Workshop: Devising Participatory Theatre | Peek Fest 2024

About the workshop:

Are you interested in making a performance that engages the audience as participants? Are you interested in making a performance that invites audience members to engage with each other? Adrienne’s workshop is an opportunity to learn more about participatory and relational theatre & performance, and to try out some ideas.

In this workshop, Adrienne will start by talking and introducing ideas, then participants will have an opportunity to create small experiments in participation. Workshop participants will work in groups to make a small theatrical offering for the others.

Things to bring:

• Clothing that you can move and breathe easily in
• Water bottle
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

About the facilitator:

Adrienne is the Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow and an artist whose work straddles theatrical and digital space. Together with co-founders Marcel Stewart and Michael Wheeler, she co-curates the Festival of Live Digital Art. Adrienne's web projects include The Apology Generator, which earned her the inaugural Artist in Residence position on CBC Radio’s Q, and SadSongs.ca, commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre in Toronto. Landline (created with Dustin Harvey) is a performance for audio recording and SMS that has toured nationally and internationally for five years. Me On The Map (created with JD Derbyshire) is a kids’ show about urban planning and collective decision-making, received a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination in Vancouver, and was selected for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2017 Playwrights Colony. Her writing has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, CdnTimes, and the anthology Asian Canadian Theatre. Adrienne is currently pursuing an MFA in writing for performance from UVIC.

Accessibility

SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton)

SKAM Studio 846 has ramped entry to the building, with an automatic push button to open the door. Entry to all rooms and washrooms used as a part of Peek Fest have level access. The venue has a single user, all gender, wheelchair accessible washroom.

Parking & Transit: Pay parking at on-street meters is in effect from 9am-6pm. Parking is free from 6pm-9am and all day on holidays. Payment can be made by coin, credit card, the ParkVictoria app, or the City Parking Card at an on-street pay station within your zone.

It is a 500m walk from the Douglas and Fort Downtown Bus Hub.

For more information about accessibility, please visit: www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibility

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Workshop Access Program

Impulse Theatre, and Peek Fest, seeks to create an anti-oppressive and queer-positive space for artists within the community.​ Impulse Theatre is pleased to offer up to 2 paid ($40) spots to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and/or disabled. Participants are limited to 2 workshops each.

Intake is on a first-come; first served basis until all spots are filled.

Find more info and apply here: www.impulsetheatre.ca/workshops

Acknowledgements

Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the BC Arts Council, the Victoria Foundation, and the CRD.

Sponsors include Westcoast Academy of Performing Arts and Braem Accountancy Ltd.

Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

Host or Publisher Impulse Theatre