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Suvendrini Lena
Suvendrini Lena is a Canadian neurologist and writer. She is most noted for her theatrical play ''The Enchanted Loom'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2023 Governor General's Awards. A staff neurologist at Women's College Hospital and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, she was born in London, England, to Sri Lankan parents who had left that country during the Sri Lankan Civil War because of their status as a mixed Tamil and Sinhalese couple. The family moved to Toronto, Ontario, when she was a child. ''The Enchanted Loom'', a play about the enduring psychological effects of the Sri Lankan war, premiered at Toronto's Factory Theatre in 2016, with its cast including Sam Kalilieh and Kawa Ada. It was published in book form by Playwrights Canada Press in fall 2022. In March 2023 she premiered ''Rubble'', a play inspired by the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha as a meditation on the value ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q (radio Show)
''q with Tom Power'' (previously known as ''Q with Jian Ghomeshi'') is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. The program mainly features interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, though subjects and interviewees also deal with broader cultural topics such as their social, political and business aspects. Though not the highest-rated show on CBC Radio One ('' The Current'' and '' As It Happens'' hold that distinction), ''Q'' is the highest rated show in its timeslot in CBC history, surpassing even Peter Gzowski who previously hosted the second hour of '' Morningside'' during the slot. The show is also regarded as standing out in CBC Radio One's schedule through attracting a younger, more social-media-adept audience than other CBC Radio programming. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawa Ada
Kawa Ada (born June 12, 1980) is an Afghan-Canadian actor, writer and producer. He distinguished himself as a stage actor on Broadway and in Toronto before pursuing a career as a film and television actor and a writer. He is also a dancer, a choreographer, a keynote speaker and a voice actor, most recently known for playing Razaq in '' The Breadwinner''. Early life Ada was born on June 12, 1980, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in a Dari-speaking family belonging to the Pashtun aristocracy. His father was a famous national chess champion. In the midst of the Soviet–Afghan War, when Ada was but a young child, his family was forced to flee the country. They entered Pakistan as refugees, from where they emigrated to India. His sister Blanesta Ada was then born on May 17, 1983. Growing up there, Ada dreamed of becoming a Bollywood movie star. The family then illegally moved to Switzerland, where his father was arrested and detained. When Ada was 8 years old, his family finally emigrated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian People Of Sri Lankan Tamil Descent
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Canadian Physicians
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21st-century Canadian Women Writers
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21st-century Canadian Dramatists And Playwrights
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Theatre Passe Muraille
Theatre Passe Muraille is a theatre company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is on Ryerson Avenue in the Alexandra Park neighbourhood of Toronto. Brief history One of Canada's most influential alternative theatres, Theatre Passe Muraille ("theatre beyond walls") was founded in 1968 by director and playwright Jim Garrard, who started the company out of Rochdale College. Its intention was to create a distinctly Canadian voice in theatre. It was conceived with the notion that theatre should transcend real estate and that plays can be made and staged anywhere — in barns, in auction rings, in churches, bars, basements, lofts, even in streetcars. The company was interested in the idea that theatre should endeavour to be a mirror, not a vehicle of social change. The company gained local notoriety when it was charged with obscenity for the play ''Futz'' by American playwright Rochelle Owens, about a farmer who falls in love with his pig. Jim Garrard was succeeded by Martin Kinch, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of five works of poetry: ''Letters from the Interior'' (Diode Editions); the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner ''Water & Salt'' (Red Hen Press); the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner ''Arab in Newsland'' (Two Sylvias Press), ''Kaan and Her Sisters'' (Trio House Press, July 2023), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award. Her collection '' Something About Living'', was winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry from University of Akron Press. It was selected by the American Library Association as a Notable Book in 2025. Khalaf Tuffaha is the recipient of a 2019 Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in '' Barrow Street, Hayden's Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
