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HOME by Beau Dixon and Linda Garneau Presented by FOLDA in association with Soulpepper Theatre Beau Dixon returns to FOLDA with HOME, following his 2021 Innovation Residency at the Festival. In collaboration with dancer/choreographer Linda Garneau, HOME is physical, expressionistic exploration of Dixon’s response to a home invasion. Incorporating, movement, […]
Virtual Reality IRL/URL Creation Mob with the Kingston Theatre Alliance and SpiderWebShow Performance, facilitated by Seymour Irons . We have combined forces with our partners to secure 20 individual Quest 2 Virtual Reality Headsets and 20 individual spaces in the same building to use them. This workshop will begin with participants meeting […]
Silent Disco Presented by FOLDA in Association with the Kingston Frontenac Public Library Central Branch We’re throwing our fourth Silent Disco AT THE LIBRARY! Join us for this fun, free, family-friendly activity. FOLDA provides the DJ, wireless headphones, and you bring your dance floor moves. This year, we are inspired by the public […]
Intercomplementary Elements By Erin Ball, Maxime Beauregard and collaborators This Disability-led show is a testing phase for some of the accessibility elements of this queer circus love story incorporating aerial arts, clowning and dancing. We are striving for as much access as possible for audiences […]
Can virtual reality environments be applied to real-world spaces? Spend the morning meeting your fellow StartUp delegates and embarking on a hands-on collaborative experiment inside SESQUI’s 360° dome. Working together we will uncover some of the intersection between VR and 360° dome projection, discovering the possibilities of a new approach to live digital performance.
Immersive Wilderness By Barry Bilinsky Presented by the Festival of Live Digital Art with support from the National Theatre School of Canada Get a look behind the scenes of a new VR performance by the National Theatre School’s Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Barry Bilinsky in partnership with Montreal animation studio, EDFilms. EDFilms' new technology “Puppet Tools” allows […]
PLAY: A Book Launch By Mariah Horner and Jenn Stephenson FOLDA hosts the launch of PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation by our great friends Dr. Jenn Stephenson and Mariah (Mo) Horner, published by Playwrights Canada Press. The book is comprised of alphabetical standalone mini-essays that collect, describe, and analyze live performances in which the audience become […]
KaKaow in Concert Kick off the seventh Festival of Live Digital Art with musical guest, KaKaow. Presented in partnership with the Kingston Canadian Film Festival. KaKaow (aka. Ricky Brant ) is a psychedelic and funk-infused multi-instrumentalist creating what he calls an Electro Psychedelifunk experience; to bend the mind and perception of what sound can be, […]
There are few ways it has become clear that AI has a lot of work to do to in order to not be harmful, and one of is how it embeds race bias into large language models in implicit and explicit ways. We will explore the how and why of this bias, discuss strategies for […]
Meet with the artists from bluemouth inc behind LUCY AI, Co-Artistic Director of Guilty by Association Cole Lewis, and David Rokeby, Director of The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI. Talk about real examples of artificial intelligence in creative performance practice. Through real-life case studies, we’ll uncover how […]
