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June 6–15
2014
luminatofestival.com
Photo: V. Tony Hauser
From the Artistic
Director
“10 days of music
and performance
programming, food,
friends, joy, wonder
and inspiration
throughout this city,
your Toronto”
Front Cover: Kontakthof – Choreographed by Pina Bausch
Produced by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Photo: Oliver Look
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Do you know the feeling? The sun moves higher. Shadows
shorten. Fleeting smiles linger. Eyes glazed by winter’s frost
begin to soften. Furtive glances turn flirty. Spring’s playful
caresses invite summer sultriness. Skirts get shorter, hips
curvier, buttocks tighter. And the Luminato Festival wraps
Toronto in its passionate embrace.
And there is so much more to be aroused by. The return of
Louise Lecavalier, our continued collaboration with The New
York Times, The Copycat Academy, our first edition of a school
for emerging artists that will hopefully birth new ideas for future
festivals, our celebration of one of the greatest influencers in
music, Daniel Lanois, If I Loved You, an evening of broadway love
I’m talking about what we all do, have always done, will always
do, have to do to give birth, to create, to bond, to overcome, to
become, to die, to exist as a human race and, greatest of all, to
love: Sex. There is plenty of it at this year’s festival, alongside its
many siblings: Love, Birth, Death and Passion.
“Sex. There is plenty
of it at this year’s
festival, alongside
its many siblings:
Love, Birth, Death
and Passion”
But don’t worry, you can bring your children or let them bring
you. Green Porno, starring the wonderful Isabella Rossellini,
is as pornographic as it will get, and then only in its title. She
takes us on a vibrant tour of procreation in the wild kingdom,
where kinkiness is commonplace. I dare say S&M looks
pretty harmless compared to what ducks naughtily get up
to. Toronto’s Mammalian Diving Reflex brings together seven
adults from all over the world to talk about all the sex they’ve
ever had. Kontakthof, performed by the great Tanztheater
Wuppertal and choreographed by the legendary Pina Bausch,
portrays the eternal struggle of the sexes for harmony. One
of the greatest contemporary choreographers, Samoan-born
Lemi Ponifasio, loses his Toronto virginity: after mesmerizing
nights in Montreal, Ottawa and around the globe, we finally get
to see one of his works.
at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Matthew Barney
simultaneously at TIFF, the AGO and the Luminato Festival
and Argentinian born theatre shooting star Mariano Pensotti’s
Cineastas, a declaration of love to film.
Oh, and one question we finally had to answer this year:
Why is it okay to be almost nude on a beach but not in the
city? No longer! With Cardboard Beach, Los Carpinteros, the
celebrated artist duo from Cuba, are turning the Festival Hub
at David Pecaut Square into an urban oasis. Imagine sweaty
life guards outside Metro Hall or cleavage-parading beach
bums lining King Street.
All of this paired with 10 days of music and performance
programming, food, friends, joy, wonder and inspiration
throughout this city, your Toronto, that will hopefully leave
you breathless and craving more. Finally, before I forget, the
brochure is not in chronological order, but more the path that
I would like to take you on with this Festival. It’s now or never.
duets performed only by, and to, men (but what men!), Gavin
Bryars’ musical flirt with card tricks, Kid Koala creating some
heat and sweat with Montreal chef Fred Morin, Paradisiacal
Jorn Weisbrodt
Rites at MOCCA, our nightly sweet and sweat spot for Jason
Artistic Director, Luminato Festival
Collet’s Basement Revue, the place to rub elbows and other
body parts with Festival artists, Angela Hewitt having a first date
with urban dancers, a North to South American trip of ecstasy
with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mississauga-raised
art star Terence Koh’s first solo show in Canadian outdoors
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Photo: Julien Faugère
Photo: V. Tony Hauser
Playing at
Home and Away
Many Hands Make
One Unique Festival
Truth is Beauty
Board of
Directors
It was a century ago that Scottish conservationist
Patrick Geddes coined the phrase “Think global, act
local.” Geddes’ rallying cry has since been co-opted by
endless organizations and causes. Cultivating the cultural
environment is what the Luminato Festival has been about
since its inception. And Geddes’ aphorism fits us perfectly:
the Luminato Festival remains grounded in Toronto, but is,
as Canada’s largest multi-arts festival, an increasingly vital
creative partner to the world. As incubator and co-producer,
we develop programming with sister festivals and arts centres
at home and around the globe. Our audience now extends
globally with live streaming of many of our Hub concerts
and artists’ talks. We are also uniquely positioned to partner
with other celebrations. This year we kick off a two-year
partnership with the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, with artists
from a spectrum of Pan American nations. And If I Loved
You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway – an Evening of Love Duets
provides an ideal prelude to Toronto’s hosting of WorldPride.
We’re proudly local, but never lose sight of the worldview, and
hope you’ll make our world part of yours again this June.
If you happened to visit the Luminato Festival offices in, say,
early December, you’d see the fulltime staff intently focused
on the myriad of tasks required to create Canada’s premier
multi-arts celebration. Come back six months later, and you’ll
see the offices overcrowded with quadruple that many people,
with everyone racing to the finish line. Yet that is merely a
sample of the men and women who contribute to and make
the Luminato Festival one of the world’s preeminent cultural
summits. There are also, most importantly, the artists; and last
year we welcomed Canadian performers from nine provinces,
representing the majority of the Festival’s artistic content. True
to our global stature, we also hosted artists from 18 countries,
spanning six continents. As well, there is our loyal legion of
public, philanthropic and corporate supporters, without whom
the Festival simply wouldn’t exist. Finally, there is the vital army
of volunteers. Last year they numbered over 400, including
multilingual ambassadors and youth photographers, helping
ensure the Festival’s uninterrupted success. It is a remarkable
assembly of devoted individuals and organizations; and on
behalf of each and every one of them, including our dedicated
volunteer board of directors, I’m proud to welcome you to the
8th annual Luminato Festival.
John Keats taught us “beauty is truth, truth beauty.” This
rather fittingly captures the marvelously simpatico heart
of the relationship between Luminato Festival and L’Oréal
Canada over the past seven years. Since its inception, the
Festival has explored artistic truths with absolute integrity
and unparalleled verve while never losing sight of the
inherent beauty in everything it creates. Which is why its
incandescence, and its influence, extend so far beyond
Toronto, spanning not just Canada but the entire world. At
L’Oréal Canada we’re experts at shaping and defining beauty,
but appreciate that true beauty can never be measured
in strictly physical terms. Much of what you’ll see and
experience at this year’s Luminato Festival will outwardly
be stunningly beautiful. Some will not, the essence of its
beauty requiring deeper examination. Wherever, however
and in whatever form such beauty emerges, we will, with you,
heartily applaud its truthful depiction and cherish our role as
the Festival’s Partner in Creativity.
Tony Gagliano, Chair
Lucille Joseph, Vice-Chair
Janice Price
CEO, Luminato Festival
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Tony Gagliano
Co-founder & Chair, Luminato Festival
Executive Chairman & CEO, St. Joseph Communications
Frank Kollmar
President & CEO
L’Oréal Canada
Mohammad Al Zaibak
Charles Baillie
John Bayliss
Helen Burstyn
Doris Daughney
Camillo di Prata
Rupert Duchesne
Robert Foster
Anthony Graham
Mike Harris
Peter Herrndorf
The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean
Frank Kollmar
Roberto Dante Martella
Chetan Mathur
Jonas Prince
Maria Soklis
Greg Sorbara
Kirstine Stewart
William Thorsell
Peter Wilkinson
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Contents
Introduction
2
A Message from the Artistic Director
4
A Message from the CEO and
the Co-founder & Chair
5
A Message from the President
& CEO, L’Oréal Canada
5
Board of Directors
The 2014 Season
Design by Pentagram
28
Sleeping in the Devil’s Bed:
The Music of Daniel Lanois
64
The Festival Hub, Taste of the Beach
30
If I Loved You: Gentlemen
Prefer Broadway – an Evening
of Love Duets
65
Hub Saturday, June 7
66
Hub Sunday, June 8
67
Hub Monday, June 9
tomorrow’s snow
& a way to the light
68
Hub Tuesday, June 10
34
So Blue
69
Hub Wednesday, June 11
36
Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live
70
Hub Thursday, June 12
38
Cineastas
71
Hub Friday, June 13
40
The Lost Train
72
Hub Saturday, June 14
32
8
Festival Hub Design
42
Transgressive Magic
73
Hub Sunday, June 15
10
Opening Night at the Festival Hub
44
The Copycat Academy
74
Education & Outreach
12
Kontakthof
45
Copycat Talks
76
Festival at a Glance
14
Stones In Her Mouth
46
TimesTalks Luminato
80
Tickets
16
River of Fundament
48
Luminato Festival at the
Toronto Public Library
82
Festival Map
18
DRAWING RESTRAINT
84
Festival Hub Map
49
The Day of Literary Intensity
86
More to Explore
50
LightNews
89
How to Festival
90
Festival Partners
92
Festival Donors
94
Luminato Online
95
Get Involved
96
Festival Staff
19
TIFF Films
20
Green Porno, Live on Stage
51
Take on Me
22
All the Sex I’ve Ever Had:
The International Edition
52
Music Mob
24
Paradisiacal Rites
53
TSO Late Night
26
Jason Collett’s Basement Revue
at Luminato
62
The Festival Hub
63
The Festival Hub,
Special Weekend Concert Edition
27
6
Q Live at Luminato
pg 12
Kontakthof
pg 34
So Blue
pg 20
pg 22
pg 24
Paradisiacal Rites
pg 16
River of Fundament
pg 38
Cineastas
Green Porno
Live on Stage
All the Sex I’ve Ever Had
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June 6–15
Cardboard
Beach
Los Carpinteros transform the
Festival Hub
“Cardboard Beach is an illusion, the essence of a beach in
a dry, urban space – with umbrellas, deck chairs, change
booths and breakwaters such as you might find in the
Caribbean or the Mediterranean. It is the fantasy of a beach
atmosphere in Toronto where ‘the beach’ is not a lifestyle,
even though it borders one of the five Great Lakes of North
America.” Such is the intent of Cardboard Beach, designed by
the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros to transform Luminato
Festival’s Hub at David Pecaut Square.
When?
June 6–15, 2014
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
How Much?
FREE
Visit luminatofestival.com
Founded in 1991, Los Carpinteros delight in the intersection
of art and society. The current team, Marco Antonio Castillo
Valdés and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, specialize in
merging architecture, design and sculpture in unexpected
and often humorous ways. The collective’s name, which
translates as The Carpenters, harks back to the timehonoured tradition of artisans and tradesmen. Their
exquisitely crafted work playfully juxtaposes form and
function, blending practicality with delightful uselessness.
For more on the Special Weekend Concert Edition and
other music programming at the Festival Hub, see pages
10–11 and 62–73.
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Image: Los Carpinteros
Cardboard Beach will also be a fully licensed food and
beverage centrepiece. For more details on food and
beverage, hours and events at the Festival Hub visit
June 6
Opening Night at the Festival Hub
Pan
American
Tropical
Triple
Bill
From the ingenious surfside design
by Cuba’s Los Carpinteros to a
sizzling musical trifecta, opening
night at the Festival Hub kicks
off ten days of cultural and
cross-cultural brilliance while
igniting our sweeping celebration
of the Americas
Part of Luminato Festival’s
celebration of the cultural
richness of the Americas
For highlights of the Festival’s Pan American
programming, see page 103.
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Supported By:
When?
Friday, June 6
Interactivo, 8PM
Emeline Michel, 9PM
Jesse Cook with
Amanda Martinez, 10PM
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
How Much?
FREE
Tickets & Info
For more details on programming
and events at the Festival Hub, see
pages 62–73.
Interactivo
Emeline Michel
Jesse Cook
Founded and led by Roberto Carcasses
– whose varied collaborations as a pianist,
vocalist and composer have extended from
Gonzalito Rubalcaba and Chucho Valdes
to Wynton Marsalis and George Benson –
Interactivo is a stellar collective of Cuban
musicians whose singular groove layers rap,
funk, jazz and soul atop traditional Afro-Cuban
rhythms. Featured performers, all of whom
have shaped vibrant solo careers, include
rapper Telmary, vocalists William Vivanco,
Francis del Rio and Brenda Navarrete and
Toronto-based guitarist Elmer Ferrer.
She has been called “the queen of Haitian
song” and the “new goddess of Creole music”
and indeed, singer-songwriter Emeline
Michel has been instrumental in putting
such distinctly Haitian styles as compas and
rara on the world music map. The Americantrained songstress emerged during the late
1980s, a remarkably vibrant era for Haitian
music. Singing both in French and Haitian
Creole, she has since released nine albums,
including last year’s stunning Quintessence,
and performed around the globe, prompting
The New York Times to hail her as “a
diplomat of music” with “a voice serene and
warm like a breeze.”
with special guest
Amanda Martinez
Paris-born guitarist and composer has earned
legendary status as the foremost, and most
gifted, proponent of the nouveau flamenco
movement, blending flamenco with rumba and
jazz to achieve a singularly dazzling sound.
The Toronto-based Cook’s latest album, The
Blue Guitar Sessions, was ignited by his nearobsession with Adele’s 21 and his esteem for
the smoky patina of early Miles Davis sessions,
inspiring his long-burning desire to create a
“blue mood” disc. For his Luminato Festival
debut, Cook will be joined on two songs by
Toronto-based singer-songwriter Amanda
Martinez, whose own flamenco fieriness draws
on Mexican and South African influences.
