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Bernice MorrisonManager, Arts, Culture & Theatre

It’s hard to believe another event-filled year is coming to a close and the holiday season will soon be upon us! At this time of year we look for meaning and we pause to give thanks, spend time with family and friends – appreciate and take time to relax and reflect.

The nature of our city’s arts and culture – theatre, movies, song, literature, children’s programming, visual art – are storytelling of the highest order. Without getting too analytical it’s important to remember that arts and culture activities are essential shared communication channels for building an individual’s sense of what it means to be human, of what it means to be part of a community. It is also essential for how we tell our story, how we create our space and how well our story describes who we are and who we are becoming as a community.

While we may not consciously cherish arts and culture’s positive impact on our social well-being and cohesion, physical and mental health, education system, national status and economy-- arts and culture however does confer these benefits and this is so important for us.

Although there is growing recognition that arts and culture is a key economic driver and a key ingredient for city building, when we talk about the value of arts and culture, we tend to think of the intrinsic value. Arts and culture illuminate our inner lives, enrich our emotional world and take us to a different place – we feel a sense of well-being. This we cherish especially in a world that is fast paced, constantly changing and not without its challenges. In this different place we can pause and take a breath – be in the moment.

Behind the scenes, the Recreation and Culture team collaborates with the City’s Economic Development and Tourism team and with other City departments and community partners in actively embracing creative placemaking approaches and partnerships. The results have been exceptionally positive for the community overall. Increased collaboration with key partners like the Brampton Arts Council, Brampton Library and the Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives (PAMA) and with the City’s new Office of Festivals and Events will only continue to support and grow these exceptional results.

Thanks to our patrons, our summer programs and shows proved to be very successful. There were record attendances at our Summer Theatre Series and at our movie nights. Other summer

events were also very well attended. The recent Culture Days initiative that happened across the city at recreation centres and other City properties was an enormously successful

collaboration with the artistic community and key partners. Besides our usual summer entertainment series in the Square, we experimented with pop-up yoga. And, it was a hit!

And you’ll be seeing more and varied pop-up art around town in the near future.

Residents continue to indicate that the 2014–15 Rose Theatre Presents line up is an essential ingredient in Brampton’s place making. Ticket sales continue to be brisk – and

we are thrilled and thankful to have a fuller house at The Rose. It was delightful to see that the two performances of The Wiggles this October were virtually sold out.

By all accounts, children and their families who attended were very delighted with these performances. Other shows like Natalie MacMaster, Rick Mercer and Colm

Wilkinson have sold out. Shows such as The Jim Cuddy Band, April Wine and Famous PEOPLE Players among others are very close to selling out. Thank you

for your continued interest and support.

We also take this opportunity to thank our wonderful sponsors and donors, recognized on page 22 of this issue. Your support and commitment to arts

and culture and the theatre are very important to the community, and contribute to the sustainability of local arts and culture programs and to community well-being.

What a great year we have had entertaining you, and what an even greater season we have ahead of us. The Arts and Culture team are so

pleased to have the privilege and the pleasure of serving the people of Brampton, and we look forward to celebrating the holiday season with you

and your loved ones.

So, please -- pause, take a breath and come join us. Let us take you to that different place where you can delight in the moment.

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our serVice commitment If there is anything we can do to make your experience

more enjoyable, please do not hesitate to ask one of our volunteer ushers or staff

members for assistance.

BAr serViceMost events at The Rose will include bar service.

When this is the case, the bar will be open one hour before showtime and during intermission.

pre-order serVice Avoid long lineups at the bar by taking

advantage of our pre-order drink service. Purchase drinks before the show.

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Food & drinkOnly bottled water is allowed inside the theatre. Try to unwrap candies or lozenges prior to the performance as the crinkling paper can be distracting.

ArriVinG lAteLatecomers will be seated at the discretion of Front of House during an appropriate break in the performance.

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apRil WiNEby nick kRewen

A ClAssiC VintAge still going strongIf you want to hear wall-to-wall hits, April Wine guitarist Brian Greenway is okay with that.

After all, this four-piece venerable Canadian rock institution has plenty of them – 34 to be exact, commencing with 1971’s Top 40 hit “Fast Train,” and including “You Could Have Been a Lady,” up through “Enough Is Enough” and 1993’s “Voice in My Heart” – that there aren’t enough hours in the evening to cover them all.

Or, if you want the band to go a little deeper with some of their later album work, particularly the 1978 through 1981 albums First Glance, harder… Faster and nature of the Beast, recorded after Greenway joined the band in 1977, he’s okay with that too.

In fact, Greenway says there are three types of April Wine appreciators.

“There’s the casual listener, and then there’s the fan, and

then there’s the real deep fan,” says Greenway. “Those that like something like ‘21st-Century Schizoid Man’ or a different version of ‘I Like to Rock’ – something that they normally wouldn’t hear on radio, or even on record.”

