{"id":208,"date":"2023-09-01T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=208"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:40:50","slug":"a-tender-engine","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/event\/a-tender-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Arnold &#8211; A Tender Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-208-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/A-Tender-Engine-Trailer-medium-1-1-1-1-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/A-Tender-Engine-Trailer-medium-1-1-1-1-1.mp4\">https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/A-Tender-Engine-Trailer-medium-1-1-1-1-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Doors at 8:00 pm &#8211; Performance at 8:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>A Tender Engine is a queer re-imagining of the romance between the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive and her first caretaker, Alan Pegler. Like, come on &#8211; they were obviously in love! Throughout this 50-minute show,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Megan<\/span>\u00a0Arnold simultaneously performs the roles of each character, the narrator, and the stage crew.\u00a0Expect a lip-sync, a love song, multiple millionaires bankrupted, and flying trains. This performance art\/experimental theatre\/alternative comedy hybrid by Megan Arnold was developed and first presented during her final year in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Guelph.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>About the Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Megan Arnold<\/strong> (she\/they) is a Filipinx-Canadian artist currently based on Treaty 3 Territory in so-<br \/>\ncalled Guelph, ON. Recently, she has exhibited\/performed at Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto),<\/p>\n<p>Chopped Liver Comedy (Toronto), PINCH Cabaret (Waterloo), Kazoo! Fest (Guelph), and<br \/>\nEntertainment Club (Salford, UK). They have participated in artist residencies in Ontario, the<br \/>\nUK, Iceland, and Newfoundland. Megan obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario<br \/>\nin 2015 and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2023. She is a current Board Member at<br \/>\nEd Video Media Arts Centre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doors at 8:00 pm &#8211; Performance at 8:30 pm A Tender Engine is a queer re-imagining of the romance between the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive and her first caretaker, Alan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":360,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/Vancouver","_EventStartDate":"2023-10-13 20:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2023-10-13 21:30:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2023-10-14 03:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2023-10-14 04:30:00","_EventShowMap":true,"_EventShowMapLink":true,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"$","_EventCurrencyCode":"USD","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[206],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,4],"class_list":["post-208","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-live2023","tribe_events_cat-performances","cat_live2023","cat_performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/208\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}