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Harry Houdini’s last sold-out performance at the Palais Royale in Toronto, on the shores of Lake Ontario, had Annual Luminato Fair audiences holding their breath and standing on their feet. The great Houdini defied death no fewer that six times over the course of his two-hour extravaganza. Said Luminato Artistic Director, Herbert Lowe, “Even Mrs. Houdini looked pretty worried, I’ll say!” — Staff

Artists on a BLIND DATE

MAI PROTOTYPE Rises in Trinity Bellwoods

ALAN Dear P,

That is a wonderful and romantic memory of a blind date—far better than any I have had. Your experience suggests a strategy for people wanting to meet other people. Go around complimenting every-thing you see—good or bad—and sooner or later the artist or maker will be standing behind you. —X

LISA Oh but I was sincere, I think it could only work that way if one was sin-cere. It was a beautiful photograph. Are you in Cambodia? Are you sincere? Yesterday I was on a highway socked in with fog listen-ing to an audio book of Persuasion and the red car that appeared suddenly in front of me, I noticed almost too late, was going ex-tremely slowly, compared to me, let’s say. Too late I remembered the flashing am-ber lights that indicate a moose. I swerved, just as Captain Wentworth was boiling over in a fit of jealousy at a concert and was storming off leaving poor Anne Elliot blushing and stuck with her dastardly cous-in, and I didn’t see the moose first nor last. Blind date with a moose. Stood up. How’s the weather in Cambodia? —PALAN Dear P,

I don’t think there are any moose in Cam-bodia. It’s quite hot here in June, in the 90s. I will write more soon. I just arrived and am jetlagged. —XLISA Hi X,

You’re using Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, does that mean you’re American? Getting curious! —PALAN Dear P,

You have been very patient with me and tolerant of my bad jokes. Americans are not the only ones who use the F scale. It is also used in the Cayman Is-lands, Palau, the Bahamas, and Belize. But you have found me out! What books are you reading now? I just finished Mortality by Christopher Hitchins. —X

LISA X, Funny I was reading an as yet unpublished novel set in the Bahamas. It will be published when it’s finished be-cause it’s mesmerizing. And I’m also reading Eva Trout, a novel by the Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen. It was written in 1968 and she died in 1973. It’s my second time reading it. Last weekend I went to a giant book giveaway, the holdings of a long-closed second-hand bookstore, in an old and abandoned schoolhouse with the windows busted out and boarded up, in an outport, an hour’s drive away. Thousands of books, in piles on the floor. Some were starting to smell mouldly.

ALAN LIGHTMAN & LISA MOORE

ALAN Hello, dear blind date. I have not had much success with blind dates in the past (or any kind of dates), so I hope to be delightfully surprised. I am leaving tomorrow morning for Cambodia. I am the director of a nonprofit organization that works to empower young women there by providing them with hous-ing and leadership training while they are attending college. Yours, —“X”

LISA Wow, X. That’s exciting work. And generous. I don’t think I’ve ever had a blind date. I was once standing in the middle of a cafe proclaiming very loudly about a framed photograph on the wall, how much I loved it. I went on and on, remarking on the composition, the quality of light, con-trast, every detail, how skilled the photog-rapher was, and finally a stranger sitting behind me stood up, tapped me on the shoulder, and told me he was the photogra-pher and asked me out to dinner. That was as blind as it ever got with me. A very ex-pensive dinner, but he couldn’t taste it be-cause he had no sense of smell. More than thirty years ago ( I was VERY young at the time) and I remeber pears glazed with ma-ple syrup. I never saw him again. He took off for Mexico in a convertible the next day. Not because of the date, I’m sure. Hope we last longer...

Welcome toLightNews !You are holding in your hands the inaugu-ral issue of LightNews, Luminato Festival’s brand new, first-ever daily newspaper. In the words of Jorn Weisbrodt, LightNews is “To-ronto’s best arts section,” and the voices in this issue and the issues to come will be proof of that. LightNews is a program of the Festival, not a promotional vehicle. All of our writers, photographers, and artists have been given free rein to speak their minds. As a result the newspaper is a sort of town square, although we think of it as a stage, which is why we’re calling it “a performance in print.” And you, the reader, have to perform as you read it, un-folding a side flap to find what hides beneath it. As you turn it and unaccordion it, you’ll find that one side is a newspaper, while the other is a magazine. Surprises abound: speed interviews with artists, behind-the-scenes di-aries, original cartoons, independent reviews of Luminato shows, blind dates between art-ists conducted via email, the Reverse Proust Questionnaire (we supplied the answers, they wrote the questions), and much more. We’re very proud of LightNews and we hope it will be a constant companion to you throughout the Festival. It’s being printed in a very limited edition of only 2500 copies, so every copy is a collectors’ item. Of course, you could always pass it around. Luminato, after all, is about spreading joy. Welcome, and happy reading!

