Tompkinsville
In 2007, Lindsay Kyte opened a book and found her Great Uncle Joe and Great Aunt Mary Laben staring determinedly up at her from the page, labelled as pioneers of the co-operative movement. Lindsay's life changed on the spot. It was then that her quest to tell the incredible story of Tompkinsville as a stage play began, leading Lindsay herself on a journey of coincidences, miracles and situations that leave you shaking your head in disbelief.
What if someone told you you could have the life of which you've always dreamed? All you have to do is live dangerously and create furiously—together. Once upon a time, a group of miners did just that. Tompkinsville is the true story of a Cape Breton mining town transformed from despondency to independence thanks to a rebel priest's belief we can all become "masters of our own destiny" — with a book in one hand and our neighbour's hand in the other. Tompkinsville is the story of Father Jimmy Tompkins, Joe Laben, and the credit union and co-operative movement.
See photos, hear songs, and get all the news here:
www.tompkinsville.ca
What if someone told you you could have the life of which you've always dreamed? All you have to do is live dangerously and create furiously—together. Once upon a time, a group of miners did just that. Tompkinsville is the true story of a Cape Breton mining town transformed from despondency to independence thanks to a rebel priest's belief we can all become "masters of our own destiny" — with a book in one hand and our neighbour's hand in the other. Tompkinsville is the story of Father Jimmy Tompkins, Joe Laben, and the credit union and co-operative movement.
See photos, hear songs, and get all the news here:
www.tompkinsville.ca
Toronto Adventures
In 2004, Lindsay Kyte moved from Nova Scotia to Toronto. As she experienced the humour and wonder of culture shock in the same country in which she grew up, she began to write a series of back home to family and friends about her "Toronto adventures" in the land of subways and smog. Little did she know, these e-mails were being forwarded on. And on. And on. Suddenly, the phone began ringing with people requesting more "Toronto adventures." An article in theToronto Star featuring an almost life-size picture of Lindsay resulted in television production companies calling, as well as Internet channels. Theatre companies got in on the action. When Lindsay stopped hyperventilating from all of the attention, Toronto Adventures had been turned into a stage play, a comedic Internet series and a blog in the Cape Breton Post. The stage play of Toronto Adventures premiered at Festival Antigonish in 2007. Since then it has been produced at Victoria Playhouse, the Membertou Trade & Convention Centre and the Atlantic Fringe Festival, as well as by the Grand Bank Theatre Festival in Newfoundland, where Lindsay had the otherworldly experience of watching someone else play "Lindsay Kyte" on stage. The various incarnations of Toronto Adventures resulted in fan mail, people stopping Lindsay on the street, and people waiting outside the stage door to say, "You told my story." There is no better compliment than that. Who knew a bunch of seemingly silly little emails about being a fish out of salt water would result in all of this?
To view some Toronto Adventures, click this link:
https://vimeo.com/1158209
A second episode is available below!
To view some Toronto Adventures, click this link:
https://vimeo.com/1158209
A second episode is available below!
