Arts Interlude

I'll be back to promoting my Fringe show any moment.  I was looking over all the things I ought to post about that I have been up to.  

Since I didn't enjoy it, it won't take too long to go back and discuss The Caged Bird Sings over at Tarragon, which I saw last Thurs.  I was supposed to see this, basically as theatre in the round at Aga Khan, but it was in the open courtyard in the middle of the museum, but that day there were storms all day and the show couldn't go on.  I couldn't make any other dates, so I got a refund (but still saw the rest of the museum...).  I don't think I would have liked it any better in that set-up, though it would have been more intimate.  I think it was just too chopped up and there really was no emotional payoff, largely because they were trying to illustrate various poems and legends that Rumi had written, so there was no connected story.  I might have been ok with 45 minutes of this, but it was 90 minutes without a break.  I will say I think generally the audience was on the same wavelength, as only one or two people rose to give the obligatory standing O.  There was also a talkback, which I had zero interest in attending.

I had tentatively planned to go over to Hirut on Friday, but ended up working until 8!  I got some Thai food over at the Well, though I didn't enjoy it as much as I usually do (maybe because I had anticipated having Ethiopian food).  I was really bummed that the Samosarie seems to have closed.

I was reasonably pleased that I made it over to the library and got my swimming laps in by noon.  Then on the way back, I picked up the second print from the framers, and I'll get that hung up tonight or tomorrow.  I'm about to hit up a few small art galleries and perhaps the AGO if there is time.

Then I'll probably drop by work for an hour or two, and then aim to get to the Rex at 7:30.  I have a ticket for a show that starts at 8 and runs until 9:15, though I'll probably split at 9:05, since I am seeing Pearle Harbour at the Royal York Fairmont at 9:30!  So it will likely be a fairly packed day after all.  I guess I better get going...

Edit (6-21): I did make it to Corkin Gallery and Thomas Landry over in the Distillery (though they didn't have much new on, so I needn't have bothered), then I decided to go up to Dundas to get to the AGO.  I remembered that there was something new at the Image Centre at TMU, so I ran in to see that.  The AGO visit was extremely brief, as it turns out it is next week that the big new exhibit (Impressionist masterpieces on loan from the Dallas Museum of Art) opens next week.  Oops.  So I'll have to go back right away.  Then I hit 401 Richmond for the last day of the Selling Canada exhibit at Red Head Gallery and there was a new exhibit at Gagne Contemporary, so definitely worth swinging by.  I went to work a couple of hours before the Rex and then the Royal York Fairmont for Pearle Harbour Walks into a Bar.  So a pretty busy day in the end.

As I was biking home, I ran across some night bike ride, all glowing and having a good time.  Nonetheless, they acted far too much like Critical Mass for my taste, and I made sure to go in the opposite direction.  

I also stumbled across another Luminato installation called Pyramid Fields.  I haven't seen this during the day, but I think it must have a greater impact at night.