FADO E-BULLETIN
February 2025

Index

  1. FADO EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES ON VIEW | CURATED BY JORDAN KING
    DATE FEBRUARY 22 THROUGH MARCH 9, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE FADO
  2. EVENT SCRAPE PRESENTS NOMADIC PERFORMANCE RELAY #5
    DATE FEBRUARY 6, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE LO BIL
  3. PERFORMANCE BY JEREMY TOUSSAINT–BAPTISTE
    DATE FEBRUARY 6, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY
  4. EXHIBITION ANTHROBSCENE BY GUSTAF BROMS
    DATE FEBRUARY 8–April 21, 2025
    LOCATION TIERP, SWEDEN
    SOURCE GUSTAF BROMS
  5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NEW PERFORMANCE TURKU
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 10, 2025
    LOCATION TURKU, FINLAND
    SOURCE NEW PERFORMANCE TURKU
  6. EVENT BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS RHUBARB! FESTIVAL
    DATE FEBRUARY 12–16, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE BIBT
  7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS CONDÉ BEVERIDGE LABOUR ARTS RESIDENCY
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 18, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE MAYWORKS FESTIVAL
  8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SILT: FRESHWATER EDITION
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 24, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE CHRISTOPER PETERSEN
  9. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS RESIDENCY IN THE VIVA! KITCHEN
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 28, 2025
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE VIVA!
  10. EVENT FADO + DANCEMAKERS PRESENTS FUTURE DANCES
    DATE MARCH 15, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE FADO + DANCEMAKERS

  1. FADO EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES ON VIEW | CURATED BY JORDAN KING
    DATE FEBRUARY 22 THROUGH MARCH 9, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE FADO

FADO Emerging Artists Series 2025
On View
Curated by Jordan King

ARTISTS
Kendell Yan
Camille Kiku Belair
Brigita Gedgaudas

The new performance works in On View take place in the glassed room accessible from the 4th floor hallway at 401 Richmond Street. Each performance will unfold, change and develop over the course of four hours. Simultaneously, the performance will be streamed to the adjacent gallery space. The audience has a choice: do you view the performance live, or live-streamed?

The camera takes up a position in the performance space, but this is not a performance for the camera. Is it possible to be oblivious (or obliterate) the impact of the presence of the camera? How might the camera inform considerations for movement, activity, or perhaps lack thereof that you engage in for the performance, while not performing for the camera?

Kendell Yan
Performance: Saturday, February 22 from 1:00–5:00pm
Artist talk: Sunday, February 23 at 2:00pm

Camille Kiku Belair
Artist talk: Friday, February 28 at 5:00pm
Performance: Saturday, March 1 from 1:00–5:00pm

Brigita Gedgaudas
Performance: Saturday, March 8 from 1:00–5:00pm
Artist talk: Sunday, March 9 at 2:00pm

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  1. EVENT SCRAPE PRESENTS NOMADIC PERFORMANCE RELAY #5
    DATE FEBRUARY 6, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE LO BIL

Nomadic performance relay #5
February 6, 2025 at 7:00pm

TMU Ice Rink
Toronto Metropolitan University Square, 50 Gould Street

Short performances from:
Nyda Kwasowsky
James Knott
Mitsuko Noguchi
B Solomon
Mariana Medellin
lssak Fong
Jesse
Ema Tzi
Dee Dee
Colin Cudmore
niki Kostikian
Djibelian
Apple
Sebastian
Chantal Hassard

14 Performance artists do something they want to do for less than 5 minutes. Audience can contribute an action after those who have prepared to participate.

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  1. PERFORMANCE BY JEREMY TOUSSAINT–BAPTISTE
    DATE FEBRUARY 6, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY

Presented in partnership by The Blackwood and Black at UTM
Y’all Don’t Wanna Hear Me (You Just Wanna Dance)
by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

February 6, 2025
12:00–2:00pm
University of Toronto Mississauga (CCT Atrium)

In Y’all Don’t Wanna Hear Me (You Just Wanna Dance), Toussaint-Baptiste uses a Long-Range Acoustic Device against its intended purpose of crowd dispersal, alternatively presenting it as a technology that might unite and even guide a crowd through sound. Over the course of the device’s battery life, Toussaint-Baptiste uses its built-in microphone to speak about their artistic practice, recite research into the device’s history, and speculate on alternative uses of this harmful technology. The performance culminates with a collective dance, guided by the directional sound of the speaker. Additional music by Brendan Philip.

Performance followed by a discussion with Robyn Maynard.
Free and open to all. Registration required.

