This past Saturday Academie Duello was out at the South Hill Community Festival in Vancouver at Main and 49th. It was a beautiful day and was the first opportunity for our Youth Demo team to show off their stuff. Everyone did a fantastic job with showing of their quaterstaff skills and our adult demo team…
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If you're in Vancouver and not taking a class at Academie Duello tonight, come and check out the second screening of the documentary Arte, Ardore, Onore as part of a Celluloid Social Club event. Doors at 7:30pm, shows start at 8pm at the Anza Club (#3 West 8th Ave. at Ontario St., Vancouver, BC). You can…
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The 10 minute documentary by Tatiana Balashova about Academie Duello has won the Distribution Award from the Women in Film festival happening this weekend in Vancouver. In fact the film will be premiering today at 3:30pm! You can read more about it at the festival here. Congratulations to Tatiana for her accolade!
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Academie Duello has the honour of being featured in a documentary by filmmaker Tatiana Balashova that will be screened at the upcoming Women in Film festival at the Vancity Theatre on March 10th. From their program: ARTE, ARDORE, ONORE: THE WORLD OF SWORDPLAY | 10:00 mins 2011, Canada, directed by Tatiana Balashova Arte,…
Jen Landels and Kim Roseblade were interviewed for the attached article in the image. It's on the new-stands now if you want your own copy!
A few mentions today of Academie Duello in the media:The Winnipeg Free Press mentioned us in an article on experiential gift giving: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/style/experiential-gifts-...Anny Chih, Free Lance Writer, and Devon Boorman appear in Yahoo's photo of the day: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photo-of-the-day-slideshow-1309242001-slideshow/...
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Local Vancouver Blogger Anny Chih came in a couple months ago and participated in Taste of the Renaissance. She had a great time and wrote up her story about her experience on her blog here. It's worth checking out.
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Science World, Vancouver's excellent science centre, has recently renovated and expanded. To celebrate the occasion they put together a lip-dub video and Duello members Rodge and Dan were there to insert a little swordplay. What's science without swords? Check out their video on their website here. Rodge and Dan are at 3:25.
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Academie Duello has been demoing it up over the past few weeks (and will be for another week at least). Two weekends ago we were at NerdFest a fantasy, mythology, and swordfighting inspired music event that got a fun writeup in Rockstar weekly, including a mention of our demonstration and booth. Check it out here. …
Rolando Fuentes Ruiz of Vancouver's Cheapass Romance blog came by Academie Duello the other day to explore our free intro class as a potential destination to recommend for an economic tryst. It looks like he and his date, the self-styled Hopelessly Romantic Girl, had a great time. Go check out the post on their blog…
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Sook-Yin Lee, host of CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera, popped into Duello yesterday evening and learned a few sword wielding skills for her program this Saturday that asks "what do we create when we recreate the past?"Sook-Yin was a lot of fun to talk with and we had a good time with the little…