Announcing Kate Hammer and the other participants to work with David Pope.
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Kate Hammer/ Two Burdens: A Musical
Stage 2 of The David MacLennan Award commences w/c 4th April with longlisted candidates invited to submit a full 45 – 50 minute play, using the treatment they submitted in stage one as the basis of the play.
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This interview between Writer, Kate Hammer, and Artist, Lara, took place over email in February 2022.
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There’s a bit of writing advice that I receive a lot: treat writing like your full-time job, sit down at the same time and place everyday, train your brain to be creative. I’ve heard it again and again, because it works.
For others, I’m assuming.
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Canadian millennials grew up on a steady diet of cartoons, but none so wholesome as the annoyingly curious turtle himself: Franklin.
But has watching six seasons of a sadboi reptile who definitely went on to study English and wear small beanies affected our culture in possibly unwholesome ways? How, when an ideal cartoon male figure is presented to us, can we ever hope to find happiness?
Here are 7 ways Franklin Turtle set the bar too high for men (and us all), and why we will always have a void in our hearts because of it:
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It was six months ago that my therapist started off a session with, “Have you ever considered that you have ADHD?” Six months of research, discovery, and beginning the process of an official diagnosis (which may never come – shout out to non-masculine ADHD traits which fly under the radar!!) later, and I have become ENLIGHTENED.
No, not the cool kind – otherwise my Special Talent Visa would already be in the mail.
I have discovered why I’ve had such a lifelong love affair with improv: aspects of my personality that I’d learned to mask in everyday life were instead celebrated in small, blackbox theatres.
In my opinion, there are three very good reasons improv is great for people with ADHD, and three excellent reasons people with ADHD are amazing for improv.* So whether you have ADHD, think you might, or just want to be aware of performers who do, read on dear friend, read on.
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Awarded an honourable mention for “I Wonder How Many People I’ve Kissed Just So They’d Go Away”
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You watch someone walk down the street towards you. They have a coffee cup in their hand from a local, independent shop and wear a scarf that looks like it was custom made for their goddam beautiful perfect face.
You don’t know them but you would like to spend the rest of your life with them or, at the very least, get married.
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Most emojis make sense: smiling is good, frowning is bad, the upside down smile is me getting so friggin loose that I’m hanging from the ceiling, eating yogurt out of tubes: they are understandable. Except the wink emoji.
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Though steadfast in his beliefs, Joe said he could be convinced to take the shot if there was a version that could be dried, powdered, rehydrated, flavoured with artificial vanilla, mixed with whey, rehydrated with soy milk and a banana, and put into an IV straight into his veins. Either that, or taken as a shot and chased by one of his daily Monsters (original flavour).
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Being queer means sometimes dates are actually just friendships, or vice versa, and with everyone trying to side hustle, I have, on multiple occasions, confused a paid workout session with a vegan steak dinner for two.
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Pie Seas
Ahoy! Haha. Try reading before bed every night. Fiction on Tuesdays and Fridays, non-fiction on Wednesdays, except for the third Wednesday of the month where you’d read fantasy, EXCEPT if the moon is waning, in which case you should eat an entire bag of chocolate chips and have a good think.
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“How can your life be the same if you’ve changed it?” explained Dr. Thorpe. “There’s a cause and there’s an effect, so unless we’ve totally screwed the pooch on that...we’ve put it through our simulations a million times, but in real life it seems people can remain sad even after they get a tattoo.”
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“Calling in is like an invitation to do better. But, like, 1% of the time, you need to call someone out - to go public and make them wish they had never even heard of the internet. And that small percentage is every time the person who did wrong is NOT me and then they will RUE THE DAY.”
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And let me clarify: I believe Buster’s actions were that of a Bad Boi. They were Bad Boi results, not necessarily Bad Boi intentions. He himself is not a Bad Boi, that is impossible, for all dogs are inherently Good Bois or Good Gurls. They have very good tails and very good tongues and they are made for giving extremely good snuggles where they get so excited their whole body becomes a pendulum of love.
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At first, everything was going perfectly! I started unpacking, ordered a pizza, tracked the pizza online from the oven to my door, but when I went back to the kitchen to dig in — there was this really low-hanging light on a single, stripped wire.
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In a private interview, Concordia stated, “All you have to do is sound confident, really. I don’t want them to go, but I want to know that those who stay, really care. They work for it, you know? They fight for our relationship. I want to be worth it.”
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The cold, winter months blending into slightly warmer, slushy months don’t usually have a chance at garnering crowd-favourite status, but this year has been worse than anyone could’ve predicted.
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Apparently, years of unnecessary fireworks, snow plow trucks blaring at all hours, and constant major construction have left the average Montrealer insensate to any seismic activity.
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Hi, It’s Christina Applegate again (still no relation), and I have to fill in for Tine Resonance for another week. Apparently we got some complaints from last month’s horoscopes because they weren’t “real” enough, or, like, the Liberacci’s didn’t actually see a dog. So I talked to my friends a bit more and we should be good.
VIRGALICIOUS
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