Issue 39 | Summer 2013 Amy Wright Summer Theatre Round Up Über Cool Art summer 2013 thebeatmagazine.ca | 1 The Beauties Matt Dusk ALANNAH MYLES - LIVE OCTOBER 11 & 12, 2013 DOWN ON THE CORNER: MUSIC OF CCR NOVEMBER 8 & 9, 2013 CHRISTMAS ROCKS DECEMBER 13 & 14, 2013 KINGS OF CORDUROY: SONGS OF THE ‘70S JANUARY 24 & 25, 2014 MATT DUSK: MY FUNNY VALENTINE FEBRUARY 14 &15, 2014 THE BEST OF THE BAND MARCH 28 & 29, 2014 START ME UP: MUSIC OF THE ROLLING STONES MAY 16 & 17, 2014 SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW! 2 | thebeatmagazine.caorchestralondon.ca 519.679.8778summer 2013 summer 2013 thebeatmagazine.ca | 3 Editor’s Beat EDITORIAL Summer 2013 London seems to have made headlines for all the wrong reasons this year: record-high unemployment, Publisher/Managing Editor stagnant immigration figures, and a mayor with Dance Richard Young 30 legal issues.
[email protected] Amy Wright London-based Amy Wright is one But summer is finally here, and with it comes plenty of Editor of Canada’s top choreographers. reasons to celebrate living in the Forest City. Nicole Laidler Anan Islam
[email protected] In fact, there are so many cultural events going on in Cover photo by David Cooper and around town over the next three months that it Online Theatre Editor Photography was hard to squeeze them all into one issue. Donald D’Haene
[email protected] For me, summer doesn’t truly start until Sunfest takes visual arts theatre over Victoria Park. Nothing epitomizes how London Copy Editor 06 spotlight Beth Stewart Vincent and Ondaatje 24 has changed from the homogeneous town of my Beth Stewart Deborah Hay childhood like seeing people from all corners of the Kathy Rumleski Art Director world come together to experience the sights, sounds Lionel Morise visual arts and tastes of each other’s culture.