 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | CBC | | | Next Sunday’s newsletter will almost certainly be devoted to a special project that we’re keeping under wraps for now (PSA: brace yourself for a blast of Cancon cheerleading), so let’s skip ahead to Canada Day. Yep, it’s not even Monday, but I’m already dreaming of the long weekend.
CBC’s guide to holiday programming is available right here, and on the arts and culture side of things, the main event is Canada Day: A Playlist to Celebrate. That music special, hosted by Isabella Racicot, will focus on the big concert happening at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa, with a lineup that includes Jann Arden, Aysanabee and Preston Pablo. But the broadcast will zip around the country too. Watch for Tegan and Sara in Vancouver, 6 Hearts in Charlottetown and Dear Rouge in Calgary. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Harbourfront Centre | | Need some last-minute inspo for your Pride parade look? New York artist Machine Dazzle has packed Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre with costumes and photographs and scads of “queer maximalist” ephemera for his exhibition, Art and Intention. You’ll find these ‘fits inside Harbourfront’s Gallery 235 through Aug. 13. (A little related trivia for you: Machine Dazzle did the costumes for Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, and an HBO documentary based on that Pulitzer Prize-nominated show is arriving on Crave this Tuesday.) | | | | |  | Johnston Foster | | From the recycling bin to your eyeballs! This piece by Nova Scotia artist Johnston Foster is part of a survey exhibition (From Hell to Breakfast) he’s put together for Cchhuurrcchh, Hannah Epstein’s gallery in Mahone Bay, N.S. | | | | |  | Kenzie Housego | | An idea for your next Hinge date: visit the Art Gallery of Alberta. Kenzie Housego’s got a solo exhibition there through Oct. 15, a show that reflects on how “romantic communication is coded, transmitted, interpreted and misinterpreted through technology.” | | | | |  | Libbie Farrell | | Some “super mega epic” textile art by recent Mount Allison University grad Libbie Farrell. | | | | |  | CBC Arts | | | | | He’s our guest on the newest episode of Here & Queer. Get the story behind his new memoir, Pageboy. | | | | |  | Cylla von Tiedemann | | | | | A new play by Nick Green revisits that story. Casey and Diana opened at the Stratford Festival earlier this month. | | | | |  | Disney | | | | | | | Armchair psychiatrist Anne T. Donahue makes excuses for Disney’s greatest villains. | | |  | Nina Drew | | Illustrated by Nina Drew, this li’l snail buddy is here to remind you to take it easy. Happy Sunday, everybody. (Find more of Nina’s work in our Pride comics zine, Out in Space.) | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time! | | | | | |
