Canada's oldest festival of new stage work has taken an unlikely pandemic pivot: it's become a book
The Rhubarb Festival has become a book with single print run of 888 copies — and no two are the same.
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The Rhubarb Festival has become a book with single print run of 888 copies — and no two are the same
Posted: Feb 10, 2021 1:30 PM ET | Last Updated: February 10
The Rhubarb book, designed by Monnet Design.(Buddies in Bad Times)
Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.
When it came time to decide how The Rhubarb Festival — Canada's longest-running festival of new stage work — would turn 42 years old in the middle of a pandemic, the festival's director Clayton Lee was faced with an intersection of dilemmas — some more unexpected than others.