Category: Arts
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Florida’s Smooth/Easy Listening Singer/Songwriter Derek Helm Laments Lost Love & Times Gone By with âGone to the Seaâ
Watch âGone to the Sea (Official)â via YouTube Here Universally, lost love is a difficult thing to come to terms with, but singer/songwriter Derek Helm is making it a little bit easier with the release of his beachy, sun-soaked new single, âGone to the Seaâ â available now! Starring a plugged-in acoustic guitar, ukulele, and…
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Toronto Film Critics Association Announces 2021 Award Winners
Ryusuke Hamaguchiâs Drive My Car wins Best Picture, Best International Film and Best Screenplay Double acting awards and Best First Feature for Maggie Gyllenhaalâs The Lost Daughter Beans, Night Raiders and Scarborough compete for Rogers Best Canadian Film Award and $100,000 prize Ryusuke Hamaguchiâs Drive My Car took three top awards from the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA), while Maggie Gyllenhaalâs directorial debut The Lost Daughter was…
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Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee Shirley Eikhard Says âAnything Is Possibleâ with Release of New Single
Song is Latest to Land from Recent LP, On My Way To You Legendary singer/songwriter Shirley Eikhard is on her way back to the top with her latest drop, On My Way To You, and its new single, âAnything Is Possibleâ â available now! The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame alumni is sharing her talents…
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LA LISTE: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING
ABOUT LA LISTE: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING Big mountain skiers, and close friends, JĂ©rĂ©mie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten, find beauty and display grace in the dangerous world of free-skiing. Follow them as they set off around the world to find the most awe-dropping, high-altitude peaks and mountain ranges that exceed 6000 metres, and do what they do…
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LAST OF THE RIGHT WHALES OPENS IN THEATRES ON JANUARY 23
North Atlantic right whales are dying faster than they can reproduce.  With just over 330 remaining, these great whales rarely die of natural causes. Instead they are run over by ships or suffer lethal injuries from fishing gear. If we donât stop killing them, in 20 years they could be extinct. Last of the Right Whales…
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Dallas-Born, Houston, TX-Based High Energy Soul-Funk Electro Outfit ISHI Strikes ‘Sweet Gold’ with Newly Minted LP
Watch âFly Away (Official)â via YouTube Here If youâre feeling funky, high-energy soul-funk electro outfit Ishi has a Sweet Gold mine of tracks ready and waiting to get your groove on. Available now, the U.S.-based artistâs third full length album Sweet Gold, featuring track âProâs & Conâsâ with Nia Brock, has landed â and not…
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Singer/Songwriter Kelly Besd Tackles Inequality With Call To Action & Open Arms in Hard-Hitting Track, âDreamin’â â Available Now
Featuring Artists Jackie Art & K-Riz, Song is Latest to Land from Shining Debut Album, Back To Me Watch âDreaminâ (Official)â via YouTube Here As we look ahead to 2022 and the tumultuous journey the world is embarking on for the nth time in history, itâs words of encouragement from activists, free thinkers, and musicians like Canadian…
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Filmmaker Josh Freed Looks at âOur Human Superpowerâ: Facial Recognition.
How Good Are You With Faces? Can You Recognize These Celebrities? (answers below) Premiering on CBC The Nature of Things Friday, January 21 at 9 pm and streaming free on CBC GEM beginning the same day New Documentary by Montreal filmmaker Josh Freed explores the science behind âthe human superpowerâ of facial recognition, along with…
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2022 Next Stage Theatre Festival Moves Online with 10 Digital Shows  Starting January 19, 2022Â
Toronto Fringe is pleased to announce the full slate of shows of the 2022 Next Stage Theatre Festival will now be presented online starting January 19, 2022. Previously planned as a hybrid in-person and digital festival, the 2022 Next Stage Theatre Festival will now be completely online in compliance with the Government of Ontarioâs recent move to Step Two of…
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HANSON Announce 2022 RED GREEN BLUE World Tour and New Album
Photo Credit: Jonathan Weiner HANSON Announce 2022 RED GREEN BLUE World Tour and New Album New Music Features Three Solo Projects Released As One Album RED GREEN BLUE To Be Released May 20 Tour Includes Six Canadian DatesPop-Rock trio HANSON announce their RED GREEN BLUE WORLD TOUR (tickets on sale January 20 at 10am local via Hanson.net), along with their unique new album comprised of…
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US VOD Release- Worst To First: The True Story of Z100 NYC
PRESENTS A PENGUARDIA PRODUCTIONS, ELVIS DURAN GROUP, WORKHOUSE MEDIA AND HQ CREATIVE PRODUCTION WORST TO FIRST: THE TRUE STORY OF Z100 NEW YORK DIRECTED, WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY: Mitchell Stuart PRODUCED BY: Trish Hunter Shannon, Elvis Duran, David Katz and John McConnell CAST:Â Scott Shannon, Elvis Duran, Jon Bon Jovi, Nile Rodgers, Clive Davis, Debbie Gibson, Joan Jett, Taylor…
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Hon. Jean Augustine, Hon. Donald H. Oliver Join Canadian Congress âDISMANTLING COLONIALISM, BUILDING COHESIVENESSâ Event
The Canadian Congress launch a national campaign to empower people and organizations to dismantle colonialism in their policies,âsystems, and culture, starting with a two-day virtual program, âDISMANTLING COLONIALISM, BUILDING COHESIVENESSâ. The launch of the campaign will take place in the second annual Canadian Congress scheduled on Thursday and Friday, January 20 & 21, 2022, between 8:30 am – 4:30 pm EST…
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Itâs More Than Just the âSame Olâ Thingâ for Rockers Arsenal Mills and Their New EP, Lovesick & Broke â Available Now!
