CONTES ET LÉGENDES DU NORD DES POSSIBLES

Tales and legends of the North of possibilities is a research-creation process within the citizen community of a green alley in the city of Montreal. This process aims to answer this question : How to create – through theater – an imaginary of the socio-ecological transition ?
In the fall of 2022, the green community of the North of Possibilities in the Rosemont-la-petite-patrie district will see artists, ecologists, and scientific popularizers take over the site in order to collect testimonies, stories and citizen concerns. These are the starting points of a series of artistic exploration laboratories from which will be born the first texts of an imaginary of the socio-ecological transition of this environment: Tales and legends of the North of the possible. I will explore the themes of belonging to the territory, the narratives of nature and eco-citizenship within a committed community.

Étienne Laforge Biography (Québec)

Actor from a young age, Etienne Laforge has played many roles on the big screen and on television. (Deux fois une femme by François Delisle, Avant que mon coeur bascule by Sébastien Rose).
It is in 2014 in the play Testament under the direction of Éric Jean at Quat’Sous that he combines his two passions, theater and music. He then began a theatrical journey that would lead him to graduate in 2020 from the National Theatre School of Canada. He then co-founded Conteurs à gages, a company that combines storytelling and ecological theater to tell the myths and legends of the current socio-ecological transition.

TWO HUNGRY CHILDREN

Two Hungry Children is an experimental podcast that is archiving the lives of two Black queer Canadian Artists.
It’s like you’re in a cafe and you’re eavesdropping on the table next to you and laugh at the joke they just made.
It’s like you’re hungover on Saturday morning on your best-friends couch, covered in blankets, and you can’t decide on a movie or what food to get delivered.
It’s like that song that smells like 10th grade.

Kalale Dalton-Hulale Biography (Ontario)

Kalale Dalton-Lutale is a playwright and performer from Toronto. Her work embraces experimentation, mothers, loss and pop culture. Kalale is a graduate from the National Theatre School of Canada.

V AND HER DREAM

V and her Dream is a psychological thriller and dramatic short film. The main character, Zoey, wakes up in Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, unsure as to how or why she ended up there. Unable to leave Zoey starts to dream and hallucinate her trauma until she finally confronts it. Directed by Brendan Chandler. DOP: David Duc Nguyen. Actors: Jessica Rose & Natalie Scagnetto.

Jessica Rose Biography (Ontario)

Jessica Rose (she/her) is a Toronto based actor, performer and creator. She is a graduate of Humber College’s theatre performance program and is now in NTS’s second year acting program. She has a passion for devising and collaborating on new works, especially those which examine mental health and the stigmas that surround it. She has been workshopping V and Her Dream for over five years now and is thrilled to have finally produced a short film of it. Thank you to TEC and NTS for all of your support !

QUEER CABARET

SEANCE : a queer cabaret is a collaborative showcase which highlighted young queer emerging artists working in Montreal’s vibrant performing arts community. We held our first iteration of this series at Bar Ndq on August 11th, in the wake of Montreal’s pride festival. Our hope was to uplift voices of artists who are left out of prides programming and connect artists to their
community. The first volume’s theme was Alchemy and we curated our performers based on how their piece connected to the theme.

Anna Morreale Biography (Québec)

SEANCE is a group of Queer multi-disciplinary artists working to bring Queer and Trans voices to the front of Cabaret, along with including other forms of performance art to the stage. Formed in the spring of 2022 SEANCE hopes to cast mystical experiences for you to attend more than once !

LES GRANDES FILLES

Les Lucioles is a 6-episode podcast series for young people, written by Sophie Léonard-Dufour and directed by Sabrina Auclair, and whose writing and artistic research is made possible by the TEC. During this creation stage, the Lucioles team will offer free public readings to children from various backgrounds, in partnership with community centers, elementary schools, youth organizations, as well as during the Journées de la culture. These meetings will allow us to do artistic research for the project, by offering cultural mediation workshops to young people, and discussions concerning their appreciation of the texts, in order to adapt them as much as possible to the target audience. These workshops will allow the children to be directly involved in the creative process of the project and, for many, will bring them into contact with the theater for the very first time.

Sabrina Auclair Biography (Québec)

Sabrina is a queer artist; actor, writer and director. She graduated in acting from Studio 58 Conservatory located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sabrina returned to Montreal in the fall of 2019 to participate in the Independent Residency at the National Theatre School of Canada. This one-year residency, offered to artists who already have a professional practice, allowed her to develop her directing skills, among other things. She has just completed the script development course at the National Comedy School. Her play Pluie acide was presented in an unplugged version at the last Festival St-Ambroise de Montréal. Her project won the “Most Promising Francophone Artist (Machinerie des arts)” and “Most Promising Francophone Text (CEAD)” awards at the Frankies Awards.

LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP FOR MYTHICAL TIMES

Gloria Mok weaves together a personal story about long-distance relationships (LDR), immigration, with an ancient Chinese astrological folktale about forbidden love. Utilizing food, simple objects, and conversational Cantonese, a dinner table transforms into a liminal space that explores the challenges and triumphs of seeking love and connection at a distance. Long Distance Relationships for Mythical Times is part of 2b theatre’s Great Little Works series: intimate performances based on humanity’s greatest works of theatre and literature, each brought to life by one performer at a table. These shows are uniquely designed for this moment; shows built for small audiences, safely performable during a pandemic, producing minimal ecological impact, and maximal emotional and spiritual value.

Gloria Mok Biography (Ontario)

Gloria is a theatre creator, producer, production manager, and designer. Gloria is a graduate of the Canada’s National Theatre School’s Production Design and Technical Arts program. Alongside Chinese-Canadian theatre creators Aaron Jan and Bessie Cheng, Gloria co-founded Silk Bath Collective in 2016; focused on creating multidisciplinary plays about the Chinese diaspora. Gloria was an Emerging Artist in Residence at 2b theatre from 2020-22. She is currently the Producer at Nightswimming, a dramaturgical company that commissions and develops new works. As a settler and daughter of immigrants from Hong Kong, works that transcend geographic, cultural, and linguistic barriers excite her.

Project photo by Henry Chan