FOLDA Events

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Virtual Reality IRL/URL Creation Mob

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

Kingston Frontenac Library - Central Branch 130 Johnson St,, Kingston, ON

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 […]

Intercomplementary Elements

The Isabel - Power Corporation of Canada Studio Theatre , Canada

Intercomplementary Elements By Erin Ball, Maxime Beauregard and collaborators                     This Disability-led show is a testing phase for some of the […]

SESQUI’s 360 Dome

Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 390 King St. W

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 […]

Immersive Wilderness

Ingenuity Labs- Queen's University

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

Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 390 King St. W

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

The Broom Factory 305 Rideau St, Kingston

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 ) […]

Anti-Bias AI Hack Lab

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 […]

Artificial Intelligence in Creative Performance

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 […]

LUCY AI

Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 390 King St. W

LUCY AI By bluemouth inc. and Reimagine AI ASL Interpretation LUCY AI is a collaboration between Lucy Simic and her Toronto-based interdisciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. and Montreal artificial intelligence […]