Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Have We Forgotten Yet? play readings Nov 11-15 for Remembrance Day

20Kshow co-creator Craig Francis will be performing in a live stage reading of an important Canadian play "The Refugee Hotel" Nov. 12th. It is one of a 6-play reading series entitled, Have We Forgotten Yet? curated by Imago Theatre to mark the one hundred year anniversary of the beginning of The First World War.

Info and tickets: www.imagotheatre.ca/forgotten

"Have you forgotten yet?…
Look up, and swear by the green of Spring that you’ll never forget."
- British poet Siegfried Sassoon

All performances will take place in the Monument National`s Studio Hydro-Quebec and La Balustrade. A Cabaret of War Poems and Music and a special panel The Artist & War will take place in the Monument National`s Cafe. Note: mature themes and language.

HAVE WE FORGOTTEN YET?

The Sound of Cracking Bones by Suzanne Lebeau
Translated from French by Julia Duchesne & John Van Burek
A co-presentation with Geordie Productions
November 11th at 7:30PM – Studio Hydro-Quebec

The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre
A co-presentation with Teesri Duniya Theatre
November 12th at 7:30PM – Studio Hydro-Quebec

The Possibilities by Howard Barker
A co-presentation with Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre
November 13th at 7:30PM – Studio Hydro-Quebec

Refuge by Mary Vingoe
A co-presentation with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal
November 14th at 7:30PM – Studio Hydro-Quebec

Palace of the End by Judith Thompson
Imago Theatre
November 15th at *2:30PM – La Balustrade
Matinee in La Balustrade

Ruined by Lynn Nottage
A co-presentation with Black Theatre Workshop
November 15th at 7:30PM – Studio Hydro-Quebec

SPECIAL EVENTS


Each reading will be followed with an artist talk-back accompanied by a guest speaker.

Friday November 14th, A Cabaret of War Poems and Music will be presented at 10:30PM in The Monument National’s cafe
all proceeds going to War Child.

Saturday November 15th, The Artist & War is a special panel of invited guest speakers who will be joining us at 4:30PM in The Monument National’s cafe to discuss their experiences and thoughts on current events.

Tickets Prices:
Regular: 15$ · Students, seniors, artists: 12$ · 3 readings or more: 10$/per reading
Groups of 10 or more: 10$/ticket

To purchase tickets visit the Monument National’s BOX OFFICE
or call 514.871.2224
1-866-844-2172 (toll-free)

For more information and GROUP BOOKINGS please call Cristina Cugliandro at
514-274-3222
or send an email to cristina@imagotheatre.ca

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

BOOM sizzles at Mirvish 2014-15 launch

BOOM was part of a jam-packed, star-studded 2104-15 season launch for Mirvish Productions on Sept 16 2014. Canadian icon Elvis Stojko introduced excerpts from all of the new shows, including live performances from some of the big musicals, and videos from Dame Angela Lansbury and Dame Edna!
This is a 1-minute video about BOOM's pitch that morning.

KDOONS and WYRD Productions present BOOM January 15 - February 1, 2015 at the Panasonic Theatre.
Click here for Mirvish series tickets

To see all BOOM tour dates, visit our schedule page


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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

WATCH: Audiences react to workshop performance of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea"

This April, KDOONS creators Rick Miller and Craig Francis held a public performance workshop of their new theatrical production Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. The invited guests, who ranged from Artistic Directors to families, gave amazing feedback about what worked for them as an audience. This feedback has been incredibly useful to the creative process and resulted in a streamlined new draft of the script as the production prepares for its production phase in 2015.

We've compiled some of the audience reactions in this video. Rick and Craig send a huge thanks to all those who participated in this process, for your time, and for helping an original new artistic creation. See you in the theatre!


