People, Places and Things

Q&A with Carlo Essagian (5)

Last year, you wrote a very funny screenplay; I know this because you let me read it. Tell PP&T readers about it.

Q&A with Carlo Essagian (4)

As an actor, you’ve worked on films with some weighty performers and directors—Ararat, The Score— what’s that experience been like for you as an actor? 

Q&A with Carlo Essagian (3)

You began your career in Montreal, where you worked steadily before moving to Toronto. What’s the difference in the work that you find in the two cities—is there contrast, or similarity?

Q&A with Carlo Essagian (2)

What’s it like out there for a Canadian actor in the current Canadian economy?

Q&A with actor Carlo Essagian (1)

Tell us about your work as an actor. How did you come to this line of work?

Summertime and living is ... easy?

Teenagers: A supportive argument for year-round schooling.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The best part of my recovery starts today. After 2.5 weeks of physiotherapy sessions, home exercises, and rest, the day has finally arrived where my inflamed muscles and tendons and other soft tissue items have recovered enough to introduce massage therapy.

Johnny was good

Did I tell you? I worked in a tattoo shop in Las Vegas. Seriously. And not just any tattoo shop. I worked at Vince Neil's Ink. No kidding.

So, I'm a bit of a storyteller; maybe it's more like I helped out one of the artists while my friend Andreawas getting a tattoo (that's her in the photo with tattoo master Johnny Law). We loved Johnny. Not just because he is an awesome artist and cool guy, but because he laughed at our lame jokes. Then again, that smirk he was wearing may have been his snickering at our overall goofiness.

But, back to my work in Vegas. While I watched Johnny create a ladybug trio on Andrea's inner arm, (trying to make Andrea giggle), one of the artists in the cubicle beside us passed me a bottle of liquid and asked if I'd place it on the counter top.

While Johnny intently zapping fine lines of black ink onto my friend's flesh, I caught Andrea's attention, held my hands in the air as if I'd just scored a touchdown and said that I couldn't wait to get home to tell anyone who'd listen that I'd worked in a tattoo parlour in Vegas!!

As I stood there, briefly in an Elvis-esque pose, the fact that I'd just used the word "parlour" outed me immediately and I slunk back in my chair in the corner to watch a professional at work.

Got a teen? Got a temper? Got a teen with a temper?

Constructive Anger Management Skills for Parents and Youth

and

Effective Communication Skills for Parents and Youth

The Youth Centre in partnership with The Durham District School Board is pleased to offer two FREE interactive, Thursday evening workshops for parents and their youth in grades 7 to 10.  Parents and youth must attend workshops together in order to participate.  Light dinner will be provided!

Parent/Teen Constructive Anger Management Workshop, Thursday, April 16, 2009, 6-8pm

In this preventive workshop, participants will learn about:  approaching situations in a win/win framework; parent/teen anger triggers; strategies to address conflict; and constructive anger management approaches that promote healthy interactions between parents and youth.  Light dinner from 5:45 – 6:00 p.m.

Parent/Teen Effective Communication Workshop, Thursday, April 23, 2009, 6-8pm

In this preventive workshop, parents and teens will learn key concepts to promote effective communication in their relationship with each other.  Highlights of the workshop include the 5-step communication method, roadblocks that lead to communication breakdown, and strategies to strengthen the parent/teen relationship.  Light dinner from 5:45 – 6:00 p.m.

Workshops will be held on Thursday, April 16 and Thursday, April 23 from 6:00-8:00

at J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate Institute, 1355 Harwood Avenue N., Ajax. Light dinner from 5:45-6:00 p.m. 

Pre-registration is required and enrollment is limited.  For more information or to register, please call The Youth Centre at 905-428-1212.  Up-to-date program information is also available on our website at www.theyouthcentre.ca.

Mother's day Gifts

March break hasn't even ended yet, but I found this and could not resist sharing a website from which to order your Mother's Day gift. http://www.tlcservices.ca/