Alena Khabibullina, Staff Reporter

The Best Brothers is a universal story filled with dark humour

Next door to George Brown’s Casa Loma campus, Tarragon Theatre opens its 2013-14 season with the Toronto premiere of The Best Brothers, written by Daniel MacIvor, one of Canada’s best known playwrights, and directed by the award-winning Dean Gabourie. MacIvor shares the stage as an actor with Nova Scotian John Beale who was involved in his previous…

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Former GBC Theatre students are ‘jerks’ enough to make their own play

A team of former George Brown Theatre School students “with a passion for creating high-energy, unpretentious and above-all fun theatre” managed to raise $6,000 for their show called ‘Callaghan! And the Wings of the Butterfly’ through the online funding platform Indiegogo. This March marked five years since they started their company Sex T-Rex which evolved…

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'Tons' of award and bursary money awaits applicants

$7.3 million was spent on scholarships, bursaries and grants last year. The college regularly faces the same problem: not enough students apply for them. By Alena Khabibullina Staff Reporter George Brown College (GBC) offers 354 different scholarships and awards students can apply for, not including government-funded bursaries. According to the college’s audited financial statement dated…

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Environmental Justice Collective fights apathy with action

A small group of George Brown College students have moved from apathy to action and created the Environmental Justice Collective By Alena Khabibullina Staff Reporter Climate change, energy conservation, air quality, land pollution, nuclear safety, water crisis, oil spills, resource depletion, logging, the impact of mining and many more are the environmental issues that are…

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Carried away on the crest of a wave resonates with students of the world

An interview with playwright David Yee and director Nina Lee Aquino about their play about the Indian Ocean tsunami By Alena Khabibullina Special to The Dialog It’s takes a lot of talent to convey tragic messages through art. Decent theatre provides the public with not “bread and circuses” but the feeling of personal participation in the event…

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