And online: you can also visit the KDOONS sites that live outside the play but use Natutilus crew and other characters to provide entertaining outreach on current water issues as part of the KDOONS "Hydro Empower" campaign: NautilusLeaks.com, ScienceToons.com, H2Ocanada.com, PaddyTheBeaver.com, and GrandFatherFrog.com

Thanks also to the talented, versatile – and brave! – cast of the Workshop performance:

Richard Clarkin as Captain Nemo
Stephanie Baptist as Professor Aronnax
Gil Garratt as Ned Land
Toby Hughes as Jules / Conseil


The 20K Collective presents
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Commissioned by the Arts and Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games
with assistance from
Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council

Thursday, August 14, 2014

38 years ago: John Lennon apologizes for saying The Beatles are "Bigger Than Jesus"

It was March, 1966 when John Lennon said,
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first—rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity."


CBS Chicago has a piece about how, once the remarks hit the U.S. – and Beatles album burnings by Christians ensued – John Lennon issued an apology in August 1966.

“I didn’t mean it the way they said it,” he said at the news conference held at the Astor Tower Hotel on Chicago’s Gold Coast. “It’s amazing. It’s just so complicated. It’s got out of hand, you know. But I just meant it as that.

You can see impressions of John Lennon, The Beatles, and over 50 other baby boomer icons performed by Rick Miller in the new one-man show BOOM, which has its U.S. premiere at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center on September 20, 2014.

Produced by KDOONS and WYRD Productions, this is an explosive solo performance that documents the music, culture and politics that shaped the Baby Boom generation (1945-1969). BOOM takes us through 25 turbulent years, and gives voice to over a 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians. BOOM chronologically documents a historical period stretching from that first ‘boom’ of the Atomic Bomb in 1945 all the way to the Apollo 11 bringing the first human beings to the Moon in 1969. These two iconic moments span 25 of the most tumultuous years in modern history, fuelled by a generation of children with incredible influence due to their numbers, and to the advances of technology and communication. In the BOOM generation, politics and culture merged like never before – and perhaps never again.

Incidentally, this is not the first time Rick Miller has taken inspiration from John Lennon: the WYRD Production Bigger Than Jesus – which explored the history of the real and cultural figure of Jesus through the centuries – has been performed across Canada, the U.S., Australia, Germany and italy. So evidently, John Lennon was wrong.

Read the CBS Chicago story here.

Get info about BOOM at TulsaPAC here.

Buy tickets to BOOM Sept. 20 here.

http://ls4.co/GXR

38 years ago: John Lennon apologizes for saying The Beatles are "Bigger Than Jesus"

It was March, 1966 when John Lennon said,
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first—rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity."


CBS Chicago has a piece about how, once the remarks hit the U.S. – and Beatles album burnings by Christians ensued – John Lennon issued an apology in August 1966.

“I didn’t mean it the way they said it,” he said at the news conference held at the Astor Tower Hotel on Chicago’s Gold Coast. “It’s amazing. It’s just so complicated. It’s got out of hand, you know. But I just meant it as that.

You can see impressions of John Lennon, The Beatles, and over 50 other baby boomer icons performed by Rick Miller in the new one-man show BOOM, which has its U.S. premiere at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center on September 20, 2014.

Produced by KDOONS and WYRD Productions, this is an explosive solo performance that documents the music, culture and politics that shaped the Baby Boom generation (1945-1969). BOOM takes us through 25 turbulent years, and gives voice to over a 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians. BOOM chronologically documents a historical period stretching from that first ‘boom’ of the Atomic Bomb in 1945 all the way to the Apollo 11 bringing the first human beings to the Moon in 1969. These two iconic moments span 25 of the most tumultuous years in modern history, fuelled by a generation of children with incredible influence due to their numbers, and to the advances of technology and communication. In the BOOM generation, politics and culture merged like never before – and perhaps never again.

Incidentally, this is not the first time Rick Miller has taken inspiration from John Lennon: the WYRD Production Bigger Than Jesus – which explored the history of the real and cultural figure of Jesus through the centuries – has been performed across Canada, the U.S., Australia, Germany and italy. So evidently, John Lennon was wrong.

Read the CBS Chicago story here.

Get info about BOOM at TulsaPAC here.

Buy tickets to BOOM Sept. 20 here.

http://ls4.co/GWB

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Rick Miller co-hosts "We Are Pan Am" one-year countdown

July 11-12 2014: 20K co-creator Rick Miller joins co-hosts Amanda Martinez and Nicole Brooks to launch the official one year countdown to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games in July 2015. It's called WE ARE PAN AM, an amazing two-day festival of art and athletics at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.

