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Anne of Green Gables — The Musical, the centrepiece of the Charlottetown Festival for more than 50 years, will be produced only every other year from now on, with no production next year. Confederation Centre of the Arts made the announcement in a news release Thursday morning. The production base …
Read More »International balloon festival returns to High River, Alta.
The windswept prairie east of the Rocky Mountains seems an unlikely spot for a hot-air balloon festival, but the town of High River, Alta., is celebrating the event’s 10th year. More than 20 brightly coloured balloons — including a pink elephant, a black and yellow bee and the purple and …
Read More »TIFF 2022: Glamour, glitz and best moments from this year’s star-studded festival
The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival has come and gone faster than you can say The Banshees of Inisherin. Fully in-person for the first time in two years, TIFF welcomed celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Jessica Chastain, Kate Hudson, Eddie Redmayne and Seth Rogen back to King Street …
Read More »How a lantern festival in Six Nations, Ont., billed as ‘magical evening’ in Toronto, turned into ‘mayhem’
As Hibba Asim and her friends were on their way Saturday evening to The Lights Festival — which was advertised by its U.S.-based organizer as taking place in the Toronto area — the 16-year-old said she was imagining a scene out of the Disney movie Tangled. “All the lanterns go up, and it …
Read More »Problem-plagued Kultureland music festival raises concerns about ticket-holders’ rights
People who attended the second day of the Kultureland music festival in Ajax, Ont., over the weekend can expect a refund soon, according to organizers. The refund was announced following a number of issues on the festival’s second day that included a last-minute venue change and the cancellation of headliner Jhene Aiko’s set. Mutsa …
Read More »Newcomers get a taste of the home they were forced to flee at National Ukraine Festival
The return of the National Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin offered newcomers displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine a comforting taste of home over the weekend. Lesia Yaroshenko travelled more than 300 kilometres from Winnipeg to attend the event in southwestern Manitoba. Yaroshenko and her sons Hnat, 16, and Vlad, …
Read More »A Canadian guide to the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
After cancellations in 2020 and large scale-backs in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival has rolled out the red carpet this week for an in-person festival. Mixed into the long-awaited lineup is myriad Canadian content being presented from May 17 to 28 at both the …
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