Workshop: Gender-Affirming Voice | Peek Fest 2024

About the workshop:

This workshop will provide a general overview of vocal function and aim to demystify how gender is perceived in voice. Through listening, reflection, and play, we will bring into awareness our body's inherent intelligence to manipulate sound and to discover pathways to new forms of vocal expression. Since our voice is intimately connected to our nervous system, we will consider how to build an exploratory vocal practice that is grounded in a sense of safety. No prior experience is necessary.

Attendees are invited to come and listen and/or to participate as much as they are comfortable. Robin will offer live examples, as well as time and space for those wishing to experiment with and receive feedback on any vocal exercises.

Things to bring:

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

About the facilitator:

Robin Love (she/they) is a vocal coach and multidisciplinary artist working across performance art, video installation, and writing. Her ongoing artistic and vocal practices stem from a curiosity in the nature of process and an exploration into the myriad possibilities of being. They are a graduate of the University of Toronto (Philosophy), OCADU (Sculpture/Installation), and Renée Yoxon’s Trans Voice Teacher Training program. Their modes of working are influenced by their studies as an athlete, practitioner of Sanbo Zen, and 10 years of vocal training and teaching apprenticeship under Peggy Redmond (Toronto). She currently teaches singing and gender affirming voice work in Tiohtià:ke, colonially known as Montreal.

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.

Additional information regarding workshop accessibility will be coming soon.

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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