From the TO2015 website: "Come down to Nathan Phillips Square for free live music from headline artists as part of PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC.
But that’s not all. With world-class athlete appearances, the unveiling of the Cisco TORONTO 2015 Countdown Clock, amazing fireworks and a delicious selection of Pan American foods — WE ARE PAN AM will get you excited about the Games."

This is Rick's third job hosting with Pan Am since his co-creation with Craig Francis "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" (20kshow.com) was awarded a commission by PANAMANIA, the Arts & Culture component of the Toronto 2015 Games.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Twenty Thousand Leagues Behind The Scenes: Itai Erdal

Itai Erdal : Lighting Designer

Itai has designed over 150 shows for theatre and dance companies in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Berlin, London and New York. Some of the companies he worked with include The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Vancouver Playhouse, Actor's Repertory Company, Alberta Theatre Project, Modern Baroque Opera, and The Jerusalem Lab.

Itai has been nominated for seventeen theatre awards:
Winner of the Sam Paine award 2003
Winner of the ADC's Jack King award 2005
Winner of a Dora Mavor Moore award 2007
Winner of Jessie Richardson awards 2009 and 2011.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Happy Canada Day, eh!

KDOONS Network celebrates Canada Day! July 1st marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a single country called Canada within the British Empire with four provinces (the Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec).

The new KDOONS Theatrical Production "BOOM" features Rick Miller's impressions of several great moments in Canadian history: see a short segment about the Maple Leaf flag and the year 1965, as well as other moments, on HeritageMoment.com


Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events through the history of the country:
  • the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (1958)
  • the first colour television transmission in Canada (1966)
  • the inauguration of the Order of Canada (1967)
  • the establishment of "O Canada" as the country's national anthem (1980)
to name a few.

People across the country organize celebrations for Canada Day, usually outdoor events like parades, carnivals, festivals, barbecues, fireworks, and free shows or musical concerts.
So to all our friends in Canada, get outside enjoy the sun, and Happy Canada Day, eh!

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

KDOONS production BOOM premieres at the Mirvish 2015 Season!

From the creative team behind MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus, comes an explosive solo performance that documents the music, culture and politics that shaped the Baby Boom generation (1945-1969). BOOM takes us through 25 turbulent years, and gives voice to over a 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians. It's a mind-blowing experience for audiences of all generations.

KDOONS and WYRD Productions present BOOM: written, directed, and performed by: RICK MILLER
January 15 - February 1, 2015 at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto
Part of the Mirvish Theatre Off-Mirvish series
Book the Off-Mirvish series now!

"Astonishing.... BOOM is not simply a superlative theatrical experience, but I’d venture to say that it will change the way we think of historical-docu period plays from now on."
- Jessica Goldman, CBC radio

The entertainment doesn't stop at the theatre: BOOM also includes the online History video series on the Kidoons Network, HeritageMoment.com !

What is Off-Mirvish? Off-Mirvish is the Mirvish second stage series, bringing Toronto audiences adventurous new ideas and stimulating new experiences in theatre. The Toronto Star calls the series "The most exciting event on the Toronto theatre scene!". Join us for our third Off-Mirvish season for three intimate and exciting, hilarious and moving productions showcasing the best in new, cutting-edge comedy and drama! The Toronto Star calls the series "The most exciting event on the Toronto theatre scene!". Join us for our third Off-Mirvish season for three intimate and exciting, hilarious and moving productions showcasing the best in new, cutting-edge comedy and drama!


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Saturday, April 26, 2014

20K Collective saw "Mission Blue" at the Hot Docs Film Festival!

Last night I accompanied passionate water issues activist and Sci-Fi author Kaz Lefave to the Hot Docs premiere of Mission Blue. Mission Blue is a film about ground-breaking scientist (or should that be water-breaking scientist) Dr. Sylvia Earle

Dr. Earle is an inspiration for our own Dr. Aronnax in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Tne Sea!