Itâs more than just the âSame Olâ Thingâ for rollicking Canadian rockers Arsenal Mills and their dynamo of a breakthrough EP, Lovesick & Broke â both available now! The East Coast four-piece features Brad Milligan (lead vocals, guitar), Griffen Arsenault (lead guitar), Josh Macneil (drums, percussion), and AndrĂ© U (bass, keys/synth). They may hail from…
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Back Studios to Releases “I, Challenger” Starring stars James Duval (âDonnie Darko, â âGone in 60 Secondsâ), and Coy Stewart (âAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,â âBella and the Bulldogsâ)
Strike Back Studios engagingbuddy comedy thriller âI, Challenger,â directed by Paul Boyd ( his third feature film & best known as an acclaimed music video director having worked with Sting, Seal, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Celine Dion, Lenny Kravitz, and Shania Twain), is available now on all TVOD/Digital platform release in the United States and Canada. âI, Challengerâ is a cinematic sibling to the best of the stoner…
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SCOUNDREL by Sarah Weinman, available February 22, 2022
Scoundrel How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free Sarah Weinman A true-crime masterpiece, this is a story of wrongful exoneration about killer Edgar Smith and the prominent crusaders who fell prey to his charm. Having spent almost half his lifetime in California’s…
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Rising Country Artist Karli June Releases Debut EP”Where You Come From” on February 18
With a pop-flavoured approach to songwriting thatâs both optimistic and thoughtful, Karli June is poised to join the ranks of Canadaâs leading country music artists when she releases her debut EP, Where You Come From, on Feb. 18 via The Orchard. At the production helm of the project is award winning, Canadian powerhouse Karen Kosowski who most notably produced the majority of…
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âItâs OK to Feel This Wayâ: Award-Winning Canadian Singer/Songwriter Julia Shuren Joins Italian Duo WAMI for Thought-Provoking New Single
âLost Sometimesâ is Available Now! Watch âLost Sometimes (Official)â via YouTube Here Carrying a thought-provoking and universal message of self-acceptance that crosses all ideological barriers, award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Julia Shuren has joined WAMI for a new single, âLost Sometimesâ â available now! The Belle River, Ontario-born Songwriting Hall of Fameâs 2021 NYU Steinhardt Songwriting Scholar…
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Students invited to Submit Short Films on Mental Health $1,000 in Prize Money Available Singer Songwriter Grace Gaustad to host
Los Angeles â How much can be said about mental health in a five-minute film? Plenty!Today, many notable personalities are stepping forward to share struggles with issues that negatively impact their lives and their mental health. High school students are invited to join this important conversation by submitting films that highlight their perspectives on mental…
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Toronto/Nashville Singer-SongwriterâCountry-Folk Tunesmith David McLachlan Singles Out Rampant Dishonesty with Timely New Single âGimme the Truthâ â Available Now!
Song Lands Fresh from Prolific Toronto/Nashville Singer-Songwriterâs 9th Album, A Little Place I Call Home Watch âGimme the Truthâ via YouTube Here In a world where truth changes its appearance more often than a supermodel, Canadian country-folk artist David McLachlan is delivering a powerful dressing down of fakery with his fiery new single, âGimme the…
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Redemptive COVID-19 Doc The Panola Project Comes to Sundance on Heels of Awards for Film and Subject Dorothy Oliver
THE PANOLA PROJECT highlights the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19. Dorothy runs a makeshift vaccine coordination center from the convenience store she runs out of a mobile home. Today, nearly 99% of adults in her town have received the shot in a state with…
