Fringe Festival provides colourful theatre By Kate Hargreavesk Lance Writer July 9, 2008 The independent theatre phenomenon known as Fringe Festival will no longer leave Windsor on its fringes.
With the first ever Windsor International Fringe Festival running July 18 through July 27, Windsor will welcome the colourful addition to its summer festival season. 
Popular across western Canada since the 1980s, Fringe Festivals combine live theatre and arts from professional and budding performers. Audiences can see local acts alongside international touring groups for a diverse theatre experience. >> | Eye on the Arts: Katie Kerr By Lindsey Rivait Arts Editor July 9, 2008 UWindsor vocal student Katie Kerr has beat out 200 potential Maria von Trapps Canada-wide in her quest on CBC’s television series, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
Kerr has landed in the top 10 picks to star as Maria in The Sound of Music, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, and David Marsh, at The Princess of Whales Theatre in Toronto.
 Currently, Kerr has survived and is in one of the remaining top seven spots on the show.
Before heading off to Toronto to compete in Maria, Kerr had been in quite a few musical productions in Windsor. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Maryam Yousif: anatomy and awkwardness By Paul Breschuk Lance Writer July 9, 2008 After recently graduating with a B.A. Honours in both Visual Arts and Communication Studies, Maryam Yousif is planning one last hurrah before leaving town in search of a Master’s degree.
In the intimate space of the Common Ground Art Gallery, her latest exhibition will feature hung canvasses, paintings, drawings, and crochet.
 A celebration of bodily forms, her acrylics chart various states of mutation.
In some works, the deformity seems welcomed and glorified whereas the hapless creature in Crossing the Desert with an Infected Leg is not as fortunate. >> |
