A World of Creativity - June 5-14, 2009

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An Evening With Neil Gaiman

Join the author of Coraline for the Canadian debut of his new novel, The Graveyard Book.

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Animated Films Based on Children's Books

A series of films based on your favourite children's stories from Robert Munsch, Kwan Ming and others!

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Animated Poe - a quadruple feature of animated Poe films from around the world.

A quadruple feature of Poe films that have been animated from around the world.

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Children's Books and Illustrations

From beautiful picture books to challenging novels for young adults, come celebrate the best in Canadian kid-lit.

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Cirque du Soleil®: A Thrilling Ride Through KOOZA

Cirque du Soleil presents A Thrilling Ride Through KOOZA, a captivating documentary that looks at the creative process of KOOZA, the latest critically acclaimed touring show from Cirque du Soleil.

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Closing Weekend Celebrations: Featuring Cirque du Soleil® - June 12-14

Come down to the waterfront for a weekend of wonder as Luminato’s 10 days come to an end – this free event created just for us by Cirque du Soleil®.

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Communication | Environment by David Rokeby, Germaine Koh, Luminato Box

Unexpected encounters with art will take you by surprise, let you see the invisible and challenge your notion of inside and outside space.

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Contemporary Communication Shorts

Luminato 2009's exploration of Contemporary Communication is reflected through 11 short films from Bravo!FACT that examine where we are and where we might be going when it comes to language and new media.

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Family Dance Party

Kids can play too! In association with BUNCH, Toronto’s expert on art and culture for families, we invite the whole family to this special Sunday afternoon event celebrating the music of the guitar. Come enjoy family dance sessions, guitar jams and guitar-inspired creations and crafts.

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First Night with Randy Bachman

Randy Bachman rocks Yonge-Dundas Square! It's our free opening-night party - and you're invited!

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Goran Bregovic

Luminato at Yonge-Dundas Square culminates with a rare musical event: a free concert by Goran Bregovic, musical superstar of the Balkans.

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Guitar Festival @ the Luminato Reel

Five diverse films that pick up on the themes explored in Luminato's Guitar Festival. Artists featured in these films include Daniel Lanois, Derek Trucks, Dave Matthews, Yamandu Costa and Romero Lubambo.

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Jiří Kylián’s Car Men

Exactly 20 years separate Jirí Kylián's solo Silent Cries and his black-and white film, Car Men, made in 2006 in collaboration with Dutch filmmaker, Boris Paval Cone.

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Lepage: Breaking a Leg

Director Robert Lepage has given us some of the most exciting Canadian theatre of the last decade including this year's North American premiere of Lipsynch.

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Light on Your Feet

Come dance with the stars - and the moon too!

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National Bank Yorkville Festival - Brazilian Guitar Marathon

Lose yourself in Latin America – right here in Toronto – as the Duo Assad, Yamandú Costa, Luciana Souza featuring Romero Lubambo and other guitar masters take you on a day-long tour of their country’s hottest sounds.

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Nederlands Dans Theater Celebrates Jiři Kylián

This sensational film features the Nederlands Dans Theater commemorating their extraordinarily successful liaison with supreme dance co-ordinator Jirí Kylián with three astounding ballets: Birth-Day, Bella Figura and Sleepless.

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President's Choice® 1000 Tastes of Toronto™

Join the city's top chefs as they prepare gourmet street food for only $5.  A carnival of cuisine!

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RedBall Project Toronto by Kurt Perschke

Having made headlines in cities from Barcelona to Chicago, something big and red comes bouncing into Toronto on its global trek. Experience your city through the imagination and vitality of RedBall.

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Shadow Notes by Danny Clinch, Ralph Gibson and Andy Summers

An unprecedented exhibition in the heart of Toronto presenting the work of Danny Clinch and Ralph Gibson, two photographers obsessed with music, and the photos of Andy Summers, a musician obsessed with photography!

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The Art of Children’s Books

The Canadian Children's Book Centre, dedicated to nurturing and promoting Canadian literature for young readers, partners with Luminato in presenting an engaging panel on the art of creating children's books.

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The Genius of Lenny Breau

This feature-length documentary encompasses a story of one of the "true great geniuses of guitar", whose life ended abruptly and mysteriously in Los Angeles in 1984 at the age of 43, inspiring 5 O'Clock Bells (being presented June 10-13).

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The Great Canadian Tune - A Guinness World Record Event!

Help get Toronto into the Guinness Book of World Records! 

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The Luminato Artist Lounge

Drop into our Artist Hub in the Hard Rock Café just off Yonge-Dundas Square. That’s where you’ll find our house band, Raoul and The Big Time (NOW magazine’s Best Blues Artist of 2007), along with guest artists from other Guitar Festival events. It’s open to the public, so hang out, rub shoulders with the stars – and hear some great sounds!

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Tono: from Seed to Stage

A documentary on the creation of Red Sky Performance’s Tono, a three-country project speaking to the tribal identities of indigenous peoples and their shamanic history.

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Tony Oursler

Enter the surreal realm of one of the most controversial multi-media artists on the world scene today.

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Urban Playgound double Feature Roadsworth and RedBall Project

A look at two visual arts projects that have transformed the cities in which they are placed.

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Yiddish Theatre: a Love story

Enjoy the Yiddish theater experience of Zisele?  Enter the funny, larger-than-life world of Yiddish theater with this doc about Zypora Spaisman, the woman who kept the oldest Yiddish theater in the U.S. alive.

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