Last Minute Fringe - Highly recommended Clotheswap with Textile Museum of Canada

Join us on Fri Jul 12th to see the 3pm performance of Clotheswap - part scripted, part improv, all terrific - Mooney on Theatre. Great bonuses too. Your ticket acts as free admission ($15 saving) to the Textile Museum of Canada for the rest of Fringe. You can bring clothes to swap after the show and whatever is left is donated to Dress for Success Toronto and Sistering, two great organizations that can use the donations. I have my ticket and hope there may be some last minute takers.

Signing up: Add your name to the wait list, purchase your ticket, post that you have your ticket, and you will be moved to going

Synopsis:
A group of old friends with a new addition, meet at Renata’s dead grandmother’s house to have a Clotheswap party - partly just for the joy of the clotheswap, but partly because Renata wants to use it to clear away her dead grandmother’s clothes. The show is touching without being overly sentimental. It’s personal without being too uncomfortable. The characters are funny, without falling into caricature. It felt like it was a real conversation between real people happening in front of us.

Company: LadyBros
Playwright/ Creator: Amanda Barker & Dale Boyer
Director: Dale Boyer
Cast: Amanda Barker, Cassie Cao, Ashley Comeau, Tarah Consoli, Karen Parker

Toronto Fringe was founded by a cluster of local indie artists in 1989 to offer the “fringes” of the performing arts community a platform to create art at a grassroots level. Since then, the Toronto Fringe Festival has become the largest theatre festival in Ontario, showcasing 150+ productions every July at 30+ venues around downtown Toronto. Throughout its three decades of growth, Fringe has kept the indie, grassroots spirit alive and keeps ticket prices lower than any other arts festival in the city, at $13, because they believe everyone should be able to afford to see theatre. This year, the Fringe is proud to present 148 shows. It’s theatre by the people, for the people!

Textile Museum of Canada Exhibits
It presents rotating exhibitions throughout the year, that draw from the Museum’s collection of 13,000 objects and presents the work of local, national and international contemporary artists. It also hosts touring exhibitions and guest curators through various partnerships and collaborations.

1/ Nadia Myre: Balancing Acts
Through beadwork, textiles, photography, video and sculpture, Montreal-based artist Nadia Myre draws attention to the power and histories of Indigenous textile practices that she situates in a colonial context. Balancing Acts is a survey of artwork made over the last ten years – some on view in this exhibition for the first time.

2/ Tapestry of Spirit: The Torah Stitch by Stitch Project
It is an immersive installation that has been collectively created by almost 1500 volunteers of many faiths, under the artistic leadership of Temma Gentles (Toronto).

Cost (make sure it's the 3pm show as there is also a noon show on Jul 12): $13 (includes a $2 service fee)
Purchase your ticket: in person at the Box Office (275 Bathurst St), by tel at 416-966-1062 from 10am-7pm, or online (extra $3 Fee): https://fringetoronto.com/box-office/checkout/tickets/1066%3A23081

Meetup time: 2:30pm in the Fringe line at the Textile Museum of Canada
Start: 3pm
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Meetup spot post-movie: outside the theatre
Wheelchair accessible

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