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  1. EXHIBITION ANTHROBSCENE BY GUSTAF BROMS
    DATE FEBRUARY 8–April 21, 2025
    LOCATION TIERP, SWEDEN
    SOURCE GUSTAF BROMS

anthrObscene by Gustaf Broms
February 8–April 21, 2025

Exhibition opening and artist talk with Gustaf Broms and Louise Magnusson
Saturday, February 8 at 12:00pm

Kulturhuset Mobeln presents Gustaf Brom’s new work: anthrObscene. The title of the exhibition is a play on ‘anthropocene’—a term used to reference the current geological epoch (the time following the Holocene), drawing attention to the impact of humans on our earth. The exhibition title combines the words anthro (human) with obscene as a way to question our human drama. In 9 tableaux, a stripped-down story is built about an idea of ​​a civilization and about our species’ relationship to others.

Gustaf Brom’s work has long revolved around the gap between being ‘nature’, as being in a
body, and being ‘intellect’, as that which reads experience. Focusing on this gap has become a
way of trying to understand how we have moved from a state of being one with our surroundings, to becoming a culture that sees itself as standing outside the organic flow, with all that this has meant for other species and our own living environment.

anthrObscene is an attempt to see patterns in the journey from wholeness to separation, and back again, the inevitability of being part of this wholeness.

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  1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NEW PERFORMANCE TURKU
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 10, 2025
    LOCATION TURKU, FINLAND
    SOURCE NEW PERFORMANCE TURKU

New Performance Turku Biennale announces a call for proposals for the International Showcase. This call is for performance artists based outside Finland. Selected performances will be presented in the New Performance Turku Biennale, organized in Finland in September 2025.

New Performance Turku Biennale is a unique festival showcasing the current streams and phenomena in performance art in Turku, Finland. The second Biennale in 2025 will continue the work done during the 10-year history of the renowned New Performance Turku Festival (2012–2021) and the first Biennale in 2023, developing the means of production and audiences in the field of performance art. The Biennale programme includes both residencies and process-based collaborations between practitioners and local venues and agencies.

The programme presents site-specific, participatory, solo and group performances. In addition to the performances, the programme includes International Visiting Curators’ Programme, lectures by artists and curators, thematic seminars and parties. The open call allows new artists to be presented and new voices and perspectives to be included in the programme.

Five artists will be selected for the International Showcase. We are looking for solo performance art works that are light in terms of production and technical requirements. The five artists selected for the programme will perform their work during Showcase evening at the various spaces at the Manilla Culture Factory.

Application deadline: February 10, 2025
Decisions: March 17, 2025

MORE INFORMATION & how to apply


  1. EVENT BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS RHUBARB! FESTIVAL
    DATE FEBRUARY 12–16, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE BIBT

Since 1979, The Rhubarb! Festival has been pushing limits and pushing buttons, critic-free and unapologetic, which is why it remains one of the world’s most raw and radical performance festivals.

At Rhubarb! 46, Festival Director Ludmylla Reis has curated a series of 13 quintessentially unhinged works with an intense mix of local and international artists, featuring everything from operatic pole dancing to Daoist meditation.
Capacity is limited, so get your nightly passes ASAP!

ARTISTS
Khadija Mbowe
James Jordan
Valentine Leger
Oliver Pitschner
Starlight
Liz Staples
Gud Lewks Collective
Jessica Esmeralda Zepeda
Oma Rivero
Ray Young
Fan Wu
Germain Ilu
Montana Adams
Robin Star Brelche
Renata Carvalho
Mercedes Isaza Clunie
Sarah Koekkoek
RT Collective
Amplify Collective
And more….

MORE INFORMATION & nightly programme


  1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS CONDÉ BEVERIDGE LABOUR ARTS RESIDENCY
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 18, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE MAYWORKS FESTIVAL

2025 marks 40 years of Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts. We look forward to celebrating this important anniversary together. As we reflect on the past, present, and future of labour arts, we are pleased to launch a new artist opportunity—the Condé Beveridge Labour Arts Residency!

The Condé Beveridge Labour Arts Residency program seeks to embody: the spirit of collaboration; the commitment to labour movements and social analysis; the openness to artistic genres; and the public accessibility that is found in the practice of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. Taking place over two years, this residency offers an artist or an artist group collaboration, research, mentorship, and support to develop art for presentation at the Mayworks Festival. All genres are welcome including theatre, dance, visual art, media arts, music and multi-disciplinary.

