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Welcome to the battery opera website. On this page you will find a quick guide to what the company is up to at the moment. For more information and details about the company and its activities, click on the various tabs at the top of this page.

THIS THURSDAY APRIL 19th at Safari Cafe (1007 Main Street)

Adam and I are hosting a neighbourhood pouring!

"DER VISIONÄR" ALOIS KRACHER (1959-2007)'s 2005 Grande Cuvée Trokenbeerenauslese No 7

matched with

"CUSTARD MASTER" PAUL FINLAY (very much alive)'s simply deliciously simple egg custard.

I think this was the most affecting pairing I've experienced in a couple of years, maybe in all my life, and because it's close to Easter and my birthday, and because I'm a little perverse, I'm calling it Spirits of the Dead (No.1). I want to share it with you!

As they say in the trade, "this is expensive shit", and if you don't think you would go out and spend $250 plus on a bottle, here's a way you can sample this golden elixir. For $10 you'll get a 1 ounce taster of this rare, sweet wine. Plus we'll throw in 2 ounces of transcendent custard for free! So don't miss this opportunity. it's guaranteed to be transformatively delicious.

Drop on in 3pm - 6pm. Sip. Slurp. Stay for a coffee (or until it's all gone or Adam wants to go home)

LAST MONTH

The Whole Beast rocked Regina and Montreal

read about it here

Coming and Ongoing

This month Su-Feh's working with Karen Jamieson

I'll be matching wines to dances at Bloom

And my site-specific retro-post-neo-colonial pod-play ode, Portside Walk, is now available 24/7, 360 days a year, as a downloadable mp3 with map, instruction, and drinking advice.

PS - I found this juvenille and bitchy report I sent to the Banff Centre and then posted on my now defunct carreer suicide blog. I still think it's kind of funny. After I realised that a "residency" granted at Banff requires that you pay for everthing (and it's not cheap), I improvised ("Good times!").

PPS - I like this final review for M/HOTEL by Mary Theresa Kelly in the Dance Current. It gives a real sense of the audiences experience of the work and of each other. Read it here.

Many exciting things are in development for next year, but we'll talk about all that later.

Thanks for including us in your quest for art!

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