— Michael Redhill, Editor in Chief

PS: Join us at luminatofestival.com and click on “news” for more of LightNews, including web exclusives!

It all began with Space Cadet, a graphic novel I wrote about the parent/child re-lationship, told through a robot guardian and his daughter who grows up to be a space explorer while he remains home on Earth. Although their daily lives are galaxies away from each other, they share a unique connection. I composed a soundtrack to Space Ca-det on piano and turntable. It’s my ver-sion of the read-along storybook records I spent countless hours escaping into as a child. The music’s tone was also greatly inspired by my daughter, who was just a few months old as I made the record-ing. Her crib was a few feet away from my piano, and I played very quietly so I wouldn’t wake her. Then I added other textural layers, resulting in “quiet-time lullabies” suited for headphone listen-ing. Last autumn, following an introduc-tion by Luminato’s Jorn Weisbrodt, I met Celine Barel, a celebrated perfumer from International Flavors & Fragrances in New York City. We discussed a possible collaboration between the Space Cadet Headphone Experience and IFF. At first I had no idea what this meant. Little did I know that I’d find a kindred spirit in an industry so far away from my own. Celine picked five scenes from the Space Cadet book as inspiration. She then went to the IFF lab, a room filled with thousands of tiny amber bottles of scent ingredients, and began her work. In our phone conversations, it was fascinating to hear Celine speak in very musical and visual terms. She knew the exact ingredients to use to create harmo-nies, high-pitched notes, light, shadow, and colour. She is able to use scent to relay a wide range of emotive concepts, from the abstract (isolation) to the oth-erworldly (the smell of a metallic robot factory). Celine has composed a pitch-perfect and personal olfactory score to the book. It’s a beautiful thing and I can’t wait for the audience at Luminato to experience it.

A PERFORMANCEIN PRINT

Martin Reis as the Man with the Yellow Typewriter. At MAI

Vol 1 / No. 1

Kid Koala on the roots of his out-door, immersive nighttime multi-media masterpiece, Space Cadet

Over the course of the Festival, LightNews will be sending Festival artists on blind dates via email. The following was conducted without either artist knowing the identity of the other. Tomorrow: Brendan Fernandes meets Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

HOUDINI WOWS ‘EM AT SUNNYSIDE

In this issue:

The Marina Abramovic Institute Prototype arrived in Toronto last week on two flatbed trucks. A coproduction between Lumina-to Festival and Amsterdam’s Métamatic Research Initiative, the MAI Prototype is a miniature version of the Institute being built in Hudson, NY by Rem Koolhaus to house ongoing experiential research pro-gramming created by Marina Abramovic. The red-clad “tents”—seven of them—began to rise in the heart of Trinity Bell-woods the week of June 3. A massively heavy structure with a metal skeleton, the MAI Prototype comprises seven interlock-ing pavillions arranged in a circle. Patrons visiting the structure will be asked to com-mit two hours to the experience and afterwards will receive a certificate of completion. — Staff

Comix by Lorenz Peter

Dear: DiaryIf everything were free, everything would cost less. I know it sounds banal but it is the truth. The BVG (the Berlin Subway Compa-ny) calculated that if they fired all conduc-tors, got rid of all ticket vending machines, security who has to empty them, account-ing, everything that it takes to make mon-ey, and just made riding the subway free, it would save them money. Analysts cal-culated that if Smithfield, the worlds larg-est producer of pork, had to pay for all the environmental damage they cause with their hog factories, they would not make a profit anymore. Wouldn’t it make much more sense if they just let all the pigs free and closed down the factories? Don’t we know that putting on an opera is so expen-sive? Wouldn’t it make sense if we did it for free? Isn’t the opera sort of the subway of our culture? Always some drama, totally confusing, a bit stuffy, out of date, and way too slow? Isn’t it just too expensive to run this world? Wouldn’t it make more sense to make everything free? Isn’t love the great-est thing? And isn’t love free? Why do we have to pay for everything that is less great? — Jorn Weisbrodt

