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Leonard Schein is a former Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) executive director and Montreal World Film Festival director of English-language films. He founded the Vancouver Internatioinal Film Festival (VIFF) and is a former local movie theatre operator.   Schein was born in Los Angeles, home of the Hollywood Studios but t was his time at…
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Bill Sample has been a force in the West Coast music scene for many years. He has a degree in Composition (University of Victoria) and studied Jazz Arranging at Berklee College (Boston), on a full scholarship. His recording credits include Ashanti, Simple Plan, Michelle Wright, Jim Brickman, Randy Bachman (Jazz Thing), Eric Bibb, Valdy, Seal,…
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Dadye Harvey Rutherford was well known in theatre circles here for well over three decades starting in 1930. She was a leading teacher of elocution, drama and voice and it has been estimated that over 10,000 children passed through her school during her teaching career. For 25 years she produced “The Sun-Ray Review” (or earlier,…
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Musical from a very early age, Louise’s capabilities and interests haven’t exactly been restricted to making music. A native of the United States, she has, among other things, been a police officer, a Baptist missionary and a sociology teacher. But all that changed after she arrived in Victoria in the early 1970’s and fell in…
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Gabrielle Rose was born in 1954 in Vancouver BC. She trained in Britain, Gabrielle Rose has worked in theatre, film and television for more than three decades. She has achieved recognition for her performances over the years, most recently as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie for which she received a Jessie nomination, Elizabeth in Elizabeth Rex (Jessie Award), Theresa…
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