An aquanaut, marine botanist, submersible designer, and the former head of the NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Dr. Earle is a ground-breaking (water-breaking?) pioneer in ocean exploration.  Dr. Earle's passion is to map the ocean and develop protected areas, just as we do with parks and reserves on land.

Dr.Earle was present with the codirector Robert Nixon and HotDocs programmer Heather Haynes, and answered questions from the audience incredibly well: evidence-based, realistically, but always with hope and making the audience feel our own agency to effect change.

MISSION BLUE SCREENS AGAIN AT HOT DOCS.
Highly recommended.
http://mission-blue.org/mission-blue-film/

You can find out more about Kaz Lefave at:
www.nemecene.com

You can support Mission Blue
www.missionblue.org

 

20K collective workshop week 2: Wed April 23

We have been preparing the stage design. The idea is that the stage is a "machine" like the Nautilus itself - a mix of high-tech and craftsmanship.  There will be real elements and virtual elements mixing on this platform that is on an exposed metal grid, so we see the transformations from one scene and adventure to the next.

image 1: Director Rick Miller and the array of laptops running multimedia and sound.

image 1: Ned (Gil Garratt) and Jules (Toby Hughes) rehearsing in the spartan Nautilus bunks.

 

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Earth Day Canada in Toronto

Spotted in the lobby of TO VIC office tower in Toronto yesterday on the way back from workshopping the production of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Congratulations to our friends at Earth Day Canada for getting the good word out.

www.earthday.ca

The categories of action pictured in the poster are:
Park It
Don't be Idle
Shut Down
Bright Ideas
Local Food
Blue Box It
 

20K team gearing up for its first invited workshop presentation!

Week 2 of a two-week Toronto workshop for 20K (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). The incredible team of creators are trying to pull it all together for the 100 or so lucky people who will get a sneak preview of our show, Sat April 26th at 8pm. Led by director Rick Miller and co-creator Craig Francis, the 20K Collective of actors, designers and technicians are building props, sound, video, lighting, set pieces... anything to push the concept and make it fly (well, float, in this case).

Part of our concept is to explore how a stage show can be supported and augmented by online properties that not only support the themes of the play, but actually engage with the audience during the play itself! The 20K Collective is pleased to be working with the team at Logograph to create this online content, and these innovative, immersive digital experiences.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is commissioned by the
TORONTO 2015 Pan Am /
Parapan Am Games
Arts and Cultural festival
PANAMANIA
 


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20K collective workshop week 2: Happy Easter Monday

Happy Easter Monday!

Lots of work being done with our incredible creative team and talented actors to create something innvative and visually unique for 2015.

1) Is this the tempest?...

2) ...or are our actors under water?  (Maybe... lots of lines to learn!)

3) ...or is the whole stage an aquarium?

4) Whaler Ned Land (Gil Garratt) finds the brig of The Nautilus is a lonely place.

5) Director Rick Miller blocks Land (Gil Garratt) Professor Aronnax (Stephanie Baptist) and Jules (Toby Hughes).
 

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

20K collective workshop week 1: Monday

1) Craig Francis here, doing some rewriting on the play after our actors' read-through... while lights being hung above my head!

2) Assistant Director Andrea Sartison has set up her iOffice near the plug hole - smart.

3) Sound Designer Richard Feren has a whole table: the sound design is an exciting part of this project.

4) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea getting the frame set up for the workshop at the great Theatre Passe-Muraille in Toronto.  

Sunday, April 6, 2014

PANAMANIA: the Toronto 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games Arts & Cultural commissions

Congratulations to our KDOONS creators:  after a late night hosting the Glenn Gould Prize at Rideau Hall, Rick Miller flew back to Toronto to host the morning launch of PANAMANIA, the Arts & Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

There are 27 new arts commissions for the upcoming Games in July-Aug 2015. One of the commissions is the 20K Collective's new adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, co-created by the "20K Collective" organized by Rick and Craig Francis.  Rick is also the creator and star of the KDOONS theatrical production BOOM, which will premiere in Toronto at Mirvish Theatres in 2015 (SUBSCRIBE NOW!), and Craig is the art director for KDOONS' Kidoons network as well as a BOOM producer.  The theatrical production commissioned by the Pan Am PANAMANIA will also connect to the multimedia KDOONS project H2Ocanada.com.