Artist-activist Carole Condé (June 27, 1940–July 19, 2024) will be remembered for her dedication to building an art practice centred around revolutionary social change. Her work responded to critical and contemporary cultural, social, and political issues. She rejected the elite capitalist artworld and brought representations of working people to art made with and for the people. Along with long-time collaborator and partner, Karl Beveridge, they created a significant body of work, spanning over fifty years. Their work involved collaboration with union members and spoke to issues of labour justice. They have exhibited internationally and been recognized for their significant artistic contributions. Condé and Beveridge have been leaders in the field of labour arts in Canada and are founding members of both the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton.

Have questions about your application? Join our upcoming information session on Zoom.
Monday February 3, 2025
6:00pm ET

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  1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SILT: FRESHWATER EDITION
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 24, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE CHRISTOPER PETERSEN

Silt: Freshwater Edition
April 3, 2025 at 8:00pm

Silt is an evening of performance. Through a public open call, five artists are each provided with 15 minutes to present an action, event, or performance. Silt was originally started for dance, movement, and performance artists; however, it is open to everyone regardless of artistic or personal identifications. The aim of Silt is to provide participants with an accessible low stakes stage for experimentation and expression.
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As curators, we hope to support artists that have been underrepresented. We are excited by applications that express experimental or hard to define ideas. We value first iterations and rough draft ideas as well as established performances.

MORE INFORMATION & how to apply


  1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS RESIDENCY IN THE VIVA! KITCHEN
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 28, 2025
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE VIVA!

Since the first edition of VIVA! Art Action in 2006, the VIVA! kitchen has been at the heart of the festival’s programming. This unique platform now takes the form of a two-week artistic residency, offering an artist or artists’ collective the opportunity to integrate their action art practice within a community kitchen service. VIVA! Art Action invites artists and collectives exploring the relationship between performance and food (cooking, serving or eating) to apply for this residency. The VIVA! kitchen offers the general public an artistic and culinary experience. The artist or collective in residence will be responsible for conceiving and animating the culinary platform, infusing each stage of the process—menu, meal preparation and service—with a unique touch of their artistic practice.

In previous editions, some artists took advantage of their presence in the kitchen to create a single performance spanning the duration of the festival. Others have proposed more occasional interventions that use the service of the meal as a performative moment, or developed a relational approach to the preparation, sharing and consumption of food. Whatever the approach, what these proposals have in common is that they transform the meals that punctuate the daily program into a space for encounters between the artwork and the public.

The residency is scheduled to run from September 15–29, 2025, at VIVA! headquarters in Montreal, Canada. As part of the residency, the selected artist or collective will develop a menu, then prepare, produce and serve meals for the duration of the festival. Expect one meal service per evening for 5 days, and around 100 to 150 guests per meal. The service period lasts about an hour. In addition to the daily performance meals, simple meals and snacks should be available throughout the day to satisfy the hunger of artists, staff, and volunteers.

Resources and support provided by the festival and through sponsorships include fees, support team and budget for food. Artists with atypical backgrounds or from culturally, gender or ability diverse communities are encouraged to submit applications. However, our ability to pay for special access costs (such as interpreters) is conditional on obtaining additional funding.

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  1. EVENT FADO + DANCEMAKERS PRESENTS FUTURE DANCES
    DATE MARCH 15, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE FADO + DANCEMAKERS

FADO + Dancemakers presents Future Dances
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Program details coming soon!

ARTISTS
Freya Björg Olafson
Johnny Forever
Laura Taler
Lee Su-Feh
Margaret Dragu
Nova Bhattacharya
Ravyn Wngz
Ronnie Clarke

Dancemakers and FADO Performance Art Centre are teaming up for FUTURE DANCES. This is a speculative choreography project in which 8 artists have been tasked with creating a dance for 50 years into the future.

We want to know, now, what dance might look like in 2074. What will happen to dance, choreography and stops in between over the next two generations. This is a thought experiment and a real exercise that considers what the role, purpose, form and potential of dance (as well as performance, choreography, movement, or adjacent and related forms such as performance art) might be at this critical convergence of the climate crisis, violent international conflicts and political upheaval.

Participating artists will present a range of responses—a short performance, video, audio-recording, descriptive essay or something yet imagined.

FUTURE DANCES will be shared in-person and afterwards on both the Dancemakers and FADO websites.

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E-Bulletin Green

This scent is an homage to the future; for things to come. Cut grass, string bean, coriander, and ivy diffuse a smell of ever-green, or the eternal return, however you decide.

Top Notes

cut grass, lovage, coriander

Middle Notes

string bean, fennel

Base Notes

ivy leaves, moss