Rick Miller co-hosts "We Are Pan Am" one-year countdown

July 11-12 2014: 20K co-creator Rick Miller joins co-hosts Amanda Martinez and Nicole Brooks to launch the official one year countdown to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games in July 2015. It's called WE ARE PAN AM, an amazing two-day festival of art and athletics at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.

From the TO2015 website: "Come down to Nathan Phillips Square for free live music from headline artists as part of PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC.
But that’s not all. With world-class athlete appearances, the unveiling of the Cisco TORONTO 2015 Countdown Clock, amazing fireworks and a delicious selection of Pan American foods — WE ARE PAN AM will get you excited about the Games."

This is Rick's third job hosting with Pan Am since his co-creation with Craig Francis "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" (20kshow.com) was awarded a commission by PANAMANIA, the Arts & Culture component of the Toronto 2015 Games.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Behind The Scenes: Richard Feren

Richard Feren : Sound Design

Richard has been creating music and sound scores for Canadian theatre, dance and film since 1992. He also composes his own music and his first album, Rapture, was released on CD in 1997 under the name Crimescene, followed by The Mill, released in 2009. In 1998, he released Descent of Ishtar, a suite of middle-eastern-influenced music, commissioned by the Arabesque Dance Company for a stunningly beautiful production that envisioned the Dance of the Seven Veils as a colourful kabbalistic journey for an ensemble of belly dancers.
Richard’s selected sound designs and compositions can be heard in You Can’t Take It With You, Royal Comedians, Endgame, Oleanna, Fronteras Americanas, A Month in the Country, White Biting Dog; Antigone, Raisin In The Sun, The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Chairs, King Lear, Phèdre, Betrayal, The Guardsman, King Lear, Loot, Mirandolina, Platonov, What the Butler Saw (Soulpepper Theatre); The Mill (parts 1-4) (Theatrefront); My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish Productions); Cul-de-sac, In on It, You Are Here, Monster, Here Lies Henry, The Soldier Dreams andExcerpts From The EMO Journals (da da kamera); Revisited (2B theatre); This Is What Happens Next, Half-Life, Insomnia, The Eco Show (Necessary Angel); Russell Hill, The Good Life, The Designated Mourner and Faust (Tarragon Theatre); Arigato Tokyo, Blasted, Silicone Diaries, Steel Kiss/Gulag, Live With It, Eternal Hydra (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre); THIS,Blue/Orange, Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and The Soldier Dreams (Canadian Stage Company);Unidentified Human Remains and Dali (Crow’s Theatre); The Satie Project (Dancemakers); Possible Worlds, This Hotel(Theatre Passe Muraille); History of the Village with the Small Huts: Trudeau and the FLQ and The VideoCabaret News(VideoCabaret).
Upcoming sound design credits include Angels in America, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Soulpepper Theatre Company).

Richard’s feature film work includes Robert Lepage’s Possible Worlds and Daniel MacIvor’s Past Perfect. He has also composed scores for various short films and videos, most recently Miklat by Rita Leistner and Small, Stupid and Insignificant by Valerie Buhagiar. He has also crafted music for several websites, flash animations and industrial videos and wrote a new original score for the classic silent horror film Nosferatu.

Richard has won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, received the Pauline McGibbon Award in 1999 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Siminovitch Prize.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Behind The Scenes: Itai Erdal

Itai Erdal : Lighting Designer

Itai has designed over 150 shows for theatre and dance companies in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Berlin, London and New York. Some of the companies he worked with include The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Vancouver Playhouse, Actor's Repertory Company, Alberta Theatre Project, Modern Baroque Opera, and The Jerusalem Lab.

Itai has been nominated for seventeen theatre awards:
Winner of the Sam Paine award 2003
Winner of the ADC's Jack King award 2005
Winner of a Dora Mavor Moore award 2007
Winner of Jessie Richardson awards 2009 and 2011.

Happy Canada Day, eh!

KDOONS Network celebrates Canada Day! July 1st marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a single country called Canada within the British Empire with four provinces (the Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec).

The new KDOONS Theatrical Production "BOOM" features Rick Miller's impressions of several great moments in Canadian history: see a short segment about the Maple Leaf flag and the year 1965, as well as other moments, on HeritageMoment.com

Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events through the history of the country:

• the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (1958)
• the first colour television transmission in Canada (1966)
• the inauguration of the Order of Canada (1967)
• the establishment of "O Canada" as the country's national anthem (1980)

to name a few.

People across the country organize celebrations for Canada Day, usually outdoor events like parades, carnivals, festivals, barbecues, fireworks, and free shows or musical concerts.
So to all our friends in Canada, get outside enjoy the sun, and Happy Canada Day, eh!

http://ls4.co/F2U