You might not want to miss this performance, SPIN, tomorrow night (May 20) at the Tranzac Club (or in other cities on their tour). I hope see it. As mentioned on Evelyn Parry's website:
Part concert, part theatrical performance, 100% engaging, outspoken entertainment, SPIN is an innovative musical show that investigates The Bicycle as muse, musical instrument, and instrument of social change.
Created by Toronto-based songwriter, spoken word and theatre artist Evalyn Parry, SPIN travels the distance between social history and social comment; first wave-feminism and corporate sponsorship; the first woman to ride around the world in 1895 and Toronto’s most notorious, accused bicycle thief awaiting trial in 2010; bicycle as revolution, bicycle as metaphor, and bicycle as musical accompaniment. Funny, personal, political, engaging, challenging and thought-provoking: SPIN is intelligent entertainment for a world on the brink of a paradigm shift.
Some of the things SPIN hopes to answer (again lifted from the website):
- Why the Women’s Christian Temperance Union were big boosters of bicycles for women
- How bicycles helped change women’s fashion, freeing millions from the corset, and other sartorial imprisonment
- How bicycles paved the way for cars
- the story of the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1895, funded entirely by corporate sponsorship
- how Toronto’s most notorious bike thief broke hearts as well as locks
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