Why buy a ticket? Buy a ticket for what it symbolizes: your commitment to, invest-ment in, and love of live music, dance, or theatre. When you buy a ticket you make a com-mitment to be in that seat, in that venue, on that day, at that time for the duration of the performance. You make a commitment to bear witness to stars paying tribute to an even bigger star; to music taking shape and coming to life in the movements of a danc-er; to a soprano effortlessly creating the most glorious sound; to the ebb and flow of the words of a great orator; to the wonder of a sleight of hand; and to the marvel that is Marina Abramovic. When you buy a ticket you make an in-vestment (albeit small) in the art form, the performers, the venue, the local commu-nity, and the global art scene. Your invest-ment ensures that the audiences, artists, and producers of tomorrow will have the same world class venues of today to enjoy live music, dance, or theatre. Above all, when you buy a ticket you show your love of arts and culture. Isn’t love, at any cost, worth it? Go on: buy a ticket!

— Akobi Adams

Jorn Weisbrodt & Akobi Adams discuss the finer points of gratis events vs. ticketed ones

PRO & CON: Free vs. Ticketed

Space Cadet

lorenzpeter.blogspot.ca

June 14, 1922

LightNews Vol 1. No 1. LightNews is an independent program of Luminato Festival. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the writers and artists and may not reflect the views and opinions of Luminato Festival or its sponsors. No pandas were harmed in the creation of this newspaper.

Akobi Adams is Luminato’s assistant manager of ticketing.Chester Brown, Dave Lapp, and Lorenz Peter are Toronto comic book artists.Sara Diamond is the president of OCAD UniversityMary Rose Donnelly ’s debut novel is Great Vil-lage (Cormorant Books). She reads at A Literary Picnic on June 22 in Trinity Bellwoods Park.Kid Koala is the creator of Space Cadet, which plays at The Hub on June 14 and 15.Alan Lightman is a professor at MIT and the au-thor of Einstein’s Dreams. He appears at “How do Quantum Leaps of Creativity Occur?” an Evening Illumination on June 21, at TIFF.Lisa Moore is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is the brand new Caught (House of Anansi Press). Lisa reads on June 20 at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Public Refer-ence Library as part of Luminato’s Gala Reading event.Alexander Neef is the general director of the COC.Martin Reis is a Toronto photographer and artist.Saskia Rinkoff is one of Luminato’s volunteer coordinators.Gillian Savigny is a poet whose first collection is called Notebook M (Insomniac). She reads at A Lit-erary Picnic on June 22 in Trinity Bellwoods Park.Jorn Weisbrodt is Luminato’s artistic director.

For tickets and more information, please visit www.luminatofestival.com.

Friday / June 14 / 2013 Toronto, Ontario

EDITOR IN CHIEFMichael Redhill

ASSISTANT EDITOR/SNAKE CHARMERNora Fleury

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LUMINATO FESTIVALJorn Weisbrodt

PRODUCTION MANAGERDan Daley

DESIGNPentagramDan Daley

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Time Event Location

AllDay LuminatoPortraits:AnArtFestivalHub on the Move Project

10AM DollsbyViktor&RolfThorsellSpiritHouse

11AM Stockpile AllenLambertGalleria

Noon LunchtimeIllumination:KidFestivalHub Koala,Buck65&ElanMastai

5PM MAI—PrototypeTrinityBellwoodsPark

6PM EveningIllumination:TIFFBellLightbox TheCityasaStage

7:30PM ConcertoforPianoMazzoleniConcertHall &Pasteboards

7:30PM TheLifeandDeathBlumaAppelTheatre ofMarinaAbramovic

8PM OpeningNightattheFestivalFestivalHub Hub:k-os,SerenaRyder

9:30PM TheDaisyTheatreBerkeleyStreetTheatre

10:30PM SpaceCadetFestivalHub

11:30PM TheCourtyardRevueBerkeleyStreetTheatre at Luminato

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Today @ Luminato Festival

Kid Koala on Space Cadet

The first instalment of Spovator Flecendarby Chester Brown and Dave Lapp

A review of the Luminato Festival Hub by Sara Diamond

Jorn Weisbrodt and Akobi Adamsgo head-to-head in Pro & Con

A comic by Lorenz Peter

Alan Lightman and Lisa Moore go on a date

… and much more

On the QT“One Thousand Speculations” by Montreal artist Michel de Broin, is turning David Pe-caut Square tonight into a dazzling whirling stage that will define the next ten days of Luminato Festival and the City of Toronto. It is the world’s largest mirror ball and it will make this city dance! How appropriate to open the Festival Hub with K-OS and Serena Ryder whose latest single has been augured by the New York Times as the “song of the summer”. Well, the summer starts right here, in a blast of light and music! The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic opens tonight and I have nev-er experienced such a madhouse with last minute ticket requests. Didn’t people know that this would be an amazing show? So if you have a ticket, you are lucky and will ex-perience a piece of sublime beauty and deep emotionality. Marina is also rumored to have done spiritual healing work to John Malkov-ich over the last few days after he saved the life of a fellow Torontonian. And Willem Da-foe—starring in Robert Wilson’s production of Marina’s biography—has apparently had some telepathic assistance with the healing process while rehearsing his really grueling part. Tune in tomorrow for more on the QT — Jorn Weisbrodt, Artistic Director