Presented By:
Supported By:
Marketing Partner:
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June 11–14
Choreographed by Pina Bausch
Any discussion of the 20th century’s most influential
choreographers must place Germany’s Pina Bausch in the
illustrious ranks of George Balanchine, Katherine Dunham,
Martha Graham and Jerome Robbins. Bausch forever
altered perceptions of contemporary choreography with
her landmark fusing of theatrical and dance elements to
create “Tanztheater”. Her frequently controversial, invariably
poetic blending of dancers with everyday elements focused
particularly on the diurnal “dance” that is male-female
relations. Kontakthof (translation: “courtyard of contact”) is
Bausch’s crowning achievement. First staged in 1978, it has
since earned global praise as a masterful examination of the
eternal battle of the sexes; wherein whatever balance and
harmony is achieved is ultimately scuttled because male
and female forces are inevitably opposed. The setting is a
drab dance hall (brilliantly designed by the late Rolf Borzik),
as separated groups of women and men slowly interact.
The need, and quest, for not just intimacy but love ignites a
spectrum of actions and reactions, sometimes angrily, often
comically, always brilliantly.
“The most highly anticipated dance event of 2014 can be
summed up in two words – Pina Bausch.” —The Globe and Mail
Produced by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
In association with Luminato Festival
Pina at the Goethe-Institut
Visit Goethe.de/toronto for details on the screening of Dancing
Dreams: Teenagers Perform Kontakthof
Luminato Festival will offer a masterclass for Toronto’s
professional dance community by Tanztheater Wuppertal
ballet master Eduard Kortlandt.
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When?
Wednesday, June 11, 7:30PM
Thursday, June 12, 7:30PM
Friday, June 13, 7:30PM
Saturday, June 14, 7:30PM
Where?
Bluma Appel Theatre
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
27 Front Street East
How Long?
2 hours and 50 minutes, with intermission
How Much?
$125, $95, $60, $45
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
*Ticket prices are inclusive of HST and facility fees.
Pre-performance Talk
Ticket holders are invited to join Tanztheater
Wuppertal Artistic Director Lutz Förster for a
pre-performance talk in the Bluma Appel upper
lobby at 6:30PM on June 12.
Pina Bausch at TIFF
For more of Bausch, see page 19 for details on the
screening of her film The Complaint of an Empress
and Wim Wenders’ exploration of her work, Pina, at
the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Presented By:
Supported By:
Photo: Oliver Look
Kontakthof
June 12–14
Stones In
Her Mouth
Lemi Ponifasio
North American Premiere
Heralded by Le Figaro as “among the greatest” contemporary
choreographers, Lemi Ponifasio is as profound a visionary
as Pina Bausch or Robert Wilson, transcending genres to
redefine the universal power of art. For his company of artists,
assembled from across his native Samoa, New Zealand and the
South Pacific, Ponifasio chose the name MAU, a Samoan word
that means the declaration of truth.
Ponifasio’s courageous Stones In Her Mouth brings together
ten Maori women. To the Maori, the first human was a woman,
Hineahuone. Women are the foundation of humanity and
respected as givers of life. Stones draws upon the powerful
moteatea tradition of female-written expressions of protest,
prophesy, warning and desire.
The performers themselves wrote everything communicated
in the piece. Their eloquence is immense. Through chants,
songs, oratory and dance, they unite in protest and rage
while also conveying resilience and adaptivity. They are not
pleading or admonishing or lecturing but serving as poetic
mirrors. Though all is voiced in the Maori language, the
emotive power of their message is universal, reflecting and
refracting societal ills and turmoil felt in all corners of the
world and at all strata.
When?
Thursday, June 12, 8PM
Friday, June 13, 8PM
Saturday, June 14, 8PM
Where?
MacMillan Theatre
80 Queen’s Park
How Long?
1 hour 30 minutes, no intermission
How Much?
$75, $65, $55, $40
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Pre-Performance Talks
Ticket holders are invited to join choreographer Lemi
Ponifasio for a talk at 7:15PM on June 12 and 14, and
Luminato Festival Artistic Director Jorn Weisbrodt for
a talk at 7:15PM on June 13.
“A brilliant, deep work.” —Los Angeles Times
professional dance community by MAU’s director and
choreographer Lemi Ponifasio.
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Photo: MAU
Produced by MAU, in co-production with Concertgebouw Brugge,
Carriageworks Sydney, and Tjibaou Cultural Centre Noumea
June 6–8
A film by Matthew Barney and
Jonathan Bepler
Canadian Premiere
As the Luminato Festival did with Marina Abramovic in
2013, this year’s program provides a complete view of
groundbreaking artist Matthew Barney. San Francisco-born,
Idaho-raised, Yale-educated Barney has earned global
plaudits for his CREMASTER Cycle, created with longtime
collaborator, composer Jonathan Bepler. The epic Cycle will
be presented in its entirety at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and
selections from DRAWING RESTRAINT, Barney’s ongoing
series of studio experiments, will be exhibited at the AGO.
The cornerstone of the Festival’s multi-point Barney
celebration is his latest film River of Fundament, developed
with Bepler and loosely based on Norman Mailer’s towering
1983 novel Ancient Evenings.
River of Fundament is an epic story of regeneration and
rebirth that was conceived of as a contemporary opera
that combines documentary footage of three live acts in
Los Angeles, Detroit and New York, with live-action cinema.
A complete visual and conceptual departure from the
CREMASTER Cycle, River of Fundament will be viewable in
only one worldwide location at any time. Cast includes
Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Aimee Mullins, Milford Graves
and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
“Visionary artist and film–maker… behind some of the most
arresting, strange and beautiful images of our time.”
—The Daily Telegraph
Written and Directed by Matthew Barney
Music Composed and Directed by Jonathan Bepler
Produced by Matthew Barney and Laurenz Foundation
River of Fundament is presented worldwide on behalf of the
artist by Manchester International Festival
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When?
Friday, June 6 , 6PM
Sunday, June 8, 2PM
Where?
The Elgin Theatre
189 Yonge Street
How Long?
6 hours and 10 minutes,
including 2 intermissions
How Much?
$40
Suitable for audiences 18+. Contains explicit content.
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849).
Pre-screening Talks
Ticket holders are invited to join Luminato Festival
Artistic Director Jorn Weisbrodt for a talk 45 minutes
prior to each screening at The Elgin Lounge.
Matthew Barney at the AGO and TIFF
For more of Matthew Barney, see page 18 for details
on his exhibition DRAWING RESTRAINT at the AGO,
and his Meet the Artist talk with Luminato Festival
Artistic Director Jorn Weisbrodt and AGO Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art Kitty Scott.
See page 19 for the screening of The CREMASTER
Cycle at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Arts Partner:
Photo: Hugo Glendinning
River of Fundament
June 7–14
When?
May 31–September 28
Where?
DRAWING RESTRAINT 6, 1989/2004. Copyright: Matthew Barney.
Documentation Photograph: Chris Winget.
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
317 Dundas Street West
How Much?
Visit ago.net
Meet the Artist: Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney will join Luminato Festival Artistic
Director Jorn Weisbrodt and AGO Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art Kitty Scott in
conversation at the AGO’s Baillie Court from
2PM–3:30PM on June 7, 2014. Visit ago.net for
ticket pricing and information.
DRAWING RESTRAINT
Matthew Barney
Ontario Premiere
See page 16 for details on the Canadian
Premiere of Barney’s film River of
Fundament at the Luminato Festival,
and page 19 for the screening of The
CREMASTER Cycle at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
The DRAWING RESTRAINT archive is jointly owned by Laurenz
Foundation, Schaulager, Basel; and The Museum Of Modern Art,
New York, Richard S. Zeisler Bequest and The Blanchette Hooker
Rockefeller Fund (both by exchange).
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The CREMASTER Cycle
Tuesday June 10, 1PM
The Complaint of an Empress
TIFF Films
The Luminato Festival again teams up
with TIFF to present a series of films
that provide deeper appreciation for
pre-eminent Festival artists
The CREMASTER Cycle (1995–2002)
Directed by Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney’s epic, 7-hour Cycle uses the testicular
cremaster muscle to metaphorically explore the ascensions and
descensions inherent to the process of creation.
Matthew Barney will introduce the screening.
The Complaint of an Empress (1990)
Written and directed by Pina Bausch
Pina
Where?
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 2
Reitman Square
350 King Street West
How Long?
7 hour marathon, with intermission
The CREMASTER Cycle
106 minutes, no intermission
Pina
How Much?
Visit tiff.net for ticketing information
starting May 21
Choreographer Pina Bausch transfers her pioneering
brilliance to the screen with this metaphoric series of images
that follow the changing seasons.
View select video works from Matthew Barney’s acclaimed
series DRAWING RESTRAINT at the 4th floor gallery of the
Art Gallery of Ontario from May 31 through September 28,
2014. Each video, DRAWING RESTRAINT 2, 6, and 17, are
part of a significant and long-term project in which Barney
proposes that art-making is parallel to athletic training, in
that the development of form occurs through resistance.
“Drawing Restraint provides an autobiographical path through
Matthew Barney’s work and, in its scope, ambition, and
continuity, is exceptional not only in his oeuvre but also in the
art of the turn of the century.” —Glenn D. Lowry, MoMA
When?
Photo (L to R): Donata Wenders,
TIFF Film Reference Library
May 31–September 28
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with a
member from Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Pina (2011)
Written and directed by Wim Wenders
Arts Partner:
Presented in 3D, writer/director Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated
Pina examines the game-changing virtuosity of Bausch’s
Tanztheater via extracts from four of her defining works.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with a member
from Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Arts Partner:
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June 6–8
Green Porno
Live on Stage
Friday, June 6, 8PM
Sunday, June 8, 2PM
Conceived and Performed by
Isabella Rossellini
Winter Garden Theatre
189 Yonge Street
Imagine the art of seduction on an arthropodan or
elephantine scale. Such is the orgasmic, orgiastic and
occasionally acrobatic bent of internationally-acclaimed
actress Isabella Rossellini’s vibrant invasion of zoological
boudoirs, based on her short Green Porno films for the
Sundance Channel. A lifelong lover of animals, Rossellini
dons costume versions of their fur, skin, scales and wings
for this delightfully insightful, DayGlo examination of the
quirks, curiosities and frequently fatal risks of sexuality and
reproduction across a spectrum of species. Discover just how
boring even the kinkiest human couplings are in comparison
to the adventurousness of sexual relations in the wild.
Green Porno was co-written by Rossellini and Jean-Claude
Carrière, whose two-decade collaboration with director Luis
Buñuel produced such masterworks as Belle de Jour, The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Obscure Object
of Desire. Carriére’s esteemed body of work also includes the
screenplays for The Tin Drum and The Unbearable Lightness
of Being and the Oscar-winning short Heureux Anniversaire,
which he both wrote and directed. Green Porno is magically
enhanced by the imaginative staging of Muriel Mayette, an
accomplished actress and administrateur general of Paris’
Comédie-Française, the first woman appointed to the post in
the theatre’s 300-year history.
Where?
How Long?
How Much?
$85, $75, $65, $45
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Isabella Rossellini at
TimesTalks Luminato
For more information on Isabella Rossellini’s
TimesTalks Luminato interview, see page 47.
“Beautifully bizarre.” —New York Magazine
Text by Isabella Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carrière
Artistic guidance from Muriel Mayette
Lighting Design and Video by Antoine Manichon
English translation by Julia Groopman
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Major Media Partner:
Photo: Mario del Curto
Canadian Premiere
When?
June 12–15
All the Sex I’ve
Ever Had: The
International
Edition
Mammalian Diving Reflex
Canadian Premiere
Face it: your parents do it. So do your grandparents. Yet the
idea of older folks having sex remains horrifying to kids and
grandkids. While our youth-obsessed culture ignores the
intimacy of our elders, Toronto-based performance company
Mammalian Diving Reflex plunges fearlessly into these sexy
waters with their frank, provocative and unpredictable All the
Sex I’ve Ever Had.
All the Sex I’ve Ever Had has been presented in six cities around
the world: Oldenburg, Bern, Singapore, Glasgow, Prague and
Philadelphia. For the Luminato Festival, Mammalian brings
together a team of older performers, one from each city, adding
a Torontonian to bring it all home. This cross-section of very
sexy senior men and women will open up about their sexual
adventures (and misadventures), courageously sharing their
private histories. Anything and everything is revealed, from
illicit decades-long liaisons and unexpected pregnancies, to
role-playing fantasies and orgies, to things we really shouldn’t
mention in a brochure. It’s all there. And it’s all true.
When?
Friday, June 13, 7:30PM
Sunday, June 15, 2PM
Where?
Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles Street West
How Long?
Approximately 2 hours
The length of the show may vary depending
on audience participation.
How Much?
$35
Recommended for audiences over 14 years of age,
parental discretion is advised.
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Education and Outreach Project
For details on High School Health, a Luminato Festival
Education and Outreach project, see page 74.
“Toronto‘s messiah of experimental theatre. A catalyst for
imaginative absurdity, the playwright blows out the walls of
conventional theatre sending storyline conformists scurrying
for cover.” —TorontoStage.com
All the Sex I’ve Ever Had has been developed in collaboration with
Oldenburg Stage Theatre and Pazz Festival
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Marketing Partner:
Photo: Lucia Eggenhoffer
In English, German, Czech and Mandarin with English surtitles.
