The Pearl Company

May 7: The Art Bus will start at the Lincoln Alexander Centre, head off to Gallery on the Bay, then a Locke Street Stroll including the transit gallery, Textures and more, and off to Dundas for the Carnegie Gallery, the Dundas Valley School of Art and the Oddfellows Hall of Galleries and Studios.  Finishing back at The Pearl Co.

May 14: This second Friday we will be experimenting with an Ottawa Street Ramble (Earls Court Gallery, Under the Moon and more…) and the James North Crawl, finishing up with the Tiger Group Studio Gallery.

Starting at 6:30 from The Pearl Company at 16 Steven Street and King William.
Please reserve a spot beforehand via email or phone, and purchase your trip ($15.00) when you arrive.
Finishing up at The Pearl for an après-tour wind-down which includes a tour of the building often with music whether from Gary Santucci or whatever event is happening on the theatre floor.

The Pearl Gallery @ The Lincoln Alexander Centre: Friday March 5 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Featuring the Works of Colombian Artist Gerardo Mansang; Acrylics on Canvas – Rich in colour and symbolism.  The Lincoln Alexander Centre Art Bus @ 6:45pm.  Concert in the Gallery 8:00pm – 9:00pm: Guitar Duo- Santucci & Doumas. Come out and see the Lincoln Alexander Centre, Hamilton’s newest Artistic and Cultural Venue.   Join us for a “stellar art’s evening”.  Free admission.   The Lincoln Alexander Centre is at: 150 King Street East between Catherine & Mary. That’s not all! The evening will continue back at the Pearl Company…………… Admission $10:00 @ The Pearl: Guitar Concert Part 2: 10:30 pm. Gary Santucci: Original Compositions for Solo Guitar.
Film Presentation 11:00pm:  “Still Bill”: A Documentary/Biography of Singer Songwriter Bill Withers, (Ain’t No Sunshine, Lean on Me etc.) You will laugh, you will cry. Not to be missed!

Festitalia@La Perla (The Pearl Company)
Tuesday September 29, Italian Authors Night at 7:00 pm.
Poet Alvaro Tortora (Paradise Marshes), Novelist Lina Medaglia (Demons of Aquilonia), Novelist Michelle Alfano (Made Up Arias). Organized by Bryan Prince Bookseller.
16 Steven Street & King William Hamilton, ON  Info & Tickets 905 524 0606

Festitalia event sponsors:
    

Link:  http://www.upperjamestoyota.ca/

A reading of Inna di Wardrobe, a new play by playwright Deirdre  (D-lishus) Walton. Fri June 19 at 8 pm, at The Pearl, 16 Steven Street, part of Pride Week. ”An entertaining seriocomic treatment of a universal message regarding family, loyalty and same-sex love.” Walton finds that “queer stories within Jamaican culture can provide a powerful theatrical experience for anyone caught in the space between the culture they left behind and the one they have joined.”

Proud Voices: A Queer Poetry Slam. Thursday, June 18th 7:00 pm at The Pearl Company, 16 Steven Street
Bryan Prince Bookseller teams up with the Women & Liminal Committee of Hamilton to celebrate Pride Week in Hamilton. You are invited to write and recite an original poem which contains the words “proud voices”. All poems will be judged by our guest judges and the winner will receive $100 cash prize donated by Bryan Prince. Sitting on the judge’s panel are: Sky Gilbert, Deidre (D-lishus) Walton, Richard Douglass-Chin, Linda Frank and Marcus McCann. This is a free event, but participants are asked to register at staff@princebooks.net or wlchamilton@gmail.com

Artword Theatre presents “Theatre +”, a theatrical double-bill based on two fascinating texts. Saturday May 23 at 8:00 pm $10 at the door.
at The Pearl Company, 16 Steven Street.
#1: “One Night, the Rain”, a theatrical adaptation created and performed by actress Aktina Stathaki and pianist Jerome Simeon based on a short story “Maria dos Prazeres”  by G.G. Marquez. Maria, a 70-year-old prostitute, is haunted by a dream that she is going to die soon, until one night…  Chorus: Paula Grove, Valeri Kay, Tanis MacArthur.
#2: “Langston Hughes vs Joe McCarthy”. Is poetry subversive? In 1953 U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy thought so. Directed by Ronald Weihs, this reading is based on testimony from the US Committee hearing and the poems of renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Performed by the Artword Theatre Ensemble. A remount of Artword’s  Black History month presentation.
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Wolsak & Wynn publishers present a launch of three new works April 29th at the Pearl Company, 16 Steven St, Hamilton. Doors open 7 pm, readings begin 7:30pm. Author readings, book signings and refreshments.
Chris Pannell: Drive
Jeanette Lynes: The New Blue Distance
Robert Moore: Figuring Ground

Gary Smith in the Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, October 22:

There’s a smart little show at The Pearl these days. It’s filled with sometimes joyous, sometimes sad reflections about how people absorb the identity of their work

It’s beautifully written and directed by Ronald Weihs with an ensemble cast that quiver with earnest emotion.

