Meeting of the Blogger Minds: Braiding Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass braid (Kimberly Barber, June 2022) This week I took a trip to Toronto—aka The Big Smoke—to witness my niece’s stage debut as the Witch in an adaptation of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and at the same time was able to connect in Real Life (radical!) with my...

With a little help from my friends

The 60’s revisited (Kimberly Barber, Jordan Station, ON, June 2022) As I was touring around the Niagara region last weekend, tasting wine, biking the backroads and generally enjoying life, I happened upon a plant nursery in Jordan Station that featured this...

All in all

Final scene from Three Decembers as seen from backstage (Robert Butler, May 2022) Apologies in advance for the quality of the photo here…I am going to get higher res photos! But we are embracing the suck this week (to quote our friend Brené Brown) and not...

Entering the cave

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” –Joseph Campbell Tonight is the opening night of Three Decembers at Winnipeg’s Little Opera Company and this past week has been a rollercoaster of doubt, fear, excitement, triumph,...

No shortcuts

One more stream to ford (Kimberly Barber, April 2021) I’m not sure why I thought it would be trouble-free to return to rehearsing live opera after a 5 year hiatus…seriously! What was I thinking?!?! The last major production I did was for Tapestry Opera in...