Oil and Water Returns

Oil and Water: All Weekend - Oil and Water returns from a critically successful run at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax. Artistic Fraud's Oil and Water is based on the true story of Lanier Phillips, a young African American who in 1942 was one of 46 men who survived the wreck of the naval ship Truxtun off St. Lawrence. , according to CBC. The Downtown Music Scene: Friday - Bring your family china downtown for a smash-a-thon with Toronto poet and filmmaker Ann Shin . She'll read from her award-winning poetry collection, The Family China . Audience members will be invited to explore and obliterate their own family chains by smashing an heirloom of their own. St. John's-based writers Iain McCurdy and Sharon King-Campbell will also be breaking dishes. It all happens at Eastern Edge Gallery at 8 p.m. Courtesy of Artistic Fraud Theatre It's an uplifting and musical production featuring an a capella blend of Newfoundland tunes and the harmonies of the American gospel tradition, devised by Toronto-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Craig, and directed by internationally celebrated Newfoundland choral conductor Kellie Walsh. Oil and Water is at The Hall with showtimes are 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. The production run has been extended to March 22nd (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.