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Incite Foundation supports new musical incubator

Theatre Aquarius’s National Centre for New Musicals gets $500K boost from Hamilton arts support organization founded in 2011 by the late Carl and Kate Turkstra. The Incite Foundation for the Arts is investing $500,000 in the National Centre for New Musicals at Theatre Aquarius. “We are thrilled to…
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Sound on Film

Hamilton-based score composers Nathan Fleet and Mike Trebilcock talk about the business and the process of setting music to movies and TV. Music is often the beating heart of a film or TV show. Take the score away or change it, and no matter how excellent the writing…
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Art, memorabilia exhibit celebrates city’s musical icons

“Love Hamilton: A Celebration of Hamilton Art & Music” is an ode to Teenage Head and late guitarist Gord Lewis, along with Tom Wilson, Daniel Lanois, Gary Spearin and John Coburn. Tom Beckett, owner of Locke Street gallery Beckett Fine Art, calls his current exhibition, “Love Hamilton: A…
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Bringing Pollyanna to life

Theatre Aquarius’s holiday family show will be the world premiere of Pollyanna The Musical and HAMILTON CITY Magazine will show you just what it takes to get to opening night. It’s a rare work of art that produces a protagonist so iconic that she becomes part of the…
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The hidden identity of artist Leonard Hutchinson

His Depression-themed, worker-centred art is considered an ‘irreplaceable’ historical record. Hutchinson understood what it meant to be marginalized. Leonard Hutchinson is best known for evocative 1930s Depression-themed and Japanese-style woodblock prints of working people and places like barns, mills, homes, and landscape in and around Hamilton.  In his…
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Crown & Press: A new art experience

Artist Julia Veenstra and her family have opened a gallery and café on Ottawa Street North that aims to elevate artists and make art accessible. Many great new business ventures were dreamed up during the pandemic. That’s the story of Crown & Press.