Culture on the Cheap

I'm a student. I'm poor. But I still love the chance to partake in all of the great cultural activities that Toronto has to offer. Hence the fact that, if for no other reason, the students discount I get at all sorts of places makes my continued poor-student status valuable. Take the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for example. Until I'm 35, I get $12 tickets. Twelve dollars. That's cheaper than going to the movies. So you can imagine how excited I was to get to go see Philip Glass, one of my favourite composers, on Wednesday night. Actually, I wasn't all that excited after the performance--I feel like he's losing his touch, or else he's done what he can with his particular brand of minimalism and needs to move on--but the first piece, Christopher Theofanidis' Rainbow Body, was fairly fabulous. And yes, the cheering is supposed to be there--Theofanidis wrote it into the score after an early performance.



Another great cheap Toronto cultural fix is Soulpepper; a couple of school friends and I are going to see Civil Elegies on Wednesday, which I've been wanting to see for ages. Check out the video preview, if you get a chance. It's getting great reviews. And Soulpepper is right next to SOMA chocolatemaker, which means that I will definitely be arriving early and making a pitstop. I love this city.