FOLDA Events
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Breakfast Chat: Virtual and Augmented Reality and Live Performance
The Isabel - Upper Film LobbyWojciech Markowski (Dream Adoption Society), and others TBA An informal chat about the opportunities and challenges posed by integrating VR and AR technologies into live performance. Admission available with any Start Up Pass valid for June 14th.
TIP Innovation Residency
This year's Thousand Islands Playhouse Innovation Resident in Governor General-winning playwright Nicolas Billon. Nicolas joined several playwrights for a 2-day virtual reality workshop with The Games Institute at The University of Waterloo and SpiderWebShow in Fall 2018. We left with some mind-opening questions about how the narrative and dramaturgy will work in the future using […]
MINE (Vancouver, BC)
The Isabel - Rehearsal HallJoin a group of gamer/performers between the ages of 10 and 46 as they enact different mother-son narratives, live, in front of an audience. As they travel through digital terrains telling tales from the Beowulf Saga, Bambi, and The Terminator, personal stories of the powerful bond between mothers and sons emerge and weave themselves into the performance. Inspired by the real-life relationship between Theatre Replacement’s Maiko Yamamoto and her 11-year old son and his obsession with Minecraft, MINE is an intergenerational performance that both interrogates and recognizes the role technology plays in our modern parent-child relationships.
Pathetic Fallacy (Vancouver, BC)
The Isabel - Power Corporation of Canada Studio Theatre , CanadaPathetic Fallacy examines our changing relationship to weather. It circles around climate change and lands on one person. Reflection outweighs didacticism, with wit and curiosity. Urgently drawing together landscape painting, small talk, meteorological science and pathetic fallacy—the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things like the weather—this piece questions the value of emotion […]
Breakfast Chat: How Apps Work in Live Performance
The Isabel - Upper Film LobbyAlex McLean (Zuppa Theatre), Andrew Burke (Shindig Digital Constructions), and others TBA An informal chat between artists and app developers who are making work together. An opportunity to compare notes, share strategies and answer questions. Admission available with any Start Up Pass valid for June 15th.
Workshop: Livestream 101
The Isabel - Room 352Charles Ketchabaw (FiXt Point) and Vijay Mathew (Howlround) Curious about livestreaming your shows? This workshop will introduce basic set-ups and what you need to get your live content onto the internet. Admission available with any Start Up Pass valid for June 15th.
‘Locus Solus’ & ‘Nothing’ (Warsaw, Poland)
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 390 King St. WDream Adoption Society is a multidisciplinary, Virtual Reality, artistic collective based in Warsaw Poland. The collective was started by the Theater Director Krzysztof Garbaczewski to develop a digital way of expression, which combines virtual and augmented reality in the context of theatre and performance. "Locus Solus" VR (virtual reality) installation created on the basis of […]
Workshop: Introduction to Isadora
The Isabel - Digi LabRun by Milton Lim (Hong Kong Exile) This workshop will focus on generating real-time audiovisual effects and basic interactive systems using Isadora (Troikatronix) — a versatile node-based visual programming environment, media server, and audiovisual engine. Used for creating interactive installations, performances, and video artworks Isadora is useful to artists and designers from any discipline; coding […]