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In 2009, Victoria's CHEK-TV became the first employee-owned television station in North America after corporate owner CanWest Global threatened to shut it down. The David-and-Goliath story made national headlines and reawakened a belief in local, independent broadcasting. In the five years since the employee purchase of the station, CHEK has weathered the challenges of independent ownership and remains proudly local, in every sense of the word.

Veteran broadcaster Terry David Mulligan takes readers on a galloping romp down the roads he’s travelled, from busting bad guys as a Mountie to spinning records as a DJ to sampling fine wines around the world. He reminisces about growing up in the North Vancouver neighbourhood known as Skunk Hollow, and about the hard price he paid to leave the Mounties for music.

Cet ouvrage rassemble des études portant sur des cinéastes et des films du cinéma québécois. Dans un langage accessible et précis, ces textes, issus d’un exercice critique échelonné sur plusieurs années, vont directement au cœur des films abordés, exerçant un jugement sûr à leur sujet. Tout en préservant le choc esthétique ressenti au contact d’une œuvre, ces textes privilégient la notion de « point de vue ».

Cinquante ans de scène, de trac et de passion du métier, ça se souligne et ça se fête ! Dans ce livre, l’humoriste Denise Guénette raconte son parcours artistique et l’accompagne de plusieurs monologues inédits. S’ajoutent à son récit, de nombreuses photos et les chaleureux hommages de Jean-Claude Germain, Raymond Lévesque, Yvon Deschamps, Clémence Desrochers et Lucille Dumont, qu’elle a côtoyés et avec qui elle a collaboré au cours de sa carrière.

Un livre incontournable sur le théâtre contemporain. À cheval entre l’autobiographie et des réflexions sur l’art et le théâtre, écrit dans un style alerte et vif, À feu et à sang ou Le désir brûlant retrace un parcours singulier. Généreux, intransigeant, effervescent, passionné, Kristian Frédric inquiète et bouscule les complaisances. Il utilise le théâtre comme une arme pour dénoncer « un monde amnésique et inhumain ». Le théâtre est une rédemption pour lui, un lieu sacré où tout doit se dire.

Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two -- an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so many contemporary poets write about film and the magnitude of its effect on modern life.

Critics Who Know Jack: Urban Myths, Media and Rock & Roll is a collection of essays, memoirs and critiques on subjects ranging from TV programming, film and literature to rock journalism, with commentary on the interpretation of artistic expression across conventional and social media. From Feng-Shui to conspiracy theory, Maviglia debunks the rise of faddishness and new age trends that undervalue primary sources in music, literature, theatre, film, and urban living.

Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes of a handful of the people who have observed his work closely over the past two decades -- as audience members and arts workers.

Although he has won plaudits and awards for work in film, television, and on stage, Tony Nardi's most recent headlines have been earned by his TWO LETTERS … And Counting!. Two Letters is based on two actual letters sent to “middle-men” of the Canadian cultural scene: a film/television producer and two theatre critics. Letter One articulates an actor/writer's struggle with cultural stereotypes in Canadian theatre/film/TV. Letter Two challenges misconceptions about commedia dell'arte by present-day theatre critics and directors.

How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendence that kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good.