If there’s a slight drawback to having such an illustrious history, Greenway says it’s the fact that the Canadian Music Hall of Famers can’t play every hit they’ve generated over the past 45 years from the pen of singer, guitarist, songwriter and founder Myles Goodwyn. Like the ’50s-styled sock hop ballad “You Won’t Dance with Me,” replaced instead by the slightly more obscure “Weeping Widow.”

But even Greenway concedes that may have more to do with instrumentation than anything else. “Dance” is a synth-layered ballad, but the band is currently set up for performance on double guitar, bass and drums.

“We always have great aspirations of starting off with a


keyboard section, but that usually deteriorates about halfway through the year,” he notes with a chuckle. “It’s because we have fly-in dates and you usually don’t have time to set up the sound checks properly for a lot of the ‘throw and go’ outside shows. So the piano disappears after the first couple of months.”

Greenway says that a few songs are slightly rearranged or stretched out, mainly at the behest of Goodwyn, who calls the shots.

“Myles always says, ‘Here’s what I want to sing,’ and you’ve got to give people what he perceives they want to hear, so there are a few songs that change around,” says Greenway, who adds that the band rarely gets together to work on music outside of concert dates.

Greenway also says he’s still impressed by the number of Canadians the pride of Waverly, N.S., has touched since its inception, and says the fans he sees at numerous concerts constantly bombard him with touching tales of how April Wine has impacted their lives.

“People come up to us and share their memories and give us paraphernalia like old ticket stubs, pictures,” says Greenway. “They bring their kids. Sometimes there’s four or five generations attending the shows.”

In the meantime, the band still averages 60

shows a year, playing throughout North America. There was a concern that leader Goodwyn might be calling it a day, since he announced his intention on Facebook earlier this year to retire from the road and allow the remaining April Wine members to audition new singers and carry on without him, but Greenway says that idea seems to have fallen by the wayside.

“Myles hasn’t said much, although he’s booked shows for the rest of the year and is looking to do shows next year, although maybe not as many,” says Greenway. “But we haven’t tried anybody else out [for his concert replacement] in a while and there’s no talk of doing that. It’s all just gone away.”

Which means that after more than 30 albums, 14 lineup changes and $7 million in album sales, April Wine still likes to rock and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Hallelujah!


Imagine you are sitting in your house or an office or classroom, and everything around you starts to float. The chairs hover in the air, the people defy gravity, and your world becomes strange and magical. That’s how founder Diane Dupuy describes a black-light show by Famous PEOPLE Players.

“I like to say Famous PEOPLE Players is where special happens,” says Dupuy, who established the theatre company 40 years ago in Toronto. Since then, it has become known around the world for its black-light puppetry shows that blend awe-inspiring puppets, much-loved music and sharp visual humour.

A Famous PEOPLE Players show takes in a wide sweep of music, from the rock ’n’ roll of Elvis Presley to a moving version of Louis Armstrong’s “what a wonderful world” and highlights from the musical Grease. But it’s the puppetry that truly amazes. Brightly coloured and large scale, they are a far cry from the Punch-and-Judy-style show many people associate with the arts.

“we get lots of people saying they didn’t realize the puppets would be 15 ft. tall,” says Dupuy. “Elvis is about 5 ft. 8 in. with three people making him work, so it’s like the real person is up on stage. we have some props that are as small as a little

mouse scurrying across the stage – which kids get a kick out of – and in the song ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ we have an 18-ft. mamma that comes out.”

Much of the crew at Famous PEOPLE Players is composed of people living with a physical or mental disability. Dupuy founded the company in 1974 to provide opportunities for people with disabilities at a time when they faced greater hurdles to employment and education than they do today.

The company’s big break came just a year later when Liberace invited the troupe to open for his show in Las Vegas. It spent a decade touring with the extravagant pianist, who was the first in a long line of celebrity backers for the troupe. Among the other names who have lent their support are Phil Collins, for whom the company’s theatre is named, and Paul Newman, who was on its board until his death in 2008. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise are also reportedly fans of the show.

“To get celebs to see you is very difficult,” says Dupuy. “I have to say the tenacity of our founder – me – back in the ’70s as a young girl not knowing what you’re getting yourself into and just going for it, had a lot to do with it. But Paul Newman, Jack Lemon, Tom Hanks, Phil Collins, that’s a different generation and

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they were more approachable. “I remember Phil Collins. He’d seen us about four times and

he did the Phil Collins Theatre here. He came one time for a rehearsal to hang out with us.”

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“I don’t know where the time went, it has gone by so fast,” says Dupuy of the company’s 40-year milestone. Though now firmly based in Toronto, the Famous PEOPLE Players is planning to extend its reach overseas in the coming years, hoping to attract performers and crew from around the world to study in one of its programs, which take in a range of disciplines including theatre, visual arts and culinary skills.

