--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK guys, I've been waiting for Jim to give you all
> the "official" update on
> this event. It is now up on the Joni Mitchell.com
> site with a link to the
> Harbourfront's website. That's where I found the
> link to that kewl music
> video btw. Joni's hommage is scheduled for October
> 19th.
> As Michael would say.....I wanna gozzzzzz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's an article from today's Globe and Mail. $175!
Merde et merde encore!
A cultural feast
MICHAEL POSNER
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
TORONTO -- In what may be the most ambitious cultural
program ever mounted in Toronto, the city's
Harbourfront Centre yesterday took the wraps off its
long-awaited World Leaders: A Festival of Creative
Genius.
To be mounted over five weeks this fall (from Sept. 24
to Oct. 30) in the newly refurbished Liberty Grand
entertainment complex at the Canadian National
Exhibition, the festival will parade a global galaxy
of cultural stars.
The full list of pace-setting honourees, each of whom
will be awarded a $25,000 Harbourfront Centre Prize,
includes:
fashion designer Issey Miyake (Sept. 24);
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberti (Oct. 1);
interior designer Philippe Starke (Oct. 3);
architect Frank Gehry (Oct. 5);
comedienne Lily Tomlin (Oct. 6);
composer Stephen Sondheim (Oct. 11);
film director Bernardo Bertolucci (Oct. 13);
graphic artist Robert Rauschenburg (Oct. 15);
dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter (Oct. 17);
******singer Joni Mitchell (Oct. 19);*****
stage and film director Robert Lepage (Oct. 22);
composer, performer Peter Gabriel (Oct. 25);
composer, arranger Quincy Jones (Oct. 26) and
dancer Pina Bausch (Oct. 30).
Each evening hommage will begin with a preshow dinner,
prepared by some of Canada's most distinguished
chefs,and will be followed by a celebration and
exploration of the artist's work, using film clips,
interviews and performances by guest musicians, actors
and dancers.
Tickets will cost $175, and will go on sale to the
public from June 2 and to American Express cardholders
from May 22.
A satellite cultural agenda of films, discussions,
exhibitions, cabarets, lectures and performances will
be held in other Toronto venues, to further honour
these icons.
More than two years in development, the program,
Harbourfront CEO William Boyle said yesterday, is
intended not only to salute some of the greatest
creative geniuses of our time, but to "explore the
underlying artistic innovation, the nurturing of the
creative spirit and the seminal role that individual
artists play in shaping the world around us."
<<a bunch of irrelevant junk that I snipped out>>
For more information, visit http://www.worldleadersfestival.com
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