The event, held at fabulous El Catrin restaurant, was a jam-packed launch. Rick was delighted, among other things, to once again share the stage with Robert Lepage, whom he had fêted the previous night. Congratulations to our team, and good luck to the 20K collective.

Toronto Star article
Globe and Mail article
CBC article

Friday, March 28, 2014

March 29, Celebrate Earth Hour at 8:30!

On Saturday March 29th at 8:30pm, millions of people across the world are switching off lights for one hour - to celebrate their commitment to the planet. The world rallies together for one hour in an inspiring display of what people can accomplish when they put their hearts in the right place.

Remember: "Let us stand together to make of our world a sustainable source for our future as humanity on this planet"  #Nelson Mandela #EarthHour

http://ls4.co/7lZ

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Water Docs Film Festival: The Joys and Sorrows of Fishing

March 29, 2014 will be the final day of the Water Docs Festival in Toronto, featuring the theme of The Joys and Sorrows of Fishing.
These enlightening films explore the beauty and dangers in fishing.

The Matinée features two films on Salmon fish farming.

The final night's film is "Kiss The Water", about a legendary fishing lure artisan.
 

Matinée on Fish Farming, March 29 @ 3 pm
Buy Tickets Online

Salmon Confidential (2013)
Filmmakers: Twyla Roscovich & biologist Alexandra Morton
This shocking documentary by filmmaker Twyla Roscovich and biologist Alexandra Morton discovers British Columbia’s wild salmon are testing positive for dangerous European salmon viruses associated with salmon farming worldwide and how a chain of events is set off by the Canadian government to suppress the findings contained within this documentary.

Farmed and Dangerous (2013)
Filmmakers: Alex & Tyler Mifflin (the Water Brothers)
People love to eat salmon, but chances are that salmon is not wild. Globally, over 70% of the salmon we eat is raised on fish farms in the open ocean. Does it matter? And is it true that salmon farms, which are supposed to take the pressure off wild salmon stocks, might be wiping them out? To find out, the Brothers immerse themselves in the worlds of both wild and farmed salmon in one of the most beautiful places on earth.


Closing Night, The Joys and Sorrows of Fishing @ 7 pm
Buy Tickets Online


Kiss the Water (2013)
Filmmakers: Eric Steel (director) and Em Cooper (animation)
In a cottage in northern Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold into elaborate fishing flies – at once miniature works of art and absolutely lethal. Wherever men and women cast their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is whispered in mythic reverence, and stories about her surface and swirl like fairy tales. With breathtaking cinematography and expressive, hand painted animation, KISS THE WATER adheres to and escapes from traditional documentary form, spinning the facts and fictions of one woman’s life into a stunning film about craft, devotion, love, and its illusions.

Losing Nemo (2013, short)
Filmmakers: The Black Fish & MrLee
TV Whales, sharks, dolphins, turtles, seals, rays, skates, tuna, swordfish and mackerel are only very few of the plentiful species which roam the oceans in search of food and shelter. This extraordinary biodiversity has in recent years become steadily more threatened by human activity such as damaging industrial fishing operations and illegal hunting practices. To be able to address the urgency of the situation and work towards better protection of the oceans, the filmmakers have started a new organization: The Black Fish. www.theblackfish.org



Ticket Information:
Tickets are available online at www.waterdocs.ca
follow the links for  www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/557968
or by phone at 1-800-838-3006 Ext. 1
or at the Box Office 45 minutes before each event.

 Media inquiries: dkpr public relations inc.
Deborah Knight (416) 200-3577 (dkpr),
www.dkpr.ca




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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

WATER DOCS @ SCHOOL Recognition Day March 26th

Several schools in the Greater Toronto area are visiting the Water Docs Film Festival at the Art Gallery of Ontario to follow up on #worldwaterday and see some inspiring student films.

Here are some highlights:  Following an aboriginal blessing for the waters, Georgie Horton-Baptiste will present a First Nations perspective on water and the story of the Water Walkers.