Though the Famous PEOPLE Players has a rich and storied history, on stage its show remains as fresh and vibrant as ever. Dupuy prefers to avoid using the term “puppetry” when she talks about what happens on stage, preferring instead to call it “an illusionist kind of show.” The performance at the Rose Theatre will give Brampton audiences a chance to see the magic for themselves.


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by alison BRoVeRMan

MacMastERfAmily ChristmAs

Natalie MacMaster loves Christmas. “I always remember wrapping gifts and putting up the tree. I loved doing all those things. Mom and I would get the house ready,” she gushes over the phone as she’s preparing for her upcoming annual Christmas concert tour. “And obviously the highlight, as a kid, was Santa. It’s a magical time for me, Christmastime, so that translates to the shows.”

Helping the less fortunate is another holiday tradition MacMaster remembers well. “Mum would always have, when I was living at home, Christmas dinner for some

old man,” she says. “For years she would take dinner up to neighbours of ours who lived up a hill behind the house. They were very poor and lived in terrible conditions. we went up there together. I would play the fiddle and Mum would bring them dinner.”

MacMaster grew up on Cape Breton Island playing music. She started on the fiddle when she was only nine years old and began her professional career at age 16 with the release of her first album.

Now an acclaimed and award-winning Celtic musician, Christmas concerts have long been an important holiday tradition for her and her family. This year, she is joined on stage at The Rose by her husband of 12 years, master violinist Donnell Leahy, for their sold-out show natalie macmaster’s Celtic Family Christmas.

The show is filled with songs, stories and seasonal cheer. The music includes Christmas classics (“Sleigh Ride” is one of MacMaster’s favourites) and some original tunes, as well as a few lesser-known but still terrific songs, like “Christmas in killarney,” which MacMaster always relishes playing.

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Leahy and MacMaster love performing together, although MacMaster admits the schedule is more hectic than it’s ever been since they now have six children under the age of nine. “It takes on many different flavours as we grow together. It’ll be 12 years of marriage in October. It used to take on a real giddy [feeling] like, ‘we’re the luckiest people in the world! Two fiddlers! I can’t believe we got married!’” she says. Now that they have the kids to focus on, the giddiness has subsided, or at least been redirected. “I’m just grateful they can walk and live and breathe.”

The kids are home schooled because they travel with MacMaster and Leahy when they’re on tour (which is frequently), and the older ones sometimes appear onstage as well. They love touring as a family, but it’s important for them to get home for Christmas so they can celebrate too. The touring schedule around the holidays can be hectic, says MacMaster, but “It always works out for us. Christmas is really more about our family. I’m happy to be rushed and panicked a bit provided that the rest of them are enjoying it, feeling like they’re getting multiple Christmases.”

So what kind of Christmas spectacular can Brampton audiences expect from MacMaster and family?

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The Rose Theatre lobby is usually a relaxed and casual place. Its high ceiling and large, elegantly arched windows make it a pleasant spot to linger and chat over a drink before a performance or watch the people milling about on the square outside.

But for one night only at the end of November, the lobby will be the place to dance the night away as it shakes, rattles and rolls to the sounds of some much-loved classic hits.

The Rock Around The Rose Sock Hop will take over the entire lobby for an old-school evening of songs of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s guaranteed to make you want to get up and move.

The band charged with pumping out the golden oldies and getting everyone on the dance floor is the Retro Rockers. This five-piece band from the GTA has made a name for itself with its mix of impressive vocals and banter with the audience.

“we have five great harmonies in the band,” says front man

Rock ’n’ Ray Michaels. “we all play instruments, we all sing harmonies. It’s a great time and whenever we perform,

people are always up on the floor.”The evening will see The Rose lobby transported back to

the glory days of pop and rock ’n’ roll with the Retro Rockers performing hits from bands including the Beatles, Monkees, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, C.C.R., Van Morrison and the Temptations.

It’s not obligatory, but the audience is encouraged to get into the spirit of the occasion by dressing as they did back when TV was black and white, the space race was gripping the world, and a phone was something on your kitchen wall, not in your pocket. So, if you’ve been waiting for the chance to throw on that vintage swing dress and pull out the beehive hairstyle, this is the time.

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“It’s something different and I think it’s a great, great idea,” he says. “You’ve got a bar right next to you, you put your drink down and jump on the dance floor right there. I love that. That’s convenient.”

He adds, “The Rose is a great venue. I’ve performed on stage there in the past and the acoustics are fabulous. I love performing at The Rose.”

The Retro Rockers have also performed at the Hershey Centre and Copps Coliseum. They have opened shows for Herman’s Hermits with Peter Noone, Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, Terry Sylvester of the Hollies, and B.J. Thomas. They have also played for some of the original singers of the era. Joey Dee of the Starlighters is reported to enjoy the Retro Rockers’ take on his 1961 hit “Peppermint Twist.”

