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Muhammed of Yorkville

As part of Toronto’s SummerWorks festival my friend, Caitlin McCarthy, from highschool (far left) is in a fantastic new play called Muhammed of Yorkville. Written by a fellow student at University of Toronto during the scandal regarding the comics depicting Muhammed this play asks and explores some of the most interesting questions surrounding the controversy and what it means for those living in a multicultural city like Toronto. It’s also wonderfully funny.

“A play about religious controvery, artistic integrity and getting dumped on the phone,” Muhammed of Yorkville can be summed up (or at least, is being summed up) by the following:

When a Yorkville art gallery decides to exhibit a painting of the Prophet Muhammad, it sparks a string of controversies ranging from the thought-provoking to the absurd. Religion, politics, ideology and sexuality clash as gallery owners, angry teens and Muslim protestors say what they think and hear what they want.

Fantasticly written and wonderfully acted. Go see it!

Remainging shows are:
Wednesday August 8th 8:00pm
Friday August 10th 6:30pm
Saturday August 11th 12:30pm
Sunday August 12th 9:30pm

Buy tickets here, or an hour before at the show at The Factory Theatre on the corner of Bathurst and Adelaide.

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Music in the house

My aunt Mairin likes to say that she would always let my cousin Frank out of just about any work if he would play music for her (I am sure his memory of the truth of this might waver from her own).

My boyfriend moved in with me about two months ago and with him came a host of guitars, amps, keyboards and the like, which now enjoy taking up a whole quarter of the living room, always ready for a moment of inspiration or a need to escape other things that might be going on. It has been fantastic.

While he is getting excited about playing music at various places in the city*, and hoping to get involved in new groups, I get to have him sit on a stool just outside the kitchen and seranade me as I wash the dishes. I think I get what aunt Mairin was on about.

*like the Free Times Cafe on Tuesday the 14th of August!!

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