Fall Connections

Join Master of Ceremonies Joëlle Rabu, two-time Jessie Award winner, Juno nominee and recipient of Nanaimo’s Cultural Ambassador award; BC Touring Artist of the Year award; Artiste Francophone de l’Ouest, and most recently the Lieutenant Governor’s Queen’s 70th Jubilee Arts and Music Award, and celebrate the arts with three of Nanaimo’s Premier Professional Art Companies.

The evening starts with The Ties That Bind, presented by Theatreone A story about choices, when we’re happy with them, and when we’re not. Martha recounts how choices she has made in the past ten, twenty, thirty years have gotten her to where she is today. They were good choices at the time, but what about now? Do those choices still fit the life she wants to create now?

“Follow Martha and laugh alongside intimate truths and pause of her heartfelt sharing, something we can all relate to.”

Director: Brianna Hamilton  Playwright: Yvette Menard (last season’s participant in TheatreOne’s Emerging Voices program.)

Next delve into A Song of Years, presented by Crimson Coast Dance Society A poem in motion about life and death, evoking the unwrapping of our past to reveal our presence in the present moment; a metaphor of the aging body dancing as it is now, letting go of what once was, sharing a lifetime of embodied memories. Tedd Robinson offered from his archives: the contrasting juxtaposition of paper, as protective layer and all there is to be written in a lifetime, with branches and eggs, as a relation to life, death and a promise of transformation. 

“It is a show of part live duet, part art-film documentary in which Choreographer Tedd Robinson talks about creative process and aging body. “ Artistic Director& Founder: Holly Bright Choreographer: Tedd Robinson  Dance artists: Holly Bright & Genevieve Johnson, Original Score: Charles Quevillon  Lighting Design: John Carter  Art-film Documentary: Genevieve Johnson

The evening concludes with musicians from the Vancouver Island Symphony under the leadership of Concertmaster Calvin Dyck sharing some of their favourite music including the familiar Prelude from Bloch’s Concerto Grosso, Gabriel’s Oboe by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, the famous Libertango by Argentine composer Piazzolla.

“You won’t want to miss out on the audience sing-along with tunes from ABBA!”

Proceeds of the show will go to supporting all three performing arts companies.

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.