Volume 9

"Know your audience" is the old adage, warning writers of all stripes to consider who will be eventually reading – experiencing – what you...

I did some math in my head as I counted the audience in roughly-full 700-seat Hot Docs cinema (still known in my head as...

My wife and kids love Canada Day. My kids are the colour of Canada, all Red and White. Literally. My wife grew up in Kanata. Her family has settler roots in the Ottawa Valley. My little Indians have red hair. Blue eyes. And status cards. Well, they will… once I send the paperwork away.

For me, it's more complicated. I’m Nlakap’amux. Indigenous.

How are Indigenous people supposed to celebrate the birth of Canada? Most of what we call British Columbia is still un-ceded indigenous territory. Our people were never extinguished, conquered and our lands were never surrendered. That means Canada doesn’t even own it. It’s occupied territory.

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It’s that time of year when Indigenous performers become extremely popular for a day or two. True, “National Aboriginal Day” has become an entire...

I have been having an affair… I’ve been cheating on theatre with the circus.  I began training in aerial circus (a method of movement...

Making dances with talking, and plays with moving does not actually feel like hybridization to me. It feels perfectly natural, even though I don't...

We are two Canadian theatre artists working in Western Kenya in association with rural and urban community-based theatre, music, and dance performers. Some are...

Every couple years I get malaise. This has happened enough times that I recognize the pattern, coming as it does between finishing one creative...

So now I am left with the question – how do I as a theatre practitioner do a better job of lifting the audience out of darkly lit obscurity? How do I shine a light on them and include them in the blood-pumping experience of real human contact in a theatre space?

“I can feel my heart, pounding away…” So this is a first for us. We have had a lot of professional theatre artists work with...