Upintheair Theatre invites you to be part of the creative process at rEvolver Festival 2021

Glimpse behind the scenes at developing new works, May 19 to June 6

SPONSORED POST BY UPINTHEAIR THEATRE

Shadow Sign for Bedroom Protest: What I Dare to Do in The Dark, with Art Action Earwigs’s Wryly Andherson and Minah Lee.

UpintheAir Theatre’s rEvolver Festival returns this spring with a dozen artist presentations, all digitally streamed, from May 19 to June 6. 

Rather than presenting fully realized productions on digital platforms, the curatorial team—Davey Calderon, Daniel Martin, David Mott, and Kayleigh Sandomirsky—took a different development-focused approach. The group of artists has been provided pre-festival access to studio time with the opportunity to deep dive into the creation of a new work with an emphasis on testing out different modes of digital presentation or preparing works for in-person performance for the post-pandemic world. It provides not only a platform for reflection by the teams of artists, but also for the audiences engaging in the programming. 

The result is an eclectic program of digital and audio experiences, conversations, and workshops with a combination of play readings and discussions, role-playing games, interactive website, a visual EP, and a virtual reality simulation. Themes explored in the presentations include finding connection, the environment, colonialism, mental health, protest, and hope. 

A few highlights include Anna Saves the March, by Winnipeg’s Adam Schwartz, which follows an autistic girl’s struggle to fit in as she fights for environmental change.

Zahida Rahemtulla’s The Frontliners examines the housing crisis in the city from the perspective of frontline workers in the Downtown Eastside trying to help Syrian refugees.

Hwatu is a work in development by Romi Kim, Jaewoo Kang, and Gray Park. Using the traditional Korean fortune-telling card game Hwatu, the trio explore their experiences as queer first and second generation Koreans.

The program also features an online presentation of Real Talks with Jan Derbyshire and Kagan Goh, about the intersection of mental health and the arts.

All events are online and free, registration is required to attend presentations.

Find more information at www.upintheairtheatre.com.

This post was sponsored by Upintheair Theatre.