In This Issue

From Jorn Weisbrodt

FACES OF LUM

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ok fo

rwar

d to

mee

ting

you.

—

X

Blin

d D

ate,

con

tinue

d fr

om fr

ont p

age

1 | B

lack

pum

ps |

Wha

t is t

he m

ost d

emoc

ratic

item

in

you

r war

drob

e?

2 | Q

uant

um p

hysi

cs | W

hat w

ould

be

the

leas

t lik

ely

subj

ect o

f a n

ovel

writ

ten

by y

ou?

3 | R

oot c

anal

| Wha

t is t

he m

ost u

nder

-em

ploy

ed

mur

der w

eapo

n in

the

mys

tery

gen

re?

4 | C

avia

r in

Cle

vela

nd | W

hat i

s the

nex

t mos

t un

der-

empl

oyed

mur

der w

eapo

n?5 |

My

cellp

hone

| Wha

t is y

our m

ost c

onsi

sten

t tu

rn-o

ff?

6 | A

s oft

en a

s pos

sibl

e | W

ith w

hat f

re-

quen

cy d

o yo

u se

ek in

spira

tion

thro

ugh

ironi

ng?

7 | M

y gr

andm

othe

r’s co

okin

g | W

hat p

ut

her w

here

she

is to

day?

8

| Tur

kish

coffe

e | W

hat i

s you

r pre

ferr

edop

iate

? 9

| Man

’s be

st fr

iend

| How

wou

ld y

ou ra

te a

six-

pack

of

chill

ed G

uinn

ess o

n a

hot s

umm

er’s

day?

Reve

rse

Prou

st

Que

stio

nnai

reW

e g

av

e M

ary

Ro

se

Do

nn

elly

th

e

an

sw

ers

, s

he

wro

te t

he

qu

es

tio

ns

...

10 | C

athe

rine

Zeta

Jone

s | W

hat i

s you

r defi

nitio

n of

m

an’s

seco

nd b

est f

riend

? 11

| Nev

er in

leot

ards

| Wha

t are

the

rule

s of e

ngag

e-m

ent f

or sc

hool

reun

ions

? 12

| Ric

ksha

ws |

Wha

t wou

ld b

e yo

ur p

refe

rred

tim

e tr

avel

dev

ice?

13

| Rob

For

d’s f

eet |

Wha

t is t

he la

st th

ing

you’

d w

ant

to d

isco

ver i

n yo

ur b

ed S

unda

y m

orni

ng?

14 | A

doz

en b

oa co

nstr

icto

rs | W

hat i

s the

seco

nd

last

thin

g yo

u’d

wan

t to

disc

over

in y

our b

ed S

unda

y m

orni

ng?

15 | O

nly

in th

e da

rk | W

here

do

you

exce

l in

air-

guita

r?

16 | U

nscr

upul

ous |

Wha

t is y

our e

thic

for m

inin

g st

orie

s fro

m p

eopl

e yo

u kn

ow?

17 | M

y an

kles

| Wha

t is y

our m

ost e

nvie

d as

set?

18

| The

laun

drom

at | W

hat i

s you

r pre

ferr

ed

setti

ng fo

r obs

ervi

ng h

uman

dep

ravi

ty?

19 | O

bliv

ion

| Wha

t is t

he b

est s

tate

of m

ind

whi

le o

bser

ving

hum

an d

epra

vity

in

laun

drom

ats?

20 | S

hark

atta

ck | H

ow w

ould

you

des

crib

e on

-line

com

men

ts to

new

spap

er e

dito

rials

? 21

| Pla

ying

the

spoo

ns | H

ow w

ould

you

like

to

shuffl

e off

you

r mor

tal c

oil?

“Met

houg

ht t

he w

ood

bega

n to

mov

e, a

nd I

ask

ed

who

wou

ld b

e ki

lled.

”

—fr

om “

Wal

king

Pal

m.”