June 10–14
Paradisiacal Rites
Saint Genet
Conceived, Written & Directed by
Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell
Canadian Premiere
When Marina Abramovic was asked by Harper’s Bazaar to
select ten young provocateurs to watch, Seattle’s Derrick
Ryan Claude Mitchell, artistic director of Implied Violence
and Saint Genet, placed high on her list. Straddling the
border between theatre and performance art, Mitchell’s
bold work follows in the experimental tradition of Abramovic,
Robert Wilson, Jean Genet and Chris Burden, whose 1971
performance Shoot, where he was shot in the arm with a .22
rifle, Mitchell recreated.
Paradisiacal Rites is Mitchell’s most ambitious piece to date:
a non-narrative exploration of American hysteria, nationalistic
vanity, and utopian fervour, Paradisiacal Rites examines the
delirious final moments of The Peoples Temple in Jonestown,
Guyana, the madness attached to the Charles Manson
murder trials, and manic derangement, through an obsessive
commitment to the Oscars. It transforms elements of ballet,
symphony, opera and installation into hypnotic and visceral
performance. Everything and nothing is sacred; and while
everything seen is real – blood, booze, nitrous gasses –
they exist as symbols to shape and propel this audacious
exultation of gloom and glamour.
When?
Tuesday, June 10–Saturday, June 14
House and installation opens at 6:25PM
Show at 7:30PM
Where?
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
(MOCCA)
952 Queen Street West
How Long?
2 hours and 40 minutes, with breaks
How Much?
$35
This production includes nudity, strobe lights, smoke
and fog. Suitable for audiences 18+.
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Pre-performance Programming
Each performance of Paradisiacal Rites will be
preceded by an exhausting procession that begins
at dawn, with Mitchell evoking transgressive images
starting at a secret location and ending in the theatre.
See the website for details on how to join the walk.
Co-commissioned by donaufestival (Austria) and Luminato Festival
professional dance community by Saint Genet’s
choreographer Jessie Smith.
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Presented in partnership with:
Photo: Dan Hawkins
“Actors, ballet dancers, choreographers, musicians, visual artists
and filmmakers each set their skills on a solemn and somber
performance, an intoxicating exhibition at the service of our
existential pain… a stunner.” —Der Standard (Austria)
June 6–15
June 5
When?
When?
Friday, June 6–Sunday, June 15
Nightly at 11PM
Where?
189 Yonge Street
Where?
Photo: Freddie Mojallal
Edward Day Gallery & the Courtyard of the
(MOCCA)
How Long?
How Long?
Jason Collett’s
Basement Revue at
Luminato
Hosted by Jason Collett
In 2007, the year the Luminato Festival debuted, another
genre-blurring celebration of the arts was born in Toronto. It
was showman Jason Collett’s Basement Revue, a sensational
cross-pollination of Canadian literary and musical talent. Last
year, these two creative forces fused to unleash Jason Collett’s
Basement Revue at Luminato, a continuously evolving, utterly
unpredictable revelry that became the late-night destination
for Festival audiences and artists – a festival within the Festival.
Back by popular demand, again hosted by Collett, Basement
Revue moves to new digs, unfolding every night of the Festival
at the MOCCA Courtyard and Edward Day Gallery. Each
evening’s program will remain a mystery right up until show
time. Surprises are essential to the nightly magic. Impromptu
appearances and unscripted performances are all part of
the fun, so be prepared to see just about anyone or anything
unfold. And since the Revue serves as the official, nightly
after-party for all Festival artists, there’s no telling who you’ll be
rubbing elbows with at the bar or who’ll decide to leap onstage.
Event updates will be released daily. Follow the festivities via
#BasementRevue
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How Much?
Visit luminatofestival.com or cbc.ca/q
3 hours
How Much?
$20, General Admission, Standing
Licensed, Admission 19+
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
*Ticket price is inclusive of HST and facility fees.
Q Live at Luminato
Presented in conjunction with the
Luminato Festival
Join the audience for a special live recording of CBC’s awardwinning culture show, Q with Jian Ghomeshi, at the Winter
Garden Theatre on Thursday, June 5.
Presented By:
Supported By:
Q Live at Luminato brings together North America’s largest
multi-art Festival with one of North America’s most acclaimed
culture programs. This show will feature an exciting array of
musical performances, interview guests, panels, and ideas.
Names of the guests and performers will be announced in
the weeks leading up to the event.
Presented By:
With thanks to:
Urbancorp and David A. Mandell
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June 10
Sleeping in the
Devil’s Bed: The
Music of Daniel
Lanois
When?
Tuesday, June 10, 7:30PM
Where?
Massey Hall
178 Victoria Street
How Long?
2 hours and 20 minutes, with intermission
An all-star salute to an incomparable
musical legacy
World Premiere, produced by Hal Willner
Making music, as a singer-songwriter and as a producer, has
been Daniel Lanois’ lifelong passion. While still in his 20s, he
established his sterling reputation, producing a spectrum of
Canadian artists, from Martha and the Muffins to Raffi. Global
renown soon followed when frequent collaborator Brian Eno
invited Lanois to coproduce The Unforgettable Fire for U2. His
groundbreaking work with the band continued with The Joshua
Tree, Grammy winner for Album of the Year. He has since
produced albums for such varied superstars as Neil Young, Bob
Dylan, Peter Gabriel and Emmylou Harris.
As a performer, he has recorded eight bestselling albums and
contributed to several major film soundtracks. Last year, Lanois
was presented with the Governor General’s Performing Arts
Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. Producer Hal Willner
has crafted legendary concerts interpreting and celebrating the
work of Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Nino Rota, among many
others. His all-star salute to Lanois, celebrating five decades of
artistic brilliance, is sure to be as dazzlingly unforgettable.
How Much?
$150, $100, $75, $45
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Education and Outreach Project
As part of the Luminato Festival’s Education
and Community Outreach programming, select
participating artists will work with local students from
the Regent Park School of Music to rehearse and
perform a Daniel Lanois song at the concert.
Daniel Lanois and Select Guests
at TimesTalks Luminato
For more information on Daniel Lanois’ TimesTalks
Luminato interview with select guests from the
concert, see page 46.
Bill Frisell
Kevin Drew
Emmylou Harris
Mary Margaret O’Hara
Daniel Lanois
And more!
“Daniel Lanois knows his way around a recording studio like few
other people on this planet.” —The Globe and Mail
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Photo: Lurah Blade
Featured Artists
June 14
If I Loved You:
Gentlemen Prefer Broadway
— An Evening of Love Duets
When?
Where?
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
1 Front Street East
World Premiere
In 2006, Rufus Wainwright took showmanship to dazzling
new heights with his song-for-song re-creation, on the same
stage, of Judy Garland’s landmark 1961 concert at Carnegie
Hall. Now, in an equally bold move, Wainwright teams with
Grammy- and Tony-winning music director Stephen Oremus
to redefine dozens of the most beloved gems in the Great
American Songbook, all love songs from Broadway musicals.
In their original productions, these songs were performed
as duets by a man and a woman, or by a man singing about
a woman. Wainwright’s recontextualizations, performed
exclusively by men and to men, fortify the songs’ universality
as expressions of love.
Many of these treasured numbers were crafted by some
of Broadway’s most legendary gay men: Noel Coward, Cole
Porter, Jerry Herman, Lorenz Hart. Other songs, like Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s “We Kiss in a Shadow” from The King and
I, have long been claimed as anthems by the gay community.
The groundbreaking evening will showcase Wainwright
and an international spectrum of pop, rock, classical and
musical theatre stars. Drawing on a century of stage hits
and featuring a full Broadway orchestra, If I Loved You will
also serve as a wonderful prelude as Toronto hosts the first
WorldPride ever celebrated in North America.
Featured Artists
David Byrne
Boy George
Josh Groban
Brennan Hall
Glen Hansard
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How Long?
2 hours, with intermission
How Much?
$150, $125, $95, $75, $55, $45
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Rufus Wainwright with Stephen
Oremus and Select Guests at
TimesTalks Luminato
For more information on Rufus Wainwright’s
TimesTalks Luminato interview with Stephen Oremus
and select guests from the concert, see page 47.
David Byrne at TimesTalks Luminato
For more information on David Byrne’s TimesTalks
Luminato interview, see page 47.
Major Media Partner:
Ezra Koenig
Steven Page
Andrew Rannells
Rufus Wainwright
WorldPride Major Partner Event:
June 6–13
tomorrow’s snow &
a way to the light
Friday, June 6–Friday, June 13
Performances nightly, 9:30PM
Terence Koh
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
10365 Islington Avenue
When?
Where?
tomorrow’s snow, an ephemeral yet enduringly powerful new
concept by Beijing-born, Canadian-raised artist Terence Koh,
began to take shape a year ago with a poetic email from Koh to
Luminato Festival artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt.
“deer jorn,” he wrote, “I just had an idea for the piece at the
luminato festival. its based on a margaret atwood novel i
remember reading when i was 8 years old. take a public square
in toronto that has trees in it. fill the plaza with tapiaco powder
so it looks like freshly fallen snow in summer. have an 8-year-old
boy and an 8-year-old girl holding hands and dressed simply in
all white. they make snow angels for eight minutes.”
The tree-filled “plaza” envisioned by Koh is at the elegant
grounds of Kleinburg’s McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Each
evening, preceded by events in the gallery’s foyer, Koh’s magical
flight of fancy briefly becomes reality, before disappearing into
the landscape, as snow angels do.
a way to the light, located in the Artists’ Cemetery on the
McMichael grounds, is a tribute to Canadian artist and writer Emily
Carr. These commissions celebrate Koh’s first solo showing in
Canada and mark the debut of a new phase of his work.
“I used to do sculptures and sound pieces but now I’m just
trying to be. A lot of these things I’m doing don’t require
a studio. It’s just me being myself and asking questions. I
think it’s important for me to be as immaterial as possible.
And maybe in this immateriality there’s spirituality, and
maybe in this spirituality there is humanity.”
Produced by Luminato Festival in collaboration with McMichael
Canadian Art Collection
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How Long?
8 minutes, plus ancillary presentations
How Much?
FREE performance
Tickets for transport and picnic may be purchased
online. Transport to the venue leaves at 7PM from
the Metro Centre Wellington Tower, 200 Wellington
Street (off David Pecaut Square), and returns after
the performance.
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Visit luminatofestival.com for detailed pricing,
performance and travel information.
Pre-performance Programming
Free ancillary presentations complementing
Terence Koh’s pieces begin at 8:15PM.
The McMichael Collection will be open until 9PM
on performance evenings, at a reduced price.
A picnic meal curated by Terence Koh will
also be available for purchase at the venue
prior to performance.
Transport and the picnic can be booked online.
Supported By:
Arts Partner:
Image: Terence Koh
World Premieres
June 13–15
So Blue
Louise Lecavalier
Ontario Premiere
Physically, Louise Lecavalier is an arresting composite
of David Bowie and Tilda Swinton and is, in the world of
contemporary dance, as iconic as both. The Montreal native
began her career at 18 with Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire, where
she met choreographer Édouard Lock. With Lecavalier as his
principal inspiration, Lock created La La La Human Steps.
Many of the troupe’s seminal works – including Human Sex,
New Demons and 2 – were defined by her remarkable power
and presence. Lecavalier also figured prominently in Lock’s
collaborations with Frank Zappa and, fittingly, Bowie.
So Blue, first presented in Düsseldorf in late 2012, marks her
volcanic emergence as a choreographer. Its titular shade is,
she believes, the colour of the soul. Describing the 60-minute
piece, Lecavalier says “I wanted to allow the body to say
everything it wants to say without censoring it, so that out of
this profusion of spontaneous movements, something true
and beyond our control emerges.”
The first 30 minutes of So Blue, its vibrant, swirling
soundtrack composed by Turkish-born Montrealer Mercan
Dede, features Lecavalier in a perilous solo. Joined by
Frédéric Tavernini for the second half, their raw, shared
energy reaches dizzying heights.
When?
Where?
Fleck Dance Theatre
207 Queens Quay West
How Long?
1 hour, no intermission
How Much?
$55, $45, $35
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Ticket holders are invited to join arts journalist
and noted dance expert Michael Crabb for a
talk in the Fleck’s upper foyer an hour prior to
each performance.
Post-performance Talk
Ticket holders are invited to join a Q&A session with
Louise Lecavalier and her dance partner after the
performance on the evening of June 14.
Produced by Fou Glorieux. Co-produced by the Festival
TransAmériques (Montreal), Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Theatre de
la Ville (Paris), Hellerau (Dresden), National Arts Centre (Ottawa);
Creative Residency: Szene Salzburg
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Marketing Partner:
Photo: Andre Cornellier
“Lecavalier is arguably Canada’s foremost female contemporary
dancer. Now she shows herself to be a formidable
choreographer as well.” —Montreal Gazette
June 7–9
Kid Koala’s Nufonia
Must Fall Live
Sunday, June 8, 7:30PM
Monday, June 9, 7:30PM
Featuring Kid Koala and the
Afiara Quartet
Directed by K.K. Barrett
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1
Reitman Square
In his third Luminato Festival appearance, Montreal-based
scratch DJ and music producer Kid Koala follows last year’s
immersive, whimsical Space Cadet with another magical, multidisciplinary adaptation of one of his graphic novels, reimagining
his first book, Nufonia Must Fall. The story centres around a
headphones-sporting robot on the verge of obsolescence and
unemployment that becomes infatuated with a winsome, if
clumsy, office drone. Though the robot cannot sing, he valiantly
tries to write love songs and serenade his beloved.
