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Anita Kilgour of TenBare Toes Entertainment drops by Coral FM to speak about William Nicolson play Shadowlands.

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Shadowlands The Story

Especially with Hollywood bringing the beloved “Chronicles of Narnia” to the big screen, most people are at least peripherally aware of C.S. Lewis as the creator of a beloved world of talking beasts and grand adventure. Some might even know the man behind the childrens’ books as a witty and erudite theologian and academic. Fewer still are aware of the man who found love late in life in a way that would ultimately challenge both his understanding of himself, and his faith in God.

Lewis’ deep entrenchment in the role of a quintessential Oxford don—the brilliant, slightly-absent-minded professor in the male-dominated academic world—is shaken by the unexpected arrival of an American fan. In her own way, Joy Gresham epitomizes everything that Lewis is not: brash and forward, prone to questioning everything, experienced in both love and loss. Their developing attraction to each other is a complex process that must work through his inability to understand the essence of intimate emotional connection, and through her experiences of deeply loving emotionally-unavailable men. Yet somehow these two unlikely soulmates manage to find those rare points of connection that allow love to root, and grow in such a way that when tragedy strikes, something transcendent and greater than either of them remains.

Ten Bare Toes

About Ten Bare Toes 

We are an amateur theatre company based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario that performs for the sheer joy of entertaining an audience.

Anita Kilgour, Director of Shadowlands
Anita Kilgour

Anita has been involved in community theatre for over 30 years as actor, director, stage manager, producer and many behind the scenes positions. She has worked with a number of theatre companies in the Kitchener-Waterloo area for the past 20 years – KWLT, Waterloo Stage, Upstage Productions and FASS at the University of Waterloo. She has produced a number of shows with Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre and thanks them for the opportunity to learn & find her courage to start producing her own plays.  Directed for TenBareToes: The Odd Couple (April 2011), The Taming of the Shrew (July 2010); for KWLT: The Three Musketeers (July 2008), What the Butler Saw (2006) .

Coral FM, Events, Off The Air

Sultry Jazz N Pop Chantuese Wendy Lands guests on Coral FM

 

 

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JUNO nominated and double Canadian Radio Award nominated singer – songwriter Wendy Lands’ newest release, ‘Mumble’ aches with a vulnerable intimacy – a jazzy undertow that sets her far apart from the pack as both a singer and a songwriter.  ‘Mumble’ is made up of sparsely yet soulfully arranged songs filled with lyrical depth, a pop – jazz – rootsy sensibility and the kind of vocal stylings that raise goose bumps. Only when you hear ‘Mumble’ will you have truly heard Wendy Lands.  Lands co-produced the 11 original songs with 3 of the 4 members that make up her band, Emmy winner Don Breithaupt, JUNO winner Greg Kavanagh and life-long collaborator – Jim Gillard.  Each of them is heard in every breath, note, blast and refrain that is ‘Mumble’. In an age of Lady Gagas, their collective, restrained genius is like a seductive whisper piercing a world of screams…

 

I chatted with Wendy by phone before her concert at The Jazz Room.  It was a great show.

For more about Wendy – http://www.wendylands.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wendy Lands Bio

 

JUNO nominated and double Canadian Radio Award nominated singer – songwriter Wendy Lands’ newest release, ‘Mumble’ aches with a vulnerable intimacy – a jazzy undertow that sets her far apart from the pack as both a singer and a songwriter.

 

‘Mumble’ is made up of sparsely yet soulfully arranged songs filled with lyrical depth, a pop – jazz – rootsy sensibility and the kind of vocal stylings that raise goose bumps. Only when you hear ‘Mumble’ will you have truly heard Wendy Lands

 

Lands co-produced the 11 original songs with 3 of the 4 members that make up her band, Emmy winner Don Breithaupt, JUNO winner Greg Kavanagh and life-long collaborator – Jim Gillard.  Each of them is heard in every breath, note, blast and refrain that is ‘Mumble’. In an age of Lady Gagas, their collective, restrained genius is like a seductive whisper piercing a world of screams…

 

 

 

Shows

Wendy Lands and Tim Louis at The Jazz Room Wednesday May 9

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Wendy Lands a singer, and writer of intimate gem-like songs that ache with vulnerability and jazzy undertow performs songs from her new CD Mumble and Wladyslaw Szpilman’s classics.
Her special guest is Tim Louis – pianist, singer and songwriter.
Show starts 7:30 pm at The Jazz Room in The Huether Hotel.
Tickets $18 advance available at Encore Records, Wordsworth Books and Lion Brewery Restaurant.
Tickets $22 at the door. CASH only.
(***KW Jazz Room passes not valid with this show***)
Presented by Hidden City Productions.

Tune in to Coral FM this WED May 9 between 4 and 6 pm this week for a live phone chat with Wendy Lands. For more info on Wendy Lands go to http://www.wendylands.com/ – Cheers Coral FM

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Grand River Radical Radio (GRRR!) – Waves Through Walls (guest co-host alex hundert)

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Alex Hundert, himself a target of the G20 police state, joins Waves Through Walls on 100.3 soundFM.ca for an hour of prison radio discussion including a reading of Mandy Hiscocks’ prison blog (http://boardbutnotbroken.tao.ca)

Alex was back in studio for the first time since his june 2010 arrest and subsequent jailing for organising protests to the toronto G20 summit. He was in town as a guest of Waterloo’s Public Interest Research Group (http://wpirg.org) where he facilitated sessions on solidarity with Indigenous sovereignty struggles. Alex was a co-host of AW@L Radio from 2008, and continued to create podcasts for the show while under house arrest in 2010 and 2011. See all of AW@L Radio’s rabble.ca podcasts here:
http://rabble.ca/category/podcasts/political-commentary/awl

Shows

Interview with UWaterloo Dragon Boat Club – To the World Championships and more!

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Members of UWaterloo’s Dragon Boat Club, Competition Team Captain Davis Ly, and Head Coach Stephen Lake sat down with GRMC journalist Dan Kellar for a chat on the club’s upcoming season – including sending one of the club’s three teams/boats to the World Championships in China, in July.

The 150 member club has 3 mixed-gendered teams ranging from recreational to competitive and the Dragon Boat paddle training takes place at Laurel Creek conservation area.

For more Information about the UWDBC, the upcoming season and regattas, or to help the club get to the world Championships by supporting their fundraising efforts, check out their website – http://uwdbc.com

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