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I haven't and I sure would like to, John. Hopefully, Dick or whoever comes across that information first will post it here for the rest of us. After all this, it'd be a shame for any of us to get left out, due to lack of seating .

[I wonder if Allan is off talking with his wife .]



~ Lizzy

You are a sweetheart Lizzy!

Korene will be up for anything Leonard related. Her Brothers out in Irvine, CA. He was planning a visit back home for some weddings this summer. I've already fired off a message about timing with him. I know he would be up for it if the timing was right.

I will keep an eye out for updates now that I have stumbled across this forum. You sound and feel like good people.

Allan

Oh, this is VERY good news, Allan. I hope you'll be able to coordinate it so that all three of you can attend ! If not, at least you and Korene . Yes ~ you'll be watching this space with baited breath now, just like the rest of us ! Hopefully, we'll know something soon.

You sound and feel like good people.

Yes... this is an exceptional group of people here. If you stick around and make it a point to join in, you'll get a lot of enjoyment. So, how is it that you "stumbled across" the quintessential site on Leonard Cohen!?! It's like digging a hole to plant a tree and stumbling across a diamond mine... check around through the main page of the site, itself... and you'll soon see what I mean .


~ Lizzy

Does anyone know when tickets for the performances will be
available?
I went to the Luminato home page and although it lists the events
there is no mention of ticket availability.

Is there another site for that - the venues perhaps? Or is it simply too early?

evelyn

They said March. But we haven't seen anything yet. Maybe this will be the week that they decide to start selling tickets. I haven't got a clue.

Thanks Anne, I'll keep checking.

evelyn

The suggestion that was made to me was to keep checking ticketmaster.ca --

Still appears nothing there yet...First one to find something please post it here!

dick

No ticket news, but am pleased to fill you in on two new attractions for us in Toronto...
First an exhibition that Esther has mentioned as being "in the works" for some time....

Leonard Cohen - Drawn To Words - works on paper
June 3 - 30 2007
World Premiere Exhibition part of the Luminato Festival, Toronto

TORONTO, March 27 /CNW/ - Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, in association with the Luminato Festival, Toronto, and the Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, UK, is proud to present the world premiere exhibition of works on paper and annotations by Canadian poet, songwriter and novelist, Mr. Leonard Cohen.
Drawn to Words features more than 30 pigment prints of drawings and
sketches selected from Mr. Leonard Cohen's extensive private archive
stretching back over 40 years.
Images from Drawn to Words will include portraits, nudes, objects and
landscapes, many of which are annotated with Cohen's personal notes,
observations and musings. Some feature recognizable characters from his songs, while others reflect his changing moods through revealing self-portraits. Drawings that capture views from his Montreal apartment, alongside pictures drawn during his five-year seclusion (1996-2001) as a Zen Buddhist Monk at Mount Baldy Zen Center are included in the collection.
Mr. Cohen has kept journals and sketchbooks since the mid 1960's. As his music career developed, he continued to sketch and draw at every available opportunity and his visual work shares many of the same qualities and themes found in his music and poetry - the light and shade of human emotion, dark humor, social commentary, sexuality and politics. At least one of Mr. Cohen's original journals will be on display during the exhibition.
Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen's art has always been highly private.
Only when some of his drawings appeared in his collection of prose and poetry, Book of Longing, published in 2006, did his worldwide fan base get a glimpse of this side of his creativity. We are honored to make this exceptional work available to a wider audience through the publication of these limited edition pigment prints mastered by Nash Editions, California. Each will be signed, numbered and dated by Mr. Cohen and many will carry personal text.

Drabinsky Gallery, located at 122 Scollard Street, will be open Mon - Sun 10-5 during the Luminato Festival in Toronto. http://www.drabinskygallery.com,
info@drabinskygallery.com
For further information: My Johansson, (416) 324-5766

Also......

Thanks to good work by Anne Mitchell, we have scheduled a tour and a library overview of Leonard's works in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto -- Monday June 4 at 10am. Please let me know if you want to attend that event, as we have a limit on how many they can allow at one time.

So... maybe not the excitement of Leonard and Anjani performing together, but much to look forward to in Toronto in June!

Hope Cohen fans that are coming will all notify me so I can keep the attendee list up to date.

dick

YES! Thank you, Esther and Dick! I saw that somewhere here earlier, but absent the info as to its availability! It looks like I'll be able to at least see this !!

Thanks to good work by Anne Mitchell, we have scheduled a tour and a library overview of Leonard's works in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto -- Monday June 4 at 10am.

I sure wish I'd know about this sooner... before flights were scheduled! My plane will be taxi'ing down the runway or already in the sky, enroute to London, at just about that very moment... flight take-off set for 9:55 AM. Perhaps, another time for this tour... is it open to the public? Special arrangement only? What?


~ Lizzy

everyone

I have been checking Ricketmaster for tickets VERY often ie at least once every hour or two and still nothing. Today I did a google search on Philip Glass tickets and came up with the following site:

http://www.showtimetickets.com/concerts ... -glass.jsp

It at least mentions the event and the possibility of tickets.

My wife and I will be arriving in toronto afternoon of the 31st May. We were considering dinner reservations at one of the better greek restaurants on the Danforth. If anyone else wants to join us, let me know and I will make reservations for us all.

Vern

Vern,
The Greek restaurant sounds good. We're planning on joining you and hope others will as well.

Joe

As mentioned in my email Vern, Linda and I are also looking forward to sharing the Greek restaurant experience with you all.

Thanks for organizing it.

dick

We would join you, too, Vern, Joe, and Dick, except we're not arriving in Toronto until June 1, for the performance that night.

Has anyone been able to establish, yet, even the approximate cost of the tickets?


~ Lizzy

Dick,

Sign me up for the library tour. I would love to see some rare first editions and manuscripts!

The Greek restaurant sounds good too, count me in.

evelyn