RGC Updates: Day of Pink 2013

Day of Pink is fast approaching on Friday April 12th. We have great performances being built by our RGC members for you! 

Get involved or come be inspired and enjoy! Do not miss out!

Check out more on Day of Pink on our Facebook page.

RGC Share: A must watch - It's all the Same Love

"Same Love" by Mackelmore

So a member of RGC introduced me to this song this past weekend and I can't stop listening to it. The video is also extremely beautiful. I am sharing it with my parents... I wonder what they will say. It isn't really their cup of tea but I hope it is appreciated.

I love all the emotions and scenes captured it really shows in the end that it is all the same love. So I hope this video and song becomes viral and I hear it once randomly this year- even if it is just for Pride Toronto 2013.

Tell me what you think!

PS- DON'T FORGET RGC DAY OF PINK (6pm on April 12th @ The 519 Church Street Community Centre, Toronto, ON)

RGC Performs: Feb 2nd Performance Recordings

I know these recordings are not the best from my phone, but I hope you all can enjoy!!!

Enjoy some hot piano and singing!

 

A Fierce Performance of Vogue!:)

 

Redemption Songs.... Beautiful- Just the vibe we need for Black History Month!

 

Let's all Fly this year... Love this song... and hey- I be rappin' in it!

 

Which performances are your favorite... Take a look- I'm sure you will love at least one!

 

Thats all for the first performanceof 2013... I will post some of our rehearsals soon...so keep posted with RGC!

RGC Performs: Video from Miss High Performance 2012 & Details on Upcoming Feb 2 performance

It's Tuesday and snowing like a ____ in Toronto! But RGC is finding ways to keep warm as they prepares for what's to come.

There are some performances coming up! But lets not forget our last performance (sorry for the late post). It is not my favorite performance BUT I wore red pants (That looked pink in the stage light!). This is a cover of "We All Want Love" by Rihanna. 

Hate or like it- We still enjoyed it!

RGC members will be performing for the upcoming Diamond Promotions event, "Claiming Our History"(Details Below).

Let us celebrate Black History month together - come and support the many performers!

DIAMOND PROMOTION PRESENTS 

CLAIMING OUR HISTORY
Black History Month Talent Showcase and Dance
Saturday, February 2, 2013
8:30pm until 3:00am
STEEL WORKERS UNION BUILDING 25 CECIL STREET, TORONTO, ONTARIO
The evening will be hosted by Teesa & Twysted Monroe

MUSIC PROVIDED BY: DJ DICKIE
and SPECIAL GUEST DJ CAT

RGC Happy New Year 2013

A New Year for many of us symbolizes fresh starts, new beginnings and renewed hopes, dreams and aspirations. It is usually the time of year when people take stock of where their focus has been over the past year and where they would like to project said focus for the coming year. It is my sincere hope that within this process of reflection each one of us would have found and focused more on the positives in our lives than the perceived negatives.

There is one school of thought that the perceived negatives in our experiences and conditions are the contrasts we need to determine what it is we really want from this physical experience. How that usually works is, according to this school of thought, by identifying what it is you do not want via perceived negatives you can then identify its positive contrast as what you do want. Not only is identifying what you do want is key, but more importantly is to hold that desire in consciousness and feel the emotion of experiencing it in the present as if it already was.

My wish for all of us on this physical journey is to develop the habit of turning our focus more on our positives individually and collectively while having the emotion of its experience in the NOW; to start a chain reaction of positive vibrations which will infect everyone who crosses our path in life.

Happy New Year, Happy New You 2013!















Regards,

Mark Thomas
Chair RGC - 'Born to Amuse, to Inspire, to Delight'

Day of Pink Toronto 2013 - "Anti-Bullying Campaign???"

I have read somewhere before and heard numerous times during the sermons by my Pastor, Rev. Dr. Sheila Mckeithen - Minister of Universal Centre of Truth (UCT), Kingston, Jamaica that, "Anything you fight against, fights back... And usually it whips your butt!". I don't believe this statement is meant to advocate indifference or dis-concern towards negative and undesirable circumstances and conditions in our lives. However, it discourages the empowerment of them by giving our time, energy and attention to them.

The prefix 'anti' connotes opposition and suggests 'against-ness' towards something or someone. 'Anti' is usually applied to many of the social injustices and causes in our world today which usually requires a conscious investment of time, energy and attention in opposing them; rather than time, energy and attention spent effecting positive and desirable changes. And remember..., "Usually it (they) whips our butt!

Rainbow Gleeques Coalition (RGC) hosts, Day of Pink Toronto annually in the month of April. Day of Pink Toronto was first launched on Friday, April 20, 2012 after RGC was invited by Jer's Vision, founder of International Day of Pink, to participate in the event held in Ottawa. Unable to make the trip to Ottawa, RGC decided to host its own Day of Pink celebrations in Toronto. International Day of Pink is a day where communities  across the country and the world can unite in celebrating diversity and raising awareness to stop homophobic, transphobic & all forms of bullying, generally referred to as an "Anti-bullying Campaign".

Rather than hosting an "Anti-bullying Campaign", join RGC for Day of Pink Toronto, April 2013 in celebrating diversity in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Trans-sexual, Queer, Questioning, 2-Spirited, Intersex and Allies (LGBTTQQSIA) Communities. Let us collectively and consciously invest our time, energies and attention in effecting positive and desirable changes towards homophobic, transphobic & all forms of bullying through Day of Pink Toronto 2013 celebrations.

Stay tuned for the assigned date for Day of Pink Toronto 2013 and please provide us with suggestions for our theme next year by:

Visiting our Facebook page at : Rainbow Gleeques Coalition
Following us on Twitter @Rainbowgleeques
Join our Community by becoming a member at: http://rainbowgleequescoalition.blogspot.ca/

Regards,

Mark Thomas
Chair RGC - 'Born to Amuse, to Inspire, to Delight'

RGC's 2nd Appearance at Miss High Performance Canada

On Sunday, November 25 RGC will make its second appearance at the Miss High Performance Canada 2012 stage.

Our first performance at this pageant was one year ago, November 2011, where we took the mostly Afro-Caribbean and Hispanic audience on an 'Island Nostalgia' voyage. Our repertoire was a combination of sweet Caribbean Folk melodies and 'Dramady' depicting the dynamics relationship drama and the juicy gossip it provides in a post-colonial era. The connection was evident by the response and interaction from the audience.

This year the theme for Miss High Performance Canada is 'You Are Beautiful' and RGC will not disappoint.

Hope to see you there!

Miss High Performance Canada 2012

Sunday November 25 ~ 6pm
United Steelworkers Union Hall ~ 25 Cecil Street (Cecil Street & Spadina)

Adm: $25 advance tickets or at the door

(Tickets are now on SALE)

Doors open at 5pm

Call: 647-300-0944
Email: info@cherrymoonproductions.com
Web: www.cherrymoonproductions.com