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    Posted August 31st, 2009 by Maryse Zeidler ·

    On August 30, 2009, over 100 members of Vancouver’s arts community packed themselves into a tiny, sweltering room in NDP MLA Spencer Herbert’s West End office to attend a hastily-arranged press conference.

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    Posted August 29th, 2009 by Allyson McGrane ·

    In the beginning, gaming was called gambling.  And it was illegal in Canada under the Criminal Code starting in 1892.  But then in 1901,  a key exemption emerged - gambling was legal if it was a raffle at a bazaar held for charitable or religious purposes.  By 1906, the...

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    Posted August 27th, 2009 by Andrew Templeton ·
    PLANK Magazine went live at the end of last May as an initiative supported by the Magnetic North Theatre Festival which was held in Vancouver in 2008. We are now moving (with alarming speed) through our first cycle of Festivals we covered in...
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    Posted August 9th, 2009 by Andrew Templeton ·

    Andrew Templeton and Allyson McGrane from PLANK Magazine will be hosting an informal workshop on reviewing this Monday, 10 August, at 2:00 pm at the coffee shop at the Theatre Centre. If you’re free and would like to meet with us and discuss reviewing, please come and join us!

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    Posted August 6th, 2009 by Andrew Templeton ·

    For the second year in a row, PLANK Magazine is at SummerWorks, the nation’s largest juried theatre festival. As with last year, we’ll be bringing you reviews and news from Toronto, our second home (which, for a weedy...

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    Posted July 17th, 2009 by Andrew Templeton ·

    Well, it's been a busy week since the "Alliance for Arts and Culture":http://allianceforarts.com/ sent out a "press release":http://www.plankmagazine.com/thots/bc-arts-community-faces-crisis-according-alliance highlighting statements about the lack of concern amongst members of the arts...

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    Posted July 15th, 2009 by Andrew Templeton ·

    Probably like you, I had no real idea who "Kevin Krueger":http://www.kevinkruegermla.bc.ca/EN/1196/ was until he was appointed Minister for "Tourism, Culture and the Arts":http://www.gov.bc.ca/tca/ (notice the psychologically revealing order they’re put in). A few minutes of research has...

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    Posted May 30th, 2009 by Justin Haigh · Toronto

    "Sean Cullen":http://www.seancullen.com/ used to be one of those Canadian entertainers that people would recognize facially but draw a blank on his name, or conversely, recognize his name but not be able to place him or any of his work. Thankfully that curse of 49th parallel anonymity has been...

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    Posted April 21st, 2009 by Cathy Sostad · Vancouver

    “Biography is the mesh through which our real life escapes.” Tom Stoppard, _The Invention Of Love_

    "The Arts Club":http://artsclub.com/ Granville Island Stage recently produced Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play _The Real Thing_, and the current production by the "United Players":http://www....

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    Posted April 19th, 2009 by Justin Haigh · Vancouver

    Plank moderator extraordinaire Justin Haigh and the esteemed Sketch Comedy Panel return with the second part of the exploration of the state of the art for Sketch Comedy in Vancouver and Toronto. This time around they talk about whether there is a national community for sketch comedy and how the...

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