This live adaptation unfolds via real-time filming, using
multiple cameras, of more than a dozen miniature stages
and the careful manipulation of a cast of puppets. Observe
the creation of scenes and simultaneously watch it on
screen. Director K.K. Barrett, renowned for his work on films
by Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola has created a dreamy
interpretation of the story. He was recently nominated for
an Oscar for his work on the film Her. Live scoring on piano,
strings and turntables is provided by Koala in collaboration
with the dynamic Afiara Quartet, currently the Glenn Gould
School Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at Toronto’s Royal
Conservatory of Music.
Co-commissioned by Luminato Festival, Adelaide Festival, Banff
Centre, Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Santiago A Mil,
and Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen. Creator: Kid
Koala, Director: K.K. Barrett, Set Designer: Benjamin Gerlis. Director
of Photography: AJ Korkidakis. Sound and Video: Vid Cousins, Ben
Knight. Performers and Puppeteers: Felix Boisvert, Karina Bleau, Clea
Minaker. Musical Performers: Kid Koala and Afiara Quartet. Producer:
Ryhna Thompson
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Where?
How Long?
How Much?
$35
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Pre-performance Screening
Performances will open at 7:30PM with the world
premiere of Minotaur, a film of vibrant 3D images
flowing through the stages of birth, death and back,
evoking universal emotions. It is the latest film from
award-winning animator Munro Ferguson.
Post-performance Talk
Ticket holders are invited to join Kid Koala and
Munro Ferguson for a talk on the evening of
June 8 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1,
following the performance.
Image: Kid Koala
World Premiere
When?
June 7–9
Cineastas
Written and directed by
Mariano Pensotti
North American Premiere
Among Latin America’s brightest talents, Argentinean author
and director Mariano Pensotti has earned plaudits for his
masterfully experimental work at leading festivals the world
over. Four years ago, Pensotti began a series of interviews
with various filmmakers in Buenos Aires. He was particularly
interested in the ties between their private lives and their
films. How, he wondered, did aspects of their lives play out
in the fictions they were creating? From those discussions,
Cineastas was born. Pensotti followed four filmmakers
as each completed a movie in and around Buenos Aires.
Concurrently he captured their day-to-day activities and
interactions on film. Designer Mariana Tirantte has created
a stage with a split screen, allowing parallel interplay of the
filmmakers’ lives and the films they shot. As it unspools,
five actors, each filling multiple roles, narrate and contrast
the multiple stories, embodying the directors in their daily
lives and the characters in their films. Pensotti splices the
actors’ live performances like film scenes, achieving an effect
reminiscent of Robert Altman’s Shortcuts. Ultimately, his
intent is not only to dramatize how reality influences fiction,
but also how fiction shapes and influences our reality.
When?
Sunday, June 8, 7:30PM
Monday, June 9, 7:30PM
Where?
MacMillan Theatre
80 Queen’s Park
How Long?
2 hours, no intermission
How Much?
$55, $45, $35
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Ticket holders are invited to join Director Mariano
Pensotti for a talk at 6:45PM on June 8 and 9.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
“Pensotti’s work is always multi-layered, cleverly using theatrical
devices in new combinations, but it remains deeply human…”
—British Theatre Guide
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Marketing Partner:
Photo: Carlos Furman
Presented By:
A coproduction of Grupo Marea, KunstenfestivaldesArts (Brussels),
Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin), Holland
Festival (Amsterdam), Theaterformen (Hannover-Braunschweig),
Festival d’Automme Paris, Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires and El
Cultural San Martín
June 10–12
An imaginary journey by Kid Koala and
Fred Morin with real food and music
World Premiere
Most likely that light at the end of a tunnel is a train.
Trains have opened up the frontiers of the unknown and at
the same time have absorbed and stored the mythology and
exoticism of the places they made accessible to us. Riding
a train has for generations been something transformative,
neither here nor there, an in-between state but at the same
time full of comfort and a sense of belonging. Walt Disney
invented Mickey Mouse on a train ride, Edward Hopper
claimed that riding a train was “entirely human”, Trollope
wrote most of his novels criss-crossing the UK.
Composer/Turntablist Kid Koala and Fred Morin, co-founder
of Montreal’s famous restaurant Joe Beef, both discovered
their passion for trains. Does time stop when you are on a
train? Do you enjoy the journey for the adventure of it or for
the otherworldliness and the thrill of train travel? The Lost
Train is not really about travel, or about food, or about music
– rather, about leaving all of that behind and paying attention
to the moment, to the childhood memories and to where a
journey might lead you, without it ever ending.
This exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime experience is open to
eight people per journey, with only 12 journeys in total. Each
journey comes complete with drinks and delicious eats. The
Lost Train is an amazing opportunity to have these stars of
the music and food scene play and cook for you, as though
in your own living room. Your body will be fully fed by these
masters of their crafts, while your soul might discover
the sweet hunger for places and thoughts you have not
travelled to before.
Are you up for an adventure, where what you see is not quite
what you observe?
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When?
Tuesday, June 10–Thursday, June 12
Four departures daily, two at midday,
two in the evening
Check website for exact start times
Where?
Secret location
Journey leaves from the
Fairmont Royal York Hotel
100 Front Street West
How Long?
How Much?
$225, including transportation
Limited availability, no walk-ups.
Dietary restrictions and food allergies accommodated.
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Photo: Jason Shron
The Lost Train
June 13–14
June 14–15
Card Table Artifice
and TURN ON THE DARK!
When?
Where?
Jane Mallett Theatre
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
How Long?
2 hours, with intermission
How Much?
$45
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
*Ticket prices are inclusive of HST and
facility fees.
Produced by Magicana in collaboration
with Luminato Festival
Supported By:
The Slaight Family
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Photo: Niall Walker
Photo: Julie Eng
Transgressive
Magic
Bullet Catch
Music by Gavin Bryars. Book by David Ben.
Opening Act TURN ON THE DARK! by Rob Zabrecky
Written and Performed by Rob Drummond
Co-Directed by Rob Drummond and David Overend
World Premiere
Canadian Premiere
In 1902, pseudonymous card cheat S.W. Erdnase published the seminal sleightof-hand text The Expert at the Card Table. Nine decades later, inspired by
Erdnase’s work, composer Gavin Bryars and Spanish poet and sculptor Juan
Muñoz created A Man in a Room, Gambling for BBC Radio, ten string quartet
pieces with accompanying narration. In 1997, London’s Artangel commissioned
Bryars and Muñoz to perform the work live at the Maida Vale concerts.
Performer, director, playwright and magician Rob Drummond becomes William
Wonder to tell the incredible story of William Henderson, who died on stage
while attempting to catch a bullet, a stunt so dangerous even Houdini refused
to attempt it. A feast of theatrical magic, Bullet Catch combines storytelling,
mindreading, levitation, games of chance and, for those brave enough to
stay, the most notorious finale in show business. Supported by the Made in
Scotland development fund, Bullet Catch debuted at the 2012 Edinburgh
Festival, where it received a Total Theatre Award.
Now, David Ben brings fresh perspective to their collaboration with Card
Table Artifice, performed by the Art of Time Ensemble and accompanied by
Bryars, with narration by R.H. Thomson and card table artistry by Ben.
Setting the stage for Card Table Artifice is Magic Castle Stage Magician of
the Year Rob Zabrecky with TURN ON THE DARK!, 45 minutes of comically
macabre illusion.
Performed by The Art of Time Ensemble (with special guest, Gavin Bryars)
Live Narration by R.H. Thomson
Card Manipulation by David Ben
Directed by David Ben
Set and Lighting Design by Glenn Davidson
Video Design by Cameron Davis
Sound Design by John Lott
When?
Saturday, June 14, 2PM, 8PM
Where?
Berkeley Street Theatre,
Upstairs
26 Berkeley Street
How Long?
How Much?
$45
Stage Design by Francis Gallop
Lighting Design by Simon Hayes
Sound Design by Ross Ramsay
Produced by The Arches, Glasgow
Artistic Director – Jackie Wylie
Production and Stage Manager – Deanne Jones
Whether or not artist Chris Burden was aware of this magic trick, in 1971 he
performed Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a
distance of about five meters with a .22 rifle. Burden’s Shoot, in turn, was replicated
by artist Ryan Mitchell as part of the lead up to the last performance of his piece
Paradisiacal Rites, which is also showing at the Luminato Festival (see page 24).
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
*Ticket prices are inclusive of
HST and facility fees.
Supported By:
The Slaight Family
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June 9–14
June 10–14
The
Copycat
Academy
When?
Tuesday, June 10, 8PM
Jennifer Doyle: The Politics of Emotion
in Contemporary Art
Thursday, June 12, 8PM
Kendell Geers: Following the Blind Man
Mårten Spångberg: Hijacking as
Proactive Strategy
Academy Open House (FREE)
Saturday, June 14, 4PM–7PM
A weeklong masterclass with
an absent master
A project by Hannah Hurtzig
Produced by Luminato Festival
Where?
The Theatre Centre
World Premiere
Learn more about the selected participants and faculty members on
The Copycat Academy event page at luminatofestival.com
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Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes
Length varies as talks may grow into
durational performances.
Copycat Talks
Evenings during the week, members of the public can also
join The Copycat Academy participants as the faculty deliver
lectures that expand the scope of their teaching – lectures
that, under certain conditions, have the potential to transform
into durational events. Featuring Jennifer Doyle, Kendell
Geers, and Mårten Spångberg.
How Much?
$25
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
For more information on each evening’s talk, visit luminatofestival.com
Image: Gabriel von Max
On each day of this weeklong experience, the 20 participants
in The Copycat Academy will examine a different facet of
General Idea’s work and thinking. The practical and theoretical
investigations, studio visits and discussions will be led
by artists, teachers and facilitators connected to General
Idea: former comrades, critics, and theoreticians, as well as
contemporary artists whose work follows a recursive path.
How Long?
Image: General Idea
The Copycat Academy takes the work and biography of
an artist as the model for its curriculum. Over a one-week
intensive learning experience, an artist’s method of production
will be hijacked and subjected to a temporary parasitic
inhabitation. The 2014 pilot will start with one of the most
influential artist collectives of the late 20th century: Torontobased General Idea. This is meant to be idolatry and cult.
Or more precisely, an act of mimicry. Or more accurately, it
is a critical test of thought and practice, a laboratory where
20 participants can observe the emergence of meaning
while they occupy and replicate themselves in the host. It’s a
masterclass with an absent master.
With support from The Theatre Centre
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Photo: Catalina Kulczar
Photo: Lurah Blade
TimesTalks
Luminato
Photo left: Andre Rau. Photo middle: Sean James
June 8–15
In collaboration with the Luminato
Festival, The New York Times brings
its long-running series of talks
with the most celebrated artists,
newsmakers and social influencers
of the day to Toronto
Daniel Lanois
and Select Guests from
Sleeping in the Devil’s Bed
Isabella
Rossellini
Rufus Wainwright David Byrne
When?
Moderated by Bruce Headlam
Moderated by Sam Sifton
Moderated by Jon Pareles
Moderated by Ben Sisario
Sunday, June 8, 2PM
Sunday, June 8, 6PM
Sunday, June 15, 11AM
Two days prior to the Luminato
Festival’s star-studded salute to his
seismic career (see page 28), singer,
songwriter and producer extraordinaire
Daniel Lanois is joined by producer
Hal Willner and others participating
in the June 10 celebration for a lively,
roundtable confab with New York
Times Managing Editor of Video,
Bruce Headlam. The conversation will
focus on Lanois’ tremendous impact
on contemporary music both within
Canada and internationally, including
his work with U2, Neil Young and Bob
Dylan, the power and poetry of his
compositions and the evolving role
of the producer within the rapidly
changing music industry.
Among second-generation icons,
Isabella Rossellini is that rarest of
examples whose artistry reflects both
of her legendary parents. As an actress,
whose career extends from David
Lynch’s groundbreaking Blue Velvet
to Denis Villeneuve’s erotic Enemy,
she is as gifted as her mother, Ingrid
Bergman. As a storyteller, she is as
masterful as her father, Italian auteur
Roberto Rossellini. In her short film My
Dad is 100 Years Old, she played every
part, including Alfred Hitchcock and
her mother. New York Times editor
Sam Sifton talks with her about her
transformative skills reaching greater
heights with Green Porno (see page
20), in which she embodies insects and
animals to explore sexuality in the wild.
From Show Boat’s “Make Believe” to
Rent’s “Without You,” no Broadway
musical would be complete without a
love duet. Cornerstones of the Great
American Songbook, these numbers
have been endlessly reinterpreted,
but never as cannily as by Rufus
Wainwright and his all-star compatriots
in the Luminato Festival’s If I Loved
You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway – An
Evening of Love Duets (see page 30).
In a spirited discussion led by New
York Times chief pop music critic Jon
Pareles, Wainwright and company
examine both their take of these classic
songs and the lyricists who crafted
them, as well as their careers and their
current projects.
If you know him solely for his 17
years with the band Talking Heads
and subsequent solo albums, then
you’ve barely skimmed the surface of
David Byrne’s artistic genius. Byrne’s
kaleidoscopic career has included film
and TV scores, filmmaking, theatre,
journalism and literature, visual arts,
choreography, and, in keeping with
his passion for cycling, the design
of location-inspired bike racks. His
collaborations extend from Twyla Tharp
to Arcade Fire. Byrne’s keen interest in
the evolution of the music business and
technology will take centre stage in his
wide-ranging interview with New York
Times media reporter Ben Sisario.
Sunday, June 8, 2PM & 6PM
Sunday, June 15, 11AM & 6PM
Where?
MaRS Discovery District
101 College Street
How Long?