I firs

t enc

ount

ered

wal

king

pal

ms w

hen

I was

trav

elin

g in

the

rain

fore

st in

Bol

ivia

. I th

ough

t the

y w

ere

incr

ed-

ible

. Tre

es th

at w

alk!

Eve

n at

a p

ace

of o

nly

a m

etre

a

year

, I w

as im

pres

sed.

The

y ar

e on

e of

tho

se s

pe-

cies

that

cha

lleng

es th

e tid

y ca

tego

ries

we

crea

te. I

n m

y po

em, “

Wal

king

Pal

m,”

I w

ante

d to

try

to c

aptu

re

the

disc

omfo

rt th

at su

ch c

halle

nges

to o

ur w

orld

view

un

leas

h. A

nd th

en I

rem

embe

red

Mac

beth

, for

who

m

wal

king

tre

es w

ere

a si

gn o

f re

al im

pend

ing

doom

. R

efer

enci

ng th

at m

omen

t in

the

play

allo

wed

me

to

tap

into

that

dee

p se

nse

of th

reat

we

som

etim

es fe

el

whe

n th

e st

ruct

ures

of c

erta

inty

we

erec

t fal

l apa

rt.

Squa

re O

neB

y G

illia

n S

av

ign

y

I lo

ve m

y jo

b, e

very

day

, but

an

open

ing

nigh

t mak

es

it ju

st a

litt

le m

ore

spec

ial.

The

occ

asio

n is

bot

h an

en

ding

and

a b

egin

ning

. Th

e re

hear

sals

hav

e fin

ishe

d an

d w

e ca

n no

w r

elea

se o

ur w

ork

to th

e pu

blic

. Th

is

is w

here

I lo

ok fo

rwar

d to

how

a p

rodu

ctio

n ca

n gr

ow

even

furt

her o

ver i

ts p

erfo

rman

ce ru

n.

Ope

ning

Nig

htB

y A

lex

an

de

r N

ee

f

Ever

yday

Her

oes

It is

n’t e

very

day

that

you

mee

t a h

ero,

but

I ca

me

acro

ss

one

such

indi

vidu

al in

200

7. A

mot

her

of t

hree

, who

ha

d be

en b

attli

ng le

ukem

ia fo

r ten

yea

rs, s

udde

nly

ap-

pear

ed in

my

life.

At fi

rst g

lanc

e, y

ou w

ould

nev

er h

ave

gues

sed

how

sick

she

was

, how

muc

h pa

in sh

e en

dure

d ev

ery

sing

le d

ay. I

nste

ad, s

he e

xude

d ex

uber

ance

and

a

zest

for l

ife th

at w

as in

fect

ious

. Alw

ays a

smile

on

her

face

, a ro

llick

ing

laug

h no

t far

beh

ind,

and

a k

ind

wor

d fo

r any

of t

he v

olun

teer

s sh

e to

ok c

are

of a

t any

of t

he

belo

ved

art

fest

ival

s sh

e su

ppor

ted.

Eve

ry d

ay, s

he is

th

e vo

ice

of re

ason

in m

y m

ind.

Kar

i rem

ains

my

ever

yday

her

o!

By

Sa

sk

ia R

inko

ff

A T

ho

us

an

d S

pe

cu

lati

on

s,

pre

-in

sta

llati

on

Mic

he

l d

e B

roin

in

his

Th

ou

sa

nd

Sp

ec

ula

tio

ns

at

the

Fe

sti

va

l H

UB

SCEN

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THE EAVESDROP | Overheard at The Winchester. Jane: “What does an art degree get you anyway?” Hannah: “Into the best beds in town.”

PRESENTED BYTHE LUMINATO FESTIVAL

Ch

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ter

Bro

wn

Find

the

Gold

en K

ey

Ligh

tNew

s ha

s hi

dden

a g

olde

n ke

y so

mew

here

in

dow

ntow

n To

ront

o! F

ind

it an

d w

in tw

o tic

kets

to e

v-er

y sh

ow th

at L

umin

ato

prog

ram

s in

its

2014

Fes

tival

. W

here

is it

? W

atch

this

spa

ce to

mor

row

for t

he fi

rst o

f ei

ght c

lues

that

will

run

here

ove

r the

cour

se o

f Lum

ina-

to F

estiv

al 20

13. T

he p

erso

n w

ho b

rings

us t

he k

ey w

ins!

Win

tw

o p

as

se

s t

o A

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of

Lu

min

ato

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14!

HOT FUSS | Seen at the Luminato Festival offices: an untouched bottle of Phillips Butter Ripple Schnapps; two thirds of a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey

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