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Community Workshop
Write - Move - Talk
Memoir & Movement
in studio with Sara Porter
Sept. 18, 2022 | 11am - 1pm
Orillia Opera House
$25 workshop fee
A dynamic, multi-disciplinary workshop for personal & professional exploration that draws on the uniqueness of each person's story and bodily experience.

Community Workshop
Playwriting Lab
Sept. 13, 20, 27 & Oct. 4, 11, 2022 | 12 - 3pm
Orillia Opera House
$250 workshop fee
Do you have a story for the stage, but could you use a little help crafting your idea? Sharpen your writing skills with one of Canada’s most celebrated theatre artists!

Performance

Orillia
Co-presented by Arts Orillia and Fall for Dance North
Sept. 23, 2022 | 12pm
Stephen Leacock Museum
Witness the personal, colourful, and surreal world of next generation choreographers - Zach Martel and Santiago Rivera (Montréal). A performance set to original and familiar compositions by Toronto’s Royal Conservatory musicians Daniel Hamin Go and Michael Bridge.

Performance & Artist Talk
Black in Canada
Shameka Blake/Artists In Motion
(Established Career Dance & Design recipient)
Nov. 24th, 2022 | 12 - 1pm
Orillia Opera House
A work about Black identity in Canada

Performance & Artist Talk
hard wire
Bare Nerve Collective - Emma Kerson and Jane Alison McKinney
(Transitioning Career Dance & Design recipient)
January 19, 2023 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Orillia Opera House
Suggested ticket contribution $8
“hard wire” plays with unexpected, fragmented moods and dramatic shifts of physicalized states, ultimately leading to a deeper reflection on life in the face of a climate in crisis.

Performance & Artist Talk
très loin
Sylvie Bouchard/BoucharDanse
(Established Career Dance & Design recipient)
January 26, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
Orillia Opera House
Suggested ticket contribution $8
A showing with excerpts of très loin, followed by a discussion about mental health among teens.
Showing cancelled.

Film Screening & Artist Talk
Aliyah Beckles
February 4, 2023 | 5pm
Creative Nomad Studios
Suggested ticket contribution $8*
* All proceeds go to the artist
A dance film & book reading
(Emerging Career Dance & Design recipient)
Introducing local artist Aliyah Beckles. Join us for a screening of her new film, Reduced and a reading from her book, We Are Here: Stories From Southern Georgian Bay BIPOC Women. You won't want to miss it!

Empty Space | Empty Time and Worlds Within
May 10, 2023 | 7:30pm
Orillia Opera House
Performances / Workshops

Heirloom
A Partnership with Fall For Dance North
September 22, 2022
Leacock Museum
Witness the personal, colourful, and surreal world of next generation choreographers - Zach Martel and Santiago Rivera (Montréal). A performance set to original and familiar compositions by Toronto’s Royal Conservatory musicians Daniel Hamin Go and Michael Bridge.


Black In Canada
Shameka Blake/Artists In Motion
(Mid Career Dance & Design recipient)
November 24th, 2022
Orillia Opera House
A work about Black identity in Canada

très loin
Sylvie Bouchard/BoucharDanse
(Established Career Dance & Design recipient)
January 26th, 2023
Orillia Opera House
A showing with excerpts of très loin, followed by a discussion about mental health among teens.
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