Performance
2024

Performance
The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus by Cason Sharpe
September 21 & 22, 2024FREE to attend, all welcome

Combining the civic rituals of the walking tour and the ribbon-cutting ceremony, this series of performances turns a neighbourhood stroll into a travelling circus, a spectacle through which we may catch a glimpse of an ever-changing city. 

Part of the Walk-and-Talk series.
FREE to attend, all welcome.

Performance
part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So
December 7, 2024Commons @ 401, 401 Richmond Street West7:30 pm

Mark So’s performance explores the nexus of inner and outer worlds through a dual writing/recording practice, taking place in two different cities throughout the month of November (from LA) and during the first week of December (live in Toronto.

Part of the Walk-and-Talk series.

Performance
Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night, Presented by the plumb
May 26–June 26, 2024the plumb, 1655 Dufferin Street, Toronto

the plumb presents Andrew James Paterson: Never Enough Night, the most extensive survey exhibition of the seminal Canadian artist’s work to date.

Join us on Saturday, May 11 at 4:00pm at the plumb for Paterson’s performance entitled “Pate’s Salt Carp,” co-presented by FADO Performance Art Centre.

Performance
Moving Bodies by MC Coble
2024

In Moving Bodies, MC Coble returns to their epic 10-night climb of Ontario Place’s iconic Cinesphere, a performance from FADO’s 2016 MONOMYTHS series.

Moving Bodies screens at The Commons on May 25, during Doors Open Toronto.

Performance
PENTAGRAM – revisit by Gustaf Broms
2024

To sit here in Sweden on a cold quiet winter night, hearing the street sounds, of Toronto 2013, echo amongst the trees, something uncanny, something exciting. The past, always a contrast?

In this new video work, Broms returns to his 2013 performance entitled Pentagram, performed on the streets of Toronto 10 years ago.

Performance
Bonny Stern’s Spicy Tomato Penne by Heather Rule
2024

Inspired by W.A Davidson’s Object Poem, this video explores literary form through a cherished childhood pasta recipe.

Performance
omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est by Simla Civelek
2024

Inspired by her own works presented previously at FADO, in this new video, Simla Civelek reflects on the fragmented performance body.

Performance
More Cleaning and Loving (It) … Again by Margaret Dragu
2024

Nearly 24 years after the first parade Margaret and Jordan (re)create a new performance and video document. More Cleaning and Loving (It) … Again is (once/again) a reflection on the dirtiness of politics. 

Performance Yellow

This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?

Top Notes

yellow mandarin, mimosa

Middle Notes

honey, chamomile, salt

Base Notes

narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer