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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">40 Years of BTW Now Online<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Join the BTW family
during Black History Month as we unveil 40 years of Black Theatre Workshop
history onto our brand new website. We invite you to our <B>40<SUP>th</SUP>
Anniversary Website Launch Party</B> featuring surprise appearances from key
individuals that have made BTW a success story, a navigation of our website and
the chance to mingle with prominent actors, and theatre practitioners. The
Launch party will be on <B>February 10<SUP>th</SUP> from 12 – 1 p.m. at the Mai
Caf</B></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">é</SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">, 3680 Jeanne Mance.</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> For more information please call 514-932-1104 ext. 226
or go to our website </SPAN><A href="http://www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca/"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“Black Theatre Workshop has an
incredible 40 year history to share! “Tyrone Benskin, Artistic Director, Black
Theatre Workshop<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Unveiling a website with
hundreds of articles, videos and footage from our many BTW shows, workshops and
events is a great way to reveal an important part of Canadian theatre -
African-Canadian theatre, which now lives on through education, and research.
Join us at the launch party for the chance to mingle with some of BTW’s onstage
and offstage stars from almost half a century. The launch will feature an online
navigation of our new archival website, speeches from important figures attached
to BTW’s success, and special guests and friends of BTW. We will also serve wine
and BTW inspired appetizers throughout the event. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The 40 years of BTW archives
collection captures never before seen moments from BTW’s long and acclaimed
legacy. This new archival section opens new doors for educating young and old on
important parts of African-Canadian theatre. The 40 years of BTW website
includes videos, pictures and interviews from actors, directors, musicians,
administrators and artists from the 1970s to the present, basically everyone who
made Black Theatre Workshop a 40 year success story. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">BTW
is the longest-surviving and most established Black theatre company in Canada
thanks to continued commitments to artistic excellence, to social relevance, to
audiences and to the company’s ability to adapt as a self-renewing arts
organization. Since becoming a fully professional company, BTW has been involved
in spoken-word and innovative performance work, in addition to community-based
work, plays by established Black and non-black playwrights, and
commercially-viable productions. Our works are presented primarily in English,
occasionally in French, and we have toured inside and outside of Québec.
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">For more information on Black Theatre
Workshop go to our brand new website </SPAN><A
href="http://www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca/"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center>-30-<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>For media enquiries please contact Ashley Belmer – Marketing
and Development Director 514-932-1104 ext 223 <A
href="mailto:marketing@blacktheatreworkshop.ca">marketing@blacktheatreworkshop.ca</A><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Ashley Belmer<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Marketing and Development Director<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Black Theatre Workshop<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>3680 Jeanne-Mance, Suite 432<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Montreal Quebec H2X 2K5<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>514-932-1104 ext 223<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>514-932-6311<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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face=Arial>_________________________________________________________<BR>"They
were neither one thing nor the other; neither Victorians nor themselves. They
were suspended, without being, in limbo." Virginia Woolf, Between the
Acts. <BR>_________________________________________________<BR>"It's not
about force, it's about technique."--Natasha Salter 3 February
2010<BR>______________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Denis Salter<BR>McGill<BR>853
Sherbrooke St. West<BR>Montreal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR><A
href="mailto:Denis.Salter@McGill.Ca">Denis.Salter@McGill.Ca</A></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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