Awards will be presented for student films created as part of Water Docs @ School, followed by a showing of the films.

Robyn Hamlyn will discuss her experience as a young student working to convince city and town councils to become Blue Communities. Award-winning eco-educator Rick Miller will present his adaptation for youth of Hardsell: Combatting cynicism and detachment as we work to do good in the world. There will be plenty of time for discussion and interaction.

Ths school event is pre-registered, but don;t forget to bring your family or class to some other incredible Water films! 

Water Docs
Week Two Continues from March 25 to 29 at The Water Docs Film Festival At the Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario.
Full schedule of films and events: http://ecologos.ca/waterdocs/
Tickets online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/557968
 

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Friday, March 21, 2014

FAMILY DAY for World Water Day in Mississauga Ontario

If you are north of Toronto in Mississauga, Brampton, or the Peel Region, bring your family to the WORLD WATER DAY Celebration in Mississauga.

It is part of our friends the Water Docs Film Festival, Canada's film festival focused on all things water. Not only does the festival have amazing entertaining films, it informs and educates about water and water issues. It provides a channel for action.

They wil be screening the amazing film ELEMENTAL
Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time.  It was filmed in Canada, India, and Australia.

“Three fascinating profiles…ELEMENTAL speaks to the importance of protecting the natural elements: water, air, earth. It’s a beautifully filmed piece, even when it’s showing us white clouds of pollutants billowing out of a smokestack.”
- WASHINGTON POST

Fo Guang Shan Temple, 6525 Millcreek Drive Mississauga, ON L5N 7K6
Co-presenters:
Community Environmental Alliance (CEA)
and
Fo Guang Shan Temple of Toronto.

Tickets for World Water Day Family Day Mississauga:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/595628

Thursday, March 20, 2014

It's the first day of Spring!

Today is the first day of spring.  This is the Vernal Equinox: this day was named after a man named Vern. 
KIDDING! 
Vernalis is Latin for spring. 
Equinox means "equal night"
Why?
This date is chosen for astronomical reasons. 
The Earth spins, and it is tilted, and it orbits the sun., and this date is the time of year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth.

March is also where we see flowers start to come back and bloom. HAPPY SPRING!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Undersea Dispatch: Rick Miller hosts Gordon Foundation's premiere of "Cold Amazon" at Water Docs Festival

Stan Gibson's Water Docs Film Festival has invited Rick Miller to be the emcee host of the opening night premiere of "Cold Amazon: The Mackenzie River Basin" on March 21st!  Stan Gibson of EcoLogos, the Founder and Executive Director of Water Docs, tells us he is thrilled to premiere this film.  It is produced by the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation water issues in Canada.  Working with Yellowknife-based filmmakers Pablo Saravanja and Jay Bulckaert of aRTLeSS Collective, and journalist Tim Querengesser, this film brings to life Canada's largest river system which drains five Provinces and Territories north into the Arctic Ocean.

Nautilus Leaks was excited to hear that the new documentary film on the massive Mackenzie River, will premiere on the opening night of the Water Docs Film Festival in Toronto on Match 21st 2014.

Screening at www.waterdocs.ca - Water Docs Film Festival - March 19-29, 2014 in Toronto.
Co-presenters: Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
Emcee: Rick Miller
More Info: http://ecologos.ca/waterdocs/#march-21-2014

Yellowknife-based filmmakers Pablo Saravanja and Jay Bulckaert of aRTLeSS Collective, and journalist Tim Querengesser, bring the Mackenzie closer to home for the many Canadians who may be unaware of its importance, or even its existence. Produced by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. Celebrate World Water Day and Canada Water Week at the 2014 Water Docs Film Festival, March 21 to 29 at Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Water Docs features nine days of high-impact documentary films from around the world. Taking place in downtown Toronto, Water Docs is a film festival that entertains, informs and educates about water issues -- always with the aim to provide a channel for action. The premier sponsor is RBC Blue Water Project. Presented by Ecologos.

Get Tickets Online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/590148

presented by
EcoLogos
Transformative Experiences for a Sustainable Future
www.ecologos.ca

More Water Docs videos on:
NautilusLeaks.com
ScienceToons.com