Afternoon Matinee: Memories - Voices from the Trojan horse

Memories: Voices from the Trojan Horse
Memories: Voices from the Trojan Horse reunites musicians, performers, and writers from the famous Danforth coffeehouse, the Trojan Horse. Presented by Theatre Gargantua as part of the 2024 Lulaworld Festival.

Featuring amazing talents from a time of cultural hybridity when Greek musicians in Toronto embraced Chileans in exile to form the legendary musical group, Compañeros, this performance will evoke a sense of the magical period of poetry and protest, of a time when the voices of Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda and Greece’s great composer Mikis Theodorakis joined together in a call for global change. In Toronto during the 1970s and early 1980s, the place to find community was at the Trojan Horse, a space founded by Governor General’s Award-winning poet Gwendolyn McEwen and Greek Musician Nikos Tsingos.

This matinee will feature music under the Musical Direction of Marcelo Puente, the Chilean-Canadian singer of Compañeros, joined by musicians Fotis Tubanos, Zurdos Demetres, Nuno Cristo, Nano Valverde, and Heather Chetwynd. Producer/Director Cynthia Grant and performers Magdalena Diaz Arce and Cheryl Cashman along with writer Rosemary Sullivan (recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction for her book Shadow Makers: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, a biography of Trojan Horse co-founder Gwendolyn McEwen) will present readings, scenes and memories of the times.

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Doors 12: 30 PM, Performance starts at 1 PM