By Connor Luczka
May 19, 2021 | 3:20 PM
This weekend marks history for the TVDSB as tickets for their first virtual production goes live.
Central Elgin Collegiate Institute is putting on this year’s production of
The Drowsy Chaperone virtually. The show’s director, Sarah Abbott says that its equal parts scary and exciting:
“Scary earlier on because you’re trotting new territory. There’s no instruction manuals for how to do this . . . having to problem solve and find those new innovative ways to do things was exciting, adventurous, but there were times it got frustrating.”
The cast for this year’s virtual production
Tasmania s all-women, all-electric guitar band Mapatazi rocks out at arts festival
Mapatazi band members fine-tuning their performance during a dress rehearsal.
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Tasmania-based musician Rose Turtle Ertler had not come across a big, guitar-only band playing original music until she started her own.
The all-women band cheekily named Mapatazi consists of 22 electric guitar and bass-playing women of all ages and levels of musical experience. To have so many guitars together was a new thing to try out, Turtle Ertler said. Most people think it s funny, and then when I tell them the [band] name they laugh a bit more.
The week in pictures 12th March, 2021 by Phoebe French
Singer and songwriter Nicole Scherzinger has become the latest celeb to launch a wine. Called Anti-Party, the Grenache-Syrah blend was made in partnership with Nocking Point Wines, with the name chosen to encourage people to stay at home and avoid large gatherings.The wine is being sold in packs of two for US$54.
Scherzinger said: “With the world still very much fighting coronavirus, I wanted to provide some conscientious libation while we remain in various stages of stay-at-home orders across the country. For me, red wine has always instilled a sense of connection, being in the moment and bringing people together. Over the last twelve months, whether it’s been home alone on the phone to my girls, just me and my boyfriend, or a small family gathering – there’s always been a glass of red wine in my hand.”
The Drinks Business
08 March 2021 By Emily Robotham
While there is still a way to go before gender equality is achieved and sexism is stamped out of the wine industry, the trade is making positive progress towards becoming a more inclusive and meritocratic sector, as
Emily Robotham discovers.
For many who work in wine, lockdown has provided an unsought moment of reflection that has led to important conversations about the opportunities available to women working in the industry, and the intersection between gender, race and new technologies.
In October 2020, a collection of private messages edited to look like a newsletter from an anonymous source using the alias ‘wineb tch’ circulated on Twitter, the provocative contents of which caused offense to many members of the trade, not least those who were targeted in the posts.