I first met Claire Gallant last year when she was a chef at fressen restaurant in Toronto.  After we interviewed two meat focused chefs last week, I thought it would be interesting to get the perspective of someone who has a background in vegan cooking. Like in SEEDS, we wanted this series of interviews to [...]

Last week in Toronto the Municipal Licensing and Standards Committee voted unanimously to defer the motion brought forward by Councillor Joe Mihevc that would allow a limited number of hens in city yards “for the purposes of producing eggs for personal consumption.” The ultimate way to ensure you are getting local and organic eggs. The [...]

Working on the arts management side of theatre has provided me the chance to learn vicariously through artists and often expand my grasp of issues that I may never have delved into on my own. For SEEDS, I started contacting food type folk as early as 2010 for marketing and outreach networks. That exercise COMPLETELY [...]

Part of my job as the Producer at Crow’s Theatre is to get the word out about our productions.  With a show like SEEDS where there is a timely and tangible issue being discussed my community outreach becomes targeted to groups that would be interested in the topic at hand. In the past few weeks [...]

  “Hi, my name is Eric Peterson and I’m an actor. I’ll be portraying Percy Schmeiser in this play. Many of the performers you’ll be seeing tonight will be playing many different characters. But I’ll only be playing the one. And that’s because I’m very important.” So riffed Eric during our first table read for [...]

In Seeds, our upcoming play about a landmark legal battle, we also look at paradigm shift in our understanding of genetics and the mechanisms of inheritance. After posting an amazing piece earlier this week from The Atlantic Monthly  novelist, playwright and online somebody Sean Dixon fired back a twitter about another paradigm shift that is [...]

In his essays for the New York Review of Books, Richard C. Lewontin writes about ideas expressed in books about science, especially books about biology. I first came across his writing in a collection of these essays called It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions. The following piece, It’s [...]

A few years ago, I was in Montreal, directing Michael Mackenzie’s Geometry in Venice. Across the hallway in the smaller studio theatre an actor friend of mine, Alex Ivanovici was performing in a play I had heard a little bit about online – it was called Sexy Beton, which translates into English as Sexy Concrete. [...]

By Tanja Jacobs – Artistic Associate Quite a while ago, our dryer went out of commission. It was actually a stupid mishap; while the lint trap was open a clothespin fell in and got stuck inside the between the drum and the housing, so the drum could no longer spin. Perhaps the clothespin was a [...]

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