RHUBARB FESTIVAL 2019

40TH ANNUAL RHUBARB FESTIVAL

BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR MEL HAGUE

Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for a 40th year. Rhubarb transforms Buddies into a hotbed of experimentation, with artists exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, music, and performance art. Rhubarb is the place to see the most adventurous ideas in performance and to catch your favourite artists venturing into uncharted territory.

Rhubarb is a space for artists and audiences to experiment together by trying new things and testing their boundaries. You always get to see more than one show (often 3 or 4) in one night, and no two nights of Rhubarb are ever alike. So come out and see what’s happening.

The Rhubarb Festival is funded, in part, by the Government of Canada | The Rhubarb Festival est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.

photo of Makram Ayache, Ammanuel Solomon, Kate Lushington + Simon Bracken by Tanja-Tiziana

AND for full info on the fabulous Rhubarb Festival see;

http://buddiesinbadtimes.com/show/the-40th-rhubarb-festival/

AND and for a teaser for this weeks activities - 

FRIDAY NIGHT AT 10PM DO NOT MISS;

THE BRICKS & GLITTER CABARET AT THE RHUBARB FESTIVAL 2019

A Trouble of Queers: The Bricks & Glitter Cabaret

Friday, February 15
10:00PM
In the Cabaret

Bricks & Glitter, Toronto’s DIY summer QTBIPOC festival, brings their queer magic to Buddies for an evening that includes performance art, queerlesque, comedy, and an avant-garde slop queen.

Brock Hessel + Vince Rozario / curators
Mikiki Burino / host + performer
Carolina Brown, Sedina Fiati, Monica Garrido + Coco La Creme / performers

AND 

FROM BROCK HESSEL, CO-CURATOR OF BRICKS AND GLITTER;

BROCK HESSEL

A Trouble of Queers: 

"The Bricks and Glitter Cabaret is a teaser of what’s 
to come at this year’s Bricks and Glitter Festival 
(Aug. 23-Sept. 1, 2019) and a kind of reenactment of last year’s festival. 

So, for RHUBARB, the Bricks and Glitter Cabaret is basically a 9-month-old 10 day QTBIPOC arts and culture summer festival squeezed into one hour of a 40-year-old queer theatre winter festival. 

It’s a big joyous, quivering, and campy “fuck you” to gentrification, white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, heteronormativity, and  compromise."