1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
How Much?
$25
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Presented in collaboration with:
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with Stephen Oremus and
Select Guests from If I
Loved You
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June 8–11
June 15
Luminato Festival at the
Toronto Public Library
The Day of
Literary Intensity
Two captivating panels, hosted by Literature & Ideas Curator Noah Richler,
extend the Luminato Festival’s rich history of literary exploration
A Literary Picnic and Desserts
Sunday, June 8, 4PM
Kill Like a Scandinavian
Wednesday, June 11, 6:30PM
Luminato #ReadWomen2014
Where?
The Bram & Bluma
Appel Salon
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street
How Much?
FREE
Tickets are required and
available 4 weeks before the
event at torontopubliclibrary.ca/
appelsalon
Arts Partner:
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A Literary Picnic
Photo L to R: Dan Sehlberg, Herman Koch, Elizabeth Renzetti, Heather O’Neill, Jakob
Melander, Thomas Enger, Lisa Gabriele, Miriam Toews
When?
Kill Like a Scandinavian
Luminato #ReadWomen2014
Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo
Nesbo are just a few Scandinavian writers
that have transformed the crime fiction
genre and brought it unprecedented global
renown. Three regional masters of the form
– Norway’s Thomas Enger, Denmark’s Jakob
Melander and Sweden’s Dan T. Sehlberg
– and one from just outside of it, Holland’s
Herman Koch, consider their penchant for a
good murder and the craft that goes into one.
Twitter’s immensely popular #ReadWomen2014
has been busy affirming the contributions,
gifts and unique perspectives of female
novelists and the challenges they still face.
Four of Canada’s bestselling and highly
entertaining favourites – Lisa Gabriele
(writing as L.Marie Adeline), 2007 Canada
Reads choice Heather O’Neill, GG prizewinner Miriam Toews and, new to the field,
Globe and Mail columnist Liz Renzetti –
stake their place in the panoply.
Sunday, June 15
12PM–3:30PM
Trinity Bellwoods Park
155 Crawford Street
(Rain location:
Artscape Youngplace)
FREE
Literary Walks
Sunday, June 15
2PM, 3PM, 4PM
Locations to be announced
$25
The Lost Songs
of Toronto
More than fifty writers for all the reading ages assemble for a multi-faceted, daylong crossmedia celebration of Toronto, the Unseen. Begin the day with A Literary Picnic, at which a
cornucopia of novelists, young adult and children’s writers share their words and views on
three open stages, with the Toronto Public Library’s bookmobile and food trucks present.
Then follow select authors on Literary Walks through the city neighbourhoods that have
inspired their work or been dear to them. Afterwards, finish the day with Soulpepper’s
delightful cabaret, The Lost Songs of Toronto, in which Toronto’s fabled poet laureate Dennis
Lee and five of the theatre’s Resident Artists explore the bygone songs of Hogtown – ballads
and love songs, children’s tunes and rock anthems that have carried the explicit stamp of
the city for 200 years. Only what to do if these songs are “lost” because they never existed?
Write and sing them anew, that’s what, says the beloved author of Alligator Pie. With Waleed
Abdulhamid, John Millard, Patricia O’Callaghan, Mike Ross and Suba Sankaran.
Sunday, June 15
6PM–7PM
Edward Day Gallery
$25 (seated)
$18 (standing room)
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Visit luminatofestival.com for
more details.
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June 2–15
Light
News
When?
June 2–15
Where?
All TTC subway station platform screens
Photo: PATTISON Onestop
More Info
Visit luminatofestival.com or visit artintransit.ca
Take on Me
Luminato Festival’s
daily newspaper
A partnership between Luminato Festival and
PATTISON Onestop
LightNews is a “performance in print.”
Providing information from the practical to
the esoteric, LightNews delves deep into the
extraordinary happenings of the Festival’s 10
days and provides an exclusive, all-access
pass to the thoughts, lives and aspirations of
Festival actors, directors, painters, sculptors,
musicians, authors, programmers, dancers
and producers in their own voices.
Art is a global language that breaks down cultural differences,
and brings people together. Maybe it is the only language
where true communication and an exchange of ideas is
possible. Take on Me is a virtual dialogue via video art
between artists from Toronto and artists that the Luminato
Festival is bringing to Toronto. The artists from outside
of Toronto were asked to create a short video piece that
represents their work. The artists from Toronto were then
asked to create a response. The mini video dialogues will be
presented on platform screens at all all TTC subway station
platform screens stations prior to, and during, the Luminato
Festival. These short clips, played every 10 minutes, function
like a pause button during the autoplay of everyone’s subway
trip. It is an invitation to dream beyond the confines of one’s
own life, one’s own commute and potentially, and very slightly,
to lead our thoughts off track.
Thrill to tales of artistic triumph and terror,
come to know artists through interviews
conducted at light speed. Insightful, funny,
wicked and luminous, LightNews is essential
reading for festivalgoer and bystander alike.
Copies of LightNews will be available daily
June 6–15 at the Festival Hub in David
Pecaut Square and other Festival venues.
Drop by the box office or ask a volunteer for
a copy!
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In partnership with PATTISON Onestop, as part of their
ongoing Art in Transit program, the Luminato Festival
continues on its path to change the way we see and
experience Toronto during the Festival.
Arts Partner:
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June 8
June 14
When?
When?
Sunday, June 8, 2PM
Musicians assemble on floor at 1:30PM
Where?
Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe Street
Where?
Photo: Luminato Festival
Air Canada Centre
Enter through Gate 6, at Maple Leaf Square
How Long?
How Long?
How Much?
$45, $35
How Much?
FREE
Music Mob
Visit luminatofestival.com for complete details,
including sheet music of the unique Music
Mob Boléro arrangement and suggestions for
alternative instruments. Corresponding tutorial
videos of the Boléro arrangement, performed
by select Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra
musicians, are also available online.
Play Maurice Ravel’s Boléro with
members of the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra at the Air Canada Centre
Co-hosted by TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian and
Luminato Festival Artistic Director Jorn Weisbrodt
Ever dreamed of playing on centre court, headlining an arena
concert or starring with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra?
Here’s your chance to do it all! Music Mob goes major league
this year at the Air Canada Centre – perform side-by-side
with members of the TSO, conducted by Music Director Peter
Oundjian. Everyone is welcome, from novice to experienced
musicians. All you need is plenty of enthusiasm, a keen sense
of adventure and, of course, any instrument. Just bring your
violin, trumpet, spoons or sitar, and celebrate the triumphant
orchestral crescendo that is Ravel’s Boléro. Spectators are
welcome and encouraged to cheer on our wonderfully
eclectic mob. Let’s make this the biggest orchestra Toronto
has ever seen!
Select members of the TSO will also lead Music Mob workshops
in the communities served by the City of Toronto’s Local Arts
Service Organizations: Arts Etobicoke, East End Arts, Lakeshore
Arts, North York Arts, Scarborough Arts and Urban Arts.
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A project of Luminato Festival’s Education and
Outreach Program.
Full Colour Logo
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Arts Partners:
Marketing Partner:
Supported By:
Visit tso.ca
Late Night:
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. Courtesy of William Kentridge,
Marian Goodman Gallery (New York/Paris) and Goodman Gallery
(Johannesburg/Cape Town)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
In what has become a beloved Luminato Festival tradition,
Music Director Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra invite you to stay up late and be dazzled by one
of the most powerful and popular symphonies ever written:
Shostakovich’s mighty Symphony No. 5. Completed in 1937,
Symphony No. 5 was premiered that same year by the
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and proved a thundering
triumph, eliciting a 30-minute ovation. At the time, one
prominent critic praised the magnificent, four-movement
work as “joyous, optimistic, life-affirming.” Sharing the bill with
Shostakovich is an equally bold pioneer, American composer
Mason Bates. The TSO will be among the first to present his
new “Garages of the Valley,” a clever, all-acoustic celebration
of Silicon Valley’s tech visionaries. After the performance,
mingle with TSO musicians at a party in the Roy Thomson
Hall lobby, featuring live music by local musicians.
Full Colour Logo
Vertical, Horizontal
Arts Partner:
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Film.
Theatre.
Literature.
Pick up your copy every
Saturday in The Globe and Mail.
The Globe and Mail is proud
to support all things creative at
this year’s Luminato Festival
Festival Hub
All new this year: a fully licensed urban beach environment
At the Festival Hub
June 7–14
Introducing the Special
Weekend Concert Edition
Three major acts, never seen before on the Festival Hub stage
The Heart of the
Luminato Festival
When?
The Festival Hub is the heart of the Luminato
Festival. Alive throughout the Festival’s
ten days and nights with free and ticketed
concerts and events, and open daily from
noon until the wee hours, the Festival Hub
is your starting, ending and in-between
destination of choice. This pop-up paradise,
a whimsical, faux beachfront oasis crafted by
the clever Havana collective Los Carpinteros,
is the ideal spot to relax on a sunny afternoon,
share a drink after work and kick up your heels
all evening long. Come down for a tasty bite at
lunchtime or a drink in the evening and mingle
with art lovers, local artists, international
guests and fellow Festivalgoers. There’s always
something happening, and there are always
surprises in store!
For more details on hours and the events
at the Festival Hub, see pages 63–73 and
visit luminatofestival.com
Saturday, June 7
The Roots with Adrian X, 8PM
Gates open at 7PM
Friday, June 13
TV On The Radio with
Saidah Baba Talibah, 8PM
To learn more about our live stream
interview series Luminato Live and to
submit questions to our Festival artists,
visit luminatofestival.com and Luminato
Festival on Facebook and Twitter.
Slaight Music Series
Produced In Partnership with:
Enjoy a weekday showcase of Canadian talent, live on the Luminato
Lounge Stage. Come down to the Luminato Lounge after work to grab
a drink and enjoy the music.
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The Roots
TV On The Radio
At the crossroads of hip-hop,
neo-soul and jazz are The
Roots. Ranked among the
10 greatest rap groups of all
time by Rolling Stone, the
Grammy Award-winning band
was formed in Philadelphia
more than a quarter-century
ago by Tariq “Black Thought”
Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove”
Thompson. They’ve since
released ten albums and
two EPs, have been the
house band for Late Night
with Jimmy Fallon since the
show’s inception in 2009 and
recently migrated with Fallon
to The Tonight Show in New
York City.
In 2001, guitarist and
keyboardist David Sitek
began experimenting with
vocalist Tunde Adebimpe.
Their band grew to include
vocalist/guitarist Kyp Malone,
drummer Jaleel Bunton and
late bassist Gerard Smith, and
made its full-length recording
debut with Desperate Youth,
Blood Thirsty Babes in 2004.
Their subsequent albums,
including 2011’s multimedia
masterpiece Nine Types
of Light, are a dazzling
testament to the group’s keen
intelligence and take-noprisoners gutsiness.
Ziggy Marley:
The Fly Rasta Tour
Six-time Grammy winner, Emmy
winner, humanitarian, singer,
songwriter and producer, Ziggy
Marley has released twelve
albums to critical acclaim.
His early immersion in music
came at age ten when he sat
in on recording sessions with
his father, Bob Marley. As front
man of Ziggy Marley and The
Melody Makers, he released
eight best-selling albums
garnering three Grammys,
with chart-topping hits like
“Tomorrow People”. His muchanticipated fifth solo studio
album Fly Rasta was released
earlier this year.
See Saidah Baba Talibah perform
See Adrian X perform before The before TV On The Radio goes live See Sierra Leone’s Refugee
Roots go live on stage, page 65 for on stage, page 71 for more details. All Stars perform before Ziggy
more details.
Marley goes live on stage, page
72 for more details.
Saturday, June 14
Ziggy Marley with Sierra
Leone’s Refugee All Stars,
8PM
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
How Much?
$35, each
OR $90 for all three shows
Call 416-368-4TIX (4849)
Individual tickets also available
for sale at Rotate This and
Soundscapes
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At the Festival Hub
June 7
At the Festival Hub
June 7
Taste of the Beach
Philly Funk Sandwich
Featuring Special Weekend Concert Edition, The Roots
When?
When?
Saturday, June 7,
Taste of the Beach,
12PM–5PM
Mexican Institute of Sound,
2PM
Saturday, June 7
Gates open at 7PM
Adrian X, 8PM
The Roots, 9PM
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
How Much?
$35
How Much?
Taste of the Beach
Following the successful 1000 Tastes of Toronto, Luminato
Festival brings the food program right into the heart of the
Festival this year.
Mexican Institute of
Sound
A cornerstone of Mexico’s
electronica movement,
MIS (Mexican Institute of
Highlighting the Cardboard Beach at the Festival Hub (see
Sound) is the brainchild of
page 8) – with loungers, umbrellas and lifeguard stations – 10 DJ and producer Camilo
chefs will be paired with 10 Festival musical artists to prepare Lara. The project was
delicious ‘things-on-sticks’ or favourite summer food recipes launched in 2005, blending
– from the wild and tasty to childhood memories, as long
vintage Mexican tracks with
as it can be cooked on the barbeque! Tantalizing aromas,
samples from records by
specially-designed cocktails, featured DJs spinning an
otherworldly bandleader
exciting playlist that distills the very essence of summer, live Esquival. With its addictive
music from Mexico oozing the swing of modern cumbia – all blend of cha cha, cumbia
create a wild beach party. Imagine yourself on a pre-holiday
and electronica, MIS quickly
holiday – whether under the Caribbean sun or by the shores gained international stature.
at the cottage.
Four albums have since
become global bestsellers.
