The Better Reasons Festival (On Now)

Running alongside NXNE is the Better Reasons Festival. I don't know the story behind the name but if I was going to guess, or make something up, I'd say that it has something to do with having a festival for a reason other than promotion and tourism. The Better Reasons Festival is a fundraiser for Sketch "a Toronto based organization which creates art making opportunities for young people who live street-involved and homeless or who are considered to be at risk."

All of the shows are at the Tranzac and all are pay what you can. The lineup looks alot like this:

Thursday June 12th - Out of this Spark presents :

Forest City Lovers

The Magic

Evening Hymns
 
 
Bike Pirates - will be setting up 3 stations outside the Tranzac for the night offering FREE tune-ups for your two wheeled buddy! - any donations made will be forwarded to SKETCH.)

Doors at 8 PM
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Friday June 13th - Fuzzy Logic Recordings presents :

Prairie Cat (backed by The Bicycles)

Scraps from Boil Street:
Puppet Shorts by Juliann Wilding and Henry Fletcher (see details below)

Peter Project
 
Lily Frost
 
Laura Barrett


Doors at 8 PM   (stick around for fireworks after the show!!! ...shhhh)
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Saturday June 14th - Blocks Recording Club presents:

Kids on TV

Nif-D

The Phonemes

Tradition

Matias Rozenberg

Doors at 5 PM
There is a BBQ feast that begins at 5.

Scraps From Boil Street (as described by Juliann Wilding)

Boil Street: Largely considered to be a ghetto. Many sites left vacant by demolition during the 1970s were never redeveloped, leaving the area with a patchwork of vacant lots, parking lots and a few buildings that escaped demolition: the prison, the peep shows. Boil Street the grey area, tolerated but ignored.

But someone lives there - there's a liquor store, and loads of garbage, and if you hang out long enough, a bunch of freaks start to emerge from the muck...

Scraps From Boil Street are short productions serving as prequel to a full-length puppet musical currently in development, Don't Go Down to Boil Street, by Juliann Wilding and Henry Fletcher, starring Lil' Scurvy, Crups, The Crapper, and more ...