11 stories by "Aisling Murphy"
How do you retool "What the Constitution Means to Me" for those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution? Consult Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It's been a strange few weeks. Despite the unprecedented scope of this cultural wound, I write to my city from a place of optimism " from an internal ache for community and togetherness. I w…
No longer is there a "safe place" on the Canadian political spectrum; to be moderate is to be a mere bystander to fascism and anarchy, while to cling to either ideological extreme is to enga…
undercurrents Festival Director Patrick Gauthier and Associate Director Brit Johnston have discussed openly their curatorial strategy for this year, one which stems from an urgent problem: m…
There's a danger to hasty reaction.  To act on instinct is to perhaps ignore a bigger contextual picture; a gut-reaction, after all, is only as informed as its bearer. Sometimes that i…
The National Arts Centre's website calls Jivesh Parasram's Take d Milk, Nah? a "highly-hyphenated story about the search for identity." This is certainly the case: Parasram's burst ont…
From the pre-show announcement, we know we won't catch all that is said onstage during Unikkaaqtuat; in being honest, we won't have to. In freeing ourselves from the tethers of language-a…
To escape the mundanity of our own everyday. To revel in the ephemerality of storytelling. To imagine, to empathize, to learn, to transmit. The reasons we still attend, enjoy, and review the…
The split is clear upon first glance. He wears muddy jeans and rain boots, while she dons pristine khakis and purple Crocs. His space boasts shoots of wild rice, while hers stands testam…
Canada is built upon a core tenet of otherness; its populace is built largely upon the mosaicked lives of genocidal settlers, and refugees in search of better. Old Stock is presented by Hali…
That the hallway beside the theatre is filled to its breaking point is a good sign: artists, critics, adults, and teenagers alike revel in a common ground of theatre-going, of festivity, and…
