Less than 2 weeks until opening night!!

Fertile Ground brings Lynn Harrigan's Moon Sea Crossing
(Black Moss Press 2005) to life in this one-woman show
premiering at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

Directed by Angela McMillan
Starring Sarah Schwartz
Original text by Lynn Harrigan
Live music by Scott M2 of dreamSTATE

Factory Studio Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide)

Thursday, July 6 - 8:45 pm
Saturday, July 8 - 6:00 pm
Sunday, July 9 – Noon
Monday, July 10 - 11:00 pm
Tuesday, July 11 - 1:00 pm
Thursday, July 13 - 7:30 pm
Saturday, July 15 - 5:15 pm

Tickets: $9.00 – Fringe Hotline (416) 966-1062

For complete information, please visit:
http://www.fertileground.info
http://www.fringetoronto.com/
http://www.lynnharrigan.com
http://www.dreamstate.to

BSS + Feist on Olympic Island

Great concerts on Olympic Island yesterday. The weather was just right, the crowd was mellow and the music did not disappoint. Despite complaints about feeling under the weather, both Feist and BSS's Brendon Canning were in good voice. It was fun to see Star's Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell giving all they've got, too. The last time Scott & I caught the Stars, back in December at Lee's Palace, the tension between Millan & Campbell put a real damper on the show. Not tonight: everyone seemed to be in good spirits and having fun doing their thing.

PiNG news

AMBiENT PiNG RADiO iS NOW JUST A CLiCK AWAY

As the 7th anniversary of the PiNG approaches, we're
thrilled to be able to share that excitement and inspiration
with even more of you via AMBiENT PiNG RADiO!
An online radio station at Live365 that captures the essence
of THE AMBiENT PiNG by featuring a mix of ambient,
soundscape, electronic, trip hop, dream pop, drone and
chill artists from both our local and global communities.
Hear artists that have performed at the PiNG as well as artists
whose work has influenced and delighted us over the years.

AMBiENT PiNG RADiO is a regularly updated collection
of music that reflects the spirit and sound of the PiNG.
You'll hear music by Robert Rich, dreamSTATE,
mara's torment, Massive Attack, Curve, Underworld,
Sylken, Numina, SADU, cheryl o, URM and much more,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

TUNE iN + PLUG iNTO AMBiENT PiNG RADiO NOW

Also Play these RealAudio Samples Recorded
Live at THE AMBiENT PiNG

dreamSTATE • 31/08/99
Wally Jericho • 15/02/00
karmafarm • 04/04/00

ping things radio
every Sun & Wed from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music
from PiNG artists and other discs in the ping things catalogue.

Blogging Poet

Many thanks to Billy the Blogging Poet for highlighting Oblique Poetries
in Episode III of 101 Blogging Poets in 100 Days.

Very cool!!!

Right on!

Found this on the Bookninja site this afternoon and had to pass it on:

"Still fighting the power

Marilyn French makes me long for those days when women weren’t brainwashed into being afraid of feminism. That was a good few years. Sigh.

“God, how they attacked me in some quarters,” French says now. “And why? Because I told the truth. They said I was a man hater, and I never defended myself against that, because I do believe that men are to blame for the condition of women.” Still? “Yes. Even men who are not actively keeping women down, but are profiting from women’s position, or who don’t mind things being the way they are - they are responsible too. I don’t hate men. In fact, throughout my life I’ve always said I like men very much. But men are responsible for the situation of women.”
…
Feminism has even affected fiction positively, she believes. “I think male writers are depicting women as human beings much more than they used to … not so much, you know, just as cunt.” The downside, she says, is that “this spurious principle that men are superior to women hasn’t really shifted. Both within religion and corporations men want to keep the world as it is. But then patriarchy took thousands of years to evolve and it will take thousands to dissolve.”
…
“I was always a feminist,” she says, “because to me a feminist is simply any woman who thinks women matter as much as men do. I saw how the world was and I had been angry all my fucking life.”
…
“Women who say they don’t need feminism hurt themselves, because they really believe they are less important than any man. I always tell women: make the most of what you’ve got now, because the more we advance, the more the backlash will increase. They will try to take it all away.”

Amen. Never be afraid of it. Of course, that’s pretty easy for me to say. I’m the feminist with all the priviledge.

                                                                                                        Posted by George"

p. s.

I'm looking forward to being a poet for nine weeks (Aqua Reliquia and Oblique Poetries are churning in the back of my mind as I struggle to the finish line ... ).

arghhh!!!

It's June. I'm a high school English teacher. Enough said.

Fringe update

Thanks to Dan Renaud, Sarah's husband, Fertile Ground Productions now has its own website.

The first performance of Moon Sea Crossing at the Toronto Fringe Festival is on July 6 - just over a month from now!