See Interactivo, Emeline Michel, and Jesse Cook with
special guest Amanda Martinez kick off the Luminato
Festival on June 6, see pages 10–11.
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FREE to attend
Culinary treats, $5 each
Visit luminatofestival.com for
more information on vendors
and artists.
Marketing Partner:
Adrian X
The Roots
Guitarist Adrian X has been
writing and producing music
for more than a decade, rising
to international prominence
in 2010 when he was selected
by Drake to play on his multiplatinum Thank Me Later.
Currently music director for
both Drake and Serena Ryder,
he has also worked with
Kylie Minogue, Nelly Furtado,
Leona Lewis, Keshia Chante
and The Weeknd. Adrian X
recently released his debut
solo album, Soulgazer, under
his own production label,
Ecclectic Electrix.
At the crossroads of hip-hop, neo-soul and jazz are The
Roots. Ranked among the 10 greatest rap groups of all time
by Rolling Stone, the Grammy Award-winning band was
formed in Philadelphia more than a quarter-century ago
by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove”
Thompson. They’ve since released ten albums and two
EPs and collaborated with a spectrum of equally innovative
musicians, including Jill Scott, John Legend, J Dilla, Elvis
Costello and Erykah Badu. Building on the success of Wise
Up Ghost, their 2013 collaboration with Costello, The Roots
adopt an entirely fresh sound on their forthcoming disc,
tentatively titled &TYSYC (And Then You Shot Your Cousin).
They have been the house band for Late Night with Jimmy
Fallon since the show’s inception in 2009 and recently
migrated with Fallon to The Tonight Show in New York City.
Presented By:
Supported By:
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At the Festival Hub
June 8
At the Festival Hub
June 9
Get Down, By Law
Brazilian Samba Soul
When?
When?
Monday, June 9
Aline Morales, 8PM
Seu Jorge, 9PM
Sunday, June 8
The Hidden Cameras, 4PM
Thomas Golubić, 8PM
SYNCHRONIZE, 9PM
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
How Much?
FREE
How Much?
FREE
The Hidden Cameras
Since their emergence
in 2001, The Hidden
Cameras, founded by
singer-songwriter Joel Gibb,
have emerged as Toronto’s
sharpest, sagest and most
outrageously savvy indie
band. Their brand of “gay
church folk music” has filled
eight albums, including the
recently released Age. Gibb’s
gutsiest release to date is, he
says, “no longer concerned
with who he is but rather
with how he came to be.”
SYNCHRONIZE: A live re-score of
Down By Law (1986), a film by Jim Jarmusch
Presented by Thomas Golubić (music supervisor for Breaking
Bad) with performances by Colin Stetson (saxophonist of
Arcade Fire, Bon Iver), SYNCHRONIZE approaches classic films
as living experiences, ripe for a fresh creative spin, new insight
and a deeper appreciation. Having performed live DJ re-scores
at numerous festivals including Sundance Film Festival and
Bonnaroo, Golubić will work with live musicians for the first time
to create an original curated soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch’s
classic film, Down By Law.
In a warm up to the feature film, Golubić will open the night
with an audio/video DJ set featuring classic, popular and art
films from different eras synchronized to contemporary music.
These custom-created montages will run the gamut from
mad scientists set to the Pixies, monster movies with Diana
Ross and Sesame Street alongside old school funk.
Presented By:
Aline Morales
Seu Jorge
Arguably the most accomplished – certainly
the most vibrant – Brazilian musician in
Canada, Aline Morales built her reputation
as a percussionist and bandleader. With the
2011 release of her Juno-nominated Flores,
Tambores e Amores she also revealed her
prowess as a vocalist and composer while
demonstrating the breadth of her interpretive
brilliance. For her Luminato Festival debut,
Morales and her quintet demonstrate that
same imaginativeness with an all-original,
all-Brazilian set that goes beyond Brazil by
flavouring traditional samba and bossa beats
with African and European spices, adding
enticing dashes of avant-garde poetry.
Rio-born singer-songwriter Seu Jorge is
comfortable in almost any music genre,
yet remains staunchly true to his samba
roots. “Samba is our truth,” he says, “our
particularity, our gold medal, our bastion,
our Brazilian flag.” Since 2001, he has
released six top-selling albums, including
Seu Jorge & Almaz, a sparkling 2010 summit
with Brazilian contemporaries Lúcio Maia,
Presented By:
Antônio Pinto and Pupillo. Jorge is also an
accomplished actor, best known for his
appearance in director Wes Anderson’s The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, for which
Supported By:
he also recorded Portuguese versions of
Next Pathway Inc.,
thirteen David Bowie songs.
Chetan and Clara Mathur
Marketing Partner:
With permission from Criterion and thank you to Jim Jarmusch
and Exoskeleton
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At the Festival Hub
June 10
At the Festival Hub
June 11
Northern Lights & Music
Keys on the Street
When?
When?
Where?
Where?
How Much?
How Much?
Tuesday, June 10
Buffy Sainte-Marie, 8PM
Tanya Tagaq, 9:30PM
Wednesday, June 11
Alejandra Ribera, 8PM
Keys on the Street, 9PM
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
FREE
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Two musicians, growing up in the mid20th century in very different corners of
Saskatchewan: in the 1960s, they cross
paths in Toronto’s Yorkville district and in
Greenwich Village. Ultimately they emerge
as the most iconic, female Canadian
singer-songwriters of their, or any, era. One
is Joni Mitchell; the other is Buffy SainteMarie. Though much of her work, spanning
nearly two-dozen albums, focuses on her
Cree heritage and the glories and woes of
Indigenous people across the Americas, she,
like Mitchell, paints on the broadest of music
canvases, unfailingly, unflinchingly speaking
truth to power.
Tanya Tagaq
presents Nanook of the North
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Alejandra Ribera
Aptly described by songwriter Jim Corcoran
as “serenely sensual, poetic, playful and
profound,” Alejandra Ribera is a Canadian
singer-songwriter with Scottish and
Argentine roots, a marvelous olio resulting in
a singularly scintillating sound. Discovered by
CBC radio during an extended residency at
Toronto’s Cameron House, Ribera released
the self-produced Navigator in 2009.
She has performed with the Skydiggers,
Jackie Richardson, Steven Page and Teddy
Thompson. Her sophomore album, La Boca,
has been years in development as, in tandem
with celebrated French-Canadian producer
Jean Massicotte, she’s painstakingly
deliberated every creative detail.
In 1922, filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty paved
the way for the modern documentary with
his contentious but momentous chronicle of
a year in the life of Inuit Nanook, Nanook of
the North. Now, throat singer Tanya Tagaq,
known for her work with Björk and the Kronos
Quartet, draws upon her family’s history in
far northern Quebec and her own Nunavut
childhood to reclaim Flaherty’s masterpiece.
With music composed by Derek Charke,
Tagaq unites with two equally celebrated
musicians – violinist Jesse Zubot and
percussionist Jean Martin – to reactualize the
film’s silent images with emotive soundscapes.
Tanya Tagaq in concert with Nanook of the North
was commissioned by TIFF Bell Lightbox as part
of its film retrospective First Peoples Cinema: 1500
Nations, One Tradition
FREE
Presented By:
Keys on the Street — A recital Program will include
of urban dance and piano
J.S. Bach, Prelude No. 1 in C major
from The Well-Tempered Clavier
F. Couperin, Les Baricades
Mistérieuses
Messiaen, Île de Feu I from Quatre
It’s hard to imagine a less likely union than
Études de rythme 1950
classical music and urban dance, but pianist Debussy, Clair de lune
Angela Hewitt and choreographer Tré
Debussy, Golliwog’s Cakewalk,
Armstrong prove they can make this marriage Children’s Corner
work. Armstrong, most recognizable as a So
J.S. Bach, The Goldberg Variations
Angela Hewitt; with choreography by
Tré Armstrong
You Think You Can Dance Canada judge and
celebrated for her work on feature films, TV
hits and award shows, spurs a troupe of the
finest urban dancers to physically respond to
Hewitt’s exquisite playing. Hewitt, best known
for her cycle of Bach recordings, headlined
her first concert at age nine, and has since
performed throughout the world. An Officer
Presented By:
of the Order of the British Empire, she is
also founder and Artistic Director of the
Trasimeno Music Festival in Umbria.
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At the Festival Hub
June 12
At the Festival Hub
June 13
Colombian Cumbia Dub Club
Black Rock Coalition Redux
Featuring Special Weekend Concert Edition, TV On The Radio
When?
When?
Thursday, June 12
The Souljazz Orchestra, 8PM
Sidestepper, 9PM
Friday, June 13
Gates open at 7PM
Saidah Baba Talibah, 8PM
TV On The Radio, 9PM
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
How Much?
FREE
How Much?
$35
The Souljazz Orchestra
Sidestepper
Saidah Baba Talibah
TV On The Radio
Their claim to be “Canada’s hardest working
combo” is no exaggeration. Founded in Ottawa,
the scorching sextet – keyboards, percussion,
drums, flute, triple saxes and six voices –
serves up the hottest, sweatiest blend of jazz,
soul, Afro, Latin and Caribbean rhythms. Their
five albums have garnered multiple Juno
nominations, and include 2007’s Freedom No
Go Die, which spawned the boldly political
single “Mista President,” and their brand new
album Inner Fire. Stylistically, it is their most
adventurous outing to date, adding Eastern
influences and elements of spiritual jazz to their
remarkable sound.
Think of them as music’s great continental
collision, a glorious melting pot of European,
South American and African influences. British
DJ and producer Richard Blair united with
Colombian singer-songwriter Iván Benavides
in Bogota in 1996 to create Sidestepper and,
blending electronica with Afro-Colombian
rhythms, ignited the cutting-edge “electro
cumbia” sound. Six explosive albums and a
show-stopping performance at the 2004
Coachella Music Festival secured their global
popularity. Benavides departed in 2007, but
Marketing Partner:
the band, always a fluid outfit, continues its
ascent, more fiery than ever.
Her mother is Canada’s “First
Lady of the Blues,” Salome
Bey. Her uncle is Andy Bey,
arguably the finest jazz
vocalist on the planet. Artistic
brilliance is her birthright,
but Toronto’s Saidah Baba
Talibah isn’t one to rest on
family laurels. Her singular
sound, a scorching blend of
rock, blues and raunchy soul,
has taken her from Singapore
to Brooklyn’s Afro Punk and
shaped the killer album
(S) cream, which bested more
than 300 competitors to win
the inaugural Soundclash
Music Award.
In 2001, Brooklyn guitarist and keyboardist David Sitek
– named one of the world’s 50 most forward-thinking
musicians by New Music Express – began experimenting
with vocalist Tunde Adebimpe. Their art-rock band grew to
include vocalist/guitarist Kyp Malone, drummer Jaleel Bunton
and the late bassist Gerard Smith, and made its full-length
recording debut with Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
in 2004. Three more albums have followed, including 2008’s
groundbreaking Dear Science, a dazzling testament to the
group’s keen intelligence and take-no-prisoners gutsiness,
and 2011’s multimedia masterpiece Nine Types of Light.
Celebrate Canadian Citizenship with Adrienne Clarkson
At 10AM – Welcome and celebrate 60 new Canadians as they take their oath onstage with the Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
at a special community citizenship ceremony presented by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Institute for Canadian
Citizenship and the Luminato Festival.
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At the Festival Hub
June 14
At the Festival Hub
June 15
New Orleans Funky Brass
& Rock Steady Reggae
Strings Are The Thing
Featuring Special Weekend Hub Concert Edition, Ziggy Marley: The Fly Rasta Tour
When?
When?
Sunday, June 15
Catrin Finch &
Seckou Keita, 4PM
TSO, 7PM
Saturday, June 14
Afternoon Concerts
The Heavyweights Brass
Band, 1PM
The Soul Rebels, 2:30PM
The Heavyweights Brass Band
The Soul Rebels
Inspired by New Orleans’ glorious brass band
tradition, Toronto’s Heavyweights Brass
Band has shared stages with Trombone
Shorty, Galactic and fellow Luminato Festival
headliners The Roots. Their debut album,
Don’t Bring Me Down, was a knockout, as is
their seismic new Brasstronomical.
Described by the Village Voice as “the
missing link between Public Enemy and Louis
Armstrong,” the unique, brassy sound of The
Soul Rebels emerged in the early 1990s when
cofounders Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss
married traditional New Orleans jazz with
contemporary pop and hip-hop.
Where?
The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
Afternoon: FREE
Evening: $35
Ziggy Marley:
The Fly Rasta Tour
In 2002, the Sierra Leone civil war ended and
the Refugee All Stars emerged like light from
the darkness. Under the direction of Reuben
Koromo, the band progressed from jam
sessions in Guinean refugee camps to fledgling
recordings in their native capital of Freetown.
Six-time Grammy winner, Emmy winner,
humanitarian, singer, songwriter and producer,
Ziggy Marley has released twelve albums to
critical acclaim. The eldest son of Bob Marley,
his much-anticipated fifth solo studio album
Fly Rasta was released earlier this year.
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The Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
Evening Concerts
Gates open at 7PM
Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars, 8PM
Ziggy Marley: The Fly
Rasta Tour, 9PM
How Much?
Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars
Where?
How Much?
FREE
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
Aptly known as the “Queen of the Harp,”
Cardiff’s Catrin Finch graduated from the
Royal Academy of Music in 2002. But her
regal connections don’t end there. She
subsequently revived a British tradition,
dormant for a century-and-a-half, when she
was named Royal Harpist to the Prince of
Wales. Though Finch’s solo and orchestral
work has earned her worldwide accolades,
never has her playing been more stunningly
showcased than in tandem with Senegal-born
Seckou Keita, master of the harp-like kora.
