woman complex so as not to be labeled by the stereotype attached to an “Angry Black Women”. So I dim my light and voice. Ann Atwater reminds me where my voice box lives. She reminds me that no matter what the opposition, not to falter but to stand in my truth against all odds.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Rebecca deBoer</span><br />
<b data-stringify-type="bold">Do you have any personal connections with the content of the play? </b><br />
Well, I am not married to a KKK leader. However, my character is a mother of three and a passionate advocate of a Family First philosophy, which does hold resonance for me.<br />
One thing I love about this story is that it's such a beautiful illustration of the power of empathy and the importance of getting to know people who are different from ourselves.<br />
“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.” ― Tennessee Williams<br />
<b data-stringify-type="bold">What excites you about this show?</b><br />
I can't wait to dig into playing this grounded, funny, badass character, and to get to work with such an incredible cast!<br />
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Anthony Santiago</span><br />
<strong>Why does <em>Best of Enemies</em> matter to you?</strong><br />
Best of Enemies is relevant to me because growing up in the seventies as a first generation black person I had the opportunity unlike my parents, of interacting with other races and other cultures and we had a dialogue. We were able to communicate with one another. Best of Enemies where it's set at a time and place, it shows the importance of that, the importance of being able to speak to one another, even though we have such strong opinions of where we come from and where we belong in this world. Which is beautiful, which is why I am so privileged to be able to do a show like this.<br />
<b data-stringify-type="bold">What excites you about this show?</b><br />
The power of finding common ground through dialogue.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Robert Salvador</span><br />
<b data-stringify-type="bold">What excites you about this show?</b><br />
I'm thrilled to return to Pacific Theatre, the place I consider theatre home, and honoured to play a small part in paying tribute to a champion of civil rights, Ann Atwater.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01646802736674646866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-83972086298375688422020-02-15T11:46:00.003-08:002020-02-15T11:46:38.062-08:00kim's convenience | the mother meets appa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anita Wittenberg, who played Joan of Arc's mom in MOTHER OF THE MAID, was at the opening night of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQXFjv1NeQ" target="_blank">KIM'S CONVENIENCE tour</a>, and I introduced her to Jimmy Yi, who plays the father in KC. Which, by the way, transfers <i>beautifully </i>to the larger stage! I was thrilled.<br />
<br />Ron Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05744783679902979376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33452035.post-10312047918510700312020-02-14T15:20:00.004-08:002020-02-14T15:20:26.859-08:00best of enemies | theatre club talkback mar 7<br />
For our<em> Best of Enemies</em> theatre club talkback on March 7 following our 2pm matinee, our outstanding selected speakers are:<br />
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<strong>Michelle Casavant</strong><br />
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For the past 10 years she has had a diverse practice in litigation, advising, and dispute resolution in the areas of wills and estate planning, Aboriginal rights and title, treaties and governance, consultation and accommodation, civil litigation, and residential school hearings. Michelle is a member of the Aboriginal Lawyers Forum, an appointed board member of Continuing Legal Education BC and Promise Vancouver.<br />
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<strong>Adrian Greer</strong><br />
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Adrian carries on a general litigation practice involving complex files in diverse subject areas, including commercial disputes, administrative proceedings, and constitutional law. Adrian has worked on several trials, appeals, and commercial arbitrations, and he has zealously advocated for clients before the Supreme Court of British Columbia.<br />
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After completing his articles at a national firm, Adrian joined Gudmundseth Mickelson as an associate. As part of the team, Adrian assists businesses, individuals, and public institutions to resolve important legal disputes. Adrian holds a J.D. from the University of British Columbia. During his studies, Adrian participated in the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program where he worked with individuals who could not afford traditional legal services.<br />
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<strong>Laura Track</strong><br />
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Laura is a human rights lawyer and the Director of Education in CLAS’s Human Rights Clinic. She advocates on behalf of people who have experienced discrimination and assists complainants to navigate BC’s human rights process. Laura also has a strong interest in making legal knowledge accessible. She delivers workshops and presentations to a wide variety of audiences to help people understand their human rights and comply with their legal obligations. Laura earned her law degree from UBC in 2006, and holds a Masters in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University.</div>
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