Bon voyage !

Bon voyage ! is a creation for young audiences with the central theme of grief. The narrative framework of this puppet show is mainly composed from intimate citizen testimonies. In May 2022, the Bon Voyage ! team will travel to Moncton, New Brunswick to meet with teenage groups. Through discussions about grief and shadow theater exercises, the Bon Voyage ! team will use the teenagers’ vision of the characters in the show as the visual signature of the puppets under construction.

Isabelle Bartkowiak (Québec) biography

The Mixed-Arts Performance Partnership Program

The Mixed-Arts Performance Partnership Program, combines this curiosity of theatrical innovation with Chelsea’s skills in community engagement and facilitation. The Mixed-Arts Performance Partnership Program (MAAP) is a 14 week digital program which pairs underhoused or homeless, equity seeking “youth” (15-29 years old) with artist mentors in four performance based disciplines – theatre, spoken word poetry, digital performance art, and drag. Participants will engage in an online group workshop of each discipline, and then will choose two of the disciplines to receive 1:1 reoccurring online mentorship in with the goal of creating a 10-20 minute performance piece.

Chelsea Woolley (Ontario) biography

Chelsea Woolley is a playwright whose work includes: Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs (Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Festival), The Mountain (Geordie Productions, Spinning Dot Theatre), and These Peaceable Kingdoms (New Words Festival).

Chelsea’s work has been recognized through a number of awards including: Tarragon Theatre’s RBC Emerging Playwright (2019), The Playwright Guild of Canada’s SureFire List, The Ellen Ross Stuart Opening Doors Award, and the Toronto Fringe New Play Contest.
She has attended the Banff Playwright’s Lab and the National New Play Network’s MFA Playwright’s Workshop at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC. As an arts facilitator, Chelsea has worked with the Toronto Boys and Girls Club, the Harbourfront Centre, Crows Theatre, Scarborough Arts Centre, Young People’s Theatre, and Project Humanity.

Chelsea is the creator and program director of a youth program at Red Door Shelter where last spring she and eight teens co-wrote a play titled One Day. Chelsea is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwriting Program.

Germination : A Workshop to Nurture New Ideas and Dramaturgical Skills

This Zoom workshop is designed to take your idea to the next stages of development, whether that is putting pen to paper, gathering a team, or finding the medium to best support your vision. Germination is a space for collective dreaming, to nourish creative sparks to future steps. We will also give you self-producing tools, so you can work on your own timeline and take the future of your piece into your own hands.”

Gillian Clarke (Nouvelle-Écosse) biography

Gillian is a multidisciplinary theatre creator and the artistic co-director of Keep Good (Theatre) Company. She resides in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, with a large part of her heart in K’jipuktuk/Halifax. She is a recent graduate of the National Theatre School’s playwriting program. Her work has been presented across Canada, England and India.

Her plays include: The Ruins (Two Planks and a Passion Theatre), Harmony Mall (Runner-Up for the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s 2019 RBC Emerging Playwright Award), Drums and Organs (commissioned by Dalhousie University for the 2018 graduating acting class) and Let’s Try This Standing (her touring solo show and winner of Outstanding Performance at the 2017 Summerworks Performance Festival). She has held residencies with Outside the March and 2b theatre.

She is also a two-time nominee for Best New Play at the Nova Scotia Robert Merritt awards. Upcoming writing projects include The Game and Adventures with Keep Good (Theatre) Company.

Histoires pour faire des cauchemars

Creation and production of a first version of the show in April 2022, which will be presented to young people from schools in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood following a cultural mediation activity that will have taken place beforehand in the form of a writing workshop with the author of the play, Étienne Lepage, as well as a puppet/object theater workshop led by actress Chantal Dupuis. The public will come and see a free and exclusive play. A discussion will be hosted with the audience after the performance to gather their impressions.

Jocelyn Pelletier (Québec) biography

A graduate of the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 2005, Jocelyn Pelletier has participated in several productions of Théâtre Péril and co-founded the company tectoniK_ .
A 2018 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, his creation De l’instant et de l’éternité based on Seneca’s Phaedra is presented at the Trillium in February 2018 and at Usine C in March 2018. He conceived Mac(death).Presented at OFFTA 2018, Mois Multi 20 in February 2019 and at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in March 2020. He directed Dévoré(s) by Jean-Denis Beaudoin at Théâtre Périscope in October 2019. Edwidge’s Hands at the Time of Birth by Wajdi Mouawad at Théâtre La Bordée in January 2020. He recently directed La terre tremble by Alexandra Badea with the graduates of the École supérieure dein the winter of 2021.

Director, actor, author and occasional teacher who, for several years in the company of various collaborators, has aspired to understand how distinct technologies, through sensory research and contemporary scenic approaches (video, performance, visual art, sound art, etc.) can intensify the experience of the spectator. In this way, it initiates a continuous study of traditional practice as well on the level of the substance as of the form.

Roots of creation

Roots of Creation is a free theatre creation and performance program that will be offered to Black, Nova Scotian youth in the Dartmouth, Cole Harbour and Preston areas. It will provide classes in dance, acting, costume design, music composition, playwriting and more: delivered through a collaborative, accessible lens with a focus on decolonization. All classes will be taught by Black artists from or with strong connections to those communities, providing lessons in these specific art practices but also about how the art can connect to everyday life and traditional studies.

Riel Reddicks-Stevens (Nouvelle-Écosse) biography

Riel Reddick-Stevens is a multidisciplinary artist and arts educator from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. She is a Randolph College graduate and in her final year of the acting program at National Theatre school of Canada. Theatre has always been a huge part of her life and has taught her many skills that she uses both inside and outside of performance, she has been extremely grateful to have the training opportunities she has had but also recognizes that they are not accessible for all.

Riel strives to create art and programs that are easily accessible and open to voices that haven’t always been heard in the western education context by creating alternative, collaborative ways of learning through theatre and art.

Shipwright

Shipwright is a storytelling exhibit that combines sculpture and performance to evoke Prince Edward Island’s shipbuilding past. The public is invited to have a cup of tea at the Riverview Community Centre and witness a PEI shipyard, complete with a fleet of ships built by local craftsman Vernon Corney in their first public display. Each day, the space is occupied by a pair of shipwrights. They work and sing, sleep and eat, play banjo and do their chores, all to evoke the sense memory of PEI’s age of sail.

More information can be found on the Radiant Rural Halls website.

Patrick Jeffrey (Nouveau-Brunswick) biography

Patrick Jeffrey is a theatre maker who grew up on Epekwitk (PEI). A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, he has performed in companies including Repercussion (Montreal), Sweetline (St. John’s), The Atlantic Repertory Company (Saint John) and the Confederation Players (Charlottetown).
He produces his own plays through his theatre company Caveman Lovechild, and recently had a showcase presentation of a new play, The Breakthrough, with Tableau D’Hôte in Montreal. Shipwright marks the first time he has bridged the gap between installation and performance, and it is an honor and a joy to be collaborating with his grandfather Vernon Corney.