The beauty, and passion, of their musical and
cultural twining is inimitably exquisite.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Salute to the Americas
For the third consecutive year, the Luminato
Festival wraps in grand style with a free
outdoor concert from the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Music Director
Peter Oundjian. This year, in anticipation
of Toronto’s 2015 hosting of the PanAm/
Parapan Am Games, the orchestra is
shaping a musical travelogue, touring the
Western Hemisphere from north to south.
This melodic salute, as vivid as it is varied,
includes compositions by John Weinzwieg
(Canada), John Williams (USA), Ernesto
Lecuona (Cuba), Villa Lobos (Brazil) and
Alberto Ginastera (Argentina). Flag-waving is
heartily encouraged!
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June 6–15
June 6–15
Mammalian Diving Reflex
A highlight of this year’s Luminato Festival is Mammalian
Diving Reflex’s frank, funny All the Sex I’ve Ever Had
(see page 22). This partner project is a youth-led video
investigation of the love lives of accomplished Canadians
including Wayson Choy, Atom Egoyan, Bette Logan and Dan
Hill and starring members of Mammalian’s youth collective:
Virginia Antonipillai, Sanjay Ratnan, Daniel Lastres Rodrigues,
Kathy Vuu, and Wendell Williams. High School Health
facilitates the youths’ knowledge acquisition, allowing their
interests and curiosities to lead the way. The resulting short
films will be exhibited as a video installation throughout the
Festival at Artscape Youngplace.
When?
June 6–15, Video installation on view 11AM–6PM daily
Where?
Artscape Youngplace, Gold Flex Studio
180 Shaw Street
And other pop-up locations throughout the Festival
How Much?
Unseen:
A Literary
Outreach
Project
Photo: Taku Kumabe
Photo: Nicole Bazuin/Mammalian Diving Reflex
High School
Health
In the weeks before the Festival, local authors and artists will
lead elementary school students through a multidisciplinary
exploration of their Toronto, the Unseen (the theme of this
year’s Literary Picnic, see page 48). The students will create
a series of hand-printed postcards that will be given out to
Festivalgoers and showcased as a collective installation in
the hallways of Artscape Youngplace. The students will also
participate in A Literary Picnic acting as onsite jury, leading
interactive critique sessions with authors.
FREE
Where?
Where?
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street
How Much?
Sunday, June 15,
12PM–3:30PM
Literary Picnic
155 Crawford Street
FREE
(Rain Location: Artscape
Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street)
For more information visit
How Much?
FREE
For scheduling and more
information on the student-led
critiques, visit luminatofestival.com
A project of the Luminato Festival’s Education and Outreach program.
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Literary Critiques
June 6–15,
8AM–8PM Daily
A project of the Luminato Festival’s Education and Outreach program.
For more information visit luminatofestival.com
Directed by: Nicole Bazuin and Darren O’Donnell
Join Mammalian Diving Reflex for their project All the
Sex I’ve Ever Had: The International Edition, see page 22.
Postcard Exhibition
Learn more about Luminato Festival’s literary
programming on page 48.
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Category
Event
Free
Dance
Kontakthof – Pina Bausch
Stones in Her Mouth – Lemi Ponifasio
So Blue – Louise Lecavalier
Theatre
Green Porno, Live on Stage - Isabella Rossellini
Cineastas – Mariano Pensotti
Paradisiacal Rites – Saint Genet Stones in Her Mouth – Lemi Ponifasio
All the Sex I’ve Ever Had – Mammalian Diving Reflex
If no start times are listed, please check individual event pages in
the brochure or the Festival website for start times.
Venue
Page
Bluma Appel Theatre MacMillan Theatre
Fleck Dance Theatre
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The Winter Garden Theatre
MacMillan Theatre
Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art (MOCCA)
MacMillan Theatre
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Edward Day Gallery and Museum of Contemporary
TIFF, Cinema 1
Air Canada Centre
Massey Hall
Sony Centre for Performing Arts
Roy Thomson Hall
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Take on Me
Performance & Visual Arts
Cardboard Beach – Los Carpinteros
River of Fundament – Matthew Barney
tomorrow’s snow & a way to the light – Terence Koh
DRAWING RESTRAINT – Matthew Barney
The Copycat Academy
TTC Subway Stations
Festival Hub
The Elgin Theatre
McMichael Gallery
Art Collection
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
The Theatre Centre
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Card Table Artifice
Bullet Catch
Jane Mallett Theatre Berkeley Street Theatre
The CREMASTER Cycle
TIFF, Cinema 2
Film
TIFF, Cinema 2
Pina
TIFF, Cinema 2
Food
Taste of the Beach
Food at the Hub
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Music
Jason Collett’s Basement Revue
Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live
Music Mob
Sleeping in the Devil’s Bed: The Music of Daniel Lanois
If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway —
An Evening of Love Duets
TSO Late Night
Magic
Thu 5 8PM
8PM
4PM
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If no start times are listed, please check individual event pages in
the brochure or the Festival website for start times.
Category
Event
Venue
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Music & Performances
at the Festival Hub
June 6: Interactivo, Emeline Michel,
Jesse Cook with guest Amanda Martinez
June 7: Mexican Institute of Sound
June 7: Special Weekend Concert Edition, The Roots with Adrian X
June 8: The Hidden Cameras, Thomas Golubić,
SYNCHRONIZE: A live re-score of Down By Law
June 9: Aline Morales, Seu Jorge
June 10: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tanya Tagaq
June 11: Alejandra Ribera, Keys on the Street June 12: The Souljazz Orchestra, Sidestepper
June 13: Special Weekend Concert Edition, TV On The Radio with Saidah Baba Talibah
June 14: The Heavyweights Brass Band, The Soul Rebels
June 14: Special Weekend Concert Edition, Ziggy Marley: The Fly Rasta Tour with Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
June 15: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita,
TSO Salute to the Americas
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Literature
LightNews
Luminato Festival at the Toronto Public Library: Kill Like a Scandinavian
Luminato Festival at the Toronto Public Library: Luminato #ReadWomen2014
A Literary Picnic
Literary Walks
The Lost Songs of Toronto
Festival Hub
Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
Various Outdoor Locations
Edward Day Gallery 50
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Talks
Education & Outreach
Other
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Free
TimesTalks Luminato: Daniel Lanois and Select Guests
TimesTalks Luminato: Isabella Rossellini
The Copycat Talks
TimesTalks Luminato: Rufus Wainwright and Select Guests
TimesTalks Luminato: David Byrne
Canadian Citizenship Ceremony
High School Health
Unseen: Literary Postcard Exhibition
Unseen: Literary Critiques
Q at Luminato
The Theatre Centre
Festival Hub
Artscape Youngplace
Artscape Youngplace
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Sun 8
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Tickets
Online
Telephone
Call 416-368-4TIX (416-368-4849)
Monday–Friday, Noon–6PM
In Person
During the Festival (June 6–15, 2014):
Luminato Festival Box Office at David Pecaut Square
Monday–Sunday, Noon–7PM
Evenings of the Special Weekend Concert Edition shows
(June 7, 13 and 14): Luminato Festival Box Office at David
Pecaut Square will be be open from Noon–9PM
Venue Box Offices
Tickets are also available for sale at most venue box
offices. The following venue box offices will open two hours
prior to performances for ticket sales and pick-up: Isabel
Bader Theatre and MacMillan Theatre. Please check with
individual venues for box office hours of operation. Individual
tickets for the Special Weekend Concert Edition shows are
also available for sale at Rotate This and Soundscapes.
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Community Rush Ticket Program
Packages
A limited number of tickets for most performances will be
available for $25 per ticket from the Luminato Festival Box
Office at David Pecaut Square. Community rush tickets are
available at the Luminato Festival Box Office only on the day
of the performance beginning at noon, and will continue
until all community rush tickets have been sold, or until 4PM
(whichever occurs first). Cash only, limited to two tickets per
person in line.
Ticket Packages
Savings of up to 15% when three or more shows are purchased.
Selection of shows and seating availability may vary.
Groups
The Luminato Festival is pleased to offer a discount of up
to 15% for groups of ten or more to most ticketed Festival
performances. To book your group of ten or more, or
for additional information, call 416-368-4849 or visit
lumina.to/groups.
Preferred Hotel Partner:
Hotel Packages
View and select individual hotel packages at lumina.to/hotels.
VIP Package / Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Experience the Luminato Festival in style with a special
Luminato Rate. Visit www.fairmont.com/royal-york-toronto/
promotions/luminato-rate/
All tickets are in Canadian dollars and prices are inclusive
of HST and venue facility fees, but are subject to additional
service or handling fees. Artists and programs are subject to
change without notice. All ticket sales are final and nonrefundable. Savings of up to 15% when three or more shows
are purchased. Selection of shows and seating availability
may vary. Savings of $15 when tickets for all three Special
Weekend Concert Edition shows are purchased as a package
for $90, instead of $35 each.
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Festival
Map
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Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
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Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street
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Berkeley Street Theatre
26 Berkeley Street
Bluma Appel Theatre
St. Lawrence Centre for
the Arts
Edward Day Gallery
9
10
Fleck Dance Theatre
Harbourfront Centre
207 Queens Quay West
93 Charles Street West
Jane Mallet Theatre
St. Lawrence Centre
for the Arts
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MacMillan Theatre
80 Queen’s Park
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101 College Street
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McMichael Canadian
Art Collection
10365 Islington Avenue
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Museum of Contemporary
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Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe Street
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Sony Centre for the
Performing Arts
1 Front Street East
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Fairmont Royal
York Hotel
100 Front Street West
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street
155 Crawford Street
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178 Victoria Street
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189 Yonge Street
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40 Bay Street
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Kiehl’s Since 1851
Festival Hub
David Pecaut Square
55 John Street
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Festival
Hub Map
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Luminato Lounge
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Luminato Festival
Information
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Presenting Partner
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Luminato Festival
Box Office & Distribution
point for LightNews
(daily Festival newspaper)
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Ticketed Entrance for Special
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Entrances / Exits
The Festival Hub is located at
David Pecaut Square, 55 John Street
Festival Stage Supported By:
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Luminato Lounge Supported By:
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More To Explore
More To Explore
The Luminato Festival proudly acknowledges the support
of our corporate, marketing, government and foundation
partners that help bring the Festival experience
to audiences. It’s with their support that Luminato
Festival is able to present groundbreaking productions
from Toronto, across Canada and around the globe, and
provide Festivalgoers with access to free and diverse
artistic experiences.
More To Explore
OLG
Mill Street Brewery
BMO Financial Group
OLG is proud to be back at the Luminato
Festival for the seventh year as a Festival Partner.
Dedicated to building and sustaining vital
community partnerships, OLG actively sponsors
over 250 community events across Ontario.
Mill Street is excited to once again partner with
the Luminato Festival, and celebrate arts and
creativity, and offer our extraordinary beers
for Festivalgoers’ enjoyment. Join us at the
Luminato Lounge for craft beer, great food and
weekday concerts.
BMO Financial Group is proud to support the
Luminato Festival this year. Its contribution to
the cultural fabric of Toronto and commitment
to positive community impact are reflected in
its presentation of Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof.
Learn more at lumina.to/olg
Learn more at lumina.to/bmo
Learn more at lumina.to/millstreet
Explore more at the
Festival Hub
Kia Canada
Manulife
L’Oréal Paris
Redken
essie
Kia vehicles are designed by inspiration. Just
like how the arts and creativity at the Luminato
Festival inspire all those who attend. We’re
proud to return as a Presenting Partner of the
Luminato Festival and invite you to stop by the
Kia space at the Luminato Festival Hub.
At Manulife, we believe every volunteer, every
volunteer act and every hour given back is an
investment in the future of all Canadians. Since
the inception of Luminato in 2007, Manulife has
celebrated volunteers, creativity and the arts
each year and we’re proud to do so again in 2014.
L’Oréal Paris rethinks sun care for the most
beautiful skin under the sun. We invite you to
discover the full range of Sublime Sun at our
lifeguard beach house.
Redken’s aspirational looks are derived from patent
product innovations, inspiration from the industry’s
best educators and a street sense of fashion. Artistic
expression has always been at the core of Redken’s
values which is why we are proud to support
Luminato Festival’s exceptional artists.
As a leading luxury nail brand that blends
the fashionable with the functional, the
name essie is known worldwide as a beauty
trailblazer. Come discover the essie Beach
House at Luminato and get carried away in a
colourful wave at our nail station.
Learn more at lumina.to/kia
For volunteer opportunities in your community,
visit getvolunteering.ca
Learn more at lumina.to/redken
Learn more at lumina.to/essie
Luminato Festival corporate partners
offer you “More To Explore” – an
opportunity to enhance your Festival
experience. Look out for special partner
activities at David Pecaut Square
and other official Festival locations.
Complete details can be found at
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Learn more at lumina.to/lorealparis
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More To Explore
Matrix Biolage
Kiehl’s
Matrix invites you to discover the NEW
reinvented Biolage and to meet your perfect
BIOMATCH! Receive a professional hair
diagnosis and leave with the shampoo and
conditioner sample ideal for your hair type.
You will experience the beauty of nature
decoded by science.
Since our origins in 1851 as an old world
apothecary in New York City, Kiehl’s has
always been committed to offering our
customers highly efficacious products and
personalized service. Join us in celebrating
our long standing tradition of supporting
the arts.