“He loves our version of it,” says Michaels.

The Retro Rockers carefully craft their set to keep the dance floor moving all night long. Though picking their favourite song to perform is like choosing among their children, they say their rendition of “Shout” by the Isley Brothers is a guaranteed dance floor filler. Or, as Michaels puts it, “we have the whole place turning upside down.”

Though the world has changed hugely in the last half century or so, and it seems almost comical now that when it first appeared rock ’n’ roll set off a panic about declining morals (particularly concerning to the old guard were Elvis Presley’s hip movements), the music of the time continues to hold audiences in its grip. Some of that appeal is based on nostalgia, but the music still wins over fans born well after the time.

The Retro Rockers say they have people from five to 95 turn up to their gigs, and all enjoy the up-tempo sounds of the era.

“Everybody knows our music because they’ve grown up with it,” says Michaels. “Rock ’n’ roll will never die.”


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If you build it, they will come.You might be familiar with that quote from the popular

baseball movie Field of Dreams, but it also applies to Majumder Manor, the dream house Canadian comedian, writer and actor Shaun Majumder is building in Burlington, N.L., with his wife Shelby.

For the past couple of seasons on the W Network, viewers have been following the exploits of Majumder – best known perhaps for his continuing role on the comedy this hour has 22 minutes – and Shelby as they attempt to establish the 350-inhabitant Burlington as a tourist attraction with a hotel and restaurant, while they continue to construct their off-the-grid, environmentally-friendly home.

“We’ve come out of the other side of the wormhole for this summer,” Majumder told odeum in a recent interview from the set of this hour has 22 minutes. “It was an intense summer and we accomplished a lot. We’ll be able to have a few things rented out by next summer.”

That’s not the only community-building activity on Majumder’s plate. He also curates, produces and organizes

The Gathering, a three-day festival of “Fire, Food and Music” held in August to raise funds for Burlington and the social businesses the actor, writer, and producer hopes to build to transform his birthplace into a thriving tourist destination.

Majumder says the whole Manor experience has opened his eyes to “a whole other skill set.”

“The entrepreneurial side has always been strong,” he admits. “If you’re a Canadian performer/actor, you have to have one whether you like it or not because you’re your own company, product, marketer. But getting the skills by being involved and starting from scratch is an amazing learning process.”

In the meantime, Majumder will be partially into filming the 22nd season of this hour has 22 minutes, the Halifax-based news parody comedy he joined in 2003. But the 42-year-old, who has done guest stints in the U.S. on 24 and Cedric the entertainer Presents, had major roles in Detroit 1-8-7 and Unhitched, and more recently a guest role on the republic of Doyle, hungers for more.

Dividing his time between L.A. and the East Coast with his


Michigan-born wife of two years, Majumder says he remains as ambitious as ever.

“I want to create my own TV shows, write films, produce and direct,” says Majumder, who was bitten by the acting bug as a youth.

“Personally, I always wanted to act and that was the number one driving force,” he admits. “So I did theatre in high school and a little bit in university. Then, I wanted to try stand-up because I thought, If I want to do this career, I’ve got to diversify. I’ve got to do everything. So stand-up was one. Improvisation was another. I worked with Second City. I wanted to be an actor and then stand-up took off. And I did specials and then I got recognized for that. It turned out to be a really cool career and I haven’t stopped since.”

Aside from majumder manor, he and his wife Shelby have a number of projects on the go, including a film in development and a couple of comedy series.

“Making a movie these days is so much harder than ever before, because you want to attach big stars to your film in order to get people to put money towards it, and nobody in the film world wants to do film anymore. They all want to do TV,” he chuckles. “It’s a crazy industry, and we’ve written a female-driven stoner comedy that I think has got great potential in the market that we live in now with the cannabis culture, which is incredibly liberal both in Canada and the United States.

“You never have two hot females who are funny driving the show. It’s always two dudes. So we think we’ve got something,

and it’s based on my wife’s life and her and her model friends back in the days when they first moved to L.A.”

Since his wife also acts, Majumder says his marriage is a match made in heaven.

“For Shelby and I it works incredibly well,” he explains. “For the industry we’re in, you have to have somebody who gets it. If you don’t, forget it. If I date a girl from Mimico who wants to be a chiropractor, her hours and my hours and her lifestyle and my lifestyle wouldn’t work. Because you have to have somebody who understands the madness of what we do. There’s no stability, no structure.

“We’re always travelling or moving around, and constantly inventing things to do to make money. It’s not an easy, stable lifestyle. But if you meet somebody who is as passionate and crazy as you are, then it’s fantastic.”

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Visit the unique exhibition space located on the upper level of the Rose Theatre. Each month the gallery features exhibits of original work by local artists.

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