summer

Luminato 2010

Sorry Montreal, but the title bearer of Canada’s “City of Festivals” is no longer so clear cut or in your corner. Luminato, the festival of arts and creativity, has done a lot over the last four years to spearhead a veritable boom of cultural events that pack Toronto’s summer months - including an ever growing Ontario version of your own piece-de-resistance, Just For Laughs.

Author Name: 
Justin Haigh
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John Malkovich opened Luminato 2010 with The Infernal Comedy
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Neanderthal Arts Festival: theatre that knows how to grunt

As reported here at PLANK at the beginning of the year, Vancouver is about to experience a new arts Festival. An initiative of Left Right Minds and Upintheair Theatre the inaugural Neanderthal Arts Festival takes place this summer at the Cultch.

Author Name: 
Andrew Templeton
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To be or ugh (prepare Vancouver for a series of caveman jokes...)
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