More details at lumina.to/biolage
More details at lumina.to/kiehls
Vichy
Yves Saint Laurent
The better you understand your skin, the
better you can treat, preserve and transform
it. Visit the Vichy Skin Health Centre at
Toronto Eaton Centre for a personalized skin
consultation by our experts.
Visit luminatofestival.com in the coming
weeks for a chance to win an invitation to the
exclusive Luminato and Yves Saint Laurent
Opening Night Party!
More details at lumina.to/ysl
More details at lumina.to/vichy
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Lancôme
How to
Festival
Rain Delays/Cancellations
For information regarding rain delays or cancellations of
outdoor events, visit luminatofestival.com
Reserved Seating
A small number of seats may be reserved at general
admission events. Please respect “reserved” signage.
Lancôme’s infamous Hypnôse Mascara
celebrates its 10th anniversary! Come celebrate
with us a beautiful decade of hypnotic eyes!
More details at lumina.to/lancome
Mobile Devices
Please silence your phones and other devices before
any performance. The light from your phone may also be
distracting to audience members.
Arrive on Time
Performances start promptly at the listed time. Doors for
most of our venues open 30 minutes before the scheduled
time. Ticketed performances: latecomers will be admitted
into venues at a suitable break; some performances may
not include a late seating break. We cannot provide refunds
to those who arrive late, or to those who leave after the
performance has begun. Free and general admission events:
these are limited to the capacity of the venue. Admission
and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parental Discretion
The Luminato Festival welcomes young audiences to our
performances. However, some performances may not be
suitable for children.
Accessibility
The Luminato Festival and its artistic and venue partners
are committed to providing barrier-free access. If you require
wheelchair seating, please advise the ticket agent at the
time of purchase. Additionally, many of our venues provide
other amenities for people with disabilities, such as assistive
Possess a Valid Ticket
listening devices. If you require more information on services
Everyone attending ticketed performances must possess a valid
available for people with disabilities, contact the Festival at
ticket. Make sure you purchase a ticket for everyone attending a
[email protected] or 416-368-3100, ext. 254.
performance, including children and babes-in-arms.
Venue Etiquette
Each performance venue has its own policies, including
those regarding the checking of bags and other large items.
Everyone must comply with these house rules.
Questions?
Contact the Luminato Festival at [email protected] or
416-368-3100. Visit luminatofestival.com for up-to-date
program and performance information.
Please, No Photos
It is not permitted to take photos or recordings (audio and/or
visual) at any ticketed event.
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Festival
Partners
Partner in Creativity
Presenting Partners
Program and Official Partners
Major Media Partners
Marketing Partners
Founding Government Partner
Government Partners
Major Partner
An agency of the Government of Ontario.
Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario.
Corporate Supporters
Aimia, The Boston Consulting Group, Cosmic Design, Glaceau Vitaminwater,
Inkpen Communications Inc., KIND Healthy Snacks, Pravda Vodka, Stikeman Elliott LLP
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Festival
Donors
From the very beginning,
donors have been at the
heart of the Luminato
Festival. Among the
first to stand behind
the Festival were the
Founding Luminaries: art
patrons and civic builders
who shared the vision of
making Luminato one of
the most important annual
multi-arts festivals on
the world stage. We remain
truly grateful to the
following individuals and
organizations for their
generosity and proudly
acknowledge their support.
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Founding Luminaries
Mohammad and Najla Al Zaibak*
Tony and Anne Arrell
Charles and Marilyn Baillie*
Salah Bachir
Avie Bennett*
Helen Burstyn and David Pecaut*
Joan T. Dea and Lionel F. Conacher*
John Donald and Linda Chu*
The David and Stacey Cynamon Family Foundation
Kate Alexander Daniels and David Daniels*
Ian and Kiki Delaney
Cam and Alexandra di Prata
Gail Drummond and Bob Dorrance
The Duboc Family Foundation*
Lonti Ebers and Bruce Flatt
Margaret and Jim Fleck*
Kevin and Roger Garland*
The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin
Charitable Foundation
Anthony and Helen Graham*
Jay and Barbara Hennick and Family
Ian Ihnatowycz and Marta Witer
Lucille and Urban Joseph*
Patrick and Barbara Keenan
Michael and Sonja Koerner*
Tiana Koffler Boyman and Marc Boyman
Joan and Jerry Lozinski
Chetan and Clara Mathur*
Judy and Wil Matthews*
Sloan Mauran and Adrian Tauro
Rob and Cheryl McEwen*
Joseph Mimran and Kimberley Newport-Mimran
David and Audrey Mirvish
Pierre L. Morrissette*
Gordon and Janet Nixon
Nancy Pencer
Sandra and Jim Pitblado*
Jonas and Lynda Prince*
Richard Rooney and Laura Dinner*
Gary and Donna Slaight*
Geoff and Megan Smith
Howard Sokolowski and Senator Linda Frum*
Marisa and Edward Sorbara*
Larry and Judy Tanenbaum*
Phil and Eli Taylor
The Roy Thomson Family
Taylor Thomson
John and Liz Tory
The Hon. Hilary M. Weston and W. Galen Weston
Robin and David Young*
*These visionary donors supported the Luminato Festival before
its inaugural season.
Founding Corporate Luminaries
BMO Financial Group
Dancap Productions Inc.
Falls Management Company
Ivey Foundation
MacLaren McCann
Manulife Financial
RBC
St. Joseph Communications
TELUS
Tourism Toronto
SuperNova Program Development Fund
Mohammad and Najla Al Zaibak
Next Pathway Inc.,
Chetan and Clara Mathur
Gretchen and Donald Ross
The Slaight Family
Big Bang Bash Gala, June 5, 2014
2014 Patron Circle Members
(as of March 19, 2014)
Marilyn and Charles Baillie
Helen Burstyn and Family
Neera and Deepak Chopra
David Daniels and Kate Alexander Daniels
Peter Daniels and Elly Barlin-Daniels
Charlotte Daughney and Neil Boylan
Doris and Ed Daughney
Gail Drummond and Bob Dorrance
Rupert Duchesne
Robert and Julia Foster
Paul Fredricks and Victoria Foley
Bonnie Freedman
Tony and Lina Gagliano
Goring Family Foundation
Anthony and Helen Graham
James and Susan Haldenby
Lucille and Urban Joseph
Vahan and Susie Kololian
Roberto and Lucia Martella
Donald and Helen McGillivray
Jimmy Molloy and Bernadette Morra
Janice Price and Ian Findlay
Sandra Simpson
Maria Soklis, Kia Canada Inc.
Sylvia Soyka
Kirstine Stewart and Zaib Shaikh
William Thorsell
Peter Wilkinson
2014 Foundation Partners
Hal Jackman Foundation
SOCAN Foundation
Co-Chairs
Rupert Duchesne
Luminato Laureates
Sponsors
Aimia
TD
Salah Bachir
Avie Bennett
Julia Deans
Thank you to former board directors for their service
Jim Fleck
Susan McArthur
Michael Koerner
Rob McEwen
Javier San Juan
Gary Slaight
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Connect
with
Luminato
Online
LuminatoFestival.com
Learn about our events, check out the schedule, read our
blog, buy tickets and keep up with all the latest Luminato
Festival news at luminatofestival.com
Our site is mobile friendly so you can enjoy browsing through
our incredible events on your smartphone or tablet.
Songza
Luminato Festival is proud to partner with Songza, a leading
source for free music online that predicts what you’re doing
and serves the perfect expertly-curated soundtrack to
make that moment better. The Luminato Festival playlist
on Songza features music by current and past festival
performers who exemplify the energy, passion and creativity
of Luminato.
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facebook.com/luminatofestival
@Luminato
youtube.com/luminatoevents
pinterest.com/luminato
Get
Involved
instagram.com/luminatofestival
Google+: search “Luminato”
Be Part of the Luminato Festival
Conversation
At Luminato Festival we love to share and celebrate art
and culture. Be sure to follow us on social media and share
your own thoughts, photos, videos, or a favourite Luminato
Festival moment. Use our #Luminato hashtag.
Luminato Festival Live Streams
and Videos
The Luminato Festival is proud to offer an extensive digital
experience for art lovers around the world. Many of our
Festival Hub concerts are live streamed onto our YouTube
channel and can be enjoyed year-round. We also offer
exclusive video content and a behind-the-scenes look at
the creation of the Luminato Festival, the work of its artists
and the global impact of the Festival. You can also catch
Luminato Live, a live stream interview series with Luminato
Festival artists during the ten days of the Festival – fans
have the opportunity to send in their questions via social
media and have them answered.
Support the Luminato Festival
Luminato Festival relies on the continued generosity of
our donors to highlight accessible arts, embrace creative
collaboration and engage audiences. Your donation of
any size helps Luminato Festival develop, support and
showcase extraordinary artistic talent for years to come.
More importantly, your gift keeps the majority of Luminato
Festival’s programs free for everyone to enjoy.
City Lights Program
Join the Luminato City Lights program and light up our
city with creativity. To support accessible programming at
Luminato Festival, please visit lumina.to/donate to make your
donation. Donors can receive a range of insider benefits,
including advance notice of the season program and
invitations to special events.
Volunteer
Our diverse, enthusiastic, and dedicated volunteers are at
the heart of the Festival, enhancing our artists’ and visitors’
experiences by providing information, resources and onsite
support. If you’re passionate about the arts, interested in
learning new skills and meeting new people, volunteering
at Luminato Festival provides many rewarding and creative
experiences.
For more information on volunteering with
Luminato Festival, contact 416-368-3100 ext. 266
or [email protected]
Volunteer Program Presenting Partner
Patron Circle
Become a part of a group of arts lovers whose vital annual
contributions help present the best and the brightest artists
to the Toronto community. With a $5,000 gift, Patron Circle
members enjoy exclusive benefits year-round, including
invitations to VIP events, concierge ticketing service, and a
Festival Pass for eight tickets.
For more information on donating to Luminato Festival,
contact 416-368-3100 ext. 238 or [email protected]
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Festival
Staff
Executive & Administration
Janice Price
CEO
Marcia McNabb, CPA, CA
Vice President, Finance & Administration
Anderson Rouse
Manager, Finance & Administration
Dave Pennington*
Production Accountant
Erin Michel
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Programming & Production
Jorn Weisbrodt
Artistic Director
Joseph Mitchell
Senior Director, Production
Naomi Campbell
Director, Artistic Development
Jessica Dargo Caplan
Director, Education & Community Outreach
Veronica Barton
Producer
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Mark Rochford
Assistant to the Artistic Director
Caitlin Weld*
Production Administrator/Associate Producer
Nadia Yau*
Marketing Production Coordinator
Derek Andrews*
Curator, Music
Jeremy Forsyth*
Volunteer Coordinator
Noah Richler*
Curator, Literature & Ideas
Saskia Rinkoff*
Volunteer Coordinator
FLIP Publicity & Promotions Inc.
Knot PR
Naylor and Associates
Media Relations*
Caroline Hollway*
Producer
Gillian Zulauf*
Resources Coordinator
Jennifer Stein*
Producer
Shani Hamilton Greenlaw*
Assistant Company Manager
Laura Nanni*
Associate Producer
Marketing & Communications
Tiana Roebuck*
Associate Producer, Education and Community Outreach
Aislinn Rose*
Associate Producer
Tyler Shaw*
Associate Producer
Evan Webber*
Associate Producer
Seán Baker*
Production Manager
Tony Crea*
Production Manager
Bob Mitchell*
Production Manager
Sue Koynenburg*
Company Manager
Mary Ann Farrell
Senior Director, Marketing & Communications
Akobi Adams
Manager, Ticketing
Development
Tenny Nigoghossian
Vice President, Advancement
Natasha Udovic
Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships
Martha Haldenby
Associate Director, Development
Erin Thomson
Associate Director, Corporate Partnerships
Rose Bianchini
Interactive Marketing Manager
Tim Whalley
Associate Director, Government Relations
& Corporate Communications
Rebecca Peirson
Manager, Marketing & Communications
Francesca Perez
Development Associate, Corporate Partnerships
Alexandra West
Marketing Coordinator
Mariko Kojima
Development Associate, Foundation & Donor Relations (until
March 2014)
Jordan Angus*
Marketing & PR Assistant
Sasha Lavoie*
Interactive Marketing Coordinator
Chiara Lacey*
Events Specialist
*Seasonal Staff
Victoria Schwarzl*
Public Relations Coordinator
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and bring you the Toronto premiere of
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Listen to the official Luminato Festival 2014 playlist on the Songza
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Co-Chairs:
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Lead Sponsors:
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In Support of the Luminato Festival
For more information on tables, single tickets
or sponsorship, please call 416-572-8458
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Pan American Programming
Luminato Festival celebrates programming
showcasing the cultural richness of the
Americas. Highlights include:
Supported By:
Cineastas, pg 38
Interactivo, pg 10
Jesse Cook, with guest
Amanda Martinez, pg 11
Cardboard Beach,
Los Carpinteros, page 8
Mexican Institute of
Sound, pg 64
Aline Morales, pg 67
Seu Jorge, pg 67
The Souljazz Orchestra,
page 70
Tanya Tagaq, Buffy
Sainte-Marie, page 68
Ziggy Marley: The Fly
Rasta Tour, page 72
Toronto Symphony
Sidestepper, page 70
Orchestra, Salute to the
Americas, pg 73
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BEAUTY IS ETERNAL
BEAUTY IS CULTURAL
BEAUTY IS UNIVERSAL
BEAUTY IS SOCIAL
BEAUTY IS ART
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