What happens when animals find a mirror? Who is the reflection they see in it? How do they react? Can you help them learn about this new interesting object and the world around them?

Mirror is a brand new interactive Canadian musical creation featuring beautiful, almost life like animal puppets discovering the world around them. The animals respond to children’s questions, take suggestions what to do next and invite children to sing along with them.

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Gabi Epstein is a self-proclaimed diva and is well on her way to becoming a "Broadway Broad". But in the meantime please join her as she sings her personal love letter to the women in musical theatre that have inspired her through the years. From Babs to Bernadette, from "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to "The Wizard and I" Gabi will have you dreaming of the stage and belting along to your favourite show tunes.

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TIFT alumna Carleigh Aikins brings a reimagined version of her solo studio record "Junk Jewelry" to a rooftop in her hometown. Aikins has worked tirelessly as a touring/recording vocalist for over two decades with Artists including Bahamas and Jack Johnson, Macy Gray and Galactic, John Oates and Paper Bird, Patrick Watson, Royal Wood, The Head and the Heart, and Dan Mangan on the word's biggest stages/appearances from RedRocks to Royal Albert Hall, Conan O'Brien to The Colbert Report.

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The Journey of Our Drums is a percussive storytelling experience that is at once entertainment and education. For many Africans, the many journeys of many drums cannot be separated from the many and diverse African peoples for whom Canada is home. The Journey of Our Drums weaves a narrative that leads audiences through a revealing history and re-unites us with an ancestral instrument that like its creators has been a subject of generational exploitation.

In telling the story of the Journey of Our Drums, multi-disciplinary artist, percussionist and storyteller Quammie shares his love of African Drums and its ancestral traditions and continues to encourage all people to value and learn from the spiritual and social teachings that are carried from generation to generation in the worlds indigenous cultures.

As Canadians we must ensure that our truths are known to each other, rectify historical inequities and create a nation in which every child is valued, nurtured and given equal opportunities for greatness.

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Enjoy a set of upbeat tunes by some GIANT singer/songwriters including Carol King, Joni Mitchell, Donna Summer, Dolly Parton and more. The perfect way to soak up the last days of summer!

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Athena Reich is an award-winning singer/songwriter, actress and Lady Gaga Impersonator. New York Magazine lists her as a “Best Bet”, Chatelaine Magazine calls her “the world’s best Lady Gaga Impersonator” and her Off-Broadway comedy “Lady Gaga: #ARTBIRTH” (in which she plays a pregnant Lady Gaga) ran at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto and at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in NYC where it received multiple extensions and Time Out Critic’s Pick. #ARTBIRTH is set for a world tour in San Francisco and London in the coming year. Athena is also a single mom of two and currently applying to medical schools so she can furthermore be known as Lady Gaga, MD.

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Gather round for a story of technicolour, teuthology (cuttlefish!), mixed-race identity, and my love-hate relationship with the Pantone Colour of the Year.

“How can we find the magic in our lives? Because we need it, in order to keep going.” Part poetry, part stand-up, and part serenade, Vanessa Smythe shares poignant, funny, and deeply personal stories about the people we dreamed we’d be – and the memories that remind us of who we truly are. A celebration of life’s tricky disappointments – and its enduring, understated joy. “[S]he’s able to quickly tack between the humour in everyday minutia, and grand, heartfelt observations about big life questions.” – NOW

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Confessions of Motherhood, conceived, written and performed by Jennifer Stewart (TIFT, Mirvish, Stratford Festival), is an intimate recollection of one woman's journey to motherhood. The trials, frustrations and uncertainties. Interspersed with theme-appropriate songs from the music theatre canon (The Story Goes On, Together Wherever We Go, Being Alive and more), this personal story questions what it takes to become a mother in the twenty-first century and at what cost.

Come on a trip and explore how rock and roll can soothe the soul.  ‘Before she could walk she could rock’ takes you on a journey from youth to adulthood while jamming to rock songs we all know and love.  Revel in the past and celebrate how these incredible artists and anthemic tunes moved us, shaped us and pushed us to dream.

Star of Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera, Yurii Yevchuk is an acclaimed interpreter of chamber and opera music, and a recipient of many international awards, including the grand prize at the Ukrainian competition Novye Imena (New voices, Kiev Ukraine).

International opera critics underline Yevchuk’s natural dramatic and unique vocal abilities that populate his characters in an original theatrical style.    

Yevchuk's debut Canadian program will feature eclectic international repertoire, including romantic arias and Ukrainian folk songs.

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From his fire escape he can almost find his Corner of the Sky but not before he hits some key life notes along the way. He keeps asking the questions and endeavouring life’s challenges because he just knows that Something’s Coming… …something good!

Join Canadian musical theatre performer Justin Stadnyk as he explores the air outside and the potential it holds. There may be Giants in the Sky or simply someone out there to listen to his prayer.  Justin uses a mix of very well known to more obscure songs from the musical theatre repertoire to take you on a journey through his sung through song-cycle. Follow his tale or create your own as these songs take on new meaning.

Specially curated just for you in the city of Barrie and all from his fire escape!

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Take a quick trip down memory lane with Justan Myers on vocals and Jackson Seib on the keys as they serenade you with a collection of jazz classics done in the style of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat 'King' Cole and more!

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Join musical theatre performers Caulin Moore (Jukebox Hero, We Will Rock You National Tour) and Jamie McRoberts (Into The Woods, Rock of Ages) on the rooftop of a former bank as they share songs about some of our favourite Broadway hooligans including bank robbers Bonnie & Clyde.