In Process Podcast - LIVE Recording with Nextfest

Don't miss out on a special event! Join us for a LIVE recording of "In Process" with Ellen Chorley & Philip Hackborn as they discuss their approach to curating artists and showcasing emerging talent, all part of the Netfest Festival.

This insightful conversation is not to be missed!

ABOUT NEXTFEST:

The Nextfest Arts Company is made up of hundreds of young and emerging artists from a wide variety of disciplines, banding together to present Edmonton’s most unique annual multi-disciplinary arts festival: Nextfest. Founded in 1996 by Bradley Moss, Nextfest is a common ground for the next generation of creators and producers. The future is theirs!

Nextfest shepherds the development of emerging artists. It is curated on the basis of providing development opportunities for emerging professional artists to hone their craft, gain experience, make contacts, and step forward as the future of professional arts. In doing so, we instill in the emerging generation an appreciation for the importance of mentorship. There are many ways in which artistic entities, products, and relationship have grown out of Nextfest, and there are numerous examples of new works of theatre and dance, that may have never made it to the stage, and ongoing artist collaborations that may have never come to be, without the existence of Nextfest.

Nextfest marks the beginning of a long creative journey for a huge array of artists. For more than twenty years, we have fostered the growth and learning of thousands of artists who continue to practice and create on Treaty 6 land. We embody the spirit of newness and growth while respecting the deep roots planted by those who came before us. We are a platform for emerging artists, a meeting ground for community, a springboard for creative invention. Mentorship, inclusion, learning, creative risk, and vulnerability are at the core of everything we stand for.

ABOUT ELLEN:

Ellen (she/her) is an Edmonton-based playwright, producer and arts educator. She is the Festival Director of the Nextfest Arts Company, the Academy Director for the Theatre Network Summer Academy, a Sessional Instructor for MacEwan University, the Students’ Club Facilitator for the Citadel Theatre and teaches playwrighting and acting at the Foote Theatre School. Ellen was named one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2013 and was awarded the Alberta Literary Award for Drama for her play “Everybody Loves Robbie” in 2020. When Ellen isn’t working in theatre she watches true crime documentaries, collects copies of the book “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte (she has over 107 copies) and Disneybounds (which is where you dress up like Disney characters using your own clothing). To find out more about Ellen, check out her website at www.ellenchorley.com

ABOUT PHILIP:

Philip Hackborn (they/them), is an emerging performance artist and poet situated in Amiskwaciwâskahikan. They exist and make art at the intersections of race, gender identity, and madness. Select performance credits: Hamlet in Isolation (Thou Art Here), Krampus: a Christmas Escape Adventure (Canscare), and Devour Content Here (Cowgirl Opera). Select writing credits: The Shadow and the Fool (re:Create), Fragmented Journeys (presented at Skirtsafire and Expanse 2023), and an ongoing project known as Frag/ments; which at one point saw snippets of poetry and philosophy stuffed into old pill bottles and sold out of a vending machine.

Conversations with artistic leaders exploring their beginnings to their inspirations, our guests each bring a different perspective of what it means to be in process. Join our host Andrés Moreno as they sit with our amazing guests to talk about food, guilty pleasures, philosophy, identity, and joy.

Host or Publisher Azimuth Theatre