Storyboard

Researching the Performing Arts for our next issue is, of course, nothing but fun, especially since the CNS Special Collection of Performing Arts Archives is so close, next door even. Lots of wonderful stuff in here; the problem is what to chose?

(Image: poster for The Queen of Paradise's Garden, from andyjonesproductions.com.)

Pen in hand, we approach the drawing board

We'd be hard-pressed to pick the one aspect of producing the NQ that is the most fun, but selecting themes would definitely be up there. At that point, the magazine is a blank slate, a Tabula rasa if you will. Then, viola!, we have an idea and the issue begins to come into focus, features suggest themselves, motifs emerge. This is our moment, now, as we look ahead to Fall and think: The Performing Arts...

(Image: flickr.com.)

Coming soon

A sneak preview of a website special:

(Images, Jared Reid, with permission from Cirque du Soliel.)

NQ in the mail & on the air

It's a big day at NQ Central, what with the brand new Fall issues coming from the printers within the hour, and an interview scheduled later today with the lovely Ted Blades for CBC's On The Go. NQ subscribers, keep an eye on your mailbox, and radio listeners, open your ears around 4pm today and you'll get the intel on the latest magazine.

(Image: girlontheright.com.)