Set against an evocative steel and wood landscape designed by Judith Sandiford, with projections that comment on the action onstage, it is a visually arresting experience.

It’s well worth your time. You Are What You Do continues Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 2 p.m. Artword at The Pearl, 16 Steven St.

Sunday, October 5: 2:00 – 5:00 pm in The Pearl Company Gallery, 16 Steven Street

Seraphim Editions Book Launch celebrating four of this year’s new publications. Readings and refreshments, meet and chat with the authors and the publisher. Admission: Free.

Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era. Allan Briesmaster and Steven Mickael Berzensky, Editors. The first major anthology of poetry by men and women who grew up in the U.S. and then emigrated to Canada during the 1960s and ‘70s. It offers surprising insights into that watershed period. (more…)

Highlights from the 2008-2009 season of Artword @ The Pearl
the new performance space at The Pearl Company, 16 Steven Street, Hamilton

Cabaret and Concert Nights, programed by Artword and The Pearl Company:
Fridays – The Pearl Coffee House at 8:30 pm (a feature and guest artists, ranging from acoustic musicians to dancers, poets, spoken word artists),
Saturdays – Concert Night and Special Events at 8:30 pm (new and established musicians, ranging from folk, world, and country to jazz and classical)
Sunday once a month - Film Night, Host’s Choice, at 7 pm, films chosen and introduced by each night’s host. beginning November 2.

Artword Theatre productions of original theatre:

Highlights include:
You Are What You Do, Artword’s musical play about real people and their jobs, written and directed by Ronald Weihs, October 16 to 26, 2008 
Rascals and Numskulls: The Robert Land Project, a family show based on the thrilling adventures of Robert Land, Hamilton’s first settler (and Landsdale neighbourhood’s namesake), a secret agent for the British during the American Revolution, and close ally of the famous Mohawk leader Joseph Brant. Music direction by Gary Santucci, for early December 2008
Sunamabeach, a new play by Charly Chiarelli about Hamilton, for March 2009. (Artword Theatre developed Charly’s two previous hits Cu’Fu? and Mangiacake, directed by Ronald Weihs.)
Tobacco Troubadour, a new work with songs by Hamilton songwriter and musician J.P. Riemens and script by Ronald Weihs, about growing up as a musician in tobacco country, for April 2009. (more…)

Book Launch Saturday September 6, at 8:00 pm
The Pearl Company, 16 Steven Street @ King William
Free. Buy a book!

Hamilton-native Kay Chornook will be holding the Canadian launch of her book Walking with Wolf: Reflections on a life spent protecting the Costa Rican wilderness.   (more…)

Klyde Broox and The Pearl Company present

Visual Vibrations featuring Vancouver’s AURAL Heather

at The Pearl, 16 Steven Street, Hamilton
Friday July 11 at 9:00 pm, PWYC at the door ($5 minimum)
preceded by the dubpoetry of Klyde Broox
AURAL Heather is Heather Haley (poet, singer, media artist) and Roderick Shoolbraid (guitarist, composer) – “a unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word.” They appear at The Pearl on their international tour for their new CD, “Princess Nut.” (more…)

Opus Mundi Festival, May 3, 9 pm

Saturday, May 3, the evening spot is taken by Hamilton’s king of dub, Klyde Broox and friends.

Klyde Broox is an internationally seasoned dubpoet. He is a member of the Dub Poets Collective. Since 1996, Klyde has established himself as an “influential literary entity ” in the City of Hamilton. His book, My Best Friend is White, won the 2005 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Literature and the 2006 Seraphim Editions Award for Best Poetry Book.

International Dub Poetry Festival prsents DUBSCAPES (a preview)
October 26 at 8:30 pm

FEATURING: *Klyde Broox, *Jack Street, *Gary Barwin, *Slim Volumes, *Delishus, * Phanuel,*Morpheal, *et al and Hamilton’s sensational beat-boxer, the awesome and amazing, Jason Hachey & Company, plus an OPENMIC! And Special guests from: McMaster University and the Dub Poets Collective.

DUBSCAPES (the preview) Is a bold multi-arts event that will turn an entire room into a poem, blend elements of installation visual art, performance art, rave, dubpoetry, dance, disco, drama and videography, with live performance in a party-like atmosphere, a sort of organic virtual reality vibe.